2021-01-21 PPS School Board Charter Schools and Alternative Programs Committee Meeting
| District | Portland Public Schools |
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| Date | 2021-01-21 |
| Time | 16:30:00 |
| Venue | Virtual/Online |
| Meeting Type | committee |
| Directors Present | missing |
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Event 1: Board of Education’s Charter and Alternative Programs Committee - 1/21/21
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to expect that any more will come in
between now and
i i think yeah i mean we're in the
middle of the open phase
so um and and again erica will go over
when that closes
um due to um
just being thoughtful about what what
cbo's
have on their plates and all the
different things that people are
managing in the pandemic
we um aired on the side of um
giving an ample time um for proposers to
submit their proposals
so i don't know uh so i believe a lot
more will come in
i'm not sure i haven't looked in planet
bids to be honest to see if we have any
in yet
yeah february 18th is a date that it
closes so by that date we'll
know all of the programs that have
applied
okay so we can go to the next one thank
you cara
that was what i was like wow um
and then and then we can just go to the
agenda
thank you so just an overview of what we
want to um
uh go over today and uh when
director constant and roseanne and i did
agenda setting this is what we
this is what was decided so um
so we'll welcome people into the space
we are being mindful to do it land
acknowledgements when we gather and open
our circle
um then we'll go over the charter school
renewal process
um and tara will give an update of where
we are on that as well as then we'll
have some time for cbo errors for
charter school updates
um both from um from pps and then
some space if charter schools have
things they'd like to share
and then this will kind of do a similar
thing with the contracted alternative
schools
so an update of where we are with the
cbo with the request for proposal
and then also share just some more
general updates
with regard to our contracted
alternative schools
and then we'll close it out with a more
general multiple pathways update
um and there were some questions about
lippy
and what we're doing and we definitely
want to celebrate the graduation
um the graduation rates that came out
today
absolutely so queen are you going to
lead our land acknowledgement
i think lauren is going to great
good evening everybody could we go to
the next slide
so we want to take a moment to
acknowledge the stolen lands on which we
meet today
from our various locations around the
area this land has been
home since time immemorial to the native
nations of the multnomah
kalapuya chinook clackamas
malala cathlamet tualatin peoples among
others
native peoples hunted deer and other
animals fished for salmon and other fish
gathered traditional root and berry
foods
traded lived within traditional
spiritual and governmental structures
and more and still do smallpox and
measles epidemics
brought to this area by settlers
missionaries and traders
decimated up to 90 percent of the
population in the early 19th century
boarding schools tribal termination
racism
and other aspects of settler colonialism
have continued to negatively impact
native people since that
time we can't undo what was done
but we can honor and acknowledge the
descendants of the original peoples of
this land
those who have passed as well as the
land itself
as we gather today we focus on building
connection with
and learning from our current native
students families
and community
thank you
next next slide
thank you kara so just a general i'm
just going to be very quick and then
i'll
hand it off to tara but just a general
overview again
of our charter system our charter school
system
so we currently do not have any charter
schools at the
high school level we have four k-5s and
two k-8s
and you can see them on your screen and
then we work very closely with two
state-sponsored charter schools
so um we have the emerson school kairos
pdx learning academy
opel portland arthur le monde and
le mans french immersion and portland
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village and then um
we've been really excited there's been
some real positives that we will also
talk about
with regard to the collaboration that
has been
formed a deeper collaboration that's
been formed in the last year
with the two state-sponsored charter
schools cottonwood school of civics and
science and the ivy school
and sometimes just one note sometimes
you'll see things
that talks about 1900 charter schools
students and sometimes 1450 the 1450 is
our in-district students
and then we have the 500 and 40
include are just the two state sponsor
charter schools
so all together about 2 000 students
uh next slide
okay and then um
tara why don't i just hand it off to you
at this point sure so um
as i think we reviewed previously we do
have two
uh full renewals due this year both
portland arthur academy and the opal
school
uh the upcoming still remaining renewal
timeline for those two renewals
include a board committee work session
which
needs to occur the week of february 1st
through 5th
and the charter renewal public hearings
the week of february 8th through 12th
that particular
week is meeting a statutory deadline
guidelines so we can't get out of that
one week
and then we hope to have the school
board committee
do some charter school site visits
virtually
at the two schools sometime between the
end of january and mid-february
and then there will be one um march
meeting
at which the full board will vote and
then we can look at the next slide
there's a little more detail
so the key dates we did in fact receive
the full
charter school applications from both
schools on january 2nd
as required by statute and then those
next two meetings the first work session
is when
uh the board committee will receive the
relevant school data
i think in the past when it's been in
person that's when you get the binder
and hopefully this time around there's
not an actual binder there will be
virtual information for you but we'll
just we'll just see what we need to do
but you will get your binder ish
of information that includes all of the
school data you will want to know for
the term
since the last renewal for these two
schools and then
of course public hearings will occur the
following week after that
and then traditionally there has been
the committee has decided to do an
additional meeting after that which is
not required by statute
to review any follow-up questions that
might have come from the work session or
the public hearings
and to discuss a staff recommendation
and
recommend resolutions for the full board
meeting in march
next slide
the full board meeting has gone two
different ways but
generally the to meet the statutory
guideline of being within 30 days after
public hearing
we set the vote for the first full board
meeting in march
so that can happen at that march 9th
board meeting
as long as public comment is offered and
if for some reason we do not vote
at that meeting the school full school
board does not vote
then it can be postponed to the
following march meeting
as long as we've made an agreement with
the charter schools
to extend beyond that 30-day statutory
process
next slide
so at our last meeting there was a
question about the specific criteria for
renewal so i wanted to make sure that we
included that here
it's a it's um very specific
and limited and also pretty
all-encompassing
so i'll quickly review the renewal
decision
is based only on these five items
and it's based on a good faith
evaluation of these five items so the
first is
that the charter school is in compliance
with charter school law and applicable
state and federal law
the second is that the charter school is
in compliance with its charter agreement
and the third is that it is meeting or
working toward meeting the student
performance
goals and agreements in their charter
the fourth is that they are fiscally
stable and they use a sound financial
management system
and the last is that they are in
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compliance with any renewal criteria
specified
in their charter so those are our
specific
and limited things that we base a
renewal decision on
we get this information through our
annual
site visit annual performance framework
evaluation that we do
and academic financial and
organizational records
will all be part of the packet or
or binder that comes to you prior to the
work session
next slide
any questions so far on any of the uh
