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This report is created by Ken Ducote on behalf of the Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools
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The Orleans Parish School Board held its monthly Committee Meetings on Thursday, October 15, 2015 at OPSB's Timbers Office Building.
Committees typically review and discuss items prior to consideration by the full Board at a subsequent Board Business Meeting. Committees also review the progress of the implementation of matters which the Board has previously approved.
The next scheduled OPSB Board Business Meeting is 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20. A Public Hearing on policy matters may be scheduled for just before the meeting.
OPSBrief has summarized the agenda of each Committee Meeting below. Complete agendas and back-up documentation can be reviewed by clicking on the title of each respective Committee.
***This email is created by Ken Ducote on behalf of the Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools and is not an official correspondence from the Orleans Parish School Board***
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REPORT FROM OCTOBER 15 OPSB MEETINGS
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- Received and discussed report from the Administration on student test performance in network (direct-run) schools
- Staff discussed steps being taken at the schools and central office to improve student performance.
- EOC and ACT scores
- End of Course exams (EOC) have replaced Graduate Exit Exams
- ACT scores indicated 7 % of McMain students and 0 % of McDonogh 35 students were considered as likely ready for college in all four tested areas (English, math, reading and science)
- LEAP and iLeap scores
- Scores were reported science and social studies for 7th and 8th grades at Franklin Extension, McMain MS, McDonogh 35 Academy, Franklin ES, Bethune ES, and M. Jackson ES.
- 2014-2015 Testing data release timeline
- October 19 - 23 - LDOE will release LEA scores by "cut level"
- October 26 - 30 - LDOE will release HS performance scores and letter grades
- November 9 - 13 - Individual student reports will be available for LEAs, teachers, and families
- December - ES and MS school performance scores and letter grades will be released
- Legislative and election update
- Received a report from OPSB's legislative liaison
- Expect a special session on State's budget problems after new Governor takes office
- Board Members and Administration plan to work on legislative agenda by December 2015
- Historical marker at Valena C. Jones ES
- This item was referred to the Property Committee for its later meeting.
- Executive Session
- Liquidated Damages re: M. Jackson Office Space Project and McMain Health Clinic Project
- This item was discussed in Executive Session only
- Personal injury cases (2)
- These items were discussed in Executive Session
- After reconvening in Open Session, the Committee voted to forward the General Counsel's settlement recommendation to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- State expropriation of OPSB's former McDonogh 11 building
- Discussed in Executive Session only
- Revisions to OPSB Policy Section D (Fiscal Management)
- Received for Second Reading and forwarded to full Board
- McDonogh 35 HS - Close-Up Foundation Grant ($25,000)
- Funds a Model Citizen Mentoring Program
- Original grant of $50,000 is being supplemented by additional $ 25,000 to extend program
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Notice for Public Hearing for millage adjustment roll-forward
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Hearing scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, 2015, at OPSB Office, 3520 General DeGaulle Drive, Room 4050 at 4:00 p.m.
- Related to millage roll forward
- Due to taxable property value increasing, left alone, millage would automatically decrease from 40.340 to 38.224
- If millage is rolled forward to prior 40.340, local public schools would realize an additional $ 7,438,214 in 2016
- Deferred/Excess Revenue
- Hold back $ 500,000 for funding for schools experiencing midyear growth
- Distribute $ 250,000 in same proportion as approved by OPSB in August 2015
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Sophie Wright HS - Leveraged Financing Transaction
- Proposal to amend previous resolution on leveraged financing of historic renovations to the school
- Allows additional revenue to contribute to Master Plan projects
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Purchasing Consent Action Items
- Bethune / Tureaud Refurbishment
- Hamp's Construction - $ 1,489,000 - 36% DBE
- Board members questioned prior performance of low bidder
- Wants additional information prior to acting
- Requested that three lowest bidders give OPSB a 30-day extension to award the contract while information is sought
- Groundskeeping Services
- H&O - $ 54.95 per acre - 35% DBE
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Education Management Consultant Services
- Square Button Consulting, LLC - $ 145,000 - 12 months - 100% DBE
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Developing recommendations regarding administrative reorganization and procedural efficiency
- Agreement with City of New Orleans and Sewerage and Water Board
- To pursue funding for storm water management and related projects
- Potential leveraging of new McDonogh 35 HS and King HS
- Competitive funding through National Disaster Resilience program
- City officials spoke in support of the proposal
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Amend lease for Warren Easton HS
- To include the purchase of final portion of newly acquired 3100 block of Canal Street
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Historical marker for Valena C. Jones ES
- Representative of the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation spoke in favor of the proposal to erect marker
- Marker celebrates history of the school, including efforts to originally have it constructed
- Ceremony will be held when the marker is unveiled, preferably for the November 14 commemoration of the 1960 desegregation of the New Orleans Public Schools
- Committee voted to forward the item to the full Board with a recommendation for approval
- Capital Projects Monthly Report
- Received and discussed the comprehensive staff report
- Lake Forest and Moton Charter ES to move to new buildings later this semester
- McMain repairs are proceeding
- Update on vacant property
- Received and discussed the comprehensive staff report
- Discussion included relationship of vacant properties to the School Facilities Master Plan and recent demographic updates
- Discussed possible auction of sites that will clearly not be used for schools in the future
- Staff reported that OPSB has realized approximately $ 12 million in extra capital revenues from the sale of surplus property while reducing O & M costs associated with vacant properties and eliminating the blighting influences such properties have on their neighborhoods
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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
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