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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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The Accountability and Property Committees of the Orleans Parish School Board held their monthly meetings on Thursday, January 15, 2015, in Room 4050 of OPSB's Timbers III Office Building at 3500 General De Gaulle.
The Policy Committee and the Budget and Finance Committee Meetings were cancelled due to a lack of quorums. The Legal and Legislative Committee was not scheduled to meet.
Committees typically review and discuss issues that will later be presented to the full Board for approval at future Board Business meetings. They also review the progress of the implementation of items previously approved by the Board. The public's best opportunities for commenting on such issues are typically at the Committee Meetings.
OPSBrief has summarized below the issues discussed this month. To read the full agenda and related back-up documentation for any meeting, simply click on the meeting's title.
Forthcoming January Meetings
- Tuesday, January 20, 5:00 p.m., McDonogh 35 HS
- Information for DBEs on forthcoming opportunities for work
- Saturday, January 31, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Xavier University Student Center 3rd Floor Ballroom
- DBE Newsletter - January 2015 is available here
***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 JANUARY 15 OPSB COMMITTEE MEETINGS
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- Lagniappe Academy Transfer from RSD to OPSB
- Would become a Type 3B charter school
- Committee forwarded to full Board with modified recommendation for approval Resolution 02-13 to accept reassignment of school pending approval by BESE
- Staff expressed concerns that BESE had deferred approval until its March meeting, which is after the BESE policy deadlines for approvals
- Representative of the charter board spoke in support of the proposal
- Said Lagniappe wanted to be among the high quality OPSB schools
- School defines its mission as improving achievement of students far behind grade levels
- Said Lagniappe wanted to avail itself of support services from OPSB given the charter's low enrollment
- Said charter was resolving issues about special education compliance
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School Transfer from RSD to OPSB
- Would become a Type 3B charter school
- Committee forwarded to full Board with recommendation for approval Resolution 03-15 to accept reassignment of school
- BESE already approved transfer
- School representatives appeared at last month's committee meetings
- 2015 Calendar of Board / Committee Meetings
- Discussed various options for meetings - no action taken
- Staff expressed concerns that having business meetings one day after committee meetings was too challenging for efficient administration
- Some Board members and community members expressed concern that back-to-back meetings discouraged real community input
- McDonogh 35 HS Improvement Plan
- Heard staff progress report and alumni spokespersons - no action taken
- Administration outline immediate steps being taken to improve school performance
- After-school programs and tutorials
- ACT prep course
- University content majors to help with students with academic deficits
- Alumni representatives promised to volunteer and otherwise support the improvement plan
- Received and discussed Jacobs/CSRS report through January 2015
- Audubon (Broadway) - contractor making up time delay from steel issue
- Moton (Kenilworth) - contractor's delay claim still pending but project is moving
- Lake Forest - lessons learned from Hynes prototype being used to improve building modeled on Hynes
- McMain - roof, ADA compliance, HVAC, etc. work in design for bidding June 2015
- Harte - new school occupied - ribbon-cutting ceremony January 16
- Only being passed for charter consideration per state law
- Clarified that Cabrini Playground and Algiers Memorial Park were not for sale
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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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