renewal
process okay great
so just a couple updates about our
charter schools uh
who have honestly been rocking
comprehensive distance learning
really amazingly well uh
one of the silver linings i think has
been that as a result
of comprehensive distance learning the
charter directors are
meeting now we're meeting weekly with
all the directors of the different
schools
and the charter's office myself and
jenny braden
and talking about things that are coming
up for the charter schools keeping
updated with the
ode guidance and um i think one of the
richest parts of all of that is when
directors are really
talking to each other learning about
what they are what other schools are
doing how other directors are
dealing with common problems because i
think as we've talked about before
the charter schools really do operate as
independent units and they don't
have that uh collaboration that um
that a lot of district level schools do
just through uh
you know leadership and different uh
opportunities like that so
it's been an amazing opportunity for for
me to see the charter schools
collaborate but also for the charter
schools to spend more time
with peers and and starting to see uh
how other schools are doing and
attacking comprehensive distance
learning
uh i also just got a warning my internet
connection is unstable so wave at me if
i disappear
in addition charter schools have had
some amazing comprehensive distance
learning
successes and i've been hearing great
things about materials distributions
and project schools that are sending out
project kits
to kids to have project work done in
portland village school doing meals and
various
other supplies distributions and i just
think that
they've been able to take advantage of
the fact that they have very close and
tight relationships with their community
and try and hold those communities
together even through distance learning
i think there's been some really
positive outcomes from that
uh next bullet point about uh
lippy planning so limited in person
instruction planning for the charter
schools
i think there are questions for the
charter schools that i think are very
similar to the same sorts of
questions and issues that the district
deals with for lippy planning so one of
the things charter schools are looking
at
is access to vaccines and of course
they're being included in the district's
planning about how we will
how we will prioritize and ensure access
to
vaccines um the charter schools have
pretty
uh great flexibility in whether or not
they
uh they do lippy and how they how they
plan that so
from school to school there are very
flexible time frames on whether or not
schools are planning to
offer lippy and whether or not um
they have a set time frame in which
they'll be able to do it
at this time they're still many of the
schools are still surveying their staff
and community as we learn more about
vaccine availability
and as we learn more about the public
health metrics
and and about risk assessment i think
schools are coming to closer decisions
about it
but um but they again are not required
to offer lippy or not required to uh
offer hybrid in these times so we're
just going to see
what is the best way to get as many
students back into school as possible
safely
and i think that's where everyone is
right now with that
any questions around lippy or any other
okay so uh this i'll put an opportunity
if there are any charter schools that
want to give any updates or have
anything to
offer here
so i don't know if you can see me
raising my hand this is beth at opel
school hi beth
yes hi i i just wanted to say
um before we hear from you that we want
to make this a regular feature of these
quarter these uh board committee
meetings instead of
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um you you guys signing up for public
testimony we just want to have an
opportunity to
hear directly from from any and all of
you
about whatever's on your mind so um
with that i'll finish interrupting you
and let you share what you wanted to
share
thank you amy i'm always um happy to
play by the rules and um appreciate the
opportunity
so i wanted to bring uh
into the conversation a letter that um
we collectively wrote and i haven't
looked at that one recently
there was an earlier one also talking
about sort of the impact on charter
schools
of trying to operate in distance
learning and expenses and the sr funding
and all of that good stuff
and i want to
start by saying that this is an area
where we really want to work in
partnership with pps to try and serve
all of our students
and we're all operating in really
different
models and with different priorities
and acknowledging that
uh the first round of esser was out of
our hands in a lot of ways and we
benefited
um at a couple of different levels but
including having technology
um distributed to us which at least for
my school was a really big deal
i think that probably a third of our
families are participating in that and i
don't know how we would have served them
in a different way so i want to
acknowledge that
as a as one of the ways that the first
round of esser
came out to us and then i want to just
make an appeal
for the next round of esr for you folks
to be
thinking about us and what it takes for
us in our very small worlds
to be able to spin up any kind of
in-person
instruction and all of the all of the
all of the bits and pieces around the
guidance so i just like to bring that
into the conversation
sorry i was on mute uh deputy
superintendent hertz are you still with
us here
i am yes hi nice to see you
um can you please um
explain how charter schools
were considered in that first round of
esser distribution and why it landed
that the
state state sponsored charters um
were eligible and that um our own
charters did not receive
funds under that first distribution and
also if there's any refreshed thinking
uh anticipating these next rounds
so every time that we receive some of
these federal
stimulus dollars the uh
ode oregon department of education gives
us guidance
on what who we need to distribute to and
how it needs to be distributed
and i can tell you that um with the
first round of sr
that um the
i can tell you that ode has had
different
rules with different sources of funding
distinguishing state charters
differently
than district sponsored charters so
and it's not always the same i can tell
you that it changes each time and i'm
we're right now we don't have the
information on the new round the s or
two
um round we don't have those um rules
yet
and so we're still um getting it
you know waiting for that information on
specifics
but in sr1 we did um allocate in a title
one
model and it was um spent on
kindergarten
eas and so there was no qualifying
charter for that
and the um remainder was the edtech and
i think she already talked about
um that we supported charter schools
with devices
whether they were state or local we um
supported all of our charter schools
that needed devices for students
but right now we we really don't have
information on
how what the rules will be and as soon
as we do then
we'll have um more um
you know information about how we're
going to use those dollars and working
but
how we need to work with charter schools
at that point
okay and am i am i guessing correctly
that with the
prior guidance um they
they specifically said that
state-sponsored
charters were included and were eligible
but i'm guessing they probably didn't
say that district sponsor charters
were prohibited they just didn't call it
out specifically
so i at one point they they actually
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called me up because
and i can't remember which round of
funding
um because there's been multiple and
they come from different
you know smaller pots of funds but
um there was a round where they um
they asked us to work with them on the
state charters because the way the law
was written
so and then the next time they they
worked with state charters directly
so it um it's
really based on um and i can also say
the i can also say the um
that the federal government changed
their rules multiple times
as well so each time so
it's not it's not been a simple matter
where it's just regular allocation that
we know what to do with
i can say that we were told one set of
rules and then we got a change on that
and then we got to change again
so it just um it has not been an easy
trade um i'm hoping with um
new administration at the federal level
we won't see as much fluctuation how
and how we're allocating those funds
and i would um tara has also
been attending ode meetings if that's
