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From YouTube: School Committee Meeting of 9-11-23
Description
City of Chelsea, Chelsea Public Schools
B
Right
good
evening,
everyone
I
hope
we
all
had
a
wonderful
first
week
of
school,
despite
this
heat
wave
right,
but
grateful
for
our
team.
We
have
fully
Central
AC
in
all
of
our
schools
and
so
oh
miss
Velez,
I.
Think
Miss
Velez
came
prepared
with
a
fan,
I
love
that
alrighty
team,
so
welcome
to
our
first
meeting
of
the
school
year.
The
first
item
on
our
agenda
is
a
motion
to
approve
minutes
of
the
regular
meeting
on
June
7th.
B
A
B
E
Evening,
everybody
I
do
have
a
couple
of
presentations
for
this
evening
before
I.
Do
the
presentation,
so
I
would
like
to
say:
welcome
back
welcome
back
to
our
staff
and
to
our
students.
We
had
a
really
strong
start
to
our
school
year
and
today
is
our
fifth
day
of
school.
This
year
we
welcomed
6123
students.
We
also
held
our
first
in-person
convocation
since
2019..
E
E
E
E
So
this
is
written
by
Adam,
Aronson
and
Mr.
Aaronson
is
in
the
room
and
he
says,
as
I
sit
down
to
write
this
nomination
I'm
realizing.
It
is
nearly
impossible
to
express
how
clearly
Stella
exemplifies
the
above
five
characteristics.
I
will
try
to
explain
who
she
is
through
a
brief
anecdote,
but
please
feel
free
to
contact
me
in
2020
the
World
closed
down
due
to
covid-19
the
covid-19
pandemic.
E
E
E
One
population
of
students
began
to
fall
further
and
further
behind
our
ell
students,
particularly
those
who
were
working
and
had
major
gaps
in
their
education,
sell
it
and
have
advocated
at
times
ferociously
for
our
students.
She
pushed
her
fellow
teachers
in
administration
to
dig
deep
into
the
ell
best
practices
she
co-facilitated
a
year
and
a
half
long
PD
series
for
staff
to
build
best
practices
and
curriculum
and
instruction
so
that
her
colleagues
could
best
support
all
students.
E
She
worked
nights
and
weekends
to
provide
an
educational
experience
in
Social
Service
connections
to
her
students
as
schools
reopened.
She
noticed
that
our
working
ell
students
still
continue
to
lag
behind
in
terms
of
academic
credit.
Many
of
these
students
held
highly
skilled
jobs,
including
in
including
an
arborist
head
chef
and
a
four
installation
expert
that
had
tremendous
academic
overlap.
E
She
began
to
brainstorm
and,
through
her
powerful
advocacy,
created
a
work
to
credit
program
at
Chelsea
opportunity
Academy
to
date.
This
program
has
served
over
40
of
our
City's
most
in
need
students,
her
students
are
loved,
supported
and
pushed
to
become
their
best
selves.
So
congratulations
and
thank
you.
E
B
E
E
E
E
For
the
second
bump
of
our
presentation
and
I'm
actually
going
to
divvy
this
up,
so
you
don't
have
to
hear
my
voice
the
whole
time
so
we're
going
to
give
a
couple
to
our
school
committee
chair-
and
this
is
our
the
teachers
who
have
just
now
received
professional
status,
and
that
means
that
they
are
now
have
professional
status
in
Chelsea,
Public
Schools
and
they
are
tenured.
So
I
would
like
to
go
ahead
and
give
a
few
to
everybody,
because
we
have.
We
have
many.
Some
people
may
not
be
here
tonight
so.
B
H
H
C
I
B
B
F
F
F
We
have
our
final
date
final
data
on
page
one,
as
you
can
see,
we
have
some
grades
that
increased
over
the
previous
year,
some
grades
that
decreased
over
the
previous
year,
the
grades
that
increased
were
grade
five,
six,
seven,
eight
historically,
some
challenging
grades
with
attendance
and
they've
all
increased
over
the
previous
year
grades,
10
11
and
12
all
increased
and
I
do
want
to
highlight
that
grade.
12
in
the
2021-2022
school
year
had
an
attendance
rate
of
48.
F
It
increased
all
the
way
to
74.8
percent
for
the
2020
to
2023
school
year,
so
almost
30
jumped
there.
So
we're
happy
about
that.
As
a
district
total
we
held
tight.
The
previous
year
was
88.1
percent
attendance,
and
last
year
we
ended
with
88.0
percent,
so
a
one-tenth
of
a
percent
drop
over
all
in
attendance.
But,
as
I've
reminded
the
committee
many
times,
we
had
our
triple
democ
of
the
panda.
The
covid-19
RSV
and
the
flu
so
to
hold
even
was
I.
F
Think
a
strong
accomplishment
on
to
page
two
indicator:
3
we're
really
making
efforts
to
increase
our
ability
to
have
students
taking
challenging
classes
beginning
in
grade
eight.
We
started
our
Algebra
1
program,
so
that's
typically
a
high
school
course.
Many
districts
have
it
in
eighth
grade,
so
we
followed
suit.
