001Pledge to our flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nationy and justice for all. Okay, let the record show all board members are present and accounted for with the exception of Trusty Barnes. Uh, no action was taken in close session. Uh, we're going to go ahead and amend the agenda. We're going to move uh in communications, we're going to move reports ahead of public comment. And then we're also going to move uh charter school update for New Hope Charter item D. We're going to move that to uh item A. We're going to make it uh the first one in presentations and information. With that, we will entertain a motion to approve to adopt the agenda. Second. Moved in second. All in favor, please say I. Opposed extensions. Motion
002carries unanimously. All right. Now, we're going to move forward to uh recognition. We'll start with item A. Present and adopt mental health awareness month resolution number 926. Okay. Here to read resolution 926, mental health awareness month. Whereas the month of May has designated as national mental health awareness month in the United States since 1949 by the mental health of America organization. And whereas mental health is essential to everyone's overall health and well-being and children, youth, and adults can recover from mental illness and lead full and productive lives in the community. And whereas the focus on prevention and early intervention efforts could greatly reduce the number of children experiencing serious mental health conditions. And whereas the Robus School District recognizes parents and family members have made invaluable contributions through their commitment, care, and advocacy for treatment
003of individuals with mental health concerns. And whereas the Robbo School District reviews its pledge to continually assess and improve the range of educational services provided to meet the varying needs of our students with mental health concerns. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Robus School District does hereby proclaim May as mental health awareness month and recommmits our educational community to increasing awareness and understanding of mental health. The steps our children, youth, and adults can to protect their mental health and the need for appropriate and accessible services for all people especially children and youth with mental health concerns there discussion or debate hearing none we move forward to a vote all in favor please say I opposed extensions motion carries unanimously item B present and adopt classified employees appreciation resolution number Resolution number 927 in
004recognition of classified school employees. Whereas the diligent efforts and unwavering dedication of classified school employees contribute significantly to the success of our educational institutions. And whereas April 23rd marks administrative professionals day, commemorating the time to honor the administrative staff whose organizational skills and efficiency keep our schools running smoothly. And whereas April 22nd is designated as school bus driver apprec appreciation day, recognizing the commitment and care demonstrated by our bus drivers in safely transporting students to and from school each day. And whereas April 28th through May 2nd celebrates school nutrition employees week acknowledging the essential role of school nutrition staff in ensuring students have access to nutritious meals to support their growth and learning. And whereas May 18th through May 24th is classified school employees week, a time dedicated to honoring the diverse array of classified
005staff members who work tirelessly behind the scenes to enrich the educational experiences for students. Therefore, be it resolved that the Robbo School Board hereby expresses its most profound appreciation to all classified school employees for their unwavering dedication, hard work, and commitment to the well-being and success of our students. And be it further resolved that the Robbo School Board encourages all school community members to take this opportunity to recognize and thank classified school employees for their exceptional contributions to our educational mission. Thank you. Any discussion or debate? Hearing none, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. Opposed? Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item C, present and adopt certificated employees appreciation resolution number 928. Second. Resolution 928 in recognition of certificated employees. Whereas certificated employees play a vital role in education and
006development of our students embodying dedication, passion and expertise in their fields. And whereas May 5th through the 9th is designated as National Teacher Appreciation Week, a time to honor and recognize the invaluable contributions of teachers to the education and well-being of our students. And whereas May 6 is celebrated as National Teacher Appreciation Day, providing an opportunity for our community to express gratitude to teachers for their dedication, their hard work, and unwavering commitment to the student success. And whereas May 14th is observed as California Day of the Future, a day set aside to recognize the significant role of educators playing in shaping the future of our state by inspiring and empowering students to reach their potential. And whereas May 7th is also designated as National School Nurse Day, highlighting the the crucial role school nurses play
007in promoting student health, safety, and well-being, and their contributions to creating a nurturing and supportive school environment. And whereas May 18th is recognized in National Speech Pathologist Day, an opportunity to acknowledge the vital role speech pathologists play in helping students overcome communication challenges and reach their academic and personal goals. Therefore, it be resolved that the Roba School Board acknowledges and expresses deep appreciation to all certificated employees, including teachers, school nurses, and speech pathologists for their tireless dedication, professionalism, and passion for the education and welfare of our students. and be further re resolved that Roba school board encourages all members of the school community to take this opportunity to thank certificated employees for their outstanding contributions and to show appreciation and their commitment to the excellence in education. Thank you. Any discussion or debate? Hearing no,
008we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimous. Moving on to communications. We're going to start with reports. We'll start with the Robbo Education Foundation. Good evening. And I see I have plenty of volunteers for the fire. It's funny. Uh, come Monday, I have been informed that there will be a digital flyer that will be sent out on parent square and it's going to be sent to me so that you will be receiving it again as staff members of the district and hopefully I can get that roster filled this year before school ends. It creates less stress on my heart which apparently Kaiser doesn't appreciate right now. Uh the other thing is as you know we did the Golden One grant was had to come through us
009the nonprofit and today we met with the students uh to let them know that once a month we're going to look at the stats for their reading and since we have about 30 32 students the program at the moment. We're going to do the top five students each month at the end of the month will receive a prize of their choice. And we also be awarding their parents a $25 gift certificate of their choice. And we met with the majority of the kids this afternoon and asked them, you know, what different things they like to have considered as prizes for themselves. And so we've made put it out there and hopefully students will take the challenge and they will all try to the purpose of it is we're taking students better basically several grades below
010their grade level reading standards and trying to bring them up to standards. It's going to be a long process. Fortunately, it's a two-year pro program for us. We're hoping that this will be served well as a pilot program and so that it could be maybe considered in the future. Time will tell. Any questions? Thank you so much. Do we have a report from the Robo Teachers Association? Trying to get this right. So a little taller than last. Good evening, uh, Superintendent Chen and board members. My name is Leah Boland. I am the president of the Roba Teachers Association representing 144 certificated educators in the Robbo School District. RTA members believe that our Rob students deserve the best. We are here asking you to invest in the educators who directly support our students. We have met
011with your bargaining team eight times since February as we work to negotiate a new contract. While we have reached some agreements on some important items such as summer school pay, bereavement leave, and our evaluation system, many critical items remain. RTA members are very anxious to have a new contract in place prior to the beginning of our school year in the fall. And many have shared with me that the outcome of our negotiations will determine whether they choose to stay in ROA or seek or seek work elsewhere. With only five weeks left of the school year, we are calling on you, the board, to direct your bargaining team, to come to the table and settle a fair contract that provides resources RTA members need to stay in robl. Educator working conditions are student learning conditions. And
012unless we work together to improve conditions for our educators, our student achievement will continue to suffer. Over the past few over the past few years, ROA has been unsuccessful in retaining highly qualified and experienced teachers and has been forced to hire less experienced staff, including interns to replace them. Today 20% of Robla teachers have less than five years total teaching experience and another 25% have been enrolled less than five years. This decline in experienced staff has a real impact on student achievement. According to the California school dashboard, the percentage of students below standard in ELA has grown from 29.5% in 2019 to 61.1% in 2024. That's a decrease in achievement of over 31% in just five years. Similarly, the percentage of students below standard in math has grown from 44.3% in 2019 to 73.4% in
0132024. This means that 29% more students are below standard than in in just the past five years ago. If we want to increase student achievement, the solution is very clear. Increase the quality and the experience of your workforce by attracting and retaining top talent. Robot pays the lowest out of any area district toward employee health benefits. our uh teacher salary schedule maxes out $12,000 less than the district right next door. Unfortunately, so far your your negotiating team has refused to offer to restructure our salary schedule to make robot teacher salary competitive with other districts as health costs continue to increase. hundreds of dollars per year. They have offered a measly $70 monthly increase to health benefits contributions. That will do nothing to make Roba benefits more affordable, especially for all the single parents and young
014families. Additionally, ROA continues to try and add more and more work to the place of our current staff, which is exhausting and places unreasonable expectations on newer teachers and those with young children and stay at home. If we want to make Roba a destination district with a great staff, that means respecting their time and their family obligations. Otherwise, teachers may choose to go to other districts where they where their work expectations are more reasonable. I myself have personally heard from several young staff members who love working in Robla, but they're considering leaving due to the workload concerns. The good news is that you can fix this. You have the power to change it. Currently, ROA has unrestricted savings reserves of over $23 million. equaling equals over 63% of your yearly operating budget. This reserve account
015is more than twice as much as any other district, one of the highest in the state. This is not something you should be proud of. These funds are given to Robla by the state to support the needs of our students over 87% of whom are socioeconomically disadvantaged. And by holding this money in a savings, you are denying students the resources they need to succeed. We need to spend today's dollars on today's students. By investing in the staff who provide their education, you can afford to meet our demands, but our students can't afford to wait. On behalf of our 144 RTA educators and the students we serve daily, we are calling on you to settle our contract now. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. All right. CSA, right? Superintendent report. So good evening.
