3 x 3 Committee Meeting

Monday, August 28, 2006

Council Chambers – City Hall

5:00 P.M.

 

 

Mary Jo:  Enrollment; fiscal capacity; educational trends; bulge at grades 9 & 10

Enrollment declining 5 years out, K &1 stable from 5 years ago; State process –new & renovations; high performing schools – teacher/student, principal-leadership, professional development.

 

Nick:  review reports to date but this is a new process; transparent process, website links (minutes, broadcast), all meetings will be broadcast.

 

Susan:  PATHS not as accessible as City Hall

 

Jim:  might want to meet in school buildings (no charge)

 

Ed:  meet at East End

 

PTO leadership to interested parties list/neighborhood associations/ building bridges

 

Jim:  wants contact list

 

Ellen:  educational list serve; update on school committee meetings

 

Public Participation:  comment at most of the meetings – 15 minutes at the end of each

Meeting; topic directed; more dialogue than commentary; interactive, small groups report outs

 

Web page:  all information committee receives; address to submit written comment compiled and printed for committee

 

Print 2-sided reports – documents

 

Meeting duration – 2 hours

 

Nick asks Ellen to co-chair/vice-chair

 

Tuesday night @ 6:00 p.m. – 26th

 

Data Requests:  Enrollment trends – GPC0G; caferella #’s; live birth, census, school projections, differentiate live birth rates for immigrant populations

 

EFTFZ report to committee attend next meeting – about conflicting goals

 

Committee should come up with goals-assumptions

 

Capital Costs: latest from state about next round of funding

 

Operating Costs/savings documented as we consolidate (East End, Baxter); more concrete information than EFTFZ

 

Retrospective look at CIP school construction/renovation since the high schools

 

Programatically:  what’s out there in the elementary schools; is there anything the committee needs to be updated on

 

Maps:  boundaries for elementary & middle school districts

 

State process update

 

Susan:  date driven decisions

 

Economic Diversity – any data or evidence?

 

Need to qualifying the goals by school size, economic diversity

 

Look at K-8 model possibilities used the School Committee to review that information

 

State take on K-8 schools?  Could Clifford be a K-8 school?

 

Brief overview of all school facility needs; space needs/space availability

 

Library of materials be available – hard copies

 

Steven Scharf:  free & reduced lunch by school; immigration trends – school aged kids

(Catholic Charities)

 

Martha Shields:  Website – send one letter goes to entire committee

 

Peter Eglenton  need clear goals that are data driven

 

Ed:  Update on state funding status - timing