The Wakulla County School Board meets Monday, September 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM at the District Administration Offices, 69 Arran Road, Crawfordville, Room 106. Item numbers below match the district's own agenda so you can follow along with your own copy. Every piece of jargon gets a plain-English footnote the first time it shows up.

Item 1.1: September 2026 Teachers of the Month. Congratulations to C. Wallis of Shadeville Elementary and M. Spindler of Wakulla High.

The Items to Watch

Item 6.1: Code of Student Conduct and Attendance Policy, 2026-2027 (“Summer Updates”)

The board is being asked to re-adopt the district's full Code of Student Conduct and Attendance Policy, plus updated Elementary and Secondary Discipline Matrices,¹ for the coming school year. The packet includes the complete 52-page code and 15-page discipline matrix documents, but no summary of what specifically changed from last year, unlike other policy items on the same agenda (see the Professional Learning Catalog in Routine Business, below, which does include one). We reviewed the current version: it still uses a tiered offense system, from lower-level classroom disruptions up to state-defined “Level 1” zero-tolerance offenses like weapons possession, battery, and arson, each mapped to a specific consequence range. What we can't tell you, because the district didn't provide it, is exactly which consequences changed this summer.

Open question: what changed in this year's “Summer Updates,” and why no summary of changes?

Source: Code of Conduct 2026 Summer Updates.pdf; Elementary Discipline Matrix Summer 2026 Updates.pdf, p. 4.

Item 6.4: 25/26 Budget Amendments #15, #16, #17, and #18

This is the item that moves real money, across three funds,² and it's worth slowing down for.

Amendment #15 (General Fund): ³ Shifts $104,150 out of Instruction (classroom salaries) and into administrative and support functions: $58,000 to Pupil Personnel Services, $24,000 to General Administration, $10,000 to the Board itself, $6,000 to Administrative Technology, $3,000 each to Facilities and Food Service, and $150 to School Administration. Revenue-neutral overall, but the money moved out of the classroom line.

Source: BALOG #15 2025-26.pdf, Resolution B25/26-15, pp. 1-2.

Amendment #16 (Food Service Fund): A smaller, also revenue-neutral internal shift: $48,673.03 from Fiscal Services to Instruction and Curriculum Development, and $2,146.31 from Pupil Personnel Services to Pupil Transportation.

Source: BALOG #16 2025-26.pdf, p. 1.

Amendment #17 (Capital Projects Fund 390): ⁴ Draws $1,981.94 from reserve to cover Operation of Plant and Debt Service increases. One paperwork oddity: the resolution's own cover page lists “Board Meeting Date: April 20, 2026” even though it's on tonight's agenda; the attached worksheet is correctly dated 9/14/2026, so this looks like a leftover template date worth asking the finance office to clean up.

Source: BALOG #17 2025-26.pdf, pp. 1-2.

Amendment #18 (Food Service Fund), the one to watch: Draws $135,469.06 out of the Food Service fund's reserve balance ($854,706.33 down to $719,237.27), a drop of just under 16 percent in one amendment. That crosses our threshold for flagging a fund swing worth tracking (any single-cycle change of 15% or more, or $500,000). Not evidence of anything improper by itself, but a number we'll be watching in future cycles to see if it's a one-time correction or a pattern.

Source: BALOG #18 2025-26.pdf, pp. 1-2.

Item 6.13: Student Data Privacy & Security Response, Behavior Management Consultants, Inc. (BMC)

The item to watch most closely.

The board is being asked to approve a document the vendor itself wrote, a Q&A questionnaire answering the district's own questions about its product ahead of a formal data-sharing agreement. The product is called Woob (called “Class Canvas” in earlier district materials), a classroom app teachers use to track student behavior points and write free-text daily notes about individual students.

The privacy agreement isn't signed yet. In the vendor's own words: “Not at this time. No SDPA [Student Data Privacy Agreement⁵] has yet been executed between BMC and the district, as this is a new implementation.” This vote approves the vendor's own account of its privacy practices, not a signed contract governing how it handles student data.

(p. 1, Q1.)

Student behavior data runs through Google's Gemini AI. Per the vendor: “AI-generated summaries and analysis are available in the application via the Google Gemini API. Before any student data is sent to the AI service, student names are programmatically replaced with pseudonyms (e.g., ‘Student A’) by a privacy layer within the application; the AI service never receives real student names.”

(p. 2, Q3-Q4.)

The vendor's own document recommends legal review before signing: “This response is provided for the MOU process. BMC recommends that final contractual and FERPA [the federal student-privacy law⁶] language be reviewed by both parties' counsel prior to signature.”

(p. 4.)

Nothing here describes a breach or misuse of data, and the vendor is upfront that it isn't independently certified itself (it leans on Google Cloud's own SOC 2/ISO 27001 certifications). But approving a vendor's self-written privacy questionnaire, before a signed Student Data Privacy Agreement exists, for a product running children's behavior data through generative AI, is a real policy step worth understanding clearly.

Open question: when will a signed agreement actually be executed, and will the board vote on it separately?

Item 6.14: COAST Contract Amendment

The second item to watch closely. This amends the charter contract between the School Board and Wakulla's C.O.A.S.T. Charter School,⁷ a contract executed June 29, 2026, less than three months before tonight's meeting.