016Um it is nice to see all of you here. So thank you. Um and I I will start off instead of ending. Correct. We have been in negotiations for a few weeks with both our um labor partners. Um and I believe we do all want to come to agreement. You know that that is our intent. So I don't want you to think that that's not there, but we all want to work to come to agreement. And I do want to thank um um the RTA staff as well as the CACA staff and our staff of work um really doing our best to come together to hopefully come to an agreement that's works for everyone. So just a few things um earlier today we recognized our third trimester artist around um and what I shared was
017how exciting majority of the art is from our younger students. Uh most of them um are kindergarten through third and I know there's a reason why maybe sixth graders are not on here because um they this art stays until um the fall and they're left but I do want to recognize that a lot of our um artists are in the younger grades. Um National Teacher Appreciation Week is this year and I do want to thank all of you for all you do. Um, I usually recognize what I'm accustomed to is California Day of the Teacher, which is next Wednesday, May 14th. So, please excuse if it appears that oversight that really was not my intent. Um, classified appreciation is in two weeks. And following um what we did last year, you know, we will be
018celebrating all our staff um all next week. I want to congratulate the Glenwood Gators, right? Um they are our indoor soccer champions. So that I heard it was a good game. Um, so I want to acknowledge them. Um, we are celebrating Asian-American Pacific Islander Month. Um, our parent empowerment dinner is next Thursday, May 14th. Um, Bobby Singh Allen, the mayor of the city of Elkrove will be our keynote speaker. So we hope you all um can attend. Um at yesterday's state board of education board meeting um they voted to approve Boba school district in receiving the community school grants for all five schools. Um we haven't received official notice yet but we know the board voted the board voted to approve. So all the sites will be reconvening their um decision-making team regarding next steps.
019So if you were on that decision- making team just know that it should be reconvened before the end of the year. Um and then lastly, um President Doo and I participated in Coast to Coast, which was a federal advocacy trip in Washington DC. We were able to meet with um our congressmen and there were many things that are being advocated by um all schoolboard members and um superintendent through California that attended. But we needed to make sure that we um emphasize what directly impacts Robbo School District and that is increasing um special ed funding as well as maintaining the uh threshold for universal meals. Right? Because they're thinking of increasing the threshold of qualifying for universal meals. And if they did that, three of our current um sites would no longer be eligible. So that
020really was important to us. Um, that's the end of my report. Thank you. Now move on to board member reports. Start off with trusty divine at this time. Trusty Cardona. Trusty Hamilton. Start to report. Okay. I would like to report on the cap to cap. It was interesting because I had a chance to meet with several Congress members. Um the good news is is that a lot of the stuff that you've heard about proposed cuts to education uh most of them nobody's really talk well let me clarify one group is talking about it but they're saying that the other side is proposing it the other side is saying we're not proposing those cuts. So the good news is nobody is proposing those cuts. Um the other good news was that uh members seem to be
021very very receptive to the idea of at least fully funding or at least up to 40% our special education. Once again members on both sides of the aisle seem to be very very open to that idea. Uh one of the other things that we had discussed had to do with technology. Uh whether it deal with uh uh so a lot of them were very interested in particular uh protecting school local school districts against cyber attacks. And then finally on the school meals program, uh once again it seemed like it was very wellreceived, although I really would have liked to have gotten a hardcore commitment that uh this is that that uh that is a change that is not going to happen. Uh I'm believing that it's not, but I would encourage you to reach out
022to to your congressman and encourage him to add him to advocate uh to protect uh to protect those programs and keep the qualifications the way that they currently are. And that will be the end of my report. Now we'll move on to public comment. This is an opportunity for individuals to address the board on items that are not on the agenda. If you have an item that you would like to discuss, please go ahead and fill out a comment card and hand them uh to the board assistant. Um please note, we'll give you was it two minute? We'll give you two minutes to comment. Please note that uh because it's not an agenda item, we cannot discuss it. uh we we likely will not even necessarily refer to it, but do know that we are
023listening and we'll do our best to try and address it if not today at a at a later date. And with that, we're going to start with Mr. John Byron. Cool. Um thank you very much for having me. I'm speaking on behalf of an RTA member who could not be here today. They sent me um some comments they would like the board to hear regarding the contract negotiations. I would like I want to address the salary schedule offered by the Robola school district and how it significantly lags behind those of neighboring districts beyond the first decade of service. Rob provides a competitive salary schedule for the first 10 years which is helpful in attracting new teachers to the district. However, after year 10, the salary schedule becomes much less competitive. While neighboring districts offer salary
024columns up to 90 plus units, Roba's schedule stops at 75. Even more concerning is that unlike other districts where teachers can move to higher columns as soon as they earn the required units, Roba requires 13 years of service before a teacher can access the 75 plus column regardless of qualifications. This restricts teachers from being paid fairly based on their education and experience. nor is it enticing to individuals moving to education as a second career. Additionally, Roba has more quote unquote flat years, years where salary remains stagnant than any other nearby district. The highest possible salary in Roba is $110,941, only achievable after 30 years of service. In contrast, neighboring districts offer top salary salaries ranging from 113,000 to $124,000 starting as early as year 20. This means that while teachers in other districts begin earning
025their maximum salary in their 20th year, Roba teachers must wait a full 30. The disparity has long-term consequences. A teacher who spends their entire career in rob could miss out on approximately $17,820 per year in retirement income compared to a counterpart in SAK City. As a result, many teachers are leaving Robbo around their 10th year, seeking districts where they are more fairly compensated for their contributions. This turnover impacts our schools and students as we lose experienced dedicated educators to districts that recognize and reward reward. I'll be back again with another teacher. All right. Next, we have Lisa Prince. Hi. Hi. I'm a teacher in our preschool program and I have been dedicated to supporting uh Robla's very youngest students since 2011. And every day I see my colleagues go above and beyond for our preschool
026families. And we want respect for our hard work, for our professionalism, for our dedication. Uh the proposals that Rose Robla has made for our preschool will only make our jobs harder. And it's time to invest in your staff. Karen McClur. I am an SDC teacher working with the fourth through sixth grade students who are moderately to severely impacted by their disabilities. I've come to address our request for SDC teacher stipens. I want to clarify that the stipen is not bonus money. We don't believe that we deserve a higher rate of pay than any of our non SDC colleagues for simply asking to be paid for the work that the district requires that we do outside of our scheduled hours. Though we do more, for time sake, I'm only going to focus on writing IEPs on
027our own time. An individualized education program must be developed for every student on our case load every year with additional assessments and reports every three years. If done correctly, an SDC IEP takes a full workday to complete. I can provide you with more details as to why that is at a different time if you need me to. We're not given any work time to work on IEPs. We must provide instruction and care for every minute of every day and rarely even have time to check an email. If we want to keep our jobs, we have to write the IEPs on our own time for free. Because if we request a sub to write an IEP, no learning will happen in our specialized rooms, only managing behaviors and surviving the day. And I don't want to
028be out of my room. Wouldn't it be better for the students if you just paid for the stipen instead of all the subs? If you take all the days it takes us to write IEPs, just the IEPs, not all the other work that we have to do, and tack them to the end of the school year, SDC teachers would finish the first or second week of July unpaid. Rob is the only district in the in the greater region that does not offer siphons to SDC teachers or a completely different pay schedule. And it's because of this work. I'm in my fifth year. Um I am the senior SDC teacher in the district. I'm the only tenur SDC teacher in the district. Um and I started as an intern. Um and we aren't getting any experienced
029applicants and we're not keeping teachers for years now. At least one of our SDC classroom a long-term sub. [Applause] Ali Klein. Good evening everyone. I'm Ally Klein. I'm the fifth and sixth grade gate teacher at Taylor Street Elementary School. And while there are many areas of our contract that should be addressed, I'm just going to focus on one. Robo provides the lowest healthc care benefit contribution of any district in our county. My husband and my daughter are covered under Covered California because Covered California's affordability calculator has deemed our district's lowest available family plan as unaffordable. An Elkrove teacher with a family health pan pays $440 out of pocket for medical, vision, and dental. In Sak City, benefits are fully covered. To cover my family with my district's benefits would cost my family over $2,000 a
030month. The district needs to greatly increase the health contributions so that we can afford our benefits instead of forcing us to look elsewhere. I drive from Elorado Hills every day to and from this school district because I love it here. I drive through many school districts and I don't want to have to move. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, we have Stacy Draper. Good evening. My name is Stacy Draper and I am a third grade teacher at Rob. I want to start by saying that I love my school site. I enjoy connecting with students and families. I work with wonderful colleagues and supportive administrators. What I don't love is feeling that I'm undervalued. I hold a master's degree in curriculum and instruction and after nearly 25 years in education, I consider myself a highly qualified teacher. When
031I see that neighboring districts have a 90 unit column on their salary schedules and Robla does not, I don't feel valued. When I see cherished colleagues to leave our district for higher salaries and better benefits at other districts, I don't feel valued when I spend 20 minutes each day or an hour and 40 minutes each week serving and cleaning up breakfast in my classroom when I could be using those precious minutes for instruction. I don't feel valued. When this district cannot retain highly qualified veteran teachers, it impacts the morale of the entire staff. Since I began working here, I have heard from the district again and again that Roba is a family. The truth is we teachers need to consider our own families first and foremost. I am here to serve my students every day,
032but ultimately I need to be able to support my own family with things like health care and college tuition. I would like to be able to pay off my own um student loans before I retire. Many of us want to finish out our careers at Roba, but must make careful calculations and difficult decisions regarding our retirement outlooks. I implore the district bargaining committee to give careful consideration to the contract negotiations so that great teachers come and stay so that we can focus our attention on what we were trained and hired to do and so that we feel that you truly believe Alana Williams. Sorry. Hi, good evening. My name is Allora Williams. I'm proud to teach fourth grade in Roba at Taylor. Um, I'm here tonight as an educator and a member of our union.
