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Brown Monitor J Melissa R. Guldin Associate Monitor Bob Morgan Associate Monitor Horace R. Smith Associate Monitor Connie L. Hickman Associate Monitor Margie L. Powell Associate Monitor Polly Ramer Office Manager J., INTRODUCTION 1 Mission of the Office of Desegregation Monitoring I an arm of the United States District The Office of Desegregation Monitoring (ODM) is Court which serves the Eastern District of Arkansas. The ODM was created by the Court of Aopeals for the Eighth Circuit and ordered into law by the district court in a January . ______ . . II. 1. _ .__^1________________________________________________e-/*kz\\/\\l Hictripfc that vested the Office wi \"the authority to monitor the school districts 1991 decree that vested the Office with me auinoniy lu iuuuuui_u compliance with the settlement plans and settlement agreement, including any future modifications of, or additions to, such plans and agreement. Both professionally and personally, each ODM staff member values children and is vital component of a free and healthy committed to quality desegregated education as a society. The ODM staff has pledged to help build the essential partnership between our ' . . f . _ _ ___ .u.. that ic legal system, schools, and community in order to achieve the equitable education that is each childs constitutional birthright. 1 ] The ODM staff are professionals with a broad range of educational, legal, financial, and business management experience among them. They are fuUy qualified to observe and of nrnm-P rmvard the desesresation goals. All ODM staff members assess the rate progress toward desegregation goals. willingly share their expertise with the school districts and, when requested, provide technical assistance in a cooperative spirit of support. 1 ODM Monitoring Philosophy ! The ODMs monitoring is an ongoing process of collecting and analyzmg information about e efforts being applied toward reaching the goals and objectives specified desegregation plans and court orders. Assessing the effectiveness of those efforts both ~  . I _ ______1   ...Um* 1C QiCO an determine whats working and what needs work is also an individually and collectively, to important part of ODMs monitoring mission. The ODM assists the court in determining the parties compliance with both the letter Md spirit of the agreements ey have made. It also coUects and interprets information that  ... J_________r^accnrannft keeps the entire community informed of the desegregation progress, providing reassurance that a vigilant watch is being kept. The ODM can uncover developing problems, point to changes that may be needed, and suggest corrective action to prevent falling short of the desegregation goals. The ODM also highlights the school districts successes and joins the court and community in applauding progress. J - ii -The Incentive Schools Monitoring Report I 1 Background This report focuses on implementation of the desegregation plan in the Little Rock School Districts seven incentive schools during the 1991-92 school year. These schools, which are attended predominately by black children, have many enhancements that include programs, activities, personnel, equipment, and a funding level that are found m none of the district s other schools. The Court of Appeals has termed the incentive schools crucial to the success of the desegregation plan and, therefore, these schools and their programs have been given monitoring priority by the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. Monitoring Process ODM follows a systematic approach to monitoring based upon a process which is described below and iUustrated with examples of the incentive schools momtonng report that is the substance of this document: ] 1. Generic statistical information is identified, logged, and summarized. ] The ODM monitoring instruments are referred to as \"guides\" because they guide the foc^ of monitoring observation and reporting. The Elementary School Momtonng Gui e contains general school information such as student enrollment, st^fmg, retention an discipline, inservice training, community involvement, and so forth. This ^ormauon, which comes primarily from the monitors direct observation of school records and operanons, provides an overtill picture of a particular school commumty. 2. The monitors identify the legal obligations of the desegregation plan and review the monitoring guides with school district administrators. The provisions of the desegregation plan contain the substance of the legal obUgations e school districts have pledged to fulfUl. In this report, the provisions that spec^c^y refer to the incentive schools have been concisely summarized and listed m each school s report under e title of Incentive School Monitoring Guide. An preparation for monitoring, the ODM staff reviewed the monitoring process and ^des ' with district administrators. After answering questions, discussing concerns, and shanng ideas, there was a general understanding of the ODM monitoring approach and agreement that it was reasonable and fair. J A page number foUows each provision summary in the Incentive School Momtonng Guide to identify where that provision is located in the desegregation plan. When momtonng the incentive schools began in the faU of 1991, an appeal was stUl pendmg before the court on the parties proposed revised desegregation plans, so the onginal 1989 settlement plans of those 1989 plans had been assigned a sequential JDR (Joint were in effect. Each page of ose 1989 plans han Deen assigncu a Designated Record) number by the court. This is the plan reference number found m the Monitoring Guides. The JDR reference numbers are also used m the Updated formation that follows each schools Guides. Any references in this report to the page numbers of the April 29,1992 revised settlement plans are noted as such. - iii -3. Monitors assess the compliance status of each obligation. The ODM monitors then determine the compliance status of each provision and note their findings. Through observations, interviews, and a review of all sorts of documents, the monitors assess the degree to which each plan provision \"Sources of Information\", below.) I being implemented. (See is 4. Updated information is collected and added to the monitoring report. ] Monitors visited the incentive schools during October and November 1991. They collected follow-up information throughout the school year until May 27, 1992, including two more visits to each school in the spring. To document progress at each school, updated information has been appended to each schools fall_ monitoring report accordmg to the categories and provisions listed in the Monitoring Guides. 5. Preliminary draft reports are completed and shared with appropriate district personnel. Although monitors strive for absolute accuracy, mistakes can occur. To minimize factu^ or recording errors in ODM reports, the monitors have personaUy reviewed each school s monitoring report with at schools principal and asked for feedback on the accuracy of the data upon which the reports rest. Likewise, the draft reports have been shared with district administrators. This preliminary sharing process enhances report accuracy and completeness by uncovering data errors and allowing incorporation of any additional information that sharpens the that can contribute to e innately monitoring picture. It also helps alleviate surprises threatening nature of being monitored. Since ODMs purpose is not to catch the distncts, but to help them be successful in meeting their desegregation goals, the momtors make every effort to operate fairly and in good faith with the school districts. Reviewmg the preliminary reports with district personnel promotes the open communication and understanding that is basic to the desegregation partnership between the ODM and the school districts. 6. Completed monitoring reports are the parties. filed with the district court and distributed to aU of and the three county school districts, the Joshua Intervenors (on behalf of black The court and the three county school distncts, tne josnua micivcuuia vuu children), and the Knight Intervenors (on behalf of the counts teachers) receive copies of the Incentive Schools Monitoring Report as does each incentive school principal and staff. J Sources of Information The incentive schools monitoring reports are based upon three primary types of information. Site visits: Each incentive school was formally visited by an ODM monitoring team in October or November and twice again by monitors in the spring. Monitors observed aU areas of each campus and school building, including most classrooms. During some visits. - iv -monitors shared lunch and conversation with students and staff at noontime. Throughout the course of the year, monitors also observed all manner of meetings, attended training sessions, and participated in school and district special events. Interviews: During the school site visits, team members met at length with the principal and talked with some teachers and other staff as well as a few students. Throughout the school year, there were occasional phone conversations and meetings between the monitors and the incentive school principals as well as numerous meetings, telephone conversations, and written communication among district administrators and the ODM staff. Written information: Information was gleaned from all manner of written sources including School Profiles, monthly Little Rock School District Desegregation Updates, Quarterly Reports, memoranda, letters, reports, budgets, fund balance sheets, agenda and minutes of various group meetings, district press releases, court submissions and exhibits, court orders, hearing transcripts, and the desegregation plans. 1 Report Organization This report is organized into three parts, beginning with this introductory section. The second part is comprised of seven individual but parallel incentive school reports and updated information. Section three follows with an overall summary of the monitors findings along with their conclusions and recommendations. The recommendations are offered as suggestions for achieving compUance with the legal obligations set out in the desegregation plans and for improving the services essential to meeting the desegregation goals. J J - V -I OFFICE OF DESEGREGATION MONITORING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONITORING GUIDE I ) Franklin Elementary Incentive School Little Rock School District b 1 Franklin Davis, Principal I Monitoring Visit Date: November 14,1991 Publication Date: June 5,1992 JSCHOOL ENROLLMENT grade BLACK WHITE OTHER TOTAL % BLACK LEVEL F M F M F M 4 yr. 17 25 36 36 31 25 29 35 Self-C TOTAL 241 14 23 29 27 25 17 26 24 187 12 41 13 30 60 56 75 66 63 49 64 64 10 507 52% 86% 87% 95% 89% 86% 86% 92% 90% 84% PERCENT 48% 37% 8% 6% 1% 1% .. 364 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 72 12 448 % Blk % Blk % Blk 81% 343 59 411 83% 428 71 501 84% K 3 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 B 0 T B 1 1 7 2 4 4 4 4 1 W 3 1 3 1 3 3 3 1 0 0 T 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 9 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 B W 0 8  T accordance with the language of the desegregation plan, students are identified as either etKnic ^upe (rack ae Asian or Hispanic, of other racial or c......-  - . . ^iimprates these children in a separate category designated as . are counted atom wlrh ^ki.e-entden.s Irt c^at \"other.\" However, these \"other the monitoring reports to remain ------------ desegregation plan. Percentages are rounded to in consistent with the two racial categories identified in the the nearest whole number. 1 J Data Summary: Data compiled from the Franklin J White students comprise 16% of the present   I School Profile and October 1 enrollment data for the last fcee w^\"indicates a 1991-92 increase of 96 students over the 1990-91 enrollment of 411. three years maicates a --------enrollment. This percentage remained virtually sum': itogh?h?numbe\nof white itudentt shows a 16% XTm incr^e ta e year. The increase in the number of white students was offset by a 25% increase number of black students since the 1990-91 school year. Page 2CLASS ENROLLMENT TEACHER CLASS ENROLLMENT J GRADE OR SUBJECT 4 yr. 4 yr. 4 yr. K K K 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 Self NAME OF TEACHER Parish Beatty Winston McGee Carpen. Kennedy Cokely Davis Bridges McNulty Scrubbs Smith Hammons Matheny Davis Buck Garner Sharp Callaw. Brown Eddy Carter Giles Clayton Room 6 BLACK WHITE OTHER BLACK WHITE OTHER TOTAL ENROLL-  MENT % I I i i BLACK! M F X X X X X X M X F X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X M F M 5 6 6 8 9 8 9 8 11 8 12 12 12 11 11 9 12 13 10 10 9 11 12 12 7 F 5 5 4 9 1 7 10 8 4 7 10 9 8 8 8 9 11 6 8 9 9 8 7 9 2 M 4 4 4 3 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 F M F 5 4 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 20 20 20 20 17 19 20 20 17 18 22 22 22 24 19 20 25 24 23 22 19 22 21 21 10 50% 55% j 50% 85% 94% 19^ 95% 80% 88% 83% 100% 95% 91% 79% 100% 90% 92% 79% 78% 86% 95% 86% 90% 100% 90% Page 3 CLASS ENROLLMENT (continued) Data Summary/Site Observations (composition, student/teacher ratio, seating patterns. grouping): Data compiled from the School Profile indicates that Franklin has three all black Masses and nine classes in which 90-95% of the students are black. White emoUment isJy^est mj^^ classes (50%, 45%, 50%), a fifth grade class (22%), and a kindergarten three four-year-old (--------. - nio/ u- class, a third grade class, and a fourth grade class all at 21% white. Class sizes range from 17 students in two classes to one class of 25 students, excluding the self-contained special education class. In the L^SD pre-K and toderg^ten exceed 20 students and special education classes are smaUer than regular classes. Eleven classes at other grade levels contain more than 20 students. The average class size in grades 1-6, excluding the self-contained special education class, is 21. Some class assignments have resulted in racial isolation of individual white children m a class at the kindergarten, first, second, and fifth grades. Central Association (NCA), Franklin is required to adhere to As a member of the North Central Association (NCAj, rranxim is vv, standards, NCA Standard 24.04C as published m 1990 states that pre-  .. 1 O \\*/1 f'n ft I NCA class size standards, NCA Stanoarn as classes for cluldren two to four years of age shall not exceed 18. With studems^ eacrfom^^^ is out of compliance with NCA standards. Heterogeneous grouping by race was observed in most dasses visit^ However, during observed. It was explained by the SKSOTS \"rXS  Z at a dure and dra. ieacbcrs a. dmes .o a few dassroon.. cbUdren were observed only or boys only groups show and tell. lUCL. lU a ivw ------- J  1  . One teachers schedule allotted separate time for boys and girls J J Page 4STAFFING/SCHOOL PERSONNEL BLACK WHITE OTHER j POSITION M F M F M F TOTAL % BLACK Administrators:  Principal 1 1 100%  Asst. Principal 1 1 0 Teachers:  Classroom 5 1 18 24 21%  Vocational Counselor 1 1 0 Librarian 1 1 Remedial/Compensatory\n Reading 1 1 2 50%  Mathematics 2 2 0 Gifted/Talented 1 1 0 Resource Teacher 2 2 100% J Speech Therapist Music Art PE Auxiliary Teacher SUB TOTAL (CERTIFIED) SUB TOTAL PERCENT Attendance Clerk Cafeteria Workers Custodians Media Clerk Registrar Secretary 1 1 100% 1 1 1 1 100% 1 1 1 1 0 100% 100% 3 8% 2 10 25% 4 1 1 3% 26 65% 1 1 1 40 33% 5 3 1 1 80% 100% 0 0 Page 5STAFFING/SCHOOL PERSONNEL (continued) 1 I 1 1 I J J BLACK WHITE OTHER POSITION Nurse Social Worker Security Officer Instructional Aides Supervision Aides SUB TOTAL (NON-CERT.) SUB TOTAL PERCENT TOTAL PERCENT Data Summary/Site Observations: TOTAL % BLACK M F M F 1 6 8 24% 11 15% M F 1 0 10 4 19 58% 29 40% According to the School Profile, Frankhn has a 1 1 18 4 1 5 33 3% 15% 2 3% 31 73 42% 89% 100% 82% 55% total staff of 73. Overall, 55% of the staff is black. Blacks comprise------------- Examination of data reveals that at the , classroom teachers are black, at the primary level (1-3) 30% in m. above char, and 33% of U,e 40 cernfjed perso^el early cluldhood level (pre-K and kindergarten) none of the are black, and at the intermediate level (4-6) 25% are black. Franklin has a non-certified staff of 33, 82% of whom are black according to the School Profile. Page 6STAFF development CERTIFIED STAFF Number completing SUPPORT STAFF Number completing SPECIFIC TRAINING RELATED TO: Prior to During Prior to During 1991-92 1991-92 1991-92 1991-92 1 Educational Equity I 1 J Prejudice Reduction Human Relations Interpersonal/Cross Cultural Equity Related TESA IDEA 40 37 37 Multicultural Curriculum Delivery 17 10 33 Cooperative Learning 11 Student Achievement Enhancement/Discipline Steps to Effective Teaching Gifted and Talented Reading Whole Language Math High Scope Computer PET (1 cycle) PET (2 cycles) PET (3 cycles) 18 1 3 40 Other Staff Development 40 8 40 31 7 8 Page 7STAFF DEVELOPMENT (continued) CERTIFIED STAFF Number completing SUPPORT STAFF Number completing SPECIFIC TRAINING RELATED TO: Prior to During 1 1991-92 1991-92 Prior to 1991-92 During 1991-92 other Staff Development (continued) Assertive Discipline 20 Discipline Management 33 Classroom Management 37 Parent/Teacher Conferences 40 Note: Staff development data includes inservice training completed prior to the current school year. All percentages noted in this report were calculated using the number of 1991-92 staff numbers. Data Summary/Site Obsenations: Franklin School Profile staff development records for certified personnel indicate 100% participation in Prejudice Reduction, Whole Language, Math, Computer, and Parent/Teacher Confer^ces. The participation rate for training in Human Relations, Interpersonal/Cross-Cultural, and Classroom Management is 93%. Staff development records indicate that 100% of the support staff has participated in equity-related training and discipline management. J Page 8EXTRACURRICULAR/CO-CURRICULAR ACHVITIES TOTAL MEMBERSHIP ADULT SPONSORS 1 1 activity Fire Marshals Drama Drama BLACK M F 1 WHITE M 2 OTHER TOTAL % BLACK B W O TOTAL % BLACK F M F M F M F M F 13 85% 1 1 0 (1-3) (4-6) Girl Scouts Boy Scouts Computer Club Dance Writers (1-3) Writers (4-6) 15 10 48 24 16 13 13 8 9 46 32 30 12 9 2 1 1 3 4 2 2 4 1 25 21 49 52 60 50 26 22 92% 90% 94% 92% 93% 92% 96% 100% 1 4 1 1 3 1 1 2 100% 2 3 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 5 3 4 2 2 0 0 80% 33% 75% 0 50% s EXTENDED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS BLACK WHITE OTHER PROGRAM (GRADES) TOTAL % BLACK Saturday Program (Franklin Students, October 5) (Franklin Students, October 19) 12- 15 92% 93% Note: The data provided on Franklin represents the total number of students who attended Saturday UUtU ---- --- - ... J- 1 activities on the Dates indicated. Totals may represent the same or different students participatmg from week to week, as data did not indicate how regularly individual students take part in the program. Data Summary/Site Observations (types of activities, number, rates of participation): The Franklin School Profile reveals that nine extracurricular activities are offered, all during Extended Day. The average club membership is 35 students. The largest activity is the Computer Club wth 60 participants. The Fire Marshals group has the largest percentage of white participants with 15%. Eight of the activities have more than one sponsor, and four have There are 24 activity sponsors. biracial sponsorship. Overall, 46% of the activity sponsors are black. Page 9 M F M F M F 5 6 1 6 8 1CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION 1 Multicultural guides and materials are used to teach basic skills in all subject areas.  MUlllClUVUrai gUlQcb dUU LUxtlCi lai^ ttiv U3VU VW wuvu a  The contributions of varied groups are included as an integral part of the curriculum 1 in all subject areas. .  Multicultural materials are available in all resource centers in a range of mterest and reading levels. ....  Bulletin boards, posters, charts, and other visual aids depicting cultural diversity are displayed throughout the school. Site Observations: 1 Throughout the school, materials and displays representative of multicultural awareness were IgllVUl Miv ---------------------------------------------- i , evident. Some classroom displays focused on African-American heritage throug Others focused on a broader posters and descriptions of well-known personalities. understanding and respect for cultural and ethnic diversity such as the display which featured the symbolic colors red, white, black, brown, and yellow representing the five races in the United States. There was evidence of emphasis being placed on e development of \"ethnic vocabulary by defining words such as similarity, differences, immigrant, etc. Bulletin boards and visuals which didnt have specifically \"multicultural\" themes still reflected a consciousness of diversity through the variety of individuals pictured.  Adequate equipment and materials are present.  An active learning environment is present (e.g., leammg centers, displays, independent/group work areas).  Teachers utilize a variety of teaching methods. _i Site Observations: Student work was on display throughout Franklins central hallway. Every level of the school was decorated with bright art and notices regarding National Childrens Book Week were prominent. In each classroom visited, the goals for the district and the school were posted. Reading centers were present in every classroom visited on the early childhood and primary levels. In the upper grades, few designated reading centers were observed. An active learning environment was also observed in the classrooms of younger children. Many children rotated between small groups for instruction and activities such as art and cooking were observed in more than one classroom. Some active learning was also observed in the upper grades. A math application lesson which simulated shopping and budget preparation was observed. In some classrooms, however, instruction was primarily lecture and whole group instruction. Page 10TEST DATA 1 Data Summary: Test data provided by the LRSD reflects the achievement of Franklin students on the two standardized tests they took in 1990-91: The Arkansas Minimum Performance Test (AMPT), administered to third and sixth graders, and the Metropolitan Achievement Test-6 (MAT-6), given to students in grades one through six. A review of Franklins AMPT results from 1988 to 1991 reveals a substantial increase in reading and math pass rates for third grade black males during this four year period. Black females also increased their reading and math pass rates during this time, although not quite as significantly. Both groups experienced some decline in pass rates in 1990\nhowever, pass rates increased in all categories for both groups in 1991. AMPT pass rates for black males in the sixth grade at Franklin improved in reading, mathematics, and language arts for 1991\nhowever, there has been a steady decline in pass rates in science and social studies for the same grade level since 1989. AMPT 1991 pass rates for sixth grade Franklin black females improved in all categories when compared to pass rates for 1990. Despite that, mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies pass rates for this population have steadily declined since 1989. After a decline in 1989 and 1990, the reading pass rate was again equal to the 100% pass rate for 1988. Analysis of 1991 MAT-6 distribution data at Franklin reflects that black males achieved a pass rate at or above 50% in only two out of thirty cases (third and sixth grade math). This pass rate is 6%, at or above 50%. Pass rates of black males exceeded those of black females only five times out of thirty, or 17% of the time. Black females achieved a MAT-6 pass rate at or above 50% in eleven out of thirty cases, representing a 37% pass rate in the 50% or better range. MAT-6 results indicate a clear disparity in pass rates between Frankhns black males and females. Black female pass rates at or above 50% are almost 66% greater than those of black males. The disparity gets even larger when comparing the pass rates of black males with those of white students. White males achieved pass rates at or above 50% in 22 of 30 cases, or 73% of the time. White females achieved pass rates at or above 50% in 24 out of 30 cases, or 80% of the time. Franklin black students in grades one through six achieved an average MAT-6 pass rate of 43% on the Complete Battery . White students in those grades achieved an average pass rate of 60%. The poorest pass rate (37%) occurred in the second grade for black students. The best pass rate (50%) occurs in the sixth grade where black females achieved or exceeded a pass rate of 50% on four out of five tests. Page 11STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT I Students Retained BLACK WHITE OTHER GRADE LEVEL TOTAL % BLACK Kindergarten 100% 78% 100% 100% TOTAL 15 17 94% PERCENT 88% 6% 6% M F M F M F 1 2 3 4 3 3 7 1 1 9 4 4 1 1 1 1 Data Siunmaiy/Site Observations: Data was compiled from the School Profile. Black males make up 50% of the student population in grades K-6, but 88% of the students retained were black males. Sixteen out of the 17 students retained were black meaning that 94% of the students retained were black. Black students make up 89% of the student body in grades K-6. J There is a disparity in the percentage of black students retained in relation to their percentage of the student body, particularly with respect to the black male student population. Page 12SPECIAL SERVICES/PROGRAMS ENROLLMENT BLACK WHITE OTHER PROGRAM TOTAL % BLACK Self Contained 10 90% LD Resource 19 68% M F M F M F 7 2 1 9 4 6 EMR Resource Speech Visually Impaired Hearing Impaired Gifted/Talented 14 13 36 75% Remedial/Compensatory 147 66 222 96% 3 2 3 1 5 4 Data Summary/Site Obsenations (grouping, materials, equipment, location, etc.): 1 Data was compiled from the School Profile. Black students comprise 90% of the students in the self contained class\nof that proportion, 70% are black males. In grades 1-6, including the CBI class, blacks comprise 89% of the student body, and black males make up 51% of this population. Black students account for 96% of the students assigned to remedial/ compensatory education classes\n66% of these students are black males. J The 27 black students assigned to gifted/talented classes represent 75% of the gifted/talented enrollment. Since only elementary students in grades 3-6 are eligible for gifted/talented classes, comparisons are restricted to the eligible population. Black students at Franklin represent 88% of the population at the third through sixth grade. Black male students in special education and/ or remedial programs are proportionally overrepresented. Page 13! GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING Data Summary (types of services, number of counseling sessions, students served, etc.): According to the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools, Section IX., A3., \"the ratio for the elementary level shall be not less than one (1) counselor for every four hundred fifty (450) students beginning with the 1989-90 school year.\" At the time of the monitoring visit, the counselor was serving a student population of 507 including the four- year-olds. The counselors office was very nicely furnished and well equipped. However, the counselor shares a reception area with the speech teacher, an arrangement that could compromise privacy for students and/or parents. The counselor also was in charge of the clothes closet for needy children. The clothes' closet was in an inconvenient location at the time of our visit, and did not have a permanent location. This situation could create unnecessary traffic during counseling sessions. The counselor stated that she provided individual, small group, and classroom guidance services. She also said that she often acted in the place of a social worker, buying clothes, referring for social services, and working on home and school issues. She presents guidance units 24 times a month to the classrooms. Students are allowed to self refer, however, according to the counselor, she escorts the students to her office. Site Observations (guidance and counseling services address students needs, make students aware of their options, and are supportive of strategies and interventions to help students be successful in school and life): The counselor indicated that she was developing an informal peer counseling system. She is also responsible for the Super Stars Program, Birthday Table, Flag Monitors, Fire Marshals, and the Ambassadors. J The counselor said that she has two small groups currently in operation which focus on getting along and self control. The group concentrating on learning self control consists of three boys who were referred by their classroom teachers. Page 14DISCIPLINE, SUSPENSION, EXPULSION 1 BLACK WHITE OTHER actions TOTAL % BLACK M F M F M F Suspensions 1 ! 8 1 1 Expulsions Documentation:  Short Form 0 0  Long Form 100% 100% 8 1 1 Alternative School Referrals Data Summary/ Site Obsenations (suspension/expulsion patterns, behavior documentation): J Data was compiled from the School Profile. Eight students have been suspended so far this school year: seven black males and one black female. Black students represent 100% of the students suspended, yet only 89% of the K-6 student population. Eighty-eight percent of the students suspended were black males, however, they make up just 50% of the K-6 student population. According to additional data submitted by the principal, of the teachers who referred the students for suspension, three suspensions involved black male teachers, one involved a white male teacher, and four involved white female teachers. Three students were suspended from grade three, three from grade four, and two from grade six. There was no evidence of a discipline policy written in collaboration with students and staff. ( ( * Page 15PARENT/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PROGRAMS School/ Community Partnerships According to the principal, Central Arkansas Rehabilitation Hospital is Franklin s business partner. The principal reported that the hospital volunteers dressed up in costumes for Halloween, released balloons during Red Ribbon Week, started a clothes closet for students and their families, and have hosted two luncheons. In addition, Franklin students wrote letters to patients at the hospital and the four-year-old students took a field trip to the hospital and sang to patients and staff. School Volunteer Programs The principal stated that VIPS, Partners in Education, and the PTA comprise Franklins volunteer programs. VIPS records revealed that Franklin had 50 volunteers serving students in various activities ranging from office and classroom assistance to field trips, totaling 98 hours for August through October. Parent Involvement Programs The Incentive School Parent Contract states that parents \"will be an active member of the \" The parent/teacher organization and attend all meetings and other school functions, principal reported that Franklins PTA membership drive was in progress at the time of the monitoring visit. PTA records revealed that Franklins PTA consists of 100 black members and 35 white members, totaling 135 members as of November 14,1991. The Franklin PTA has elected officers and has Membership, Program, and Homeroom Parents Committees. The PTA board meets monthly and PTA meetings have been scheduled for September, November, December, February, and May. According to sign-in sheets, 173 parents attended Parent Night on September 5,1991, and 79 parents attended Open House on September 24,1991. I Page 16PARENT/ COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS VOLUNTEER POSITIONS BLACK WHITE OTHER TOTAL % BLACK M F M F M F VIPS Chairperson 1 i 100% 1 1 Data Summary (racial/gender balance, types of positions, etc.): The VIPS Chairperson list dated October 14,1991, reflects that one black volunteer serves as Franklins VIPS Chairperson. The LRSD has not compiled racial and gender data on their volunteers. Volunteer data recorded includes the volunteers name and address, the activity or volunteer job, service time period, and total of volunteer hours contributed. According to VIPS records, Franklin has had 50 volunteers providing office and classroom assistance, totaling 98 hours for August through October. I Site Observations (evidence that volunteers are welcome and well managed through adequate orientation, training, work space, ongoing support, recognition, and records, and that a mechanism is in place for staff to request and utilize a variety of volunteer services, etc.): According to the principal, volunteer training is provided to volunteers through VIPS. VIPS has not compiled data by school on the number of volunteers who attend volunteer training. Volunteers are provided with an orientation to the school by the principal and/or staff members working with volunteers. A sign welcoming volunteers was located on the front door and volunteer handouts were located in the office near the volunteer sign-in sheet. Volunteers work in classrooms and the office. The principal stated that staff members request and recruit volunteers to help in their classrooms and with school activities. I Page 17PARENT/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PARENT/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT BLACK WHITE OTHER TOTAL % BLACK M F M F M F COMMITTEES Biracial Committee 67% School Improvement Committee 50% 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 PTA/PTSA/PTO 1 i i PTA 100 35 135 74% PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES TEACHER CLASS ENROLLMENT CLASS % BLACK BLACK CONFERENCES WHITE OTHER TOTAL % BLACK X T i Data Summary/ Site Observations (racial/ gender balance, committee membership, goals, objectives, agendas, minutes, support, recognition, etc.): Committee data compiled from Franklins School Profile and the principals records indicates that two black parents and one white parent serve on the Biracial Committee and one white parent and one black parent serve on the School Improvement Committee. The principal reported that committee agendas and minutes were not available. PTA records revealed that Franklins PTA is comprised of 100 black members and 35 white members. Names of PTA officers and committee chairpersons and a schedule of PTA meetings were available for review. The principal stated that PTA and committee membership lists were being compiled and that PTA goals, objectives, meeting agendas, and minutes have not been kept. A sample review of two classes with a total of 44 student files revealed that 36 parent/teacher conferences had been conducted as of November 14, 1991. The LRSD does not compile parent/teacher conference documentation by race. The district parent/teacher conference form includes a place for the teacher to list the students strengths, needs, how the parent will help, and how the teacher will help. The teacher and the parent are to sign the parent/teacher conference form sheet. Page 18FACILITIES AND SECURITY  The campus and building are clean and free of debris and graffiti.  Hallways are clean and well maintained.  Facilities for special education are designed to meet the needs of the students served.  Adequate, appropriate playground equipment is present.  Restrooms are adequate (cleanliness, number, supplies).  Classrooms are in good repair with adequate heating/ ventilation.  Kitchen facilities provide adequate ventilation, traffic patterns, and safety provisions.  School district safety procedures are in evidence. Site Observations: The general appearance of Franklin School is clean and neat. Both the exterior and the interior give a positive impression to visitors. The newest wing which houses the media center and the early childhood classrooms, is most attractive. Despite the visual appeal of these classrooms, there are some problems in the design. There are no bathrooms in the early childhood classrooms. The rooms have sinks, but they are too tall for the children to reach. Ten classrooms of young children must share one set of bathrooms located in this wing.  