anything i don't What are you sharing principal and our students uh principal she's going to go up hello and welcome Superintendent
Hernandez DC members our KA guests students community members and our folks at home uh good evening it's my pleasure to welcome you to RKA this evening my name is Lori Omera and I've been the principal here at RKA for 18 years we
currently have 1387 students in grades 6 through 12 and many of our students reside here in the northwest section of the Bronx roughly 85% of our students stay from the middle school into our high school uh 23% of our school population are students with IEPs and
12% of students are learning English as a new language in fact we have 60 home languages represented in our school our diversity is one of our strengths and I believe that our students learn best when learning about each other from one
another i'm extremely proud of our students performance year in and year out on the New York State ELA and math exams i'm also proud of our high school graduation rate which hovers between 91 and 94% annually with recent college
acceptances such as USC Bingington Swarmore Brandeise Boston West Point Penn State Bucknell and too many CUNIs and Sunnis to list here our students experience many opportunities through their journey at RKA i like to think of
them as five buckets uh activities academics arts athletics and attitudes academically we offer classes uh courses for entire range of students that we have here at RKA including 12 advanced placement classes dual enrollment
courses but we also partner with Leman for our college now courses athletically we offer our middle school intramural program and 14 varsity athletic teams including and I need to plug our boys soccer team made it to the city semi-finals this year our girls to the
city quarterfinals our wrestling team to the city semi-finals those city finalists uh with five state qualifiers headed to New York State this weekend our SEAL program features restorative circles ruler PBIS peer mediation along
with the generous staff of 10 guidance counselors arts programs include our visual vocal and instrumental programs and our activities team provides many opportunities for our students including trips to Broadway skiing dances uh movie nights we're going to Washington DC
Philadelphia and even Europe this year for the first time ever uh we have 20 after school clubs including debate model UN science olympiad honor society arts and crafts um and science Olympia and now I'd like you to hear from our best advertising that any principal
could ever want that's our students um and they have all been in RKA since they're in middle school so since grade six they're all in high school now um and I asked them to join us this evening to talk a little bit about their extracurricular clubs and activities and how it's helping them uh prepare for
their futures so I'm going to start by introducing Teodora and Isabella from the model UN hi I'm Zel Chinsio and I'm one of the captains of Mom and this is my second year doing it um in the conferences we attend we're with kids from throughout
the city and from even all around the world we're at conferences at places from in high schools throughout the city or even at places such as NYU and Colombia um and Claud One has really helped me step out of my shell and become a better speaker and arguer in my daily life um in classes I've been able
to be feel more comfortable around my peers to share my ideas and to debate against them and to be able to understand how to use my points to uh further um prove my uh point and I specialize in the crisis committees which are fictional topics like similar
to the real model real um we just debate about and we play uh different characters in fictional roles and some of the I've been able to win two awards such as a best delegate where I've on in place in a committee about the fourth crusade and another committee about the
book of the day the good the day the crayons quit and yeah hi I'm deova I've been in for three years and like Isabelle I've been committed to being a captain for Malu I specialize in general assemblies which
are similar to the real UN and I I represent different countries around the world and debate about real world issues such as refugees environmental protection reparations and humanitarian aid having to find resolutions with many other students from all around the world has
helped me become a better problem solver improve my public speaking and has allowed me to grow as a person even allowing me to win many various awards and win best LAS i plan on majoring in finance and going to law school which has helped me and prepped me to improve
my public speaking problem solving and become a better student thank you thank you so much and now we'll hear from Santos and Stella from the National Honor Society uh good evening everyone my name is Santis Rivera i'm the 12th grade
representative as well as the student president of National Honor Society hi and my name is Stella and I'm one of the 11th grade officers that represent um the process of becoming and being a member of National Honor Society at RKA
especially an officer is such a valuable and rewarding experience valuable because it allows you to become more involved in the Riverdale community like helping out with elementary school kids and freshening up the school and truly making a difference rewarding because not only does it provide RK students the
leadership qualities that colleges are looking for but it also teaches you the importance of the five pillars of our organization which are scholarship citizenship service leadership and character my personal experience with the National Honor Society and being a member and officer has been really
insightful and has helped me become a lot more community-mindedly i look forward to continuing to be a part of being in charge of something that is such an integral part of our community thank you um I've been a part of honor society since the seventh grade in both
of its middle school and high school divisions and I've always appreciated the inschool service projects and other events and fundraisers that the that NHS has has done especially in these recent years where I played a more active role
in their creation and setting their model my role in NHS developed my ability to think ahead and reach out to other people as we make changes to our fund to our service projects and fundraisers based on the feedback of our
peers uh which has been insightful as RK has always encouraged open communication and with NHS I believe that goal has been met and will continue to be met with my fellow officers and all future inducted members
thank you so much our next group of speakers uh have a remarkable achievement they have all or are going to be earning their seal of bio literacy which is a New York State uh project and actually Miss Conention is the teacher that has spearheaded this and brought it
to RKA and she's here to watch her wonderful students speak to you today so come on up Dere Maxine Sori and Sher they have a lot of tips good evening i'm Sharon and today we want to talk to you about an achievement
that goes beyond the classroom and one that represents cultural pride the New York State Seal by Literacy is an award given to high school graduates who demonstrate a high level proficiency in English and one or more world languages all NYSSB earners receive an official seal fixed to diploma and a medallion to
wear at graduation and a certificate from the New York State Education Department these symbols of achievement set students apart showing their ability to communicate across cultures and in different linguistic settings a skill that is increasingly valuable in today's globalized world the seal of valeria at
RTA began three years ago with only five students and Spanish was the only language offered last year because of the commitment of our students the program has grown tremendously with 28 students achieving the seal by literacy a language such as Portuguese French Italian Russian and Spanish this year
we're expanding to include Mandarin Armenian Arabic Albanian and even fani a language that has no written form hi I'm Fori and to continue during the completion of this capstone project students have been able to explore
topics that allow them to engage with ideas that are both academic academically rigorous and personally significant my sister and I are of Dominican and Italian descent this year we will be completing our second seal by literacy but this time in Italian you
have no idea what it has meant to us to be able to represent both sides of our nationality we cannot wait to receive both of our medals at our graduation to see our parents' faces and for them to know that their sacrifice did not invade we are grateful for the impact of the seal and what it has had on our lives
but I want to also include that this journey at RKA has begun with one person's vision an amazing world language teacher who has always been dedicated to getting opportunities for her students from the very beginning she saw the potential of this program not just as an academic
requirement but as a way to enrich students lives and futures and for that thank you so much hi my name is Maxine and I'm born in New York as the daughter of French immigrants and I grew up constantly pulled between two identities my parents wanted to fully integrate me into
American society but they also wanted their children to maintain their French roots with this came many years of struggling with reading writing or understanding English and being part of ESL I began to realize complex identity was a privilege and not a disadvantage i
realized I didn't want to let go of the French part of my identity and make it a ghost i proved to myself that I'm an American but I'm just as proud of my French heritage at RKA I found a love for Spanish language and culture and so I enthusiastically enrolled in UP Spanish where I excelled it was here that when I learned about the
opportunity of possibly attaining the seal of bi literacy that I approached concepts to see if I could also do the seal in French as well little did I know that it opened doors to all of these other languages i presented my capstones last year and I am proud to say that I
am RK's first student to achieve the double seal opening the door to my peers so that they too can achieve this goal has been very rewarding being triilingual has made me proud of my heritage and made me want to acknowledge it as much as I can because why should you hide something that makes you you
when there is no other way to describe it this deal has opened a new door and a new beginning and I can't wait to see what the future holds for me good evening my name is D growing up there was one there was only one idea that my parents engraved me my my entire childhood and that was to never forget
Spanish my dad always reminded me that being bilingual was a superpower that only certain people had as a father and a business man he wanted me to retain my culture but he also knew that being bilingual was a universal key that opens many doors in the future I plan on pursuing a career in law knowing two different languages means I can aid more
clients and in their heritage language this September at the start of my senior year we were able to use the seal to our advantage because we included it on our brackets and our college applications oh no i have received scholarships and more financial aid from schools for knowing a different language of being a first generation college student overall I consider being by the a key part of who
I am and who I will become in the future obtaining the seal by literacy has helped me open those same doors that my father instilled me to walk through thus ensuring my future while maintaining my pride in my Dominican heritage i told them they had 30 seconds each so they really tried to get it um
and now we're gonna have hear from Daniel and Andy they're here representing Science Olympia hello everyone my name is Daniel i'm a senior here at RKA um I've been on the science Olympiad team for three years now this is me and Andy's last year
unfortunately however I say that because um it has been one of the most amazing experiences um in my high school career so far um uh science Olympiad we build um events we have sorry all over the
place we have build events and we have study events and there's a 24 different events we have a large variety and everyone is able to participate um no matter what um level are or how interested you are in science um and for
me personally I really love science not only because it's really fun but because I feel like I've grown so much more as a person as opposed to if I had not taken it because learning how to work like in this like workshop setting where we
learn how to use like drills and wood saws something that we wouldn't normally do in like a regular high school classroom just being able to do that and help younger kids and teach them like how to work the tools and how to build stuff and how to study and guiding them through that like I really feel like I
have became way more independent i've matured much more quickly than I would have and overall it's been a really amazing experience and I am planning on majoring in biology when I go to college just because it's the thing I enjoy learning most and once I actually head to college I'll figure things out from
there um and Hi my name is Amanda Gonzalez i'm a senior here at RKA and a co- captain daniel um I want to just point out that Science Olympiad is not just for those that excel in science but anyone that
has a kind of interest in learning how to build learning how to study learning how to familiarize yourself with these broader topics that you're not exactly taught in school um this year I was able to build a car and learn how to program
it to a timer and have it stop and we did actually win fourth place in that and then we Daniel and I both participated in the optics event which is like a field of physics um and we won second in that event uh it's been such a
monumental thing for me personally as well because I'm hoping to major in physics and continue my career in research physics um and it's just been a great experience really learning how to get into a topic and really put all of
