State Board of Education Meeting May 13, 2021

001so good good morning everybody and welcome to the second day of the california state board meeting um seeing that all board members are present um executive director alan would you please call the role to establish a quorum remember here remember here hamburglar woods here remember mcquillen here i'm bernavo here remember patilla brownson here remember rodriguez here remember rucker here vice president strauss here number son here you have a quote thank you so reporting on a closed session the board discussed or took action on the following legal matters kayla j versus state and carrie cave versus state so today i have some general announcements um members of the public wishing to dial in for public comment should view the live stream of the meeting to know at what time we'll be asking for public comment on

002the agenda items public comment will be provided by dialing the phone number and participant access code and then following each of the operators prompts when you are dialing in the colors will be added to a caller queue the operator will notify callers when it's their turn to provide public comment we're going to also ask you as the public when you call in for public comment please turn down your speaker volume of your computer if you're following us on the live feed so that we don't get the echo effect and then we'll be able to hear your public comment that you've waited to give us and board members we're reminding you to mute your microphones when you're not speaking and keep your cameras on as much as possible to ensure we maintain a quorum throughout today's

003virtual meeting for each item there will be an opportunity for board members to raise your hand using the zoom participant window if you'd like to make a comment or ask a question today we are taking item 11. item 11 is a public hearing regarding a petition for the renewal of a charter school currently under the oversight of the state board of education pursuant to california education code 47605.9 b consideration of prepatech los angeles high which was denied by the los angeles unified school district the cde recommends that the state board hold a public hearing to deny the request to renew prep los angeles high a grade 9 through 12 charter school based on the cd findings pursuant to california egg code section four seven 47605 so five point nine four seven six o seven e

004four seven six o seven point two b and california end code of regulations title five section one one nine six seven five this item will be re presented by stephanie farland from cde stephanie i turn it over to you you may begin thank you thank you um good morning vice president strauss members of the board deputy superintendent gregson um today we are going to hear the appeal of the renewal for prep attack los angeles high school so prepa tech uh los angeles high school is operated by get my screen right here is operated by alta public schools uh a charter management organization that also operates two other schools within the lausd uh los angeles unified school district preppitec is seeking authorization from the state board of education to renew their grade 9 through 12 charter

005school within the boundaries of lausd the petitioners initially saw authorization from lausd uh and on december 9th 2020 lausd denied the petitioner's request for renewal by a vote of five to zero the petitioner submitted their petition to the california department of ed on appeal on january 8 2021. today this department of education is recommending that the state board hold a public hearing and deny the request to renew ptlah a grade 9 through 12 charter school at the april 13 2021 meeting the advisory commission on charter schools accs voted unanimously in favor of the cde's recommendation to deny renewal of ptlah the first time the accs has voted unanimously in favor of denial at least in the last several years pursuant to and code 47605.9b if the state board chooses to grant renewal of the petition

006pursuant to 47607 the state board shall designate in cons in consultation with the petitioner either the governing board of the school district or the county board of education in which a charter school is located as the chartering authority uh if approved by the sbe today the cd is recommending that lausd be designated as the chartering authority um i do want to note that we did consult with the charter school and they did request that the la county office of education be their authorizer should the state board approve the department did have a discussion we are required to consult with them but felt that because lausd already has two other uh of the alta public school schools within their oversight that it made more sense for this school to be under lausd as oversight especially as

007most of the today is based on fiscal concerns the educational program of prepatec the mission of ptlah is to provide a world-class education to every student through an inquiry and investigation school model that will prepare students to meet the challenges of a global 21st century ptlah is an authorized public international baccalaureate diploma program school in lausd which affords pupils the opportunity and access to a small rigorous high school in their neighborhood the 2019-20 school year was the first year 11th graders participated in the two-year ib program at prepatec at the end of the this year 2020 20 20 21 school year ptlah will have their first group of pupils eligible to receive the iv diploma the cde's findings and concerns the department was unable to determine if ptlah met the applicable academic renewal criteria pursuant

008to edcode47607b based on california assessment of student performance and progress casp scores as a charter school only has one year of data and does not report any colors on the california school dashboard the last uh the year we have as it is for most schools 2018-19 on cast 25 percent exceeded standards in ela and 3 met or exceeded standards in math it is a high school so as you remember they only test 11th graders um so it did take a couple of years to get to a point where they could test and this is the only year we have the cd also reviewed the following verified data that the petitioner included and provided as criteria for charter renewal the california dashboard data for ela math chronic absenteeism rate suspension rates and english learner progress indicators

009uh they also submitted northwest education association nwea measurable academic progress data um so map data so we do have that included in the item in terms of their dashboard data remember there are no colors because they only had a year but the 2019 california school dashboard reflects their performance um under california's accountability system as follows ela is 65 points below standard and math was 169.8 points below standard are you hearing feedback from my microphone okay i'm just hearing it then i hear myself being repeated um california school uh chronic absenteeism and graduation rates uh the dashboard does not show chronic absenteeism rates for ptlh because it is a high school don't gather that information for high schools the california school dashboard didn't also does not show graduation rates for ptlah as it did not have

010a graduating class until 2020. as far as suspension rates um in 2018 they had 6.5 percent um which put them in the red but they did improve significantly in 2019 um moving to blue at uh in one year the 2019 california school dashboard was the first year the lp was reported um the lp is calculated based on a student's performance on the english language proficiency assessments for california the lpac the data for the 2019 lp shows that 43 of ptlh english learner pupils are making progress towards english language proficiency in terms of the nwea map data for reading an ela if you remember from yesterday reading in ela we're in two separate slides so we take the data and the assessment data that the school provides us and the school provided provided us with reading

011and ela combined so it may look a little different than yesterday um this is a winter to winter uh nwea ela four-year comparison for the class of 2020. um and you can see that uh in some areas they went up in some areas they maintained um maintain their scores and this is these are scale scores for overall student progress towards mastery and then the next slide is there and oh go i yeah thank you um nwa map data this is math um and again you can see they stay pretty constant uh english learner progress indicator these are elpac results in percentages uh 38 progressed at least one level 4.7 maintained their level 4 designation 33 maintained their level 1 through 3h designation and 23.8 decreased at least one level which comes out to about 57

012maintaining or decreasing so the department's findings and concerns uh specific to fiscal so there has been communication regarding fiscal concerns over the life of this petition it as stated before it is an sb authorized school so has been under the oversight of the department and the state board for the last several years it is noted that over the course of its oversight the sbe has issued five letters to prep attack outline the following fiscal concerns uh negative fund balances no reserves although uh preppitec has responded to all letters of concern with seemingly sound plans to address fiscal issues the school has remained important financial condition throughout the term of its current charter so there were um five letters of concern that were sent to preppitek over the course of its current charter um and although

013they responded every year they were back on sort of the fiscal fiscal concern list and have stayed on there the the annual reports that the the board gets of all of its sbe charters every year regarding academic and fiscal health they have been on the poor fiscal list for the entirety of their of their petition ptlah has a four poor financial record since approval in 2016. preppitec's fiscal year 2021 second interim report dated march 15th indicates that ptlh is projecting a negative ending fund balance of 322 000 the fiscal year 2019-20 audit report reflected an unqualified status with a negative ending fund balance of 423.000 and just so as we're kind of going through this and and i often need to sort of relearn this um every time we talk about fiscal and budget issues

014that there is a difference between ending fund balance and ending cash balance and we're going to talk about both of those ending fund balance is the net asset so the difference between total assets and total liabilities the formula is beginning fund balance plus or minus operating surplus or operating deficit ending cash balance of a cash flow statement equals the cash amount shown on the balance sheet cash flow is the change in the charter school's cash from one period to the next so pursuant to ed code 47607e and this is something that was implemented post 1505 this is part of ap 1505 legislation the cde provided notice to prep attack of its findings that private tech is demonstrably unlikely to successfully implement the program set forth in his petition due to the following substantial fiscal factors

015prep attack reported a zero percent reserve and the 2021 first interim report and per ptah's memorandum of understanding with the state board prep attack is to maintain the reserve of five percent preppitec reported a negative ending fund balance of 274 000 in the fiscal year 2021 first interim report they were given an offer it's a 30-day notice so they were given an opportunity to correct to submit uh cure and correct submit corrective actions um as of october 31 2020 preppitex net assets are negative 952 241 and their debt ratio is 2.34 which means that ptlah's total liabilities are approximately two times the value of its total assets furthermore ptlah's working capital ratio would drop to point 18 which means that they have uh they would have no current assets to cover its current liabilities they

016did respond on april 2nd to our 30-day notice the fiscal corrective action plan provided to provided by preppitec contained three main plans uh to address the negative ending fund balances receipt of the payroll protection program loan of 470 applying for covid 19 relief funding and increasing student enrollment additionally ptlah noted that it expects to increase its reserve to five percent um by 2122. that's that's the cdes analysis of their response we reviewed all the information submitted to ptlah by ptlh in response to 30-day notice uh we acknowledged that they tried improving its fiscal condition and its updated multi-year financial plan reflects a product a projected positive ending fund balance of 165 for fiscal year 2021 with a reserve of 2.9 percent however they still fail to meet the required 5 outlined in its mou they

