Arianna Strippoli - regarding potential elimination of Italian program next year. She says the drop in enrollment has been in large part due to the fire. It's a small program but very robust and vital. Also important to keep the diversity of programming available for our students.

Fati Adeli - She has put out a google doc for paul revere 8th graders to express interest in foreign language options and it shows there is interest in Italian and French  from the incoming freshmen class.

Anonymous - I am a PCHS parent submitting this comment anonymously. I am submitting this because the school is handing out legal papers for Special Education and Disability Services that are full of basic, avoidable mistakes.
Recently, I have seen official documents where the dates were completely wrong and what was written at the top of the page didn't even match what was written at the bottom. These are legal records for our students, and they are being handled with total carelessness.
This is a major problem for the Board to consider:
1. It’s sloppy. When the school hands out papers that don't make sense, it breaks the trust between parents and the administration.
2. Students have already been left behind. My biggest concern is for the students who were previously denied services or told they didn't qualify when they clearly did. If the administration is this careless with documents for students currently being served, it suggests that past denials were likely based on the same unreliable process. I am worried about the families who were turned away and the students forced to struggle without help because the school’s "house was not in order".
3. The June 4th Deadline. As we approach the last day of school on June 4, there is a high risk that files are being rushed through without proper review. The Board must ensure that end-of-year paperwork is not being "rubber-stamped" just to close out the calendar.
4. The Need for Future Accountability. To fix this, the Board must implement an independent audit of these files. We cannot rely on the same administration that made these mistakes to check their own work. Moving forward, there must be a transparent way for parents to verify that their children’s records are accurate.
5. It’s a danger to the school. If the records aren't right, the school is open to outside trouble. If a parent can see these mistakes, a lawyer or a government official will see them too.
With the Board election this month, the community deserves to know that our leadership is committed to transparency. I am asking the current Board and any future members to commit to an independent audit of these programs to ensure no more students are ignored. It is the Board’s job to make sure the school follows the law to the letter.
 

Alessandra Santini - Prom was this past weekend at the globe theater. They sold more than expected so it generated some revenue for ASB.

The letters they wrote as sophomores will be passed out to the seniors tomorrow.

June 4 graduation 

Negeen Ben-Cohen - Great deal of frustration with the counseling office, including unresponsiveness to emails and messages, forms not getting signed in a timely manner, students not getting facetime with their counselors. 

Amir Ebtehadj - Brentwood Community Council - honored Nathan Shenassah with Student Citizen Award.  Nathan is incoming ASB president. He is involved in DECA and a jazz drummer.

Fati - concerns among incoming families about registration delays

nothing to report

Martha - Prom was very exciting, several staff were there as chaperones with the admin team. Kudos to ASB for doing such a great job putting on the event. Thank you also for donations for staff appreciation week. Booster, Chartwell were among the donors.

• Minh Ha - concerns about not having mental health team. also concerns about grades being shared. Departments working through enrollment and course planning and teaching assignments. 
• Nick - hearing about new AP policy where kids will not be able to drop APs. This is a bad policy. 
• Maggie says there's a board policy that delineates until when the kids can drop these classes to make sure they are able to. Nick heard it's a new counseling office policy. We need to dig into this. Policies should go through curriculum committee. Nick also wants investigation of absenteeism of students.
• Maggie - frustration among teachers about not having keys to access areas they need to get to. For instance she doesn't have keys to the pool office even though she's running the swim program. She got interrupted several times today because substitutes weren't given keys and needed her to come unlock doors for them. This is annoying and disruptive. She understands concerns about too many keys floating around but this is not working. Minh Ha seconds this issues. 

Martha - HR would like to celebrate our Pali positives. Chris Calderon in foreign languages department is doing a great job. Also Karen Cox in the main office. She just finished her master's degree. At the last faculty meeting we celebrated the faculty who have been with us the longest. Steve Engelman (30 years). Grant Smith (20 years) RIck Woodward (20 years) Emily Yook (20 years) Michael Friedman (20 years) Jane Curren (5 years)

Linda Park (math teacher) also just received her master's degree.