yourself into learning it and studying it and putting in time and effort and it just took a lot after school to then sit down for hours and be able to create something so moving and helpful for the rest of the community thank you
thank you so much and last but not least our youngest panelists are going to come up briana and Kathleen are going to speak about a new course that again that Miss Consention has brought to our community and they'll tell you all about it I'm sure
i'm Kathleen and last year school was selected by the office of OML to pilot a class called Spanish speaker rpa was selected along with five other schools from across New York City to pilot this heritage class eighth grade students were selected based on the proficiencies
board demonstrating their accelerated levels in Spanish to become part of this unpre unpre unprecedented class spanish for heritage speakers is of course designed from the mayor's initiative to develop improve and challenge students abilities in speaking writing and
listening as well as to increase their knowledge and appreciation of Latin American culture students learn to distinguish between and improve of colloquial and academic spoken and written Spanish they develop more advanced skills in reading comprehension creating creative writing and
grammatical structures students in this course will further understand the Spanish language and therefore apply these skills in their ELA classes this course offers Spanish speaking students an opportunity to study Spanish formally in academic setting in the same way
native English speakers study in ELA last year both of us and our comrades were fortunate enough to be part of this pilot taking that class freshman year was an amazing experience which helped prepare us for our increased workload during the sophomore year it strengthened our presentational
skills refined our Spanish skills and allowed us to learn things about our respective cultures as well as learn to embrace the cultural differences of other Latin American countries we all know that being bilingual is definitely a blessing as there are so many benefits to speaking another language we have
learned so much from Senora and she not only is an amazing teacher but she has ensured that in SHS we aren't just classmates but after visit by Jim she was so impressed that she changed the name of the course from Spanish for heritage
speakers for Spanish speakers not only for our but the entire new last year as freshman we took and pass with excellent scores to the world language exam thus ensuring our 4 plus one pathway rpa decided to designate the second year of this curriculum as preap Spanish next
year we will walk in prepared to tackle AP Spanish language and culture we are setting the stage for another New York City schools who will eventually follow our example senora Conipion is one of the curriculum writers for the course for the DOE and the new cohort of 12 schools who have started their programs
this year who will work with her to improve their programs next year a third a third cohort will be joining thus increasing the number of schools across the city taking advantage of this program having being part of the pilot program for two years now we were taught how to work with others we also practice
things like public speaking critical thinking to to dedicate ourselves show responsibility and step outside of our comfort zone to work extremely hard these are all important qualities to prepare our students for college but also to face life challenges after my experience in SHS last year I felt
prepared to embrace the challenge of AP seminar and AP biology i see many similarities to the way the class was formatted and ultimately without being aware of it I was predisposed to good habits that are practiced in advanced placement classes next year preap students will be
taking AP Spanish and will be working towards achieving our skill by literacy we are ready for the challenge with all that being said I truly think that the class is beneficial and I'm extremely grateful that I am a part of it it has been incredibly valuable both academically and personally the advanced
level of instruction provided me with a deeper understanding of the language culture and nuances that I wouldn't have gained in the standard class i know that because of this class I have positively impacted my future it has laid the groundwork for college as well as improved my bilingual abilities that
will lead to job opportunities academic achievement confidence and public speaking and an overall feeling of accomplishment in a way like no other continuing this program will ensure that future students with an above average ability in Spanish can reach their fullest potential thank you for
listening as much okay wonderful i told you I couldn't pay for better advertising okay I'm gonna turn the mic over to whoever's next I believe yes okay i just want to stand up and say thank you so much
because I think um you taught us a lot today about RK RKA and it's been a pleasure to know that we had some amazing public speakers and I want to kind of vocal that the UN is like they
got jobs you can you know file an internship with them because you have the qualities of our future and what you have built here in this school for our future students in RKA you you are great you're amazing so I just want to give you a huge applause
and thank you for staying this late night on a school night so thank you um thank you Principal Omar and your staff here for hosting your space for us to facilitate our community education council meeting tonight um I'm going to
begin with the review of our January meeting minutes everyone has been provided on the board um with the January minutes hopefully you have read it prior it was sent by our AA please uh look over it take a couple
seconds um if there's any changes um let us know i would need an approval for the meeting minutes of January 20125 if anybody is okay with it um one member needs a motion and a
second member to uh second it i make the uh motion to accept the minutes i make a motion to accept the minutes from our January meeting with any necessary corrections
second motion by council member Emma Lada second by council member Astra on the record for approving the meeting minutes is everybody good with it with the necessary
corrections yes yes okay um we're going to do a roll call for the voting on the meeting minutes for January 2025 um I Voting for the meeting minutes
approve michelle uh Kate approve emma approve vienna set approve angie do we have any members on virtually yes [Music] online
hi I'm here good evening everyone yes approve maria can you come on camera to approve the minutes okay were you able to hear me i'm sorry yeah
can you come on camera from here approve okay she approves yeah so all members approve for the January 2025 calendar and business meeting minutes um and that will be shared with the community
um I just wanted to say uh on behalf of the council um we want to say we had an amazing District 10 town hall with uh Superintendent Hernandez as well as our first deputy uh Wisburg um chancellor
and our chancellor of New York City public schools Melissa Ramos um virtually unfortunately she was ill and her disorder went out so she wasn't able to be able to be present in person with us at IS34 but um she
still made the attempt to come on and make some uh comments uh and remarks so we thank everyone Principal Okmpo and staff and um the PA at the school and all the parent leaders that came out the parent coordinators uh that attended as
well um especially our students and parents that were there um to perform and also to attend and ask questions so on behalf of community education council 10 uh we want to thank everyone under again tonight I am putting I'm in
place of president um Brenita Parson she is currently dealing with a personal situation so uh my myself Amy Sai is vice president on behalf of facilitating the council
um tonight we have the pleasure of um the superintendent report i don't know if you want to start your report or the funding budget sure um I hand them my sorry
This this might be good right this is a pretty good um first thank you uh vice president just uh for just acknowledging our students uh our principal here at RK
Principal Omar um and I just want to shout out also I know she's not with our students but uh Miss Cepion uh amazing things that the students were just saying about her and it just makes me think about the experience that our
students are having here at RKA uh with all the different programs whether it be the model UN the national honor society the the tri literacy the sea of bi literacy and some of our students who are engaged in triiteracy uh the science
olympiad program uh and the Spanish heritage class just to to hear um them speak about their experience speak about their investment within their own learning within their school that ownership piece um is just truly truly
uh speaks volumes to not only to our school here uh within Riverdale I have one of one of our three high schools but also to to what we do as a district um and to you know that pursuit toward excellence so again I just want to thank
uh all of them um for sharing their stories and I know they they had to leave but I hope that those who leave just know that there's great things happening each and one of our schools and uh it's a tribute to our kids i just want to say thank you to
started so um if we can go to as we normally start our meetings and for folks online at home uh welcome to our CDC leadership team thank you guys for always being here in partnership and supporting our
district and the work that we do uh we want to start off uh with as we always do with all our meetings whether it be professional development meetings with our teachers and teams uh or here leading our CDC work or our different district meeting uh presentations with
our mood meter so we have a few questions here you can see how are you feeling on the move meter and maybe everyone can take a moment to use the chat to type in and of course members any of the leadership
members here if you would like to come on the mic come on the mic actually and share your your feeling uh we can do that now and press enter so that we can have a water for of the responses and of course
any member that would like to uh verbalize how they're feeling and moving their place well I would say hopeful because with everything that's going around in our society now it's stressful it's anxious
it's overwhelming um at times it's a busy crazy season of everything in my personal life my professional life so I do hope and I hopeful uh that we come out of this in a very positive way and
you know hopefully that uh you see blossoms because the spring is around the corner um from any numbers I have seven grateful joyful
blessed and proud because as they say joy comes in the morning and we will get through this I'm doing great i'm chill and blessed feeling thank God
and and I'll just share I feel I feel motivated as I think about my family and I think about our district as part of my family and the future of any family is always within our kids and just seeing
our kids come here who are high school students who some of them they you know they're going to college next year and to just regardless their eye is on their future yes um and the school again our community our district we're doing
everything we can together to make sure that they're not impacted and distracted and they are still focused on what's lies ahead so that motivation is just so it just inspires me yet again to continue to deepen this work so I just I
just wanted to share that yeah let's see [Music] okay mr said "Even though what's going on I feel um hopeful with regarding to our
students." Thank you uh I just want to thank everyone i don't know if we have anything in the chat maybe that share that put in hand so we're looking for the chat yeah so just pick maybe one or two but um I just
want to remind folks as well that you know we can transition from one part of the mood meeting to another uh as we move along through our meeting uh and anyone who is maybe within the red if you know if you're having any difficulty please feel free to um we will reach out
to you we saw that from the chat our district team but at the same time know that we are a community here to support you to transition to other areas as well any share so many people on the chat there's a lot of greens and yellow lots
of greens thank you then the yellow uh deputy superintendent Doyle is feeling inspired so good to see thank you uh council member was grateful and motivated
fantastic all right so as we move on to our celebrations and collaborations we always want to continue to uh celebrate and um what's going on across our district a large district here within the Bronx and we
want to start off with uh acknowledging uh celebrating our Black History Month in addition to our Dominican Heritage Month um you know and and and I have to say that while both of these events culturally we have so many different cultures within our schools as our
students were sharing um and we're constantly celebrating everyone's identity within our curriculum within our clubs as you could see here throughout every single month they're constantly celebrating who they are what they represent um you know you do have some months that are dedicated to uh to
our different various cultures and it's a great opportunity to deepen and I lift up all of that spirit so Black History Month you know is that time to um to honor the rich heritage achievements and contributions of black individuals throughout history uh let's celebrate
the resilience the creativity the strength of our black community and continue to strive for the diversity for equality and for the inclusion of all um and again uh Dominican Heritage Month is coming to an end as well the 27th and I know that many of our schools having
celebrations so looking forward to the work that we're doing there and celebrating that as well so um here you know just uh we highlighting at MS uh at MS 331 is having an awesome start to their black history month the the theme of their
