Minutes were not approved this month.

COO, Latoya Hubbard, went over COO report.

Student Enrollment Update:

• 2025-2026 enrollment lottery will take place tomorrow at 2pm. This year we received 291 applications at all grades. In April 2024, we only received 40 applications. 

D. Zieff asked how the lottery works. L. Hubbard went over the lottery process including the website that helps with the lottery. L. Hubbard explained that as of right now we have limited seats open at this year, we see a large number of students leave at the end of summer. 

Teacher Certifications:

• Returning staff are at 95% certified 
• New staff are at 62% certified- all of them have paperwork with the state. The state takes about 6-12 weeks for paperwork that's pending. 

Teacher Survey and Intent to Return:

In the month of March we sent out our annual intent to return survey. 95% of staff indicated to return. 

Teacher Recruitment:

HR has been able to attend job fair at schools in the area for teacher recruitment.

March Gladness: staff was able to enjoy and participate in march gladness where we have treats for staff to help morale during the longest month, March.

We had our mid-year audit review for Commissioners Network. 

• Some specific area where we got high remarks or saw significant improvement in where from our Operations areas in terms of scheduling time, building operations management. Additionally, behavior systems as did assessments and curriculum. 
• Areas where we need improvement were certification, attendance as well as our resource allocation. 

D. Zieff asked how this affects us with the state. J. Scalice discussed that we need to show the state what we are doing to go get certified teachers. This can also affect our charter renewal if they see that we are not doing what we need to do. 

J. Scalice went over that during the Board Meeting we will discuss data for spring for ELA and Math and discuss projections of final SBAC testing,