017have not maintained a five percent in its reserve since its inception a big piece of of how they're trying to improve their fiscal condition really was their ppp loan um which provides them some cushion uh for the next year for the next couple of years in addition prep attack relies heavily on short-term financing to the tune of 646 000 in fiscal year 2021 to cover a cash shortage regarding repayment of the short-term financing it appears that ptlah may incur a high financing cost with factoring adding an additional negative effect to their budget the cd concludes that although the response partially remedies some of the violations noted in the cbe's letter they still are projected to have some issues with the five percent outlined in its mou of reserve and quite frankly failed to provide any

018long-term fiscal structural changes that will prevent the school from experiencing similar fiscal deficiencies in future years as i said before um the ppp loan really was uh was something that they relied on in this budget to in their in their response letter um sort of get them over the hump but they've not made any changes structurally and we've seen over the last five years that we've sent many response um letters of concern and still has they have fallen short fiscally so we did and i you probably hopefully saw it uh because in your in your documents that you received um but the school did submit a new budget just a couple of days ago um and although it was very very last minute we tried to go through it and and see if there were

019any changes mind you that this is a budget that lausd did not see um nor did accs and there were some unexplained differences um in this fiscal plan that uh we couldn't uh we we couldn't explain there weren't explanations attached to it so some of the discrepancies we have here um and this is just a difference between the report they turned in this week and the report from march um that went to the accs um their enrollment changed a little bit it went up 22. um not really sure how or why uh their federal funding from the march report to the may report went up almost a little over half a million dollars and and there's no explanation as to why that is um local funding went down professional consulting fees um that minus 142

020000 uh about 142 000 is a one-time reduction in their payment to their central office so a one-time reduction in the in the payment they normally give to alta public schools um they're not i i'm guessing not paying it uh once uh maybe in the coming year i or this year i'm not sure um about which year that that reflects and then their payment on debt uh they had initially projected a 58 000 payment dollar payment in march and now they're projecting a 457 thousand dollar payment um not clear where that 400 000 difference is coming from um so there there were some differences and and i'm sure that they'll be able to answer questions on this but it was not clear in what they submitted to us how some of these changes have come

021about um or whether they're long-term structural changes um or just one-time changes uh next slide additional fiscal concerns as i've said since its obsession inception preppitec has demonstrated poor financial management and has relied heavily on borrowing to cover its expenses it's unclear to us how alta public schools have supported prepatec in regard to their fiscal expertise in financial planning it definitely is part of the the consul the fee that is paid every year to alta and and from what i understand and from what they have said that covers fiscal management um pplh nor alta public schools has provided the cde or the state board with a plan to manage or cut expenses to meet their fiscal uncertainty and i will say that in the accs meeting the commissioners had questions about this and a lot

022of concerns from some of our charter operators on the commission and charter staff as to why there's not ever been a fiscal plan to actually cut expenses um to help to help their fiscal health um ptlah employs a large number of staff for a very small student population uh 23 teachers three administrators um two resource specialists and a council one counselor for about 350 students um and so that most of their budget really is is towards staffing the petitioner does not meet the renewal criteria uh inconsistent with sound educational practice the petitioner does not meet the renewal criteria and does not present a sound educational program while the majority of the educational program is sound there's some real key pieces that are missing the cde finds that the lack of an english learner curriculum is

023problematic and does not align with a complete educational program so they do have a detailed intervention program but they do not have um a curriculum an english learner curriculum additionally as a ptlah petition does not include reasonable descriptions of all all the charter elements the cde finds that the petition is not entirely consistent with sound educational practice our findings regarding charter elements the cve finds uh the petition does not necessarily provide as just mentioned a recently comprehensive description of element a there was element d in there and um i will go into why i have that crossed out additionally the cde notes that the following elements could be strengthened element j suspension expulsion element n dispute resolution and effect on authorizer and financial projections so as stated just a moment ago element a which is

024description of educational program the cpe finds that preparation is not consistent with sound educational practice as it does not represent a reasonably comprehensive description of the eld program specifically regarding not having a required california state standards aligned eld curriculum the governance structure uh going into the accs meeting we had still not received uh the required conflict of interest code that needed to be submitted they did submit it a day before the accs meeting so they are now in compliance um so the element d uh governance structure piece is something that we can uh we can now say they're in compliance with the cde finds that the prep attack petition provides a reasonably comprehensive description of element j in element n however cde notes these elements could be strengthened pursuant to ed section 47605 c5j the

025prep attack petition is required to clearly state that when an appeal relating to the placement of a pupil or the manifestation determination has been requested by either the parent or prep attack the people shall remain in the interim alternative education sending a setting pending the decision of the hearing officer whichever occurs first unless the parent and ptlah agree otherwise this is language that we find missing in a lot of petitions that come forward to us so this would need to be changed if this petition is approved element n uh we know that um per the request of the district the petitioner changed the language of this element after submitting the petition to lausd in order to reflect lausd as an authorizer um and there was just some discretion and all and honestly you know with

0261505 and the new language about whose authorizer um who the authorizer will be will be assigned to um there definitely was some some back and forth about who actually needed to be listed here um so it just needs to be corrected if the charter petition is approved effect on authorizer and financial projections the prepatec petition does provide the required information and financial projections however the cde notes of the language can be strengthened to specifically state the manner in which administrative services of the school rt are to be provided so for instance uh there they have two uh few administrative providers for the school alta which is their cmo um is one of the providers and we noted how much they receive i think it's 12 of their total funding um but they also have another

027back office provider called charter impact that receives about a hundred thousand dollars from the school um and it was re it was not clear in the petition or any of the documents how um how what services what which specific services that each of those entities provide the school so in conclusion the cde recommends the state board deny the request to renew the ptlah petition as i said earlier at the april 2021 accs meeting commissioners voted unanimously to recommend denial of the prep attack renewal if the sbe grants renewal the petition pursuant to ed code section 47607 the cd is recommending that the state board designate the los angeles unified school district as the chartering authority for prep tech high school and that concludes my presentation so stephanie thank you so much for a really specific

028and thorough presentation um we are now going to open up the public hearing at 10 02 a.m uh first we're going to hear from the partitioners representing the charter school and each side will have 12 minutes so we'll ask our charter school representatives to join us now and then you may begin hello uh can you hear me yes yes we can good morning dear board members thank you very much for the opportunity to uh tell our side of the story my name is marie reyes i'm the founder and ceo ceo of alta public schools in 2015 we sought to start preparatic high school at the behest of our parents that love a holistic approach of an ib education at at that time we made a promise to our parents that their children would get a

029world-class education and get them to college if we were approved in early 2016 we came to this board on appeal from lausd during that meeting one sb board members shared not sure why you're here and voted for us to start the school on the very same promise we made to our parents provide a world-class education to all students and get them to college well prepared today we want to affirm to those board members and the families we served we kept our promise we are providing a world-class education to every student our students are showing stated growth in ela and math over the current charter term as demonstrated by nwa scores last year with our first seniors we had a graduating class of nearly 90 percent and 70 of those graduates are going to college this

030is an average greater than lausd and the state this year we're projected to graduate 97 of our students despite the pandemic and more and more of our students are going to prestigious colleges and universities on our finances this year we're also projected to end the year with positive net assets of 300 000 and reserves of 5.5 percent but over the last five years it has not been a straight shot it's been more like the path of a butterfly after we opened our doors in the fall of 2016 we opened with 100 plus students and with no charter school startup grant funding or any kind of of any or any other kind of financing the second year we doubled our enrollment and moved to an lau usd prop 39 site soon we realized that if we

031grow again by another hundred plus students the following year the prop 39 site would be inadequate for student stability and undermine the ib program facility requirements therefore in order to provide educational stability and equity to our students we were presented with the once in a lifetime opportunity in the la market a permanent facility nearby we believe that if we invest it early in a stable facility the benefits would be enormous for the community at large in the long term so we borrow to refurbish the facility that the school occupies today this is our home behind me our parents are very proud of their school and how great it reflects on the positive impact students are making in their community however to prepare this stable home we had to secure financing borrow internally from our sister

032schools and slowly build the reserves requirement at the end of that second year we reflected short and long both academically and financially we concluded that although the academic program program was strong and students were achieving we needed to engage financial experts to achieve a balanced budget and gain reserves and to ensure we would fulfill the promise we made to the community and to this board this is why in the third fiscal year we contracted with charter school finance experts spencer styles and charter impact to help us create a multi-year plan to get us back to good financial health representative of a world-class school here's spencer styles to explain what he and his team did for us with our fiscal austerity plan to get us back on track spencer javier uh and good morning board members

033thank you for your time and attention today uh prior getting into some of the historical uh financial activity the school i do want to clarify and point out what i think is a pretty critical concept and that is the fact that the school has looking historically not actually maintained or hit that five percent ending fund balance which is clearly a significant concern i do think it is important to point out just in terms of uh accuracy that that fund balance is a human liquid number and so as you can see on the screen in front of you the first two years of deficit uh were large enough to create a wall which were then required three years of balanced budgets and surpluses to overshadow them so while the school has not that five percent deserve

