Jamestown  (CSi)  At Monday’s Jamestown Public School Board meeting, at the middle school’s Thompson Community Room, North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, Superintendent, Kirsten Baesler, explained an update on the process of creating course content standards. that the DPI will use to certify graduation, by the beginning of the next school year.

Baesler pointed out that the North Dakota legislature passed a bill that provides the state with flexibility to recognize a certified learning continuum as a personalized way for students to graduate high school.

Each school district will be given the opportunity of a utilizing a learning policy that awards students the credits necessary to graduate from high school through demonstrated mastery of learning continuum competencies.  Students move through their learning at different paces and rates.

In other business, the school board, recognized Bob Toso for his service to the school district, first as assistant superintendent and then superintendent from 2001 to 2013 and as a member of the school board from 2014 to 2021.

Approved was a transportation agreement with St. John’s Academy for the 2021-22 school year.

Approved submitting a grant to the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission to assist in the defraying of the cost of aviation and drone technology classes.