033Um, I would like to speak on my experience as a newer teacher in the district. Um, my experience has been that talented and prof and passionate educators start their journey with Roba. they have an intention to stay and to do well. Um, but as time goes on, a lot of us are faced with choices regarding employment that are unfortunately not driven by passion or calling, but more practical realities. Uh, many of us are struggling with the reality that staying in ROA means missing out both financially and on long-term stability. Uh, my major concern is our health benefits. Um, we're often told that as a small district, we can't access better plans, but Roba has more in reserve funds than many neighboring districts. That communicates to me that it's not a matter of resource. Um, it's
034a matter of priority. Some of the neighboring districts cover teachers and families entire health care costs, meaning that they're able to take home a more well-rounded, livable wage. Um, also I would like to address our pay scale. Right now, there's no additional column to support that long-term growth. Um, as a young teacher, if I'm looking to remain somewhere, um, I'm looking at like looking at, um, the money for long-term growth and for retention and things like that. Um, so considering that steep drop off after the 10 years service and the years of compounding loss comparatively to other districts, um, it makes a younger teacher like me a little bit nervous. So, um, I tell my students, and I'm a little bit nervous, but I tell my students every day it matters to use your voice
035and to speak up and advocate for yourself. So, I'm stepping into that space today. And I would ask the board to um reflect and um talk with their bargaining team about moving forward with our contract. Thank you. Oh, we got one more left and Mr. John Byron again. All right. I'm once again um speaking on behalf of an RTA member who's at home with her family and couldn't be here tonight. Um I'm speaking about the benefits that Robel School District offers their employees and how they fail to come closer to other districts in Sacramento. My husband is a teacher in the Elkrove Unified School District. The disparity in our pay lies not only between our salary columns, but also our benefits. I will speak solely on our benefits today because of time. How can Robas
036say it supports their employees and offer but offer such meager benefits? Comparing the same Sutter Health Plan package that both districts offer, we obviously are under my husband's benefits and pay $64,528 each month out of pocket for Sutter for our whole family to be covered. Elgrove fully covers vision and dental for our family at no additional cost to the employee. If our family were to choose Robla benefits for the exact same health plan after applying the $675 the district offers, it would still cost $1,965 a month out of pocket for just the Sutter health plan with an additional $17989 for dental and $41.99 for vision. The out-ofpocket cost for a robel employee monthly is $2,186.88 88 compared to the $64528 a month for an Elgroveve employee. The difference monthly is $1,541. The difference yearly is
037$18,499. This is just in benefits alone. The disparity of benefits doesn't stop the district level. It continues deeper with the cash inlue allowance that many of us aren't eligible for if hired after 2017. If the district isn't able to provide comparable benefits as the other districts in Sacramento, which the data shows they are not, then we should all have the option to receive the $400 cash inlue. Over a 30-year teaching career, employees that take the cash inlue receive an extra $144,000. There's a lot more. Want to thank everyone for their comments. Just know that you are always welcome to come before the board and share your your your views. We're going to go ahead and give you a few minutes for those of you who'd like to Oh, I'm sorry. We do have some online
038comments. All right. So, this is from George Mendoza. Uh, and it reads, "President Deloo, members of the board, Superintendent Chen, the rubble school district has served a cornerstone of this community since 1890s, shaping not only our children's education, but also identity and strength of our neighborhood. For many generations, ROA has earned a reputation for commitment, resilience, and community spirit. However, the past few weeks have presented real challenges for our families, teachers, and most importantly, our students. These difficulties not only uh not only are just headlines, they affect students learning experiences and wellbeing every single day. As board members, you have a responsibility to truly represent the people of Roba. That means reaching beyond these meetings, being present, engaged, listening to concerns, and guiding the district with empathy and accountability. I urge you to remember that
039respect is a two-way street. Now is the time to listen deeply to the voices of parents, teachers, and students, and to make decisions based on their needs and hopes. There are pre pressing issues with ACES, EOP, and the support and retention of our teachers. These are not just administrative matters. They are crucial for the success of our students and the stability of our schools. ROA has always had a potential to be a beacon of hope and opportunity for every child. The ball is now in your court. the decision before you determine whether Robo continues to lead with vision, in integrity, and compassion for generations to come. Let's work together to ensure Robo remains a place of pride, progress, and promise for our entire community. Thank you. Okay, that uh that is it for public comment.
040We're going to go ahead now and move on to public hearing. uh public hearing to increase level one statutory school facility fees imposed on residential, commercial, industrial construction pursuant to EDC 17620 and government code 65995 resolution number 925. With that, this hearing is open. Oh yeah, go ahead and make some comments. Yes, this this developer fee that we are increasing the residential developers by 21 cents per square footage and for commercial is 3 cents. That's what we allow by state law. And one of the reason we are doing is that this we want to apply two, we have to at least meet a minimum requirement that what the state allows to charge a fees. So to be to be clear, this is only for new developments like new housing construction any questions? All right. Does
041anyone like anyone else like to speak on this item? Hearing no one else. Uh I'll enter now we got yeah I'll entertain a motion to uh close the hearing. So move second. Been moved and seconded. All those in favor please say I. Opposed. Extensions. Motion carries unanimously. All right. We're on now to presentations and information. Item A 24. Oh no. I'm sorry. We moved. Where we at here? There we go. Uh we're going to charter school update. New Hope Charter. Good evening. Thank you, uh, President Deloo and trustees, Superintendent Chen and staff and, uh, families of New Hope. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to give an update. This is our annual update so there's a lot of information but I want to give as much time um to the folks who
042are uh here with me tonight our scholars and uh so want you to all hear from them. So um in the old boardroom you all had this um little plaque that said be brief basically be brief be brilliant and be gone. So I will try to be brief I will be gone but the brilliant part is going to be those students. All right. All right. So, just a reminder, this is our mission and vision to provide a safe, nurturing, and supportive learning environment for all scholars that will empower our students to maximize their academic potential. And this is our vision basically to graduate students who are empowered to be independent, determined and compassionate global leaders who think critically, collaborate and serve willingly and work passionately toward a sustainable future in the world they will inherit.