We
had
24
students
start
the
year
in
algebra
in
eighth
grade
last
year
and
we
ended
with
27.
So
we
increased
a
little
bit
and
we
want
to
we're
hoping
to
increase
that
number
even
more
this
year
and
I
think
we
have
a
a
good
start.
F
Thus
far,
the
number
of
students
enrolled
in
AP
courses
increased
by
the
end
of
the
21-22
school
year.
We
had
236
students
enrolled
in
AP
courses
and
by
the
end
of
last
year
we
had
273.
So
almost
a
40
student
increase
in
the
number
of
students
taking
AP
courses,
particular
calculus,
is
a
big
one.
We
actually
remained
exactly
the
same
beginning
and
end
of
the
year.
We
started
with
138
and
ended
with
121..
F
We
highlight
calculus
because
that's
one
of
the
most
challenging
courses-
and
we
typically
do
have
some
students
dropping
and
I-
think
that's
okay,
because
we
are
really
encouraging
lots
of
students
to
try
and
some
students.
It's
just
not
working
out
which,
as
many
of
us
who
have
taken
calculus
in
the
past,
have
found
that
it's
not
exactly
an
easy
course.
F
Our
number
of
students
enrolled
in
early
college
courses,
the
beginning
of
the
21-22
school
year
we
had
214
the
beginning
of
last
year.
We
had
325.
by
the
end
of
the
year
we
had
317,
which
was
also
an
increase
over
the
previous
year,
and
then
when
we
look
at
dual
enrollment
at
the
end
of
the
21-22
school
year,
we
had
310
students
by
the
end
of
last
year
we
had
394.,
so
we
had
394
students,
dual
enrolled,
High
School
College,
simultaneously.
F
Indicator
5
on
page
three
you'll
see
we
actually
don't
have
the
data
yet
there,
but
that's
the
percentage
of
grade
four
students
getting
a
three
or
better
in
Reading,
Writing,
Math
and
Science.
There's
a
glitch
in
the
in
the
report
card
system
that
we're
trying
to
work
out
so
we'll
have
that
data
next
time,
but
I
highlighted
it
there
just
to
let
you
know
we're
not
forgetting
about
it
indicator.
F
We
had
an
increase
in
the
number
of
students
enrolled,
as
we
said,
and
the
number
of
AP
tests
actually
taken
went
up
from
269
to
375,
which
is
a
large
increase
and
with
that
we're
Inc
we're
encouraging
students
to
challenge
themselves
and
and
take
these
tests.
But,
as
a
result,
we
did
dip
in
the
num
and
the
percentage
of
students
who
actually
got
the
three
four
or
five,
but
we're
still
proud
of
that
increase
in
the
number
of
students
taking
it.
So
it
went
from
41
percent
in
2122
to
35
percent
in
22.23.
F
Indicator
8
we're
going
to
have
to
wait
on
the
the
graduation
date.
Data
lags
a
little
bit
so
we're
still
waiting
on
that.
We
have
a
sense
of
where
it
is,
but
we
want
to
make
sure
the
numbers
are
correct.
So
we
have
to
wait
for
the
state
on
that
one
and,
if
anyone's
wondering,
The
21-22
Five-Year
graduation
rates
not
available
yet
because
those
kids
get
in.
You
know
an
extra
year
because
it's
a
five-year
rate,
so
that's
still
from
the
22-23
year.
F
This
is
really
I
didn't
highlight
green
or
red
for
any
of
these
particular
areas,
because
I
don't
want
to
say
one
option
is
better
the
other,
but
we
want
all
of
our
high
school
students
graduating
to
graduate
with
a
plan.
So
this
will
just
give
you
a
sense
of
what
percent
our
students
are
doing
each
plan,
so
55.7
percent
of
our
graduates
will
be
attending
a
two
to
four
year.
Two
or
four
year
college
33.2
percent
are
entering
directly
into
the
workforce.
F
F
F
on
page
six
indicator
11.
This
is
retention.
This
is
hard
data
to
collect,
so
we're
still
working
on
this,
but
I
wanted
to
highlight
that
we
will
have
that
for
you
by
next
month,
onto
page
seven
onto
page
eight
sorry,
our
Mobility
data,
we
we
shared
most
of
this
at
the
end
of
last
year,
but
the
final
data
we
had
451
students
leaving
the
district
and
720
students
entering
the
district
over
the
course
of
the
year.
F
So
the
final
for
grade
nine,
we
had
a
total
of
520
students,
59
of
them
failing
one
grade
or
one
class
53
of
them
having
two
failing
grades,
39
of
them
with
three
88
of
them,
with
four
or
more
for
a
total
of
46
percent,
which
was
a
decrease
over
the
previous
year
because
well
it
was
an
increase
in
the
percent,
but
a
decrease
in
that
it
wasn't
as
good
as
the
previous
year.
Previous
year
we
had
34.6
percent
and
for
grade
10.
We
had
a
total
of
437
grade.
F
10
students,
39
failed
one
class,
38
failed,
2,
33
field,
3
65
failed
four
for
a
total
percent
of
40,
which
was
also
a
dip
going
from
37
to
40
percent
and
lastly,
for
retention.