A teacher explained that these classrooms were originally constructed for intermediate students which would explain some of the design - age group inconsistencies. The classrooms also are fully carpeted without a tiled or \"wet\" area for students. The building has some impressive new kitchen additions, including a state of the art chemical based fire extinguishing system, and a new kettle and braising skillet. Some areas of the building are in need of repair. The schools roof has been a constant source of trouble for years and several leaks were observed, including one in the teachers bathroom in the new wing. There is a cracked skylight in the resource room and graffiti was observed near room 17. Page 19i OFFICE OF DESEGREGATION MONITORING INCENTIVE SCHOOL MONITORING GUIDE Franklin Elementary Incentive School Little Rock School District Franklin Davis, Principal Monitoring Visit Date: November 14,1991 J Publication Date: June 5,1992 Page 20INCENTIVE SCHOOL PROGRAM \"The purpose of the incentive school program is to promote and ensure academic excellence in schools that have been difficult to desegregate. It is beUeved that the incentive school nrogram will not only compensate the victims of segregation, but the program wall also serve as a tool for promoting meaningful and long-lasting desegregation in these schools and in the entire school district.\" (LRSD 1989 Desegregation Plan, JDR 2233) 1. The incentive program is successful in desegregating the school. (JDR 2233-34) STATUS: The figures below were taken from LRSD enrollment data for the last three school years. As the figures indicate, there are 64 more black students now enroUed m Franklin than there were two years ago and 85 more black students than last year. e number of white students is presently 79. The white enrollment has increased this yey by 11 students over the 1990-91 figure. Despite that increase, the percentage of black students has increased from 81% two years ago to the current 84%. Franklins Enrollment 364 1989-90 72 0 12 448 % Blk 81% 343 1990-91 59 411 % Blk 83% 428 1991-92 71 507 % Blk 84% B W T B w 0 T B W 9 0 8 T 2 The Incentive School Program Committee has explored the possible use of a trust fund to provide college scholarship incentives. The costs of implementing a scholmship program have been determined and feasibility of a trust fund has been assessed. (JDR 2234) STATUS: According to LRSD Desegregation Status Reports dated August 22, 1991 and the Scholarship Program Committee has prepared a proposal to be September 10, 1991, the Scholarship Program Committee nas preparcu a resubmitted to the parties for final approval. ODM had not received a copy of the proposal at the time this report was prepared. 3. The Incentive School Program Parent Council functions as a districtwide council of incentive school parents. Membership includes two parents from each incentive school and four appointed by Joshua. The CouncU monitors all activities related to the incentive school J program and reports quarterly. (JDR 2236) the Parent Council membership list, two parents from each incentive school have agreed to serve on the Incentive School Parent Council. The LRSD STATUS: According to Desegregation Facilitator reported on November 4,1991 that LRSD had not received the names of the four members appointed by Joshua and that no meeungs had been scheduled. Page 21ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT 4. The four-year-old program uses the High Scope curriculum model and a parent component is incorporated into the program. (JDR 2238) STATUS\nStaff development records indicated that prior to this school year, four-year-old teachers received High Scope training. Teachers interviewed stated that this trainmg was provided in the form of a half day orientation. It was also stated that an anuouncement was made at a meeting of the four-year-old teachers that High Scope was \"out . In place of the High Scope program, teachers were instructed to use the LRSD Curriculum Handbook for Early Childhood Education (Four-year Old Program) which utilizes some aspects o a modified High Scope approach. According to the LRSD Early childhood Coordinator, the parent component of aU incentive schools consists of parent conferences, parent workshops, parents as volunteers and resource persons. A parent workshop was held at Franklin on October 28, 1991. 5. Writing to Read labs are in place for grades K-2 at each school. (JDR 2238) 1 I STATUS- Franklin has a Writing to Read lab for use by kindergarten and first ^ade classes The lab is housed in a separate room and is located on the same level of the building as the students served by the lab. The principal stated that the funds to eqmp^the DUUUiUK Ob UiC iiuutiiuo .zj ------A . , J L A lab were not part of the incentive school funding, but were provided by the Area School Achievement Grant which Franklin received during the 1990-91 school year. 6. An Early Prevention of School FaUure model is used in all kindergarten classes. There are regularly scheduled parent/teacher conferences. (JDR 2238) of the EPSF records and classroom observation indicated that the STATUS- Examination of the EPSF records and classroom ooservduuu m program was functioning in the school. AU student learning profiles and class modality grids appeared to be in order. The very full kindergarten schedule aUowed only 45 mmutes for ________________z. nnp hmir EPSr Early Prevention small groups\nit is customary to allow a minimum of one hour for EPSF J groups. 7. Reading and oral expression are infused throughout all curriculum areas. (JDR 2239) STATUS- In touring the halls, the emphasis on books and reading was omnipresent. Our visit took place during Childrens Book Week and the displays were a constant reminder of book centered activities. The library clerk explained that a different activity had been planned for each day to highlight Book Week. Some activities included opportunities for the students to dress up. J Page 22I J 8. Learning styles inventories are used in each school to assist teachers in varying their teaching styles to match students learning styles. (JDR 2239) STATUS: While the teachers at Franklin have established files with student SEP s, there are no learning styles inventories. The principal stated that teachers had expressed a desire for additional training in the proper administration of the inventories. He said that this is Franklins first year as an incentive school and the majority of the staff is new to the school and all are new to the extra responsibilities of an incentive school. All training required to prepare the staff for the additional record keeping was scheduled during a pre-school workshop. Many of the staff felt that too much information was covered in too little time. The principal felt that, as a result, some elements of the incentive school program might not be operative. 9. School themes are developed at the each school by parents and staff and are integrated into the curriculum. (JDR 2239) STATUS: In the past, Franklins theme was computers. The principal stated that it was announced by the Desegregation Facilitator at the November meeting of the incentive school principals that themes \"were on\" for the 1992-93 school year. If the themes are fully implemented by 1992-93, the district will be in compliance with the terms of the August Stay Order. 10. Instructional technology is present in labs and individual classrooms. (JDR 2239) STATUS: Every classroom visited contained several types of instructional technology: tape recorders, record players, filmstrip projectors, overhead projectors, TVs, VCRs, computers, and listening stations. Franklin has only two labs, the computer lab and the Writing to Read lab. The status of technology in these areas is discussed in #5 and #12. 11. Science labs with adequate equipment, materials, and supplies are avaUable for students in grades 3-6. (JDR 2239) STATUS: There is no separate science lab in the building. The principal stated that science equipment is set up in the science teachers rooms. Franklin is semidepartmentalized for science and social studies instruction in grades 3-6. The equipment to stock the classroom labs was ordered this year by the Science Supervisor. At the time of our visit, some of the equipment had arrived and the remainder was expected in the near future. 12. Computer labs for remediation and enrichment have a minimum of 24 stations. (JDR 2239) STATUS: The computer lab is located in an oversized room that formerly housed the Franklin media center. The rooms generous size allows the space for a double computer lab. The lab has two areas with 26 stations each. Page 2313. Foreign language building. (JDR 2239) labs with appropriate equipment and materials are operative in each STATUS: There is no foreign language lab at Franklin. Spanish is taught during the extended day program. Instruction is offered for both primary and intermediate grade students. Lessons center around the AETN Spanish language video tapes. 14. A computer loan program provides portable computers for loan to studenu in grades 4-6 for home use. Remediation as well as enrichment software is available. (JDR 2239) i STATUS: The principal stated that an announcement had been made at an incentive school principals meeting regarding the computer loan program. At that meeting principals were told that inservice for teachers, principals, and parents was upcommg and that contracts would be drawn up and computer loans would begin in December. A LRSD news release, dated November 22, 1991, stated that a parent workshop would be held at Franklm on November 25 1991. The parents of students in grades 4-6 who have completed the traunng will be eligible to check out computers for home use. No information regarding software was provided. 15. Parent Home Study Guides are available. (JDR 2239) STATUS: Stayed under the August 22,1991 Stay Order. 16. Computer Managed Instructional Technology is used to track student progress. (JDR 2239) STATUS: Stayed under the August 22,1991 Stay Order. 17. Individual education plans are developed, implemented, and monitored for each student. (JDR 2239) STATUS: Files containing copies of each teachers SEPs were available for all grades foiK- year-olds through sixth grade. A randomly selected class contained an SEP for each child, jvcix V o o ___ ______CXJP f^pvplnnmpnt and The principal stated that some teachers would like more training on SEP development and maintenance. Copies of student records were on file in the principals office and there was evidence of recent monitoring. 18. Specialized programs, such as remedial, special education, GT, are available during the core day with reinforcement activities during extended day/week/year. (JDR 2239) STATUS: The principal stated that specialized programs are offered both during the J regular and extended day. An effort is made to keep \"puU outs\" to a mimmum. Literature and math enrichment activities are offered during the extended day. Extended week activities are offered through Saturday programs and activities which are interest centered rather than related to remedial, gifted, or special education. The extended year program for all incentive school students is held each summer at Rockefeller as a regular summer school. Rockefellers capacity of 445 cannot accommodate all incentive school students. Page 241 19. Incentive programs recognize academic excellence and academic improvement. (JDR 2240) 1 ( I students with the following accomplishments: STATUS\nThe principal explained that an awards assembly is held each nine weeks to honor students with the following accomplishments: all As, As and Bs, academic improvement awards, and the Principals Award for improvement in, any area from citizenship to academics. There is also a recognition program for Franklin s students of the month. Each instructor selects a student from his/her class for this honor. Selection o honorees is not restricted to homeroom teachers as \"special\" teachers also award this honor. 20. Homework is assigned according to district policies. (JDR 2240) STATUS: The principal stated that teachers follow LRSD guidelines regarding homework. 1 Students have an opportunity to work on assignments in through Thursday. the homework center Monday 21. Criterion referenced testing is used to aid in student assessment. (JDR 2240) STATUS: Criterion referenced testing is being used in the form of teacher designed tests. 22. Heterogeneous grouping is used at all grade levels and instructors alternate between whole group, smaU group, and individualized instruction. (JDR 2240) \u0026amp; STATUS: During classroom observations, a variety of grouping techniques was observed. 23. The Effective Schools model operates in each school, with training provided for implementation. (JDR 2240) STATUS: There is no evidence of the Effective Schools program. Staff development records did not indicate any teacher training in this area. are established in each school. The 24. African and African-American History programs programs are sequential and include the study of cultures and history. (JDR 2240) STATUS: The principal stated that teachers use the LRSD multicultural curriculum guides. ~ . . . . , ___ _p__o noxiz Arncnn- informed that a new African- At an incentive school principals meeting, principals were American curriculum guide was expected in J anuary. 25. A classics reading program is an area of emphasis and the basal is used to augment the classics. (JDR 2240) 1  STATUS: The media specialist stated that the school does not have a specific classics but that great emphasis is placed on reading and children s literature. Some program teachers incorporate DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) into the daily routine. Page 2526 A Latin program, used to increase vocabulary and word attack skills, is mcorporated into the flfth and sixth grade language arts program Ttme tor msmeu^^^^ u into tne lUin auu MAIU giauv r-o-- /TrP 9940 9957'\u0026gt; materials and supplies provided, and student achievement documented. (JDR 2240, 2252) status: no Latin program exists. The Priocipa. stated that the had announced at a recent meeting that school year. the Latin program would begin during the 1992-93 27. Foreign language instruction is incorporated into foreign language lab and the \"total physical response\": I each schools curriculum using the method of instruction. (JDR 2243) STATUS- As mentioned in the foreign language lab section, Spanish instruction is offered during extended day. At Franklin, children attend Spanish ctes oi\u0026gt; AETN video tapes as the focus of instruction precludes the total physical response approach. 28. Social skills are taught, where appropriate, through the core instructional program. The total school staff serves as models of positive social interaction. (JDR 2243) Teachers are it 1 STATUS- The principal stated that positive social skills are a prionty. required to discuss and encourage good manners, respect and to teach ctosroom observed, the ciass rules were posted and aU rules were expressed m positi terms. clubs and special interest clubs, such as Debate, Thespians, 29. Academic reinforcement l----------- Mind, Great Books Club, Foreign Language Club, sportmg or special activities. (JDR 2244) Xi^:dto'^ needs and are a part of each schooTs STATUS\nThe schools special interest clubs are Drama, Computer, Dance, id Wnter s Club. and gender can be found in A complete list of club membership by race .  -  V in the Elementary Guide section of this report. Extracurricular/ Co-cumcular Activities 30. Field trips are used to enhance learning local, state, and national trips. (JDR 2245) and broaden cultural experiences through 1 STATUS- A review of documentation indicates that field trips have been taken to a pnX patlh the xoo. and The Central Arkansas Rehabilitation Hospital. At the ume of our visit, all trips taken have involved only early childhood students. J Page 26INCENTIVE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION i of the Incentive Schools will be to provide \"The focus, function and guiding process - ku\n.,, excellence in an environment of academic support, individualized education These schools shall exemplify the close partnership between parents and the school immunity which is a motivational factor for students. The school program will address student sXcess and development of potential from affective, skUl based and academic I community which is a perspectives.\" (LRSD 1989 Desegregation Plan, JDR 2267) SUPPORT PROGRAMS \"The following items wiU be components of every incentive school:\" (JDR 2267) 31. Homework Centers operate at least two days a week with transportation P^o^ded The certified teacher with additional aides and teachers 1 Centers are supervised by a proportionate to the number of students. (JDR 2267, 22/8) STATUS: FrankUns Homework Center is fuUy staffed and operates four days a week of extended day. The principal sUted that some teachers may during the first 30 minutes Oi uaiouwc j.  ---- work extra extended day if they are responsible for an extracumcidar program (such as Girl Scouts). He said such additional work was done on a voluntary basis. 32. Homework Hotline operates Monday - Thursday, 6:00 - 8:00 pan. with rotated and compensated staffing. (JDR 2268, 2278) STATUS- The Homework Hotline is currently operating with at least four staff members on duty each night. At the time of this monitoring visit, Franklin staff members had not yet had a turn serving on the Homework Hotline. 33. Peer tutoring: teachers and students are trained, tutoring is supervised by teachers, and tutors are compensated with coupons redeemable for goods. (JDR 2268, 2278) STATUS: According to the counselor, no formal training for peer tutors has been There is an informal peer counseling system that includes some peer tutoring. There system of coupons redeemable for goods. 34. Retired teacher mentors serve as tutors and club sponsors. (JDR 2268, 2278) principal reported that Franklin does not have a redred teachers mentoring infA.mQtinn rponrdintj mentorine orograms in the incentive schools. STATUS: The i program. For further information regarding mentoring programs see #90. Page 2735. Instructional aides are certified and employed one to a classroom. (JDR 2268, 2278) STATUS- The August 22, 1991 Stay Order stayed LRSDs requirement to employ one Fns^uctional aide pe^r classroom. LRSD has committed to hiring two aides for_ every three instruciioud p Pending Appeal. Franklin has 13 classrooms in their Joint Motion for the Stay Order, 14 classroom instructional aides are inctmctional aides in K-6. Pursuant to Liw ------, - ekas required. Therefore Franklin was not in compliance with the Stay Order at the time o monitoring visit. 1 1 36. A Career Skills Development Program promotes information, guest speakers, films, and interest inventones. (JDR 2268, 22/9) STATUS- According to the counselor, students in grades four through six had^speakers hLuIw in ^TparXe decision making unit of the guidance curriculum. They spoke w students about careers and decisions. Franklins Partner in Education. Central RehStion Hospital, has provided speakers, and staff members mtend to use VIPS resource speakers. 37. Year round school includes summer remediation and e wetoent opfcns schools at no cost to students. Summer courses are prescribed for students. (JDR 2269 70, 2279) I STATUS: This is the first year Based on the information provided by the summer school principal, there is for Franklin as an incentive school. no record that any students from Franklin participated in the summer school program. 1 1 38 Community access/field trips are provided for students together wth students from other LRSD schools Exhibits and performances are brought to school. Students i^sit wor  S smenffle and cultural events, and.exhibits io state^d regton. There are shadowing experiences for fifth and sixth graders. (JDR 2269, 2279) STATUS- None of the trips documented were planned with the goal of bringing Frm^n withothe?school Children. Norecords of were present nor were there any shadowing experiences. Refer to #?\u0026gt;Q for a complete of documented field trips. 39. Conununity involvement includes Boy and Girl Scouting programs at each incentive community organizations and volunteer experiences. (JDR school. Students have access to 2270, 2280) J STATUS: According to membership lists Franklin has a Prm^ O,tI SCTUt Troop Ma^\\e:.ai:me=rone White fem^^ with 23 black female members and two white female membe^ .nd a Primary Boy Scout Troop with 23 black male members and two white male members and an Intermediate Boy Scout Troop members. with 21 black male members and two white male Page 28SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION 40 Staff recruitment involves a nationwide search for staff committed to working in an urban district with at risk youth. Staff are hired on a one year basis with parent representation on the interview team. The one year contract feature is applied to aides. clerical, and custodial workers. (JDR 2270-72, 2281) STATUS: According to Services, a national search was the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community conducted for minority teachers. Franklins school staff was initially hired by the Incentive School Staffing Committee which was comprised of the central office administrators, and parents. Presently, new st^ members are interviewed and hired by the principal. Contracts are issued on a one y basis. Refer to #65 and #69 for additional staffing information. 1 in human relations skills, learning and interactive 41. Special training for staff is ongoing styles, TESA, PET, working with youth at risk, working in an urban setting, and analysis and use of data for enhancing student achievement. AU staff, including support staff, are involved in training and parents are trained in working with their c^d ren as sis ting wi homework, nutrition, and human growth and development. (JDR 2272, 2281) STAiuy SuuT dcvclvpxuvkAt records indicate certified staff training in 19 inservice offerings One hundred percent of the staff has been trained in Prejudice ReducUon, Whole uiiciiugi. vjut.. IILXOU y __Tbf\u0026gt; nartirinfllmn rates for STATUS: Staff development Language, Math, Computer, and Parent Teacher Conferences. The participation rates for between 40-95%. Records oroerams such as PET, TESA, and Human Relations range . Ldiwte 100% non^ertified staff participation rates in equity-related tr^g and discipline management only. For information on parent workshops, refer to #8/. 42 Parental involvement: Parents sign all homework and there is regular home-school communication. There are day visits by parents monthly parent ? P P points for parents. Parents are encouraged to provide classroom support. (JDR 2272,2284) Signed homework: Signed homework: According to the principal, there is no rfied  dettrinine if parents sign homework. The principal stated that each teacher 1ms own system for parents signing homework. Some teacher send at the end of the week or'daUy. Other teachers may send homework home to be signed when they feel a parent needs to look at their childs work. School activities: VIPS sign-in sheets reflect tot l^ have attended field mps during the month of October to the State Fair, Heifer Project, and Hidden Valley. VIPS record sheets of volunteer activities and parent sign-in sheets are kept. J Page 2943 '1 . i PTA meetings: PTA records revealed that Franklins PTA is comprised of 100 black members and 35 white members. Names of PTA officers and committee and a schedule of PTA meetings were available for review. The , PTA and committee membership lists were being compiled and that PTA goals, objectives, meeting agendas, and minutes have not been kept. Pick-up points: According to Community Services, transportation pick up points the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and are available to parents who need :spSon However, the principal was no, aware of any pick up points. are encouraged to provide Classroom support: The principal reported that parents classroom support. For further information on parental involvement, refer to #83 9 . . Learning time schedules are 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. daUy and include Homework Center, special skills training, and leisure time activities. (JDR 2272, 2284) STATUS- The Extended Day Schedule is conspicuously posted. The extended day sto with the Homework Center at 3:30 p.m. There are a wide variety of programs and activiUes to choose from during the 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. time period. 44. Home/school communication includes monthly reports to parents- T^e   indicator and early intervention program cards. (JDR 2272, 2284) and parents regularly receive \"alert\" and \"success STATUS: In order to apprise parenB of their childs progress, teachers conduct parent/teacher conferences and issue interim reports. A sample review of two classes with a total of 44 student files revealed as of November 14, 1991 that 36 parent/teacher conferences had been conducted and that two intenm report were signed by a parent and 42 files contained no intenm reports. The pnncip^ repor ed that interim report have previously been compiled every four and a half weeks, but that the district had recently directed aU incentive schools to issue^^monthly . allow parents to monitor their child s progress more closely. No evidence of an early intervention program, or that parents receive alert and success cards regularly, was observed. 45. Extracurricular programs include activities to promote gain leadership experience through clubs and momtonng responsibihties. (JDR 2273,2284) STATUS: The school offers six clubs with purposes and activities that fulfill the terms of llCld VltXL/a TXWAX ---------------- . J Extracurricular/Co-curricular Activities in the Elementary Guide J this provision. Refer to section of this report for a list of clubs and monitors. Page 301 1 46. Attendance and behavior guidelines\nTime-out rooms are staffed with trained personnel. Students receive management rules. Students and parents sign vUflVlUl guluviulVJ . V 1 v. 4 ive help with problem solving. Students help develop school based contractual agreement for attendance. (JDR 2273, 2282) STATUS- The school has a written discipline/behavior policy. According to the pnncipai, fhe poHcy w^ developed with staff, student, and parent input. There was no evidence of tne policy Wku. ucvciup ___ cmdents simature\nhowever, a contractual agreement for attendance that included the students signature\nhowever, a random sampling of student SEP folders revealed attendance contracts signed by the parents sampuugui siuutui. KJ ___ that hp and the counselor The principal stated that he and the counselor and teacher There was no time-out room. The pnncipai siaieu umi nt nuu worked with students in an effort to help them with their problems. The counselor stat^ that she provides help for students with problems. She is currently working with two smaU groups on getting along and self control. a a 47. Subject telaud extrucumeular aetMUes are regu^ SSfS for students such as Junior Great Books, Odyssey of the Mind, band, and stnng. Parents are aware of these options. (JDR 2273, 2282) 1 \u0026lt;\nt ATUS- Subject related extracurricular activities are regularly offered during the extended diy propam Drama, Dance, and the Writers Club. The pnnctp^ su^ that parents were informed of the extended day offerings durmg Parents Night which was held in September. An extended day schedule was posted in the hall. held in September, COUNSELING/ SOCIAL WORK 1 48. Community services access: Compacts provide students access such as volunteers and pre-professionals from colleges and universities, an - f programs--------- assistance from social agencies. (JDR 2.2.1 i, 221s:)) STATUS- The principal reported that guest speakers provide students access to __________that PranViin has not entered into any formal compacts with agencies or programs, but that Franklin has not entered into any a Career Awareness Week. colleges and universities. In addition, a sixth grade class has Pre-p^rofessional education students from area colleges and universities serve in the L S ric piuitsaxw V- thp mnintonne visit. but none had been placed at Franklin at the time of the monitoring visit. 49. Collcge/post gruduallou awarcuess is promoted through a mentoring program which t for work skills and coUege awareness. (JDR 2273, 2283) provides role models STATUS: For information in the Incentive School Mentoring Program, refer to #90. 50. Study skills training enhances skills in test taking, listening, and studying. Students practice test taking. (JDR 2272, 2283) _J STATUS: According to the counselor, she had recenfly distributed bubbly to teachers to use in conjunction with a test taking unit she was going to 7 Sisrooms She was planning to use \"Zip Up Your Skills\" (test taking strategies), as well as lectures to enhance study and test taking strategies. test taking unit she was going to present in the Page 31I 1 51 . Home/neighborhood meetings involve small groups of parents at neighborhood sites. Local ministers are 2283) considered part of the school partnership and community. (J UK 22/4, STATUS: According to LRSDs Desegregation Status Report of October 24,1991, Franklin MAiuo. AW 6 _ October 18, 1991. The principal staff members have conducted 21 home visits as _ _ , . reported that girl and boy scout meetings have been scheduled with local ministers m them churches. In addition, the Little Rock City Commission and a community awareness group hold regular meetings at Franklin. 52. Individual and group counseling is present and peer facilitators are utilized. Students are taught conflict resolution. (JDR 2274, 2285) STATUS- The counselor stated that she provides individual and group counseling for students. She said that an informal group of peer counselors had been developed amd that the names of students designated to become conflict managers subnutted designees were referred by other students, and/or had been recommended by teachers 0 administrator. The counselor wiU train the conflict managers during extended day with had been submitted. The an materials provided by LRSD. This training participate in extended day. schedule wUl exclude students who do not 53. Incentive/recognition programs are developed by students, staff, and parents at each school. The community is involved in recognition. (JDR 2274, 2285) ] STATUS\nRefer to #19 and #89 for information on recognition programs. 54 A wellness program is in place at each building with a fuU time nurse. Students are screened for health and given information on various topics (self-esteem,.nutntion, drug prevention, and first aid). Presentations are made to parents on similar topics. (JDR 227 , 2285) STATUS: Franklin has a fuU time nurse on staff who says that she is beginning a new wellness program this year. So far she has provided students with information on^ nionc tn disr.iiss self-esteem as part of a umt on Family Growth and and hygiene and plans to discuss self-esteem as part of a umt on Devel^ment. She has found a doctor who volunteers his time to provide free health screenings in addition to those she provides. She says she also has the volunteer services of two dentists. While the nurse has not made any formal presentations to pmente as a group, she has provided individual assistance to issues. parents with regard to child/family health J . Therefore, it is J The nurse has an extra health room for pre-kindergarten and first ^ade students, however the room does not contain a bathroom or a sink. The primary facility is well equipped, but there is inadequate shelf space and there is no separate consultation area. Therefore, it is very difficult to discuss sensitive issues if a sick person is using the cot. Page 3255. Camp Pfeifer: Students needing additional academic assistance have access to programs such as Camp Pfeifer. (JDR 2274, 2285) STATUS- The principal stated that schools had been notified that they could refer students dlAlUO. Aiivpx y ,  nAnod in which to Camp Pfeifer but he had not received a referrals would be accepted from Franklin. schedule indicating the time period in which MONITORING AND EVALUATION 1 56. Verifiable monitoring of student growth measures student progress. There is traimng for monitoring teams. (JDR 2275, 2286) 1  1 STATUS- Student progress is monitored through examination of student achievement records (including test data), attendance records, and teacher/prmcipal conferences records Viucmu g / Department of Planmng, Research and Trained monitoring teams from the .he%chool quarterly. Also, a Biracial parents, community people, and growth and progress. members of the Joshua Intervenors, monitors student 57 Regular tracking of student attendance, discipline/behavior and achievement is teXd asSed at least quarterly. Individual ^nd cto proffles^a^ Individual student plans and interventions are based on needs determined through ongoing data review. (JDR 2275, 2286) each folder. Additional random examination of records revealed an SEP m is found above at #56. STATUS: A information regarding the monitoring of student progress 58. Student Educational Excellence Plans are extracurricular activities. (JDR 2275, 2286) developed with parents and include STATUS: SEPs are used for all classes, from four-year-olds to grade six. Information egardtag the sVp-ris a/Xhle at #17. The principal stated eachem seek p^ent i^u, wWch is incorporated into the SEPs. Parents review meir child s SEP during parent/ teacher conferences prior to the beginning of the school year. 59. Quarterly reports and visitations are used to assess student progress, facility upkeep. and care of grounds and equipment. The monitoring team is composed of district and 01 gruuuus aii 4 .___All Staff Darticioate m school staff, parents, and representauves writing school and personal goals. achievement is evaluated. (JDR 2275, 2286) i from the community. All staff participate in Students formulate achievement contracts. Goal STATUS- According to the principal, all quarterly reports had been made except discipline, * no\" at the toe of this monitoring visit. Student foShehS contracts agreeing to support school goals. The folders also contained academic/l\u0026gt;ehar po Nfstudent generated achievement reports were present. For further information. refer to #56. Page 3360. Student evaluators rate the school, its climate, and their educational experiences twice a year. Students are selected at random based on 5% involvement from each grade level and help design questionnaires, analyze data, and reach conclusions. Students receive response to issues they raise. (JDR 2276, 2287) The STATUS: There was no evidence of a building level student evaluation team, principal indicated that he had sent some students who had been selected by their peers to the LRSDs survey team. J 61. Computerized student data is accessible at each school. (JDR 2276, 2287) STATUS: Stayed under the August 22,1991 Stay Order. 62. School site teams work to implement programmatic modifications with membership rotated each semester so all staff (including custodial, aides, and cafeteria workers), parents. and students have input. (JDR 2276, 2287) STATUS: The principal pointed out that he has had two nearly total turnovers of the staff since he was first assigned to this school a few years ago. This is his first year as the principal of Franklin as an incentive school. The school site team had not been formed at the time of the monitoring visit. SCHOOL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES 63. Flexible programs accommodate team teaching and extended time blocks as needed for student assistance. There is a plan for individualized instruction in each school and every student receives some individualized instruction every day. (JDR 2276, 2288) STATUS' In order to individualize instruction, Franklin is semi-departmentalized for science, social studies, and math at the grades 3-6. Math enrichment activities are also offered during the extended day. 64. Additional items: Each school should have a permanent substitute, a minimum h^ time assistant principal depending on school population, uniforms for student, dress code house and one other meeting, students for staff, required attendance at PTA open handbooks, a science lab, a computer lab, a playground for PE, additional compensation for teachers and principals for extra time worked, community education classes for parents, and Saturday programs at each school. (JDR 2276-77, 2288-89) STATUS: . Permanent substitute: Franklin has a permanent substitute who is referred to as the J auxiliary teacher in Staffing/School Personnel Data in the Elementary Guide section of this report. Assistant principal: Franklin has a full time assistant principal. Page 34Uniforms: There are no student uniforms. Staff dress code\nThere is no staff dress code. _l Parent attendance at school meetings\nThe Incentive Schools Parent Contracts sUtes ........ _____R,,, nf tbo narpnt/ tp.ficher orsanlzatlon and attend ive member of the parent/ teacher organization that Barents \"will be an active member ot tne pareuu kxivuw Xi'U and other achoo, A attended Parent Night on on September 5,1991 and 19 parents attended Open House . ... al_____...a...., ^zxllz\u0026gt;z nn cvctATTI sZuX 24'iwi The principal reported that there was no follow np system P al,..\n- asUlioatinn tci nttP.nd school fUUCtiOnS. in place to remind parents of their obligation to attend school functions, Student handbooks: The school distributes a copy to each student. Science lab: There is no science lab. of the LRSD Student Handbook Computer lab: A double-sized computer lab is in operation at the school. Playground for P.E.: There is a playground available for physical education. Compensation for staff: Teachers are compensated at their hourly rate of pay. SS* school year, the incentive school principals receive an annual Stipend of $2^00. classes\nODM requested information on November 4,1991 classes but had not received this Community education from the district on parent commumty education information at the time this report was prepared. workshops, refer to #87. For information on parent everv other Saturday. A chart of Saturday program participation may be found Extended Education Programs in the Elementary Guide section of this report. Page 35 I 1 1 J JINCENTIVE SCHOOL STARTING/ STAFF DEVELOPMENT STAFFING 65. The Incentive Schools Sufrtng Committee is composed of principals, and other administrators and hiring procedures. (JDR 2291) The committee assesses staffing needs, sets critena, \ntatUS- According to the principal, the Staffing Committee functioned at Franldin during jLeS S of nine to ten people involved school administrators, the Joshua Intervenors and LRSD administrators. This year, with the designation o r as an incentive school, there was a 75% turnover in staff. Specifics m terms of staffing needs. i 1 criteria, and procedures were lacking. 66. Staffing needs assessment bases staff selection upon student population. (JDR 2291) the needs and interests of the STATUS: According to the principal, no specific cntena jeg^dmg staff received from the LRSD. An interview packet was obtained from another incentive school principal. , 1 teachers, counselor, media fn Recommended full-time positions include classroom .ri,Lnrker. oemaueut subsUtute, PAL reading, PAL math. specialist, music, art, P.E., social worker, permanent lab attendant, resource, speech, alternative classroom specialist, media clerk. PAL speccn, -------------r  . imtructional aides, supervision aides, program spcciaUst, principal, assistant pnncipal. (I 2291-92) STATUS According to Franklin staffing data, the only recommended positions not filled mewortmXative classroom specialist, and program speci^Jst^ F^,- only incentive school with supervision aides\nthey were i----------- social worker, alternative classroom retained from the school s preincentive status. 68. Stair recruitment involves ongoing nationwide recruitment strategies with emphasis on recruiting minorities. Recruitment files are (JDR 2292) current and include promising student teachers. individual with the LRSD central office who recruits STATUS- The principal named an individual with the lksu cemrai t for minority teachers. Also, the Associate Superintendent for Dese^egabon^^d Communhy Services stated that the LRSD maintains an ongoing nationwide effort to recruit and hire minority teachers. Page 361 69. Staff selection involves the Incentive Schools Staffing Committee according to the plan provisions regarding selection criteria, job descriptions, and selection process. AU staff a hired for an initial one year contract period with long-term contracts contingent upon a successful initial year. (JDR 2293) STATUS: According to the principal, no specific instructions were received from the central X regarding selection criteria, job descriptions, and selection processes All staff UllK/C ivgwiu 5 U _______ __T -DCT^ binno nrflntir.es. The members were hired for one year in accordance with standard LRSD hiring practices. The LRSD does not issue \"long-term contracts\" for any school s staff. 70. Staff commitment/ effectiveness monitoring involves ongoing informal review and semi- annual formal review conferences to assess staff effectiveness based on student a^demm results and other forms of measurement. (JDR achievement as measured by formal test 2293) STATUS: LRSD policies provide for one formal and one informal observation of tenured monitors each classroom one yearly ev ato informal and two formal observations and two evaluations yearly. The pi^ also monitors each classroom through student grades, progress reports, and test scores SisSX referrals and their sources are closely scrutinized. The prmcipal described the \"open door\" policy which exists in regard to student concerns. Students may also subnnt written comments regarding any aspect of school life through a mail slot m the principal office.  1 1 I STAFF DEVELOPMENT 71 The Staff Development Planning Committee is composed of teachers, an IRC specialist, parents, principals, and administrators to plan staff development experiences. The committee meets monthly to plan activities related to the needs of students achieving be mastery. (JDR 2294) STATUS- The principal explained that the Franklin Staff Development Committee is composed of a biracial team of eight. The group is selected to reflect the staff a whc\u0026gt; e in coordination of staff development activities. According to the prmcipal, the entne staff deals with disaggregation of data to identify areas of deficiency m student achievement. 72. A staff development needs assessment is coordinated by the Staff Development Committee and based on needs and interests a staff development survey. (JDR 2294, 2303) of the student population and the results of J STATUS: According to the principal, the Staff Development ISommittee the staff regarding staff development needs Tile Y in districtwide training meets withthe principal regarding concerns. In addition to the buildingjiased staff development schedule, the Franklin staff also participates m districtwide traimng coordinated by the LRSD Office of Staff Development. Page 3773 Individual incentive school plan\nThere is a detailed process and format established '  =-i the development of the by central administration and principals to assist school staffs in school plans. (JDR 2301) STATUS: The principal observed no c.------... , , . .. plan process than those that had been used as an area school. He indicated that there is * . 1 . I*______ _ J 1___T non different procedures or format in the improvement specific format and process delineated by LRSD admmistration. a 74 Development of curriculum specific to the incentive schools includes identification of areas in need of development, appointment of curriculum teams review of draft guides, and development of additional components needed in each cumculum area. (JDR 23U1) STATUS\nThe principal stated that he was not aware of curriculum specific to the incentive XoirHowever, he anticipated an African-American guide for the beginning of the next semester. The principal said that the reading specialist, librarian, and assistant pnncip^ are instrumental in helping teachers infuse multicultural content. He stated that multicultural material still tends to be supplemental rather than infused. 1 75. Minimum Staff Development Requirements (JDR 2295) ^^^'^TeT (one cycle, refresher every 3-5 yrs.)\nThirty-one teachers, 78% of the certified staff, have completed at least one cycle of PET. TESA (one cycle)\nSeventeen teachers, 43% of the certified staff, have received yvuv y ... , _.1__on nVPTVIPW inservice in TESA ' Records do not indicate whether the training was an overview or the full five-month involvement. Classroom Management (one cycle)\nRecords indicate completion of Classroom Management by 37, 93% of the certified staff. Effective Schools Training\nRecords do not indicate training in this area. J Records indicate that 11 certified staff Cooperative Learning/Learning Styles\nmembers (28%) have had some form of Cooperative Learning traming. There was no information provided regarding staff participation in Learmng Styles training. J AT\u0026amp;T Human Effectiveness Training\nThere is no record of this training. Parent/Educator Communication \u0026amp; Human Relations Skills\nRecords indicate that 37 93% of the certified staff, have had training in Human Relations. Records also indicate that 40 (100%) of the certified staff have had training entitled \"Parent- Teacher Conferences\". Mentor Teacher Program\nThere is no evidence of a Mentor Teacher Program. Special Staff Development for Principal, Assistant Principal\nStaff development records do not indicate training specific to the administrators. Page 38____ implementation of the incentive school curriculum. (JDR 2302) Curriculum implementation inservice provides an introduction and guide to STATUS- The principal recounted a seven day inservice provided by the LRSD specifically for the Franklin staff prior to the 1991-92 school year. There was curso^ coverage of varied topics related to the incentive school. No follow-up has been provided. 77. A Teacher Demonstration Program is planned by a districtwide Teacher Demonstration Program Committee to enable incentive schools to serve as laboratories and models for other schools. (JDR 2296) STATUS: A Teacher Demonstration Program has not been implemented. i J J 78. A Master Teacher Program is planned by a distric^de Master Teacher Prop Committee to involve student teachers from state and local colleges and universities in the incentive schools. The program is monitored by the principal and coUege faculty representatives. (JDR 2296) STATUS: A Master Teacher Program has not been implemented. 79. Teacher assistance: An IRC specialist provides ongoing assistance to new teachers ^d thosrneeding help. The speciaUst assists in training programs in coordination with the Staff Development Planning Committee. (JDR 2296-97) STATUS: The principal suted that the school was informed tat tare would_ be a ___nn.inooH TRP nprsnn to orovidc assistaucc. As of October 15, 1991, there ha specifically assigned IRC person to provide assistance been no word of who the assigned person was to be. 80 A Teacher Assistance Plan (TAP) is developed with input from the principal and IRC Director to address demonstration teaching, assistance with use of materials and program implementation, classroom management, bulletin boards, etc. (JDR 2296) STATUS: There were no to the principal. formal Teacher Assistance Plans in effect at Franklin according Page 39STUDENT ASSIGNMENT 81. Phased desegregation of the incentive schools: There is a phased plan to desegregate the incentive schools through white recruitment. (JDR 1722) STATUS: The principal has a copy of the Incentive Schools Marketing Plan. Accordmg to the plan, the goal is \"to enroll 366 non-black students within incentive schools by the year 1997\". The 1997 white student enrollment objective for Franklin is 29 according to t e marketing plan. If the present enrollment level of 507 is maintained at Franklin until 1997, the marketing plan objective of 29 white students represents 6% of 507 students. If the objective of 29 is added to the 79 white students currently enroUed at Franklin (assummg that number remains constant), a total of 108 white students at the school by 1997 wiU represent 21% of the student body. 82. Kindergarten seats are reserved for white students to promote desegregation of the incentive schools. (JDR 1722) STATUS: Forty percent of kindergarten seats are reserved for white students according to the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services. There are filled at Franklin. Fourteen percent of the current presently 56 of 60 kindergarten seats--------- kindergarten enrollment is white. Even if the remaining seats were filled by white students, they would comprise only 20% of the kindergarten population. InitiaUy, to meet the 40% seating reservation, 24 seats should have been reserved for white children. J J Page 40I INCENTIVE SCHOOL PARENT INVOLVEMENT and students have identified five main types of th 'Surveys of teachers, principals, parents------- . parental involvement... The most basic involvement of parents is providing for their childrens food, clothing, shelter, safety, health and general well being... A second ^e of parental involvement common to all schools is communication from school to the home. A third and most commonly known type of parent involvement brings parents to the school building usually in connection with parent volunteer assistance, parent audiences, an parent attendance at workshops... A fourth type of parent involvement is assistance with learning activities at home... A fifth type of parent involvement includes parents m decision movino pnH artivist roles in sovernance and advocacy groups... We expect the process of making and activist roles in governance and advocacy groups... developing parental involvement activities to be ongoing. . listed below:\" (LRSD Desegregation Plan, JDR 2308-2309) Some suggested activities are 83. Adult community education opportunities are offered. (JDR 2309, 2310) STATUS' ODM requested information regarding adult community education from the district on November 4, 1991. ODM had not received this information at the time this report was prepared. For information on parent workshops, refer to #87. 84. A Parent Internship Program recruits parents as (JDR 2309, 2310) teacher aides and other positions. STATUS'. According to the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services LRSD has not implemented a Parent Internship Program. The principal reported : two teachers, two instructional that parents have been hired to fill the following positions aides, one speech therapist, and one supervision aide. 85. Parent/teacher mentorships are established at the school. (JDR 2309, 2310) STATUS: No parent/ teacher mentorships have been implemented at Franklin. 86. A Parent Center in the school is staffed and supplied with materials recommended by Materials are loaned to parents. a staff/parent committee. communication packet to parents. (JDR 2309, 2311) There is a monthly J STATUS' According to the principal, materials for the Parent Center have been ordered and when they arrive, FrankUn will have a Parent Center in the library and the attendance office. There are no plans for the center to be operated by a community staff person and no staff/parent committee exists to recommend materials for loan to parents. The principal explained that whUe the Center wUl not produce a monthly communication packet, a monthly calendar and newsletter was being distributed to parents. Page 4187. Parent workshops are offered to assist parents in carrying out school expectations and include such topics as study skills, discipline, time management, financial management, etc. 1 (JDR 2312) STATUS: According to LRSDs October 24, 1991 Desegregation Status Report, surveys were distributed to parents on Parent Night, September 5, 1991 to determine what workshops the district should offer. Franklin parents returned 111 surveys. The foUowing workshops have been scheduled for Franklin parents: Workshop How To Help My Child In Reading Date \u0026amp; Time October 26th 10:00-11:00 a.m. Location Franklin How To Use The Computer November 20th 6:00-7:00 p.m. Franklin 1 88. Community resources are used in the instructional program. (JDR 2313) STATUS: The principal reported that Franklin utilizes guest speakers in the instructional program. 89 Parent recognition is used as a tool for community and parent involvement. There is parent/ community recognition at monthly PTA meetings, awards are displayed school lunch vouchers given, and students are involved in the selection process. (JDR 2313-2314) STATUS: According to the principal, Franklin recognizes parents through an awards ceremony at the end of each nine weeks, parent programs throughout the year, and certificates. Currently no parent awards are displayed, no school lunch vouchers are given, and students are not involved in the selection process. _! 90. Home and school communication is evident at each incentive school. Parents pick up report cards, sign homework, report absences, understand how to advance support and concern for the school, receive a parent handbook and a monthly calendar^ and school activities and counselor/parent and PTA meetings. Each school conducts home visits, has identified three key communicators, and utilizes community role models and mentors. (JDR 2244, 2309, 2312, 2315-17) STATUS: . ,  v Report cards: The principal explained that no mechanism is m place for parents to pick up report cards\nreport cards are sent home with students. Signed homework: According to the principal, there is no unified procedure to determine if parents sign homework. The principal stated that each teacher has his/her own system for parents signing homework. Some teachers send homework folders home at the end of the week or daily. Other teachers may send homework home to be signed when they feel a parent needs to look at their childs work. Page 42Reported absences: The principal stated that parents call and report their childs absence to office personnel who then inform the child s teacher. The principal explained that if a parent has not reported their childs absence by 9:40 a.m., an instructional aide calls the parent or makes a home visit if the parent does not have a 1 i phone. The principal expressed the need for an attendance clerk. Advance support and concern: According to the principal, parent surveys have been designed and distributed to gain insight into parents interests. Sample surveys relating to PTA, extended day, and the selection of a school theme were observed. Parent handbook: The principal stated that a parent brochure was distributed to parents at the beginning of the school year. The brochure contains a greeting to parents and their children along with general school information. Monthly calendar: Franklin publishes a monthly calendar of events. A September, October, and November calendar were observed. In addition to the monthly calendar, Franklin publishes a monthly newsletter informing parents of special events and programs at the school. School activities: VIPS sign-in sheets reflect that parents have attended field trips during the month of October to the State Fair, Heifer Project, and Hidden Valley. VIPS record sheets of volunteer activities and parent sign-in sheets are kept. Counselor/parent meetings: The counselor explained that all counselors provide parents with the opportunity to have direct contact and intervention as needed. PTA meetings: PTA records revealed that Franklins PTA is comprised of 100 black members and 35 white members. Names of PTA officers and committee chairpersons and a schedule of PTA meetings were available for review. The principal stated that PTA and committee membership lists were being compiled and that PTA goals. objectives, meeting agendas, and minutes have not been kept. Home visits: According to LRSDs October 24,1991 Desegregation Status Report, the staff at Franklin has conducted 21 home visits as of October 18, 1991. Key communicators: The principal has identified three key communication techniques from school to home: calendar of events, monthly newsletter, and PTA meetings. J F Page 431 Mentoring program\nAccording to LRSDs October 24, 1991 Desegregation Status Report, the district is implementing a mentoring program which will serve 10% of the student population at each incentive school. The district s tentative schedule provides that students will be identified, mentors recruited and matched with students, and that orientation for mentors will take place in November. According to the VIPS Incentive School Coordinator, 54 mentors have agreed to participate in the mentoring program and approximately 35 mentors have been trained. A video tape of the training wiU be 1 available for mentors who could not attend the orientation. In December an orientation for students, parents, and teachers is scheduled and recognition programs are planned for the spring of 1992. Mentors are to receive training every nine weeks. The pnncipal reported that 15 students from Franklin had been selected to participate in the mentoring program. 91. Parent contractual commitments are signed prior to enrollment. (JDR 2317) 1 STATUS: A sample review of two class files revealed that out of 44 students, 41 contracts were signed by a parent, one contract was filled out but lacked a parent signature, and two 1 files contained no contracts as of November 14, 1991. 92. Home and school linkage is evident in parenting education classes, evening and Saturday math/science classes, and the school is used as a community center. (JDR 2309, 2318) I STATUS:  ... , Parenting education: LRSDs October 24, 2992 Desegregation Status report mdicates 1 that surveys were distributed to Franklin on Parent Night, September 5, 1991 to determine what workshops the district should offer. Franklin parents returned 111 surveys Based on that feedback, workshops on using the computer and helping children with reading have been scheduled for Franklin parents during October and November. Math and science classes: According to the principal, math enrichment and science labs are scheduled in the Extended Day Program and will be incorporated into Saturday programs. School as a community center: The principal reported that the Little Rock Planning Commission and a community awareness group hold regular meetings at Franklin. 93. School and commimity trust is raised through inservice courses for teachers and school, speakers bureau for community groups in school zones, and posted calendar of neighborhood events. Neighborhood pride is promoted through events that are coordmated by school staff. (JDR 2319-20) J STATUS:  Speakers Bureau: The principal explained that three parents and three staff members have agreed to serve on Franklins Speakers Bureau. An inservice training for the speakers bureau volunteers was held on November 26, 1991. Sign-in sheets indicate that no volunteers from Franklin attended the training. Page 44Neighborhood events: The principal was not aware of the existence of a neighborhood Sa~a\n:d events in the school when brongh. to his attention. The principal reported that the school IS planning a carnival in conjunction with Highland Court. : For information on inservice courses, refer to Staff Development in Inservice courses: . the Elementary Guide section of this report and #75 in the Incentive Guide section of this report. 94. School policies and procedures are established by a governing body of administrators, atmosphere, provide input into decision making. parents, and teachers to promote an open i and create a sense of ownership through involvement. (JDR 2321-Z2J STATUS  The School Improvement Committee, comprised of three teachers ^d the School Improvement Plan and school pohcies and procedures. principal, have developed a No parents serve on this committee. 1 Page 45INCENTIVE SCHOOL PARENT RECRUITMENT essential to the overall success of the incentive \"Aggressive marketing and recruitment are school program. Careful marketing of the incentive school program is the first step toward an effective recruitment program... Recruitment will be an ongoing process...to encourage voluntary assignments that will enable the incentive schools to comply with the desegregation requirements. (LRSD 1989 Desegregation Plan, JDR 2323) 95. Community information is provided to special interest and community groups, including information sessions at churches and with other audiences and a telephone hotline. Saturday information booths at malls and neighborhood stores, special media coverage, and highlight sheets are given all elementary parents and placed in local businesses. (JDR 2323, 2327-28) STATUS: , , . Community information: The principal reported that LRSD had a booth for incentive schools at Kids Fair on Saturday, November 2,1991. Telephone hotline: The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services explained that a recorded message describing the incentive schools would be n played while patrons were 1992-93 school year. on hold\" for central office calls during registration for the Saturday information booths: The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services reported that Saturday Information Booths will be located at local malls in the spring in accordance with the Settlement Plan timelines. The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Special media coverage: Superintenaent lor i^BscgrcgauuM ouu Community Services explained that the district will submit PSAs and articles to local media groups to publicize the incentive schools during registration for the 1992-93 school year. Highlight sheets: According to LRSDs Status Reports dated August 22, 1991 and September 10, 1991, highlight sheets are routinely mailed to new district residents. J 96. Recruitment includes use of brochures, PSAs, billboards, radio, television, newspapers, videocassette recordings, flyers, open house, neighborhood blitz of geographic targets, small group tours, special designation from ADE, celebrity endorsements, and a speakers bureau __ - ______1____] 4.....^ f/iArnitorc AAnHlIPt for each school. M-to-M transfers are encouraged and two parent recruiters conduct recruitment activities. (JDR 2325, 2329-32) STATUS: Brochures: According to LRSDs October 24, 1991 Desegregation Status Report, an incentive school brochure was developed by a focus group consisting of four parents and three administrators from the incentive schools. These brochures were to be completed by November 15, 1991. Individual incentive school brochures for each school are scheduled for completion by mid-December. Page 461 ) PSAs: ODM requested information regarding press releases on October 11, 1991. That information had not been received at the time this report was prepared. The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services has reported that PSAs are scheduled to run during the 1992-^3 school year recruitment phase from January through March. Billboards: According to LRSDs October 24, 1991 Desegregation Status Report, by November 15, 1991, a proposal will be submitted to Central Arkansas Transportation recommending a painted bus to serve as a \"rolling billboard.\" The bus will be routed to selected recruitment areas of the city. Media coverage: For information on media coverage, refer to #95. Video: According to LRSDs October 24, 1991 Desegregation Status Report, an incentive school video is schedule to be completed by January 10, 1992. Flyers: The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services has stated that flyers wiU be mailed to all pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students in the county prior to pre-registration for the 1992-93 school year. Open House: According to parent sign-in sheets, 79 parents attended Franklins Open House on September 24, 1991. Neighborhood Blitz: The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Commumty Services has stated that a database is being compiled to target neighborhoods for recruitment prior to pre-registration for the 1992-93 school year. Tours: Parent recruiters schedule and provide incentive school tours for interested parents and new residents in the county, according to the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services. Special ADE status: The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Commimity Services reported that LRSD had not contacted the Arkansas Department of Education to request a special designation for the incentive schools in order to assist with marketing. The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and In addition, a Celebrity endorsements: Community Services explained that local celebrities had been contacted to promote the incentive schools through PSAs and the incentive school video. 1= \" California firm which provides national celebrity PSAs has been contacted. Speakers Bureau: According to the principal, three parents and three staff members have agreed to serve on Franklins Speakers Bureau. An inservice training for the I * speakers bureau volunteers was held on November 26, 1991. Sign-in sheets indicate that no Franklin volunteers attended the training. Page 471 I Elementary M-to-M Transfers: According to M-to-M data requested by ODM and supplied by the school districts, in the 1991-92 school year LRSD has recruited 82 elementary students from NLRSD and 123 elementary students from PCSSD. ODM requested M-to-M transfer data broken down by the sending and receiving school from each district on October 11,1991. According to NLRSD s and PCSSD s data regarding M-to-M transfers, no students have transferred to Franklin. ODM had not received M- to-M transfer data broken down by the sending and receiving school from LRSD at the time this report was prepared. The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services has stated that so far this year no meetings with PTAs and parent groups in PCSSD and NLRSD have been conducted to encourage M-to-M transfers. Parent recruiter: According to the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services, LRSD has one employee whose sole responsibility is parent recruitment and two other employees who are responsible for parent recruitment and student assignments. 97. Recruitment monitoring and evaluation procedures are in place, involving the district Biracial Advisory Committee as a steering committee for recruitment, evaluating recruitment quarterly. The committee reviews bi-monthly reports from the desegregation office on the progress of recruitment strategies and is advised by marketing/advertising experts. The committee receives special inservice on the incentive school program and the desegregation plan. (JDR 2325-26, 2333-34) receives STATUS: According to the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services, the Biracial Committee received an inservice training in the fall on the incentive schools in order to monitor all aspects of the incentive school program. This committee monthly desegregation updates from the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and Community Services and is to report quarterly on the progress of the incentive schools. J Page 48FRANKLIN INCENTIVE SCHOOL UPDATEDINFORMATION: MAY 27,1992 ELEMENTARY GUIDE Four-Year-Old Class Size: Beginning in the 1992-93 school year, class size in the LRSD 1 will conform to the North Central Association standard of 18 children per class. This announced during a court hearing on February 6, 1992 by the Associate change was nearing rcuiutuy u, uj tuxv . Superintendent for Desegregation. He also presented a worksheet on the long range early childhood plan which included the smaller class sizes. LRSD promotional brochures for the 1992-93 four-year-old classes also state that the class size will be 18. Extended Week: Updated Saturday program figures, requested January 10, 1992, were received from the Associate Superintendent for Desegregations office on February 6,1992. This report gave the number of students from each incentive school who had attended Saturday programs up to that time. The number of participants varied widely from school to school as did student attendance on the various dates classes were offered. Dunng the first semester, the rate of participation at Franklin ranged from a low of six students to a high of 19. FaU attendance was reported by the week but attendance figures for January and February (reported in the March 1992 Desegregation Update), were monthly tot^ with no weekly attendance information provided. As a result, it is impossible to determine the rate of student participation for any given date. and Counseling: The principal indicated that an additional half-time counselor Guidance o-  i------r- . , mm tu. is employed at the school. This counselor (white female) was hired January 6, 1992. The principal further explained that the clothes closet has been removed from the counselor s office and placed in the bookstore with other supplies. Discipline, Suspension, Expulsion: Records dated March 26,1992, indicated that one black .... t . 1 _ ______1______ mnin U o z1 female had been expelled from the third grade, one black and one white male had each been given long-term suspensions, and seven black males (in grades 2,3,4, and 6) had been given short-term suspensions. Once again, black males were disproportionately represented in disciplinary actions at the school. J The principal explained that, effective February 2, 1992, a written discipline policy developed by students and staff had been adopted. Additional information supplied by the principal School/Conununity Partnerships: . increased number of partnership activities between Franklin School and their indicated an i-------------- . . . business partner. Central Arkansas Rehabilitation Hospital. The hospital staff gave a Valentines Day party at the school and has sponsored recognition activities for classes with perfect attendance. In order to qualify for the popcorn and soft drink celebrations, aU students must also report to school on time daily. r VIPS: The VIPS Incentive School Coordinator reported that Franklin had 45 volunteers who worked 137 hours during the period from November 1991 through March 1992. Page 49TNCENnVE SCHOOL GUIDE 3. Parent Council (JDR 2236): The Parent Council held its first meeting on December 10, 1991 with seven of the fourteen members present. The council met again on February 3, At the February meeting, the Desegregation Facilitator 1992 with six members present. tne uesegregauuu rauuuiui provided the council with an incentive school overview. The next meeting was held March 9 1992, with six members present. At this meeting, council members elected officers and received copies of the Incentive School Plan, LRSD Desegregation Updates, and various monitoring instruments. On April 13,1992, seven council members attended a presentation members of the Biracial Committee, LRSD Research, Planning, and Development by LKdu nesearcn, ruuiuwe, Department, and ODM. These groups explained monitoring practices and procedures. Parent Council members have not monitored the incentive schools, nor have any quarterly reports been generated. (JDR 2236) 9. School Themes (JDR 2239): The April Desegregation Update indicated that 500 school theme surveys were distributed to Franklin parents and teachers and stated that 38% of the surveys were completed and returned. The principal reported that the first choice for the schools theme was Basic Skills, the second choice was listed as Multicultural Awareness, and the third preference was for a Health and Safety Education theme. t 11. Science Lab Equipment (JDR 2239): According to the January 1992 Dese^egation Update, equipment had been ordered and the science supervisor has conducted inservice training regarding the discovery and exploration approach to science. Science teachers m grades 3-6 at aU incentive schools attended the training. Site observation revealed that the basic science equipment had arrived and much of it was housed in the media center for teacher check-out. Some materials were present m classrooms, but these were confined to limited table top space or window siUs. There seemed to be little, if any, room for experiments, displays, or student projects. 13. Foreign Language Lab (JDR 2239): The principal stated that he did not know where the required foreign language lab would be located during the 1992-93 school year. J 14. Computer Loan Program (JDR 2239): The principal indicated that four computers are available at the school for student/parent check out. As of mid-May, 16 checkouts had occurred. 