first week was our air our power uh this is a club high fashion teens has a theme each week and it's needing activities for the whole school and classes the month after pop uh very empowering very engaging uh so you just want to shout um
10x31 for the representation here uh as many of our school districts many of you have uh experienced this month as well uh there was a a world read aloud day at PS 291 where mystery reader surprised students including some
colleagues from our central office and tweet who came to visit our school and engage in the readaloud activities uh just here are some pictures of staff and students dressed as book characters everyone gets in the spirit at PS291 and the joy uh permeates
throughout the entire school here you can see pictures of the uh school rolling out the red carpet uh to our young readers uh students signing the red pledge uh the reading pledge uh
it's some of the classroom doors decorated with book covers also shown are two examples of teachers that created thematic lessons around the books involving Baltimore uh senses hearing rainforest tasting snacks of the
hund the hungry caterpillar meets here at uh 10x81 there are some pictures uh for real celebration as well and this was happening across our district again you have uh 30 PS 306 and I'm going to move 31 which there
pictures from there were out and you have so I believe that those slides are a little different from the slides I have here so let me just got it so we were Eric Denowitz when we're
within his district so we want to acknowledge Eric Denwitz who attended our debate and arts festival we also want to thank him for also participating and coming to our second annual arts festival for those of you who were there
it was a tremendous success uh we had over 800 students participate uh within the arts festival and with over um 1,000 families and and guests uh who came to support uh the amazing student
performances throughout these are some additional pictures here um you could also see uh Councilman Peter Bosing as well but you see myself there uh our team members uh with our student and our
student performers this is the the library portion of the arts festival so we have three different areas we have the auditorium we have the gym we have the library again still show stillcasing so many of our talents within our students within our
district excuse me um I just I want to shout out my team um they did an amazing job this was this event was so much larger than last year and curating this um Sarah and everyone
else that was here who volunteered their time uh on a Saturday to be here early in the morning and also cleaning up um you know and they came out with their district sweatshirts which all of you received your sweatshirt today as well
shout our team spirit but again this event could not have happened without also the support of int academy uh principal weber but but my entire team and staff and all the families and teachers throughout the district who uh help organize and practice with the
students uh prior to coming in for this event as well so just wanted a final annual horse i believe we have a small little video [Music]
so just again kudos to all of you out there all the family parent leaders and parents and um you know teachers who helped bring this uh event to fruition uh looking forward to our future event so thank you so much
so here we have exciting to acknowledge uh this is our a new parents face uh there was a a donation from lake the lakesure company uh so our our partners face and deputy chancellor Melendez arranged a donation collaboration with
lakes shore for our PTA room and space to promote a meeting and workshop environment for our parents and families uh at middle school 391 so um you know and thank you to the custodians as well who fresh who painted the room for for
our family members uh just being able to to look at different opportunities and trying to bring that to each of our schools this is one example as we strive toward to do this for every one of our schools but as we as I always say we're chipping away at uh trying to make sure
that we get as many opportunities as we can across the district which is lifting one up here from this move 391 so uh highlighting here our M 244 participants and project porn chess tournament which was held at Yankee
Stadium and uh kudos to command district community school district 9 which held the uh annual Bronx Invitation uh and again big shout out to our middle school students from uh 24 participated in this tournament
so as um as vice president HI shared you know we had our town hall so these are just some pictures here uh from our event um you know I I was really impressed uh with everything from the facilitation uh the gathering of the questions from the CEC really just
helping organize and put that together uh to our partnership with FACE and our members from the central offices we really just created a really positive heartfelt experience for our community and to all the families principal Ko and his entire team for helping and hosting
us um this was just a great event and we're just proud to to be the superintendent to have experiences at and thank you again to the community at is 254 so as we celebrate different career day opportunities this is just an example
here at Intech Academy uh it was a great success we had over 80 speakers multiple panels of students uh just being able to really give this experience to talk about what they do within their careers and share that with our students to inspire them as well but also just to
really allow them the opportunity to engage in questions around what those careers require to be able to reach their goals for those particular opportunities here we have a picture of uh family engagement opportunities at middle school 390 um just again being
able to show this is around the school goals and the C goals uh for parent engagement uh looking at their monthly parent meetings here so this is a PS32 and our collection of recent events
um so the first picture is from our B is from their uh bi-weekly food pantry um as they continue their partnership with the food bank to support our families within our community the second picture is from our monthly clothing giveaway
which is open to the entire Belmont community uh this is made possible by the continuous collaboration with four Bronx projects a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families in need of the Bronx and of course by the amazing
dedicated teachers at uh PS32 the third picture here is from another readaloud day event within school and this is actually Miss Torres the local the librarian at the Belmont Library who came to read to the prek kindergarten
students so it's great to have the partnership within our community coming into our school the fourth is from our know your rights virtual workshop which was presented by Miss Bellow on February 7 and our last picture that you see but
not least today was from the kindness day at PS32 uh parents joined uh for coffee donuts and and they did a tote bag as well so thank you for PS32 for hosting these various events in the school
community so here are just some uh pictures from Preston Academy middle school 447 and part of their respect for world week a family act of kindness event so just some various pictures and events which engage their students and
family members within the community this following picture here is from the school 331 respect for all week as well no one eats alone as part of the respect for all week MS uh 331 coordinated this particular event titled No One Eats
Alone during lunchtime uh be presented uh they presented the students with conversation starters and members to engage with one another the students engage in an activity to find someone with the same number and have a conversation a great opportunity to engage in team building during their
length periods outside of those classrooms so kudos to uh middle school 331 for organizing and implementing this event for our students so here you have MS80 and PSMS280 human rights parent workshop um this was an informative immigration
workshop that provided valuable resources for all families navigating the immigration process some kudos to our parent leaders to our staff to our parent coordinators at MS Lady and PSMS 280 as well continue our respectful home week
activities this is at uh MS 391 as part of respectful week this work not only include included parents engaging in with their child around healthy relationship and discussion but also in their classroom uh during advisory uh
with students uh they were they were emotion it was an emotional moment many tears uh incredible bonding opportunities for families uh and students as well uh with the hopes of breaking the cycle here we have career day at PS uh
91 uh so I believe we have a short video as well [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]
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great so as we go on into our next event here showcasing uh within our district we have middle school 80 um and just presenting our English classes for our parents uh so share that really empowering and supporting our families
so kudos to middle school for giving our parents this opportunity to to develop and learn English following slides continuing with kindness day and no one eats alone at PSMS 315 and also read out respect for
all so just different um activities here across our district showcasing our schools how they engaging their students and teachers and faculty and staff goes to PSMS 315 here our new school uh leadership
arts uh School 244 competed at the M Counts along with Forest Man and Riverdale Country Day School uh so kudos to uh you know MS 244 for engaging and participating in this competition ms80 again showcasing a
pizza and paint event for families uh so kudos to them for this creative and fun evening where participants enjoy pizza explore exploring the artistic side of them as well and here we have PSMS 279 family survey session supporting our families
as they engage in filling out the surveys our New York City service was so important to make sure that we have your voice throughout the district and about your school and the experiences that you're having there um continuing here you have um at PSMS 279 the CPR class
for families so important um I wish you know we continue to offer more classes like this for families um is so important for to have this skill to be able to support not only yourself but also people around you so we shift over to representing our
attendance as of February 25th 2025 our the CSR community school district 10 our yearto date attendance is 90.70% our year-to- date chronic absenteeism is 35.90% compare that to the Bronx the
Bronx is currently at 89% so we are at almost almost 2% higher than the Bronx uh in addition to that uh the chronic absentism was 38 50% in the Bronx again the golden number the better
we're at 35 um compared to the city all public schools within New York City their attendance is 89.90 so we're higher than the city uh but we still are a bit behind the chronic absenteeism for the city which is at 3350% so kudos to all our schools to our
families ensuring that every day counts and it's been cold uh but we want to make sure that our kids come to school every single day even when they have doctor's appointments and home you know if they're sick we understand but if they're just visiting and they can come back to school want to make sure they
come to school so now we're going to begin with our uh budget portion of our presentation and joining me so as I shared with everyone this is an opportunity for us
to to to present our district budget uh and I have here with me to support me on this presentation uh Hannah Wel uh which is our burough uh grants officer and she supports all Bronx schools within their
grants as well and she will be supporting us with our budget presentation so I think we have to shift over to a different slide okay so we're on slide one continue
so every spring the panel for education policy or pep votes on the New York City public schools school budget allocation formula for the following school year which is known as the fair student uh funding formula
FSF in preparation for this event uh superintendent and buroughbased support staff present the New York City public schools proposed uh fair student formula budget allocations uh for the FY2025 to
all uh community and citywide education councils which is what I am doing here for our specific district here at CDC and the purpose of today's presentation is to review the New York City public schools budget and allocation formula review the fair student funding and the
weights of for fiscal year 2026 which aligns with the 2526 school year this presentation reflects our continued approach in how New York City public schools is conducting community engagement around our school budgets as
it relates to the fair statement funding plan our goal is to increase our transparency and ensuring that you as critical community stakeholders are made aware of how schools are funded made aware of the resources available to you
to better understand your school budgets i appreciate um join I appreciate joining your meeting today and of course as I am facilitating this meeting as well uh and we will dive right into this presentation as well so we can go to
slide two uh today um the part of the agenda is three main topics that you see here listed on your screen it's an overview of this year's overall New York City public school budget a specific budget for our district Community School District 10 a detailed explanation of
the fair student funding formula and a walk through of the new web pages created to increase budget transparency if you have questions during the presentation please direct them to the chat uh for those of you who are in person to
request uh poll questions to the end links uh we will have team members ready to respond to these questions uh questions that we are not able to answer uh during the presentation will be collected and shared with the New York City public schools team who will then