We
had
an
increase
in
the
Grade
9
students
retained
from
the
previous
year.
We
went
from
10.9
percent
to
16.4
percent,
but
we
did
have
a
large
decrease
in
our
grade.
F
H
F
F
H
Worries
at
all
yeah
and
then
the
other
question
I
had
was
actually
towards
the
end
page
nine.
On
the
retention
I'm
curious,
you
know,
I
I
feel
like
the
grade
nine
retention
in
particular
like
it's
almost
25,
then
it
goes
down
to
11.
Then
it
goes
up
to
16.
I'm
kind
of
curious.
If
you
have
any
ideas
on
like,
why
kind
of
why
it's
kind
of
so
erratic,
at
least
from
these
three
data
points,
yeah.
F
D
F
They're,
essentially
in
in
2020
2021,
we
had
a
larger
percent.
That
was
the
ones
who
who
missed
two
years
in
middle
school,
so
they
came
to
high
school
less
prepared,
and
so
you
do
see
those
you
do
see
those
fluctuations.
One
thing
to
note
with
the
retentions:
it's
not
like
in
elementary
school,
where
you
repeat,
they're,
not
actually
repeating
a
grade.
They
still
go
forward
in
a
linear
manner,
but
it's
just
a
matter
of
like
if
you
fail
three
classes.
F
H
F
F
That
I'm,
not
sure
of
but
any
any
student
who
is
eligible
to
take
a
class,
can
take
a
class.
So
we
don't
say
like
oh
you're,
not
you
didn't
pass
a
test
to
take
it.
Anyone
can
take
the
AP
classes,
but
I
think
there
are
prerequisites
so
you're
not
going
to
take
out.
You
can't
take
calculus
if
you
haven't
passed,
algebra
and
geometry,
but
yeah.
H
B
I'd
like
to
just
make
a
quick
note
of
how
for
the
early
college
courses,
how
many
more
students
are
enrolled,
or
last
year
and
I'm
so
proud
of
the
high
school
team
for
really
putting
in
the
work
to
engage
our
students
in
taking
rigorous
classes
so
shout
out
to
the
high
school
team
and
to
the
students
taking
these
courses
alrighty.
Thank
you.
Mr
lady.
B
E
Okay,
we
have
not
selected
student
reps,
yet
Mr
Morales
is
going
through
that
process.
The
next
report
is
our
Personnel
update.
So
you
can
see
you
will
see
the
longest
list
of
hires
that
it's
in
your
packet
and
of
those
hires
that
we've
had
we've
hired
54,
Caucasian,
34,
Hispanic,
seven
percent
black
and
five
percent
Asian
Pacific
Islander
and
just
a
reminder.
The
demographic
data
is
reported
as
as
as
legal
because
I
know
there
were
some
questions
in
the
past
about.
E
B
D
G
B
D
G
B
D
G
B
D
B
C
G
D
G
B
Motion
carries
next.
We
have
consideration
action
to
accept
the
recommendation
of
the
superintendent
to
approve
a
series
of
field
trips
to
Mark,
Mount,
cardigan,
New
Hampshire
for
eight
COA
students
and
two
chaperones
on
September
28th,
29th,
October,
3rd
4th,
17th,
18th,
24th
and
25th
roll
call.
Please.
D
G
B
D
H
G
H
I
guess
not,
nor
an
announcement
just
more
of
a
shout
out
to
our
staff
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
everybody
for
all
the
work
that
you've
been
putting
in
kind
of
you
know
getting
us
ready
for
our
students
and
having
our
students
in
today,
or
yesterday
was
my
first
day
as
a
CPS
parent
had
a
great
time
dropping
off
our
son.
Yeah
we've
just
had
a
fantastic
experience
to
all
the
Educators
at
the
ELC,
so
just
a
special
shout
out
to
them
on
a
personal
note,
but
yeah.
C
So
for
those
who
don't
know
what
takes
to
get
back
to
school
at
a
public
school
system,
I
have
a
lot
of
respect
for
what
the
work
teacher
staff
administrators
do.
Working
at
a
public
school
this
year
has
been
super
busy
for
us.
So
I
just
want
to
tell
my
peers
here
when
you
want
to
call
the
superintendent
at
this
time
and
moment,
because
you
need
her
for
something
and
if
she's
not
being
readily
available,
please
be
patient.
It's
not
an
easy
time
of
year
for
the
back
to
school.
C
There's
a
lot
of
ins
and
outs
to
make
sure
our
students
are
in
in
their
classrooms.
They
have
schedules
they're,
safe
and
everything
is
set.
So
thank
you.
Dr
beta
your
team
teachers,
administrators
I
always
have
respect
for
what
you
do,
but
when
you're
in
a
system
and
you're
really
seeing
it
I
truly
have
even
more
respect
for
the
work
that
is
being
done
to
educate
our
students.
So
thank
you
very
much
and
I
just
want
to
wish
everybody
a
happy,
safe,
successful
school
year
and
I
always
say
this.