New Hope Charter School
Minutes
New Hope Charter School Board
Date and Time
Monday March 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Location
201 Jessie Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95838
NHCS Main Office
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Directors Present
Kim Howard (remote), Lisa Fong (remote)
Directors Absent
None
Guests Present
Anjam Khan, Casey Jower (remote), Herinder Pegany, Jeff Kreiser, Jim Scheible (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Approval of Agenda
II. Consent Agenda
A.
Approve Prior Meeting Minutes: January 27, 2025
III. Reports
A.
Fiscal Update: Fiscal Year 2024-25 2nd Interim Financial Report
Casey Jower, Fiscal Team Lead, shared the FY 2024-25 update for the 2nd Interim Financial Report.. New Hope financials are trending in a positive direction.
Need to follow up with SCOE SELPA and Robla SD to determine amounts for qualifying students from Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023.
B.
Executive Director Report: Update on New Hope Charter School
Herinder Pagany
NHCS 2025-26 Calendar shared with staff
- Waiting on Robla School District's calendar to be approved and published
Anjan Khan
Updates to Master Schedule
- Increase core instruction on early out Thursdays
- Less minutes in enrichment during the school day, more minutes in core instruction and WIN (What I Need) intervention
- More enrichment offered as an after school extra-curricular enrichment opportunity.
- Enrichment during the day rotates each trimester.
Jim Scheible, Instructional Coach
Presentation on Charter School Renewal (not needed until 27-28)
- Performance Tracks
- New legislation has changed how the tracks work: Low, Middle, and High Tracks
- 2025, '26, and '27 school years' data reviewed
- Growth relative to own school or CA averages
- Staff took in the information and working intentionally on instructional practices to support and boost student achievement.
- Next steps to focus on maintaining/growing in performance indicators forthcoming (admin, staff, families)
- ELPI is likely to be prioritized
Herinder Pagany
Comprehensive School Safety Plan
- Much of the content is in the Student and Parent Handbook
Jeff Kreiser
Updates with community partnerships, school images, stories (faculty, current students, alumni)
- First fundraising campaign - May 1, Sacramento region's Big Day of Giving
- Seeking a donor who will match
- Funding for programming, land, building
- New website, parent portal, easier to upload files: http://newhoperobla.org/
- Enrollment - 6th grade classroom visitations, siblings have vouched for their families' excitement, NHCS-branded items given away.
IV. Discussion/Action Items
A.
Consideration and approval of Fiscal Year 2024-25 2nd Interim Financial Report
5:41 pm
B.
Consideration and approval of NHCS Comprehensive School Safety Plan update for 2024-25
5:42 pm
V. Future Business
A.
Requests from Board Members
Updates on K-6 Virtual Academy
8th Grade Promotion ceremony: June 11, 3:00 pm, North Natomas Community Center
Kim Howard - motion to approve the agenda for 3-10-25
Lisa Fong - second
The board VOTED to approve the motion.