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Addressing principal cooperation challenges in Summer Rising
1:59:15
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Council Member Stevens expresses concern about principals preventing CBOs from conducting parent orientations, highlighting a disconnect between DYCD requirements and school cooperation. DYCD representatives acknowledge the issue and discuss plans to prevent such incidents.
- Council Member Stevens reports instances of principals denying parent orientations
- DYCD emphasizes the importance of collaboration between CBOs and principals
- Discussion of the collaborative planning tool that should prevent such issues
Althea V. Stevens
1:59:15
But the issue isn't with the parents and them having the option.
1:59:17
The issue is if the principal is telling the CBO that they can't do it, then it gets shut down.
1:59:22
So what does that look like, especially when it's a requirement on the CBO side and not the DOE side.
1:59:27
So how do we mitigate that?
1:59:28
I mean obviously they called me and I started to be a crazy person, but how do we mitigate that because that is a factor and I had a number of parents complaining that they couldn't meet with the principal and they didn't let them have the orientation.
1:59:39
So the CBO then was doing like one on one, which I shout out to them, but that was just unfortunate.
Daniel Guillen
1:59:45
Well we want to avoid those types of incidents this year.
1:59:48
So as we hear of them because it shouldn't be happening right, CBOs and principals work on a collaborative planning tool which should include all phases of pre planning and startup to the program and parent orientations play a huge factor.
Althea V. Stevens
2:00:02
Oh I'm aware and that was a huge issue, so I just wanted to make sure and I know at the last week's hearing on Dewey, they cited that attending Summer Rising showed increase.