043So there's been a lot of growth since um I was here last time um about a year ago to give an update. So I just wanted to touch on some of those things. Um we continue this is only we've only completed three full years as a school. So it takes time to grow all the systems out but we've definitely been um building out our systems. So, one of the big changes from last year to this year is that we're independently reporting um cowpads, seabeds, and special education information system data, the safe system data directly to the California Department of Ed. And also, uh New Hope also now has its own track for the student information system Q. So that's a whole lot of systems that we've had to put in place, but u we're very
044pleased to report that everything is going uh quite well with that. Um, another big change for us as we continue to grow our program and move to independence is that that we have been um, basically a part of the uh, Skoey SULPA, the special education local plan area, but we have been uh, accepted into membership into the Elorado Charter SULPA. So, we're actually included in the funding uh, formula now as opposed to just being a school of the district. So that that was a long process but an important one. Also the past two years we've been a part of this u uh specialed a small lea um cyclical monitoring basically an audit process from the department of education. So that was quite a bit of work and I want to acknowledge our sped director for
045special director for um the district missit as well as the sky director. Um we worked very closely, our staff did, and uh it was quite a a thoughtful process in terms of reviewing all the processes, especially are we providing educational benefit for all of our scholars. So that was something that we were in the first cohort in um the cohort or in the county to do that. And then also we've been able to add an ASUS after school program. I know a lot of a lot of folks are here to talk about after school program. Um we're grateful that we have an afterchool program now and um we're thrilled to be able to provide this for our students and families and some of our scholars will talk about that. And then fiscal um we've just
046been working closely to build systems for our fiscal systems so that we can continue to have um a sound uh program financially as well. And so, um, we've had a clean audit, uh, in terms of our independent auditors coming in reviewing, uh, for our fiscal, uh, systems. Also, just our enrollment, we've stabilized at about 100 about 170 students for grades seven through eight, and I'll touch on that later as well. And then finally, just bigger picture, uh, eighth grade promotion is coming up. You'll hear from some of our eighth graders June 11th uh at 3 pm, but we've moved it to the Northus Community Center because we've really tried the last three years to have it outdoors. It's been a challenge outdoors. Some of you have been able to attend. So, uh we want to
047be able to have this uh not be interrupted by weather um and also just the um technical issues that we've had. So, that's uh the focus there. Um let me give you some data. I hope you all can hear me because it I hope the sound is okay. All right. Yeah. All right. I'm just going to touch on our dashboard data and the trend is what I want to really um you know take uh take away from this. So we look very closely of course at all of our uh students uh achievement data. This is just a breakdown of our community and you know just in terms of our stallers whom we serve. Okay. very similar to uh the ROA community. Of course, we reflect them um in our student body as well as in
048our staff actually as well. Okay. So, this is the progress that we're making um you know just in terms of our u climate and culture of our schools was the uh English language arts, math and English learner progress. So you can see, you know, where we were two years ago and this is, by the way, from 23 24. So it's not reflected in this year's uh data. So the most recent U shows that our chronic absenteeism has dropped. Our suspension rates has have dropped. We moved from red to yellow. So that's significant. Our English learner progress also. We still have a lot of work to do in our English language arts and math, but I'll show you a little bit about what that looks like. Um, also just to report what we're projecting is for
049our absenteeism and our suspension rates. Absenteeism will drop by another 5% with the trend that we're on for this year and our suspension rate will drop to about 8%. So we continue to work closely with our scholars, our families, our staff to ensure that students have the best climate so that they can succeed in their um learning. So this is just the indicators and I've just broken them down. So I won't go into depth in this because I want to preserve time for our scholars to speak, but this is the work that we did with our staff to really understand how we can go deeper and better understand each student's needs. So, these are just where we're at in terms of the different uh colors I just showed you on the dashboard. And what we
050did, you know, as soon as we got these results back, we started going down deep dive into the data to provide our staff uh the guidance that they need and how we're going to work with our students. So, with that, uh we've continued to grow and move forward and that will be reflected in the 2025 dashboard. So, we've studied this data. We've pushed forward. We've also been working with Skoey. Uh we have coaching support um from Skoey through the uh comprehensive school improvement program. Oh, I'm sorry. Trustee Divine. Let me go back. Thank you for Thank you. Turn your mic on. Oh, sorry. So, so back one more. Uh, student performance here. Yeah. The the English language arts and red that's negative 72.7. Okay. And the math that's 126. I'm confused about this. Can you
051explain it back to me? Yes, I I will be happy to do that. So the DFS is the key. So this is distance from standard. So those are the percentage or the points that are on average where we're at as a school. So it's negative 72.7 just means that that's how many points we want to close to get to the standard. So for students to meet standard. So like on average each student needs to bring it up this much or is this overall? It's not. This is overall. This is not each student. So we have students who are meeting and exceeding the standard, but then we have some students who are far below the standard. So that's how it breaks down. Okay. Yeah. I hope that helps a little bit. Okay. Okay. All right. So
052basically it's a we're trying to get all students to meet the standard in each of these subjects. And that's No. No. That's how many points. Okay. Good question. Yeah. So, basically, you know, we're going in the right direction. Um, and so I wanted to just show then what do we do with that data? So, as I mentioned, we're continuing to um build on our students uh needs and I'm just going to jump here. So, it doesn't mean anything. Those are just numbers unless we have certain goals that we set. So, our ALCAP, I'll touch on this very briefly. And so we fed that data into our LCAP cycle. So we started a new cycle um this year for the uh local control and accountability plan. And so we're in year one and uh looking at
053the what we did was we revised our goals, our actions and metrics. And these are our three goals that we came back with. So academic performance, school climate as I've touched on, and parent engagement. Okay. And these are within each of those goals, the actions that we're taking and then how we're measuring the or the effectiveness of those actions to meet those goals. So here's goal one, those are the actions. Okay, goal two around climate. And this has been such an important thing. You all have heard me in the past talk quite a bit about just creating the right environment, a healthy environment, a safe environment for students to succeed. So that's the the the a lot of work that we've done that's reflected in why our absenteeism, suspension rates, just the overall feedback we're
054getting from students, staff, and families that feeds into this uh these actions. And then parent engagement is important. You'll see some of our parents here, but more importantly, our parents are engaged in the collaboration with us in their student success. So, I'm going to pause here because I'm gonna ask Mr. Con, our school director, to come up because again, these are just numbers to your point, Trusty Divine, until you actually hear from the students because behind every number, there's an actual story. And so, I want you to be able to hear their stories. Uh but also just want to thank you all for your continued support of our students and our program. So uh Mr. Con. Thank you Mr. Bani. Hello Superintendent Chen and esteemed members of the road district school board. While we understand
055that this is an annual update, we did not want to miss the opportunity to share our experiences this year with you all and some stories on what is behind the data that you just saw from Mr. Pagani. My name is Anjen Khan and I'm the director of New Hope Charter School. As I close my year, my third year in that position, I'm proud to speak on the growth of the program and where the school is headed. I came to know Robwood district in the summer of 2018 when I applied to be the coordinator of school climate at Glenwood Elementary. For four years, I was able to learn the community from the inside, know the role of the way, work with staff, parents, and students, and build relationships that are the cornerstone of this small yet
056impactful district. The time working for Regula was essential for me and my position before I took the director position at New Hope. With that bridge came a continuation of students who wanted to stay home. Tonight, I will highlight these scholars and one of our staff members who grew up right here in this district. Hash Roblrong. I would like to start with our scholar Judith. I have known Judith since she was a third grader at Glenwood Elementary. While we were Gators together, I could tell you that she was going to be an amazing scholar. Fast forward to now, if you look up the title of student ambassador, she would be right there. Every single trimester on a principal's list every single year advanced on state test scores. But her respective teachers of other students and her
057inclusivity to talk and engage with all students is her greatest quality. I joke with Judith all the time. I'm just going to hand you the keys. You just run the school. You could do it. And those of you who know her, you know that's 100% true. The next student I'm going to introduce is Takari. Takari's path is much different than Judas. It is one that is built on trust, relationships, and overcoming obstacles. Takari did not have a great year last year. Matter of fact, she actually might be the reason why my hair is turning white. But this year has been a completely different year for her. So she took the positives of what she could gain this year, turned it around, made honoral for the first time, and is in so many different leadership capacities,
058this being one of them to get up to speak to a board. How powerful is that for an eighth grade student? So we're proud of her. Um, she's going to continue to make Honorella know it. And, uh, she's just off and running. Our last student is Paulina. Paulina is also a former Glenwood student and she was in Judah's same grade level. I'm happy to see that Paulina came to our program and now sad to see that some of these scholars are moving on. While Paulina didn't have any serious issues, there was always the girl drama that she was able to uh learn from and just be better about this year. and it comes with the age and it comes with the maturity. To her credit, she focused this year and made it a goal to
059reach honor in each of the first two trimesters and she's on track now. She also attended enrollment visits like Takari and Judah to the schools and spoke to sixth grade students about her experience at New Hope and why they should come to New Hope's charter. And of course, we cannot forget Mr. Somewhere in the late 90s, a young boy in his family moved to the regular area and was a student at Glenwood Elementary. Nowhere in his future did he ever imagine that he would not only be a teacher, but he would come right back to a full circle where he first came to elementary school. While the students like these that have come to New Hope are guests, Mr. has been that very thing and a great example for students to follow. He could have
060taught in any location or any district yet he is here in the very space that is the footprint of where he was a young student years back. At this time I will invite the scholars of new just to say a brief message to the board and with Mr. as well. And once they are done, I just have one clos for the for the world district board. Can I please invite Judith to come up and say a few words? Good afternoon everyone. My name is Judith and I'm an eighth grade scholar. I've been part of the Roba district since I was in preschool and now going to high school. I am very sad to leave. I would like to also and all of the teachers for the opportunity to continue my years in the robo district
061all the way till middle school. The teachers were very supportive and were always willing to help. They helped me become a better person, not just academically, but personally as well. They're always willing to support and continue my advancements in classes. Thank you all. Please come up. Good afternoon. My name is Takari. I'm a scholar at New Hope Charter School. My experience at New Hope was positive. I met lots of great people. The teachers are very helpful and nice. I've been in the ROA district for 10 years. It's going to be sad to leave. I love New Hope because it's a small school. They're kind, nice, and very helpful. They prepare you for co high school and college. When I first went to New Hope, starting middle school, I was very nervous, but within a month,