respond and I will share back uh with the group additionally the intention of this session is to collect public comments on the formula for the upcoming school year we will ask that if you have specific feedback on the ways of the fair student funding formula that you
please feel free to share the feedback with budget public comments at schools.nyc.gov and I'm gonna see if I could have one of my team members place that email um within the chat but I'll
say it again it's budget public [Music] comments.nyc.gov our New York City public schools team will take public comments received at this email address into consideration in the in the coming
weeks we can go to slide three so I am going to provide an overview of an overall budget along with my colleague uh handle well uh where the funding uh comes from and how budget is spent a review of our district's budget and directions for where you can find
school specific budget information so we go to slide four please so where does our funding um come from um we're not going to provide this overview this data is based on the most recent budget included in the mayor's
January plan our total budget for the 2425 school year is 40.8 billion or about $32,284 per student in our system new York City provides most of our funding
for the 24 25 school year the city will contribute 23 billion or 58% of our total budget most of our city funding comes from what we call city tax levy dollars city tax levy dollars are drawn
from local taxes including property taxes sales tax and personal income taxes every year the mayor proposes the amount of city tax 11 funding we get and the city council must pass a budget into law before the new fiscal year begins on
July 1st 15 billion or 36% comes from New York State funding new York State is our second largest source of funding every year the governor proposes the amount of state funding that we will get mainly
based on the number of types of students enrolled in our schools and then the state legislature must pass the budget into law before the new fiscal year begins on May 1st funding generally comes from income and corporate taxes as
well as property and sales tax federal funding comprises a total of $2 billion or 6% of our funding for this school year the federal government is our third largest source of funding
every year Congress proposes a budget and the president must sign the budget into law in advance of the new fiscal year which begins on October 1st the Every Student Succeeds Act ESSA provides the rules for allocating most
of the federal funding we receive if we can go to slide fiveation but if you're not going to move then you should log in to the Zoom so you can see want to be I'm just gonna go sit so I can see
because I can't see anything supposed to come and join the audience watch how is the New York City How is the New York City school budget spent in the previous slide we covered an overview of where New York City
public schools receive its funding from and now we will shift into how that funding is spent in our schools across our system within our budget we have mandated costs that must be covered annually including employees benefits
pension and debts as well as statemandated payments to charter schools non-public and contract schools this pie chart represents the major cost i will provide along with my colleague kind of wel a brief explanation of each
section let's begin with the early childhood located towards the bottom right hand side of the pod and we will move clockwise so the first item covers employee benefits pension and debt this
11.4 4 billion dollar place for health care and other employee benefits pension payments for staff debt payments on loans for school construction and upgrades we'll shift over now to
charters we allocate 8% or 3.3 billion for charter schools as mandated by state law shift over now to nonpublic and contract schools non-public and contract school payments cover schools and
programs that educate New York City students but are not directly run by New York City public schools the 2.5 billion includes students with disabilities attending specialized schools supplemental services to students
attending nonpublic schools we'll shift over now to the superintendent field office and central offices combined comprise less than 2% of our overall school budget shifting
now to the school operations section pays for non-instructional services that students receive the 5.1 billion is used to pay for costs including free breakfast and lunch
available to all students bus routes loan payments on buildings new construction and renovations this is similar to a mortgage payment as well we allocate 2.1 billion to support early
childhood birth to five across the city lastly the proportion of our budget is allocated towards K to2 schools and instruction we allocate $15.7 billion for 38% of our overall
budget annually to support our schools including general education teachers guidance counselors deans health and so uh school climate initiatives such as gym uh or PE teachers respect for all week uh climate action day special
education after school activities summer school and other operational or operating expenses this also includes funding for textbooks computers materials and supplies now transitioning
from a citywide view let's look at the budget and funding source breakdown for our district and continuing this portion of the presentation will be my colleague our grants officer for the Bronx hello amazing all right thanks
Superintendent Hernandez and I CC10 i'm so happy to be with you this evening um so let's look at district 10 specifically um district 10 K to2 schools are funded um or projected to be
funded for this upcoming year with $948 million so you can see the breakdown on the slide 64% of that is fair student funding um which we're going to spend the bulk of this evening talking about 22% is other state and local funding 5%
is state contracts for excellence which we'll talk about in late May early June um 7% is federal title one funding and then 2% is other federal funding um this funding allocation doesn't cover
district 75 schools which are not funded via fair student funding and it doesn't cover um our prek centers which are also not funded via federal student funding go to the next slide so we will not this evening be talking about
everyone's individual school budget um if you are interested in learning more about an individual school's budget the information can be found on the DOE info hub um you if you go to find a school then you can hit choose a school there's
a drop- down menu you can type in the school that you're looking for either by name or by number um you can click the reports tab and budget and finances in that budget and finance tab you can see fair student funding detail so just
looking at the fair student funding of the school you can look at the school's galaxy allocation which is what school leaders look at on a regular basis to make decisions about um about how they use their funding you can look at kind of a rolled up budget summary which
shows you budget funding um kind of by code and then we'll talk at the end about the budget at a glance which is a super high level of school level budget allocation is very similar to the pie charts that we looked at earlier in the presentation um so on the next slide
we're going to talk a little bit about h who decides how money is spent at the school level um so as many of you know principles have a good deal of flexibility in thinking about how funding is spent so that they can meet the needs of the students in their
building and principles make budget decisions um starting around May when they receive their budget allocations or projected budget allocations for the following year and will work with their school leadership team to think about
the the upcoming expenses and items that they wish to budget for um and ensure that the budget matches what principles are simultaneously writing in their C or comprehensive education plan um ultimately that comprehension
comprehensive education plan um is approved by um the superintendent's office but we very much say that the comprehensive education plan can be a living and breathing document um so as the school year goes on um
and things change the C can be reflected to modify any changes um and the budget can be modified accordingly superintendent Hernandez anything that you want to add there sorry no um no and we want to you know we we we ensure that
it's aligned to school's goals and our district policy around ensuring that for example priority one ensuring that every students learns to read and what are those programs and initiatives that are engaged to ensure that all our students are proficient readers by grade three and how is that funding supporting uh
not only classroom um opportunities for our our students but also those after school and extended opportunities as well or any programs that are coming in that are aligned to those school goals so now we're going to dive into what is fair student funding how does fair
student funding work and then what the proposed weights are for this upcoming um school year so let's dive right in um so fair student funding as we've said is the largest funding stream that we provide to schools um it is commonly
referred to as tax levy fair student funding because as Superintendent Hernandez said at the beginning um it is from tax city tax revenue um essentially fair student funding weights the needs
of students based on the cost or anticipated cost of meetings a student educational need um as we shared fair student funding makes up 2thirds of most K to2 school budgets we saw this rolled up for district 10 and also rolled up
citywide other funding streams that many schools receive include the titled funding which is federal government funding um targeted allocations for specific initiatives um such as funding from the office of student pathways um
etc um some items that are not accounted for by fair student funding include charter schools 3K and 3K as I mentioned early mandated earlier sorry mandated IEP services IEP pair of professionals
and onetoone pair of professionals are funded separately and as I said before district 75 programs are also funded separately um based on a class model not a student per capita um and we'll just underscore that fair student funding
provides um the school leaders flexibility to tailor spending in order to meet the needs of their schools um most of most fair student funding is used to fund educators guidance counselors
classroom resources and other supplies and materials um as schools need them so how does fair student funding work um every school starts with that orange block that's called the foundation um the foundation is
$225,000 per school um the intent of that foundation is to fund a school principal um and a school principal um secretary it does not need to be used that way but that is kind of the logic behind that foundation block the second
block is collective bargaining and collective bargaining pays for contractual increases for school staff um so there's fluctuation and what that looks like um every cycle then we have what we're going to spend the bulk of
the rest of our time on the per capita um which is the dollar value of a fair student funding weight of one um which is updated every year to reflect citywide changes to the average teacher salary which is of course informed by
the collective bargaining piece um this year it was approximately $4,254 and then it's multiplied by the number of students that are enrolled at each school and the specific needs of those students um and so we will get into how students are weighted based on
the cost of meeting their educational needs and all of those things together provide you with the fair student funding allocation for each school um so on the next slides we'll look through the fair student funding weights um so
as you can see the base weight for a student in grades K to five is one in grades six to eight it's 1.08 can anyone think of why that might be in middle school usually students
switch classes so more teachers right um and then 9 to 12 it's 1.03 um then you can see each of the different buckets has different weights for students so the academic intervention weight um which the cursor
is near um that academic intervention weight is based on whether or not the student is entering their current grade level on grade level so it's based usually on testing data from the prior year you see that there's a students in
temporary housing weight um there are English language learner weights so those are variable based on whether or not the student requires standalone English as a new language instruction whether or not they are enrolled in a bilingual class whether or not they are
a scythe student etc um then the special education weight um is determined based on essentially the percentage of time that students are spending in some type of special education setting so low intensity would be 20% or less of their
time so a student maybe who is in one class moderate intensity 21 to 59% of the time and there's less inclusive more inclusive and um postindividualized education plan transitional support um
for our portfolio high school um there are additional weights there for additional supplies and materials that might be needed for CTE programs certifications etc um and then concentration of needs and it basically
measures schools that have an existing high concentration of poverty at their school so on the next slide we'll be able to see a sample um if the per capita were $1 um so there are two
students on these slides i'm gonna flip in my notes so I make sure I I count for everything um we have Ava Thank you um and Miles um and Ava is a
second grader and Miles is a sixth grader um so as you can see Ava's base weight is at one and Miles's base weight um is that 1.08 um then both Ava and Miles
are special education students sorry so Ava's individualized education program states that more than 60% of her time is to be spent in an ICT setting so she is entitled to the full-time more inclusive