helpful
because she attends on the charter side
and i attend on the school finance side
and
sometimes they we don't always get the
exact same presentation
so yeah okay and just while we have you
what about the last question about
access to the actual some of the
physical supplies
ppe and cleaning supplies and such
from the district um i'm wondering if
yeah i'm wondering if the um
so i'm wondering if we have a way to
help with them i know sometimes it's
even just hard to get things
and just helping with what vendors that
we're working with um
so that they can you know get uh know
where
what what our sources are so that as a
they
are part of our district that that will
help them get
the necessary supplies that they need
so i can we can also you know always
talk with our purchasing
department to um get vendor-less and
know so that they know where we're
getting supplies and how those contracts
are working
or maybe can you um i mean i i can't
direct you but i think it might be a
great idea to
if you could help facilitate um that
and then report back to us um about
whether or not
it's been made any easier for our our
charter family
sure thank you claire
um beth i wanted to to comment on
um your bit in the letter about the
pass-through rate which we have
discussed before and
heard a lot of presentation and advocacy
from you guys about that i think last
spring
so what i will commit to is elevating
that issue
in our overall budget process and
bringing it to the attention
of other board members and putting it
out there on our
sort of we have a we create an ongoing
list of of
questions and avenues that we want to go
down in our budget process so
um i will i will raise those issues and
concerns
there so that they get the attention
that they're due
thank you we appreciate that can i just
make one more comment about
claire's thinking around ppe and other
resources
one of the things that at least for us
would be really useful
would be to be able to purchase from
the pps warehouse because i can tell you
in the last two weeks i've not been able
to get
extra large gloves for janitorial staff
i mean i just can't
find them other than exorbitant prices
and so there's just places where we
don't have the economy of scale and we
don't have the relationships
um and so being able to
um you know there's financial support
there's also just
organizational support that um
i know that pps has stronger purchasing
power and is able to
negotiate things that we just can't do
and it'd be really lovely to be able to
piggyback on some of that
thank you thanks we appreciate that we
get an opportunity to talk to you about
these things of course
it's great that you guys are feeling so
cohesive these days
but that's a stretch i mean everybody is
like i said to somebody earlier today we
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are flying too close to the treetops
it's just all a little nerve-wracking
but
um yeah i think all of us are having
uh really positive feedback for my
family so
you know yeah we're close to the
treetops but we're flying
and things are going about as well as
they can at least at least
what i'm hearing from our families and
from other directors
all right karina i'm going to send it
back to you our agenda that we have
um that you showed at the top of the
meeting is a little bit different than
our agenda that we have in board books
so i'm going to let you run with it
oh okay um i think um
all right um i think they are similar
but
um we will go on to the next thing which
is in both
um which is the the cbo update
yes and karina i don't know if you
wanted to give a little
overview for just alternative schools in
general or i'm happy to do so
i think it's just essentially a listing
of the alternative schools and kind of
making the distinction between
contracted alternative schools and in
district schools
which is listed on the slide you have up
now
it's just really for reference and i do
think um
i don't know if that's what you were
referencing any director constant but i
do think it is
kind of what we had spoken about which
was the just looking at charter school
renewal and charter school updates and
cbo um rfp and cbo updates
um and then lippy so right now it's on
the
just the cbo the rfp um update so
we have uh erica manages um
most directly our um 10 partnerships
and with our contracted alternative
schools and then we have
metropolitan learning center k-12 as
well as alliance high school is our in
district alternative schools and
together that makes up our alternative
system
so next slide
thanks karina so as many of you already
know
every five years pbs conducts an rfp
process and this is where we open up the
solicitation for
community-based organizations that wish
to provide
alternative school services to pbs
students
we are currently in the midst of the rfp
process we released the rfp on january
8th
and currently programs who are
interested are
up on planet bids and reviewing the
materials and many of them submitting
questions
and working on their proposals
they are due on february 18th
at which time our internal team will
look through the different proposals and
potentially set up interviews with
programs that have applied that we have
additional questions for
and our notice to intent award is on
april 16th and so we were
trying to be generous with the amount of
time we gave proposers to draft their
proposals but also being cognizant of
the fact that we do have programming
that starts july 1st
so that the timeline between april 16th
and july
1st is somewhat tight for programs that
are either starting
new partnerships with pps or those are
who are continuing and
need to draft contracts for the
following year starting in the summer
next slide please so
while many of the elements of the rfp
are very similar to years previously
um always with a look at students for
whom our traditional
setting might not have been able to meet
their needs and so
we always have a disproportionate number
of students who have chronic attendance
issues
and face credit deficiency issues and
other learning gaps
and then of course looking at specific
groups of students who might need extra
supports and services
or those who we as a district are
targeting to get extra supports and so
we take a look at all those different
areas in addition to the different areas
around the city where we're feeling like
alternative needs
need to be met and we draft our rfp and
so here are a few different
blitz of things that we've looked at
this year and of course it's specified
in more detail in the rfp
next slide please
are there any questions about the rfp
process
or questions regarding that before we go
on to other cbo updates
okay i won't beg you to ask me any
questions i'll just continue
so cdl has been a really interesting
experience across our cbo network we
have seen
some miraculous work happening across
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our schools
similarly to the charter system cbo
leaders have been meeting way more
regularly i think
the allowance of doing virtual meetings
and not having to park in the besc
parking lot
has really made it much easier to
connect
i don't know why we weren't doing that
previously we seem to have always had
the capability but this has kind of
thrust us into that environment so
we've been really excited to meet
regularly and like charters kind of
share
common practices um common challenges
and common aspirations and so that's
been really rewarding
each of our cbo programs are unique and
serve
a kind of unique set of students and so
each program does have its own set of
services and supports and has been
addressing the needs of students in
different ways but i'd say one of the
things that brings us all together is
just the perseverance
in terms of really working with students
and families to
stabilize them as much as possible in
these very tumultuous times
so cbo's have been coming up with very
creative ways in addition to
visiting homes and dropping off work
also making sure
that they're using their um vast array
of wrap around services and partnerships
to target those student needs and family
needs
we've had a lot of engagement from our
cbo students which as you can imagine
the population of students served by
these programs
engagement is always something that's
considered
what's the word something that needs to
be addressed because these are students
for whom engagement they're kind of
hanging on and hoping to achieve that
goal of graduation even though they
might be behind their peers
in terms of lippy updates we do have a
few different programs
nine different cbo's that we currently