062I felt very good. I made a lot of good friends. New Hope is a very respectful and calming school. Last year wasn't the best, but starting 8th grade was way better. I made honoral and achieve lots of other goals of mine. I'm very glad I had the opportunity to attend New Hope. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Paulina and I am in eighth grade. Looking back at my time here, I am proud to have chosen going to New Hope for Middle School. I spent time creating new relationships with kind and supportive teachers. I wasn't the best version of myself in seventh grade, but moving forward, the teachers were able to help me become a better person. Now going into high school, I will miss New Hope and will forever be grateful for all the opportunities
063and things they have done for me. If I might chime in real quick, I don't think any of us were the best versions of ourselves in seventh grade. Exactly. And so I also as like know beautiful young scholars. I just want to encourage you all to continue to tell your story positive way in a positive way. You are all doing amazing work. So continue to do that work and don't allow anybody to tell your story. You all are beautiful. Keep shining your light beautifully. Okay. Thank you so much. Well, I just want to take a moment to say thank you for the opportunity just to share um really how grateful I am that I get the chance to serve the community and the families and the students where I grew up. Um when I United
064States, I uh was in the fifth grade and didn't speak any English. And so, um, middle school was really tough for me and I'm so thankful that we didn't have a school like New Hope back then, but I I am able to serve students like me now, uh, where I am. And so, just it is it is just an honor to serve this community and and work with uh, everyone. It truly feels like family. Thank you. The stories of these students and Mr. what grounds us at new hope. As our logo is an oak tree, our roots are now firmly in the soil and the growth of the branches continue to rise up each year reaching the energy of the sun. While some may ask who is new hope, the greater question may be who
065is world to answer that question they are world students and you hope are. I am Angel Khan and I'm proud to deliver this message. Thank you so much. And I'll pause for Questions? Like I always ask, do you have a mascot yet? So far, God we were sticking with the tree. Oh, just sticking with the tree for now. Just the tree. Questions? Thank you so very much. You welcome. All right. Now, we're going to move on to item A, the 24 2024 25 uh learning update and CSP program self evaluation. Good afternoon everyone. Good afternoon Rob community. My name is Fabola Saleda and I am the director of early childhood for Rob school district and at Rob School. This is my second year and at Roba and I have to say that I am very
066proud of the community that we have. This journey has been amazing and it has also been a team effort on what we're going to be presenting tonight. So every year we do have the reports on the CSVP, some program highlights, some success data and next steps for early learning. We also have some information on our first five program and highlight and next steps and uh moving along with high quality preschool for our community progress and next steps. This year we had to get creative. We were thoughtful and flexible with our California state preschool program enrollment to ensure that we were in full compliance with licensing square footage and requirements. Our enrollment was at serving 114 preschool children ages 2.9 to 4 in 2024 2025 and 21 students in the full day program. We also this
067year we had new California state school program requirements which require additional observations at our site. We completed 50% of classrooms exceeding the 15% requirement for the 2425 school year. We hosted a parent orientation before the school before the before the beginning of the school year which resulted in amazing support. We were able to build some relationships with families and we were able to go and cover uh what our program's expectations were as well as welcoming families into our program before they started. We did a lot of expanded professional learning this year with early childhood. A couple of staff members attended the national national association of the young child conference in Anaheim back in November and we were able to learn from experiences at the NANC. We were able to bring back and share with our
068class with our colleagues about what what was learned including designing new classroom environment for our new building that we are um going to be moving into next school year. I have good luck. This year we were also able to tour the American River College with partnership with the child development director and we were able to we were able to explore opportunities with partnership them by observing high quality classroom environments and actions. We were able to also visit and offer valuable insights and practical ideas to support efforts to continue building our early childhood community at Robola Preschool. This year we had Miss Lana as being our teacher of the year. She is our science teacher and we are very proud to see to see her success this year and um and the next years ahead. And
069we have a video that we can share with you um just to give you a sneak peek of our new building and classrooms at Robo Preschool. Very last one. We're gonna have to keep skip that one. But we are very excited to welcome welcome you into a roller preschool so you can come and take a look at our new facilities once we um once we open. And continuing with our quality at our school and early learning, we were able to do training for our staff on class assessments and class environments before they were observed. We were also able to continue implementing learning learning genie which is a tool that we have been using to do assessments for preschool and continue training not only our teachers but also our instructional assistance on how to use the
070tool to uh to assist the teachers on creating observations for the for their students. Many of our staff this year enrolled early childhood courses and earned advanced early childhood permits. They were able to we were able to have them complete their lab hours at our site with our mentor teacher, Miss Natasha. And we were able to help them and support them through that through we were able to help them and support them in that um in their paths. Also to ensure that we were in compliance with title five and title 22 and maintain a safe environment for our students and for our staff. We conducted daily head counts and both indoors and outdoors all of our staff and our team were able to continue um upholding the required adult to child ratios. This year for
071our parent survey data, we were able to survey our families as every year and we receive very sat sat satisfied um results in both our fall and our or and our spring. And as with every year we conduct them, we also there we noticed that there is also always room for um for improvement and we are committed to continue improving. We had identified a step to increase our family participation for next school year, including offering the survey in multiple formats and providing bilingual support and having our bilingual outreach coordinator available during drop off and pickup to assist the families on completing those service as well. We have some amazing data and some results that from the fall 2024 to the spring 2025, the data demonstrate significant growth across key developmental domains including social and emotional
072language and literacy cognition and physical development. This is a direct reflection of the intentional developmentally appropriate practices used by our teachers and our staff and the nurturing engaging environments we've worked hard to create. The BRDP is more than just a compliance tool. It's a comprehensive observationbased assessment that allows us to truly understand how each child is developing across multiple areas. In early childhood, this type of holistic assessment is critical. It ensures we're just not focusing on early academics, but also supporting the foundational skills that lead to long-term success in a school and in life. Our staff also used our data to guide their instructional planning to individualize learning experiences and to engage families in min meaning miniful conversations about their child's development. It is one of the most ways we stay responsive to the uniques
073of every child. And with our next steps, we are going to continue implementing our classroom assessment scoring tool, which at the beginning of July 1st, 2024, the California Department of Education required that all California school preschool programs to begin that phase of implementation to support continuous program improvement. This year as I mentioned earlier we exceeded the required 15% of the classroom and um we did about 50% of our classrooms and this observations have been helping us to reflect on teacher child interactions classroom organization instructional support and key elements of high quality early learning environment for our uh community. To increase our efforts, we will be expanding our PLST position to a full-time position to support with coaching curriculum planning and the alignment with the preschool learning foundations, BRDP class and developmentally appropriate practices and early
074childhood development. And we have our first five program which is our um classroom. This year we serve 75 families in 2425. We had to be creative with offering plays for ages 0 to 4 with uh piloted new sessions due to our new uh content requirements and even with the four session model that we implemented this year our enrollment of the families was higher than last year. We maintain consistent family engagement despite construction limited space and we did have those horrible bathrooms. We still had we're very amazed to see all of our community and our families continue coming back to play balls. Play is a very special part of our community at Roba. Families keep coming back often with new babies because they feel welcome, supported, and connected. They trust the program and they trust Miss
075Lisa and Miss Blanca who bring incredible knowledge of early childhood development and a warm encouraging presence to every session. Next steps for first is moving into a larger classroom for them dedicated space after construction which we are very excited about. Our goal is to enroll 80 families through the first five grant and we were so close to that goal this year and continue outreaching our outcoming once we move to our new uh new classrooms. And here is a couple of pictures of our youngest one at the district. Engage and play. Questions? Any questions? All right. Now we'll move on to move on to 2024 25 review and 2025 26 changes to local control accountability plan. Good evening. So tonight I'm going to talk a little bit about our local control accountability plan. Just little reminder
076what exactly that is in my presentation tonight in the interest of time as well is that we've already presented the data to you that is in the plan you'll see all the data in the plan as well so the data that is reflected with our current outcomes in the dashboard presentation presentations and the school site okay so tonight I'm not going to be addressing the data specifically more about what the plan looks So just a quick reminder that the local control accountility plan or the LCAP is an important district document. It's a required document that is a a three-year plan. So we just completed year one of this three-year plan. The plan contains actions and services that the district will implement towards. We have four broad goals in our plan. The funding for this plan
077uh include how the funding is being allocated across the actions and services and each action and service has to have some measurable outcomes associated with it so that we can look to see that these action services are actually doing what they intended or make adjustments or remove as needed. So local control accountability plan is the plan based off of the local control funding formula. So this is very important because this is the uh information in regards to how districts receive their funding from the state of California. There are three calculations that go into that funding formula. The first, the base funding, that's the base program. That's the money we receive that is based off average daily attendance. Mental funds are funds that are received on top of that with the intent to meet the needs
078uh of certain populations, what we call our duplicated students. These are English learner foster youth and our low-income families. And then the concentration funding is one source of funding that not all districts may receive. It's a source of funding for those districts that have very large concentrations of these um unduplicated counter and foster youth. So what does that look like here for Rob? So our base funding is the funding that we receive from the state of California in regards to uh it's broken up by grade level groups. So we receive funding for K3 and receive a certain number amount of funding for grades four through six. This base funding is based on average daily attendance. So if our enrollment is at 1919, we are being funded currently on 93% of that enrollment. After that that
