TLSS report

TLSS had a meeting that last three hours and covered one item, due to the level of community concern around innovation schools.
There's a large number of motions coming out of subcommittee, many having to do with all meetings involving innovation schools be made public, be public, encourage public participation, be public about deliberations and decisions, and keep School Committee well apprised of all items having to do with innovation schools.
O'Connell points out that there is hope of opening a school by the start of the next school year.
Boone: these were readiness schools, became innovation schools
Prof. DelPrete who teaches at Clark is speaking to the innovation school item. "The rationale for establishing a local partnership committee makes a lot of sense...what might define that zone... Promise Neighborhood Intiative...cradle to college pathway for all young people in the Main South area..might be some common approaches...a local partnership committee to abide by the core principal of the law...one is autonomy...an innovation school built on some form of change"
South Quadrant partnership group to link into other work going on in that quadrant and that neighborhood