Academic accountability, softened until after appeals: the current contract lays out escalating consequences if C.O.A.S.T.'s state school grade⁸ falls too far below the district's lowest-performing traditional school: an improvement plan, then new leadership or voluntary closure, then automatic termination. Tonight's amendment adds “after all school grade appeals” throughout every one of those triggers, meaning none of those consequences can be triggered until every appeal has run its course.

(p. 1.)

Transportation narrowed: the amendment also limits C.O.A.S.T.'s required transportation to a 2-4 mile radius rather than countywide, the standard Florida baseline for charter schools.

(p. 2.)

Context: the amendment references a “Settlement Agreement between WCSB and COAST dated May 15th, 2026,” meaning there was already a formal dispute and settlement before the underlying contract was even three months old. We don't have that settlement in this packet.

Open questions: what did the May 2026 settlement resolve, and does delaying accountability until after all appeals meaningfully weaken the district's leverage over a low-performing charter school?

Item 6.15: Report of Financial Data to the Commissioner of Education, FY2025-2026

The district's annual, state-required financial report, and a correction: Florida school districts run July 1 through June 30,⁹ not the October-through-September year the county government uses. This report itself confirms it, titled for “the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2026.”

The numbers, recomputed from the report's own category totals: General Fund revenue for FY2025-2026 came to $50,302,966.51 ($469,283.21 federal, $37,461,171.78 state, mostly Florida's Education Finance Program or FEFP¹⁰, and $12,372,511.52 local). The General Fund ended the year with a $9,984,785.64 total fund balance, $8,312,676.01 of it unassigned.

Source: REPORT OF FINANCIAL DATA.pdf, Exhibit K-1, FDOE pp. 1-3.

Routine Business

Everything below was on tonight's agenda too, but doesn't change anything for students, families, or the budget in a way that needs unpacking. Item number and a line each, so you can still find them on your own copy:

5.1 Minutes of the August 17, 2026 meeting, up for approval (minutes always lag a month; see our separate recap of that meeting).

5.2 Personnel Recommendations, September 2026: routine hires, transfers, and stipend assignments districtwide. One line is different: an employee at Wakulla Middle School is listed as involuntarily terminated, no reason given; we're not naming them since the record doesn't explain what happened.

5.3 Out of Field Teachers, 2026-2027: the annual state-required list of teachers assigned outside their certified subject.

5.4 Request to Dispose of Equipment and Materials.

6.2 2026-2027 School Improvement Plans for all nine district schools, including the C.O.A.S.T. charter, a required annual filing.

6.3 Adding Mechanical Services of Central Florida, Inc. and CKC Contracting, LLC to the district's pre-qualified contractors list (eligibility only, no contract or dollars awarded).

6.5 Three-year extension of the Champions agreement (Capital Health Plan, the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, Titus Sports Academy) through 2029, no other changes.

6.6 Renewal of the district's multi-district Risk Management Consortium membership and its US Omni tax-sheltered-annuity administrator contract.

6.7 2026-2027 Uniform Assessment Calendar (sets the testing schedule).

6.8 Memorandum of Understanding renewal with DISC Village, a regional behavioral health nonprofit.

6.9 Shadeville Elementary's Boosterthon fundraiser contract.

6.10 2026-2027 PAEC Professional Learning Catalog (with an included summary of changes).

6.11 Adoption of the board's five 2026-2027 strategic goals: Student Achievement, Culture and Climate, Staff Development, Employee Retention and Recruitment, and Resource Management.

6.12 Renewal of the University of West Florida student-teaching affiliation agreement.

Members of the public get three minutes to speak under Citizens to be Heard, whether or not their topic is on tonight's agenda.

The Bottom Line

Four things are worth your attention this cycle: Budget Amendment #18 draws down Food Service reserves by nearly 16% in one move. The Student Data Privacy Response for the Woob app asks the board to sign off on a vendor's account of its own practices before a real privacy agreement exists, for a product feeding kids' behavior data into Google's Gemini AI. The COAST Contract Amendment delays charter accountability until after all grade appeals and narrows transportation, months after the original contract and a settlement the public hasn't seen. And the Code of Conduct came back with no summary of what changed. None of these is evidence of wrongdoing by itself. All four deserve a real look, not a nod along with the rest of the agenda.

This piece is based on a full review of the district's own published agenda and its linked backup documentation.

Footnotes

1. Discipline matrix: the district's chart mapping student behavior offenses to a required or recommended range of consequences.

2. Fund: a self-contained pool of money set aside for a specific purpose that can't be moved into another fund without a formal amendment.

3. Budget amendment: a formal, board-approved change to a fund's adopted budget.

4. Capital outlay: the budget category covering construction, renovations, and other large, long-lived physical investments.

5. Student Data Privacy Agreement (SDPA): a contract spelling out how a vendor may collect, use, store, and protect student data, typically required before a district can share student information with that vendor.

6. FERPA: the federal law protecting the privacy of student education records.

7. Charter school: a publicly funded school operating under a contract with the school board that trades more independence for specific performance conditions.

8. School grade: Florida's A-through-F rating for public schools, based mainly on standardized test performance and student progress.

9. Fiscal year: for Florida school districts, the twelve-month period from July 1 through June 30 (F.S. 216.011). Different from Wakulla County government's October-through-September fiscal year.

10. FEFP: the Florida Education Finance Program, the state's per-student funding formula (F.S. 1011.62).

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