contract with one of whom has been
pretty much
running throughout the pandemic and
their residential treatment
and so they've actually been continuing
to do in person in a full scale model
even though it's very few students
then we have one of our cbo programs um
helen's view that has been
is currently doing lippy and has done
lippy previously and then stopped lippy
once incidences were kind of
raised to a different alert level and
have just restarted this past wednesday
the rest of our cbo programs um are
planning for what that might look like
but of course are
planning with the utmost precaution just
as our in-district schools are
and are very eager to learn about the
immunization plan and how they're going
to be integrated
into those services and then
additionally
um many of them have have heightened
concern for obvious reasons because of
the rash of violence that's happening in
the city
many of our cbo's have experienced
a lot of hardship in terms of working
with students and families that are
impacted by violence either directly or
in the community
many of our cbo's have had several
students who have been shot and killed
and or involved in extreme violent
activities
and of course this is kind of shaking
the core of the communities that they
serve
and so many of our cbo's while
most intended to provide alternative
school services of course
have to keep these things in mind and
are working with their communities to
think about the ways in which to open
most safely
not only as it relates to the pandemic
and spread of virus but also in terms of
violence prevention
um and i'm not sure if anybody else as
we move through the agenda would like to
kind of speak on that point
so those are some of the things
regarding lippy we don't have many other
programs that are super eager to go
back right away because of a lot of the
violence in the community and of course
with a small amount of resources that
they have to actually open facilities
um but all of them are of course taking
all of those things into consideration
while planning
erica excuse me may i ask a question
this is director to class
um do do the cbo's have any resources
available to them that the district
provides such as
you know we've got a department that
works specifically with you know social
emotional learning and
suicide prevention for instance we just
got a
presentation a few days ago on that
are are there supports at the district
level available to your cbo's
to our cbo's absolutely all of the
services that we provide to our
pps students are eligible for our pps
students enrolled in our cbo programs
we have been working really
strategically to try and partner with a
lot of departments internally that where
there might not have been as much of a
link in years past
and so we do work with um you know a lot
of our different departments related to
social emotional learning the threat
assessments looking at different
violence prevention
uh techniques but then we also like to
rely on our cbo's who we really look to
as experts in this field and
unfortunately
have pretty detailed crisis management
plans um
and resources and experience in this
work and so
while we want to of course ensure that
we're utilizing all our resources to
share
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the best practices that we see fit we
also welcome and um
allow them and want them to share what
they know works within the communities
that they work with so it's kind of i
would say a reciprocal relationship
and we're hoping to develop that in a
more seamless way
obviously as we move towards bringing
kids back yeah i i guess
thank you for that i was also wondering
so the cbo's are experts in their
communities
the communities that they're serving and
the district has these
you know supports available do you know
to the extent that that
the district supports are being used and
are adequate for what what is needed or
are cbo's coming to the district asking
for additional help and taking advantage
of those supports
or are they puzzling through this on
their own
or is there a combination of both like
how how how
arena i'm not sure if you want to touch
on this i was going to say it is a
combination of both but i see you kind
of you know anxious to speak and
sure thank you go ahead go ahead erica
i'll i'll go after you
so i was just going to say that i think
it is a little bit of both um
you know we do have and of course we
have nine different programs each of
which have their own range of services
so for instance you know
poic has several different campuses and
several different administrators across
different neighborhoods
helensview is part of mesd pcc is its
own whole network so i think
each of the cbo's and you know mount
scott serves a different community with
its own
you know wrap around supports and
services and partnerships and so
we try to we always offer support
and we're always open to hearing what
supports are needed and trying to
advocate on their behalf
if desired and then other times we
realize that it's
more seamless for them to partner with
their own agencies that they partner
with to provide those services for their
staff and communities
i'd love to hear directly from um
someone one of our cbo's or any of you
about
um you know first i just want to extend
my personal um
compassion and condolences for the
losses
and and the heartache your school
communities
and would like to hear from people about
what's working in terms of what you're
able to do for your students and
families
and what's still needed
this is don quija jackson i'm the
principal at helensview which is run
through multnomah educational service
district and i'm the principal up at
donald
long detention facility which isn't a
cbo but serves a lot of
of pps students um thank you erica for
kind of summarizing
i know we are all dealing with very
different things we've lost eight kids
in two months and um not all have been
pps
students um it has been really
traumatizing part of the reason that we
chose to do limited in-person
instruction
um and it's all outside cte
based classes was because our
our kids need us and um
weighing weighing dangers
right we worked with multnomah county
health in reopening so we weren't
you know ignoring covid but we feel like
we're just we're losing
kids without connection we also
um have accessed we had
our mental health therapist and school
counselor work over the entire break
and um paid them and worked on
comp time so that they could continue to
support
families who were in dire need i do
have to say that um title 10 services
have been incredible from pps because
our houseless issue during this pandemic
has just shot
up and
i think you know there's always a need
for more but i feel like we've done a
really great job at connecting with our
students
but it's been at the expense of our our
staff's mental health often
because it's just such a huge huge need
with that much loss
and especially in the middle of a
pandemic
please um extend our gratitude to your
staff for
everything they do yeah so i can
chime in just to fix it joe mcferrin
with poic
yeah it's it's been real rough we just
lost
we've lost several and
as an agency one of the things that we
do that
some of you may not be aware of is that
we have
a division if you will
of 20 staff members 20 plus staff
members that work with
specifically african american youth and
families
involved with the criminal justice
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system
and so our reach with respect to
wraparound services goes
far beyond poic and rosemary anderson
high school as an organization it also
filters into the schools
throughout portland public
we are
one of the things that i can highlight
that we're excited about
is that our mental health we have three
school-based
getting ready to add four a fourth uh
mental health
therapist and
our therapists are participating in
training with pps
so that's my latest i mean uh pps has
been very supportive
um throughout my years uh
here 26 years in various ways but the
the latest
area that i was excited about was that
our mental health
folks who are working overtime as you
could imagine
uh dealing with not only the community
and violence but also
covet um
and so one of the things that
i hope that will happen
in the not too distant future
is that pps
and poic and others throughout the
community
and our public safety officials
can get together and create a plan
a safety plan for the entire community
what you're seeing in the news
and what's being reported
doesn't capture all the violence that's
actually occurring so it's
it's i've never seen i've been around
