Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School of Excellence
Minutes
Board of Trustees Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Trustees Present
Alton Jones (remote), Denise Pagan-Vega (remote), Diana Foskett (remote), Nealon Jayne-Lewis (remote), Teremar Rodriguez-Vazquez (remote)
Trustees Absent
Donna Carroll, Kiyota Garcia, Sherard Johnson
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Public Comment
D.
Approve Minutes from November 18, 2025
II. Executive Director's Report to the Board
A.
Executive Director's Report to the Board
Kendra reported that mid level assessments for literacy were coming soon. ESL - students were taking access tests and they were performing well. School was randomly selected for a test at the end of February - 4th graders. Charter renewal, we got partially meeting and meeting which is good. Board should find out by February 12. No reportable suspensions. Enrollment is doing well - attendance is at 93%. Student recruitment mailing going out. School will be buying van for the benefit of students.
Plans to expand the school and develop empty space and talking to the architect again to see what they want to do with that space.
Van purchase expenses has been allocated last summer during the retreat.
III. Committee Updates
A.
Academic Excellence
Assessments continue to show a significant improvement. Each students get a target growth and the slides that were produced show how much progress the students have made. generally, right now, 52% of growth is showing which is great. No other things to discuss.
B.
Finance Committee
Finance committee did meet, numbers continue to look good. Financial position for the school continues to look strong. Plan that was voted on previously will continue to be in place. A financial issue did come up, reviewing contract with auditing firm and the board may have to vote to approve an rfp.
C.
HR Committee
No meeting and no updates.
D.
Governance Committee
No meeting and no updates.
IV. Board Chair Updates
A.
Charter Renewal Process
No updates.
V. Other Business
A.
Open Meeting Law Education and Training
No updates
Parent (Rebecca B.) of student (Anastasia) came to the meeting to express concerns about school staff. Ms. Rebecca spoke highly of Kendra Salvador but has concerns about investigations on a staff member. She indicated she did not hear back from the school. She was concerned about incident reports being written up and she does not feel like the staff member is equipped to be at school. She did not think that the staff member was professional. Teremar expressed regret on what was going on and advised the parent that she will be speaking to Ms. Salvador to obtain an update on the investigation and will recommend for the school to keep parent updated as the investigation progresses.