034until the current year again it is important to understand that that is a cumulative figure and this has actually turned people's so to speak financially three as you can see with the annual surplus of 390 000 now to give a little historical context starter impact was indeed during the the middle of year three after the school had understandable concerns over its fiscal operations accuracy of forecasting and crisis of financial reporting as a part of our initial engagement review the internal control fiscal policies and procedures accuracy of forecasting budgeting and we're asked to come on board full-time june 1st of 2019 towards the end of year 3. as a part of our immediately changed the reporting process increased the accuracy of projections and budgets and also sped up reporting to the board giving the schools the

035information and data necessary to make the proper decisions for solvency that does include providing financial reports directly to the board within 10 days looking at the operations going from your 53 javier did mention that there was a significant amount of facility cost which led to that 150 000 deficit the cumulative 880 000 negative fund balance in year three those facility costs did not continue the prop 39 site was no longer necessary staff levels were frozen in that fiscal year with the exception of necessary instruction spam for classrooms the student ada and enrollment increased by 15 and the result was a 390 000 surplus making a huge reduction of that negative current balance in year four a second site was added to account for the additional 16 minutes while the school reached full grade 9-12 the

036school maintained the freeze on non-uh required instructional staff and again as you can see this only the balanced budget and had another surplus in your poor about 67 000. in the current year we are predicting nothing 45 days from now ending at the surplus of 700 has referenced 400 000 that did come from a forgiven ppp loan but even without that the school is on target to have an additional three hundred thousand dollars to plus this year please also note that that does include all of the costs of all the current and outstanding a bar necessary to overcome referral looking forward while the school is participating in the enrollment next year of 370 it's also important to note that at the best practice we also maintain multiple what-if scenarios based on the current enrollment as

037of today to ensure that the school is not entering any costs finalizing hiring or incurring anything else that would potentially tip the school back into a deficit until we have confirmation that that enrollment number is reached and so with that i will with the javier to address the rest of the austerity measures being focused on for the upcoming years mr reyes you may want to unmute yourself thank you so much uh to be clear we want to communicate to you that we understand how severe the situation looked but and we understand that operating in a deficit is the main reason lust and lausd denied our renewal last year despite their efforts from staff to keep us open during the pandemic we sincerely thank you lausd staff for the positive recommendation to the current sbe board

038we could assure you that if given the opportunity we will continue to do everything we can to make sure our finances continue to improve every year moving forward we will continue to work with spencer styles and his team to keep to continue to keep us on track we'll continue to work with larson communications digital marketing experts to continue to assist us with student recruitment we will transition to utilizing a line of credit from our bank instead of expensive short-term financing we will improve our fundraising capabilities and results working with national charter school resource center and we will reactivate our lea medical reimbursement program to recapture special ed funding of up to 50 of expenditures we'll identify liquid assets in case of severe cash shortages in our academics here's rachel villalobos interim superintendent to talk about

039academics thank you mr reyes good morning board president and members of the state board of education in these short five years of existence we have had the opportunity through hard work from students parents and staff to become an id world school we are one out of four ib dp schools in the los angeles unified school district region we are the only tk through 12th grade to be an id continuum organization with the eyp nyp ndp ib programs the slide that you've seen here is prepotec high has both middle years and diploma program authorized which is part of the id continuum one hundred percent of our students are ib students we have one hundred 100 of our students that are id eligible those who do not have an interest in the ibdp candidacy by the time

040they get to 11th grade benefit from id via theory of knowledge approaches to learning learner profile attributes and community activity service it is my pleasure to introduce to you mr akita our high school's head of school principal good morning members of the board in 2020 89 of our first group of seniors graduated currently we have 97 of our seniors projected to graduate at the end of this year 75 of the students who apply to colleges have actually received acceptance letters in fact 24 of those students have received acceptance letters from two or more college and universities and we agree with the staff report on page three pages three to fourteen in which prep tech provided a reasonable comprehensive description of the plan for low achieving and high achieving pupils as well as meeting the av

0411505 middle performing criteria our eld program is comprehensive and comprised of both integrated and designated eld the ib program is committed to supporting multilingualism as a fundamental part of increasing intercultural understanding and international mindedness and is equally committed to extending access to an iv education for students from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds thank you prepatech your time for public presentation is now over thank you very much thank you very much um so now we will hear from the school district and the district will have 12 minutes as well good morning vice president strauss deputy superintendent gregson members of the sbe my name is bob perry and today i'm representing los angeles unified school district where i serve as one of the leaders of the charter schools division i'm joined today by three other

042members of our team our director jose cole gutierrez lillian lee who leads our fiscal team that reviewed the petition for prepa tech and christian mendez who leads the instructional operational team that reviewed the petition as well we come today to support the recommendation of the california department of education staff and the prior decision of the lausd board of education for the denial of the renewal of this charter this school is currently operating within lausd's boundaries and the district oversees its two sister schools academia moderna and prepa tech middle school should the state board of education deny the renewal of this charter school today please know that lausd is committed to actively working with cde staff as the current authorizing staff and the charter school to support all current students and families to enroll at another

043lausd public school as we do with the closure of any charter school within lausd boundaries our team has an extensive plan for ensuring the continuity of education for all students including but not limited to working with the current authorizer and staff to connect parents with local district staff to explore all placement options that would be available such as international baccalaureate programs magnet programs district pilot schools programs for students with disabilities and charter programs also making sure that current transcripts and other relevant documents are thoroughly reviewed to inform the best placement regarding the detail of the item before you today much of our in-depth analysis was similar if not identical to that of the cde staff who has been their authorizer for the past five years so we will not go through that analysis again today

044but would like to provide you some context for our recommendation and the board's ultimate decision our review of this application came during the fall of 2020 when california was in the throes of the worst part of the pandemic without a clear path forward for reopening schools for in-person instruction the situation was unprecedented as was our recommendation for a conditional approval ultimately after extensive deliberation the lausd board determined that a denial was warranted and would be in the best interest of students despite the pandemic circumstances one of the ways we address closure being in the best interest of pupils is by comparing data to the schools the students would have otherwise attended based on their addresses as provided by the school and compiled by the lausd office of data and accountability the data we used was

045the 2019 data mentioned by the cde previously i'd like to call on my colleague christian mendez to briefly run through the overall comparison by metric and hello good morning good morning uh board members a pleasure to be with you this morning um as dr perry um has asked i would like to share with you um a comparison of prepatec los angeles high school's performance compared to the median performance of the 20 resident schools that students would otherwise have attended based on their address so where data is available all share out so in the la the resident schools median is uh outperforming prepatect the resident schools meeting is at negative four uh in ela whereas prep distance from standard whereas uh prep tech is that negative 65.7 that translates into 17 out of the 20 resident

046schools outperforming excuse me in math bad timing for a frog you throat okay in math in math again the same story we see the resident schools median of 92.3 outperforming the charter schools um distance from standard of negative 169.8 translating into 19 of the 20 resident schools outperforming the school in math in um in lp we see the converse where we see the charter schools 42.9 uh outperforming the residence so here we actually see the charter school outperforming the majority of the resident schools um only five of total in the school here in suspension uh we see that the majority of the schools 19 of 20 outperforming um the charter school the median pension rate is 0.3 for the resident schools whereas prepa uh tech high schools is uh 1.5 in reclassification again we see

047the same pattern that the resident schools are is the median is outperforming uh prepatech high school so here we see 19 of 20 resident schools with a better reclassification rate than preppitex the median for the residence pools was 15.5 compared to prepa's uh 3.8 and this is 1920. and then lastly in both cast pla and math we see the resident schools percentage of students meeting and exceeding standards outperforming uh prepatech highs in ela specifically the median the resident school net exceeded percentage is 51.56 compared to is 24.47 and in math same story oh and in ela that translates to 18 of 20 resume schools outperforming the charter school uh in math 19 of 20 resident schools are outperforming the charter school the median performance for uh met an exceeded percentage in math for resident schools

048is 19.62 compared to 3.26 of prep attacks meeting and exceeding standards in math so in summary what we see is that in the majority of the categories ela math suspension reclassification pass ela and math of students meeting and exceeding standards we see that the resident schools majority of them are out performing the charter school with the available date i want to share that for your consideration thank you dr perry board members i have not been before you for a while but have stood before you numerous occasions and i absolutely detest to ask you to support a recommendation to close a charter school it's never easy but i'm here to assure you today as we've assured you in the past that we stand ready and experienced to support students and families if that is the decision

049of the board today we ask you to support the cde recommendation as well as the previous vote of the lausd board of education thank you so much for your time and we'll be here and available for any questions you might have for us thank you so much vice president strauss thank you los angeles unified charter school division team um so um we will um now open the phone line for our public comment queue so members of the public wishing to provide comment on this item may do so so let's put the slide up now um that we will be using for public comment when you call in we're going to ask you to state your name and affiliation for the record and remember to turn down your speaker volume of your computer if you're following

050the live feed because otherwise we'll hear an echo you are going to have one minute we do remind you to please be respectful and at this time all comments are related to the prep tech los angeles high school charter item and now i'm going to ask the spanish translator to read the um to translate the instructions in spanish for our callers buenos dias en estas um so now we're going to open um up for public comments do we have any public items on the prepatep los angeles high school uh charter renewal yes we have public comment caller please go ahead caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning this is walter guzman i'm a resource specialist teacher at alta public schools prep tech

