TRCS High School Classroom, 101C Boatyard Dr, Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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Agenda
I.
Opening Items
Opening items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance and Guests
C.
Changes to the Agenda?
II.
Community Comment
A.
Community Comment
Each person wanting to speak may have 3 minutes to make their statements. The Board will not comment unless it is to quickly clarify a procedure, process or policy.
Kiumars Arzani from CSMC will meet the Board and discuss his approach to working with our school and School Director.
B.
Discuss TRCS Program Improvement
Update Board on proposed changes from staff, parents, and the School Director will make a recommendation. Board should consider input and direct the School Director on next steps.
Discuss the changes required by FBUSD for the MOU and petition renewal approval.
Changes to be made to the MOU:
1) TRCS adopts a Common Core aligned ELA and Math curriculum for grades 1-8 to be implemented at the start of the 2018-19 school year.
2) TRCS works with an outside consultant for two years commencing July 1, 2018 concluding June 30, 2020.
3) TRCS's demographics are within 15% of FBUSD's demographics by June 30, 2020 and should the automatic extension be granted, TRCS agrees to be within 10% of FBUSD's demographics by June 30, 2021.
4) TRCS will increase by three percentage points the number of students meeting or exceeding standards as measured by the CAASPP as compared to 2016-17 CAASP scores.
5) TRCS will provide three reports to the FBUSD board of trustrees annually at regularly scheduled board meetings to report on progress towards meeting these terms so that the extension can be determined by June 30, 2020.
We have also removed the requirement that FBUSD have a non-voting Board member as that is now illegal.
Changes to be Made to the Petition:
We have learned that it is now illegal for a non-voting Board Member to exist for non-profits. Either we must sit a FBUSD Board Member on our Board or FBUSD must attend as a public member. Please review strike out sentence in Bylaws removing the requirement for 2 ex-officio non-voting members as that is now illegal.
In order to review the quality of our minutes and agendas and to ensure we are meeting our obligation in informing the public I had our lawyer (Y,M, & C Kimberly Rodrigues) look at our 9/19/17 minutes. Attached is her comment.