23. Effective Schools Model (JDR 2240): The training for program trainers had been completed by May 6, 1992 and effective Schools Teams were to be established m each school by January 1992. Team training was to take place during February and March 1992, with development of Effective Schools Improvement Plans during the summer. Page 50I f 24. African, African-American Curriculum (JDR 2240): The curriculum ^ides were completed and distributed to the schools and an inservice meeting was held during January for incentive school teachers. At that time, the Rites of Passage program was also presented. According to the principal, the entire training session for both programs lasted approximately 45 minutes. According to the Desegregation Facilitator, principals were invited to contact the Social Studies Supervisor for further training as needed. During site visits, it was apparent that the lack of comprehensive training resulted in limited curriculum infusion. Site observation, during the training, indicated that most teachers had a copy of the desegregation plan. 26. The Latin Enrichment Program (JDR 2240, 2252): Fifth and sixth grade students are scheduled to begin Latin enrichment activities in the fall of the 1992-93 school year. Program details, staff development plans, and the budget were outlined in the January 1992 Desegregation Update. The principal stated that all staff members had participated in a two hour Latin program overview. Teachers in grades 4-6 are expected to attend a three day workshop on program implementation, but the principal was unaware of the training dates. The Desegregation Facilitator stated that a three day training had been scheduled for June 1-12, 1992. 27. Foreign Language (JDR 2243): It was reported in the January 1992 Dese^egation Update that Spanish language students in aU incentive schools were being visited by a Dunbar Spanish class that was to perform a play entitled \"Cenicienta\" (Cinderella). An April site visit revealed that the principal had not been contacted to make plans for the Spanish language students to visit his building. 30. Field Trips (JDR 2245): Records revealed that students had participated in only 16 field trips from the beginning of the school year to the latter part of April. (JDR 2245) 32. Homework Hotline (JDR 2268,2278): The principal stated that two Franklin teachers were working on the Hotline during the week of May 18,1992. 34. Retired Teacher Mentors (JDR 2268,2278): The January 1992 Desegregation Update reported that mentors were being identified to tutor students, sponsor clubs, and help read * . . .1 ____11___________1- noorlr Tho to students. Stipends may be paid to mentors depending on their individual needs. The principal stated that there were no retired teacher mentors working at Franklin. 35. Instructional Aides (JDR 2268,2278): The principal stated that fourteen instructional aides are now employed at the school, a number that complies with the Stay Order that was in effect for most of the school year. Page 51The January 1992 46. CC. Attendance and behavior guidelines (JDR 2273, 2282): Desegregation Update indicated that training in time-out techniques was scheduled for the incentive schools during January and February. The principal stated that he had instituted Alternative Classroom Time (ACT), utilizing the CARE room as a time-out facility. As there is no time-out specialist in the school, instructional aides voluntarily monitor the room. The aides have not been trained in time-out techniques. 1 No evidence of attendance contracts signed by students and parents was provided during spring monitoring visits, even though the January Update indicated that the contracts would be provided to the incentive school parents and students. Documentation verified that 51. Home/Neighborhood Meetings (JDR 2274, 2283): Franklin staff members made 25 home visits between October 18,1991 and May 19,1992. M The incentive schools sponsored a program at Bethel AME church on May 17,1992 where an educator gave a presentation entitled \"Dont Give Up . The Incentive School Coordinator reported that 27 parents from the seven incentive schools attended. The district also held a breakfast meeting for incentive school PTA presidents at McDonalds and hosted another breakfast for interested parents. The Incentive School Coordinator stated that 24 incentive school parents attended this meeting where a community leader, the Reverend Hezekiah Stewart, and a school board member were guest speakers. ! The Incentive School Coordinator furnished a copy of a letter sent to 94 local ministers to inform them of the Stanford achievement test dates and suggest testing strategies that could be shared with students and parents. 53. Incentive/Recognition Programs (JDR 2274, 2285): A parent from each incentive school was recognized for his/her outstanding contribution to the school at the PTA Founders Day Luncheon with an appreciation certificate and a gift certificate for two, donated by Red Lobster. In addition, incentive programs were to be developed at each school by students, staff, and parents, according to the January 1992 Desegregation Update. As of May 27,1992, no incentive programs had been developed at Franklin. 54. Wellness Program (JDR 2274, 2285): The December 1991 Dese^egation Update stated \"in accordance with the settlement agreement, a full time nurse will be available in each incentive school to implement the wellness program.\" Follow-up site visits found a full time nurse in each incentive school. The nurses worked together as a group with the He^th Services Coordinator and developed a wellness program. The program has enough flexibility to enable each school to provide the wellness services best suited to its population. According to the incentive school nurses, plans are underway to apply for clinic status in the incentive school health rooms. Limited space and the lack of privacy will be two of the biggest obstacles to attaining this goal. The wellness programs have been designed so that goals and objectives can be effectively monitored. The principal explained that the nurse assigned to Franklin is certified by the Health Department to perform Early Periodic Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) screenings. This is signifirant because, through the increased home/ school communication generated by these comprehensive examinations, parents can be made aware of specific health needs and services such as medicaid. Page 521 I 55. Camp Pfeifer (JDR 2274, 2285): The Executive Director at Camp Pfeifer attended a January incentive school desegregation meeting to discuss the Camp Pfeifer program. The principal confirmed that no Franklin students had been referred to Camp Pfeifer this year. 60. Student Evaluators (JDR 2276, 2287): The January 1992 Desegregation Update indicated that a 5% random sampling of students from each grade level was selected to participate in the evaluation of their respective schools. The survey was administered during January 1992 and returned to the district for tabulation. As of April 10, 1992, no survey results had been released to the incentive schools. There has been no evidence of student involvement in analyzing the data. An examination of the survey indicated that it would be too difficult for some students, particularly those in grades K4, to complete. 64. Student Uniforms (JDR 2276, 2287): The April Desegregation Update stated that a committee of building principals, student council members, teachers, and parents wiU develop a process which will enable students and parents to select a preferred uniform in each building. A copy of the parent survey was reprinted in the April Update and results revealed that 60% of the Franklin respondents generally favored a required student uniform. 67. Recommended Positions (JDR 2291-92): The principal explained that each incentive school principal received a copy of the incentive school section of the court s order on the revised desegregation plan, at their May meeting. At that time, they were informed that a program specialist and supervision aides would be employed next year. No commitment regarding alternative classroom specialists or assistant principals was made. 75. Staff Development (JDR 2295): The Effective Schools model and process were described to incentive school principals on December 9, 1991, by the Staff Development Supervisor. Future plans outlined included the establishment of Effective Schools Teams in each building during January, team training in February and March, and development of Effective Schools Improvement Plans during the summer. I 77. Teacher Demonstration Program (JDR 2296): There was a principals meeting December 9,1991, to discuss the purpose of the program and to request that each incentive school nominate teachers to serve on committees. According to the March 1992 Desegregation Update, Franklin has submitted the four-year- old program. Writing to Read, extended day, and Boy and Girl Scouts for inclusion in the districts Teacher Demonstration Program. 78. Master Teacher Program (JDR 2296)\nA meeting was held December 9, 1991, to discuss with the principals the purpose of the Master Teacher Program and to request nomination of a teacher from each incentive school to serve on the committee. An additional meeting was scheduled concerning the Master Teacher Program, according to the January 1992 Desegregation Update. This meeting was attended by teacher representatives from each incentive school and five area universities and colleges. Page 531 I 79. Teacher Assistance (JDR 2296-97): A member of the Staff Development Department has been reassigned to specifically provide on-going assistance and support to the incentive school teachers. The principal stated that two Franklin teachers had received assistance. 83. Adult Education (JDR 2309, 2310): The December 1991 Desegregation Update reported that schedules of free adult education classes were available in the Parent Centers and had been distributed to incentive school parents. Classes in English, reading, and math were offered Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the LRSD Adult Education Center. The Update also stated that no fee would be charged and classes would be offered at school sites on rotating basis, if there was enough interest. The principal stated that class schedules were sent home to parents. According to the schedule, only Adult Basic Education was free, as other offerings had fees that ranged from $10 to $50. No class schedules were present in the Parent Center, when it was visited in April. 84. Parent Internship Program (JDR 2309, 2310): The principal reported that an instructional aide, recently hired to work in the four-year-old class, is the parent of a Franklin student. 86. Parent Centers (JDR 2309, 2311): According to the December 1992 Desegregation Update, centers have been established at each incentive school and the Speakers Bureau and Key Communicators are responsible for maintaining center materials. There were no materials available in the Parent Center. Indeed, \"center\" is a very loose term for a space that contained only VIPS and parent sign-in sheets. These sign-in sheets were \"temporarily housed in the attendance office. According to the principal, the schools budget had been charged for the expenditure of funds to purchase materials, but none had been received. 87. Parent Workshops (JDR 22312): LRSD offered mini-workshops on \"How to Improve Test Taking Skills,\" \"Self Esteem and Parenting SkUls,\" and a \"Make and Take Math and Science Workshop\" to all incentive school parents on February 1, 1992 and February 15, 1992. According to sign-in sheets, 50 parents attended the workshops. _i 90. Home School Communication\nParent Surveys (JDR 2315): Surveys were distributed by VIPS to incentive school parents through COPE Centers. According to the January 1992 Desegregation Update, this survey \"asked about interests and obstacles to parent involvement.\" Results of the survey were not available at the time this report was prepared. Page 54Mentoring Program (JDR 2244, 2315): Orientation/training sessions for participants in the Mentoring Program were offered in November and December. According to the VIPS Incentive School Coordinator, 54 mentors had been recruited, 35 of whom had received training as of December 1991. The January 1992 Desegregation Update reported that students and mentors were being matched and that receptions for the mentors to meet their students would be held at the incentive schools during January and February. In May, the principal stated that 20 mentors were involved with Franklin students. Of this number, 15 were recruited by VIPS and five were recruited at the school. Mentor recruitment activities implemented by VIPS have included flyers, personal letters to friends of district employees, and recruitment cards that were distributed at basketball games and other community activities. A mentor support session has been scheduled to discuss strategies mentors can use to remain in contact with students throughout the summer. Key Communicators (JDR 2315): According to the December 1991 Desegregation Update, key communicators are being recruited from the Speakers Bureau, Parent Council, and PT A. Report Cards (JDR 2312): The December 1991 Desegregation Update indicated that a request for parents to pick up report cards was made by each principal at the beginning of the school year and that signs were posted in the school as a reminder to parents. However, during a site visit the principal stated that report cards are sent home with students and monitors observed no signs. 1 I 95. Community Information: 1 The Associate Special Interest and Conmnmity Groups (JDR 2323, 2327): Superintendent for Desegregation reported that over 500 parents visited the Incentive School Booth during Kidsfair at Barton Coliseum on November 1-3,1991. Parent sign- in sheets were used to update the districts recruitment database. Telephone Hotline (JDR 2323, 2328): According to the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation and the December 1991 Desegregation Update, recorded messages describing the incentive schools were to be heard by patrons while holding for central administrative office calls. These recordings were anticipated to be on line by the end of January. An employee of the Communications Department stated that while recorded messages had been playing since February 1991, some problems with the tape had recently been discovered and a new recording would be produced. Monitors have frequently been placed on hold when calling LRSD administrative offices during this four month period and no messages of any type have been heard. I The April 1992 Desegregation Update indicated that the hotline would operate from the Student Assignment Office and be publicized during the last week of April. In May, the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation explained that hotline implementation had been postponed until July. Page 55Saturday Information Booths at Malls \u0026amp; Neighborhood Stores (JDR 2323,2328): The Associate Superintendent for Desegregation stated that informational booths were placed at Park Plaza and McCain Mall on selected weekends. Parent sign-in sheets were to be used to update the districts database. Special Media Coverage (JDR 2323, 2328): The December 1991 Desegregation Update and the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation reported that special PSAs and articles publicizing the incentive schools coincided with the 1992-93 school year pre-registration. Articles and PSAs were submitted to the Arkansas State Press, Quapaw Chronicle, Maumelle Monitor, and radio stations. Media coverage on the incentive schools is to continue throughout the year. The Communications Department has established a log of media contacts. Highlight Sheets (JDR 2323, 2328): According to the Associate Sup\nThis project was supported in part by a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives project grant from The Andrew W. 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It is my understanding that the response from Garland School was delivered directly to your office. cc: Dr. Ruth Steele Estelle Matthis Sterling Ingram Larry Robertson Arma Hart Chris Heller ITO: FROM: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 West Markham Little Rock, Arkansas June 1, 1992 James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation ^^Bobbie Goodwin, Principal Rightsell Elementary SUBJECT: Review of Incentive School Monitoring Guide Page 18 - 2nd Paragraph - Bottom of Page A copy of PTA By-Laws is on file in office. Included are objectives for PTA Meeting Agendas, file in the office. Regular meetings are also on ILITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Rockefeller Elementary School 700 East 17th Phone 374-1226 Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 To: Office of Desegregation Monitoring ODM Monitors: Ann Brown, Melissa Guldin, Connie Hickman, Bob Morgan, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith Through: From: James Jennings, Associate Superintendent of Desegregation Anne Mangan, Principal, Rockefeller Incentive School Subject: Corrections of Review of the Incentive School Monitoring Guides Date: June 1, 1992 Please note the following corrections: Page 7 POSITION - Change Registrar to Bookkeeper Page 40 - #67 are social STATUS: worker, The recommended positions not filled alternative supervision aides and program specialist classroom specialist, Page 54 #23 Participants primary teacher, an intermediate teacher, parent and one grandparent. included the principal, a specialist. \u0026gt; a one Page 56 #55 in Camp Pfeifer. Four students from Rockefeller participated Page 56 #67 order would be followed, particularly discussed but Principals were told that the recent court Individual positions mentioned, principal so necessary. all rulings were in general not were Rockefeller Incentive School has an assistant a commitment regarding this position was not (The last two sentences on #67 do not necessarily reflect the situation at Rockefeller and could be deleted on our individual school report.)I -RECEIVED LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT JUN 1 1992 Stephens Elementary ScHOQtsEGREGATiON 3700 West 18 Phone 671-6350 Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 June 1, 1992 TO: OBM Monitors: Ann Brown, Melissa Guldin, Connie Hickman, Bob Morgan, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith FROM: Lonnie S.Dean, Principal SUBJECT: REVIEW OF THE INCENTIVE SCHOOL MONITORING GUIDES-CORRECTIONS Listed below are the corrections to the Review of the Incentive School Monitoring Guides: PATE 14 - DATA SUMMARY DELETE: She works with small groups and parents at least once a week. INSERT: She works with individual students, small groups, and with parents on an individual basis. PAGE 16 - SCHOOL/COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS DELETE: and are planning a tutoring program for Stephens community. PAGE 16 - SCHOOL VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS DELETE: The principal stated that Pulaski Heights Junior High students provide mentoring services and have lunch with Stephens students. PAGE 18 - DATA SUMMARY/SITE OBSERVATIONS DELETE: and minutes were not kept. INSERT: Minutes are kept the PTA Secretary for 1991-92 school year. PAGE 23 - READING AND ORAL EXPRESSION DELETE: But fifth and sixth grade students use the newspaper for reading instruction. Monitoring Guides-Corrections Page 2 PAGE 23 - READING AND ORAL EXPRESSION INSERT: Newspapers are provided for each fifth and sixth grade student daily. PAGE 25 - INCENTIVE PROGRAMS - ITEM NO. 19 DELETE: (are on the honor roll) INSERT: A and B honor roll, outstanding citizenship PAGE 26 - A CLASSICS READING PROGRAM DELETE: Entire section please INSERT: The principal stated that there are classics available at Stephens. Teachers check out sets from media specialist. There is also a section the media center of classics. PAGE 26 - SOCIAL SKILLS - ITEM NO. 28 INSERT: The principal has asked staff not to speak to students sharply or harshly. They have been reprimanded about how they speak to students, how. staff address students. The principal monitors PAGE 30 - PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT - ITEM NO. 42 INSERT: All teachers will have on file signed homework to document parents seen the homework. All homework will be sent home on Thursday for parents signatures. PAGE 31 - ATTENDANCE AND BEHAVIOR GUIDELINES INSERT: Contractual agreements for behavior/attendance signed by teachers, parents, and students are on file in the principal's office. PAGE 31 - EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAM INSERT: The principal stated that we have office and mediamonitors. Each classroom have a set of literature books available. PAGE 32 - COUNSELING/SOCIAL WORK DELETE: and Pulaski Heights Junior High School students provide mentoring servicesMonitoring Guides-Corrections Page 3 PAGE 36 - ADDITIONAL ITEMS ITEM NO. 64 INSERT: Student Handbooks  also, a copy of Stephens Incentive Schools' Parent Handbook. PAGE 38 - RECOMMENDED FULL-TIME POSITIONS - ITEM NO. 67 PLEASE REWRITE TO READ: Stephens staffing data indicates that recommended full time positions presently unfilled are alternative classroom specailist, supervision aides, assistant principal, music, resource, and speech. PAGE 40 - MINIMUM STAFF DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS AT\u0026amp;T Human Effectiveness Training was provided for principal during 1990-91 school year. PAGE 41 - STUDENT ASSIGNMENT 8 white students as of October 1, 1991 enrollment, and 1 other student. PAGE 45 - \"DELETE last sentence \"In addition to the mentoring program, Pulaski Heights Junior High School students provide mentoring services to Stephens' students.TO: FROM: SUBJECT: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 West Markham Little Rock, Arkansas June 1, 1992 RECEIVED JUN 1 1992 Office of Desegregation Monitoring James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation Arma J. Hart, Desegregation Facilitator Update on Monitoring Report Page 24 - African, African American Curriculum Addition: Principals were requested to solicit additional follow-up training from Marie McNeal supervisor of Social Studies if needed after the meeting. Page 26 - The Latin Enrichment Program The 3 day training is June 10, 11, and 12. The announcement went out to principals, training. Gail Cloud and Alice Stovall will conduct the Page 46 - Attendance and Behavior Guidelines The aides were in attendance at the time-out workshop. Page 55 - Telephone Hotline The telephone hotline recording the messages describing the incentive schools is located in the basement of the administration building. The messages are on the line\nhowever. the telephone company accidently interrupts the services when working on other telephone. The message is on again and will be monitored periodically to see if it is still working. Another hotline message will be set up in Student Assignment Office with Registration Information in July.* LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 30th and Pulaski Streets Ish Elementary School Phone 376-3629 Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 June 1, 1992 To: Arma Hart, Desegregation Facillitator From: Stan Strauss, Principal Subject: Monitoring Corrections Staffing/School Personnel: since figures in the School Profile were compiled. Several Staff changes have taken place at the school The remedial math teacher (a white female) shares the position with another teacher (a black female). They each work one and one half days. An additional instructional aide (a white female) has been hired to manage the PAL lab. The nurse is a white female and a white female has been hired for the Gifted and Talented classes. Extended Week: Figures for Saturday are included in this report.ISH SATURDAY SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS O(A oc ke-Ce l\\er DATE BIACK WHITE OTHER TOTAL lo - 1\u0026gt;I1 u- n \\ - w 5 - I 3' I M n o o i 1 F o 3 1 5 M F M F Ik o I 5 % BIACK I o o I 0 ( 0 o I 0 0 I o o ( OP Vue /o I op VoDATT BLACK M F ISH SATURDAY SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS o\u0026lt;4- WHITE OTHER TOTAL M F M F % BIACK \\o/13 1 1 1 oo -S \\ o 12 I 0 0 /f-j I 5 I o o \\ ! 2. /iS 4 4 too \u0026lt;? 2 \\o 12- 12 O_2e3^2^e2Sj^LOjSiI_2^^Ei_i-^2\n-, TO: FROM: SUBJECT: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 West Markham Street Little Rock, Arkansas June 1, 1992 72201 RECEIVED JUN 4 1992 Office of Desegregation Mcnitoring Ann Brown, Office of Desegregation Monitoring James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation Monitoring and Community Services Responses to Incentive School Monitoring Report Please find attached responses to the Incentive School Monitoring Report prepared by your office. It is my understanding that the response office. from Garland School was delivered directly to your cc: Dr. Ruth Steele Estelle Matthis Sterling Ingram Larry Robertson Arma Hart Chris HellerLITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 30th and Pulaski Streets Ish Elementary School Phone 376-3629 Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 June 1, 1992 To: Arma Hart, Desegregation Facillitator From: Stan Strauss, Principal Subject: Monitoring Corrections Staffing/School Personnel: since figures in the School Profile were compiled. Several Staff changes have taken place at the school The remedial math teacher (a white female) shares the position with another teacher (a black female). They each work one and one half days. An additional instructional aide (a white female) has been hired to manage the PAL lab. The nurse is a white female and a white female has been hired for the Gifted and Talented classes. Extended Week: Figures for Saturday are included in this report.DATE BLACK V  I',\n1?. - ''I \\ - w ( 2 - q M n G 4 H a F li a I 5 ISH SATURDAY SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS qA r? oc ke4\\\\cr WHITE OTHER TOTAL M F M F o 4 I 5 % BL\\CK I o o 1 0 t\u0026gt; ( 0 o I 0 o I o o ( oo I PqVpISH SATURDAY SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS txT- 3^' s Va DATE BLACK WHITE OTHER TOTAL J \\ 2- / (H ' / I? ' i 1 M -S 1 2 F M F M F I \\ o 12 I 5 BLACK 1 oo I 0 0 I o C? 4 \\c\u0026gt; IZ. I O U 12 \u0026lt;7 O ! oo tooLITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 West Markham Little Rock, Arkansas June 1, 1992 TO: James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation FROM: ^^Bobbie Goodwin, Principal Rightsell Elementary SUBJECT: Review of Incentive School Monitoring Guide Page 18 - 2nd Paragraph - Bottom of Page A copy of PTA By-Laws is on file in office. Included are objectives for PTA Meeting Agendas, file in the office. Regular meetings are also on ILITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Rockefeller Elementary School 700 East 17th Phone 374-1226 Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 To: Office of Desegregation Monitoring ODM Monitors: Ann Brown, Melissa Guldin, Connie Hickman, Bob Morgan, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith Through: From: James Jennings, Associate Superintendent of Desegregation Anne Mangan, Principal, Rockefeller Incentive School Subject: Corrections of Review of the Incentive School Monitoring Guides Date: June 1, 1992 Please note the following corrections: Page 7 - POSITION - Change Registrar to Bookkeeper Page 40 - #67 STATUS: are social worker, The recommended positions not filled alternative supervision aides and program specialist. classroom specialist, Page 54 #23 Participants included the principal. primary teacher, an intermediate teacher, a specialist, parent and one grandparent. . a one Page 56 #55 in Camp Pfeifer, Four students from Rockefeller participated Page 56 #67 order would be followed. Principals were told that the recent court particularly discussed but all Individual positions were mentioned. rulings Rockefeller Incentive School has in general not were an assistant principal so a commitment regarding this position was not necessary. (The last two sentences on #67 do not necessarily reflect the situation at Rockefeller and could be deleted on our individual school report.)LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL  Vk * I I ..\u0026lt; * RECEIVED DISTRICT JUN 1 1992 Stephens Elementary ScHOQfegEGRcGATioN 3700 West 18 Phone 671-635C Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 June 1, 1992 TO: OBM Monitors: Ann Brown, Melissa Guldin, Connie Hickman, Bob Morgan, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith FROM: Lonnie S.Dean, Principal SUBJECT: REVIEW OF THE INCENTIVE SCHOOL MONITORING GUIDES-CORRECTIONS Listed below are the corrections to the Review of the Incentive School Monitoring Guides: PATE 14 - DATA SUMMARY DELETE: She works with small groups and parents at least once a week. INSERT: She works with individual students, small groups, and with parents on an individual basis. PAGE 16 - SCHOOL/COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS DELETE: and are planning a tutoring program for Stephens community. PAGE 16 - SCHOOL VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS DELETE: The principal stated that Pulaski Heights Junior High students provide mentoring services and have lunch with Stephens students. PAGE 18 - DATA SUMMARY/SITE OBSERVATIONS DELETE: and minutes were not kept. INSERT: Minutes are kept the PTA Secretary for 1991-92 school year. PAGE 23 - READING AND ORAL EXPRESSION DELETE: But fifth and sixth grade students use the newspaper for reading instruction. Mijnitocing Guides-Corrections Page 2 PAGE 23 - READING ANU ORAL EXPRESSION INSERT: Newspapers are provided for each fifth and sixth grade student daily. PAGE 25 - INCENTIVE PROGRAMS - ITEM NO. 19 DELETE: (are on the honor roll) INSERT: A and B honor roll, outstanding citizenship PAGE 26 - A CLASSICS READING PROGRAM DELETE: Entire section please INSERT: The principal stated that there are classics available Teachers check out sets from media specialist. at Stephens. There is also a section the media center of classics. PAGE 26 - SO..IAL SKILLS - ITEM NO. 28 INSERT: The principal has asked staff not to speak to students sharply or harshly. how they speak to students, how, staff address students. They have been reprimanded about The principal monitors PAGE 30 - PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT - ITEM NO. 42 INSERT: All teachers will have on file signed homework to document parents seen the homework. All homework will be sent home on Thursday for parents signatures. PAGE 31 - ATTENDANCE AND BEHAVIOR GUIDELINES INSERT: Contractual agreements for behavior/attendance signed by teachers, parents, and students are on file in the principal's office. PAGE 31 - EXTRACURRICLTJkR PROGRAMS INSERT: The principal stated that we have office and mediamonitors. Each classroom have a set of literature books available. PAGE 32 - COUNSELING/'SOCIAL WORK DELETE: and Pulaski Heights Junior High School students provide mentoring servicesMni L.oring Guides-Cor rec Lions Page 3 PAGE 36 - ADDITIONAL ITEMS ITEM NO. 64 INSERT: Student Handbooks  also, a copy of Stephens Incentive Schools' Parent Handbook. PAGE 38 - RECOMMENDED FULL-TIME POSITIONS - ITEM NO. 67 PLEASE REWRITE TO READ: Stephens staffing data indicates that recommended full time positions presently unfilled are alternative classroom specailist, supervision aides, assistant principal, music, resource, and speech. PAGE 40 - MINIMUM STAFF DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS AT\u0026amp;T Human Effectiveness Training was provided for principal during 1990-91 school year. PAGE 41 - STUDENT ASSIGNMENT 8 white students as of October 1, 1991 enrollment, and 1 other student. PAGE 45 - \"DELETE tt last sentence tl In addition to the mentoring program. Pulaski Heights Junior High School students provide mentoring services to Stephens' students.TO: FROM: SUBJECT: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 West Markham Little Rock, Arkansas June 1, 1992 James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation Arma J. Hart, Desegregation Facilitator Update on Monitoring Report Page 24 - African, African American Curriculum Addition: Principals were requested to solicit additional follow-up training from Marie McNeal supervisor of Social Studies if needed after the meeting. Page 26 - The Latin Enrichment Program The 3 day training is June 10, 11, and 12. The announcement went out to principals, training. Gail Cloud and Alice Stovall will conduct the Page 46 Attendance and Behavior Guidelines The aides were in attendance at the time-out workshop. Page 55 - Telephone Hotline The telephone hotline recording the messages describing the incentive schools is located in the basement of the administration building. The messages are on the line\nhowever. the telephone company accidently interrupts the services when working on other telephone. The message is on again and will be monitored periodically to see if it is still working. Another hotline message will be set up in Student Assignment Office with Registration Information in July.\nThis project was supported in part by a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives project grant from The Andrew W. 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Pulaski County Special School Dist. on December 12, 1990 (hereinafter \"NLR Plan'') is actually to be found in several documents beginning with its original submission in March, 1986 and culminating with the stipulation regarding compensatory education filed on October 25, 1989. The purpose of this document is to consolidate all the elements of the Plan into a single document for ease of reference. The NLR Plan was initiated by the filing on March 17, 1986 of the ''Plan for Implementing the Remedial Order of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit as It Applies to the North Little Rock School District\" (hereinafter \"March Plan''). The purpose of this initial submission was to address the interdistrict violations addressed by the Court of Appeals in LRSD v. PCSSD. The district court, however, required the NLRSD to provide a plan to address its intradistrict violations as well, and in response the NLRSD filed on October 14, 1986, its \"Supplement to Plan for Implementing the Remedial Order of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit as It Applies to the North Little Rock School District\" (hereinafter \"October Supplement''). In its Order of February 27, 1987, the district court approved the NLR Plan as described in these two documents. Subsequently, some modifications to the NLR Plan were made either by petition to and approval by the district court or by operation of the settlement among the parties which has now been approved. The first modification occurred as a result of the NLRSD's motion of July 21, 1987 to add an addendum to the NLR Plan to address the impact of Acts 624 and 762 of 1987 which was approved by the district court by its Order of July 27, 1987. Copies of the Addendum and the district court's order have been attached as Addendum lE to Section 1 of the NLR Plan which addresses student assignment. The next modification occurred as a result of the NLRSD's \"Petition to Modify NLRSD Student Assignment Plan and to Close Central Junior High School\" filed on July 20, 1988 (hereinafter ''NLR Secondary Reorganization'') and approved by the district court by its Order of September 1, 1988. This modification provided for the reorganization of NLRSD secondary Page 1 schools beginning in the 1990-91 school year and resulted in a single high school for the NLRSD with grades 9-10 at the former Northeast High School campus and grades 11-12 at the former Ole Main campus. Additionally, Central Junior High School was closed and the student assignment zones for the remaining three junior high schools for grades 7 and 8 redrawn to ensure comparable racial balance. These modifications were implemented at the beginning of the 1990-91 school year, i.e., August, 1990. The remaining modifications occurred as a result of the settlement among the parties. First, the parties agreed to the NLRSD's \"Petition to Modify NLRSD's Desegregation Plan\" (hereinafter \"NLR 2/ 89 Petition') submitted to the Special Master in February, 1989 and incorporated into the parties' ''Interdistrict Desegregation Plan\". The provisions of the Petition dealing with interim efforts to desegregate Lakewood Junior High School pending the secondary reorganization to be implemented in the 1990-91 school year were satisfied and are no longer applicable since the secondary reorganization has now been accomplished. The other provisions of the Petition have now been incorporated into the NLR Plan. The final modification of the NLR Plan occurred as a result of the \"Stipulated Compensatory Education Programs to be Implemented by the NLRSD with Settlement Monies\" (hereinafter ''NLR Comp. Ed. Stip.') filed on October 25, 1989 which satisfied paragraph VIII D. of the Pulaski County School Desegregation Case Settlement Agreement, March, 1989 (as revised September 28, 1989) requiring a description of the compensatory education programs to be implemented by the NLRSD with funds to be received from the Settlement Agreement. This Stipulation also gave effect to and now supersedes that portion of the original NLR Plan which described additional compensatory education programs which could be implemented only with additional State funds. In organizing the original NLR Plan and these modifications into a single plan document, the March Plan has been used as the base document. Thus, Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the October Supplement, which involve the same topics as Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the March Plan, have been relabeled Sections IA, 2A and 3A and placed immediately after Sections 1, 2 and 3 respectively of the March Plan language. Sections 4 through 9 of the October Supplement have then been added as Sections 4 through 9 of this consolidated plan document. The addenda which immediately followed the respective sections of the March Plan and October Supplement have been moved to a separate volume for attachments. Commentary is included through the use of footnotes or parentheticals. Page 2 These steps were taken to minimize the amount of editorial change and to retain as much of the original language as possible since that is the language approved by this Court and the Court of Appeals. Page 3 PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTING THE REMEDIAL ORDER OF THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT AS IT APPLIES TO THE NORIB LITILE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Page 4 INTRODUCTION In its decision of April 13, 1984, this Court found the North Little Rock School District (NLRSD) to have committed the following segregative acts: 1. The NLRSD constructed and renovated schools in a manner which sought to preserve the racial identification of North Little Rock neighborhoods. 