for 26 years and been through a lot
with respect to gun violence but i've
never
seen anything like this and so
the kids who left school
before the pandemic who were
you know we all thought was seemed like
a pretty good kid
and and and was on the right track
what we're finding is some of those kids
are in situations now where
they have to um
to survive they have to
to join and become a part of that
lifestyle so
i think we all um need to
come together and figure out
with pub with with our public safety
systems
to ensure that when we do reopen that we
put our best foot forward and mitigate
any sort of violence that's brewing
but all in all we're just gonna keep a
good attitude
do the best we can continue to work
together
but i just will say that when we've
called on
the district uh the district has been
there to help us in any way
that they can
thanks joe i'm glad to hear that
that last piece i'm glad to hear
thank you
um i still have a question my question
was more about
is the demand the demand for services
that the district can provide
is the district able to to meet that
demand or is there a
disconnect between what is needed and
if if there wasn't enough and and
if we could resource the demand
and i didn't get a um a sense for that
if the demand the cbo's demand for
services
to address the violence that's happened
the maybe the social emotional supports
are being met and if not
was there a way to resource that demand
does that make sense
yeah i would say if you're asking one of
the things
i just speak for us and i i'm hoping
that this is a safe space so that this
information
kind of somewhat stays here but
we we are seriously considering
uh
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looking at hiring um
school resource officers
i don't i don't we need
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it's that bad i i don't i i don't
i'm not necessarily all for having
officers
in school that's not my first choice but
the things that are going on on the
streets
are just it's too much it's it's too
much
so i guess if you're asked if your
question is
um i guess i would that would be my ask
is that we need we need
a presence
um because
although we have 11 gang outreach
workers
we're just not getting the street level
intel
like we normally get when we're face to
face
we're there there's been a there's been
a our commun our lines of communication
have been fractured and so that
that for me um
and our staff is creating a lot of
concern
so that that would be my my my ass
that's our number one
issue with reopening i feel good that we
can work through the challenges of covet
i actually feel good about that we've
done a lot of
things to to to address and to plan for
but in terms of the violence i you know
we're not ready
and i don't know i'm not so sure
that any of the schools are really ready
to open up and just open up the schools
given what's been going on on the street
joe can i try to that's what i was
looking for and i appreciate your
um forthrightness about what your needs
are i know this is kind of an awkward
situation but um
i that's what i was looking for thank
you
um joe can i try to put a fine point on
that are you
are you talking about um being
particularly
concerned about having kids
back in the building for whether it's
slippy or
or whatever form of in-person
instruction
because then um they can be targeted
because their
location is known no question
and i will say this if i
to be frank i'm more worried
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about the public schools that i'm
worried
about rosemary anderson high school
yeah that was going to be my question
joe thanks for answering it ahead of
time is
you're suggesting that um
roosevelt jeff other schools
need to be on high alert when we do get
kids back
in yeah we have an opportunity
we have a real opportunity to be
proactive in getting at this now
because we're going to need everybody in
my opinion
we're going to need all systems and the
community
on board
and i i just have to say from uh um
i'm sure many of us feel this way from a
helen's view perspective we need
we need more folks who can do social
work as well
like we are just stretched to the max in
terms of trying to connect
students with services across the board
food um we have we have four kids who
have been shot
who are not dead and they need
ptsd they need they need in-home health
care they
you know and we just don't have enough
staff to provide the amount of support
that we
have at the moment thank you
this is exactly the conversation i was
hoping that we'd have
like some truth telling i was really
literally trying to find out
if the demand for what what is needed
out in the community because i don't
know this is the first i've
heard about it if the district is able
to meet some of that demand or do we
need to do
like do we need a plan b especially like
these other high schools that are
impacted
so i appreciate your being you know your
forthrightness about this
that was exactly what i was trying to
get at
my impression is that our counseling and
social work staff
are uh something in the same boat
their uh their caseloads are up and
they're
they're stretched but um that's again my
impression
and we i want to hear
um and i think we have actually have a
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session
coming up um
where we might be able to get that
information about sort of current state
so so can i just share some um
so my response to your question um
director to pass
and thank you for asking it thank you
thank all
thank all of you directors for for your
uh authenticity in this conversation i
appreciate that we can have this con
this
much needed overdue conversation um
so the data that we have like it's
powerful for me to hear mr mcferron say
he's never
experienced things like this um that is
powerful to me
um because that is the experience that
we are hearing not just from mr mcferrin
but from many people around the city
that when we took when we look at the
data
that we are back to the early 90s
when we had the very the when we've had
the worst
um gun violence of that's that's when i
first moved to portland that
so this is worse than it's been since uh
since then
um and that that was told to us from um
nike green's office of violence
prevention at the mayor at the mayor's
in the mayor's office
so um i think there's a so an answer to
your initial question
i think there's always more we can do
because any time we have this many kids
in harm's way
like the adults the adults aren't
in my opinion the adults aren't doing
enough if kids don't get to be kids
when kids are having to think so much in
in in a different brain
in such survival mode um then
the adults have work to do and as far as
and and i don't believe it's just
necessarily portland public schools or
the education systems i think that's
when we're having also we're having
conversations
with the office of violence prevention
um erica
jeffrey mcgee other people go to the
police uh
the peace collaborative twice a month to
really try to get
and stay looped into um what are what
are what is happening in the community
how can we put in here how can we stay
connected
and and more interconnected but i would
just say
and i think don just talked about it
perfectly
is we have so many students that we are
losing
but there's a variety of things around
how do we get upstream
so what do we do like there's one is how
do we care for people who are injured
and wounded which is
absolutely necessary and vital there's
also
just a more um broader conversation
around how do we start to get upstream
and how are we starting to help students
who feel themselves or their world
shifting like this
and um and so when we think just in
conversations that i've had or myself
and lorna have
and erica have had other people have had
with james loveland and amy rona and
student services who have been lovely
trying to meet this moment
one of the things that we've done right
in portland public schools is we've
gotten a threat
assessment somebody who just deals with
threat assessment
and so that's been helpful we have a
threat assessment team
um but i think that when you when when i
and i just have had this conversation
two things one
is we have in student success and health
mental health culturally specific mental
health services
and so there's been conversations around
are those getting as much as they need
to get
into the cbo's and or
what does that look what would that look
like and so it's not
that i appreciate mr mcferrin saying
that we have
as we have as i had we enjoy and and
