Ms. Brice noted that Mr. Currie was absent due to a family emergency.  

Ms. Getto presented the Committee update, and in conjunction with Darius Romero, provided some context for some of the numbers were were seeing.  There was a discussion around the Enrollment Dashboard, BEDS day, and the inconsistency with which the Board was being provided enrollment information.  Summer school data was shared and discussed and Ms. Getto noted that a number of students succeeded in earning relevant credits, particularly those in the cohort the Board had given specific attention to in the prior school year.  Overall there was pretty strong credit recovery for those students who chose to attend summer school.  The new curriculum was discussed briefly, but without Mr. Currie available, the longer term plan for professional development needed to be clarified.  Chronic absenteeism, a national and statewide challenge, remains a challenge for our school as well.  It was noted that with a smaller denominator a small number of students can trigger an disproportionate rate.  It was further clarified that charter schools do not use average daily attendance for school aid purposes, as public schools do, but that the underlying concern remains valid:  we all need to understand what interventions may assist in getting the chronic absenteeism down.  The teacher retention dashboard will be further developed by the Committee.  Separately the Board discussed a special project to understand a particular cohort of students (the 17 9th graders who have been with the school since 6th grade).  This project would be to understand qualitative and quantitative outcomes to better align our efforts toward the academy model with our students' progress.  

The Board had an in-depth discussion on the charter renewal roadmap and the benchmarks recommended within.  While it was noted that the benchmarks were ambitious, board members felt it important to set goals for all of us: the board, the leadership team and our faculty -- to ensure we are providing our families and students with a transparent path to how we will measure our effectiveness.  It was noted that the roadmap will require a far more in-depth "roadmap to the roadmap" from the leadership team to ensure that all activities are aligned with meeting these objectives.  It was expected that the Accountability Committee and the Finance Committee would be working with the leadership team to develop the interim metrics by which we will be held accountable on the overall roadmap.

Ms. Moree provided a brief update on the transition to using BoostEd as our Business Administrator.  The process was underway and she thanked Linda Oldenburg for assisting in getting a number of critical access points and data sets to the team so they could position the school and our financial statements ready for the auditors and for critical review by the Finance Committee.