BOARD ACTION DECEMBER 14, 2016

This Item is being brought back to the Board for RATIFICATION because:

Trustee McNicholas was absent from the November 16, 2016 board meeting. 

Trustee Alpay's term ended with the November 16, 2016 board meeting and Trustee Holloway will be replacing Trustee Alpay at the December 14, 2016 board meeting.

VOTE

at 110:12 The Board voted 4-2-1 to approve the Bergeson Elementary School - Newhart Middle School Capistrano Valley High School pathway.

Yes - Trustees McNicholas, Jones, Pritchard, Hanacek 

No - Trustees Reardon - Holloway

Absent - Trustee Hatton Hodson

STAFF PRESENTATION 

at 91:15 Dr Susan Holiday presents: SECOND READING Board Policy 5111.5. Tonight Trustees will vote for the ratification of the matriculation pathway for the Mandarin Immersion Program which was approved at the November 16, 2016 Board Meeting: 

BLUE CARD:

at 92:25 Mike Useff (MIP Parent) Thank you for choosing the Bergeson Elementary School - Newhart Middle School - Capistrano Valley High School pathway.

at 93:10 Adrian Kosas PTA President Bergeson Elementary. We appreciate MIP Program. Thank you thinking of the City of Laguna Niguel. 

TRUSTEE COMMENTS

at 94:15 Trustee Pritchard moved to Ratify Board Policy 5111.5

      Trustee Hanacek Seconds the motion

at 95:04 Trustee Holloway supports Las Flores (not Newhart) as the middle school option because of its location and easy access to San Clemente families who started the program. Program was intended to operate in a local accessible to all residents. The opening of La Pata has made Las Flores the best option for all parents, especially San Clemente parents who have children at more than one school. Many families will be forced to drop out of the program if there is not a more centralized location. She understands the impact on Bergeson if the MIP program is moved to Las Flores, but feels that could be mitigated by putting other special programing on that campus. Would hope that CUSD would work with MIP Foundation to solve transportation issues to get people to Las Flores or help San Clemente residents get to Newhart.

at 97:36 Trustee Reardon supports Las Flores because of its central location and because it keeps the elementary and middle school program on a single campus. Feels that the strong parental involvement will be split if we split the program into three campuses.

at 98:28 Trustee Hanacek sofies choice. Yhe Las Flores option is not feasible since Measure M failed. You are wrong in saying that dividing campuses will divide parents. Parents follow their kids where ever they go. Newhart will become a language academy and there are wonderful opportunities for students at Capo Valley High School. I support the Bergeson Elementary School - Newhart Middle School - Capistrano Valley High School pathway.

at 100.24 Trustee McNicholas I was not at the last Board meeting so I have some comments.I support the Bergeson Elementary School - Newhart Middle School - Capistrano Valley High School pathway. We did not do the work to include the parents at Las Flores that MIP may be coming. Regarding transportation and distances. Most MIP programs are still in elementary school. Parents have opted in to specialized programing, Parents work out carpools- after school clubs etc to make these driving situations work. We should not be looking at subsidized transportation for MIP students other wise we need to look at it for everyone. But, that being said is there flexibility in our current busing routes. Have parents drop at Bergeson then drop off at Avery bus stop.

at 105:04 Superintendent Vital I would need a majority of the Board to direct staff to look at busing options. 

at 105:53 Trustee McNicholas - Pass policy as it is and separately address busing options.

at 106:16 Trustee Hanacek - there is a cost element to all of these, but I suppose we could lump it in to our discussion of transportation.

at 106:50 Superintendent Vital there is a liability issue with having students picked up and dropped off in unsupervised ares.

1:07:06 Deputy Superintendent Clark Hamption there is liability issues with having students picked up and dropped off in unsupervised ares.

1:07:35 Superintendent Vital - Does the majority of Trustees want us to look at busing options for MIP students or not.

at 107:44 Trsutess Jones - Suggest no. Maybe Martha can get more info offline.

at 108:10 - Trustee Reardon - not in favor of an option that makes an exception in transportation policy. Not in favor of creating free standing unsupervised bus stop for second leg transportation. If we explore these options we need to integrate them into our existing school sites so students are supervised. Students dropped at Marco could be transported to San Juan Hills high is possible. Dropping them on a street corner is problematic.

at 109:39 Trustee Jones - Dropping students at Carl Hankey would be fine.

at 109:47 Superintendent Vital- for the purposes of tonight we need to vote on the matriculation pathway and then bring back a transportation analysis for future conversation.

Vote 

at 110:12 the Board voted 4-2-1 to approve the Bergeson Elementary School - Newhart Middle School - Capistrano Valley High School pathway.

Yes - Trustees McNicholas, Jones, Pritchard, Hanacek 

No - Trustees Reardon - Holloway

Absent - Trustee Hatton Hodson

BACKGROUND - NOVEMBER 16, 2016 BOT MEETING

BOARD POLICY 5111.5 EFFECTS SPANISH IMMERSION - MANDARIN IMMERSION - IB PROGRAMS. THE MAIN TOPIC WAS THE MANDARIN IMMERSION MATRICULATION PATHWAY WHICH HAS BEEN HOTLY DEBATED BY PARENTS. 

The Pathways for Spanish Immersion and International Baccalaureate have already been set. Trustees are voting on the matriculation pathway for the Mandarin Immersion Program.

Mandarin Immersion presentation starts on page 371:

Matriculation Pathways

The International Baccalaureate program and the Mandarin Language Program are open to applicants’ Districtwide.  The Spanish Language Immersion programs are offered in a North, a South, and a Central K-12 pathway. After initial Kindergarten enrollment, if a family wishes to change schools, or change to a new pathway, for any reason, this request must be done through the School of Choice (SOC) process. Language Immersion/International Baccalaureate families will be afforded priority in the SOC process. Priority will be based upon the criteria as outlined in the SOC policy, with priority given to support students’ continued participation in a K-12 program. The guaranteed matriculation pathways, as outlined within the matriculation pathway table, will begin with the newly enrolled Kindergarten students in the 2016-2017 school year and will be in full effect the 2024-2025 school year

Priority Criteria for School Placement

The criteria below will be used to fill the openings at each Language Immersion and International Baccalaureate site. After all School of Residence students have been placed, all children of employees will be given priority placement at the employees’ work site. At each step a random unbiased lottery will be used to fill openings. Remaining openings will be determined before moving to the next criteria, as outlined in the following section, until all open positions are filled.

LANGUAGE IMMERSION AND INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ADMISSIONS

District students residing in any Board approved school attendance area shall first be provided the option of attending their School of Residence and acceptance to the Language Immersion/International Baccalaureate program at that school site.

1. Any sibling(s) of a currently enrolled Language Immersion/International Baccalaureate student. Sibling means brother/sister, step-brother/step-sister, or foster brother/sister residing in the same household.
2. Students residing within the District attendance boundaries, but not within the Language Immersion/International Baccalaureate home school attendance boundaries.
3. Students of employees not assigned to the Language Immersion or International Baccalaureate work campus, residing outside of the District boundaries.
4. Inter-district transfers (students from outside the district) 

BOARD PRESENTATION

Board Audio http://cusd.capousd.org/cusdweb/audio2016-17/CUSDBoardMeeting.Nov.16.2016.mp3  

1. Las Flores as K-8 (Option I page 415)
2. Fred Newhart Middle School (Option 2 page 416)
3. Aliso Viejo Middle School (Option 3 page 417)
4. Niguel Hills Middle School (Option 4 page 418) Cost $1,024,269 to repair 4 classrooms