2. Blacks were underrepresented on the administrative staff and teaching faculties of the NLRSD schools. 3. Whites were underrepresented in schools south of Interstate 40 and blacks were underrepresented in schools north of Interstate 40. 4. The NLRSD has failed to have blacks coaching at the senior high school level. 5. Blacks were significantly overrepresented in special education classes and no valid testing procedure could explain it. Furthermore, the NLRSD classified white students as '1earning disabled\" while blacks were classified as \"mentally retarded.\" 6. Blacks were underrepresented in the NLRSD's gifted and talented program. 7. A disproportionate number of blacks drop out of school. 8. Blacks were disproportionately expelled from school. 9. The NLRSD does not provide adequate compensatory education programs for black students. 10. A disproportionate number of black students were bussed in the NLRSD with 1ess than satisfactory desegregation results.\" However, only four of these violations were found to have had a continuing interdistrict effect. Specifically, the NLRSD \"(a) failed to assign blacks to its central administration or to high school principalships and coaching positions\n(b) concentrated whites in schools north of Interstate 40 and blacks in schools south of it\n(c) assigned students to special education classifications on a discriminatory basis\nand (d) failed to apportion the burdens of transportation equally on black and white students.\" Id. at 353, Paragraph 10. The NLRSD's remedial plan, submitted as NLRX R-1, was directed toward remedying those segregative acts determined to have interdistrict segregative effects and did not address those violations which were intradistrict in their effect under the assumption that remedial Page 5 efforts directed to intradistrict violations would be addressed in proceedings in Davis v. Board of Educ. of NLRSD. The Court, however, directed that North Little Rock supplement its remedial plan in the present case to address the intradistrict violations that were not determined to have an interdistrict effect and that is the purpose of this document. Page 6 SECTION 1: STUDENT ASSIGNMENT PLAN History of Storm Plan Elementary students within the District are assigned according to the Storm Plan in grades 1-6. The Storm Plan pairs a school in a predominately black area with one or more schools in a predominately white area. These schools are grouped so that each group's racial make-up represents the racial make-up of the District. This plan is based on two primary premises: first, that it accomplish total integration and, second, that it is the least discriminatory method possible in that no area of the District can be considered to be favored in any way. In order to be as fair as possible, students were initially selected at random for transportation. The following procedure was used: all letters of the alphabet were placed in a container and an alphabet was drawn from the container. Beginning with that letter of the alphabet the student body in each school was divided into groups of appropriate size. When the end of the alphabet is reached, the process starts over and the District continues to regroup alphabetically. Elementary Schools The North Little Rock School District desegregation plan, approved by the Court of Appeals, see Davis v. Board of Ed., (8th Cir. 1971) and revised with the approval of the district court, see Davis v. Board of Ed., Order (May 12, 1978), incorporates the following features': 1. Since the total student population of the elementary schools in the North Little Rock School District is approximately 42 percent black and 58 percent non-black students, each elementary school in the district must have a student population which approximates as nearly as is feasible these percentages. 2. To assure that each school will have a student population which is composed of approximately 42 percent black students and 58 percent non-black students, schools are placed in groups so that students within each group can be assigned to schools in such numbers as is necessary to achieve the desired racial composition in each school. See Addendum lA. 3. Children entering the first grade after May 1, 1978, as well as all children entering the district from another school district after May 1, 1978, will enter the District pupil assignment plan according to the last name of the child shown on his official 1Statistics in this section reflect the school population of the NLRSD in the 1985-86 school year since this part of the Plan was submitted in March, 1986. As of October 1, 1990, the elementary student population in the NLRSD was 492% black and 50.8% non-black. Page 7 birth certificate (or his previous school record if he is entering from another school district) and will continue in the rotation cycle under that name. 4. Kindergarten students are assigned to their neighborhood schools and are not transported for purposes of racial balance. This was approved by the court in Davis v. Board of Ed .. 5. Black students living in predominately white areas and white students living in predominately black areas are not bussed or transferred. The questions and answers concerning the District's student assignment plan (Addendum lB) are published in August of each year and mailed to all patrons of the North Little Rock School District. The decision of the Court of Appeals directs that the student population in the District have a racial composition within 25% of the racial composition of the District as a whole. The NLRSD has 4,620 elementary students of whom 2,467 (57.9%) are non-black and 1,793 (42.1 %) are black. Thus, in order to meet the . 25% standard, each school must have a non-black population between 42.4% and 73.4%, i.e., 57.9% ._ 155%. All the elementary schools in the District were in compliance with this standard when the Court approved the NLR Plan in 1987: LRSD v. PCSSD, 659 F Supp 363,367 (E.D. Ark. 1987). Junior High Schools Junior high schools, grades seven and eight.2 are also assigned by zones. Each junior high school reflects the racial make-up of the District. These zones will be changed, if and when necessary, to maintain the racial balance within the District. Senior High Schools For twenty years, the NLRSD had two senior high schools - Northeast and Ole Main. Beginning in the 1990-91 school year, however, these schools were consolidated into a single school - North Little Rock High School - with two campuses. All students grades 9-10 are assigned to the east campus (formerly Northeast High School) and all students grades 11-12 are assigned to the West campus (formerly Ole Main). Voluntary Transfers Between NLRSD and PCSSD 2As a result of the NLR Secondary Reorganization, 4 JDR 910, Central Junior High School was closed. The remaining three junior high schools were converted to grades 7-8 rather than 8-9 and their attendance zones were redrawn to ensure racial balance. The language of this subsection has been modified to reflect these changes. Page 8 To aid in the desegregation of NLRSD and PCSSD schools, the North Little Rock School District and the Pulaski County Special School District will cooperate in each other's efforts to recruit black students from the NLRSD to attend PCSSD schools and white students in the PCSSD to attend NLRSD schools on a voluntary basis provided no transfer negatively affects the desegregation status of any NLRSD or PCSSD school. Communication of Anticipated School Enrollments Further, the parties desire that any shifts in the racial composition of schools that might fall outside the Court-approved standard be identified and addressed before the beginning of a school year. To this end, the North Little Rock School District agrees it will prepare an estimate of the anticipated school enrollment of each of its schools on or before July 1 for the coming school year. If it is determined that any school is within two percentage points of the limit approved by the Court, the Court and other parties will be notified and appropriate action, if any, will be determined and taken prior to the commencement of the academic year. Interdistrict Transfers of Teachers' Children In the 1987 Legislative Session, the Arkansas General Assembly passed two Acts which either directly affect or could affect the desegregation efforts of the North Little Rock School District. Act 762 of 1987, copy attached as part of Addendum lE, 3 directs that no school district may permit or accept transfers of students from other school districts if either school district is under a desegregation order and the transfer would negatively affect the racial balance of the district subject to the desegregation order. This policy is consistent with the established policy of the NLRSD and the District will continue to adhere strictly to these requirements. However, the Legislature also passed Act 624 of 1987, copy attached as part of Addendum lE, which states that \"the children or wards of anyone who is a public school teacher in one school district ... and a resident of another school district ... shall be entitled ... to attend school in either ... district ... \". This is seemingly inconsistent with the \"no transfer\" requirements of Act 762, and, as a result, the Attorney General was asked for an opinion regarding this apparent conflict. 3While Addenda lC and lD have been deleted, this has been designated lE to avoid any possible confusion. Page 9 In Opinion No. 87-190, copy attached as part of Addendum lE, the Attorney General opined that a child living in one district who was enrolled, pursuant to Act 624, in another district was not a transfer subject to the provisions of Act 762 since the child was statutorily entitled to attend school in either district. In light of the Attorney General's opinion, the NLRSD has no discretion regarding the admission of the children or wards of non-resident teachers and this situation could result in an interdistrict segregative effect on the racial composition of the LRSD and NLRSD. Specifically, the NLRSD has 578 teachers of whom 141 live in the LRSD, the great majority of whom are white.4 Thus, if a significant number of these teachers enrolled their children in the NLRSD, it would result in a negative impact on the racial composition of the LRSD student body. To date, the number of applications for such interdistrict enrollment of teachers' children has been minimal and the race of those applying has been so balanced as to have no adverse effect on either school district involved. However, to protect against the potential adverse interdistrict effect that such enrollment makes possible, the NLRSD will report to the Court annually regarding the number and race of teacher's children who are being enrolled in the district where the teacher is employed rather than in the district in which they reside. Should a problem develop, the NLRSD will ask the Court for relief. Until that time, however, the NLRSD will adhere to the requirements of Acts 624 and 762 as interpreted by the Attorney General's Opinion No. 87-190. 4These numbers were accurate as of July, 1987 when the Addendum was submitted to the court for approval. Page 10 SECTION IA: STUDENT ASSIGNMENT Section 1 of NLRX R-15 addressed issues relating to student assignment and established a plan for assigning students in the NLRSD which remediated any concentration of whites and blacks north and south of Interstate 40 and achieved a racial balance in each school well within the standard of plus or minus one fourth of the District-wide racial make-up. These student assignment provisions were not criticized at trial or in the proposed findings submitted by the parties and the NLRSD believes these provisions fully remediate the effects of any violation related to student assignment.6 5NLRX R-1 is the March Plan. 6The Court held in LRSD v. PCSSD, 659 F. Supp. 363, 367 (E.D. Ark. 1987) that all deficiencies related to student assignment had been corrected. Page 11 SECTION 2: STAFF RECRUITMENT PLAN The Eighth Circuit directed the North Little Rock School District to develop a plan to comply with earlier decrees regarding increasing the representation of blacks as principals and administrators in the North Little Rock School District. To ensure that a greater number of black applicants are attracted to teaching positions which would improve the pool of qualified applicants for administrative positions, and in order to meet the standards set by applicable law, the North Little Rock School District proposes the following components of a comprehensive recruitment plan for furthering the number of black administrators. Internal Activities 1. The District will develop a budget that anticipates activities related to all components of the plan and provides the necessary funding for these activities. 2. North Little Rock School District personnel will be notified of vacancies in administrative and principal positions and will be encouraged to apply. 3. Periodically, the North Little Rock School District will conduct an interest survey among its teachers and administrators with the purpose of identifying those individuals who would be interested in advancement to administrative or principal positions. College and University Contacts Colleges and universities are perhaps the best source of qualified applicants for teaching positions. Therefore, the District will contact these institutions for the purpose of recruiting qualified black applicants. 1. The District will identify regional colleges and universities which have strong teacher education programs with significant black enrollment. 2. The District will identify regional universities having post graduate education programs with significant black enrollment for the purpose of soliciting black applicants for administrative positions. 3. The district will contact those institutions identified in paragraphs 1 and 2, as well as others, using a letter of introduction (Addendum 2A) and will provide them with a brochure containing brief information about the District, occupational opportunities and employee benefits\nan Equal Opportunity Employer statement\nand a kit containing other pertinent information. 4. District personnel will visit those teacher training institutions expressing interest, with special emphasis on established career days or special events sponsored by the Page 12 institutions and with special attention given to institutions that have historically produced greater numbers of black educators. 5. District personnel will attend visitation seminars at interested institutions at times agreed upon by the institution and the District. Prearrangements and announcements would be made through the appropriate officials at the institutions. 6. The District will develop appropriate materials for distribution to institutions and their interested students, including an introductory letter (Addendum 2B)\na description of employee benefits (Addendum 2C)\na District brochure (Addendum 2D)\nan application\nspecific informational items on teaching, coaching, and administrative positions\nnotices on current job vacancies\na schedule of visitations and seminars\nand the brochure described in paragraph 3 above. Community Activities Another excellent source for recruitment can be found in community programs and activities. To this end, the District will ensure that its participation in community programs and activities is consistent with its commitment as an equal opportunity employer. 1. Black community leaders will be invited to talk with the North Little Rock School District concerning the employment of black administrators. 2. The District will also contact community organizations, such as the Urban League of Greater Little Rock, which provide employment referrals for black professionals. Professional Associations Placement services provided by professional associations for their members is an additional method of recruitment. 1. The District will identify those educational organizations which could serve as a source of black applicants for administrative positions. 2. The District will contact those organizations which provide employment information and will provide them with relevant materials regarding employment with the NLRSD. 3. Where appropriate, District personnel will attend regional or national conferences sponsored by professional associations for the purpose of recruiting administrative personnel. Other Outside Activities 1. Recruitment activities will be administered by those fully aware of the District's nondiscrimination and equal employment opportunity policies. Page 13 2. Recruitment programs may be held in hotel/ motel conference rooms in cities considered a promising source of applicants - for example, Memphis, Tennessee\nJackson, Mississippi\nBaton Rouge, Louisiana. Such programs would be preceded by extensive local publicity. 3. It will be the policy of the North Little Rock School District to notify in writing all recruitment sources and to state in all recruiting materials, including newspaper advertisements, that it is an \"Equal Opportunity Employer\". 4. The District will produce a 10-minute slide show or videotape presentation describing the District and occupational opportunities in the District for use at recruitment sites. 5. When appropriate, the District will advertise teaching and administrative vacancies in newspapers and other media in communities that have colleges and universities targeted for recruitment efforts. Page 14 SECTION 2A: STAFF RECRUITMENT PLAN In Section 2 of NLRX R-17 the NLRSD enumerated the steps it will take to improve the recruitment and selection of black faculty and staff. Included in these are job posting and an employee interest inventory intended to improve promotional opportunities for black employees, with particular emphasis on placing blacks in administrative and principal positions. These efforts are all related to remediating violations 2 and 4 which related to the underrepresentation of blacks in administrative, teaching, principal and coaching positions. At trial, there was criticism of the failure to provide for numerical goals and timetables. In the NLRSD's Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, the District addressed this criticism by incorporating requirements that the District develop numerical goals and timetables. A labor economist will be employed to conduct an analysis of the pool of qualified applicants in the relevant labor market for each job classification.8 In addition, the vacancies in the District for the last five years, anticipated new positions and positions it is anticipated will be eliminated will be considered in determining the vacancies reasonably anticipated in the future. The availability data and vacancy information will be utilized in developing reasonable goals and timetables for each classification. When fully implemented, the NLRSD believes these recruitment efforts and selection goals will fully remediate any violations related to the underrepresentation of blacks in administrative, teaching, principal or coaching positions. 7The March Plan. 8This labor market analysis was completed in 1988 and submitted to the Special Master. See 5 JDR 1451-78. Page 15 SECTION 3: SPECIAL EDUCATION PLAN Introduction The Court of Appeals has ordered the North Little Rock School District to adopt a \"racially neutral plan evaluating and placing students requiring special education.\" In addressing this directive, the NLRSD remains cognizant of several important factors. First, the District is obligated by State and federal law to provide every handicapped child with a free and appropriate education. While classifying black children as in need of special education when, in fact, they do not need it, could be discriminatory and, thus, a violation of the Constitution, the failure to provide special education to a black child who did need it would be a violation of Public Law 94-142 and Arkansas Act 102 of 1973. Recognizing the tension between these important public policies, the District considers that the emphasis of its special education plan must be on ensuring the accuracy of its evaluation programs and the elimination of any masking influence caused by cultural or socioeconomic biases. Second, the District recognizes that the Court of Appeals' primary concern is with the classification of black students as educably mentally retarded (EMR) and has, therefore, focused specifically on the evaluation, placement and instructional practices related to its mental retardation programs. Third, the District also notes that the evidence giving rise to the Court's findings arose from data collected in 1976 and 1980. Since 1980, however, significant changes have been implemented in the State and federal regulations governing evaluation and placement in special education programs, many of which were specifically aimed at safeguarding against the misclassification of students as needing special education. See generally, Referral, Placement and Appeal Procedures: For Special Education and Related Services (Ark. Dept. of Educ. 1985), hereinafter referred to as \"Referral Procedures\", and Program Standards and Eligibility Criteria for Special Education (Ark. Dept. of Educ. 1985, hereinafter referred to as \"Program Standards\". With these factors in mind, the North Little Rock School District proposes the following plan for implementing a race neutral special education program. Strict Adherence to Procedural Safeguards Required by State Guidelines The Arkansas Department of Education, and the Regulatory Agency Responsible for the enforcement of the Education of the Handicapped Act of 1975, PL. 94-142, has issued detailed regulations governing the operation of special education programs in Arkansas public schools. These detailed guidelines were first issued in 1981 and were updated and reissued in 1985. See \"Referral Procedures\" (1981) and ''Program Standards\" (1981) contained in NLRX 28. Page 16 These guidelines incorporate provisions which specifically act as safeguards against improper evaluation and placement. Due Process Protections In ''Referral Procedures\" (1981 and 1985), the Department of Education adopted detailed requirements for due process designed to safeguard against the misevaluation of a child and to ensure that the best educational interests of the child were of paramount importance. The North Little Rock School District complied with these requirements by implementing due process procedures consistent with the State regulations. A copy of the NLRSD's due process procedures are attached hereto as Addendum 3C. For a complete understanding of all the details of these procedures, one is referred to the procedures themselves. A summary of some of the more important features follows: 1. Parents must be notified of every step in the referral, evaluation and placement process and given the opportunity to attend and participate in all meetings and conferences. 2. Parents must give their consent before any formal evaluation or testing of the child maybe done. 3. The parent has the right to be represented by the person of their choice at all proceedings. While not required by State or federal regulations, the NLRSD provides the parents of children being evaluated with a list of independent agencies who provide assistance to parents in this process. See Addendum 3D. 4. No child can be placed in a special education program without either parental consent or court order. 5. The parent may request an independent professional evaluation from a list of twenty-four approved agencies. See Addendum 3E. While the NLRSD is required to pay for such an evaluation only in the event the District's evaluation is found to be incorrect, the NLRSD has nonetheless paid for every independent evaluation requested in the past even though its evaluations have never been found to be incorrect. The NLRSD will continue this practice to the extent its budget permits. 6. Finally, the parent has the right to appeal any evaluation or placement decision to a hearing officer, who conducts a formal evidentiary hearing, and ultimately to a court of competent jurisdiction. 7. In any appeal, the burden of proof as to any placement is upon the school district. Page 17 8. The NLRSD advises parents of these rights in writing at the beginning of the referral and evaluation process. Safeguards Against Improper Use of Test Instruments In addition to the procedural safeguards discussed above which are designed to ensure an open process involving fully informed parents having access to independent review of any decision, the State regulations first adopted in 1981 also require the incorporation of specific safeguards in the assessment process. The most important of these safeguards are as follows: 1. Tests and other evaluation materials: a. Have been validated for the specific purpose for which they are used\nand b. Are administered by trained personnel in conformance with the instructions provided by their producer. c. Include materials tailored to assess specific areas of educational need and not merely those which are designed to provide a single general intelligence quotient. 2. No single procedure is used as the sole criterion for determining an appropriate educational program for a child. 3. The evaluation is made by a multidisciplinary team or group of persons, including at least one teacher or other specialist with knowledge in the area of suspected disability. 4. The child is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability, including, where appropriate, health, vision, hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, and motor abilities. 5. Intellectual ability must be measured by an individual intelligence test appropriate to the student and such testing may only be done by a certificated educational examiner, licensed psychologist or licensed psychological examiner. State Regulations Specify Which Tests May be Used in Mental Retardation Assessment In furtherance of the requirement that tests must have been validated for the purpose for which they are used, the Arkansas Department of Education, in its ''Program Standards\" specifies by name, which tests may be validly used for what purpose. This is done for each handicap category. The provisions relating to mental retardation assessment are found at pages 13-1 through 13-7 of the \"Program Standards\" (1985). Page 18 The North Little Rock School District is in compliance with these regulations. It uses no test not specifically approved in these regulations in making final evaluation and placement decisions and will continue to adhere to this practice. Adoption of Alternative Assessment Procedures and Instructional Practices Specifically Designed to Avoid Overrepresentation of Minority Students in EMR Programs In addition to maintaining its compliance with all State and federal regulations governing special education, particularly those provisions designed as safeguards against the misclassification of individuals as being mentally retarded, the North Little Rock School District will engage in an on-going effort to identify and study new assessment and evaluation techniques which are designed to address the problem of overrepresentation of minority children in EMR programs. Cantalician Study9 In 1984, the Cantalician Foundation, published a booklet entitled \"Technical Assistance on Alternative Practices Related to the Problem of the Overrepresentation of Black and Other Minority Students in Classes for the Educably Mentally Retarded\" (Cantalician Foundation, Inc.: 1984). (Addendum 3F\nhereinafter referred to as \"Cantalician Study\"). This publication was commissioned by the Office of Civil Rights, United States Department of Education in an effort to provide technical assistance to state and local educational agencies in the reduction of the overrepresentation of minority students in EMR programs. As a result of its study, the Cantalician Foundation identified six alternative instructional practices, two alternative referral practices and two alternative assessment practices which appeared to be effective in reducing minority placement in EMR classes. The alternative instructional practices were endorsed by the Foundation because, if implemented successfully, they would enable some students at risk of EMR placement to improve their performance to the extent that referral for special services would not be necessary. The six practices identified were: 1. Direct Instruction with DIST AR 2. Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction 3. Precision Teaching 9Source: March Plan, 2 JDR 123. Page 19 4. Peer Tutoring 5. Adaptive Learning Environment Model 6. Computer Assisted Instruction 10 At page 7-8 of its March Plan, the NLRSD committed to implement the six alternative instructional practices recommended by the Cantalician Foundation in its report in 1984. Three of these practices have been implemented - DISTAR, Peer Tutoring and Computer Assisted Instruction. The contents of the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) and Adaptive Learning Environment Model (ALEM) have been implemented through other programs although not necessarily in the form specifically described by the Cantalician Foundation in its report. The parties recognize that the purpose of the Cantalician Report was to provide school districts with exemplary programs which could be adapted to each district's curriculum and needs. It was never suggested that the programs could be effective only if implemented exactly as described in the Report. Thus, because the North Little Rock School District has adopted various programs such as PACIR, TESA and Classroom Management as well as DIST AR and Computer Assisted Instruction which implement the educational content and elements of ECRI and ALEM, the District has acted consistent with the intent of the Cantalician Report. Therefore, the parties agree that the North Little Rock School District should not be required to implement the Adaptive Learning Environment Model and the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction alternative practices except as is already being done through other programs. (See Addendum 3J). The sixth proposed alternative instructional practice was Precision Teaching. This has been very effective in teaching the profoundly handicapped but even the Cantalician Foundation warned that there was as yet no evidence of its efficacy in teaching non-handicapped students. The North Little Rock School District has made several attempts to obtain information regarding the effectiveness of this method in teaching non-handicapped students but has been unable to obtain such information. The District will continue to seek this information but the parties agree that the North Little Rock School District should not be required to implement the Precision Teaching Model as an alternative instructional practice until such supporting data 10 A detailed description of these practices is contained in the Cantalician Study attached hereto as Addendum 3F and will not be repeated here. Page 20 is forthcoming. The District will assess the use of Precision Teaching when data is supplied supporting its efficacy for non-handicapped students.11 Cantalician Study - Alternative Assessment Practices The Cantalician Foundation also recommended four alternative referral and assessment practices: 1. Pupil Appraisal Assessment Program 2. Rapid Exam for Early Referral and Classroom Learning Screening 3. Reclassification and Declassification 4. Interactive Model for Professional Action and Change for Teachers The alternative referral and assessment practices listed above will be closely studied by the NLRSD. If there are critical attributes within the above referenced practices that are not currently in use in the North Little Rock School District and the addition of these attributes will lower referral and placement rates in the District without compromising educational quality, these attributes will be added or used to replace current practices. Other Alternative Practices In addition to the alternative instructional practices endorsed by the Cantalician Foundation, the NLRSD has also implemented a Chapter I Project for Elementary schools designed to identify children in grades K-2 who lack the basic learning skills necessary for successful performance in the regular classroom. Teacher aides are assigned to the regular classroom specifically for the purpose of working with the students in this program and provide these students with intensive, individualized instruction designed to develop the learning skills needed. When successful this program avoids the need to place a student in a special education program and permits advancement through the normal curriculum. A more detailed description of this program is contained in Addendum 3G, entitled \"North Little Rock Public Schools: A Chapter I Project for Elementary schools\". Increased Review by Independent Parties State regulations provide that the Department of Education will conduct a review of each school district's special education program at least once every three years to determine \"Source: NLR Petition, 8 JDR 1741-43. Page 21 compliance with all State and federal regulations. The North Little Rock School District's last compliance review was completed on April 18, 1984 and the District was found to be in compliance. See NLRX 30 \"Monitoring Checklist and Compliance Letter\" attached as Addendum 3H. All suggested improvements were implemented by January 31, 1985. See Letter to Ark. Dept of Education dated 1/ 31/ 85 attached as Addendum 31. In addition to this regularly scheduled compliance review, the District will invite the following organizations to conduct in-service training and/ or periodic review of the district's policies, practices and procedures related to special education. 1. Child Advocacy Services, Inc. 2. Bureau of the Educationally Handicapped 3. Parents' Coalition for the Handicapped 4. Federal Office of Special Education 5. Arkansas Department of Education 6. Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education As a further effort to open the District's assessment process to outside review and constructive criticism, child advocates will be invited to attend conferences where children's needs are being discussed, subject to parental approval where necessary. The Superintendent of the North Little Rock School District will also appoint a committee whose members will include, but will not be limited to, parents, patrons, students, teachers, licensed examiners, counselors, principals, speech therapists and special education administrators which committee will be charged with reviewing student records and special education procedures and whose members will be asked to attend student conferences. Additionally, this committee will be asked to monitor all phases of the District's special education program and its compliance with State and federal regulations at least every 18 months. Page 22 SECTION 3A: SPECIAL EDUCATION The provisions of the NLRSD's plan for remediating violations related to the overrepresentation of blacks in special education programs is fully set forth in Section 3 of NLRX R-1. In its Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, the NLRSD did provide that the District would maintain records sufficient to identify and tabulate separately the total number of students by race in each school and grade level and by type of placement who are (a) referred for consideration for placement in a special education program\n(b) evaluated for such placement\nand (c) actually placed in a special education program. This data will be maintained in the central administrative offices although separately from each student's individual file. This data is to be reviewed by the central administrative staff and reported to the Court annually. Furthermore, it is suggested that the Arkansas Department of Education monitor compliance with all classification procedures and safeguards on an annual basis rather than once every three years. Also, the NLRSD would establish an intradistrict review committee to monitor the District's special education programs and, particularly, its classification procedures. The Joshua Intervenors may appoint a representative to this committee. Page 23 SECITON 4: COMPENSATORY EDUCATION The North Little Rock School District believes that each student can learn and encourages each student to achieve according to his or her best abilities. Careful appraisal, frequent evaluation, and flexible grouping ensure that each student will receive instruction according to identified strengths and needs. The curriculum in the elementary schools places primary emphasis on the basics of reading, spelling, language, mathematics, writing, social studies, science and health. Students also participate in music, art, and physical education activities. Mastery of skills in each subject is stressed, and career awareness is a component in many of the basic subjects. The junior high program provides a period of transition from the elementary school to senior high school. The transition covers all areas of school life: academic, co-curricular, and social. At the junior high level, continued emphasis is placed on the individual and on basic skills instruction, while a wider scope of instructional programs and co-curricular activities is introduced. In addition to basic disciplines,junior high students may select electives in modern foreign languages, industrial arts, home economics, exploratory business, art, communications, choral music, and band. Introduction to competitive athletics, student government, spirit clubs, and special interest organizations encourage self-\u0026lt;levelopment and preparation for high school. The senior high schools provide a comprehensive course of study based on the District's commitment to providing a classical college preparatory curriculum and career preparation programs. A strong basic academic program and a wide-range of electives in fine arts, foreign languages, forensics, business, and vocational-technical skills offer a multitude of options to high school students. The District recognizes, however, that the regular curriculum is often insufficient in aiding disadvantaged students, particularly disadvantaged minority students suffering the effects of centuries of societal discrimination, to achieve mastery of basic skills. Therefore, within the framework of a comprehensive curriculum which meets and exceeds state standards and which is structured to meet the varying individual needs of all students, the North Little Rock School District must address identified remedial needs of disadvantaged minority students. The District also recognizes that achievement disparity does exist between the black and white student population. Addressing the disparity issue may start with the development of disparity plans at each campus unit. Page 24 The following compensatory programs and compensatory components of programs will be provided to help students overcome the segregative effects of a nonunitary school system. Like the Little Rock School District, however, the North Little Rock School District lacks sufficient resources to implement all the compensatory programs it would like to have available and still provide a regular program of instruction which is educationally adequate. The District is aware that Little Rock contends that the State is obligated, pursuant to the Court of Appeals decision in this case, to provide additional funds to all three school districts for additional compensatory education. The NLRSD does not necessarily share this interpretation but should Little Rock's position be the correct one, there are compensatory programs beyond the District's present means which should be implemented if the State is obligated to provide the additional funding. Because of this ambiguity in the availability of resources, the NLRSD has provided two lists of compensatory programs. The first lists these programs which the District has implemented or will implement from its present funding base and without additional funding from the State. The second lists those compensatory programs the District would like to implement but cannot without additional State aid. Programs Implemented Without Additional State Assistance Early Childhood Program Kindergarten programs will be implemented at each elementary school with a District goal of 100 percent attendance by all eligible students. Two diagnostic tests, the Boehm-R Test of Basic Concepts and the Early Prevention of School Failure Test, will be administered to all kindergarten children at the first of each school year. The Boehm test assesses student understanding of fifty basic concepts which are fundamental to understanding verbal instruction and are essential for early school achievement. Teachers will use the data from these two tests to design a prescriptive learning program for each child. They will assume the responsibility for implementing the instructional learning programs. Intensified Instruction At levels kindergarten through second grade, teacher aides will be assigned to assist teachers in providing learning experiences for selected students who exhibit deficiencies in reading, language, and basic concepts. Third grade students in selected schools will also receive special instruction from paraprofessionals. Page 25 The paraprofessional will provide supplemental compensatory instruction for selected students. Instruction will occur in small groups and on a one-to-one basis. The instructional lessons provided by the paraprofessional will be correlated with the instructional lessons provided by the teachers. Basic Skills Instruction The curriculum in grades K-7 places primary emphasis on the mastery of the basic skills in reading, language arts, and mathematics. Careful appraisal, frequent evaluation, and flexible grouping ensure that each student will receive instruction according to identified strengths and needs. In grades 8-12, continued emphasis will be placed on the individual student and on basic skills instruction within the framework of a comprehensive secondary curriculum. 1. PACIR By the end of the 1991-92 school year, a curriculum renewal project for Mathematics and Language Arts called Practical Approach to Curriculum and Instructional Renewal (PACIR) will be developed to insure that classroom learning meets the expectations of parents and students. In this program, objectives will be developed\nstudents' progress will be measured\nstudents' needs will be identified\nand programs, practices, and resources will be adjusted. Through this emphasis on the mastery of the basic skills, the North Little Rock School District will continue to focus on the remediation of identified deficiencies in reading, language arts, and mathematics. 2. Early Childhood Program By the end of the 1991-91 school year, first and second grade students, as well as third grade students in selected schools, who have identified reading deficiencies will receive supplemental reading instruction as described in the Early Childhood section. This instruction will be in addition to the regular reading instruction and will be planned and directed by the classroom teacher. The program will include one-to-one tutoring by a trained paraprofessional. 3. Additional Reading Instruction Generally, District elementary students will be involved in only one small group classroom instructional reading lesson per day. Selected elementary students will be involved in an additional reading instructional lesson per day. Students who are reading Page 26 below grade level and who are experiencing difficulty in reading will be prime candidates for this additional instruction. 4. Academic Skills Development Plans State Minimum Performance Tests will be administered to students at the third, sixth, and eighth grade levels. Teachers will work in cooperation with principals, parents, and counselors to develop and implement Academic Skills Development Plans for all students who do not pass the Minimum Performance Tests. Each individual student plan will include a list of the basic skills which were not mastered by the student and strategies for remediation of these deficiencies. Teachers will be required to indicate the date when mastery of each skill has been reached. 5. Remedial Reading at the Junior High School Level Remedial reading classes will be provided at each junior high school for students with deficiencies in reading. The classes will be staffed by reading specialists. Special emphasis will be placed on the following skills: comprehension, word recognition, communication, study skills and survival reading skills. Pupil Services In addition to the opportunities for academic achievement provided by the core curriculum, the District will provide specialized programs and services to diagnose and meet the particular educational needs of all students and to foster their individual physical, social, intellectual, and emotional growth. The special needs of identified disadvantaged and minority students will be met in a variety of ways. 1. Guidance Services A guidance program will be provided in each school to aid students in educational, personal, social, and vocational development. All students will have access to a guidance counselor. The ratio for secondary schools will be one counselor for every 450 students. For elementary schools, the ratio will be one counselor for every 600 students. Particular attention will be paid in this program to the needs of minority and disadvantaged students. 2. Diagnosis and Prescription A comprehensive assessment program will permit the District to identify students who are having academic problems and to provide opportunities for them to experience Page 27 success. The assessment program will include standardized tests in grades 2-10\nMinimum Performance Tests in grades 3, 6, and 8\naptitude tests\nsubject area mastery tests\ndiagnostic tests, such as the Boehm Test\nteacher-made tests\npsychological tests\nand health screening. Test data will be used in planning appropriate compensatory programs and services for students. Again, particular emphasis will be placed on the needs of minority and disadvantaged students. 3. Social Work A half-time social worker will provide services for students who have serious problems with school adjustment. The social worker will serve as a link between school, home, and community and will assist students in overcoming academic, social, and behavior problems. 4. Homebound Services Students with medical conditions which require them to be absent from school for four or more consecutive weeks will be provided instruction by a certified teacher. Learning Resources 1. Library/Media Program The library/ media program is a key component of the instructional program. The District Instructional Materials Center and the individual school media centers are extensions of classroom instruction as books, films, videotapes, and other instructional materials are utilized to expand and enrich the curriculum. The media specialist, recognizing students' unique learning abilities, performance levels, learning styles, and interests, prescribes appropriate curricular and special interest learning materials. This service is extremely beneficial to educationally disadvantaged students as their specific learning needs are matched to appropriate learning materials. 2. Computer Assisted Instruction For those students whose instructional needs require reteaching and additional drill and practice to achieve mastery in reading, language, and mathematics, computer assisted instruction will be provided. Computer activities will be integrated into the instructional program so that classroom instruction will be reinforced by concentrated on-task learning on the computer. All schools will use computers and computer assisted instruction and computer managed instruction software. Page 28 3. Basic Skills Computer Laboratories Basic Skills Computer Laboratories have been established at Argenta Elementary School, Central Junior High School, and Rose City Junior High School. The basic skills computer laboratories provide supplementary computer assisted and computer managed instruction in reading, language, and mathematics for all students on a regularly scheduled basis. Utilizing IMPAC software and course materials, the supplemental instruction is geared to the individual student's needs. The educationally disadvantaged student will benefit greatly from this individualized program. Summer Learning Experiences To extend students' opportunities for the mastery of the basic skills and for enrichment, a program of summer learning experiences will be established. 1. Summer School for Secondary Students A summer school program will be offered on a tuition basis for students in grades 9-12. Students may elect to take remedial or enrichment courses. 2. Pilot Project for Eighth Grade Students During the summer of 1987, a pilot summer program funded by JTPA (Job Training Partnership Act) will be conducted to remediate the learning deficiencies of eighth grade students who did not pass the Minimum Performance Test. The procedure will be to assess learning deficiencies, plan for and provide individualized instruction, and utilize the best learning approaches available in a concentrated time frame. Transportation will be provided for the students. If the pilot project is successful and if JTPA continues to fund the project, the eighth grade summer school will be implemented each summer. Parental/ Community Involvement Parents will be encouraged to become informed about the District's educational program and involved in their children's instructional program. Opportunities for involvement will include: PT A\nChapter 1 Parent Advisory Committee\nDistrict committees such as Curriculum, Textbook, Discipline, Gifted, Special Education, and Six-Year Planning\nand local school committees such as Six-Year Planning, PTA, and NCA SelfStudy. Steps will be taken to assure that there is biracial participation in this committee work. Page 29 A part-time coordinator will work with Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS) which serves as a vehicle to involve parents directly in the instructional process. Parents will serve as resource persons, do one-to-one tutoring for students not achieving mastery of the basic skills, and perform other volunteer tasks. Parents will be kept well-informed of their children's progress in school. Conferences will be scheduled at least twice each year for parents of elementary students and at least once each year for parents of secondary students. This parental involvement, while important for all students, is extremely critical to the success of many disadvantaged and minority students, and special attention will be paid to these students. Report cards will be issued at the end of each nine week grading period. Written interim progress reports will be sent home to parents if a student is making unsatisfactory progress. Parents will be asked to confer with teachers throughout the year concerning the student's progress. For minority students who are participating in other compensatory education programs extra steps will be taken to involve parents or guardians in the student's educational experiences. Through the Classmates Program, the business community will become more informed about and more involved in the educational process. Efforts will be made to extend Classmates, which provides the opportunity for a business and a school to become community partners, to all North Little Rock schools. Staff Development The North Little Rock School District Staff Development Program is designed to assist each staff member in performing at his/ her optimum level in every area of the total teaching act. The District programs which will impact greatly on compensatory education are the Program for Effective Teaching (PET) and Classroom Management Training. 1. Program for Effective Training The Program for Effective Training (PET) teaches the teacher the key elements which must be present in any instructional lesson if student mastery is to occur. A training cycle consists of: seven full days of instruction for the teacher\nfive practice lessons taught by the teacher while being observed by a trained observer\nand follow-up conferences by the observed and teacher. Since all present staff members have completed PET training, new teachers will receive the training each spring. Page 30 Students with learning deficiencies will profit as the instructional proficiency of teachers is increased. 2. Classroom Management Training In the training sessions, Classroom Management is approached as a matter of preparation, organization, and instruction. The program stresses that effective classroom managers are successful, not so much because they are more effective in responding to problems of inattention or disruption, but because they are more effective in preventing such problems. Each training cycle consists of two days of training for each teacher and three classroom observations. Following each observation, the trained observer confers with the teacher to commend areas of strength and to provide assistance in overcoming deficiencies in classroom management. All elementary teachers have completed this training. New elementary teachers and all secondary teachers will receive Classroom Management Training. Since many students who are encountering learning problems are often inattentive or disruptive, this program impacts positively on these students as teachers learn to manage classrooms more efficiently and effectively. Page 31 STIPULATED COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY NORm UTILE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Wim SETTLEMENT MONIES The programs listed below will be implemented with settlement monies pursuant to the Pulaski County School Desegregation Case Settlement Agreement, March, 1989, as amended. The District cannot presently implement these programs without funds from the Settlement Agreement due to the financial condition of the District. In its October, 1986 Supplement to Plan for Implementing the Remedial Order of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit as it Applies to the North Little Rock School District, approved by the Court in its Order of February 27, 1987 the NLRSD described in Section 4: Compensatory Education, certain educational programs needed to address achievement disparity of black students which could be implemented only with additional funding from the State. With the settlement monies from the State, the NLRSD will now be able to implement those programs as described below. SETILEMENT PLAN FOR COMPENSATORY EDUCATION Programs to be Implemented with Settlement Monies I. Leaming Resources Goal: Provide technology based remedial basic skills instruction to reduce the achievement disparity between black and non-black students. A. Basic Skills Computer Laboratories The first priority of this Settlement Plan is to establish a twenty-eight station Basic Skills Computer Laboratory in each elementary school to assist students in mastering the basic reading, language and mathematics skills. Settlement funds, federal funds and other available funds will be utilized to fund the computer laboratories. The first priority will be to increase the size of existing computer laboratories at Redwood, Boone Park, Amboy, Glenview and Rose City elementaries to twenty-eight station labs. Computer laboratories would then be added to all other elementary schools in priority based upon the largest number of economically deprived students as determined by the eligible participants in the free/ reduced lunch program. Page 32 The expansion of labs at these five schools will occur the first year of the Plan and additional schools will be equipped with a computer laboratory starting the second year of the Settlement Plan and completing that installation process by the end of the fourth year of the Settlement Plan. B. Diagnostic and Prescription Diagnostic and prescriptive services will be available to each grade 1-8 student and teacher in reading, language and mathematics through locally developed PACIR objectives with prescriptive test and the use of the Curriculum Management software that IBM has under development or some comparable alternative. 12 The North Little Rock School District has requested that IBM Corporation allow North Little Rock School District to participate in the pilot of this software this year. Through the use of P ACIR objectives and diagnostic tests using the Curriculum Management software, individual education plans (IEP) will be made available for students. As technology progresses, the District goal is to provide individual educational plans to teachers and parents as a guide to enhance the students achievement level. These services will be available during the fourth year of the Plan provided IBM Corporation has developed and releases the Curriculum Management software in early 1990. II. Pupil Services (and Program Monitoring) Goal: To assess student achievement and monitor the reduction of achievement disparity between black and non-black students. Diagnosis and Prescription Standardized achievement testing will be extended to grade 1 and grade 11 in order to provide more sequential and comprehensive data for curriculum assessment and individual student mastery. Achievement data by race will be developed for each school by grade. These data will be analyzed each year to determine program efficacy and in developing achievement components of each school's annual School Improvement Plan. 12IBM has withdrawn the Curriculum Management software and the status of its development and likelihood of release is unknown. The NLRSD is presently seeking a suitable alternative. Page 33 Beginning in year one of the Settlement Plan, the District will provide up to $5,000.00 to assist disadvantaged youth in paying for college entrance testing such as the SAT and ACT. m. Staff Development Goal: Provide teachers with additional skills and awareness which will more greatly involve minority students into the mainstream of classroom activities and reduce teacher preconceptions which might hinder learning by black students. A. Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement (TESA} Extensive research shows that teacher interaction with students perceived as low achievers is less motivating and less supportive than interaction with students perceived as high achievers. Research also shows that high achievers receive more response opportunities and are given more time to respond to questions. This has particular application to educating minority and disadvantaged students. The Teacher Expectation and Student Achievement Program (TESA) deals with these important research data. It addresses the effects of teacher expectations on student achievement. In the program, teachers learn to increase specific motivating and supportive interactions with low achievers. Fifteen interactions are presented in the program. The training program consists of five workshop sessions and five classroom observations per teacher. The TESA program will begin implementation the first year of the Plan, and all teachers will have received TESA training by the end of the sixth year of the Plan. IV. Early Childhood Goal: To better prepare disadvantaged and minority four and five year old students for school success. A. Pre-Kindergarten Program To better prepare disadvantaged and minority students for school success, a HIPPY program will be established in lower socio-economic elementary attendance zones such as Redwood, Pine, Boone Park, Argenta, Glenview and Seventh Street. This program will focus on academic and social skills necessary for school success. Parent involvement in the learning process of the students is a component of the program. Page 34 One attendance zone will be added each year beginning in 1989-90 school year and continuing until all identified schools' programs are made operational. Funds outside the settlement funds will be utilized until after year four of the Settlement Plan. V. Summer Learning Experiences Goal: Provide tuition grants and transportation to low socio-economic students to attend summer school. A. Summer School for Secondary Students To meet the summer school needs of educationally disadvantaged students, tuition scholarships and transportation will be provided to those students who would be unable to attend without assistance. Regulations governing the free and reduced lunch participants will be the guide in awarding scholarship tuition and transportation for secondary summer school. Tuition scholarships and transportation will be made available the second year of the implementation plan. B. Summer School for Elementary and Junior High School Students Goal: To enable low achieving students the opportunity to receive small group remedial instruction. Summer learning opportunities will be provided for selected elementary and junior high school students who have not mastered the basic skills curriculum. Each year the instructional department will carefully review and analyze Metropolitan Achievement Test data and the data from the Minimum Performance Tests to determine the content areas and grades in greatest need of remediation services. The curriculum would provide remedial and enrichment activities in large and small group settings through both computer assisted and teacher directed instruction. Summer school activities are currently on-going for grades 1, 3, 6 and 8. An evaluation and review of each program is made each summer. Continued review and evaluation will continue with consideration given for program expansion for the second year of the implementation plan. VI. Basic Skills Instruction Goal: Provide remedial instruction for basic skills mastery to reduce achievement disparity between black and non-black students Page 35 A. Remedial Reading Laboratories at the Senior High School Level Remedial reading instruction will be provided at each senior high school for students with deficiencies in reading. Instruction would be provided jointly through computer assisted and teacher directed by a reading specialist. Special emphasis would be placed on the following skills: comprehension, word recognition, communication and survival reading skills. These services will be implemented beginning with the fifth year of the Settlement Plan and continuing through year seven. B. Remedial Reading and Mathematics Supplementary Instruction at the Elementary Level Remedial reading and/ or remedial mathematics supplementary instruction will be provided in the elementary schools serving students who score below the twentieth percentile in grades 1, 2 and 3. The Metropolitan Achievement Test (MA T-o) will be used as the evaluative instrument for grades 2 and 3. An appropriate standardized instrument will be selected for evaluation of grade 1 students prior to implementation date. Grades 4, 5 and 6 will be served as funds become available. The supplementary instructional program will be staffed by itinerate (floating) reading and/ or mathematics specialists who will be assigned to schools as needed to deliver instruction to students who score below the twentieth percentile on diagnostic instruments described above for grades 1, 2 and 3. The learning experiences would be in addition to classroom instruction, but will be correlated with classroom programs. The supplementary instructional services will be provided the fifth, sixth and seventh year of the settlement plan. VII. The implementation of the District's compensatory education programs will also be monitored by the State pursuant to Section III A of the Settlement Agreement and nothing in this plan is intended to limit that monitoring responsibility. Page 36 SECTIONS: COMPENSATORY PROGRAMS AIMED AT DROPOUT PREVENTION In North Little Rock, as in any urban school district today, at least 25 percent of the students could be categorized as potential dropouts. Characteristics of these \"at risk\" students may include: poor self-concept, a high degree of frustration with school work, possession of values that are in direct conflict with those of the school, and difficulties in verbal and nonverbal communication. All compensatory programs address those symptoms, even at the early elementary level\nhowever, if the problems have not been corrected as the student enters the secondary schools, the risk of dropout intensifies. A number of intervention programs which address the \"at risk\" student will be implemented. Win Program The WIN Program (We Intervene Now), designed to identify and modify student behaviors which interfere with educational progress, is being piloted at Lakewood Junior High School during 1986-87. If the program is successful, it will be implemented in other secondary schools. The intent of the program is to provide an intervention process that involves the student, parent, and school personnel. This intervention process will be especially beneficial for disadvantaged students. Student Assignment Classes (SAC) Student Assignment Classes (SAC) will be established for on-campus suspension of secondary school students. Students involved in this program will continue academic work under the supervision of the SAC teacher during the time of suspension. Alternative School Suspension to the North Little Rock Boys Club is an alternative to out-of-school suspension that will be provided for selected secondary school students. This program will be available for students whose behavior is unmanageable both at school and at home and who cannot function in the on-campus suspension program. Students involved in this program will continue their academic work, and receive counseling services at the Boys Club Alternative School. Vocational Services Compensatory services in the area of vocational education will also be provided through the Carl Perkins Project, which is specifically targeted for students who are potential dropouts. Page 37 An individualized written vocational plan will be completed for each student identified for inclusion in this program. Services will include the assessment of interests, learning modes, and individual needs by a vocational education evaluator and the use of a computerized Job Opportunity Based Search System to place students in the most appropriate vocational courses. Student Attendance When possible, parents of senior high school students will be notified each day that a student is absent from one or more classes. To aid in this effort, an automatic phone calling system will be installed in each of the senior high schools. A computer will call the home of each absentee at night and ask for a response from a parent. Follow-up calls will be made the next day by school personnel. Page 38 SECTION 6: EXTRACURRICULARA CTIVITIES The North Little Rock School District recognizes that clubs and student organizations are an important part of the total educational experience for students. All clubs and student organizations shall operate under the direction of the principal and shall be under the supervision of a staff member appointed or approved by the principal. Membership in student organizations and clubs shall not be restricted on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or other arbitrary criteria. Further, entry shall not be by decision of the current membership of the organization. Eligibility requirements for participation in cheerleading, drill teams and athletic activities are determined by the Arkansas Activities Association. Other extracurricular activities and/ or organizations related to special interests or subject areas do not have a minimum grade requirement, except those clubs and organizations that are governed by charters from parent organizations. In order to assure greater participation by minority students the following actions will be taken: 1. Principals, counselors, sponsors, and teachers will inform and encourage minority students to become more active in all extracurricular activities. 2. Schools will publicize and inform minority students and their parents well in advance of the selection process so that they will know what to expect and when to apply. 3. All selection committees will be biracial in make-up. 4. The District recognizes that one impediment to minority participation in extracurricular activities is the lack of transportation before or after normal school hours. Unfortunately, the NLRSD lacks the resources to provide extracurricular transportation for its students and, therefore, has requested that the Court direct the Department of Education to provide such transportation, not only for majority-to-minority transfer students but for all students. Absent funding by the State, however, the NLRSD will be unable, with its present resources, to provide such additional transportation and still provide a regular program which is educationally adequate. 5. Principals and sponsors will monitor participation in all extracurricular activities and, where such participation is racially identifiable, special efforts will be made to promote minority participation in any such racially identifiable clubs and/ or organizations. Page 39 6. The District will annually review try-out procedures and eligibility requirements to identify and eliminate any practices that discourage or adversely affect minority participation. 7. Each school will prepare a summary report for all clubs, organizations and other extracurricular activities reflecting the racial composition of the officers in each activity, the total membership, and all those who tried out or sought membership. This report will be prepared in April of each year which provides sufficient lead-time to permit planning, publication and recruitment of minority participation for the following year. See Addendum 6A. These reports will be compiled in a District summary for all extracurricular activities which will be completed and presented to the Board of Education at its May meeting each year. Page 40 SECTION 7: DISCIPLINE, EXPULSIONS AND SUSPENSIONS Disciplinary polices are periodically reviewed to ensure fundamental fairness and the absence of bias. In this effort all District policies relating to student conduct and discipline were revised in the 1985-86 school year. See Addendum 7 A. To ensure that parents and students are advised of expected student conduct, bases for discipline and all disciplinary procedures including any right of appeal, District-wide handbooks were developed in the 1985-86 school year and given to each student. Students are annually required to have their parents read the handbooks and sign a statement acknowledging that both the parents and the student have read the handbook. Additionally, the handbook is reviewed with the students in all schools during class time. Suspensions The NLRSD student population is 40% black and 60% white.13 In the 1985-86 school year 48% of those students suspended were black. While the District does not believe this is significantly disproportionate, it has taken additional steps to ensure fairness and the absence of bias. First, as discussed above, it has revised its policy to provide clear standards of expected behavior as well as guarantees of due process including the right of appeal. Second, each suspension is reviewed by the Assistant Superintendent for Student Affairs and the Superintendent to ensure that District policies are followed.