Voices for International Business and Education
Minutes
VIBE Board meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday April 19, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Location
Community Room
International High School of New Orleans
727 Carondelet Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Directors Present
C. Jones, D. Barnes, J. Lampton, K. Dwyer, S. Olivier
Directors Absent
P. Manson, T. Winfield
Ex Officio Members Present
A. Berger
Non Voting Members Present
A. Berger
Guests Present
Ashley Hayes, F. McKenna, J. Carreno, R. Smith, S. Schulkens, W. Watts
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approval of the February 8, 2023 VIBE Board Meeting Minutes
D.
Approval of the April 10, 2023 (2nd Meeting) VIBE Board Meeting Minutes
E.
IHSNO Student Highlight
II. LAPCS Presentation
A.
Spring 2023 Advocacy Updates
Sarah- All the things happening in NOLA
My goal is to inform and talk about Board Governance. How do we set long-term solutions to make this school successful?
District Level
New Superindentent - big change. Dr. Williams- is not from here, she's an outsider coming into the space, and there is a big learning gap. With new leadership, big learning curve.
Trying to build a relationship with our community leader. Why to chose IHSNO
We have a fast rate of population in the country- job opportunities.
weather
agricultural
Housing - insurance for our property.
population decline
Declining student enrollment
CSAF -Renewal consideration
District 5-year planning
Quality
Quantity
Portrait of the graduate
How can honesty be implemented in the early years-Kindergarten?
How do we collaborate with the city which impacts
housing-
NOPD's declining 800 police officers available in the city? No one is following up with truancy.
Invite the major and tell them about the issues.
City ARPA programs
Federal Aid. Rescue plan monies.
STATE:
The legislature has to run in the Fall.
Bills of the headline
Senator Bouie-- a direct attack on charter autonomy
Talk of teacher pay raise. Restricted funding- Level 1 MFP.
Haven't had one level 1 increase in 12 years. But there is no other funding to supplement other costs.
We don't know what our budget will be in a few years 2025.
Election- Governor BESE- Republican- we can become the next Florida and Texas.
Changing out our majority.
5 years where the education system is going.
Religions charter school? We would be competing with the archdiocese for funding.
Education saving accounts? Universal education gives parents- vouchers to private schools.
There is a lot coming to our charter schools.
We asking to stay united as charter schools and we are only 10% of the school population.
Because of our Board engagement in talking about education and making collaboration to empower our students.
B.
LDOE Governance Grant
C.
LDOE Governance Grant - Vote to Authorize Board Chair to Execute MOU
III. IHSNO / VIBE Board Leadership
A.
Head of School Report
We are moving the Albert Dent building
It is smaller and has some issues but we are in the worse building.
The material amendment was signed and submitted to BESE for the June board meeting.
We will prepare to move
The student completed the ASPEN challenges-
made a club here to recycle around the school
Applying for additional monies to continue our project.
We have good retention of staff for next school year.
An offer letter will be sent out on May 1, 2023
MYP is official and will be starting in our MYP in our 9 and 10 graders.
LEAP testing starts next week.
We have two math vacancies that have not been filled. They have been filled with substitutes.
We are down two science teachers.
B.
Board Chair Report
Karen will add the history of the school
Strategic Plan-maybe approve it in June.
Set aside at the Board meeting to review the strategic plan.
Ask him to attend the Facilities meeting.
Gala
Graduation
Send Ethic training- Fanny send email
IV. Committee Reports
A.
Finance Committee - Vote on February Financials
Ongoing budget procedure and review of the Budget before May
and approve the budget in June
February Financial - approve
B.
Academics Committee - Vote on New Title IX Policy
Working with testing
Charter School fairs- teacher shortness
Virtual Fair- May IX- we don't discriminate-
IHSNO needs to adopt a new Title IX policy - and added to website.
C.
Governance Committee - Vote on New Board Members
We hosted a meet and greet.
Chantelle Robinson- a nurse practitioner- is interested in joining
Dr. Estaris- health care administration- an honor for the invite
Grace Espinoza- Alumni 2018, graduate from LSU. I believe in the mission of IB
Bret Holloway- two boys here- PTO - president. excited to serve the community and IHSNO.
We have a diverse board. participate in your industry.
What is the process of becoming a board member?
vote you in
background check
governance training
term July 1
contribute a monetary amount and attendance for school.
You advocate for our school
D.
Development Committee - Gala!!!!
The Gala is this Saturday night
Raised 15 thousand
60 people
Food/drinks and a great band.
They have great exhibits for the past, present, and future.
Daren Francois - scholarship- we bragged to our students.
Jade Brown
Barnes this year.
Grants slow in moving to get getting grants
Special education classroom grant- life skills training for students to learn how to take care of themselves.
next meeting June 21
We have Ms. Paris Hayes- student body president.
attend Loyola University and major in criminal justice.
How would you describe your experience here at IHSNO?
A sense of diversity and expressing their culture.
Communication is something we can do better. Faculty/teacher communication can improve.
What class did you like? English is the class I like and I hope to write a book in the future.
What recommendation on how we can recruit new students? Social media tell them about our school having students with million-dollar scholarships. IHSNO is a graduating school for students.