4.    FEE-BASED SUMMER ENRICHMENT

•    Rose Udics, a parent, attended the meeting and asked the Community Relations Subcommittee to look into a fee-based summer enrichment program for high school students. She said that many students were benefiting from the after-school program at the Ottoson but such a program did not exist at the high school level.

•    The enrichment program(s) Ms. Udics envisions would be for students at all levels (College Prep through Honors), particularly students not often enrolled in 8th-grade ACE or HS AP classes nor in immediate danger of failing.  She said she was speaking on behalf of parents at all levels.  The idea is to provide a student with individual attention to master skills or content while studying something new/different--along the lines of the ACE program or The Writers' Express camps (based at Simmons College). Core programs could run during the school year in the evenings (as a "tutoring center" for content review or skill building), but with the greater variety of creative courses or modules offered during the summer.

•    Ms. Udics noted that the current Writing Center at the HS is available during the school year/day only to a small number of "struggling students."

•    She suggested that this might be addressed through the Community Education Program or the high school principal.

•    Mr. Thielman agreed to discuss this request with Superintendent Levenson.
  
The meeting adjourned at 5:48 p.m.  Motion by Mr. Spangler, second by Ms. Sheffler. Approved 3-0. 

Next Meeting:    Monday, July 7th at 3:00 p.m.  

[Note: The School Committee has five subcommittees:  Budget, Curriculum, Policies & Procedures, Community Relations, and District Accountability. Much school-related work occurs at these subcommittee meetings. These sessions are places where the public can have input into School Committee work.]

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