079base funding there's an add-on for grade level and this is the adjustment that if you keep your ratio in K through three at the state level of 24 to1 remember it's the ratio the grade level not grade by grade you keep that ratio to 24 to1 then we receive additional funding to help support that reduced class size then we have the supplemental funing as I with the low income English learner and foster youth and the concentration which Rob does receive. On the right side you see how our numbers fall in those three categories. In the plan we have four main what we call broad goals uh academic achievement, school climate, parent involvement and inclusion inclusive educational practices. We have a fifth goal in the plan that is in relation to what's called differentiated assistance that
080is the uh the support districts receive at the district level. So SISA report there's some SIPA reports that will be coming up school plan reports they have something called ATSI the district has differentiated assistance. So if you are found to be in differentiated assistance meaning uh if one student group has two level two dashboard indicators that are below uh the rest of your overall two points below you are in differentiated assistance. So those are usually just uh student groups that are in the orange and red um categories or could be yellow if the rest of your population is up in the green. Okay. So last year we were in differentiated assistance for our African-American students and our students with disabilities uh in these three different categories. I'm happy to say that we were removed from
081differentiated assistance. We made significant improvement for these student groups over the past year. However, we were found in differentiated assistance again this year for two different student groups and that was our homeless students and our long-term English learners which is a new student group on the dashboard. So, currently uh what you're going to see with our LCAP is the district is working really hard to maintain current actions and services. This is a three-year plan. We just completed year one of this plan and uh when we create the plan we have outcomes for year three. So we look at how are we doing each year towards that third year outcome. The three new things that I am going to talk about that will be in the plan are three um potential individual funding sources that are
082outside the SCF funding. So, Prop 28, arts and education. Uh, this is one that we brought to the board before. The board approved our plan for the use of these funds. We would like to add two additional steam teachers. That's science, technology, engineering, and art and music uh to our staffing. And they would mainly be supporting fourth through sixth grade or combo of again it depends on what is realistically balances out when we look how many because they need to serve all five sites. How many classrooms can they realistically cover and and provide comprehensive lessons working with the classroom teacher. So this is not enrichment. This is working with the classroom teacher uh to help infuse more into our instruction. We're looking mainly at science at this point in time. The learning recovery emergency block
083grant is a one-time grant that was allotted to districts that um has a timeline for spending. And essentially, if you had not spent down all this money, this was money received after If you have not spent down all of this money by the end of this school year, you need to add an action into your LCAP with your intent on how you're finishing up spending down that money until that money is all gone. And the way you use these funds must address students uh that are performing low in ELA and math at minimum. So ELA and math and science which is what we are looking at um in terms of what our scores are. We're looking at that can we use these funds to maintain the reduction in class size that we currently have in
084grades four through five. So right now we are not fully we don't have classes of 30 to one in grades four through five and we're hoping to be able to do that. That's what we want to do with the funds. keep it below that number more in the 25 to one range. The budget is um a moving target I think Mr. Castillo would say. So right now this is a very critical time. We don't have the budget fully identified because we waiting on the May reise things that are happening um in that world and so what I can tell you is that we do know that we are in declining enrollment. So this is the information shared to the public back in our March LCAP update or infographic and as you can see our LCFF
085revenues are projected to be below what they were this current year for next year. That is mainly because of our average daily attendance and declining enrollment. So our actual average daily attendance is at 1784 but the formula that is being used they have a whole like look at this year look at that year the state decides how we can determine but it's we're being funded on 1788 and last year we funded on 186. So we are being funded on 20 plus more less students um with when the funding per pupil amount is $15,000 a student. That's a significant decrease in income. The supplemental concentration grant funds again these are the funds that need to be spent directly for those three student groups. The unduplicated population of lowincome English learner and foster youth. Those funds also
086are seeing a decrease from the current year to next year. Again, this also has to do with declining enrollment, which also makes a decline in the number of English learners we have in the district. So, um, at this point, we don't have the fully projected numbers. This is what we know in March, but we do know that the cola has changed again. So, Mr. will work to update the numbers as he has more accurate information. What are the next steps for the LCAP? So, the next steps will be that the Hellcat draft will be posted on our website for public review. We'll also have a public hearing on June 12th at the June 12th board meeting and then the um board will have it on the agenda for adoption at the June 26 meeting along
087with the budget. Any questions? Okay, we'll move on now to item C, the 2526, school plan for student achievement or the SIPA update. Okay, I'm back. Just for a moment though. Okay. So, are the school plans for student achievement? These are the site level plans. Similar to the LCAP, they need to align with the ELCAP. We have two sites that are going to present today on their school plans and that would be Taylor and Glennwood. One of the things that school plans has to address is what's called um additional target support for improvement or ATSI. So, as I was refering differentiated assistance DA for the district. ATSI is a designation one of the designations that a school can find themselves under. So each school will if they are in ATSI if they elected ATSI we
088will see and also they're going to celebrate not just if they were able to leave ATSI but other things that happened within their school for the year and then any plan changes that they're expecting uh for next year. So that was my overview I spoke before. So um I'm not going to spend a lot of time in here. ATSI designation is very very very similar to the designation for differentiated assistance essentially. And here are some celebrations. Taylor Street and Main Avenue have exited the TSI. Some new challenges are for Bell Avenue with their homeless student population, chronic absenteeism and academics and for Rob school also with the homeless students chronic absenteeism and some suspensions. So uh next week when excuse me next board next week um when Avenue and they'll they'll address that. Okay. So
089I'm gonna hand this on over. Good evening board. Um my name is Michelle Chris. I'm the principal at the Taylor Street Elementary. Um and some celebrations I want to start off with that would be our increase in attendance. Um we've been the district winner for attendance contest since they started. I think we've only missed one. So that picture down there is our fourth picture. Um and then our increase in school culture is also um another celebration continued success with room and it speaks to our culture on site. Um and then our increase in community and parent participation. This year we were able to host um at the beginning of the year United Way um had a like a family community um event and from there we were able to connect with the literacy program SAC
090Republic and the um the Del Paso Heights Library. I mentioned at the last um board meeting that my whole school was able to go to Delp House Library as a field trip and some of them had never been and it's within walking distance. So that was really huge for me because it really highlights the importance of reading as well and a community resource that they have. Some areas of focus for improvement would be our ELA and math scores. Um we're just kind of on the incline but we're still we have a lot of work to do with that specifically I put on there are reading phonics um that foundational piece awareness and the phonics um it's usually general um K2 but for us basic all of our students um we are working on that I'll
091talk about that in a minute with our win time and then um supporting student achievement through family involvement I didn't put engagement I put family and got involved and those two pictures student doing counting collections in first grade and then another student reading during our um annual book outside. Uh we would really like parents on site with students in the academic realm. Um they've been wonderful in events at events, but we really want to see an increase in parent involvement on site and even after school. So new actions um like Cindy mentioned we are not in TSI anymore. Great. So some of the new actions we are um proposing going forward we have a win time what I need which is designated 30 minutes a day focused on ELD um development and then also we're
092thinking our leadership team met that we can every kind of trimester switch off with math for our English students. So really kind of focusing trying to the and the math components um with our students daily um for those 30 minutes. And then we're also uh we've been doing this is data driven staff meetings. We've been talking about data at our staff meetings. We have a lot of new teachers. So using that data to help drive their instruction as it implies to our students. It's been very very important. We plan to continue that. And then schoolwide reading math um challenges similar to the attendance challenge which we've been winning. Um we think adding reading and math to it as a school site um could also help with that reading increasing that reading and math scores and
093parent involvement as well and what that looks like. Our leadership team is is meeting to see what that really um will look like. But that's what we're planning to do at the beginning of the year. some evidence based intervention and strategies. Going to continue our attendance incentives for students. We have internal um attendance contest at school at our site. Um our outreach for parents again that focus on academics. Um they're doing great with attendance but really kind of focusing on the academic piece as well. Continue our mental health and Skoey collection I mean collaboration which has been amazing. We've had a couple workshops this year with Skoey and our mental health specialist on site has been amazing for our students. Uh we want to continue or go back to our math peer observations. U we've
094noticed when we had that focus on math and um the teachers were watching each other and other teachers from other sites um it was really beneficial for them and the students um which goes to our tier one focus which is in class interventions and then continue our talk around integrated versus designated on as well No, we did. I was like, "Oh my go." Yeah. And our dance was performed there in Christmas because of that elaboration. I like that little spike slipped in there. [Laughter] Excellent job. Thank you. Pass it on to my girl. Good evening everyone. I'm the proud principal of Gwood Elementary School. My name is Dr. Andrea. Go Gators. Um so our celebration we saw an increase in parent involvement. Uh we have a lot of events and partnerships. And so we are
095looking to expand the way that our community can come onto our campus and give our kids some real world applications. Um so that included clubs and just partnerships that we have and parent nights. So this year we tried doing themed parent nights. We held one a month and those were around attendance, mental health, um things like testing, math strategies, literacy. Um so it was our first time. They weren't well attended, but we're not going to give up. Um we're trying to figure out the perfect time and we also make sure that we're providing dinner and child care. Um and we that'll be part of our plan for next year and also do academic outreach. We did see an increase in attendance for our close to 500 students on our campus. We didn't win but we'll
096get it eventually. Um, we saw an increase in ELA grade level achievements, um, which you may not see on the dashboard because only talked about certain state level testing, but if you look at our district-wide benchmarks, each grade level, um, is increasing periodically over time. So, we're really looking at math strategies and a lot of that is due to, um, I have to really shout out our intervention specialist um, Fabi who brought on Amplify that did a lot of great work for our kiddos and our work in phonics and really help us dive deep into data. Um, we're also saw an increase in our math grade level achievement and actually our African-American students continue to be the ones that out test every other um group on our campus. So, that's another great celebration. Our areas
097of focus for improvement, our EL supports and our ELB time. So, we saw a great decline on the dashboard in regards to our kiddos in the ELP testing and English learners. Um, a lot of our kids are maintaining their levels and so there's not a large decrease, but there's a lot of maintain and we are really wanting them to reclassify. It's very very important especially before going into that secondary world of middle school because there's long-term effects for our kids there and our goal is to make them college and career ready while they're a Gator. And so we are being strategic. We are actually talking with the staff now in regards to plans for next year and doing some creative approaches and one of those things is intentional PLC planning. So um our whole staff