realize and cherish our relationships
with our contracted alternative schools
that they feel like we have a good
relationship and that we're working on
this together
um and i do feel like what is it from a
student success and health with regard
to mental health services that we need
to craft
because these are pps students and um
and so what is that and then i think the
social workers when we talk about social
workers
we have done some really wonderful
things with social workers
and our social workers are getting
spread really thin with this
um the other thing that i would just add
is that
i think about our staffs i think about
the leaders that you just heard from
i think about what it takes to be a
leader and corral your staff
during trauma again and again and again
and i think about i worry about eric and
i talk about this often is
we worry about the staff teams out there
like how are they getting replenished
and nourished and what kind of healing
practices
are we helping them with so i think
there's things that we can do and
continue to do
from a social work standpoint i also
think there's things that we can
continue to do from professional
development
standpoint it's like who are we bringing
in how are we replenishing how are we
helping
and and in district staff as well in
district staff as well because we have
lots of those conversations
about how are we keeping students safe
and how will would we reopen and under
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what conditions would we reopen
and and just being really clear that
when we ask people around
lippy or round things as the
superintendent
has made very clear it is completely
voluntary
so that there is not that we have to be
really clear about when families say no
thank you there might be lots of reasons
why they're saying no thank you
um about for the safety of their of
their students
but i also think about additional social
workers or additional mental health
supports
what are the trainings we can do around
social emotional wellness for the staff
what are we doing for families there's a
lot of families that are impacted like
what kind of services are we doing
and then the last thing i'll say is from
a reconnection services which i was
going to talk about a little bit later
but from reconnection services we work
really vitally and that team is an
amazing team
and those are really the thoughts around
also for them
with regard to as as we put kids into
as we find it the next best fit for
students
which is the job of the reconnection
services team
it's a lot it's it's very complex
because there's a lot more violence as
mr mcferrin said
than is in the news and so it's really
trying to see about
what level of risk and what level of
understanding do we have with families
or what we have with students if we're
recommending
any any particular school who else goes
there
what's the history of violence with the
current student
student body or threats of violence or
fear of intimidation of violence
with somebody that we might be seeking
to place so there's a lot of layers to
it and it's really complex but i think
that
we need to continue to think about how
do we show up
um differently and better and more
intensely because this moment is
is incredibly intense
so thank you for asking the question
thank you
so i would just say amy do how do you
react
or board members or anyone how do you
react to
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a community-wide safety plan
how do we react i mean par part of one
of the things that
karina and i had a conversation with
when we were
thinking about this meeting and i wanted
to address this issue of community
violence in our meeting today
is what are we as a school district
doing to coordinate with
uh citywide efforts here and i think
it's great that you know some of our
people
attend the police collaborative and i
think karina you mentioned a couple of
other things that um we're engaging with
more more broadly um that with the
with the purpose of trying to protect
and serve our students
so i think that that's important
partly because we have a responsibility
to elevate to other leaders
how serious the issue is right now and
then to problem solve
with other leaders and those who have
access to other
resources and different kinds of
resources than we have
um so i don't know if that
um i don't know if the uh scott and
michelle if you have anything else you
want to add to that but that's kind of
the first thing that comes to my mind
joe when you ask that question if i miss
the mark
let me know
no i think that's right i think that
it's our kind of moral responsibility to
elevate the concerns um i've
i'm on next door sometimes unfortunately
and so there's lots of reports of
violence
um i haven't spent a lot of time
thinking about how it impacts our the
kids on our system
um and then the community at large and
so yeah i feel
obligated to elevate these concerns
did we have do we have somebody that
attends the interfaith
um meeting that's every other week every
other friday
at the north portland northeast portland
precinct do we have someone from the
district or
is that a gap that could be that that's
that's what is are you referring to the
police collaborative
it's yeah i call ipac i think it's the
interfaith
police accountability committee it's a
group of um
people from from law enforcement the
district attorney's office
and families that have been impacted by
by gang violence
i think dana riemer attends that in
again in our students student support
services uh department
i do believe we're i do believe we have
staff who attend that
i believe it's dana riemer we can check
on who that is
erica juno or lauren and you know off
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the top of your head
or anybody i don't that's something i
can look into for sure
yeah it might be nice to have someone
that's at least you know getting on
those emails knowing about when the
meetings happen
and it's a great place to hear about
what's happening and also be able to
advocate
um i think that'd be a really great uh
just to make sure there is one person or
people assigned to to those meetings
uh if i was gonna put the link to it
in the chat but i don't know there's a
chat to
put a link in um
but yeah the next one is tomorrow uh
i just googled the uh portland peace
collab
uh i think collaboration um
and it's on the city it's on the city
website we have several
immediately have many we have many
attendees at that meeting but the other
meeting i have not heard of so i'll
definitely i'll look up
that meeting now so
i think um when the sro program
ended it left a vacuum and
we haven't found
i i think this the sweet spot where we
have
i mean we had a group of officers who
were really good at working with
students
and keeping them out of the justice
system
um that was their passion and
now they're now there's nobody who's
when if we need to you know school isn't
in session now but
if it was and we needed to call an
officer
we'd get whoever showed up and
they wouldn't have the dedicated time
that the
sros had um
so you know working with the city on
that
has not been very smooth and i i don't
want to
throw a rock at the city up that's
that's not my purpose here but
we haven't figured out that relationship
going
forward um and again the
uh our chief of police when he was first
hired said
i think he has a background in sros and
was like
wow do we really want to get rid of that
unit
that politics um
so i i think uh you know you talk about
what's a
what's a community plan i i don't think
we have one
and that's troubling
and maybe that's what we're seeing that
maybe that's part of why we're seeing a
resurgence in violence
along with you know when people lose
their jobs
it create and the covid creates huge
stresses
um of course racism
uh it all it all impacts
regular folks yeah and it's this this
level of um gun violence
is not unique to portland it's happening
nationwide
so i would i mean yes it's all of those
things
at the same time you know the police
reform is happening at the same time
it wasn't planned um
but yeah it's
we have so many big systemic issues to
handle right now that's that's that
would be another one that would be
important to get um yeah i'd like to
offer up
if anyone's interested um
to sit in on
our team's weekly
conversation about what's going on in
the streets
and i think that would might really
that could be eye-opening to hear
about what
um
what's really going on and and and i
would tie it
i'd even tie it to to education
in that we've had a couple of issues
where we've had class and we had the
