Online registration was open to the public one week prior to tonight's Board meeting and was closed at 3 p.m. yesterday for anyone wishing to speak at this evening's meeting.  Each speaker is allowed three minutes to address the Board.  No speaker substitutions will be allowed. 

Based on Policy 8315 (as amended on July 11, 2023), representatives from the following categories are invited to address the Board during the public comment period of the Board's meetings. A maximum of five (5) spaces will be allocated in each of these categories:

1.  School system-affiliated groups

2.  Unions

3.  Nonprofit community groups

4.  Individual citizens or students 

So that a diversity of viewpoints receives the opportunity to address the Board, when there are more requests than available spaces in any of the categories, first priority will be given to those groups or individuals who have not spoken during the two prior Board meetings.  When the spaces reserved in any of the four categories are not filled, those spaces will be offered, on a first-come, first-served basis, through the wait-list sign-up sheet.

If not selected, the public may submit their comments to the Board members via e-mail at boe@bcps.org.  More information is provided on the Board's Web site at bcps.org, under Board of Education, Participation by the Public.

That the Board of Education review the proposed 2024-2025 School Calendar.  This is the first reading.