Board of Education Special Meeting

4 Tuesday, July 8, 2025 Board of Education Special Meeting Champaign Community Unit School District NO. 4, Center for Family & Community Engagement at Mellon 703 S New Street Champaign, IL 6:00 p.m. 1. Call to Order Subject A. Roll Call Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 1. Call to Order Type Procedural File Attachments 2. Approval of Agenda Subject A. Approval of Agenda (Items may not be considered in the same order as the agenda) Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 2. Approval of Agenda Type File Attachments 3. Public Comment Subject A. Public Comment on Agenda & Non-Agenda Items Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 3. Public Comment Type File Attachments 4. Reports: New Business Subject A. Presentation of Audit of Special Education Programs and Supports: Suzanne Meislahn/Dan Casillas Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 4. Reports: New Business Type TOPIC: Presentation of Audit of Special Education Programs and Supports BACKGROUND INFORMATION: On September 9, 2024, the Board approved a contract with Dr. Daniel Cates, former school psychologist, administrator, associate superintendent, superintendent, and now consultant, to conduct an audit of the School District’s special education programs and supports. During the 2024-2025 school year, the audit assessed the School District’s special education compliance with best practices in the specific areas identified below: Continuum of special education placement options and appropriate determinations of LRE for students, including provision of supplementary aids, curriculum, and services to ensure ability to participate in regular education to the extent practicable; Special education programming compliance with age range requirements and class size requirements; Adequacy of special education transportation and supervision, including means of transportation and average travel times for students, and student safety; Special education personnel staff development; Special education personnel substitute qualifications and training; Related services adequacy; Facilities adequacy for special education programming; Special education records maintenance and information confidentiality compliance; Coordination with private providers for special education students; Administrative oversight of special education best practices; Hiring policies, practices, procedures, and training for special education personnel, Parent communication and coordination of special education services, and District Title I spending plan STAFFING/STAFF DEVELOPMENT NEEDS: N/A FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: N/A ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION: Administration and staff are expected to review, prioritize, and implement the findings from the Audit. RECOMMENDATION: Informational item only; no action is required. CONTACT PERSON(S): Suzanne Meislahn, Executive Director of Special Education Dan Casillas, Acting Superintendent File Attachments Appendix 1.Parent Survey Pie Charts.7-1-25 (1).pdf (253 KB) Appendix 2.Parent Survey Comments.7-1-25 (1).pdf (8,318 KB) Appendix 3.Staff Survey Pie Charts.7-1-25 (1).pdf (447 KB) Appendix 4.Staff Survey Comments.7-1-25 (4).pdf (10,550 KB) Appendix 5.Requested Professional Development Topics.7-1-25 (1).pdf (133 KB) Champaign Unit 4 Special Education Audit Report.7-1-25 (1).pdf (932 KB) Unit 4 Special Education Audit Presentation.7-8-25.pdf (371 KB) 5. Board Communications Subject A. Communications from Board Members Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 5. Board Communications Type File Attachments 6. Future Meetings Subject A. Special Board Meeting - Board Retreat: July 14, 2025 and Regular Board Meeting: July 28, 2025 Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 6. Future Meetings Type File Attachments 7. Executive Session Subject A. Motion to Move to Executive Session Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 7. Executive Session Type A closed session in accordance with the Illinois Open Meeting Act (5 ILCS 120/2c) will be necessary to consider one or more of the following subjects including, but not limited to: 120/2(c)(1) Appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals who serve as independent contractors or specific volunteers of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor or a volunteer of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity. 120/2(c)(2) Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. 120/2(c)(3) Selection of a person to fill a vacancy in a public office. 120/2(c)(4) Evidence or testimony presented in Open Hearing or in Closed Hearing where specifically authorized by law, to a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided that the body prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision setting forth its determinative reasoning. 120/2(c)(5) Purchase or lease of real property for the use of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired. 120/2(c)(6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the public body. 120/2(c)(8) Security procedures, school building safety and security, and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the public, or public property. 120/2(c)(9) Student Discipline 120/2(c)(10) The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students. 120/2(c)(11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting. 120/2(c)(16) Self-Evaluation, practices and procedures or professional ethics when meeting with a representative of a statewide association of which the public body is a member. 120/2(c)(21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as mandated by Section 2.06. File Attachments 8. Adjournment Subject A. Motion to adjourn the meeting. Meeting Jul 8, 2025 - Board of Education Special Meeting Category 8. Adjournment Type Action File Attachments