New Hope Charter School
Minutes
Regular Board Meeting
Date and Time
Monday December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Location
New Hope Charter School
201 Jessie Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95838
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Directors Present
Kim Howard (remote), Lisa Fong (remote)
Directors Absent
Ruben Reyes
Guests Present
Anjam Khan, Casey Jower (remote), Herinder Pegany
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approve Agenda
II. Consent Agenda
A.
Approve Minutes from September 22, 2025 NHCS Board Meetings
4:33
III. Reports
A.
Fiscal Team Leader's Update: First Interim Financial Report for 2025-26 Fiscal Year
B.
Executive Director's Report
Herinder Pegany
Dashboard, met goals, but pursuing higher goals
Attendance recovery, students returning for instruction during break
Student-led parent conferences
- Goal for all 164 students (90% achieved, progress currently being made for completion)
- Academics, behavior, goals, progress
- Portfolio, script, and teacher coaching
- Family engagement in school system and learning process
Board member responses to value of student-led conferences:
- Students taking responsibility, validating self as learner, language for identifying purpose of schooling for themselves, presentation and self-advocacy skills, how to use data to support reasoning and claims
Anjam Khan
Prep and positive outcomes:
- Communication with families to arrange conference appointments
- CAASPP score printouts
- Time to guide student analysis
- Parent joy and pride
- Family and student gratitude for staff support
- Admin showing importance to each scholar
- Addresses all three LCAP goals
Thursdays after school, Early Release - video and publish Khan Report
- 1,000s of views
- Boost in family engagement, communicating timely information
- Partnering with a retired teacher, teaching an enrichment class, supporting media, video development, positive influencers of NHCS
- Staff on social media, not students
- Videos shared with students on Thursdays through their Advisory class
El Dorado Charter SELPA visits
- Thoughtful and detailed positive feedback
- Helpful to have another perspective
ASES visit and feedback
- After school program professional development
IV. Discussion Items
A.
Consideration and approval of First Interim Financial Report for 2025-26 Fiscal Year
5:14 pm
B.
Consideration and approval of 2025-26 NHCS Declaration of Need for Fully Qualified Educators.
One teacher in the SCOE Intern program, teaching science (physics)
5:17 pm
V. Other Business
A.
Board Member requests for future business
No requests; questions addressed in meeting
Next board meeting: January 26, 2026
SARC, mid-year LCAP update
Casey Jower
First Interim Report - Enrollment Assumptions
Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance
Charter School First Interim Form
Herinder Pegany
Follow up on grants:
Expansion Grants
Teaching Positions