051los angeles high school i would like to take this opportunity to request prep perpetual los angeles high school be renewed for another five years due to several reasons preppatec is a school that educates the whole child using the international bachelor curriculum there are no other schools in the southeast los angeles area that offer this international program that educates students to be inquirers which is a skill set that is needed in the future information economy this mindset is needed for many of tomorrow's leaders innovators and thinkers the education that is given at pepatec high school trains many students to be better thinkers that will be better overall for our future economy many of these students come to prepa tech high school to earn college credit experience small class sizes and to develop lifelong relationships with both

052peers and staff an advantage that others high schools in the area don't offer the progress is shown in the way more students in the area graduate from preppertech high school and go on to good universities and colleges thank you i request please renew prep attack los angeles high school for another five years prep caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now my name is mark newell and i'm a retired school administrator of 30 years and i am now working with the alta school district in my present position as an assistant principal i've had the opportunity to observe a team of educators throughout the district that are dedicated to the academic growth and social awareness of our students our fledging fledgling id program provides this to

053a group of students that normally would not have a program of this stature and this was this was accomplished with a balanced budget and a required reserve also the leadership understands the concept of of investing in our students now and we're actually and that we're actually investing in their future thank you for listening to our petition for renewal of prep tech high school hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello barry baxter superintendent ulta public schools retired the ib diploma program offered by prepa tech high school far outweighs the dismal district alternative in regards to success in reaching higher level education prepaid tech high school was designed to include the ib diploma program to allow students of this underserved community a proven gateway

054to success at the college level preppitec's current graduation rate of 97 percent far outperformed district schools of the same service area who averaged only 80.6 percent last year without access to proven approaches of the ib diploma program the students of this community are fated to receive a typical district education that has evidenced a lack of adequate preparation for success in higher level education the charter renewal must be approved in to ensure the successful pathway to higher education for the students of this community thank you board hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller what number is it we need translation i believe estudiantes hello uh the last the last four numbers of this call are two five two eight okay

055that's me thank you my name is alejandro munoz and uh the information regarding the ib program is completely incorrect there are schools surrounding uh our school that have maybe five six hundred seniors of which maybe twenty are ib students so it is in no way the same as the program that we offer where about 80 percent of the students are ib so that there is no place for these students to go if they do not read this program please renew it thank you hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello board members my name is elvia de la cruz and i'm a teacher with pepper tech los angeles high school i want to let you know we offer a rigorous curriculum to students

056to prepare them for college our team of dedicated teachers have done their best to ensure students apply their knowledge feels necessary to be successful citizens of the world our international bias laureate program is a unique in that it teaches our students how to be critical thinkers open-minded on global issues risk takers caring inquires balanced knowledgeable communicators and principles skills that no not all neighboring schools are equipped with in turn many students of our senior class have been accepted to best universities in the nation such as john hopkins university duke pepperdine berkeley and usc to name a few this week's volume of our teachers and curriculum here at preppy tech los angeles high school and our incoming students deserve the best education possible that this school offers so please vote to renew the great school to

057remain open thank you hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller i am here one second please i'm ready tell me when to start please begin now my name i'm the is council member and mayor here in the city of bell and i am also a former vice president of the parent advisory board for lausd it is very very saddening to see these recommendations come to this fine school we need a school like this in the southeast they're very dedicated professionals at this school i understand the legislation that put forth the rules and regs for protecting the public interest and the interest of the students this is not the case in this school what i mean by that is this

058is not the reason to end a charter this school has challenges like any other school any other public school i could also tell you this school is very engaged in our community and it is a prime example of this community thank you caller your time is up thank you so much for your time hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller hi good morning board members can you hear me we can hear you my name is jeanette berna and i am a proud parent of a prep a tech a high school student a caller you're welcome to call back in we're not certain what happened on the line caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have

059one minute your time begins now are you there caller caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning can you hear me yes caller we can hear you good morning my name is maria gonzalez and i represent three students at the public schools i'm the mother of three children in the aza public school system my eldest who is now a freshman at prabatik high school has been a part of the alca family for the past six years i cannot put into words the satisfaction and relief we have we felt as a community knowing that our children now have the opportunity to have the complete academic experience in the only school school family some have known the added benefits of having an elementary middle school

060in a high school with an ib learner program is something unique to this community part of lausd's mission statement is that it will be a progressive global leader in education providing a dynamic and inspiring learning experience where all students graduate ready for success ladies and gentlemen of the board you have before you the opportunity to prove this mission statement true today the renewal of this high school is an investment in this community doing so and scholars will turn this up successful future for our kids thank you hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning my name is emilia wynn and i teach language and literature this is my third year at prepa tech and 10th year in education and i want to

061promote this school for renewal bringing ib to this particular community is a huge undertaking i hold a teaching credential and matches in education from uc davis go aggies but even with my previous training it has taken years of work and a mental immense financial investment to synthesize the many facts and facets that make up an ib education in a culturally responsive way that is specific to the needs of our students when i started at prepa we struggled to retain skilled teachers due to the pay scale differences from surrounding districts now that we are comparable our teachers are staying and learning the iv framework i can say with assurance that ib education here at prepa is amazing and prepatech is the scrappiest school i've ever seen our test scores only show where we are starting and

062i love the ibra ib framework because it aims to serve the students where they are and help them become global thoughtful and reflective citizens we have learned so much over the last five years and the amount of growth i've seen in both staff and students is immeasurable thank you your time is up thank you so much for your time hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller hello you're there can you hear me yes we can hear you caller good morning my name is viviana matamoros i am a community member for the past 30 years and also work at replacing middle school i am here to ask for your support to renew one of our public sister schools property high

063school as we have become officially one of the first international baccalaureat k-12 school in l.a district that is free completely to every single student that attends our school what does this mean for one that the investment that the school has done on facilities id training teachers and other requirements for this program was a great investment and it is starting to show with positive results we need to allow the school to grow to its full potential and to keep in mind that great schools are not just built in five years we are starting to bloom and it shows in the high percentage of graduating students going to ucs and cal state here every student is offered an opportunity to be an ib student and dream big so they strive to for a great future and are

064able to have the american dream a great education for success our kids and future generations for our community deserve to have an id school just as any work community and this is what we are asking for for you guys to renew this book because our hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi my name is marissa roscoe and i serve as the expanded learning program manager with the alta public schools preppitec surrounds students with support love and guidance daily creating an environment that students can grow and flourish with dedicated faculty and staff that keep the needs of our families at the forefront of every decision we invested time and resources to ensure that all students are provided with quality learning experiences and opportunities

065to develop personally and academically our ib program is one of four in lausd and brings a unique and special learning opportunity to students by preparing them for success in their next step to college and career with a high graduation and acceptance rate to a four-year colleges and university the highest in our community preppatech is creating true global citizens with the skills and tools needed to impact not only in the southeast la community but the world because prepa tech students have the pride the rigor the leadership and the love for their family community to be the change please consider the renewal of prepa tech high school as not only an investment into the future of our students but as an investment into our community thank you paula your time is up hello caller please state your

066name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello high school she's got two kids at the school and she would like to request that this could be renewed see a [Music] she said that her kids are receiving an educ an excellent education there at the school hour she would like to say that she wants the school to be renewed so her kids can go to a university she travels from long beach to huntington every day she just says that the teachers are excellent thank you hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning board members my name is linda vargas as a not the public schools employee i've had the privilege to work alongside dedicated staff but

067more importantly our students and families our students and families are so committed and eager to excel and learn the rigor offered by rb program is available to each and every one of our students it is not exclusive to the families that can pay for it why should our children not have the right to this program tuition for another k-12 continuum school in the santa monica area is approximately twenty one thousand dollars per year ninety-five percent of our families are socially economically disadvantaged and would be unoff unable to afford giving their children that type of education the early investment made for our new building early on is evident within the peppa tech high school hallways where our students find teachers and staff that encourage motivate and push them past fears into greater heights last year our

068graduating class of had an 89.3 graduation rate i urge you to renew prepa tech high school and allow this cocoon to flourish into the bright and beautiful butterfly our community needs and deserves thank you for your time hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning my name is julia longo and i am proud to be the diploma program coordinator for prepatex we are one of only a handful of ib schools in the la area and there is no other continuum school in the area which provides continuity of the ib curriculum from its primary years and middle years programs to the diploma program in grades 11 through 12. unlike most schools we do this at zero cost to our families this rigorous educational

069opportunity enables students to enter four-year colleges with tuition credits equivalent up to one year not only our families but the nationally and internationally respected wasp and ib organizations have attested that we are providing a quality education to our students test scores do not demonstrate what is truly being achieved at prepa tech the renewal of the prepatec charter is in the best interest of our historically disadvantaged students thank you hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one moment your time begins now [Music] student who attends the high school as a proud parent i am employing the renewal of our high school i have first-hand experience the growth that my daughter has had academically i moved my daughter from the downey unified to give her the opportunity of this unique ib

