7/10 minutes of the 19^th Ward Community Association Schools Committee

Attendees: Adams, Boutet, Laing, Ross, Yoworski

The minutes are arranged by topic, not chronologically.

Volunteers:

We have an objective of recruiting more volunteers to work with the students in our schools. The original list from square fair is only 11 so there is work to be done. Consensus was reached on working directly through the schools rather than through another 501c3 organization (i.e. FREE)

    Actions:

• Follow up with Willie Lightfoot and the barber shops – John L
• Investigate the process of becoming a community partner with the RCSD – John L
• Generate a list of retired teachers/administrators in the ward and contact them – Dan Ross
• Use the 19^th ward newsletter to solicit volunteers John B
• Find a volunteer to run the spelling bee – all
• Talk to the school 10 principal about opportunities there - Sarah
• Investigate the opportunity for Skype tutoring with RPH – John L
• Contact Jon Shull of RIT about using their Skype tutoring software for a pilot test – John B
• Read the Comprehensive Education Plans for schools 10,16,29 and 44 to look for opportunities – all
• Schedule reviews with administrators – TBD

School 16 Schedule:

The FMP will not be passed through the NYS assembly and senate until next year. If planning doesn’t start until them it will be several years before the school re-opens. When it does reopen, we want it to be a model school, and a neighborhood school.

    Actions:

• Press Vargas on using CIP monies allocated to school 16 for preliminary engineering – John L
• Plan events for families with pre-K children to steer them to school 16 now – TBD

Other:

We also had discussions on charter schools without any assigned action items.

Next Meeting Wednesday, August 14 at 7 pm in the 19^th ward association office