special education weight of 1.74 whereas Miles's individualized education plan requires less than 20% of his time be in an IEP setting so he has the 20% low inensity special education weight both Ava and Miles are classified as English
language learners which is shown in yellow um Ava is an elementary school former English language learner who tested out of LE status within the last two years new York State requires an additional two years of service so Ava
is receiving a weight of 13 miles is currently enrolled at a bilingual program at his middle school and so his 6 to8 bilingual weight is 0.55 um both Ava and Miles are entitled to the AIS or academic intervention services weight
shown in red um AA's is 12 um and Miles um is a weight of.35 um and both of them are students in temporary housing which is shown in
green um and so both have an STH rate of 12 and Ava also attends a school with a high concentration of student needs so she has the additional 0.12 weight i to me this slide makes what a lot of the
other slides said more explicit um in terms of providing the graphic to go with it um so when you add all of the pieces together you can see Ava's overall weight is 3.23 and Miles's overall weight is
2.66 um and on the next slide we'll see what the dollar equivalent is so Ava's dollar equivalent is 13742 and Miles's is 11317 under the current SSF
formula so where can you find more information about this if you would like to um on the next slide if you um go on the DOE info hub under financial data and reporting um you can see our school
allocation memoranda which is essentially a document that goes out with every new allocation that school leaders receive um that go into their um budget um and you'll be able to see more information about the allocation for
each school as well as detailed information about um the school's budget based on different types of funding um we have new fair student funding school web pages um which provide a few
different options for looking at fair student funding um so you'll be able to see school budget allocations similar to how we looked at them at the beginning of the PowerPoint on the pie chart how the allocations look for each school
um yes finally um and I will check and see if someone put it in the chat um all public comments related to fair student funding um can be sent to budget public comments at schools.nyc.gov
there's also a phone number that you can call 212374-6754 um if you have any comments or feedback around the fair student funding presentation do you want me to say it again which one email and phone
number 212374 6754 and the email and the email is budgetpublic commentschools.nyc.gov um we are asking for all public comments to be submitted on or before April 22nd
because the PEP will be um voting on it on April 23rd um so with that I am happy to take any questions that you all might have um and anything that I cannot answer I am happy
to get back to you later that last had a phone number that was the phone i put the email in the Okay i have a question okay and go ahead
okay thank you for the presentation um is this slide available to the council i Yes it is available on the info hub oh I can't take it up
you can pick it up tomorrow my my question and concern with the um I was trying to write I got like four pages um in light of what's happening at the federal level what are our chances of holding on
to that uh you said it was what page did that put in are you talking about the federal yeah the federal funding that the first pass that was the 6% 6% uh yeah I got a little
paper what uh in light of what's happening at the uh national level and the folks touching stuff will we lose any of our funding and if so where's the extra
money going to come from so I think and that's just one question so far i think a lot of that is still unclear um and also the federal budget doesn't come in too much later and we'll have a
follow-up presentation with that which we should also get more clarity around that um right now this presentation uh focuses in on our fair student funding uh however we wanted to ensure that we lifted up that percentage of what the federal funding is but um I'm
sure as we all know uh our different politicians throughout are just really supporting and of course our family advocates around ensuring that there's no change in fact that there's continued funding for the from the federal government but we should be able to get more clarity as more clarity is provided
to each of the states so yeah just the federal government is on a slightly different budget timeline than New York so Congress is supposed to pass a budget resolution by April 15th and the federal budget doesn't get
enacted until October 1st the federal fiscal year is different from our fiscal year in um in um New York City and um so that's one thing the other thing to keep
in mind um is that much of our titled funding is allocated via federal law um so I cannot predict the future um but so that you know I am optimistic
um and as we have more information we will keep people informed so this basically is a projection of what's going to happen for what's coming up or is this current this presentation is a projection of what is going to happen
for fiscal year 26 which is next year in light of that with so many of our students um and and of course it's based on student uh attending schools when we lose
students in the schools where is the presentation that shows the money that we lost so in the school in the DOE um and Superintendent Hernandez can speak more to this from a principal's perspective essentially um
schools are funded based on an audited register effective October 31st then schools undergo a mid-year adjustment based on changes in student enrollment um what's nice about some of the new or
one of the nice things about the new resources on the info hub is that they are updated at that midyear point and at the end of year point so you can see those variances in schools budgets but yes you are correct that schools are
funded based on student register and the reason I asked that question is I believe at one of our meetings we talked that we had lost a few students in particular with the charter school and that October date once they get that student into
that school we cannot recap that money so I need to understand from this presentation and the one that we're in how much money did we actually lose for students that are no longer in the DOE
and in particular district 10 so this year schools were held harmless okay so that means no money was lost and for the past since I've been in this role schools have been held harmless okay um I cannot say whether that will
continue um I hear your concern uh I would probably share aggregate data with you um that's probably on that you could
find on the info hub also and I just um I didn't know it's I don't know the answer to that question i can find out what was our question is the question was is charter school
funding also per capita like how does that only when they move from the if the student is in a public school and goes to a that's that's the problem that we have asking I don't where where the child may be in a public school and for whatever reason the
parent takes them out and put them in a charter school when they do it in October that money stays with the charter school it doesn't come back to New York well that's what my whether or not Yeah cuz they know they know how to play the game it's a cut off point once
they're into that school that money no longer comes back to the public school so we're actually losing money when the student goes to a charter school and I believe it how much percentage it's what a student needs it's what a student
leaves for any reason um in particular I'm I'm dealing with that charter but that's what I'm trying to ask is that do you lose that money per capita per student from school but it's not clear to me that that per capita money goes directly to a charter school like is the
charter school funding affected by the amount of students who are in it or is that a set percentage right i understand the question that you're asking i don't know the answer but I will I can find out and email you and the reason I asked that is because I
also work with a a group that deals with the charter schools but I'm finished for now great and I just I just want to as a district district just to just also for enrollment I think we had a question that came up earlier in one of our meetings but just as a district we had
an increase of 5.6% overall within our district so that's really good compared to a lot of the other districts within the Bronx uh that lost student enrollment our our our um community school district 10 we have 5.6 six which is equivalent
to,452 students across our district but our total number right now is 27,525 students across our school district that doesn't include um our early childhood but it does include our PK that was an increase from just this past
year one of.1% okay can we get a breakdown of that is that possible to see like what schools like increase we can definitely uh get that i can tell you which school's increased i can tell you by grade just seeing trends last time it would be interesting to see if
those trends continued right where people were leaving and joining i don't know just curious that's something I we don't know what page any other members question i wanted to know what said right but I thought most charm
songs had a birthday because my son went to Harlem years ago and like they they don't but it was in a public school but they well I always thought they had their own type of funding or they
had that budget why is that um so that the budget what we talked about at the very beginning that is statemandated so I think how how charter
schools manage their funds is totally separate and part which is also why I can't answer those questions because I just haven't been engaged in that work um but yes so so there's no no record of
what's going on at that end that feeds into this there there's a whole office in the DOE that deals exclusively with charters and non-public schools i had do not um so I'm happy to find out more information but I don't have and if I
may just make a statement the reason I'm asking this because I'm all over district 10 and I see more charter signs of and in particular on vector park there's two schools
now in a high school and we be I'm not going to call the names but We've got and forget the one across from 340 we got charter schools popping up all over the place what's happening with the funding part that impacts the public
school cuz I know when that child leaves the public school and goes to a charter school and the cut off is October that money stays with the charter school it doesn't come back to the public school i I think ultimately as we shared in the
presentation you know when we're looking at enrollment and we're looking at registered projections that money that based on the projection is what the the school is um being allocated for um so you know and even kids who decide to go
to private school or they move to a different state um as Hannah shared by October 31st for students who don't have IEPs that number sort of waited for students with IEPs actually we wait until December 31st um for that
projection number uh however if also a student transfers to a different public school and they do it before the 31st that that money follows them now it doesn't follow them if you know they leave after that date it stays with that
student however in the following school year's rejection the school will then their funding for that yes okay i look forward to the report um I do have a couple questions just for clarity um and thank you Hannah for
being patient and answering questions um one is uh is the prek special education services under the federal or state a New York City budget special education special education under the prek centers the prek centers
not district 75 no like we have six early childhood here and the students have special special education services is that a federal fund or is that a city i want to look and get back to you my
inclination is that it's city um but I want to double check okay reason I say that is I know that um we're you know pretty new but the need for students special ed as early as young as there
are um it's important that they continue getting services especially our concerns is um you know where those funds would come from if it is federal funds um another one is sets um I'm assuming that we see SE sets under your individual
educational plan is there a specific funding allocation in the budget it comes from that you did mention the ICT sets would be in the special education weight for fair student funding so it would all go to
the percentage of time that the students are spending in a special education setting okay and uh lastly um since SEL's are part of the CS um for
principles where specifically is that for like an intervention or they could be because I know some people I mean sorry some schools use title one as part of their parent engagement on seals but for the students um in professional development um where
would that come from it's is seal social emotional learning um so so are you speaking about like providing staff development or correct um so principles would have autonomy to
look at their budget in its entirety and use the funding source that makes sense for them so yes if they're engaging parents the title one% makes sense um but it wouldn't be specifically allocated for like it's not weighted in
fair student funding if it's specific like for students in the classroom i know you know uh right postpartum of the pandemic when students were coming back they were doing the SEAL specific students that may needed at that moment
um in smaller groups during the school day during the academic time where would that like if this the teachers needed support where would that funding come from um the city or is it something like a federal I think I think it would
principal's discretion from their budget depending on what funding streams are available to them right and and and I would also add that also there for example uh grant work I mean grant I'm sorry Hannah supports our district and