Report otherwise stands as submitted. 

Stands as submitted.

Stands as submitted.

no report

Marie Arce of Charter Impact

Report Stands as Submitted.

• Includes Budget and April Financial Update
• Good news in the May revised governor's budget - A big Cost of Living Adjustment that will help long term for Pali funding
  We don't see anything in the May revised governor's budget to indicate we will have hold harmless protection for 26-27 school year.
• Pali is in touch with our contact in the Governor's office about this. The final decision will come in June. 
• Marie - We can complete a 45 day revision in our financials if they do end up extending the hold harmless. 
• Fire insurance revenue means the reimbursements for what we lost in the fires, not actual revenue. These will be net zero since we have expenses to offset.
• Minh Ha - do the inventory forms impact the insurance revenue? School has been tracking this process, Marie not directly involved.  
• Expenses are trending upward. Majority of big expenses are related to the fires. 
• Projecting year end surplus based on the charter school portion of the audit, not including ASB or impact of future OPEB actuarial study

Discussion of Form 990

LCAP, Budget and Spending Plan will come up for discussion in June board meeting as well as a few June compliance items.

Last page of report includes helpful compliance calendar so we are aware of upcoming items and deadlines. 

Dr. Magee - 

• Busy time as we close out this school year and also prepare for next school year. So much has happened over the past year, this time last year we had just moved into the Sears building. Our community has overcome incredible obstacles. We will be talking about our surveys, feedback we received about what's working and what's not, and looking at where to focus efforts and growth for the coming year. 
• Working to get department input for the budget, develop sustainable programs, being responsible and balancing everything.
• Enrollment is key, we are actively encouraging people to come. 
• Bumping staffing in attendance office to help process applications.
• Meeting with UTLA teams for contract negotiations. 
• Working on master schedule, courses, etc. so we are in a good position for starting the school year.
• Congratulations to everyone for getting through APs. 
• Karen Ellis and the college center did a great job of coordinating everyone. 
• Looking forward to exam week and commencement ceremony. Board members are invited to sit with the admin on the stage at commencement. 
• World language department - we know there's a lot of concern about downsizing the programs. We know how valuable these programs are and our intention is not to cut things but the challenge is enrollment. As we receive feedback from families saying how much they value programs we want everyone to know the key is enrollment in these classes. We can report back what we see in terms of enrollment and see what we can do.  

Fati shares that when her kids were at Paul Revere we used to have Pali admin come meet the kids and talk about course choices. It doesn't seem we do that anymore but we really should. We should have better communication and coordination between the two schools. 

Maggie - something to keep in mind re governance of the school. Right now, Pali is primarily a school of choice, not an automatic feeder neighborhood school anymore. People expect more customer service and expect excellence. If we can't satisfy their expectations, people can just leave. We need to be explaining things like budgeting, decisions, etc.  We need to be responsive to their queries and their questions and concerns. 

Minh Ha - we need dynamic programming to attract families. 

Negeen - a lot of what's happening is that new families don't know what's going on and parents who have kids at both schools are guiding and reassuring. It would help to have more official communication and guidance. Nobody faults the attendance office, it's just a huge volume of paperwork for a small number of staff to handle. 

Randy and Michael - 

• The committee is continuing to look at programs and departments. Want to ensure the committee is asking the right questions. 
• The committee wants to know what happens next with the report that was submitted. Will the board or admin take the lead? The report included specific recommendations.
• Recommendations included interventions, academic supports and placement tests. We need measuring sticks for grades, tools for measuring trends, seeing improvements with specific students and groups. The IT department can extract the data about pass/fail rates, compare departments, etc. from Infinite Campus but someone needs to analyze it. 
• Maggie says there are changes that will be coming next year.
• Minh Ha says last month we discussed creating an ad hoc committee to review the report and make board recommendations. Dr. Magee says this committee should also pick up what comes out of survey committee. 
• Maggie says we can make the ad hoc committee now under this agenda item.  Survey committee will meet again to complete its survey analysis. New committee is called Academic Planning Committee tasked with going through survey results and AAC report to come up with recommendations for the June meeting. Maggie, Negeen, Michael, Randy, Minh Ha, Fati  
• For next year the whole AAC report and the survey process needs to start earlier so we have more time for implementation and to build it into the budget that will be approved at the June 9 meeting and also for the master schedule.
• The Committee also voted to move spring break next year to align with LAUSD schedule.

