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PPS Board Call to Action
Mon, Mar 17 7:48am

This Tuesday, March 18th @ 7:30 pm, the school board will have a general meeting at 25 Valley Road with the tentative budget adoption for next year. During public comment for this meeting, parents can advocate for programmatic changes they’d like to see that will impact the 2025-2026 budget.  

Here are some of the concerns that are being discussed by CP parents. 

  1. Inequality in class sizes for our current K class.

    • Community Park has 2 sections of 22 kindergarteners due to the cap placed on us by the district. The other three elementary schools have three sections each with 15-16 kids per class. This is 6-7 less kids per class than CP.

    • Also keep in mind that in those classes, the teacher instructs one group of students.  So they interact with 15-16 students each day.  Our kindergarten teachers interact with 44 students each day.

  2. Inequality in art education for CP students

    • The district said the part time (.6) art position would be a temporary budgetary fix for this current school year. At this time, there is no plan to reinstate the full time position. 

    • The .6 position means the students do not have access to the same art as other schools or previous CP students (ex. ceramics/clay), lack access to interdisciplinary art curriculum with their core teacher and art, and are at risk of having another new teacher next year if the current instructor chooses to take a full time position elsewhere.

  3. Displeasure at the cap for CP students 

    • The cap at Community Park means that the program is at risk for turning into a magnet school as opposed to the district program it was intended to be

    • Families outside the CP zone are not likely to get a chance at the program despite the promise of a districtwide program due to the demand from within the CP zone 

  4. Lack of clarity on who gets into the DLI program, particularly those who are in DLI pre-K but are not zoned for CP

  5. Lack of a curriculum map for all DLI students past 5th grade, including the lack of plan for rising 6th, 7th and 8th graders now that the DLI social studies teacher has resigned

  6. Lack of a curriculum guide for all ELLs making it difficult to see what these students are learning and how DLI could benefit them

This list is not exhaustive so if you have these or other concerns, Tuesday's meeting is really important to advocate for budgetary items that matter to you. If you are unable to make the meeting, you can always compose an email to send to the board and, if you’d like, ask to have it read aloud during public comment. 

 

Please email:

Thank you for your continued support of the DLI program. If you’d like to show it publicly, write an email, show up Tuesday and/or ask for a DLI lawn sign. We appreciate all of you and hope you’ll continue advocating for all of our students.

CP PTO Executive Board