wrong groups
they used to you know we had groups that
were you know at one point
we're fine together and then all of a
sudden
they're not fine on zooming
trying to you know in in class and so i
mean it just there's just layers and
layers
of how the community of violence is
impacting
and learning and instruction but but i
would just offer that up so anyone
interested
my team would love to just kind of give
you a rundown
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of what they're seeing
what's going on and their concerns
i would be honored to attend your team
meeting if i would
get an invite um i i would like to know
more about
what's happening um
and also just be able to think through
you know
maybe there needs to be a task force
just within portland public if it's not
happening at the city level
on terms of what are we going to do to
take care of the kids you know
in the absence of you know police
presence which i'm not a fan of either
um but i'm changing my mind a little bit
as i'm hearing more
from you particularly um i'd like to
learn more and like to think about what
we do to address
that's a very different conversation
from some of the charter schools that
are on the call
joe that would be great if you could
follow up with email
and let us know um when we can do that
that'd be great i think it's really
important
yeah thanks joe same here well i
on a positive note i will say we we have
we are continuing
and as as we spoke about a little bit
earlier
is um working um as a secondary system
so kristin westfall who supervised as
the area senior director for
middle schools and carl logan and myself
and elisa shore
who supervises the comprehensive high
schools and lorna
and erica and i have worked with jeffrey
and pulled together some
principles to begin to have this
conversation and so
we've we just had a meeting was that
last night near fast
um and so just thinking and that was
part of what is coming up is so we're
having these conversations with regard
to the cbo
erica's having them with the cbo team of
leaders and we're having them in
different pieces and so that's part of
what's happening
is is it growing around how are we
pulling people together
and the second piece of um positive that
i would say
is um james and james loveland and amy
rona and myself
and jeffrey mcgee met with
the um office of violence prevention in
december
and so really have talked about how do
we strengthen that referral process
and what are the services um that are
available
um from the city um and so i do think
because i
there's a lot that we can do in
education and i do think that it's
far it's far bigger than education and
so it's also
what are the resources that we can all
pull together
um so it's a both and
and and and other people and other
systems are having similar conversations
so that i mean that i i feel like that's
positive as we try to
as we try to um you know synergize
around this
and move towards action
i think you're right it's good the
conversations are taking place
um all right uh joe we'll look forward
to your follow-up on that
and then karina we had i think one more
item that we wanted to get to
um to talk about our credit recovery
efforts
yeah and we can be and and i just want
to do a a
shout out to um tipper or grad
for our grad rate um which we did not
have kind of planned and then it was
like well it's today um it went out
today so
um cara can we go to the next slide
please
and then the next slide
so you may have read in the paper that
portland public schools graduation rates
were released today
and that our four-year graduation rate
rose to 87.
83.7 percent um which
and i just want to also say that that
the rates that went out today
are the four-year rates or that there
are that are most in the paper today are
the four-year rates
and we know as an alternative system and
in public education that we are charged
to serve students until they're 21.
so um we are even more excited
that um alliance had a 25.8 percent
gain last year so they went from 35
percent
for your graduation rate to this year to
a 61
graduation rate which is huge that's
phenomenal
um and lauren is on the call our
principal of alliance
way to go for the principal of alliance
fast buffalo bars and all your fabulous
students
and mlc had a 23 one year graduation
um gain they went from 57 to 80 percent
um and i and i want to talk about i'll
talk about that
share about that um so um but overall
back to their contracted alternative
schools
um we don't have any charter schools at
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the high school level but our pps
graduation rate rose
and one of the things that we know is we
know
that that is in part um and to some
degree
very significant part of that is our
contracted alternative schools
so this is where i love that we are a
system that we're a district-wide
secondary system
and so it's very good work that's
happening at the comprehensive schools
there's great things that our
comprehensive leaders and our
comprehensive teachers are doing
and when our students move and are move
into alt ed placements and move to our
contracted alternative schools
when they go to rosemary anderson or to
helens view or
to mount scott or to portland community
college and they graduate or complete
the data goes back to the comprehensive
school because they don't have a state
report card
and so i just want to celebrate our
cbo's we serve tonight is it 944
students last year erica
yep that's the number there were 944
students um and some of those students
will not be in the four-year rate
in fact probably many of them won't but
some of them are in that four-year rate
so it does
every year we'll go through one of the
tasks we have now with regard to data
is that we'll go through and we'll say
how many of the students graduated from
the cbo data in our cbo report cards our
alternative accountability report cards
what is that percentage often it's two
or three percent
um sometimes it's been as high as six or
eight when you get to the five-year
completion rate
that the cbo's that are contracted
alternative schools have positively
impacted
the district's overall rate so i just
want to shout
out um to this to our contracted
alternative schools as well
and just to our just to create a large
deeper understanding with regard to our
entire alternative
system that it's one of the ways that we
actually really work together
and we complement each other students
and
and families in gen general education
and alternative education that were one
secondary system that we're all working
together and so
i just really want to appreciate all the
school leaders all the secondary school
leaders
um on the on the call so again thank you
to helensview and rosemary anderson and
mount scott and pcc
and um maya and all the schools that are
not
rubbers that are not physically here
today but are part of our pcc
that are part of our cbo community like
they are all to be celebrated also
um in our graduation rates so i just
wanted to take a minute to do a shout
out
um and a shout out to alliance and mlc
as well
it's really important and one of the
things that we're working with
is one of the pieces of work that we
have in multiple pathways is working on
our
alternative accountability report card
so we had another meeting i think again
just yesterday with
our system planning and performance and
around doing that work over the next few
months
so that's something that's one of the
metrics that we use as we evaluate our
contracted alternative schools that we
will do this year like we've done
in past years although the data will be
different of course because
of the assessments look different in the
pandemic but that work
that work continues i also just want to
say one of the things with
with very specifically is particularly
with mlc
but i think it's important to say with
regard to mlc as well as with alliance
is we have made very direct connections
with great intention
between the reconnection services team
and our in-district alternatives as well
so if you go back just as an example if
you go back to mlc's data and you look
at it about five years ago there was a
significant drop
and the reason there was a significant
drop is we as a district with intention
said we wanted to open more doors for
students in alternative schools
um that they should there should be more
options for them and then i'm proud
because every year since over the last
four years their rates
are are ticking up and so they're doing
the good work
and they have a stronger relationship
with our reconnection services team
so um so lots of really great work and