also other districts within the Bronx uh in writing grants so those grant opportunities also give an opportunity uh give schools a flexibility to uh supplement or use that funding so they can use fair student funding in a different area and then it just sometimes there's this federal money
that's earark or even um city money that the city council that's earark for specific programs so it depends i know you talked about postpartum there was certain programs that were being done for our students and that's earmarked but as every year based on what that SAM
is and we can you know there's a way to look at the SAMs that are provided uh to each of our schools that talk about the and this is the the allocation memorandums uh that we have a detailed explanation of what each money funding category would be
okay and I'm assuming that that's where the intervention academic intervention is also different so like wherever the need is specific students like English language learning I would be so on
correct and and fair student funding also just those funies for you know supporting like AIS been during the day and also any other questions asked me one question right sorry I was asking how our budget this year compares or budget last year is
there an increase in the funding that we're getting overall just like they last year dr can you repeat the question sorry so the question was um the the district 10 budget and also I'm
assuming the city budget that is being proposed here is it more or less than uh last year's proposed budget uh for both the city and the uh the district and I think that if we don't have that we could follow up um from last year's
presentation to do a comparison and unless you have that uh yeah um it's relatively comparable to last year's budget um the we shifted the weights two years ago there was I'm sure you remember there was a big working group
that worked on the fair student funding weights and so the weights have not changed um I'll give you the exact numbers from last year and we can do a side by side right and the collective bargaining
piece once that plays out that's a large way that inflation not inflation but as salaries are increasing schools have many people etc so when that kind of plays out we might have more information to answer your question
nice yeah sorry that you don't have to repeat the people online can't hear you okay sorry i'm wondering that you know there are the requirements around increasing staff sizes in school than increasing like um or decreasing I guess the ratio of students to teachers um in
the next few years where does the funding like what's where is that plan to come from does that come from these numbers does that come from somewhere else where is that being pulled from no you're totally fine i'm like I have to take that
um I have spent a few weeks on this um uh essentially every school leader um was given the opportunity to submit a funding plan um to uh initially the DOE
um and then the funding plan was reviewed by um our superintendent teams and then our um the team that I'm on which is finance and human resources also reviewed the plan um and the plans were all evaluated um they are now in
the process of being evaluated by um the United Federation of Teachers which is the teachers union and the um CSA the council of supervisors and administrators um and once um that process is finished um there will be a
recommended dollar amount per school based on what they requested um so some schools strove to meet 100% of the class size goal other schools said we really
just want to meet 60% which is our threshold for next year and some schools are farther away from compliance than others some schools are really close to being 100% compliant some schools are not everyone is like starting in a different place um and for next year
it's okay if everyone ends in a different place right like not everyone has to be at 100% um and so um that um the funding last year that was provided through um contracts for excellence which we'll
talk about in May and June um is going to be used towards class size reduction as well as additional funds that have been identified um and we will you know moving forward it'll be iterative on how we kind of
baseline this funding because obviously the school hires three more teachers this year um we need to ensure that our schools are going to be able to sustain it and so that they can maintain class size the reduced class size moving
forward um so all that to say more to come school should be hearing in the coming month or so um what this will look like for them for next year and then you know we'll see if we repeat the same kind of application process um next
year um so yeah more to come so those funding it's a separate that will be a separate pot that is not going to be based on the fair student funding um formula right because fair student funding is a formula based on a number of students
right yes so we'll see it it needs to more to no problem any other questions from um Thank you so much Anna and Superintendent i just have one question because it's not on the fair funding um
curiosity of the a thing um because there's been circulating at school leadership teams across the city about this class size grant that's going around for schools to apply for and I know there was like 900 schools across the city that applied would either you
know how many schools in district 10 uh were interested and needed this grant uh in order to meet the class size reduction so that's that's uh what um Hannah was talking about how we support it we open
it up to our schools and based on it's also based on the number of enrollment that they have the number of classrooms what they anticipate and you know principles know best within their school what they have and so I believe we had about 20 uh two applications or 24 applications
i don't I would be lying if I said I remembered the exact number of applications from district 10 somewhere from 22 to 23 that's okay because that's all that was needed right the other schools have the space they have the teachers they they are able to uh based on what they
project being able to support their community so it was offered to everyone based on the need and knowing where you're at what you have a lot of our schools are in comp all of our schools are in compliance now it's just looking moving forward right and the threshold
for next year is 60% so like I was saying before some principles wrote their plan to meet 100% compliance next year they don't need to meet 100% compliance next year um but some of them wrote their plan that way
um some wrote it to meet the 60% compliance and like Superintendent Hernandez said some of our schools are already in compliance so maybe they didn't need to submit a plan um but the option was given to all schools to submit a plan
and I'm just assuming that the same as to like the capital bank spaces because to my understanding there's no capital plan uh proposed for any new buildings in the wrongs at all in their budget um
but if there's a need if like just grant for more space because I know I think most schools already have space but if there are schools that are like my particular small located they need a little room that's that's something that
we will hear in the future if they do need money uh from the capital plan to make class size reductions due to the timing of this application Um we were operating under the understanding that everyone should work
to maximize spaces that they currently have because it was unlikely that a capital project would be able to be started like now and be completed by September um and also given that we're trying to reach reach that 60% threshold
we're not trying to reach 100% for next year um if schools expressed a desire to add additional space that was noted and it was escalated to um the burrow um
director of operations I think um and so now it's on the radar moving forward um but no capital projects to or to my knowledge capital projects will not be funded between now and September to accommodate additional
classes in September i just say that because I think the ones that had TCUs in their yards was the experience that we don't want to come again at having TCU back in their yards and drinking space so I just wanted to ask you
appreciate it um thank you Hannah and Superintendent Vice President Sai if I may um I just also wanted to remind everyone that as the superintendent and Dr wells presented um this evening school budgets are public knowledge and
so you can look up your schools your schools that you liaz for and your home schools you can look up their budgets right on the New York City public school website and look up what the fair student funding allocation is so please
take some time to do that so that you can ask um the right questions when you're sitting at the school leadership team meetings and when you're meeting with principles um across the district and with parent leaders um this helps everyone to be on the same page and so
that you can also ask important questions and so that the community is informed of what is public knowledge great thank you Maria and thank you Miss Well for supporting our school budget presentation i am now going to uh hand
over the remainder of the superintendent's presentation to uh the to deputy superintendent uh Doyle who's joining us online yes good evening everyone
wait a second i think I Go ahead go ahead Mary okay perfect um so thank you so much to Superintendent Hernandez good evening everyone happy to be in community with you all uh we just wanted to lift a few um slides that are really
important information so as you know New York City Kids Rise is an important uh program that will help families to um to uh save for college and we are encouraging every kindergarten first
second and third grade family to reach out to their school um we hope you'll be working with your PC in order to get your uh child signed up and just as a reminder um every child as I mentioned K 1 2 and three uh in those grades are um
able to participate in uh the program no matter of their family income or immigration status so we're really um encouraging folks to sign up it's a great way for you to be able to um help support your children in uh saving for their college
education so uh the protocols for um non-local law enforcement actions at New York City public schools um the we had shared these at the last meeting we shared them at the DT um as part of our our ongoing commitment to ensuring safety um and rights of our students
schools are reminded of the protocols of h for handling interactions with non-local law enforcement agencies particularly those involving uh federal and state officers we had our legal counsel come and talk to our principles uh back in December um and you know the
the schools have all been reminded about getting information escalating to legal and then waiting for further instruction so that's all part of the um the process that schools have already been reminded of project open arms many of our schools
have participated in uh training and will continue to as part of the mayor's office of immigrant affairs uh for these ongoing sessions of knowing your rights um and so again many of our schools have already participated in this each session is about an hour and includes an
opportunity for question and answers and um uh this will be again ongoing so Chancellor Az Ramanos has kicked off the CEC elections we want you to pay particular attention to the lower leftand corner of the screen thank you
Maria for that circling uh so we know that the candidate uh application period has now passed and so the uh next portion is the candidate forms which will begin um February 28th just the end of this week and continue through April
2nd then the 25th of April through May 13th uh parents will be able to vote online the 14th of May through June 2nd will be for runoff elections if perhaps that's necessary uh in June the election results will be announced and July 1st
member elect members elect will take office uh at this time of year we're really excited to uh be able to um mention again that the um New York City school survey is uh open and available um it
started on uh February 10th and will close on April 4th we strongly encourage parents um of any of our students 3K through grade 12 uh to to complete the survey you should know that the survey results are really important to school
leaders they're really important to us it's part of what we discuss when we meet with school principles um and so we encourage you to complete it it's also available for students grades 6 through 12 um and staff members uh select staff members at schools and so again we're
just reminding all of our parents the survey is open and you're able to complete it through your child's NIXA account um or your NIXA account rather uh and it will close on April 4th summer Rising we're very excited to be able to be in uh summer rising season
so families will be able to sign up in my schools starting on Tuesday March 4th and uh the the application will uh close on Friday March 28th so that's Tuesday this coming Tuesday we encourage all of
you to sign up your children uh summer rising is free and open to any New York City student in uh kindergarten through grade 8 and you'll notice that the hours um if you remember last year the hours had been shortened for middle school and then they wound up making them longer
we're excited to be able to announce that it's uh 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday July 2nd all the way through August 15th the uh the middle school program does end a week earlier on August
8th we're very excited uh we heard some feedback from from our parents and our parent leaders uh asking for an in-person I Ready uh parent workshop and we're really excited to be able to offer that so this workshop will take place on
Thursday March 13th from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m at uh the computer lab on the 8th floor at our office in 1 form Plaza we will have child care for schoolaged children there'll be food and Spanish
interpretation we really encourage you to come we are asking families to register so you'll notice right above uh the character's head there's a little QR code thank you Maria and a registration link we are asking you please to