070program the school's offers this ib program the school offers is not offered anywhere else which i looked um at los angeles is an important step in our low-income community to have a chance to a better education to a brighter future let us remember our students are the future of this country therefore require the best education that serpatec offers us it will be crucial and devastating to our community and all and a great loss if you're if our children were to lose the opportunity please consider the renewal for peppa pig high school thank you very much for your time hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning my name is high school i am a mother of a student at republic high school

071i'm calling for the approval and for the renewal of prepa tech high school for me and my daughter purpletech high school is very important for the school to continue this is what our community needs not just for my daughter but for the rest of the students which is extremely important um for me and for the community the renewal of this school is extremely important so that they continue to prepare our students hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now garcia [Music] i am thankful with god and for prepa tech for helping my daughter and getting her best potential with regards to her education [Music] is all of the school staff and teachers provide their best efforts so that students provide their best efforts teachers

072prepare students very well for life and for university um which is what concerns me the most i want my daughter um to go to a university and they do a great job at it it would be a terrible loss for students if prepa tech high school was not renewed so i please beg that you renew prefect tech high school university content my daughter is very excited for what is to come with with regards to universities um and i am very excited for her as well so if probably high school closes down um this would be a big loss for her hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller is the caller with the number two zero eight nine on the

073line yes hi my name is leticia bernal i have a student at prepa tech and i would like to to say to you to consider the renewal for the bernado prepa tech so they can keep teachers and workers there their teachers are amazing and they provide good work for the kids they help my kid through the work and um if you dismiss the opportunity the kids are gonna go like unfortunate and i would like you to keep their dreams up i would like you to renew the permit please thank you so much thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello we can hear you caller please begin my name is jensie baroccio i have two students at peppa teca high

074school and at junior high i would like to for you guys to touch your heart and be new to school don't close it we still need to screw open my daughter is doing great they help her a lot they have good teachers good staff and they have control over their kids please renew the school for five years more don't close it press your hearts and donate the studies without school thank you for hearing us thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello um hello uh hi my name is jimmy luna i am a senior student from prepaid high school and i've been with it for all the four years and i can tell you with confidence that the school is

075worth keeping open and you know i'm not exactly sure what the situation here and i don't know what it's costing but i can tell you one thing and that's that you can't put a price on education that builds leadership in human beings you see prepatec is an ib school and it's different than the rest of the schools and that's what makes it great students are shown they are more than a score in a system and they are shown they are human beings that can change the world for the better uh prabhatek must be kept open as the choice is bigger than me than my friends than all of us really as it's the type of choice that this the type of decision that decides what our future in this country lies the decision that changes

076our future do we want society who advances and grows or do we want society that is never willing to change especially its educational system today we are deciding what type of schools we want our children to graduate from and stop being children to become adults closing the school that teaches our children what it means to be an adult and what it means to be a good human being what it means to contribute to society is the wrong decision you can't build a country out of workers you need leaders hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi my name is andreas alves and i'm a senior at preparation high school and prepa has helped me in so many ways and the teachers here are

077amazing and they do everything in their power to see us succeed i am now going to graduate and i'm going to college prepa has changed me and i see myself growing as a person thank you thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now this is katelyn o'halloran with the charter schools development center csdc supports the renewal of prepatec new charter schools often struggle financially as they get established our review of the school's current financials show that they now appear to have sound fiscal footing csuc commends prepotec on achieving authorization for the international baccalaureate diploma program because it's a rarity in low-income areas as a new school prepatec has only one year of academic state indicator data and we know this is

078not much to go on renewal would let the school establish a track record and provide continuity rather than forcing a school change on students already highly affected by the pandemic we also want to alert you that we're seeing a disturbing trend where authorizers rely solely on comparisons of school to state averages this sets up schools like prepatec schools that bring in many students with low baselines to appear poor performing irrespective of actual student growth thank you thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi my name is robert bates and i teach both history and world religions here at prepa tech this is a wonderful school it allows students to get college credit while in high school in two year long

079programs like the ones i teach and these programs are coordinated with all the other classes through a theory of knowledge class in which they learn how to learn and if it would be a shame that the school is closed because i see so many young people moving on to college moving on to very good colleges because of this program thank you for your time thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning board members my name is marcie messin i'm a proud staff member at the prep tech high school who started off as a prayer volunteer over 10 years ago i've lived in this community for in nearby communities for over 40 years of my life i just want to

080remind everyone the reason charter schools exist in the first place is due to the schools in our communities failing us and our children for decades until some parents and teachers who actually cared about the students decided to take matters into their own hands and create better schools for our communities my kids whom my older daughters are over 20 years old attended the fanning public schools nearby and i volunteered to them um what i saw in my volunteer experience was that the lausd didn't care about the students they were appointed to serve after hearing about charter schools i was so relieved that my children would finally be attending schools that were safe and actually cares about their students the international baccalaureate program here um teaches positive character building skills as well as how the rigorous curriculum

081that help our children achieve their great dream thank you hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello my name is anthony quinones i'm a teacher at prepa tech prep tech is unique most charter schools just find a building for their student or they've rent something pretzeltech went the extra mile to find a facility make that a home for our students this should not be the undoing of their program we've improved our finances in recent years and frankly even though students can go to other schools they cannot achieve the same experience that they get with us thank you thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller

082hi yes i am hello good morning members of the state board of education my name is dean higley and i am the science teacher at parker tech high school i'm calling to urge you to reauthorize private tech high school as a science teacher having a functioning lab stations is essential for conducting labs safely and correctly labs are the practical application of science concepts and provide hands-on opportunities to make science come to life uh prior to working at alta public schools i worked at three other charter schools and in none of those was there a functioning lab station if students needed water for a lab they would have to go to the restroom to go get that water not a good situation however at private tech fully functional lab stations were installed this shows mr reyes's

083and alta public schools dedication to providing world-class education to the prep tech high school students also public schools is deeply concerned with making sure students have every opportunity available to increase learning and they put their money where their mouth is to assure this thank you for your time have a good day thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now good morning my name is michael juba speaking on behalf of the california teachers association cta support cde's recommendation to not renew prep attack los angeles high while cde's position matches the local district's decision to not renew the petition there is still concern that the cde's approach to renewals of sbe authorized charters is undermining the authority granted by the state legislator to

084the local district during the renewal process in december 2020 the board of lausd unanimously voted to deny preppittech's renewal position and the district staff laid out several findings that supported denying the renewal additionally lausd submitted a notice of violation to prepatec in october 2020. cta believes that under ab-1505 the legislature intended for it to be the local district's duty to conduct a thorough and comprehensive review of these renewals thank you caller your time is up hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi can you hear me he can hear you calling hi my name is elsa ochoa i'm the proud one and only assistant principal at preppertech high school and i recommend our charter school renewal our team is committed to providing a

085quality education too and narrowing the education the achievement gap for our students last year our graduation rate was 89.3 percent meanwhile the state was 86.6 this number illustrates the hard work our teachers do to scaffold and personalize our students learning in our small class sizes our educators are invested in this community and equity for our students who are predominantly latino and low-income it is important to note that our school has primarily spent its budget on facilities and personnel this shows that we are person centered and invest in the future we can fully remedy our financial situation but you cannot fix the repercussions of a denial today reminder we are in a global pandemic closing our school devastate 400 prep a tech staff and students along with all of our alta students thank you hello caller

086please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi this is dr sharissa vitter professor ib education according to the ivy school site california has only a handful of continuum ib programs prep attack is the culmination of this program and the incorporation the cb will make it the first in the state the core of the international baccalaureate is learning how to learn which gives students agency over their own learning ivy students are known to be problem solvers critical thinkers making them successful for university or the workforce as for university acceptance caltech has an 8 acceptance rate but accepts 23.8 percent of ib students university of california los angeles has an 18 acceptance rate but 41.4 of ib students university of california san diego with the 35.9 accepted

087rate takes 60.7 percent of ib students since there is a continuum and prep attack is the culmination 2020 we looked at pyp schools to find a greater impact on social emotional learning nyp students are 34 percent more likely to take advanced courses in high school and california programs are serving low income students hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller caller with a phone number ending with this is your turn hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now is it me it is you oh hi my name is maurice nicholson i'm a parent um i have a daughter that i planned on going to prep tech next semester so

088i'm just hoping the school gets renewed i want to say thank you and have a great day thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now um hi my name is sarah tuxberry i'm a marin county resident and i want to say that your review process for prep attack and the two other sbe authorized charters is broken inconsistent and prejudicial you selectively use or ignore ab1505 miss science said yesterday that the cde does not use the district reports at all so i don't understand why you make them do review which is very expensive and waste district resources you approve the ross valley charter which is really no different than prep a tech they both rely heavily on debt so i'd like to

089ask you to pause your reviews and fix your process and make it more consistent and fair thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller hello is this for caller 3916 this is 3916. yes hello my name is kay reinhardt i'm a special ed teacher at preppytech middle school i had the privilege to be the dis counselor for special ed students at the high school this school is more committed to students and their progress than any school i've worked with in 30 years the ib program offers them opportunities that are not afforded to students in this area and i urge you to please consider special ed students and all students in this area and to keep preppitec open

