"hi, we used Educational Vistas Inc. They are out of Schenectady. We got a lot of data that takes time to dig through. Not a bad thing, but it does take time."

"We don't do an agenda, but we do have a retreat in the summer to set goals for the year."

"We did pretty much the same thing you did. We had committees made up of faculty/staff, administrators, community members and students. We had a board member "moderate" those sessions."

"We are fully in person. We were using zoom so community members could attend remotely if they wanted, they can attend in person too. We had little to now remote attendance so we stopped zooming."

"We recently had this discussion because we have never been involved in the process. We sought out a recommendation from NYSSBA which was that the BOE should not be involved in the day to day operation of the District. That has been our policy and…"

"We have not done this on our board, but it is an interesting idea. Having done this at work, on both sides, the results always need to be taken with a grain of salt and view the outliers appropriately."

"We are working with our county on this now too. I want to be clear, I think this is an excellent idea I just object to the timing."

"As far as I can tell, our district is working with the county health department to develop a testing plan. We’ll only be doing testing for students whose parents consent and we’ll only test within the confines of the resources provided us by the…"

"Totally agree. We haven’t even approached this yet. I’m disgusted as the governor paints the whole state like we are all NYC. With lawsuits already happening about these mandates this will put an undue hardship on the rest of us for costs,…"

"We are starting before. Conference day on 9/1 and students in on 9/2"

"We've scheduled Superintendent Conference Days on the 1st and 2nd....students first day of school is September 8."

"Somers is beginning school on Sept 1 to accommodate the holiday observance. School will be closed 9/6-8."

"We start 9/9 for students, conference days are 9/1 & 9/2."

"We are starting on September 1. The students will be in school on Sept 1 and 2nd and then will return. In the 9th."