register so that we'll be able to account for the amount of space and food that we need um and we hope that you'll be able to learn how to access your child's data and to support your children at home with games and tools we have the same um the same flyer
here for you in Spanish as well and uh we'll be able to drop it in the chat we'll make sure that this information is also shared widely with our amazing parent coordinators who will be able to um you know send this communication out as
well so we uh completed our first session of the science of reading uh on Thursday February 13th um we are really excited to be able to have the second session on Thursday March 20th from the
same time 6:30 to 7:45 we have interpretation available in Spang uh Spanish Bangla and Arabic um we would really love to see as many families come out as possible and join us for this virtual session uh we had some
principles join us a number of PCs join us um actually a couple of APs um we need more parents we need you uh we want to be able to share with you how you can support your child at home uh the virtual link is there for you to be able
to join us and there's a QR code as well we're really hoping to have a very robust turnout so that we can disseminate this important information to all of you the second session will be on vocabulary and comprehension skills um and there'll be uh interactive word
games and activities that you will be able to use at home so we hope that you will join us tell a friend a neighbor um it will be Thursday March 20th from 6:30 to 7:45 we then have the uh session we have
the flyer in multiple languages so we have uh Bangla Arabic and Spanish so please tell a neighbor tell a friend we want we want to see as many families there as possible we uh had an amazing arts festival
superintendent um Hernandez had shared some slides earlier this evening about that event uh we have a number of upcoming events our math tournament will be uh for middle school will be on Saturday March 15th at INTECH our science fair will be on Saturday April
5th also at INTECH our literacy fair will be Saturday May 17th at PS246 and of course we're extending our thanks to the uh both INTECH and PS246 for hosting these events and we hope to see you
there just some reminders the remainder of the slides are really reminders we have uh our DPAC Title One meeting the next meeting will be Thursday um and that will be February 27th we're hoping that you'll be able to join us uh for uh
these important meetings the CEC just like this evening our next meeting will be on Tuesday March 25th i believe it will be at PS310 and these are just the remaining dates uh President's
Council uh we the next meeting will be on um March 19th and you can join us on Zoom for that session starts at 6:30 p.m our monthly DT next one is next week
March 6th and that begins at 10:00 a.m and of course the attendance and feedback form we always uh appreciate your feedback and thank you thank you
and thank you everyone for um being a part of our presentation today thank you uh superintendent and uh that radio superintendent Doyo for the reminders it's really important that we
keep up the reminders because our busy lives um we're going to go into our member reports uh President Parsons is not here today so she's going to table her report for next month um our March
meeting any members here i know uh Miss Council Member Estraa has a report that you would like to share um any other members please uh just let me know 9:30 um what time of the permit
yes so we still need to conduct our business meeting so if members can keep their reports short um Miss Australia I'll take mine to next mark mine as well okay thank you so much Miss You want the table
i'm going to do a next one because we're running out of time i just want to mention that the CC election got extended to this coming to 27 so I be talking to my school
hi I'm saying that I will do my report next month so we short of time i just want to remind parents that the CC election got handed the application for February 27 and I've been going to all my schools PA meetings and an event to
um talk about elections as a member and and um encourage parents to um be part of the uh panel thank you it was extended till this Friday the 27th thank you
any other members i I do [Music] [Music] okay um he went to the school PS8 [Music] okay oh he he attended to the school he is 86
and he attended the event for the ST [Music] and they were enthusiastic that they students were taking advantage of the I and for MA as well and the is a new uh structure and the students are learning more faster
than they don't so that's it thank you um I just want to give a reminder to how important parent participation is when you're advocating for the district budget your school budget the city's
budget because all of our students need great programs and high quality education and especially like here tonight RKA has show representation around diversity equity and inclusion so I want to encourage and I know a lot of
people may feel um it's a distance away it's very far to make a public comment but New York City schools have a school board called panel for educational policy and that is where they will
decide on the excellence of contracts the budget affairs student funding budgets for your school so please please attend um in person when those dates come up um they're once a month i believe they're on a Wednesday and they
do go around the different burrows but when they aren't here in the Bronx I encourage parents and students and educators and school leaders and community leaders to participate to make your voice count because the more voices that you advocate for our students and
the staff that support the students they will get all the funding that they need what they want to excel and have our scholars get what they deserve so they are virtual um I believe they are taking
comments i'm not sure if base uh lays on here can clarify but I encourage you to make public comment because they want to hear as many parents and many students out there about their school even if it's the you know conditions of a school
needs capital planning come out and ask for funding because that's the most important um we're going to see if there's any public comment or anybody on the um council like to share any kind of reminders that are happening
in the events um somebody can look in the chat and see if there's any public comment or questions what's okay sorry i just wanted to remind folks again to your point and this is point
about the extension to CC application deadline being this Thursday i am putting it in the chat but central has asked every school to have at least two parents apply for the CDC or the CCS um currently district 10 has 41
applications so that's great but that is not nearly two parents from every school so please um put every effort between now and Thursday to try and get two parents from every district and school
to apply for the upcoming term thank you is it possible for you to give us information on like schools that we should target or is that I can give you a breakdown by school but at this point we have 56 schools at 56 is into
the hundreds and we only have 41 so basically every school needs to have Okay so I just got confirmation from the superintendent that we have 56 schools in district 10 so multiply it by two we should have more than 100 parents
applying as candidates so I think we need to work a little harder and get our parent coordinators and parent teachers um that exact same day we're asking you yes yes we are well aware and so it is
not just a parent coordinator's responsibility i want to stress that it is everyone's responsibility in the district all of you as all of our principles who are on notified and given an update and then
bring down by school it is everyone's responsibility to ensure that our district is well represented and can election yes uh thank you so much Maria Carrera always hold all of us accountable here
uh yeah so please encourage you know a neighbor that's interested or they have a you know a parent that's in the public school system in this district encourage them to participate because I have to say that I travel throughout the Bronx and every district is not the same as
district 10 and we get the biggest applause and they're a little bit like wait how does this council work so well as a team um and I say that because we meet our goals and our goals are here with our superintendent and uh as you
see tonight our students as well um we are if we are complete with our calendar public uh meeting tonight to go into our business meeting we need to adjourn and if any member would like to motion to adjurnn I'll make a motion
that we Thank you Miss Alada uh Michelle Hayes council member we'll second the time is 8:58 the time is 8:58 anybody oppose i don't hear no um so we'll give a
couple minutes um we do need to conduct our business meeting tonight unless you guys want a special meeting which I don't think you do so I'll give you a couple minutes to kind of refresh and we'll come back to do our business meeting can we say 9:05 9:05 what time
is it now it's 8:15 oh my god jesus run to the back i know okay council members please come back at 9:05 and uh thank you Superintendent thank you very much thank you
thank you everyone at home uh and have a lovely evening thank you everyone online if you need to leave we do understand and we hope everyone has a blessed evening if you want to stay please stay with us virtually uh we do want our audience
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and refreshments and cookies okay um welcome again uh to our second portion of the evening it is the business meeting of community education council district 10 i will uh call to
order what time is it uh 9:10 uh February 25th 2025 for business meeting i am going to do a roll call um I don't want to chop anybody's last name
but us being in a public space I'm just going to call you your first name on record michelle Ireina GMA Kate Emma Angie
Maria virtually here present on Zoom can you unmute yourself for record i did can you hear me i'm here um Erica is virtual or she's
ab missing any of the members now okay so we have there's eight members there should be nine there should be nine members dennis Michelle GMO Angie Emma Kina Michelle
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we're going into the financial report i was uh before I go to council member Alada as our treasurer uh to report for our financial budget uh two things that we need to consider tonight one is to move um a part of our budget to ensure
that we secure money for um whatever we need to do for the remaining year because the budget for the school year for the council as well as for the entire city uh New York City public schools will close um at the end of this
month so we need to do that and then um the spring fling that we've been talking about and trying to plan for is in end of this uh March the month of March um and we need to kind of get an idea of if
we still want to have the spring plan um the administrative assistant has already uh got the plan out of uh allocation for food decorations and swag and whatever else we need for a spring fling or
whatever event we want to host if we don't have the spring fling but we need to kind of have those few those two things on the agenda for the financial report and I will turn it over to member Alada treasure
okay everyone got a copy of the report and had a chance to look it over i trust as our vice president stated that uh we do have to move money because the portal is going to close
down soon and what we uh encourage everyone to do is to number one if you know on the sheet I said you must add in your
reimbursements each month money is not going to come back if it's not used um uh other footnote I have is money needs to be moved by uh need to be moved at this meeting by
the council need to be voted on if you've been looking at the report you notice that it looks a little bit different because we're moving and merging stuff our president's uh reimbursement will be part on the sheet
going forward will be part of the members uh line and we're moving $500 from the food line we're adding $460 plus $100 and all of that we're
going to put into parent engagement swags and our workshops to the end of this year it is important i tried to u balance my sheet i'm a numbers person
and I gave a copy to our SDO so she can see where I'm at and I double check at least our this particular March our totals match with theirs but we do need to make a merge and move money
so this is what you're Yes at the bottom the bottom foot so that's what five so you want to currently have the parent engagement
that's coming along you don't see it on you see it up here oh there it is for supplies we're taking the 500 um 460 yeah that's the food line we're taking a full 500
from the food line the 460 is I believe if I understand um it's coming from our uh leftover money from my members but we're moving a total of $1,60
tonight so that we can secure anything that we have to buy going forward and then60 is all coming out of me supplies and then moving
into we need to make a motion yes yes we need to make a motion um and please state your motion um are you making a motion member Treasurer yes yes i'm doing the report she's making a
motion making a motion we make a motion to move to move clarification before you move on the floor because I know the council has an event coming up uh next month and I don't know
if there's sufficient funds in that line item for them we're moving emma that's part of parent engagement at large that's Can you guys hear me where you're moving it to the swag right and and it's I didn't say that on the Oh I'm sorry
yeah I did on the bottom on the bottom i just wasn't sure i'm sorry it's on the bottom of my foot to secure to secure everything i hear you Lauren i don't think they can maria Maria I don't think anyone could hear as
to what allocation is being moved no I gave you my paper but just give out loud now so that everyone's on the same page okay the footnote at the bottom we're moving $500 from the food line so won't