Sara Margiotta - 

• Committee meeting minutes stand as submitted
• Approved new band uniforms covered by insurance
• Still discussing LCAP. 
• Approved OPEB Trust Agreement, added a 3rd signer. 
• Looked at the Form 990, had additional questions about report and asked it to come back. 
• Looking at how best to invest the fund
• Working on the budget for 26-27 for approval on June 1. 
• Negeen asked if there's a cushion to provide funding for what comes out of survey committee and AAC. 
• Sara - There's no cushion, they aim for zero balance budget. Admin needs to put in a placeholder for the proposed interventions and supports that will be coming out of the ad hoc committee so it can be incorporated into the budget process. Best to have separate line items so we know what we're dealing with, not just lumping together the salaries. 

We have an election for one parent seat running now. The other seats were not contested. The full slate will be presented at the next board meeting for approval. No candidate for the admin/management seat. One person ran for each of the other seats except for traveling parent spot. Committee meeting again next week. 

Nothing to report

Nothing to report

• Results of quantitative portions of the surveys stand as submitted.
• Powerpoint materials attached to agenda provide executive summaries of the quantitative survey results. This only includes the objective questions, not the comment portions of the surveys. 
• We ran 4 surveys - student academic, student school culture, family/parent, faculty/staff.
• Used Surveymonkey through registered emails to ensure anonymity. We have no ability to trace responses. 
• We had written comments that we are not disclosing publicly because they included names and personal information. The committee will analyze those confidentially.
• Dr. Magee - We have the data regarding how many recipients received the surveys, how many opened the survey, how many clicked through, and how many actually responded. 
  • Student School Survey - 2361, 1914, 1318, 1302
  • Student Academic Experience Survey 2361, 1577, 751, 728
  • Family/Parent Survey 3660, 1252, 519, 441
  • Faculty/Staff Survey 198, 161, 130, 128

• We will tweak some questions for next year, add an option to say neutral or doesn't apply, students should have all questions combined in a single survey, parent email situation.
• Big appreciation to Jeff Roeppel for facilitating the whole process. 
• Andy - Noted the high number of respondents saying they are using tutors. Asking if we can get the math lab back. More tutoring through the school? Dr. Magee says this was part of what was lost in our transitions but we are working to get those back. 
• Minh Ha - what really saddened her and stood out was that over 100 kids said they don't feel they have an adult on campus that they can confide in.
• Need to incentivize students to respond. Alessandra suggests clearing a tardy or giving another perk of some kind. 
• Maggie says there was enough variety of perspectives that it is still useful data despite lower than ideal numbers. 

Amir - The committee has convened, the admin negotiating team is in discussions with the UTLA negotiating team, we are waiting for a proposal to review. 

Jane - Budget committee needs to be looped in. They are working on a budget that does not contemplate major financial changes. 

The admin is sharing all of our financial documents with UTLA and they are analyzing everything. There's an outside organization called School Services that helps facilitate the financial portion of this to ensure any agreement will be fiscally responsible for the school 

Diana Kim -

• We have above 95% participation rate this year across grades for this testing.
• It's digital and we get the results right away. We are in green band, meaning proficient or advanced.  Slight dips for math and science from last testing. 
• Departments will use this to tweak intervention strategies. 
• We should have full test results by July
• Most PLCs will have summer professional development 
• Will also be looking at instructional cycle data
• Families can access their students results through infinite campus
• It would be helpful to have more information and communication to families about this.    

Did not clear the Budget and Finance Committee so will have to postpone discussion. 

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removed from agenda 

Tuesday June 9 - to review and approve budget. 

Tuesday June 16 - regular board meeting 

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