Minutes from October 15, 2008
Present: Administrators, Gilberto Bonce, Stephanie Tudor, David Loughlin,
Pierre Edouard, Ileana Rodriguez; Teachers, John Branstetter, Christine Cuesta,
Marilyn Riggins; UTD Rep., M. Ciriano; Students, Daphne Saba. Andrea Rivera,
Maria Garcia, Javier Estefan, Ershia Godbolt, Alex Amores; Guests, Tony Merritt
- The meeting started at 2:55 PM in the Media Center. Minutes from the previous
meeting were approved.
- Ms. Tudor spoke in regards to the School Improvement
Plan (SIP). The state has requested a few revisions, mostly grammatical
and NCLB jargon.
- Next, the student members gave ideas for incentives to give
to
juniors to motivate them to take the science FCAT seriously. The committee
agreed to a field day for juniors if they meet the attendance requirement
during the Science FCAT, and the science department will bump-up course
grades for
students who receive passing scores.
- Mr. Bonce announced that our school
has been designated a *Prevent 2 School under the Differentiated Accountability
Model. This is because we are a Title I school that did not make sufficient
AYP, and the state reserves the right to make administrative and faculty
changes
if the school does not make progress in the current year.
- After-school
and Saturday tutoring will commence in November with a $44, 000 budget,
without any contributions from EESAC funds. Mr. Bonce also announced
that we have
$11,183
in EESAC funds. Due to budget cuts the state has allocated $5 per
student (rather than $10). EESAC funds will not roll-over as in previous
years.
- The committee
agreed to allocate $2500 to internal funds to be used for EESAC
approved grants and projects. The rest of the funds will remain uncommitted
until further notice.
- The meeting adjourned at 3:47 PM.
*For more information regarding the Differentiated Accountability Model and
Prevent 2 Schools see the attached link.
http://www.fldoe.org/news/2008/2008_07_29/diffaccountimplem.pdf
Back