There were no additions or corrections to the agenda.

There were no presentations from the Public.

As a charter public school board, the YPI Charter Schools Board of Trustees is required to follow the provisions of the Brown Act.  Janelle Ruley, an attorney with Young, Minney and Corr LLP, presented the provisions of the act, and updates related to the impact of COVID-19 and the re-opening of schools and the workplace, to ensure continued compliance with all aspects of the law.

There were no discussions on the schools' committee and council reports that were made available to the Board.

There were no Board committee reports presented.

The YPICS Tech Team this year is taking a deep dive into cybersecurity and putting in place various systems and policies to help ensure that we do everything we can to avoid a cybersecurity incident. We have put the following in place: Implementation Of 2-Step Verification, Ms-Isac, Implementation Of Cis, Implementation Group 1, Implementation Of Mosyle Detection & Removal and created Second Semester Plans.

Chief Operations Officer Community Schools 2022–23 California Community Schools Partnership Program Implementation Grant – Cohort 2 from the California Department of Education has been released. YPICS is currently planning to apply by the application due date of Tuesday, March 21, 2023.Technology Integration We are working with Edlio to redo all four YPICS websites. Access to the new sites have been given to the school admin teams to begin updating information. The advantage of the new website is that the staff has access to make changes to dynamic portions of the website.

Each Year YPI Charter Schools (YPICS) engage in an assessment cycle that includes administrating system-wide benchmark assessments on all three campuses. This update aims to track where the schools are academically and ensure that data to drive instruction is consistently implemented with intentionality. On January 9th, all YPICS schools reviewed the data from either NWEA Maps (HS) or iReady (MS). Teachers reflected upon this by looking at trends and outliers to determine and set new goals and opportunities for student data chats during the first two weeks in January. After the data chats, teachers created new action plans for the spring. Study Halls and Acceleration time during the school day or before or after school to address some learning gaps. Class trackers and individual student trackers were adjusted to ensure that data was shared consistently with students. These data sets are shared with parents during SAC meetings and Coffee with the Executive Directors Meetings.

LACOE determined a sufficiency of Instructional Materials exists in each of the specified classes visited during the review.

SB 126 places the responsibility for oversight of the proper implementation of the YPICS Conflict of Interest Policy in the hands of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (LACBOS) and e-filing of the Form 700 documents is now conducted via the LACBOS system. Only the “top tier” of decision makers is required to file through the LACBOS, and the YPICS Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer are the only filers filing with the County. The extensive list of filers for LAUSD is related to our inclusive governance system that places a level of decision making in the hands of administrators and selected managers, and the desire of YPICS to be transparent in all matters related to the management of the organization.

The Prop 39 BCCHS February 1, 2023 Preliminary Offer included space for ADA of 184.21 at Maclay Middle School for the 2023-24 school year.

The students are increasing their academic performance at both schools.  Each school has met 51% on typical growth and there is great progress toward stretch growth.  Teachers on both campuses are excited to have met this mid-year progress growth.  During the January 2023 PD, all teachers had an opportunity to review and analyze their grades classroom, and sub-group level data.  At the close of the day, teachers created action plans for the second semester.  School leaders, Coordinators of Instruction, and mentor teachers are following up bi-weekly on teacher action plans.

The Board of Trustees moved into Closed Session at 7:24pm.

The Board of Trustees resumed Open Session at 7:38pm. 

The following action was taken during Closed Session. 

The Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve the Lease between the Japanese American Community Center and Bert Corona Charter School. The lease will cover the time from July 1, 2022- June 30, 2037. The full lease consists of 4 documents:
 

1. Standard Industrial/Commercial Single Tenant Lease- Gross
2. Lease Addendum
3. Arbitration Agreement
4. Exhibit A- Topographic/Aerial Survey

The board also authorized the Chief Operations Officer to continue to negotiate the realtors commission price if possible.

Mary Keipp, Board Chair - aye

Michael Green, Board Treasurer - aye

Walter Njboke, Board Member - aye

Dean Cho, Board Member - aye

The next board meeting will be held at the Learning and Support Center in Granada Hills.