lots of really wonderful staff
working really hard across the city um
in our in it throughout our alternative
system so i just want to give that shout
out
thank you that's it's great and uh we'll
i'll uh
pull that out in our report to the full
board as well
um do you want to close things out by
just talking a little bit we're going to
at our next meeting we're going to look
at our
data from our cbo's and alternative
schools
around course completion and
what's been going on in cdl but um you
want to talk about that a little bit
absolutely it's a very last thing so can
we have next slide please
uh just just really quickly and
i'll bring lorna in here also um to talk
01h 15m 00s
about anything with regard to our lippy
work but
just really i just also want to share um
with regard to some of the things that
we are doing with regard to outreach to
families
so there was a big push before winter
break with regard to emergency supports
to families
um so over 20 000 dollars in
utility bills and different kinds of
bills to help families
we worked with the fund um and they
provided those
the funding for that and then our social
workers got those funds out to families
so that was a really positive thing that
happened in december before winter break
since last time we met
um and then with regard to our lippy
program
um there's really just a range um
just like and i and i feel like we
already had largely the lippy
conversation
in some respects around just the various
considerations that schools
are consider have and the considerations
they're
they're tending to as they make lippy
plans um
but we're really there's a range um but
right now we have
um dawn had talked about at helen's view
providing lippy services other schools
saying with intention they're choosing
not to provide with these services at
this time
we're starting with regard to multiple
pathways
with alliance at benson and what was
prioritized
actually by the students and the staff
was the bsu
so they really want to talk about the
black
student union those are the students who
wanted to
we've heard the most strongly from
around wanting that service and that
staff wanting to provide that service
so so we're starting that planning
process
as well as some other processes around
social workers so social workers
providing some times
where students can come in um or have
some lippy time to get some of the
um get some supplies get there's a coat
distribution
get kind of really just do some and do
some kind of mental health check-ins or
just some
check and connects with students um
and then we're really looking at um just
what will that look like
um kind of as we go forward because
we're going to have different phases of
lippy
um as we as the as the weeks progress
and then the last thing is um
is with regard to dart so we're going to
the we have two residential treatment
facilities and then we have four day
treatment facilities
and we're in the early planning stages
right now
to begin at the residential treatment
facilities
and then i'm not sure lorna do you want
to share anything about the programs
um just that the
um programs that i supervise so teen
parent services
portland evening and summer scholars
reconnection services and the prep grant
are all continuing to provide services
between
cdl and developing plans for lippy
teen parent services is continues to be
very active
getting donations for students diapers
clothes other things and getting
delivering those to students
as well as providing academic and social
emotional support
reconnection services is working with
the whole system
of in-district and cbo schools to
really re-engage students who've been
out of school and they
also are developing a lippy plan
because they feel like their students
need some face-to-face time
six feet apart with the case managers in
reconnection services
and then um
portland evening scholars will not do
lippy because
that would be an additional cohort for
students so
they are continuing um for second
semester this year too
they will continue to provide credit
recovery
through cdl and then the prep grant we
can talk about it another time but it's
just
another resource that um
that really helped with that graduation
rate i would say for
alliance and mlc um and the prep grant
started working this year with a couple
campuses
at rosemary anderson high school also so
those are the programs that i work with
thanks lord
so i so that's kind of where we are um
and then with regard to the incompletes
and credit recovery
um we can go into a deeper dive in the
future but we just
every campus has a list of incompletes
and we're working with
every all the administrative teams and
01h 20m 00s
the school teams with regard to what are
the individual student plans
so that work continues and we hope to
get some really good information at the
end of semester
but we won't have we won't have that
data for a couple weeks
coming right up yeah
okay anything else for the good of the
order
yeah if i could add just one thing and i
apologize for this being at the end of
the meeting but um
first of all i wanted to thank the the
pbs board and
uh karina and erica all for uh including
the cbo's in these meetings this has
been really beneficial and and we really
feel
more included just so i just want to put
that out there thank you for for
starting this last year
um i know that for us and for most of
the cbo
mount scott and for their cbo's one of
the big questions that was brought up by
cara
is the access to the vaccine and how
cbo staff and charter school staff are
being factored into that
distribution plan for the district is
there any update that we can provide to
our staff on that
i'd be happy to kind of share where
we're at so
you know district personnel right now at
a pretty high level
i i'm assuming are the people
responsible for kind of
developing that plan and just today at
leadership we received a little bit more
information
about um who will be phasing and when
that being said there have been no
specifics being shared i have generated
numbers and i've given numbers to um the
senior manager responsible for
organizing those efforts
and we have included the cbo staff in
those numbers
so while it's not necessarily shared at
what point of the phase-in
that will be um they are being
considered and included in that phase-in
plan and so as soon as we know more of
course i'll share
as soon as i find out i will definitely
share um with our cbo partners
but you can definitely rest assured that
the numbers
that your staff will be included in that
plan i think it's contingent on a
variety
of different factors and i don't want to
speak with any level of expertise since
i'm not involved in those decisions but
definitely will be sharing out once we
learn more
and the same is true for the charter
school uh staff
so uh one other thing too is um
i know with the essential funding and
the the gear funding that's a
um a topic that the cbo's are
curious about how the cbo's will be
factored into that additional funding
that comes through
uh and when um we just
again we continue to to you know lobby
for the cbo's being included in any
additional funding that comes in to
support students particularly under
service certains
absolutely tom yeah i appreciate you
bringing that up and um as you know
these bills have just recently been
passed and so as we
learn about the ways in which the
district will be receiving funds and the
rules associated with them we'll be
reaching out to our partners to
determine
how and when or if they'll be included
i've been excited about the various
different funds that have come into the
district and the ways in which they've
been kind of
the considerations we've had as a
district to pass those on there's always
more we can do and so with every new
funding stream that comes in we continue
to advocate to ensure that all of our
pbs students have access to that
all right everybody um appreciate your
time
next time we gather we'll be reviewing
our charter renewals
really appreciate your candor too and
helping us understand
just really what your students are
experiencing what some of your students
are experiencing right now
and also also the
the incredible efforts that your staff
makes to connect
with your students every day and their
families
um heart in these challenging times
um appreciate all of you thank you very
much
and uh we'll see you next month anything
else karina
no i just thank you thanks thanks to
everyone who attended and
thank you to our to our charter
schools and alternative programs
committee members we appreciate you
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