CPPAC, May meeting

A bit on CPPAC tonight:

• there's a quorum of the School Committee here (Biancheria, Monfredo, Novick, O'Connell) tonight
• presentations from CultureLEAP and Worcester Educational Collaborative
• consideration of moving the day that CPPAC meets (so as not to conflict with City Council meetings); suggestion that it be moved to second Mondays (need some discussion of where to have it, as the library is closed on Mondays...could it rotate from school to school?) Or could the second Thursday work? Also a request that PTO meetings should not conflict with CPPAC. Second Thursday carries. Location TBD.
• Parent Advocacy sub-committee report: met with Mayor. Clarifying T&G editorial. Met with Jackie Reis (at the T&G). Plan to meet with editorial board of the T&G. Outstanding meetings with City Councilors. "It's a shame, because we have never funded our schools sufficiently." Ask how budgets impact individual schools.
• Parent Expo: June 11 at WPI. Also, moving forward possibility of a list-serv or support for PTOs
• budget report: highest for teaching and learning. Also many comments that having parents prioritize items that are obviously all important is ridiculous.Motion that "this doesn't get lost."
• recess policy: comments that came back (comments through site council/comments directly from parents). Comment that "preferably prior to lunch" should have been out of the version that was sent out to parents (through CPPAC). Questions around why they can't do it at various schools; some discussion of this, of how site councils ought to run, of funding and infastructure needs.

sorry I didn't get this up until late; they shut off the wifi at the library fifteen minutes prior to closing.