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This report is created by Ken Ducote and Rose Drill-Peterson on behalf of the Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools
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Four Committees of the Orleans Parish School Board held their regular monthly meetings on January 16, 2014, in Conference Room 4050 of the OPSB Timbers III Office Building, 3520 General DeGaulle Drive.
Committees typically review and discuss items that will subsequently appear on the agenda for a future Board Business Meeting and review the Administration's progress in implementing items already approved by the full Board.
The next Board Business Meeting is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 21st in the Auditorium of McDonogh 35 High School, 1331 Kerlerec Street.
OPSBrief has summarized the agenda of each meeting below. Full agendas and posted backup documentation may be read by clicking on each Committee's title.
***This email is created by Ken Ducote and Rose Drill-Peterson on behalf of the Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools and is not an official correspondence from the Orleans Parish School Board***
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REPORT FROM JAN. 16 OPSB COMMITTEE MEETINGS
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- Thurgood Marshall College Fund Collegiate Academy at SUNO
- Received a report from the Administration on the progress of implementing the OPSB-approved charter school
- School is now scheduled for opening in 2015-2016
- OPSB 2014 process and timeline for requesting new charter applications
- Received a report from the Administration
- State mandates timeline so that any rejected applicants have time to apply to BESE for Type 2 charters
- Request for Applications will be issued on February 7 and applicant orientation begins in February
- Discussed including in the RFA a list of which school types were specifically encouraged due to unmet needs, desired themes, or underserved populations and which grade levels or populations were sufficiently served by the existing numbers or types of schools
- Warren Easton HS campus expansion
- Approved forwarding to full Board and Budget & Finance Committee with recommendation to approve
- Former hospital site - complete vacant square across the street from the school - in 3100 block of Canal Street
- Purchase to be in name of OPSB with funding shared between OPSB and the charter
- Subject to acceptable Environmental Assessment and legal review
- Booker T. Washington HS campus expansion
- Approved forwarding to full Board and Budget & Finance Committee with recommendation to approve
- Former tomato warehouse site - currently vacant
- Subject to acceptable Environmental Assessment and legal review
- November 2013 Capital Projects Status Report
- Received the Administration's report
- Requested more information on project schedules and progress
- McDonogh 7 ES (Audubon ES Extension)
- Heard delegation from Audubon Charter concerned about delays in completing work
- Meeting at site to resolve scheduled for next morning
Legal and Legislative Committee
- Executive Session to consider and discuss litigation matters
- Insurance Litigation - Hurricane Katrina wind damage
- Received a status report - no action taken
- Construction Potential Litigation - Audubon ES Renovation steel framing
- Received a status report - no action taken
- Expropriation Litigation - McDonogh 11 ES
- Will discuss at Business Meeting a waiver of potential conflicts caused by merger of law firms
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This service is made possible by support from the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools and funding from the
Robert Reily Family Trust and the Smith/Cooper Foundation
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