090for another five years i've never worked with more committed educators and i'm just been shocked that it would even be considered to close this school thank you for your time thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi my name is i'm the parent of two students at prophetic high school who have attended after school since they first opened as an educator myself education is very important to me and my family finding equality high school is very difficult task in this community finding one it's a blessing and tech has been a blessing for my community and my family it's it's exceptional ib program has prepared my children for higher education the teachers and staff are amazing consequently it was a dream

091of mr rays and all of those who made this possible that have worked so hard to give our children this blessing please i ask that you will please keep the school open and be part of the success of our children our community otherwise you would be showing us that you don't really care to give us the opportunity to give our children higher education thank you thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello uh my name is elias garner and i'm a senior and i just want to say that i this school right here it has given me the opportunity to not only grow from education but also in life as well and i i can only i can't imagine uh

092you know this school being closed down and for future generations that have been in my position latino in this community to not have this opportunity such as myself and this school has given me an opportunity to go to places that i could never have imagined back then i always imagined i would have to go to community college and et cetera but now i'm going to cal state and going on to even an internship for nasa and et cetera and i honestly just the school has given me things like tok which has allowed me to question and also view life in a different perspective and different manner of being as well and the teachers beyond care for us as students as well and not only for education but also for our personal lives as well and

093i i wish and hope that this school can be renewed so that others in the future in my position can also be have this opportunity as well please thank you i bet you please help me hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi can you hear me yes caller we can hear you please begin hi good morning my name is yesena guerrero i am a proper parent of a student in our sister school academia modern elementary he and my family moved from los angeles valley to los angeles to be able to have our son attend a school that offers the ib primary program even though he has been doing school videos soon we have been pleased with his with his academic achievements and

094progress in may ayad he has been blessed with one of the most amazing kindergarten teachers mrs bao i would like for my son to have the opportunity of having an idea education from elementary all the way up to his senior year of high school please don't share our dreams of a higher education in a low income area that is so well needed that is one of the reasons why our funder mr javier veyes has invested in our programs at such an early age for our kids so they can have a higher chance of success and become who they want to be in life full of confidence and very knowledgeable and nothing less i am asking to please renew our school our community parents and most importantly our students are our future generations hello caller please

095state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi my name is matthew ellis and i'm a science teacher at a private tech high school i'm calling to support the renewal of the school like the colors that before a science lab is necessary for students to obtain that edge over students in lausd and other charter schools and with the completion of our new science lab we now have all the necessary materials for our students to be successful academically in the sciences so i would encourage you to please renew private tech high school and support our students developing science as they continue to conduct research and do other experiments that will give them an edge over the rest of the community thank you thank you caller hello caller please

096state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now are you there caller hello yes i am here hi my name is glenda aleman i'm one of the directors here at alta public schools and i want to urge the board to renew purple tech los angeles the cde and lausd presenters have brought up concerns about prepatex historical financials i want to affirm that our leadership staff takes the financial health of the organization very seriously and we meet often to discuss our financial situation and how to improve our bottom line you can see this commitment in that our financials are improving rapidly we have had to make hard decisions about what to cut to improve our financials without hurting our students education the cde and lausd have stated that we

097do not demonstrate demonstratively show the ability to manage our financials however i believe this to be untrue we have contracted with financial experts who work with many other successful charter schools who support us in addition our two other schools do not demonstrate similar financial issues thus there is capacity to run a fiscally solvent program again i urge the board to renew purpose tech los angeles youtube caller for your definition to continue providing a much needed education thank you hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello my name is lauren and i'm a senior at trevo tech and i strongly urge you to renew our school someone mentions the closure of the school is in the best interest of the students and as a

098student i strongly disagree ib program while groundbreaking and innovative has historically been for students in affluent areas but prepa tech is bringing this program to underserved youth and is providing us with opportunities we could never imagine i never thought i could meet with official united nations ambassadors all the way in new york or receive the congressional gold medal the only use award provided by the united states congress and i never thought i would end up at an elite top 20 school duke university and prepa tech prepared me for all of those things and so much more if the main reason why you don't support the reopening of the school is money then i respectfully ask you to reevaluate what you value in the school prep tech is lifting up our community and there are no

099schools like it our community needs prepa tech thank you very much for your time thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello caller are you there what number the ending number is 3415. all right good morning my name is sylvia nicholson i'm the office manager of preppertech high school i have the privilege to be working here at prepa tech high school it's a great school prepper tech high school prepare the students for the best education our community need this school we have an ib program that no other school has prepper tech ib programs matter in this community our students and family are very happy at cepha tech high school we work hard to receive the diploma program started for our

100students at tiffany please give us the renewal our community really need this school to stay open for another five years it would it would be a great loss if this school is not renewed please let us continue to give the great education to our children thank you for your time thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello good morning my name is gabrielle cruz i'm a senior at prepa tech los angeles high school i would like to request that preppy tech stay open simply because of the opportunities that are available to us there the ib program that is not offered at any other school near me and many others has taught me many skills and advanced my learning enough so

101that i feel confident in my journey to higher level education even though this course is rigorous my teachers have been able to support me and many of my peers in their struggles after my four years of attending prep attack i can confidently say that i have never met more dedicated and caring teachers they've gone above and beyond for their students even during this pandemic i'm now going to a four-year university in which most of my tuition is covered by scholarships this is thanks to the opportunities available at my high school i will be forever grateful for this thank you for your time thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello are you taking the phone number 7619 we are caller

102uh i'm not starting yet but i think this would go a lot smoother if you just said the last four digits of each number for your time is already ticking so please begin your message well one of the core values of the ib program is communication and many of my students brought up sentiments that the translator was misrepresenting significant messages from our spanish-speaking population i thought that should be communicated i'm starting now with my main point that's a minute right now i'm the math teacher for the ib program caller you have 44 seconds from the standard lausd high school curriculum uh which is severely limited in scope unimaginative and neglecting a great deal of extremely important skills not offered in the course i teach for mathematics if you just ban this charter you're leading the

103future generation on a bleak and dismal path towards darkness i'm a data scientist with five years experience in the aerospace industry and a software developer i'm aware of the skills la usc has done a terrible job of placing into the high school curriculum programming is non-existent nobody does any data research my math students chose uh investigative topics uh independently and they created 12 to 20 page reports incorporating actual data collection analysis of their results and they made their own inferences and conclusions about many topics including coronavirus deforestation crime rates in la so how many high school students are you testing on their ability to creatively apply mathematics and interpret the complex variations inherent in real-world data that's my question for you thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record

104you have one minute your time begins now caller ending with seven three four nine are you on the line uh yes hi hi uh good morning uh my name is jose mendoza and i'm a math teacher at presto tech high school i'm calling in to voice my support and keeping the school open because of one major aspect and that is our school promotes growth in the two years that i have been working at the school i have seen growth in all areas for my students teachers administrators and myself the school actively promotes growth in several different ways but some of them include the ib curriculum having high expectations to build students and staff and most importantly provides the resources tools and support needed to advance the individual and learner to that higher level the school

105is on the course for greatness and by closing it down now will be a deserving to our community uh please vote to keep prevalent high school open thank you thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending with 2743 your time begins now are you there caller all callers that are on the line for public comment for preppitec los angeles high please know that when it is your time to speak for public comment that the line will tell you that you are being unmuted and that is your prompt to begin your public comments hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending with five three five three are

106you on the line hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller good morning board member my name is karina gongora i am a special education teacher at prepa tech los angeles high school i am also a proud team member and in support of the renewal of prepatec los angeles high school for a few reasons one separate los angeles high school teachers are leaders who are making a positive and transformative impact in the lives of our students in this community property los angeles high school is a uni is unique in that it offers students in the southeast community an opportunity to experience academic learning and personal growth as well as global social responsibility through the ib program the ib program acknowledges the changing histories

107of students barriers to learning and assessments are not restricted to those with a statement of needs inclusion is important and inclusion is facilitated in a culture of collaboration mutual respect support and problem solving involving our whole school community as a special education teacher i'm proud to say that the majority of our senior class students are enrolled in community colleges or in the process of attending a trade school students are participating in job readiness programs your time is up thank you thank you so much for your time hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now am i on dollar ending in three eight nine five it is your turn thank you my name is and i teach theory of knowledge board members are at promise

108students are now at risk of losing their school while other states argue about the policies whether to include critical race theory and school curriculum ib schools such as prep tech high school offer courses such as theory of knowledge which provide the opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of knowledge itself these are our future leaders the resilience of our students and faculty coupled with our high college acceptance graduation rate should overshadow the physical numbers that have already been addressed we're not asking for a bailout we're asking for renewal of a school i ask this highly educated board to remember your training your schooling your pedagogy at the end of the day we should be listening to our students and community do not let our students be forced to attend california public schools that have

109gone from first to worst all students deserve equal access to high quality education we are providing that for our students look at our grad rates look at our college acceptance rates but most importantly look at the community a point of clarification for callers who want to make public comment we are able to see if somebody is calling in multiple times from the same number it is our policy that each caller has one minute for public comment and we ask that you respect that caller please state your name and affiliation for the record excuse me for a minute let's have our spanish translator repeat those instructions about calling in only once and that we can see the number that's important okay go ahead carolyn thank you caller please state your name and affiliation for the record

