Young Scholars Charter School
Minutes
Regular Board Meeting
Date and Time
Tuesday December 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Location
900 North Marshall St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123
This meeting is being held in compliance with Open Meeting requirements of the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act and is open to the public. Notices were duly posted and the meeting was advertised in The Philadelphia Daily News. Formal action will be taken.
Trustees Present
A. Wang (remote), B. Young (remote), E. Kaplin (remote), G. Singer, J. Brown (remote), T. Rebar (remote), W. Churchill (remote), W. Weisman (remote), r. Halpern (remote)
Trustees Absent
B. Harrison, E. Ashe, J. Wang, S. Piltch
Guests Present
J. Amenda (remote), K. Corcoran (remote), K. Lamilla (remote), Laura Umbrecht Gulick (remote), S. Smith (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Nomination and Appointment of Trustee of Laura Umbrecht Gulick
II. Board Discussion Topics
A.
Dashboard
B.
Committee Designations
There will be four committees moving forward- Finance/Audit, Development, Governance, and School Performance.
C.
Facility and Capital Campaign
The school is still working on land acquisition which is a large part of the upcoming capital campaign. All schematics for the facility will look like are complete. After the new year, the team can move forward.
D.
Fundraising Status and Strategy
The school has already exceeded its annual funding goal. Capital campaign planning is underway.
E.
Finance
Kevin Corcoran from Charter Choices presented the annual and independent audit. There were no findings or issues. The school has a positive net income for the year.
F.
Statement of Financial Interest forms due March 1, 2025
G.
Project-based Learning Opportunity
The school team is beginning to reach out to organizations that help with financial literacy to come to school for workshops with students as part of the school's project-based learning programming.
John Amenda went through the school dashboard showing our progress to goal. The team is piloting standards-based grading as part of our grant work. We have stronger results than we've seen in the past. Students are taking growth assessments and we will know more data at the end of December. We have had strong attendance.