have the food line we're moving $460 and $100 so $1,60 is going to move to parent engagement and that's to be added to what what we already have up at the top
emma to make sure that we can move everything and work to the end of the end of the um agenda does anybody have any questions in regard to the Sorry uh ladies and gentlemen I have the the AA
she says that there is no more money in that item so you do not have money to move from that line item can you tell me which one specifically she's trying to Can she unmute i'm put you on speaker i'mma put you on speaker she was trying it she
said the food line go ahead and from swag to Oh so the 100 is going to food yes so 100 from swag from the swag line goes down to the food 500 for supply
and they they question the 460 the 460 is it's just going to be 500 we're going to delete that line as a whole so it's not 1,60 no no so 500 from office supplies and
you said 100 from where sorry Lauren okay so that's depleting the office lines and then you'll still have $1,400 left in swag so we're moving an additional 600 to swag no you're
moving so 600 in total yeah sorry 100 is going to food though because you guys still need $100 to the year food okay okay so of the 600 we're moving we're moving 100 to food and 500
to parent engagement correct so so if I understand it we're leaving 100 for food you say yes so the food line needs 100 hours in order to hold over the year okay because the food line I have 500 eggs at
No so right now the food line has um you just moved the food line um you move money from the last month okay so if I'm not mistaken there's like 800 left on the food line and you need nine right okay
so the food line needs $100 more to carry through the rest of the school so we're moving it from the swag line to the food line for $100 and we're moving $500 from the supply line to the parent engagement
line okay so you need to make a motion are we doing 600 instead of in total 600 uh Lauren yes the total will be 600 for those two and if you guys want to complete the president reimbursements
and join them with the reimbursement you could do that as well yeah i I then that's on that footnotes on that bottom um okay my my concern is we still going to have money left over for we have what one
vacant spot or two vacant spots so either way we're going to have money left over that's not going to be moved so if it's 1,400 left if you guys um we have to amend that motion yeah do you want to amend it give you the Do you
want to see she doesn't amend it because it wasn't um it wasn't put on you have to Yes you still have to restate it sorry okay i'll make a motion to move 500 from the office and 100 for the swag 100 to
food and 500 to parent engagement and then in total $600 600 i second the motion kate Wheeler motion second the motion any questions from the council
everybody have 30 as to where the money is going to be moved to um the motion was made to move $100 from the swag line to the food line so that we have Cooper remaining the term um $500 from the supply line or to parent engagements so
we can actually conduct an event for the remaining of the term in total $600 that we'll be uh voting on this evening uh to ensure that our budget fits the remaining months of this term how much
are we um estimating we're going to need for the event well we don't need because you still got to do workshops stretch out over next five months yeah so I think for the most part
um swag is what we really do want to make sure that we are accommodating for our event as well as um I was told by uh President Parsons that some of the new members still have not gotten a t-shirt so um there's a
few we have in the office okay so whatever whatever we may need we need to move we need to okay um we need new shirts okay different ones you mean
no these are new the polos they are new but do you want she's saying you want new different ones no No they just they um Bernita the new members i will
pick I'll give them to you i will but I suggest CeCe have a hoodie or some sort of like look at mine mine's from PS280 so it's the Richard like the white sweater that the
But you know it gets dirty yes I know so I'm I'm suggesting from our former council president Montenegro who ordered this um okay so we need a vote tonight before I ramble um roll call
to the motion there's a motion on the floor where we at we motion and then a second okay so now you're going to take a roll call for the motion so we're going to take a roll call for the motion member Michelle
yes or no member Amina yes or no uh member GMO member Kate yes member Emma yes member Yanice yes member Angie yes and member
Maria online yes yes vice president and I forgot myself today oh dang i am fully present calendar and business team meeting and I do vote for this budget emotioning the money uh
allocated to an appropriate place so we have nine members of voting tonight on moving the money of total 600 100 from swag to food and 500 from supplies to parent engagement in total $600 thank
you everyone that was the most important for this evening motion passes um I wanted to just make sure that if there's any discussion that needs to be ma made tonight as to their spring plank if everybody is on board to continue
planning for spring plank and I believe it's um March Saturday March 29th and uh President Carson's had made um has reached out to the district office Marie Carrera um if there's any events
happening on that Saturday that might uh be a conflict um no can you ask me the date one more time i believe it's Saturday March 29th yeah so I provided President Parsons with a comprehensive list of all of the March dates for the
district and at this time there's no conflict the only concern I lifted was just a short turnaround time because March is here already next week so yes um I would think that the council would need to have a special meeting to
finalize the details for this event because it's coming up in a couple weeks and there's there's been zero discussion about Yep yeah and um I'm not sure if President Parsons was able to get a
final followup from Principal Medina from PS85 to make sure that they don't have any conflict at their building um so something that maybe uh members of the council can have she confirmed as to if we want to continue to have this
planning of the spring plane and possibly have some sort of special meeting to discuss the finals again food decorations and swag are ordered uh through our administrative assistant she has the invoices ready if we pursue the
spring plane or if we want to use it for another event uh other than the spring flying in May April May or June so um we did last year in June a district talent show that's something that's an idea on
our plate if you want to do it that was in June and we invited a couple schools uh the date was confirmed with principina at PS85 and the date for the spring event March 20 March what date 29th 29th and
uh the orders have been placed already for which 85 or 89 85 oh it was moved from the winter event hold on speaker she's trying to get your
attention on Zoom but it's not working lauren excuse me [Music] i guess they're not events but there's a sip and pain you guys said that they wanted to do in the winter all of that
has been just moved over to the spring so they've already been like ordered and taken care of yeah because they were they were done for the day that we remember have it okay great
so what are the big remaining things Lauren that we would need to have a special meeting with um I guess committees who will be doing what assigning people's um figuring out you know
registration table and we're getting any outside or anything discussion okay thank you Lauren thank you
thank you ladies sorry Lauren i don't know what's up with the song okay i mean we only have three weeks per week to kind of like the same thing with the other event
it's just a matter of getting to commit to whatever we doing but the bulk of the stuff is there the vendors the money's been paid out either way show up sign up for set up break down
um present during the event with all your swag on Yeah it's a similar event so it's just important to have a presence and to have folks be there it's your event karaoke has a question is March the
month for New York State testing yeah because I wanted to make sure all had it um so for March March is one of the busiest months on the school calendar because there are no breaks it's one of the only months where
there's not even a single date for the month of March so you have parent teacher conferences that happen in March so the week of um well the date Thursday March 6 is for elementary schools um Thursday March 13th is for middle
schools and D75 thursday March 20th and March 21st are for high schools all K to 12 schools and all 6 to 12 schools so that's their parent teacher conference day um there
is a day I thought I said there wasn't but he alur is um Monday March 31st so that's a day off and there is no testing that happens in March but there is probably test prep there's test academy
Saturday academy after school academy just depending on the schools um the state exams begin later um in April so the science exams for grades five and eight will run from April 7th to May
16th and these are computer-based testing at this time um the nice stat speaking exam for English language learners will run from April 14th through May 23rd and then the ELA so the English language
arts exams for grades three through eight um there are several dates but basically from April 29th through May 2nd um depending because they there's the option to do it on paper and then there's the option to do computer-based testing but it will fall within that
date range same for math grades through eight uh from May 7th through May 16th same deal on paper or computer based and then the second portion of the nicest lab which is for English language learners the listening reading and
writing portion will run from May 12th through May 23rd um the the only big event is our map tournament for district 10 which will be on March 15th that's a Saturday so sat two Saturdays I think
before your proposed event um and that's really it anything else that we have are things happening during the week not on the weekend um so we do have about four parent facing workshops in the month of March um on the 5th the
12th the 13th and the 20th some of them you heard this evening we have the I Ready workshop on the 13th the science of reading workshops on the 20th and we have um two morning side conflict resolution workshops a two-parter
beginning next week so on the 5th and 12th and then we have our regular meetings right we have the the DT president's council CEC and DAC all happening so you all have a meeting on March 27th
right um and then I wonder if there's something up with the dates because I'm sorry March 25th that's 25th 25th is today and then that's your last meeting before the event so any last minute details can be discussed during your last meeting like but if you need a
meeting before um you would have to call for a special meeting which requires three members to put in writing to the AA that you want it and then we have to pick a date and time run out of time and we go back and
forth um if you think you need a special meeting put some proposed dates and times now so you can just send your emails and set up a time you're running out of time here tonight too um lot of information shared tonight so
I don't know um members have expressed difficulty with meeting outside of a Tuesday because that's when your meeting is on Tuesdays um I know some folks accommodate for this meeting so that's really maybe the conversation you should have aside from your reports and
whatever else you have on your agenda if it takes too long to get the special meeting up and running there's no point in having it just then too much time has left special meeting has to be in person or can we do it yeah same rules same
rules everybody in person in person unless we have a special circumstance but if everyone's not in person via the quorum then you can't move any business so um I think just want to have people's
um thoughts around if we want to have um any members of questions well I don't know if it's um okay to talk about that right now it's number one it's late and number two the vendors
and the and the according to the uh aa stuff has already been booked i would run this by the president let her determine whatever it is and come back to the council because it get late but I'm sorry so what's the question right now on vice
president yeah just if if we all are able to commit that Saturday to this event because I think everyone uh can pitch in and support it okay um and then move forward with the
sprinkling if there is conflict with or you want to ask you want to put it on the record yes so um she's going to go down the line and ask if anybody has an issue with the date so you can move forward and everybody will sign up for a slot and an
activity to take on um Michelle great um number reader welcome usher registration the secretary service [Music]
member Um if you can you know support each other i mean we're going to have tables like kind of maybe table and activity or set up clean up is the most important you don't want people to just be
um member yes okay member K yes member Alada yes member Yanette member AMD and member Maria if she's online I'm assuming yes yes okay we're
here so put on your calendar for a whole day on 29 and um and show up prep and clean clean is the most important you don't leave anywhere okay um there's anything remaining uh
new business or any business that need follow up i'm sure everyone's guessed because everybody's wrapping up with their jackets and hats so if we need to have a motion to adjourn I hope you can do it now [Music]
motions sent motions angie second Michelle third and everybody else all time is not to get out of here well thank you for everyone participating in person and virtually
and come back for our next meeting in March 27 25th um at 3 at 3 p.m and thank you to our interpreters and to
Nicole ride we gonna get you a car and thank you for our Kelly for the vote and the custom bye everybody lauren are you able to Hold on