110you have one minute your time begins now caller 2532 it is your turn good afternoon my name is isabel contreras and the reason that i am calling this is to support prepatech high school i've been listening to all the comments that they have been making and i know that lausd does have schools to offer our families but unfortunately our families want an ib school an ib school that has been open in our community for once and is giving our kids an opportunity to success to a great future we want the students to understand that being prepared for life matters it's not just what you're being taught through books as a community member for so many years within wano park canadian park and bell i can tell you we've been waiting for so many years for

111a great school and now that we have this school that is the start of school has only been around for a couple of years you want to take it away why not support a school for once why not be behind the school and make it better this is making a change in our community for one thank you caller your team is it hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending in 2963 this is your turn hi good morning i am on behalf of the purple tech high school i truly i'm sorry i truly believe this high school is in there in the community high school is the only ib school in our region our students who serve at school with an ib

112program this is a good opportunity for them and it will better prepare them for an after high school education i have to please consider the step up of high school with you for a better future thank you for listening thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello can you hear me we can hear you caller thank you hi hi my name is alexis sanchez and i am the 11th grader at kepler tech high school i am speaking today to ask for the renewal of my school i have been a part of ultra public schools since i was five years old attending since kinder the school has changed my life for the better i have been offered numerous amount of opportunities

113that no other school could provide for me i have been giving so much support from the teachers that i am beyond grateful for april patek i feel happy and genuinely cared for i know all my teachers have my best interests at heart i have learned so many things because of prepa the learning environment motivates me to become better and grow each and every day i am currently enrolled in the ibdp program this program is a two-year course that will provide so many benefits for my future if the rental to my school is not granted many of us will not be able to finish our dp course since it is a two-year course throughout junior and senior year please give the renewal to peptic high school there's people against our renewal but they have no idea

114how it would affect us they have not seen the health and assistance peptic provides for us they have not seen the doors prep the tech has opened for us our community wouldn't be the same without it i asked from the bottom of my heart that you approved the renewal of private tech high school i can't speak for the whole life shutting down thank you for hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending in 9314 this is your turn hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now my name is vanessa vanna and i am here today to ask you to please renew prepa tech high school papa tech high school's early investments

115have paid off and it clearly shows them the acceptance of students that now attend great universities my children in the community deserve a better opportunity and separate tech high school is here to provide that with the international baccalaureate program earlier a gentleman from allen usb boards showed that they have an extensive plan to find schools for the families and emphasize the ib program this is much easier said than done it will be very hard for our families to travel to hawthorne at heights and granada hills where there are the other ib programs exist i have two children and there is no way i would be able to make that commute there is a scrolling down from la and it is a magnet school and you and i know that it is very difficult to enter

116a magnet school and for the record the majority of ib families that i know are here today because they were not able to get into a into a magnet program please renew prepatek high school our kids deserve the best thank you for your time thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending in 8033 this is your time hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hi good morning board members my name is lupe mendes employee of alta public schools since 2009 i am here to support and ask that preppotech be renewed aside from providing a rigorous ib program we provide a safe and family oriented a place where

117the students feel welcomed loved supported and safe we have built great relationships with our students parents and community throughout my years with ulta it has been a blessing to see the growth in our students in all areas as a former lausd student quite some time ago i wish i would have had the experience that our students currently have at prepa tech high and our sister schools hard work pays off along with our parents we are extremely proud of all of our students and graduating students that were accepted to prestigious universities if that doesn't demonstrate the dedication of teachers leaders administrators staff students and parents then i am at a loss of words without the renewal this would be detrimental to our students your time is up hello caller please state your name and affiliation for

118the record you have one minute your time begins now hi my name is gilbert hernandez and i i am currently a junior at the tech i have been without with the alba family since its sister school again first opened in 2009 the school offers a unique ib education that teaches students to seek more in their education i i strongly urge you to renew prepaidtech as it encourages students to become not only better learners in the classroom but also outside of the classroom to become better members of society if you shut down the school you you will be sending these kids into a into a world education and into probably delinquency and you and i both don't want that so please our urges to tech high school thank you for your time thank you caller hello

119caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending in 7349 this is your turn hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending in 5353 this is your opportunity hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now caller ending in 7619 your time is now i just wanted to say that a typical la math course uh teaches things that students never use and they get turned off by it and the ib curriculum teaches them how to apply math to real world situations and i

120don't understand if you're going to get rid of this school what is the point of teaching like the regular lausd curriculum which has rational roots of polynomials that no one ever uses and a lot of students across la jus to test math because they don't ever use it for anything but the math course in the ib program is called applications and interpretation and if you're testing students on things that don't matter well how are you comparing apples to oranges because what they learn here i've seen students do amazing things with math and solve problems that are relative to their life thank you caller hello caller please state your name and affiliation for the record you have one minute your time begins now hello my name is michelle solorsana i am a founding teacher at prepatech

121los angeles high school this has been my school for the past five years and within these years i see firsthand the academic progress of the school and students this year alone we have seniors accepted to cal state uc's and even duke university to name a few what we are doing for our students is providing them with a world-class education and the academic tools to be able to be accepted to these colleges and to be ready for the real world that awaits them our students will graduate as lifelong learners as well as men and women of character to see the school close will be heartbreaking for our students staff and community i highly recommend that you approve property los angeles high school for school renewal thank you thank you caller that concludes our public comment for

122this item so um given there are no other public comments um i hereby close the public hearing at 11 39 a.m and i just want to thank all the callers who took the time to call in the staff the parents the community the students um everybody who was part of it i think the board listened very closely and we are now going to begin our board discussion so first i'd like to ask our board liaison subaru and ting tsung if they would like to make some initial comments and then following that we'll turn to board discussion remember board members if you use the raised hand i'll be sure to call on you um so thank you so member burn sun thank you vice president strau uh before i um make my comments i think stephanie

123farland might have a clarification on something from the um from the um presentations oh i just thank you member son i um had heard and maybe i misunderstood but um uh in the charter school's presentation when they talked about some of the struggles they had fiscally when they first started the school upon on startup that they didn't have any startup funds um but we did uh they did receive a 575 thousand 000 implementation grant federal grant um that our department manages um and so i just wanted to clarify that um because i i thought that's what he said like i said i might have misunderstood that i wanted to put that out there that that grant was available to them and they applied and got that in 2016. thank you okay thank you yes so

124um yeah again uh echoing vice president strauss comments thank you to the public who testified especially the students and parents uh it you know it's always um is difficult in looking at these charter renewals and knowing that they will be impacting people's lives so i hear you at the same time i have still have some concerns this school has the issues regarding especially the fiscal issues have been consistent but the responses and the level of response to those concerns have not been consistent in that they don't seem like they have been addressed um very seriously until up until maybe even this point when these appeals come to us the charter has three major stabs if you will at addressing concerns um and at the at the district level um and then at the accs and

125then coming to here i do not um did not hear of anything about any kind of austerity plan or any major mitigation to the um to the financial issues up until this point um today and i will have some additional questions um when we get to the question part but um just wanted to put out there that i still have some concerns amber burr did you want to make some comments yeah i think my comments are largely along the lines of board member sun let me again also say thank you to everyone who called in it's clear that there's strong feelings in support of the school by especially by parents and students that we heard from but unfortunately i feel like our responsibility is to sort of twofold it's both for academic performance and also

126financial integrity and again just to reinforce what board member son said you know we have overseen this school meaning the state board of education for five years and for five years we have seen consistent problems with financial issues stephanie mcfarland laid that out carefully and i don't i didn't feel confident in the presentation that was made that they actually have been addressed and i also have to say that in my deliberations about charters i am all always um influenced greatly by what our own advisory commission says and in the case of the advisory commission on this school they voted unanimously to deny the renewal and they they considered it very carefully and as i think you all know the majority of people who are sit on the advisory commission are actually charter school operators or

127they're in oversight agencies so i take with great consideration what the advisory commission says so i'm looking forward to hearing what other board members have but at this point i'm not inclined to renew this school thank you member um i have a couple of questions that i'd like to start the conversation with um and first um this is to ella unified to dr perry and your team so um dr perry thanks for being with us uh yet it's been a while since we've seen you before um so the first question is and i know this because i live in the los angeles area that l unified had generally made a commitment to not close charters during the pandemic and we heard that you at least say that you originally recommended conditional approval we were curious

128why and where the board disagreed with that original recommendation how that evolved the steps um board vice president strauss were as follows when our team analyzed the data in the months that we had to do it um our staff internal recommendation was denied the pandemic then because now under 1505 we have a much longer time the pandemic raged on and when we began to talk with our leadership about that that was a feeling uh because ultimately it's our superintendent's recommendation we're staff and we provide our best work to him and then he then provides that recommendation to the board and uh it was that you know what we don't know what's about to happen uh you know let's call a halt on that however when it got to the board level there was considerable discussion