098actually started looking at the master scheduling for next year at our staff meeting this week to see how we can get our grade levels to work together and switch um as a team in regards to meeting the needs of our students. So you have your high and low students and they're meeting different things. If you're teaching math at the same time every single day because the master schedule allows that then you can dive deeper into what the students need to make it more effective. Whereas right now teachers are having to switch depending on where enrichment is where recess or lunch and it makes things more consistent and that's we want if teachers are better supported they can be more effective for our kiddos and so we're trying to do what's best for our teachers because
099it's best for our kids. Um our DI and our EO assessment alignment um right now we're looking an assessment um through going to CAB and doing dual language trainings and working with Skoey and working with Miss Line in regards to our DI. Um we're trying to find alignment in what we're assessing our kids. And a lot of times when we're doing assessments for DI, we are not doing comparative of if that student is an English only speaker being tested in another language or if they're a native speaker being tested because we're getting different results. And so we're trying to dive deeper in how to best support our kids and our teachers to differentiate that data. We're focusing on standards and lifelong skills rather than curriculum and then continued statewide um intervention supports and creative approaches
100to again like Miss Chris was saying parent involvement. So we know they come up to events so we're trying to be savvy on ways to get them on campus to help um them feel supported when their kids go home to learn. So new actions uh for staffing that's mostly with our master schedule collaboration. So to be able to do the alignment for the PLC give our teachers more structured time to make academic minutes more effective. We're looking and changing for our enrichment. Right now we have two full third person um there for one day. We're noticing that to make it more effective we need a third person there possibly not fulltime. um our celebrations are becoming more academically focused and so we want to be better about doing that and then Whoops. Um doing community
101involvement. So getting the community on site but also getting our kids out. One thing that we tried this year was a community weekend um and we tried to do some beautifification on our campus and parents came out and teachers came out to contribute to that um for more ownership of community. And so some evidence based interventions and strategies again creative approaches to win over Taylor also increase our attendance. Um deeper data analysis the gaps for our so your English language but also your Spanish language and how we can turn that into time and provide those interventions for our kiddos. intentional academic minutes which I talked about earlier um blocking it for less disruption to the academic minutes so our kids can dive deeper um and then additional enrichment support so having them support academic minutes
102increase PLC time with intention um spec specifically looking at our students who make up about 7% of our com. I just want to say appreciate the aggressive respective sites. Okay, now we're going to move on to item structure request for charter school district. Thank you again. I just wanted a little context to this. So, so give me a moment and I want to go back to give us just in terms of our facility how we got. So, New Hope Charter School Charter petition was authorized by this board for beginning of July of 2020 and expiring June 25. However, due to the opening of the school22 school year and also as a result of AB130 extended charter petitions that were expiring in 2005 years. So basically our charter petition now would expire. So one other thing
103that was very important is our board the robot board in a special meeting on August 2021. parental loan of 2,42,27 toward the construction temporary classes at Glenwood um at the Glenwood Elementary site but once again due to CO 19 delays we remember those days and the term supply chain issue our temporary facility actually was not available to us January so there's been a lot of starts But the bottom line this is a temporary facility and termination of our lease but the facility will transfer fully back to the Robo School District. So Robo School District will own the facilities. All everything that's been done will back the district. We've just done the work to build it up. The only thing that would go back. So what we're ask what we're proposing is just an extension of
104repayment. We've paid over the last two years roughly $700,000 toward the school facility loan need more because we're starting to stabilize now. And uh so what we're asking for is to align our loan term to align with the new period add that we need to make sure the construction of a permanent facility for us will continue to take several more years and a key factor is limited classroom space at our temporary site. We only have nine classrooms. Typically two of those class set aside programs we have nearly 22 to 25% of our scholars have additionally we have special class so that's really limited the space that we have we've been a60 students so that slows down the approval of our assets to be able But as I mentioned in my earlier presentation, we are definitely
105on that track and we want to continue that process. So the extension um and working again closely with our CFO Mr. We have been discussing this as well as this is our proposal is to extend the term to match the new charter exploration 2020 question. What are some of the things that we need to take into consideration? Now money right now. Any other questions? Comments? Yes. like that means also our support is only legacy. I heard earlier you already charter schools charter schools. questions. Thank you so much. We're going to move on to the consent agenda. Motion to approve second. action items. Item A policies, regulations, and other exhibits. This includes policy number 1250, visitors and outsiders, regulation 1250, visitors outruling motion to approve. and second. Item B, adopt dismissal of certain certificated probationary employees
106resolution number. Is there any discussion or debate? We move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. Motion carries unanimously. Item C, adopt increase in level one statuto facility school facility fees imposed by residential, commercial, industrial, construction to EDC209 resolution number. Is there any discussion? This is in the presentation. One question I did I didn't ask earlier. When was the last time we either considered or both considered and passed construction. Any additional discussion or debate? forward to a vote. All in favor say I motion carries unanimously. Item D, approve roof contract for mountain roofing systems for replacing metal roofwood elementary school building discussion. All right. Any additional discussion or debate? Forward to a vote. Say item approve service changing perspectives. Okay. So I'll talk about this. This is contin and working oncl This
107year he piloted the work at Taylor Elementary and Rob Elementary. So this contract is for continuing the work at those two schools as well as adding Main Avenue and um preschool. access debate. We move forward to a vote. Please say unanimous. Item Font contract for TPX for district telephone services. discussion forward to a vote. All please say I unanimously item G appropation expanding learning expanded learning providers Oders that introduce the RFPs are added to our current providers that have already discussion. Intentions were very member. I do not believe all parents. Absolutely. We have six providers that we have never met before. We do not talked to them. We don't know exactly what they're going to provide. So we should have them provid Well, first we have Danielle Sturgeon. I think that we can all agree
108that this has been a faulty process, lacking critical elements and most importantly lacking the involvement of critical stakeholders, the community. I ask that the board votes no on the district committee suggestions and place a pause in the RFP. Such a sensitive matter deserves adequate time to properly assess, evaluate, and include families in the decision process. The city of Sacramento procured the three-ear grant before being transferred to the district in February. And since we are only in year one of the cycle, allow the city of Sacramento to finish out the last two years and then revisit the process so it may truly be done fair and equitably. And if then it is found by the community that there are more credible programs to serve their children, so be it. But at least the voice of the
109community is included and reflected in that decision. Some areas of concern regarding transparency. After learning on February 5th from CDE that the ASUS grant would be handed over to the district, One of the six suggested vendors right at school program was invited to present at the February 27th board meeting. If everything was about fair and equal process, why were no other potential providers invited to present to the board? It was stated by the superintendent there is no plan of replacing any current programs that it is simply about bringing more opportunities to the local community. However, eliminating current vendors is exactly what the board was being asked to do since the April 24th board meeting. the ongoing message that no decisions have been made at this time. However, program directors of your current vendors received an
110email on April 23rd from the executive assistant to the superintendent stating that in fact that they will not be awarded the funding for the 25.6 school year. How can this be said by the district if the board has not voted on anything yet? It was stated in the superintendent's report because this is public funds and it is a big amount and we never in the past had to do a process such a large grant. I superintendent felt it was important for a fair and transparent process. But this is not the first time. The district procured the 3.4 million ELO grant in 2023 and no RFP process took place at that time. There was an ELO program plan guide that was adopted by the board on February 9th, 2023 and then was approved by the board
111on June 29th of 2023 to subcontract 1.4 million to the city of Sacramento and approximately 555,000 to the Roberts Family Development Center because according to the adopted ELO plan in quote the community's response to the programs have been extremely positive and parents see these programs as an important service that is necessary to keep their children safe. Again, no RFP process. The funding was simply awarded by the district because an RFP is not legally required. Does the district have the right Yes. And should they? Absolutely. However, according to ASUS grant guidelines and a representative from the expanded learning division of the Department of Education, there is no legal requirement to an RFP. There is no legal obligation to contract with any particular vendor in an RP RFP. Nor is the district legally bound to do the
112RFP all over again. Ultimately, the district can award the funds to whoever they want. So again, vote no, pause the process, fix the process, and give it the adequate time it deserves. Thank you. Might ask just a quick question because the motion that's now on the table is to actually is to actually approve the six providers including those who are already providing services. I mean I know you you were opposed to the previous motion. Do you also approve the new motion or disapp I just want to provide clarity. Um I did um get notification if start was not awarded a contract next year they were not interested in providing summer school for this summer but I want to be clear if that was the case that start was not interested I would be working to
113ensure that we provide summer school. So I know I just wanted to provide clarity. I know we amended the motion, but the information that we would not have summer school is inacurate statement and I just wanted that to be like a question. Do us a favor. because of the sensitive natures normally we would once your statement was made we would no I understand I understand she can answer that answer so was your question would we have um a program after our academic program the answer will be yes okay next we have Sabrina Oliver statement is not I still want to see what I origian for each school and teachers administrators should they be interested in their contract allow participation The committee should revise every part of the process the rubrics etc. Your current committee does
114not include a single parent. Every time the committee is brought up their defended you don't consider the expertise of the parents and the guardians of this committee. You have no knowledge of our past or present employment or other relevant experience that could be brought to the committee aside from the plain and simple fact that we know our children decision. directly affect us. Your discount will be despite having a known need in this community. You have failed us so far in the process and I hope you can realize that failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently. I acknowledge that this puts strain and burden on the district. However, I will say to you what I say to my child, what the school says to my child, you can do hard things.
