what to do. she spent a lot of time volunteering at the school, she spent a lot of her personal time working with her kids and she told me she works as a nanny and she told me now she has to work overtime to hire a private tutor for her and she feels betrayed. and this is just one example. there are many parents who are very happy with the school system but her son goes to school at a star school and, you know, the passing the proficiency rate is barely at 50%. and so there the story echoes very clearly on a certain side of town where i live and my friends live, and so we want to make sure that all the schools across the town are setting the same high standards for all kids in making sure that they all get the education that they deserve. so that is a priority that we would like to make sure that you ll hear us talking about frequently on the p.a.c. another priority is parent engagement, clearly. with the start of the new school year that s on a lot of people s minds. i
really like it because they re actually seeing results of where the students are actually eating the food rather than chopping on one bite and running out and playing basketball or whatever. so i d like to hear from the parents to see what kind of reactions you re getting and whether or not you think it would be a good policy for us to pursue for it universally at the elementary school level and not or not. president kim: any other comments? ok. thank you very much. also, i just want to confer there s a p.a.c. meeting next tuesday. i have that on my calendar. because i know at the last p.a.c. meeting members had asked us to come and attend the first meeting so i just wanted to confirm, so it s next tuesday, august 31, at 6:00 here. yeah, i think it s going to be in i m not sure of the room number. but we can get you that information. president kim: could you email it to the board? sure. president kim: if any of us could make it, it would be great. we d actually like
child development program, or is that loss from the child development program and going to a different place? it is particularly sensitive because of the need to have child development programs, not even. programs, and now it s even programs come out even. you have six of those that did not identify anybody these are working with, so they are probably working with somebody, but they are not identified in your material, and i would think you would have some interest in knowing where these are going forward. on page 48, you are in the buildings and grounds section. it talks about international studies academy. it talks about an item for us the service removal and cleanup. this is specifically referring to the building. there has been assessed those found in other asbestos found in other areas of the site. i would like to see what the efforts are too clean that out. continuing on is this really the way you want this done? we did change this several months ago. this is
certain side of town where i live and my friends live, and so we want to make sure that all the schools across the town are setting the same high standards for all kids in making sure that they all get the education that they deserve. so that is a priority that we would like to make sure that you ll hear us talking about frequently on the p.a.c. another priority is parent engagement, clearly. with the start of the new school year that s on a lot of people s minds. i know at our school we re trying to figure out how to better recruit a more diverse range of parents and meet the needs of our families and how to communicate with our families and really feel this is an important step for improving the schools. we know we ve heard in conversations in the past on the p.a.c. that better communication is really critical. parents are really looking for that. i know that i ve been talking to a group of parents that have been writing letters for 10 years about a teacher that they re v
school tutoring program, and she s really concerned because she feels like she doesn t know what to do. she spent a lot of time volunteering at the school, she spent a lot of her personal time working with her kids and she told me she works as a nanny and she told me now she has to work overtime to hire a private tutor for her and she feels betrayed. and this is just one example. there are many parents who are very happy with the school system but her son goes to school at a star school and, you know, the passing the proficiency rate is barely at 50%. and so there the story echoes very clearly on a certain side of town where i live and my friends live, and so we want to make sure that all the schools across the town are setting the same high standards for all kids in making sure that they all get the education that they deserve. so that is a priority that we would like to make sure that you ll hear us talking about frequently on the p.a.c. another priority is parent eng