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The LSC has selected a great principal who lead the teachers to higher standards and higher student scores.
Our LSC has helped coordinate fundraising efforts, promote an after-school program and started a blog for school posts.
We have consistently chosen to use our discretionary funds to purchase additonal classroom teachers to keep class sizes below the standard CPS size (we strive for a maximum of 25 students per class). We have also kept the focus of our School Improvement Plan and budget on maintaining our excellent fine and performing arts program, and on continuing staff development and purchase of appropriate materials to improve curriculum and instruction. LSC members have also conducted extensive outreach and marketing activities to make parents aware of what our school has to offer, in a succesful effort to increase enrollment and thereby stabilize our funding.
We have made parents more aware of the LSC importance in our school and as of now we have a complete LSC and with many new candidates running for the next elections.
By working hand-in-hand with the principal to make a better school! This has included devising ways to uphold the priorities of preserving a broad and diverse student population, maintaining smaller class sizes, integrating fine and performing arts, and bringing innovative design to classroom configurations and teaching methodology. It has also included selecting a new principal who fits well with the school and its community. It has also included re-working what the parent support organizations look like and how they function. Finally, it has collaborated with the principal to bring tuition-based pre-K to Agassiz, a very positive addition. These LSC activities have been most helpful to establish better communication, increase parental involvement, improve the efficiency of fund raising efforts, and lift the overall performance of the school as a center of learning.
We are partners in the process of educating our children. Without the LSC, parents and the community become voiceless. This must not be allowed to happen.
The LSC at the school where my children attend is not all there. They do have their differences but thank god there is an election coming up this year and hopefully we get a LSC that will be willing to work together and come up with solutions in proving the school somehow.
What has your LSC done to improve your school? work closely with the principal and staff, listen to their needs.
Our scores are @ the 70th percentile and creep up every year we have never been on probation @ Jose De Diego Community Academy, we very carefully invest our monies into our childrens education. We have kept our children ahead and look for higher advancement every year.
We have not only taken training every year but it has been with our principal. And we are able to ask questions and bring parent concerns to the table without having to worry if my child will be harrassed for her mother speaking out. Our principal will listen and work with us on any idea we feel will improve our school. Now this is a super star principal who loves his job. We will continue to improve our school with the whole LSC and the principal as a team at a school. Not a manager at a holel.
At our school we have selected a Principal that puts the students above everything. He sets expectations for the students and the staff. He is fair to everyone. When he started are test scores were 30% at or above ratings. Five years later we are 70% at or above. When all politics are put aside the LSC is able to make the best selection for their students. When he started he made sure that all the staff was placed according to their qualifications. We the LSC are always looking at our budget to be sure that the students are getting everything they need to succeed. We are always checking to be sure that the SIPAAA is being followed. Our students know him and he knows the 1400+. He is the only principal I know that can bring to a CIP meeting 3 years in a row 400 to 600 parents, students, community and Grandparents to a meeting pleading for an environment to enhance the Students learning. He is always fighting for what our students need. And that their needs are meet.
Yes!