Facility Committee of the BOE Reviews PCUE Healthy School Proposals and Develops a Framework for Progress

To Superintendent Epps and all Members of the Board of Education:

The Executive board of Parents and Communities United for Education would like to thank you for the Facility Meeting held on the 28th of January. It was the first time that we felt welcomed to any of the meetings that we've attended thus far.

We were very pleased about the outcome of the meeting. The open dialogue used for this meeting was especially appreciated and we all learned something from each other.

As you may know, we have been meeting with members of the board and we would like to continue doing this. Parents and Communities United for Education is a strong, dedicated and knowledgeable group of parents and community members to make our schools, safe, clean, and improve our academics. This is going to take a lot of work on both our sides. We won't agree all the time of course, but we also don't have to be at war.

Below you'll find our understanding of the discussion that occurred at the Facility Committee Meeting last Thursday, January 28th. We think this is a great FRAMEWORK for progress.

• The Walk through would start immediately for all forty schools.
• The State checklist and the proposed PCUE checklist will be one form.
• We were told that there was no reason that the walk through couldn't be done twice a year. Although there was no definitive commitment.
• There was openness to parent involvement in the walkthrough, including having a parent representative from each school, forming a Parent Advisory Committee, and also PCUE participation.
  
• There will be follow-up meetings.
• Parent notification was not discussed, but we understand that it will be part of the framework.
  

Again thank you.

LueElla McFadden, President
Parents and Communities Unite