Staffing updates-January

23 flight crew members

9 lead teachers/captains

5 co-captains

4 staff support

4 flight control

Contractors-recruitment, 1 sped para, 1 gifted teacher, ESOL 

Hiring for SY 25-26

In the process of recruiting new teachers

  Attended GCSA job fair-received some application

  Using Indeed

  Heavily pushing jobs on our job platform

Current # of students 125

     70 decisions, 79 new applications

Goal for SY25-26= 200

Slow growth model based on current enrollment patterns

  Transportation challenges contributing to student retention

    Most of the families with transportation issues were outside Clayton

   Exploring having PTO facilitate carpools and own that

   Exploring external bus providers (would provide buses and drivers)-limits cost

Adding 1 Kinder teacher, 2 lower el, 1 upper el-based on new numbers and adding 4th

Offer letters already sent out, and will be hiring to fill positions of teachers not asked to return

2 additional teaching assistant positions

Thinking through transportation options

  Errika will connect Sarah with possible tech options to address transportation issues for families

Interviewed potential teachers to add to staff for next year

Staff Attendance

Flight captains-8 absences; breaks down to 2 teachers (planned and illness)

Co-captains-0

Staff support-3 

Flight control-0

Anticipating uptick for Feb. based on illness

OSS

0-K

0-1

1-2nd

2-3rd

All suspensions based on physical assaults (not fighting) towards a peer

Special Ed data

27 kids with IEPs-increase from previous month

3rd-7

2nd-5

1st-8 (+3 last month)

K-7

21 receiving speech therapy

12 kids receiving occupational therapy

Holding constant with number of kids with 504 plans

ESOL holding 4 as constant

Gifted-2 students currently, 5 additional qualified and will begin after Feb. break

           4 students in the testing process

Related: Check with GCSA about possible ramifications of funding freeze and litigation by some AGs that might impact 504 plans and funding.  Will this impact charter schools?

Enrollment will close for 24-25 on February 24; count occurs March 7

  Any students who want to enroll after that date will need to wait until SY 25-26

  Current enrollment

    K-47

    1st-36

     2nd-25

    3rd-19

Student attendance 1.5% increase from December (numbers for January)

  May be lower for February due illness

School Happenings

January 17th-100th Day of School Celebration

January 31st-Takeoff Celebration

Love Day Dance 2/12

PTO spearheading Black Wall Street project

SCSC monitoring results came back (one year behind)

  3 finding for fiscal management and oversight (Sarah filed or is planning to file corrective actions)

     Process did not include plan for addressing loss of equipment or damage

     Inventory did not disclose what we would do if we disposed of data or the sale price if we sold something

     Conflict of interest did not meet legal requirements

2 findings for operations (can file corrective action to recoup partial points)

CPF Results

Sarah reviewed the results with us and also checking with SCSC about a question regarding the financial score

Does not include Milestones because we do not take that until next year

Can ask questions until March 3 before results presented to the SCSC Board

Sarah will present the Board with a timeline of when policies need to be approved

EdTech update-made 1st payment on settlement; 2nd and final payment due March 31