115And I believe that we owe it to our children to show them that as adults, we can do hard things, too. We should lead by example and show our children that it is worth it, that they are worth it to admit that a mistake has been made and you need to start over. I hope that this group is made up of cycle breakers. do the same thing and won't move forward with the process because it's easy, because they're almost done. We see it too often in business and elsewhere in government agencies where the path of least resistance is chosen over doing the right thing. And I ask you to please not be like those people. Please do the right thing, the hard thing, and vote no. Please see parent involvement this year. It is not
116just enough to listen right now. You need to hear us and take action. to align your actions with your goals. Mistakes are a fact of life, but it is the response to the error that counts. What will your response be today? Just a real quick question. So, you're you're still opposed to the amended motion that include the also adding including I haven't had time to process that. It's You know, I still really strongly feel that parents should be involved and I think that not enough still been involved and bringing this up last minute while I appreciate it is difficult to process and to think what that would mean because I don't know what that means and I don't want to give an answer that I feel is shortsighted because I have to speak on the
117spot. If I can come back before we close, I would appreciate that. If I have something more concrete because I clearly really really love Start. My child has a very special place, a very special relationship with all of the Starters. Um, it means the world to us. But I also think that in general the board has made some missteps and I would like to see the board and the district have made missteps and it is It is hard to trust but still in a skeptical position. So I appreciate it. I do. But we are skeptical because we don't know what that means. We don't the discussion was last week was some of these that we received were for total providers, right? And some were for supplemental. But as here today, I don't know which ones
118were supplemental and which ones were um total providers. I don't know what that means. You're going to Does that mean that will become supplemental because you approve this amendment or does it mean that they will stay the primary provider and these other ones we brought in as supplementals? So that's why and I'm trying to like process and think and talk at the same time. Um I don't know what your amendment means. I am not 100% inclined to trust it even though I know it has I think good intentions. I would appreciate if instead there was more time given and more um feedback from parents because I also recognize that I am not a representative of every type of person in the community and I want those other people to have voices as well not just
119I guess to that superintendent so what would be the process so let's say going forward let's say the motion were to Okay, let me just ask for clarity. If so, you amended the motion to include the six top providers with our current providers. that amendment failed or if that amendment failed that means that we would start the RFP process over. What does that mean for going into the 25 26 school year in preparation? So it would mean that we have um we would I would want to get any more input from the um parents in the community and the students, we would issue an RFP. Um the RFP is required to be posted 14 days, right? And we would just follow the process again. Um and then all those um providers who are recommended would
120come to you and if you approve them, then we would start the process of you know the presentation that you all requested as well as um determining what contract Now, if the motion were to pass, so I would I will um the request was to have the new providers do presentations. So, we would reach out for them to do presentations. And to be transparent, I I can't tell you what is next, you know, what it means with six providers and our current providers because this is a new amendment. So, if you're asking me like issuing contracts, you know, would we be issuing contracts like the next week? Absolutely not because we would have to do um and then we would look at the process of um how we can engage with our current providers as
121well as they come and they do the presentations obviously will be able to be involved. This is only for one year which gives us the opportunity to revamp the process whether it be the rubric as well as those who are evaluating it how they were going to do that as well for the future. Absolutely. The RFP was just for the 25 26 school year and we knew that we would we were planning to reissue an RFP for the 26 27 school year and possibly 2728. We knew this RFP was just for one year. Um, you know, I'll say this. This process has been an interesting one. It's been an interesting one because first of all, I think we recognize I think everyone recognized that the whole process had had challenges. Um, one I think timeliness
122was an issue. I think the other thing had to do with just the fact that you know I agree with the superintendent that when you are allocating when you are putting out you're type of resources, the amount of money we're talking about, we as a board have have an obligation to look and see what is the best that we can provide for our students. What's the best value that we can get for the taxpayer dollars that are being allocated to the district? So, we have an obligation to look at um I think I can speak for all the board members when we were completely and utterly shocked when none of our current providers were among the top rank. to a certain degree to some degree I believe that may have been a reflection of the
123rubric uh and but to a certain degree uh it wasn't to a certain degree I believe it was the quality of the presentations of the proposals that were put forth by the other providers um one of the reasons why I very much support this amended motion is because it gives us the best of both worlds I believe it gives us an opportunity to uh it gives us an opportunity to take a look to take a look at what else can we get instead of just going with what we've known and what we've known maybe has been good but maybe what is out there can be even better we don't know until we know um but it also gives us an opportunity an opportunity for those who partnered with us in the past uh to be
124able to present their best because I don't believe that the proposals that they submitted were represent were representative of their best truthfully Many of you here who have come and advocated for those programs for those providers have pro promoted a much better case than did those providers themselves. Uh and that is a testament to you. Not as much to them, but it is a testament to you. Um I'll say this, I know that that you know each and every one of us here, we we commit our time because we care about this community. We care about these kids. Uh we want to make sure that we provide the best No decision is made by this board until we vote on it. No one member of this board has any more power or authority than any
125other. Uh we in fact as individuals we have no power. Our authority comes from from all of us being here together and us voting and making decisions as we were put here by by the voters. Um, and I say that to say primarily this. Um, I am proud of the fact that so many of you that have come and have passionately and articulately communicated your concerns with the process. Uh, you've been very passionate in your support programs that you believe have really benefited your children. I think you know with all of the and all of the the frustration and political angst that takes place in so many other districts. You know, this was a challenging issue to deal with. It still is because we're still dealing with it. But you handled it with grace. You
126handled it with effectiveness. And and I think the fact that we took the item off the agenda of the initial agenda is evidence that we heard you. That we held a special board meeting is evidence that we heard you. The amended uh the amended motion going forward is evidence that we heard you. Um, once again, and I said this in the very beginning, I can't say that us hearing you is us going to be doing exactly what you want us to do, but I can tell you that we can demonstrate, we can demonstrate it by our actions. You know, should this motion pass, I hope that you will, whichever direction goes, I hope that you feel as I feel as we've done the best that we can to make sure that you've been heard. Uh,
127and that and I believe this motion represents the best interest of our students going forward and I think a fair opportunity for all providers, new and old, to be able to present their case, not just before the board, but before the community. So, with that, uh, if there's any more discuss No more discussion debate. We'll call the question. All in favor, please say I. Motion carries unanimously. All right, we're going to move forward now to board me request for future agenda items and reports. Um, I don't have a request for the board, but I do have a request for everybody sitting in this room. when the presentations do come up for these uh programs on our agenda, if you would please join us and have your friends and other parents join us so that way
128they can be a part of the process and ask questions and be involved. We would all greatly appreciate that. But I also want and I know as a school board we are just here. But sometimes Sometimes we have something propain. We always see our dashboard. We see our kids struggling. learn and learn and move and teach our kids and we have the company or what we have now that opportunity that's We want it to learn to be side by side. Don't be afraid of whatever company or whatever we are getting nothing else. I don't policies. Everything trust and believe that I am reiterating. And with that this meeting is