129and it really revolved around what um board member sun and board member burr were just discussing um plans that weren't plans uh you know no path forward and this is not a new school you know this organization has been you know you can say it's a new school because this is the renewal but the organization's been around a while um and one would expect the ability to um create a plan particularly a financial plan um that was uh stronger we even had discussions of the finances with the renewal of one of the other schools um it was a very difficult renewal because we had to dig into the finances so i hope i answered your question the board looked at that they looked at schools in the area and how those schools were doing and

130ultimately made the decision that in the best interest of students and in the you know uh in adhering to the um education code that it would be recommendation for denial and and they voted and ms farland shared what that vote was thank you i have another question for you before i ask a cd question so we heard a lot of commitment to the ib program and how parents valued it they drive for that program we certainly heard from the staff and students certainly how students are prepared and and how they that's a unique opportunity so if the cd recommendation is upheld to close it how are you going to think about students and how they'd be supported in lausd to transition because we worry about continuity particularly now and we've heard that there's not as

131many ib programs so what is that i know your team has thought about this what is the plan if the school should close right i'll speak first and then turn to our director um who has uh also been in in contact and together i think we can give you a full picture um first of all uh what our team does as i indicated before for we have um we have a lot of experience with this not so much in denials but more in self-closures we have a quite a few of those so we have a process that we go through and the first one always has to be a transcript analysis we need to look at where those students are and what they need not only transcripts we need to look at ieps we've spoken

132with our division of special education who stands ready to pull the iep data and begin to look at that and decide where the appropriate placement for those students will be we have a number of types of programs that students will will be afforded an opportunity to go to um mr cole gutierrez would you um fill in the best thank you dr perry and uh oh good morning to you all and ward the vice president strauss thank you for asking that important question in addition to what dr perry shared we've had uh already detailed conversations respectfully knowing that the state makes the final decision but in preparation with our colleagues in our local districts in this community as well as surrounding communities looking at several school options the process of contacting families with the support of

133cbe staff the transcript analysis that dr perry mentioned looking at ib programs in the area there are uh high school ib programs in the area some of them are about six miles from the location we did hear of some parents driving from other areas to for this school there are others uh in in proximate areas uh it still may be a bit of a of a drive but there are more options than the ones that were cited in in hacienda heights and granada hills uh etc uh in short uh board members staff's commitment is to have an individualized approach families will have their choices from district programs and always we also share other programs in the area whether they're la unified authorized charter school programs so they have the full array of options available to

134them and we will then support them to see which best fit their child's needs again i reiterate never an easy decision we honor that we honor those voices uh but also seek to support the appropriate uh following of the law and accountability wherever that's the necessity so you can count on our commitment to provide that uh individualized service uh and to help families make their choices thank you my last question before i turn it to other board members this is to stephanie farland from cde and then i'm going to be asking preppotech to respond to the english language development program it's been really important in california to look at integrated and designated support for english learners i believe this school serves a large english learner population we've continued to evaluate that in our review of

135charters first stephanie i believe and i'd like you to review that that the cd did not find the english language development program adequate to meet the needs and then i'd like prep tech to respond on what the actual program is um so please stephanie if you can address that that'd be helpful yes thank you so what we found was they do have an intervention program um and their intervention program um from all accounts seems to be adequate what they don't have is they don't have a curriculum and if i remember correctly and i wasn't here at the time so i think this is correct but when they were approved um last go-around by the state war that was one of the things that they needed to correct and and they haven't and so i'm not

136sure why they haven't done that yet um and and i think there may i don't know if there's some confusion around whether the intervention program is the curriculum but program but according to our special ed division staff who reviewed this they they do not have a standards-a-line curriculum for their school and i'm sure they can they can talk about what their program is or does but that's what we have found is that they do have an intervention program they um but we're not sure if it's standard standards aligned because they don't have an actual curriculum that standards aligned to that school thank you stephanie so um i appreciate the explanation so i'll ask preppertek and i'm not sure which i know we have several representatives from pripatec about um what the english language development program

137is for all students and uh if you want to expand and explain the intervention that's a critical issue for us particularly on the student support that have english learner needs so um we'd appreciate if somebody from prepa tech would be willing to address that i don't know if mr aguirre are you the one that's going to address it i can um address it and this via logos can chime in one of the things that is clear with our ib program the the the premise of ib is international and so they offer one of the two the things that is part of the ib program is the um dual language meaning developing our students with a primary language which is in many cases english but in other cases for english learners it is spanish that's their

138primary language developing that language at the same time they're developing the other language the language what they call in ib world the language b and so the language b would be their secondary language and that's how we structured our program we use read 180 as a tool for our students to be able to use a technology current technology for their acquisition of the english language they um one of the things that is um is embedded within the ib is where their units as they develop the units there are the el standards that need to be addressed and teachers indicate that in their unit development to use managed that where teachers enter um create their units and within that they have their content standards as well as the eld standards that they are to address within

139the student within their classes and so that is um what's hap what we do uh within our students and so then the other thing is they have the eld class where the teachers work with the two of the um read 180 and align that with the eld standard in order to address the development of the language english language acquisition thank you for the explanation mrs mavia lobo is going to also clarify i just want to make sure good evening thank you so much i'm unable to share my video so excuse me for that uh it says that the host is not allowing me at this time so i'm sorry um but uh just to kind of further what mr aguirre said is oh thank you so much thank you um and just to to reiterate

140what we um stated is we do absolutely have uh recognized that at the beginning of the history for prophetic um high school that there was a little bit of an issue with that and so the first thing that we did when we came on board um it's going to now be three years of new administration is we identified that administration first and foremost has to be part of the multilingual support division and we participate in the english language roadmap project for example to be able to strengthen our english learners program the next step that we took is we also compared how ib standards and um the scope and sequence of ib correlates with the california english language development framework as well as the english language uh standards so once we were able to identify that

141then we made sure that the um mtss process came into effect to ensure that we had um and we do both the designated eld and as well as the integrated eld um utilizing also the states um what is it called the states um which is the uh individual student assessment accessibility profile in uh the beginning of the discussions to know where we're placing our pills um once they come into proper tech high school thanks so much for the clarification so i'm gonna turn to other board members now um for any clarifying questions um for um cd for the for the la unified or for prep attack go ahead so um for cde staff um stephanie you have mentioned that um in the latest proposal of financials that there was an additional 22 students or something

142was that added for this year thank you member son um well based on their analysis and all you know we obviously didn't have a lot of time to dig into this since we just got it this week but um it did seem like in the march report uh prior to accs uh there were 334 students in the may report there were 356 listed which is a difference of 22 um and so i i'm not sure where that difference came from if it was a typo if it i so i like i said there wasn't a lot of explanation um along with the diff the various changes so i don't know where it comes from right and so was that to then um did that then translate to the actual budget for this year and the

143revise of this year's budget that there would be because yeah go ahead yeah and i'm and i'm not i'm not sure because they i mean what they're giving us is a new projected budget but they use the current numbers were just different so i like they don't they didn't so they didn't redo their whole as far as i know and and i have my fiscal person on on the call if i'm mucking this up but um i didn't see any reason why they would currently uh change the the numbers in current year so i could see if they were changing enrollment projections for future years for the next five years but in terms of the report that was received this week they actually had a difference in current year numbers um and i just and

144there would no explanation member sun as to why um why that was uh so there was uh so that would be a good question for them our my fiscal person um is saying that this there was no budget assumption for the may report most of the revenue remained the same so i'm really not sure why those numbers changed okay if it's enrollment but then increase but then the budget numbers didn't change for that year it's it's fine because it's hold harmless this year anyway so their their their um enroll numbers would not impact any of their um their ada because they're held harmless this year so it's okay well i guess part of the issue just is is that the enrollment numbers never have been what they were supposed to be yeah if you look

145at the at the initial petition that you all approve this board approved um before their enrollment numbers they were projecting over 600 students for for 20 20 21. um so that's been part of the issue um over the last several years and it's been part of one of the concern letters that we sent earlier um in their term was that they were not meeting their enrollment numbers okay thank you and then for um lausd um uh mr perry talked about uh an individualized approach um to the students and and making sure they're placed um and so i'm assuming that if some of these students are um eligible for an ib diploma and they're a year away or two years away that you would do the best you can to place them in a program where

146they can actually receive that thank you so i'm looking for other board member clarifications or comments so i don't see any hands raised so at this time um i'll see if somebody's ready to make a [Music] motion i would move to adopt the department's recommendation and i will second that i i agree with um member that um the accs um has a lot of sway as well having heard um this this charter in much much even greater detail than here so thank you we have a motion and a second so executive director alan would you please call the role member aye member fatale all right remember glover woods yes member mcquillen yes member novo remember patilla brownson yes remember rodriguez yes member rucker yes member strauss vice president strauss apologist yes number son yes motion

147passes so thank you um thank you stephanie thank you to all of our presenters um i hereby adjourn the may 2021 state board meeting at 12 04 p.m thank you all for for your for your comments and your engagement and for sharing and being part of the discussion this morning so i look forward to seeing you all um cdc says we may not have to wear as many our masses much if we've been vaccinated so looking forward to seeing more of you all in july and wishing that everyone stays healthy and well thank you thank you eileen thank you aileen