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Board approves 2025'026 school improvement plans and routine personnel, policy updates

Caldwell County Board of Education · October 13, 2025

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The Caldwell County Board of Education approved the district's 2025'026 school improvement plans, human resources contract and substitute lists, student transfers and a package of policy revisions with three policies pulled for further work session discussion.

The Caldwell County Board of Education voted to approve the 2025'026 school improvement plans and a set of routine personnel and administrative items at its October meeting.

Dr. Katrina McCallum, presenting the school improvement plans, said North Carolina requires each school to submit a plan to the local board under the state's Article 8B school-based management and accountability program and that the district uses the NCSTAR online platform to manage plans. "Each school has three goals," McCallum said, noting the goals reflect state board priorities to eliminate opportunity gaps, increase performance and increase educator preparedness by 2027. The board approved the plans after a motion for public review and comment.

The board also approved human resources contract items (one-year contracts and some non-contract employment), a substitute teacher list for the current term and student transfers for October 2025. Dr. Thomas Howe presented those items; each motion was made, seconded and approved by voice vote.

The board approved recommended policy revisions from the North Carolina School Boards Association but pulled three policies for further discussion in a work session: parental involvement (policy 1310/4002), school trips (policy 3320) and extracurricular activities and student organizations (policy 3620). The board voted to adopt the rest of the proposed revisions that had been posted for public comment.

Administrative items approved earlier in the meeting included the meeting agenda and three sets of minutes (regular session Sept. 15, 2025, and two work sessions). All votes were recorded by voice; no roll-call tallies were provided in the public meeting record.