- Third, a summary of suspensions showing the number and race of students suspended in each school will be compiled by the Assistant Superintendent for Student Affairs and will be provided to the Board of Education at its July meeting each year. A review of all suspensions will be conducted for any school that has a disproportionate number of suspensions of minority students to ensure that race has not been a factor in the suspensions. Expulsions The North Little Rock School District has expelled only twenty students during the last three years. 14 Of this number ten have been black. Seventeen of these expulsions have been because of serious offenses relating to drugs or the possession and/ or use of weapons. Given 13This was the population in 1985-86. 14The data in this section were accurate as of the 1985-86 school year. Page 41 the very small number of expulsions and the extreme seriousness of the offenses involved, the District believes that any violation relating to expulsions has been corrected. Further, all expulsions are made by the Board of Education and then only after a hearing. Page 42 SECTION 8: GIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATION The Court based its determination that the NLRSD denied black students access to its program for gifted and talented students on data from 1980. Since that time, significant changes have been made in the District's identification procedures designed specifically to improve the identification of gifted minority students. These efforts, which are detailed below, have been described by Dr. Emily Stewart, an expert in gifted and talented education, as comparing favorably with the state of the art for identifying minority gifted students. She also testified that the referral and placement of minority children in the NLRSD gifted program for the 1983-84 school year, were consistent with the national norm and were reflective of a concerted effort to identify gifted minority students. Callahan/ Treffinger Study During the 1982-83 school year, the District's concern was the identification of all gifted students, but an overriding concern was the identification of the culturally disadvantaged. Through a Title IV-C Grant, the District was afforded the opportunity to hire two consultants in the field of gifted education, Dr. Donald Treffinger from State University College at Buffalo, New York, and Dr. Carolyn Callahan, University of Virginia. The plan was to develop a methodological case-study/ placement procedure. The case-study method provides information from a variety of sources and also summarizes strengths and weaknesses for instructional programming. Dr. Callahan evaluated the District's case-study placement procedures. She found that although the identification of minority students was uneven across the District, the selection of minority students had increased by43% districtwide. Recommendations in Dr. Callahan's study were used by the District to implement other strategies to increase identification and selection of culturally different students as well as to even out the process across the District. Creative Positives for Identifying Disadvantaged Youth During the same year, the District utilized the \"Creative Positives of Disadvantaged Youth and Children,\" by E. Paul Torrence. See Addendum 8A. The District also adopted the Torrence Test of Creative Thinking. This test has been even more useful in discovering giftedness among the culturally different. The District continues to use the test, and special scoring of strengths is used in the creativity test for purposes of screening and identification of culturally disadvantaged students. Page 43 Multiple Referral Sources As a safeguard against bias, nominations for placement in the gifted program are sought from a wide variety of sources including parents, other students, and the individual student himself or herself as well as from teachers and principals. This ensures that everyone who might see a different facet of the nominated student perhaps not seen by others is encouraged to nominate that student if he or she feels the student might be gifted. Multiple Placement Criteria Student placement decisions are based on multiple criteria. See Addendum 8B. No single criterion or cut-off score is used to exclude a student from placement. Teacher ratings may override poor test scores\nhowever, good normative information may outweigh negative teacher ratings. Creative Positives Among the Culturally Different by E. Paul Torrence is used to assist in identification of the culturally different. Group Decision-Making Another safeguard against bias and a further assurance that no student is overlooked lies in the fact that no single individual makes a placement decision. Each school has a case study/ placement committee made up of the principal or assistant principal, counselor, resource teacher for gifted and talented, and two classroom teachers. On the elementary level, one teacher is primary\nthe other is intermediate. On the secondary level, one classroom teacher is a current teacher of the student being referred. The principal is responsible for the total process and serves as chairman of the case study/ placement committee. The resource teacher of gifted and talented will be actively involved in the committee work. The supervisor of gifted and talented assists as needed. No single person can decide to place or not to place a student. Parental Involvement and Appeal Parents are involved throughout the referral and placement process. They are invited to refer their children for placement. They are required to complete the Parent Questionnaire, Addendum 8C, which is an important source of information not obtainable by other means. They meet with the case study/ placement committee concerning placement recommendations. Finally, parents have the right to appeal the decision of the case study/ placement committee to the Director of Elementary or Secondary Education. The Director and the Supervisor of the Gifted and Talented Program then review all identification instruments, Page 44 Addendum 8B, and meet with the parents to review all placement criteria. If an error has occurred an appropriate correction will be made. Monitoring and Intervention Reports are submitted to the Central Administration showing the race and grade of all students referred and placed in the gifted programs in each school. Where there is an unevenness of nominations, referrals, and placements of the culturally disadvantaged students, the permanent folders are carefully examined by the Supervisor for Gifted and Talented Education. As a result of such additional reviews, minority students who might be gifted are identified and follow-up procedures are initiated to observe and document the student's actions which would justify referral, evaluation and possible placement. Also, additional in-service training regarding the use of the creative positives in identifying minority gifted students is conducted for teachers in those schools. Page 45 SECI10N 9: SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AND INADEQUATE FACILITIES The North Little Rock School District was established in 1901 with all students housed in a single building. As the population increased during the next several years, schools were added to accommodate student growth. The District made an early commitment to neighborhood schools as evidenced by the relatively small size and geographic location of school buildings. Such commitment prevailed until recent times. Constructed in the 1950's, the Belwood Elementary School, for example, contains only seven classrooms and small spaces for library, offices, and cafeteria. Most elementary schools were originally designed to house two hundred or less pupils. Almost all of the existing school facilities have been expanded since their original construction. Although facility expansion has increased pupil capacity in most North Little Rock Schools, the neighborhood school concept has remained evident in the location of elementary schools. No elementary pupil within the District is assigned to a home school which is located two or more miles from his place of residence. From its inception in 1901 until the 1969-70 school year, student population grew at a steady rate until reaching the all-time high of 14,000. Since the 1969-70 school year, student population has, consistently declined. The October, 1986, enrollment was 9,686 students, an overall decrease of 4,414 since 1969-70. Through its history, various school facilities have come into and gone out of existence. During the 1970-71 school year, elementary and secondary students attended school on twentyeight separate school campuses. Twenty-three regular schools and two special schools currently serve students in the twenty-six square mile district. Beginning with the 1972-73 school year, all North Little Rock schools have been fully integrated in accordance with the \"Storm Plan\" approved by the Federal District Court (Judge Henley). Attendance zones have been established and racial quotas established to ensure that the racial composition in all elementary and secondary schools is within plus or minus twentyfive percent of the percentage of the minority school population. Beginning with the rebuilding of Amboy Elementary School (fire) in 1970, the North Little Rock School District has sought Court approval of all openings, closings, and additions to school facilities. The most recent such action was a request (granted) to close the Levy Elementary School prior to the 1985-86 school year. Page 46 In light of the declining to stable student population, it does not appear likely that new school construction will be necessary in the near future. If new facilities or additions to existing facilities become necessary in the future, the District shall rely on the standards contained in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. of Educ. (1977). The overall condition of school facilities in the North Little Rock School District is excellent. A rather well-financed maintenance program has kept facilities in a very serviceable and attractive condition. This is evidenced by the fact that since the 1982-83 school year every school in the District has been reviewed as part of the ongoing North Central Accreditation process and all have satisfied NCA standards. No building is in need of major renovation. All buildings are well ventilated and heated. Over fifty percent of the students attend school in airconditioned facilities. The overall condition of buildings shows only minor variations throughout the District. Certainly, no building condition bears a relationship to its geographical location within the District. Page 47 SECTION 10: DESEGREGATION MONITORING 1. It will be the responsibility of the District's Desegregation Team to monitor progress toward accomplishment of tasks included in the District's Desegregation Plan. 2. The District Desegregation Team will consist of the Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, and one member of the local Board of Education appointed by the President and approved by the Board. 3. The Assistant Superintendent for Personnel will serve as Chairman of the District Desegregation Team. 4. The District Desegregation Team will meet at least once each month to review specific tasks included in the District's Desegregation Plan. 5. All administrators assigned responsibilities for implementing the desegregation plan will regularly report to the District Desegregation Team .  6. The District Desegregation Team will design a detailed reporting/ monitoring system describing the information to be collected and reported, the format of reports and the frequency of reports. 7. Each school will establish a desegregation team to review campus desegregation activities. 8. School Desegregation Teams will consist of the principal, teachers, patrons (and students at the secondary level.) 9. School Desegregation Teams will meet at least once each quarter and report their findings to the District team. 10. The District Desegregation Team will routinely review all monitoring reports and will report to the School Board the status of the District's plan. 11. The District Desegregation Team will seek advice from the Arkansas Department of Education, other agencies and individuals when problems necessitate technical assistance. Page 48 Addendum lA Addendum 1B Addendum lE Addendum 2A Addendum 2B Addendum 2C Addendum 2D Addendum 3C Addendum 3D Addendum 3E Addendum 3F Addendum 3G Addendum 3H Addendum 3I Addendum 3J Addendum 6A Addendum 7A Addendum BA Addendum 8B Addendum BC APPENDIX TABLE OF CONTENTS NLRSD Racial Count as of 10/1/85 Questions and Answers Addendum to Section 1 Notice Regarding Applicants Notice Regarding Positions. Schedule of Benefits NLRSD Brochure Due Process Steps for Appraisal . NLRSD Special Services Dept. List of Agencies 63 Cantilician Study 69 . Chapter I. Project 101 A.D.E. Monitoring Checklist Letter to Arkansas Dept. of Educ. Recommendations Activities Report Policies and P=ocedures Gifted/Talented Program Instruments of Identification Parent Questionnaire . . . . . .. 1050 1051 1054 1064 1065 1066 1069 1080 1112 1113 1119 1151 1168 1191 1197 1198 1200 1228 1238 1239 SCHOOLS GROUP A LAKEWOOD CRESTWOOD BELWOOD PINE TOTALS GROUP B PIKE VIEW ARGENTA TOTALS GROUP C GLENVIEW LYNCH DRIVE TOTALS GROUP D AMBOY INDIAN HILLS SEVENTH STREET BOONE PARK TOTALS GROUPE PARK HILL NORTH HEIGH'l'S REDWOOD TO'fALS GROUP F MEADOW PARK ROSE CITY TOTALS BARING CROSS* DISTRICT TOTALS NORTH LITTLE ROCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS RACIAL COUNT AS OF OCTOBER 1, 1985 EXCLUDING KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS NONBLACK No. ( % ) 143 (63.6) 100 (57.l) 61 (55.0) 93 (53.1) 397 (57.9) 234 (60.6) 97 (53.9) 331 (58.5) 104 (58.8) 123 (51.0) 227 (54.3) 172 (58.l) 209 (63.5) 169 (57.1) 239 (54.8) 789 (58.1) 116 ( 61. 7) 238 (63.2) 133 (54.1) 487 (61.0) 117 (56.5) 116 (53.5) 233 (55.0) 3 (30.0) 2,467 (57.9) BLACK No. ( % ) 82 (36.4) 75 (42.9) 50 (45.0) 82 (46.9) 289 (42.1) 152 (39.4) 83 (46.1) 235 (41.5) 73 (41.2) 118 (49.0) 191 (45.7) 124 (41.9) 120 (36.5) 127 (42.9) 197 (45.2) 568 (41.9) 72 (38.3) 127 (34.8) 113 (45.9) 312 (39.0) 90 (43.5) 101 (46.5) 191 (45.0) 7 ( 70. 0) 1,793 (42.1) ADDENDUM lA TOTALS 225 175 111 175 686 38 6 180 566 177 2 41 418 29 6 3 29 296 436 1357 188 365 246 799 207 217 424 10 4,260 *Baring Cross was created as an alternative to placing severely handicapped children in state institutions. The only students assigned to this school are those who are profoundly and multiply handicapped. QUESTIONSA NDA NSWERS ADDENDUM 18 CONCERNINTGH E REVISEDE LEMENTARSYC HOOLD ESEGREGATIOPNL AN FOR THE NORTHL ITilE ROCKS CHOOLD ISTRICT 1. Q. What about children in the same family who have different names? A. A child who enters the School District after May 1, 1978, as a first grader or as a newcomer to the district on any grade level will be placed in the pupil assignment rotation according to his/her last name as it appears on the official birth certificate. Special consideration cannot be given to families whose members have different last names. 2. Q. After the number of assignments have been made in the spring to achieve the proper racial balance, what provisions will be made to protect that balance from losses resulting from moving during the summer? A. An additional 10 percent will be selected as a standby list. 3. Q. Will the elementary schools continue to operate on a staggered time schedule? A. Yes, this is necessary to prevent st~dents from having t0 wait at school longer than is desirable. It should be noted that no child will be transported more than 7.5 miles one way\ntherefore, the staggered time schedule causes only slight differences in school schedules. 4. Q. Can a student avoid being transported if he/she attend~ a private school during the year(s) he was assigned to a school outside his neighborhood? A. Any movement within the District will place the student in the rotation plan or assignment presently in effect in the attendar.ce zone where he will be residing. If a student attends a private school during the years(s) he is to be bused he is auto~aticallv buse~ ~hen ~e ret~,~s to the ~orth Little Rock Puhlic Schools. S. Q. Where do students attend school who enroll after the school year begins? A. Students will be assigned according to their place in the alphabetical rotation system. 6. Q. Are the loading and unloading of buses used to transport children supervised? A. Yes, principals and teachers supervise the loading and unloading of each bus. 7. Q. Where do buses load and unload? A. The neighborhood elementary school will be the pick-up point for all children being transported. 'No stops will be made to receive or discharge pupils at any other point. It is the parent's responsibility to deliver children to the neighborhood school\nit is the district's responsibility to return the children to the neighborhood school in the afternoon. In case the student is late and does not board the bus at the neighborhood school, it is the responsibility of the parent to transport the child to the school he/she attends. 8. Q, When this plan was revised, were any changes made in the elementary attendance zones? A. Yes, minor changes were made to alleviate crowding in two schools. The zones were revised so that some students who would have attended Crestwood Elementary will now attend Indian Hills, Some students who would have attended Crestwood will now attend Lakewood, and some students who would have attended Seventh Street will now attend Redwoor.. 9. Q. How were the groupings of schools determined? A. Using the percentages of 42 percent black and 58 percent nonblack students as a goal for each groupings, factors such as the racial composition of attendance zones, the present enrollment of each school and the capacity of each school were considered. 10. Q. Will any student be exempt from assignment outside their neighborhood? A. Yes, kindergarten students and students who live in an elementary zone with a racial composition such that their race is in the minority. Also, there may be instances where some handicapped children will not be transported although it is the general policy of the district to include special education students in the pupil assignment plan. There are children whose handicapping condition requires a particular special education program which may not be available in every school. It is also necessary to consider the number of students who can be accommodated in a particular program in a school since it is essential that enrollment in special education classes be small enough to allow for as much individual attention as is needed for each child. Exceptions may also be made for children with a medical disability if the situation warrants. These must be considered on an individual basis. . ADDENDUMlE FILED U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT ARKANSAS JUL 211987 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COl.IB:\\RRL. BRENTSC LERK EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS ' WESTERN DIVISION Sy: _____ :-:--:--- orP.cLrRK LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT PLAHlTifF vs. NO. LR-C-82-866 PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al ADDENDllM TO STUDENT ASSIGNMENT PROVISI01'1S OF SECTION 1 OF THE PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTI~G THE REMEDIAL ORDER OF THE COURT OF APPEALS FOB THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT AS IT APPLIES TO THE ~ORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT (NORTH LITTLE ROCK FLAfl) In the 1987 Legislative Session, the Arkansas General Assembly passed two Acts which either directly affect or could affect the desegregation efforts of the North Little Rock School District. Act 762 of 1987, copy attached' as Exhibit \"A\", directs that no school district may permit or accept transfers of students from other school districts if either school district is under a desegregation order and the transfer would negatively affect the racial balance of the district subject to the desegregation order. This policy is consistent with the established policy of the NLRSD and the District will continue to adhere strictly to these requirements. However, the Legislature also passed Act 624 of 1387, copy attached as Exhibit \"B\", which states that \"1:.he chilclxen cir wards of anyone who is a public school teacher in one school district ... and a resident of another school district shaJ.J. 03-1)1)9 be entitled This is requirements to attend school in either ... district seemingly inconsistent with the no tr?nsfer of Act 762, and, as a result, the Attorney General was asked for an opinion regarding this apparent c0nflict. In Opinion No. 87-190, copy attached as Exhibit \"C\", ths Attorney General opined that a child living in one district who was enrolled, pursuant to Act 624, in another district was not a transfer subject to the provisions of Act 762 since the child was statutorily entitled to attend school in either district. In light of the Attorney General's opinion, the IILRSD has no discretion regarding the admission of the children or wards of non-resident teachers and this situation could rssult in an interdistrict segregative effect on the racial coroposition 0f the LRSD and NLRSD. Specifically, the NLRSd has 578 teachers of whom 141 live in the LRSD, the great majority of whom are white. Thus, if a significant number of these teachers enrolled their children in the NLRSD, it would result in a negativs impact on the racial composition of the LRSD student body. To date, the number of applications for such interdistrict enrollment of teacher's children has been minimal and ihe race of those applying has been so balanced as to havs nc adverse effect on either school district involved. However, to protect against the potential adverse interdistrict effect that sDch enrollment makes possible, the NLRSD will report to the Court -2- 03-009 annually regarding the number and race of teacher's children who are being enrolled in the district where the teacher is employed rather than in the district in which they reside. Should a problem develop the NLRSD will ask the Court for ielief. Until that time, however, the NLRSO will adhere to the requirements of Acts 624 and 762 as interpreted by the Attorney General's Opinion No 87-190. July 21, 1987 Respectfully submitted, JACK, LYON \u0026amp; JONES, P.A. 3400 Capitol Tower Capitol at Broadway Little Rock, AR 72201 (501) 375-1122 JONES, Attorneys Little Rock School District CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a true and correct copy 0f the foregoing Addendum was mailed to the attached. list C!f counsel on this 21st day of July, 1987. -3- 0 3-0() 9 State of Arkansas ACT7 6 2 l~d7 A Bill 76th General Assembly Regular Session, 1987 HOUSE BILL 1790 2 3 By: Reps. Townsend, I. Brown, Walker For An Act To Be Entitled \"AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TRANSFER OF CHILDREN FROH ONE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ANOTHER\nAND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.\" 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEHBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: 5 6 SECTION 1. Upon the petition of a student residing in one school 7 district (resident district), to transfer to another school district (receiving 8 district)\nthe Board of Directors of the resident district may enter into an 9 agreement with the Board of Directors of the receiving school district trans- 1O ferring the student to the receiving district for purposes of education. 11 Forms for use in transferring children from one school district to another 12 shall be provided by the State Department of Education. After the petition 13 has been approved by the Board of Directors of th,e resident district and the 14 Board of Directors of the receiving district, copies of approved transfers 15 shall be filed by the receiving district with the office of the County Clerk, 16 with the administrative offices of the respective school districts, and with 17 the State Department of Education. This legal transfer of a student from one 18 district to another places the responsibility for the education of the student 19 on the receiving district and permits the receiving district to count these 20 children in average daily membership for state aid purposes. This section 21 does not transfer the local tax money from the resident district. 22 . ' 23 SECTION 2. Boards of Directors of local school districts are prohibi\\ed 24 from granting legal transfers in the following situations: J\\'-~.\\ 25 (a) where eith_er the resident or the receiving district is under.a ~ 26 desegregation related court order or h2s ever been under such a court o~e ~ 27 and ~. \\ 28 (b) the transfer in question would negatively affect the racial ba~, .. 29 of that di~trict which is or reen unn ~uch a court order. \\ '::,- J0/4/lrt ~~~IBIT _ A , ,, mih227 \\, H.B. SECTION 3. Each form filed with the State Department or Education 2 reporting a legal 3tudent tran3fer mu3t be accompanied by an affidavit 3igned 3 by each member of both 3Ch~ol board3 ~tating that the tran3fer doe3 not ~ violate the prohibition 3et forth in Section 2. 5 6 SECTION~- The Arkan3as Department of Education 3hall w~thhold 3tate aid 7 in an amount equal to that to be generated by the 3tudent in question in the 8 re3pective distri.ct3 from each dhtrict, if the tran3fer fail3 to comply with 9 Section 3. 10 11 SECTION 5. (a) Any di3trict not currently unde~ a de3egregation related 12 court order but which has been under 3uch a court order in the past may apply 13 for a waiver of the prohibition set forth in Section 2. 1~ (b) The State Board of Education may grant such a di3trict a \\.laiver from 15 the provisions of Section 2 if it is determined that the district's desegrega- 16 tion status would not be adversely affected by al)owing a legal transfer which 17 would negatively affect the district 13 racial balance. 18 19 SECTION 6. Act 275 of 1959 as amended, the,same being Arkansas Statutes 20 80-1518.1, 80-1518.2 and 80-1525 through 80-1528, is hereby specifically 21 repealed along with all other laws or par ,of laws in conflict with this Act. =., :~77/8\n-,PROVEBDY State of Arkan1a1 ACT6 24 1987 76th ~neral M embly A Bill kgular Se11ion, 1987 ROUS\"B ILL1674 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 !y: Representative Thomason For An Act To Be Enlltled \"AN ACT TO PROVIDE !HAT nn: CHILDREN OR \\lARDS OF A PERSON WHO IS A PUBLIC SCHOOLT EACHER1 N ONE SCHdbL DISTRICT AND A RESIDENT OF ANOTHERS CHOOLD ISTRICT SHALL! E DiTITLED TO ENROLL IN AND ATTEND SCHOOL rn EITHER nn: DISTRICT rn VHICH THE PARENTO R GUARDIANR ESIDES OR I.N 11Il: DISTRICT Ill VHICH THE PARENTO R GUARDIANT E.ACHESA\nND FOR OTHERP URPOSES.\" 8 BE IT ENACTEDB Y THE GENERALA SSEMBLYO F IBI STATE OF ARKANSAS: 9 10 ) SECTION 1. The children or vards of any person vho is a public  chool 11 teacher in one school district in this State and a resident of another school 12 district in this State shall be entitled to be enrolled in and to attend 13 \u0026amp;chool in either the district in ~hich the parent or guardian resides or the 14 district in vhich the parent or guardian ia a public  chool teacher. 15 16 SECTION 2. All la~s and parts of la~s in conflict vi.th this Act are 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 '26 17 30 EXHIBlT B  // A I - . i ' ,- JE CLARK STATE OF ARKANSAS OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 201 EAST MARKHAM STREET HERITAGE WEST BUILDING ATT iEY GENERAL LITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS 72201 (501) 371-2007 I Opinion No. 87-190 May 29, 1987 The Honorable John Ward Representative, District 65 2705 Donaghey Drive North Little Rock, AR 72116 Dear Representative Ward: This is in response to your opinion request wherein you posed the following inquiries ~hich appear to result from the apparent conflicts between Act 624 and Act 762 of 1987, to-wit: 1. By virtue of Act 624, is a school district required to enroll the children of teachers who reside in other districts and whose children have been attending in another district if the receiving district is currently under a desegregation order? 2. Would it be considered a \"transfer\" under Act 762 for children who have been attending another district to enroll in another under the provisions of Act 624? 3. Would it be considered a \"transfer\" under Act 762 for the receiving distriet to enroll children of teachers who reside in other districts (by virtue of Act 624) which children have not been enrolled in any district (e.g., first graders)? Act 624 of 1987 provides in pertinent part as follows: SECTION 1. The children or wards of any person who is a public school teacher in one school district in this State and a resident of another school district in this State shall be entitled to be enrolled in and to attend school in either the district in which the parent or guardian resides or the district in wnich the parent or guardian is a public school teacher. rate x:,c, .. , ,, Representative John Ward May 29, 1987 - Page 2  t ctt lt X ... ,,.,) .... Act 762 of 1987 limits legal transfers among school districts to those situations where such transfer would not adversely impact the racial balance of either the sending or receiving district if one of the districts were under a court ordered desegregation plan. Because Act 624 of 1987 entitles children of public school teachers to attend school in either their resident district or the district wherein their parent or guardian teaches, it is the opinion of this Office that such children are not transfers and would not come under the limiting provisions of Act 762 of 1987. Thus, in response to your question 1, the school district wherein the parent or guardian teaches would be required to accept the child of the parent or guardian. As stated above, the answer to your question 2 is that a child coming under the provisions of Act 624 would not be considered a transfer under Act 762. And, new students (e.g., first graders) availing themselves of the special provisions of Act 624 would also not be considered transfers under Act 762. The foregoing opinion, which I hereby approve, was prepared by Assistant Attorney General C. Randy McNair III. JSC: CRM: jk IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT OJURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS WESTERN DIVIS ION FILED U.s. DISTfll tASTRN 0\nCT COURT STRICT ARXANSA!' JUL 2 'l 1987 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT PLAINTIFF V. NO. LR-C-82-866 PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al DEFENDANTS ORDER The North Little Rock School District (NLRSD) has requested this Courts approval of an addendum to its desegregation plan which was approved in the Order of February 27, 1987. The NLRSD has expressed the concern that Arkansas Act 624 of 1987, which provides that teachers residing in one school district but teaching in anothe~ have the right to enroll their children in either district, could have an interdistrict segregative effect on student enrollment in the Little Rock School District (LRSD). Since 141 of the NLRSD1 s 578 teachers live in the LRSD and most of these teachers are white, these concerns are legitimate although the problem is merely prospective and no such interdistrict segregative effect has occurred to date. In its plan addendum, the NLRSD comnits to report to this Court annually regarding the number and race of students being enrolled in the NLRSD from other districts and in other districts from the NLRSD. No furthe1 action is contemplated unless a segregative effect actually occurs at which time this Court will --2 30 be asked for appropriate relief. The scope of the NLRSD1 s proposed addendum to its desegregation plan is appropriate in light of the speculative nature of the problem. The NLRSD proposes to comply with the ,tate law until such time that this compliance actually results in a segregative effect. Until that time it will keep the Court apprised of the impact of Act 624. Such reporting compromises no partys rights and is entirely consistent with rulings of this court and the Court of Appeals requiring the school districts in this case not only to remediate past interdistrict segregative effects but also to avoid further such effects. For these reasons, the NLRSD1 s Motion to Approve Plan Addendum is approved and it is directed to report to the Court on an annual basis the number and race of children enrolled in the NLRSD or removed from the NLRSD and enrolled in other districts pursuant to Arkensas Act 624 of 1987. IT IS SO ORDERED this ,J._7 day of July, 1987.  ,-- ADDENDUM 2A ADMINISTRATIVEO FFICES 2700 POPLAR STREET January 14, 1986 MEMTOO : Officers of Teacher Training Institutions FROM: Doyle Crownover, Assistant Superintendent for Administration SUBJECT: Employment Applications The North Little Rock Public Schools seeks to staff its schools with the best teachers available. To be able to do this, we covet opportunities to consider your teacher candidates. Toward this end we have prepared material that gives prospective teacher applicants information concerning employment in the District. We are eager to have this information placed in the hands of all potential teachers, and solicit your assistance in this effort. We would welcome calls or visits from your teacher candidates, and would be happy to visit your campus to talk with groups of prospects if it appears this would be mutually beneficial. NORTHLI TTLER OCKS CHOODLI STRICTIS ANE QUAOL PPORTUNIETMY PLOYER P.O. BOX 687, NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR 72115/0687 501/758-1760 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES 2700 POPLAR STREET The North Little Rock (Arkansas) School District is seeking an opportunity to consider for employment the most outstanding teaching and administrative candidates available. If you desire to be a part of the professional staff of a public school district that is recognized as being a state leader in learning opportunities and student performance, we earnestly solicit your application. We ask you to examine the enclosed materials to acquaint you with the advantages and desirability of employment with tr~ North Little Rock School District. If becoming associated with this District appeals to you, we encourage you to complete and return the application form. P.O. BOX 687, NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR 72115/0687 501/758-1760 ADDENDUM 2B Salary NORTHLI TTLER OCKS Cl~OLD ISTRICT North Little Rock, Arkansas Benefits of Teaching in North Little Rock School District ADDENDUM 2C Teachers are paid on an indexed salary scale that recognizes training and experience. Increments are provided for each 12 hours of graduate study beyond the Bachelor's Degree, and for each 15 hours beyond the Master's, and for each year's experience up to eight years at the Bachelor's Degree level, and up to 15 years at the Specialist's Degree level. For the 1985-86 school year the salary for a regular classroom teacher of 187 days of employment with a Bachelor's Degree and no previous experience is $14,530. A teacher with a Specialist's Degree and 15 years experience receives $25,611. Fringe Benefits Each teacher is provided a fully paid Blue Cross-Blue Shield Major Medical Coverage, a dental insurance coverage, and a hospital indemnity plan, with the option of having family members included through payroll deduction. We provide $21,000 life insurance coverage on each teacher. Each teacher is provided an amount of $15.83 per month which may be applied to the cost of family coverages, or for additional life insurance. The total value of these coverages is $91.93 per month. All teachers must be members of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. Beginning on July 1, 1986, they 1vill have the option of joining the contributory plan (6% of salary) or non-contributory plan (0% of salary). Those choosing the contributory system will qualify for a greater annuity upon retirement. Deferred tax options are also available for retirement planning. Teachers also participate in the Social Security retire1ilent system. Sick Leave Teachers in the North Little Rock system receive nine days per year sick leave for the first four years in the District. These days per year then increase for each of next six years until 20 days per year are awarded for the tenth year and thereafter. Unused sick days are accwnulated up to 100 days. Personal Leave Teachers of the District are awarded one day per year of leave for personal reasons. There is an accumulation provision for these days if they are unused. p~ge 2 (Benefits of Teaching in North Little Rock School District) Inservice Training The North Little Rock School District maintains an ongoing, indepth program for increasing the competency of its staff. The program is constantly revised and adapted to the needs of the staff. Professional Leave Upon approval of request, teachers are granted professional leave for a wide variety of activities. ADDENDUM 2D NORTH LITTLE ROCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS-- moving in the right direction, helping every child achieve From the Superintendent ' We are pleased that you want to know about public schools in North Little Rock. This brochure will give you some basic facts about our schools, students, teachers and educational programs. We hope you will also visit our schools to see for yourself why we have one of the state's best school systems. Quality education has been a standard in the North Little Rock School District since the first school door opened in 1901. Since then, the District has grown to approximately 30 square miles with 25 schools serving nearly 9,500 students, the fourth largest in Arkansas. Along with growth in size and enrollment, the District has also grown in educational stature to become a recognized leader in learning opportunities and student performance. To ensure individual student growth, school curriculum is broad in scope while emphasizing basic skills in reading, communication and computation. All schools have earned accreditation status by the North Central Accreditation Association, and all are rated \"A\" by the State of Arkansas. Public support for our schools is reflected through Parent Teacher Associations (PT A), the District PT A Council, advisory committees and other groups. The District enjoys the help of patrons through the Volunteers in Public Schools program. Through these and other efforts, community members are involved in the education of our children. The School Board and the staff agree with the public that schools are places for learning, and they believe in strong, fair discipline in the schools. The result is the lack of serious disciplinary problems that disrupt the educational process. We like to think of our district as responsive to community needs. Please feel free to call upon me, our principals or any of our staff for information or to express your concerns. I believe that when schools and homes work together, life improves for everyone within school district bounqaries. I urge you to examine our schools and join us in support of our public school system and our community. Sincerely, Joe Austin, Ed.D. Superintendent of Schools m~\n.~~~::\n~. ~:-~-~~~:~~~ l_\n ,\" -~~=2::~~~~- ~ Twelve ways we help children achieve .  a comprehensive, coordinated curriculum that stresses basic skills in reading, communication and computation  an experienced, highly trained and dedicated staff, nearly half of whom hold master's degrees  a regular program of curriculum renewal and textbook evaluation  guidance and counseling services at all elementary and secondary schools  a gifted and talented program for elementary and junior high children  computer assisted instruction projects with more than 300 microcomputers available to students  a range of high school course offerings for vocational, college-bound and handicapped student~  a range of speciai education services with mdividual education pl:rns  advance placement classes for secondary students  active parent involvement through PTA's, PTA Council, advisory committees and booster clubs  an effective disciplinary program ~ith parental input  low student/teacher ratios and high per-pupil expenditures for effective classroom learning . . moving 1n the right direction, helping every child achieve Educational Programs North Linle Rock teachers believe that all children may learn - the vocational student, the coUegebound student, the student with special gifts and the handicapped student. They recognize that each child has an individual learning pattern, and they encourage each to progress according to his or her best abilities. Careful appraisal, frequent evaluation and flexible grouping ensure that each child will receive instruction according to identified strengths and needs. The curriculum at seventeen elementary schools places primary emphasis on the basics of reading, spelling, English, mathematics, writing, social studies, science and health. Children also participate in music, an and physical education activities. Mastery of learning skills in each subject is stressed, and career awareness is a component in many of the basic subjects. The junior high provides a period of transition from the elementary school to senior high schools. The transition covers all areas of school life: academic. ce\u0026gt;-\u0026lt;:urricular and social. All seventh-grade students atlend Central Junior High. Three other junior high schools serve students in grades eight and nine. At the junior high level, continued emphasis is placed on the individual and on basic skills instruction, while a wider scope of instructional programs and co-curricular activities is introduced. In addition to basic disciplines, junior high .students may select electives in modern foreign languages, industrial arts, home economics, exploratory business, an, communications, choral music and band. Introductions to competitive athletics, student-government, spirit clubs and special interest organizations encourage self-development and preparation for high school. Two high schools serve students in grades ten through twelve with a comprehensive course of study based on the district's commitment to providing a classical college preparatory curriculum and career preparation programs. A strong basic academic program and a wide range of electives in fine arts, foreign languages, forensics, business and vocationaltechnical skills offer a multitude of options to high school students. A teaching staff of more than 550 classroom instructors provides for an effective average teacherstudent ratio of one to seventeen. moving zn the right direction, helping every child achieve Gifted Education More than 500 students participate in special programs for gifted and talented children in kindergarten through grade nine. Placement is based on case studies of students who demonstrate outstanding intelligence, ability, creativity and task commitment. Pla\nement is documented by test data, teacher input and parent input. Gifted elementary students are assigned to regular classrooms for basic instruction and receive additional instruction from a gifted/talented resource teacher. Junior high students are placed in cluster classes usually in the areas of English, mathematics, science and social studies. Additional instruction is also available from resource teachers, and a separate gifted math program provides auxiliary opportuni: ties for elementary and junior high students two evenim:: sessions per \\'.:ek. Se-:ondary students at the junior and senior high leveb may be placed tn honors classes based on grades, teacher recommen\u0026lt;l\n,.rion~ and ~tandardized test scores. The tOlal gifted program ensures the mastery of basic skills while offering flexibility, independent inquiry, enrichment, ac1:eleration and higher level learning a:.:tivities. Special Education Special education services enable approximately 1,500 handicapped students to receive maximum educational benefits through individual programs. Learning needs are detennined by a trained staff of special education teachers and school psychologists. They work closely with students and parents to develop individual education plans. The North Little Rock schools are dedicated to the proposition that the student with special needs should not be isolated from peers. Handicapped students are placed in special classes or regular classes, depending on the be:\nt interest of the students. Placement is based on handicapping conditions and \u0026lt;1ccompanyin2 educational deficits. Every effort is made to ensu\ne students feel a part of the school environment. A wide range of programs includes classes for students with learning disabilities, behavior adjustment classes, classes for mer.tally handicapped students, servil:es for orthopedically handicapped students and speech therapy classes. Handicapped students may attend the Skills Center, a separate facility -.,,ich vocational programs sening secondary students in halfday sessions. Children ages 5 to 21 with multiple handicaps who cannot function in the regular classroom are served at the Baring Cross Center, where functional academic instruction includes a focus on \\ ocational preparation. Students whose medical .:onciition-. require inqru,tion at home are sen ed by a h1,mc:bounJ t.:8,hcr. Computer Education Recognizing the tremendous impact of computer technology on learning styles, teaching techniques, occupational skills and career choices, the district is committed to a comprehensive program of computer education. More than 300 microcomputers are available to students districtwide. Computer literacy in grades kinderganen through twelve introduces students to the fundamental skills necess:iry to live and w0rk in a high-tc-:h SlX:it:t\\'. Cvmputer litt:racy is developed through seconda\n,, ,curses in computer science, as well as computer-assisted instruction ir. a:.::ide:n::a: reas a, all grade le,e:5. Computer science courses include instruction in computer languages and programming skills. They prepare students for post-secondary experiences in computer-related fields through college edui:ation, vocational education or on-the-job training. Computer assisted and computer manal!ed instruction are viewed as vital assets in many cu\nricular areas. Microcomputers assist students in masten of basic skills in mathematics, ...reading and lang~age arts. Computer assisted instruction supplements regular classroom activities but does not replace basic instruction, classroom test~ or homework. As a result of the district's commitment to computer instruction, a No((h Little Rock junior high was selected as a site for a two-year pilot program throu11h the \\1i,r0computer Proiect for Arkama~ Cla,,roL,\n1, \u0026lt;I \\11'.-\\CJ. ,1p.:1: rnni\nunJ,,, fin,111-1~a1l\n, 111,. Vocational Education Vocational education is another way Nonh Little Rock schools prepare students for life after graduation. Educators believe that those students who seek employment after high school should have entry-level job skills to accompany their basic academic knowledge. The combination bener prepares them for productive citizenship. Students may elect to attend vocational education courses in business education, home economics, marketing and industrial arts. Practical arts courses include computer oriented accounting, intensive office laboratory, shonhand, typewriting, marketing, merchandising, child care, home economics, auto mechanics, construction, electronics, graphic ans and power mechanics. Exploratory courses begin at the junior high school level. Cooperative programs, involving on-the-job training, are featured at the high school level. Th~e include cooperative office education, marketing. distributive education, occ11pMional home economics and industrial cooperative training. Athletics Athletics for both boys and girls are an imponant pan of school life in Nonh Little Rock. 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Commitment to Desegregation Leadership Early Childhood Education Special Programs Summer Learning Program Asset Program School Operations Program for Accelerated Learning/ Academic Support Programs Gifted Education Multicultural Curriculum 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 1 18. Focused Activities Parkview Science Magnet School McClellan Community School Recruitment of Private School Students Federal Programs Vocational Education Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 1 2 4 20 21 24 28 48 58 63 81 86 93 95 96 98 i 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Library Media Services Special Education Staff Development Support Services Parent Involvement/ Community Linkages Student Assignments Facilities Incentive School Program Educational Equity Monitoring Computerized Transportation System Tentative Timeline 1989 Data Processing Page 106 Page 111 Page 124 Page 129 Page 131 Page 139 Page 146 Page 149 Page 224 Page 227 Page 229 Page 230 A COMMITMENT TO DESEGREGATION IN THE LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT The Little Rock School District is committed to a comprehensive desegregation plan which focuses on the total learning environment. The method of assigning students is merely the first step toward creating school and classroom environments that foster academic achievement and improve race relations among students and staff members. The next step involves a commitment to quality desegregated education by the District, parents and the community. Of course, real commitment always requires a plan of action. To that end, the Little Rock School District Board of Directors is committed to the following: 1 A. B. The belief that all children can learn. The elimination of achievement disparity between black and white students on norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests. C. D. E. F. G. H. Improving educational quality and student academic performance in all schools and doubling the financial resources in schools identified in the court-approved desegregation plan as enhanced/ incentive schools. Improving race relations among students and staff members. Ensuring that equity occurs in all phases of school activities and operations (i.e. school, class and staff assignments\nparticipation in extracurricular activities\ndistribution of resources\netc.) Promoting positive public reaction to desegregation. The effective use of interdistrict and intradistrict recruitment strategies to meet the desegregation requirements in all schools and to avoid resegregation. The development and infusion of multicultural education in all areas of the curriculum. 1. Ongoing staff development activities to equip teachers, administrators, and other staff with the skills needed to achieve quality desegregated education. In summary, the Little Rock School District Board of Directors is committed to having quality desegregated education in all schools.. Quality desegregated education will result in long-term stability and growth for the city of Little Rock and Pulaski County. It also will provide all Little Rock School District students with the academic and social skills needed for successful experiences in the future. The Little Rock School District Board of Directors hereby acknowledges its commitment to quality desegregated education and respectfully invites parents and community leaders to make the same commitment. Such a commitment has to occur in order to ensure stability in our schools and ultimately achieve unitary status. Page 1 XLEADERSHIP Central to any school desegregation plan should be a clear focus and understanding of the kinds of goals to be achieved. It is insufficient to establish as a goal the physical movement of bodies and the rearrangement of boundary lines so that students can be brought together in ways that provide different racial distributions in different settings. r 1 4 n The mere physical movement of children does little to guarantee any changes in the quality of education\nin school achievement patterns\nin interpersonal relationships\nor in the variety of patterns of ethnic plurality. No plan should settle for the mere mixing of youngsters. The plan should have as its primary focus an educational environment encouraging academic and human growth for all students based upon their individual needs and talents. A vital factor in successful school desegregation is clear, coherent, and consistent leadership for change from the superintendent and Board of Directors. The superintendent together with the Board of Directors must set specific guidelines for behavior from their subordinates, and model that behavior for the community. The Board of Directors and the superintendent will assert their leadership in the following:  School boards should represent the multicultural backgrounds of the population that they serve.  The school board and superintendent are responsible for providing equitable and direct means for keeping the local citizenry informed about the schools and for keeping self and the staff informed about the needs and wishes of community. p  The school board and the superintendent will clearly delineate the Districts desegregation mission to the staff and to the community.  The school board and superintendent will utilize the desegregation mission as a guide for the development of policies and will set expectations for the superintendent to implement the policies. i  The school board will expect the administrative staff to provide structured, clearly articulated leadership and modeled behavior for an effective desegregated school setting.  The superintendent and school board must examine the racial makeup of all categories of employees including the administrative, teaching and support staff so that future recruitment and placement of persons to fill positions will be done on an equitable basis. Page 2 Ji The school board and superintendent will adopt a budget which will provide the resources necessary for an effective, desegregated school system. Budgetary decisions will be consistent with District desegregation policies in terms of buildings, staff, materials and equipment.  The school board and staff will be involved in ongoing staff development to better respond to the needs of a desegregated school system.  The school board and administration will conduct an annual, self evaluation of their commitment to a quality desegregated education in the following areas: Board/Superintendent Relations Board/ Community Relations Board Member Interrelations Board/Administration Relations to Other Staff Members Board/ Administration Relations in Fiscal Management Board Relations to Instructional Programs As the plan for desegregation and ultimately unitary status for the Little Rock School District is evolving, the superintendent and the Board of Directors will ensure the restructuring of the school system so that all vestiges of discrimination, segregation, or unfair treatment have been eliminated. Further, the District will ensure that the schools and learning experiences throughout the school system are organized so that school practices, policies and procedures prevent unfair treatment or denial of opportunity for any child because of his or her race, culture, religion or economic status. Page 3EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ai-i 1 I When they enter school, children who are economically disadvantaged and who are members of a minority racial or ethnic group are less likely to perform as well as their middle-class peers. The economically disadvantaged and minority children have not developed the skills, habits, and attitudes to the extent expected in the primary school years. The lack of developmental and educational experiences is often evidenced by low scores on tests of intellectual and scholastic ability, which can result in unnecessary placement in special education, retention in grade, low scholastic achievement, and, eventually, dropping out of high school. Poor children who attend good preschool child development programs become better prepared for kindergarten and the primary grades. In addition, preschool programs hold the potential for greater academic achievement, less at-risk behavior in the teen years, and enhanced educational opportunity for all children regardless of economic background. The National Governors Association has identified preschool education as the key investment in education for state governments. The greatest hope for change in the lives of children in need is through the investment at the beginning of the formal education process. Since the pioneering studies of Benjamin Bloom on the need for education for 3- and 4-year-olds, additional studies have continued to document the academic and social success of those who have been involved in early education programs. The 1986 findings of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation verify that successful early childhood programs affect childrens later success in school. This research links student achievement in high school and beyond with the home and school as powerful influences on the intellectual development of young children. Today, enrollment in pre-primary programs (i.e., public and private programs, prior to entry in grade one) is at an all-time high and expected to increase during the 199Os. According to Department of Education estimates, nearly 65 million children are enrolled in pre-primary programs today, with an estimated four million enrolled in public schools programs. Although there have been significant enrollment increases, a large number of children still need access to preschool programs, particularly those children from low-income families. The Childrens Defense Fund (1987) reports that Head Start currently serves only 16 percent of the 25 million children who need early childhood education services. This lack of affordable Page 4  programming leaves over two million children of the nations most disadvantaged children unserved. In Pulaski County (Arkansas), the Head Start and City of Little Rock Early Childhood Programs serve a small percentage of the eligible disadvantaged. Poverty continues to be a problem for young children:  Twenty-five percent of all 4- and 5-year-olds today are poor (Childrens Defense Fund, 1987).  One in six of all 4- and 5-year-olds today lives in a family where neither parent has a job (Childrens Defense Fund, 1987).  Poor children are only half as likely to be enrolled in preschool programs as children from affluent families (Childrens Defense Fund, 1987). Current national and local social, demographic, and economic trends tell us that todays lack of accessible early childhood programs will become even more severe, especially for the poor, and the need for programs will continue to rise for all socioeconomic levels. Little Rock School District proposes the expansion of existing early childhood programs and the development of new ones to meet the needs of at-risk students and to remediate racial achievement disparities. These programs will have three components: I. HIPPY - The Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) (4- and 5-year olds) will focus initially on children in families who live in the attendance zones of the incentive schools in the Little Rock School District. This home-based program, which complements the school-based program operative in the schools, recognizes the mother as the first significant teacher of the child. n. Four-Year-Old Program - The Districts preschool curriculum model, which is developmentally appropriate and fosters the active and independent learning of each child, will be implemented in all incentive schools and other selected schools in the Little Rock School District. Effective the 1990-91 school year, this model will be an integral part of the effort to improve the academic achievement of minority and economically disadvantaged children and to attract white students to the schools. HI. City-wide Early Childhood Education Program Page 5Rj A. HOME INSTRUCTION PROGRAM FOR PRESCHOOL YOUNGSTERS (HIPPY) Overview During the fall of 1986, the Little Rock School District implemented the Home I  Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters to serve educationally-disadvantaged children in the community where high-risk children were identified. Developed at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, by Dr. Avima Lombard, this international program identified parents (primarily mothers) as the first teacher of their children. The specifically-designed curriculum of the home-based program trains aides (mothers) from the target community to instruct mothers of four- and five-year-old children in teaching their children at home. This program has proven to be a successful model in Israel, with evaluation results showing that participants were less likely to repeat grades, less likely to be identified as needing special education, less likely to drop out of school, and were overall successful school pupils. Although enrollment has increased in early childhood programs, the needs of many children of low-income and minority families are not being met. The Little Rock School District HIPPY Program depends on external funding sources. The HIPPY Program cannot be continued at present levels without the continued receipt of JTPA and Chapter 2 funds. I B. Areas of Collaboration The home-based program and the four-year-old school-based program will collaborate in the areas of parental involvement and teacher training. The Little Rock School and Pulaski County School Districts will collaborate and coordinate the on-going implementation of the HIPPY Program. C. Evaluation and Monitoring Evaluation using the Early Prevention of School Failure or a similar model which is comparable in validation scope and developmental grounding, will be conducted on the HIPPY participants as they enter and exit kindergarten. A standardized achievement test will be given to each child at the end of the third grade level. These tests will provide data indicating the success of the HIPPY Program as an early childhood intervention strategy. Page 6 FOUR-YEAR-OLD PROGRAM A- Overview A four-year-old school-based program was implemented during the fall of 1988. The High/ Scope Program curriculum, or a comparable developmentally appropriate and validated curriculum, forms the core of the four-year-old program. A fundamental premise of the curriculum is that children are active learners who learn best from activities they plan and carry out themselves. Children learn by the scientific method of observation and inference, at a level of sophistication corresponding to their development. The curriculum complements the home-based curriculum of the Home Instruction program. Educationally-disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic children often enter the formal education setting without the prerequisite skills and experiences needed for academic success. Although usually highly motivated, these youngsters must be provided additional learning time and structured experiences to enable them to develop their potential. Research and pre-kindergarten program practices have demonstrated that early education experiences can increase the opportunity for success and also increase the self-concept of participants. 1 B. Areas of Collaboration The Little Rock School District and the Pulaski County Special School District will collaborate on parental involvement, inservice and training for teachers and aides. Each district is committed to ensuring that all staff members are prepared to fulfill the Districts expectations for a quality Early Childhood Education Program. The curriculum provides a useful framework to guide teachers in conducting the classroom program. Key experiences help the teacher encourage and extend childrens selfchosen activities by providing developmentally appropriate learning experiences to develop each childs ability to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Make choices and decisions about what to do and how to do it, using his or her own time and energy effectively. Identify, pursue, and complete self-chosen goals and tasks with originality and responsibility. Work with other children and adults in group planning and cooperative efforts with shared leadership. i s Express thoughts, ideas, and feelings\nto speak about, dramatize, and graphically represent experiences in order to communicate them to others. Comprehend others spoken, written, dramatic, and graphic representations. Page 79 C. D. 6. 7. 8. Apply his or her reasoning abilities to a wide range of situations using a variety of malcrials. Expand knowledge of objects, skill in the arts, and comfort with physical movement. Expand creativity, initiative, spirit of inquiry, and openness to knowledge and other peoples viewpoints. Evaluation 1. 2. 3. 4. Information from inservice evaluations will be summarized. Student assessment data will be analyzed to determine if measurable growth in student achievement has occurred. The Planning, Research and Evaluation staff will assist with analysis of summative evaluation data. The management information system developed by LRSD will have the capability to compare students who did and did not participate in the four-year-old program. These comparisons will begin at the end of the kindergarten year of each class of four-year old-students. Expected Outcomes I During the 1988-89 school year, the Four-Year-Old Program was implemented in three incentive schools. By the 1991-92 school year, the program will be implemented in the schools listed below: .1 ''i Badgett Franklin Garland Ish Mitchell Rightsell Rockefeller Romine Stephens Washington Woodruff Other schools in the District will implement the Four-Year-Old Program by the 1994-95 school year according to the provisions of a long-range implementation plan developed for additional four-year-old classes and approved by the Court. The long-range plan will address demographic, instructional, and structural needs. LRSD will continue to use the four-year-old program as a means to meet the needs of disadvantaged students and desegregate schools that are difficult to desegregate. Page 8 Il CITYWIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM The citywide early childhood education program will address three objectives\n(1) to provide parenting education for the parents of early childhood students\n(2) to provide quality childcare arrangements for low-income parents which stress social development and school readiness\nand (3) to provide a quality pre-school program for disadvantaged students. The Little Rock School District currently operates early childhood programs in seven buildings. Plans are underway to open four additional sites in 1991-92. Several Head Start centers are presently in operation within the boundaries of the Little Rock School District. The Head Start program is administered by COPE of Pulaski County and additional centers are expected to open. The City of Little Rock Day Care Center program has two early childhood centers. The purpose of the citywide early childhood education program is to combine the efforts of these three entities, along with other entities that may emerge in the future, to provide quality early childhood experiences to as many disadvantaged students in the city of Little Rock as possible. Research clearly indicates that effective early intervention is one of the best strategies to combat academic achievement disparity and the poor academic performance of minority students. In addressing the objectives of the citywide early childhood education program, the three entities cited in this section have attempted to avoid duplication of services, to the extent possible, and use every opportunity possible to share resources. The following is a brief summary of each of the three programs: Head Start Program A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. Children must meet eligibility requirements Training provided for parents Medical, social, and health services provided Mandated to involve parents in decision-making (Policy Control) Teachers are not required to be certified or have degrees Serves three- and four-year-old students Three centers in boundaries of LRSD - old King School, Highland Court, and Hollingsworth Court Staff development throughout the year Uses aides City of Little Rock Day Care Program A. Teachers are required to have degrees B. Teachers have participated in PET and EPSF training Page 9 J 1 c. D. E. F. G. H. Two sites - East Little Rock Community Center Complex and South Little Rock Recreation Center For working parents only Not required to have parent involvement - parent involvement program held twice a year Site used by LRSD HIPPY program for staff training No plans for expansion Uses assistant teachers Little Rock School District A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. Teachers must be certified Seven sites in 1990-91 school year Must comply with desegregation requirements Rockefeller is the only school with pre-four year old students Parent involvement program Ongoing staff development Plans for expansion in 1991-92 and beyond Uses aides In regard to the three objectives cited earlier, the three entities have agreed to the following: Parent Involvement - The entities will exchange calendars for parent involvement activities. To the extent possible, these activities will be available to parents outside of the sponsors program. The entities will share resources in publicizing these activities. For instance, the Little Rock School District has a cable channel that can be used to announce activities to the public. Districtwide and school newsletters are sent to parents on a regular basis. Likewise, the Model Cities program has access to a cable television station. Staff Development - The entities will exchange calendars for staff development activities and, to the extent possible, the sponsor of the staff development activity will allow representatives from other parties to participate. Considerable collaboration is expected to occur between the Little Rock School District and Head Start since both programs currently use the same curriculum. The staff development activities will be geared to the needs of aides as well as teachers. Student Referrals - The early childhood programs will use a student referral system. This system will allow parents on a waiting list for one program to know about vacancies in another early childhood program. Representatives from each program will meet as needed to review vacancies and identify referrals. Page 10 I  -Il I I Student Assignment Process - The three entities recognize the need for disadvantaged parents to understand the assignment process for kindergarten in the Little Rock School District. In the past, disadvantaged parents have not taken advantage of the kindergarten preregistration opportunities that are available. Traditionally, these parents wait until mid-August or after the opening of school to register their children. A representative from the Little Rock School District Student Assignment Office will meet each year with parents from both programs to review the kindergarten assignment process. In addition to neglecting kindergarten registration, it is apparent that some disadvantaged parents are not taking advantage of magnet school opportunities in their neighborhoods. The annual sessions on kindergarten registration will also be used to provide information on magnet school opportunities. Long-Term Monitoring - the real success of any early childhood program depends on the long-term effects of pre-school intervention efforts. It is important that early childhood agencies have some means of following the progress of their clients during the early years of regular schooling. Beginning in the 1990-91 school year, a list will be compiled of all graduates from the three early childhood programs. These students will be identified in the Little Rock School District mainframe computer system according to their respective programs. At the end of each year for grades K-3, these students will be monitored on the basis of standardized tests, criterion-reference tests, EPSF screening, or any other academic measures that are available and applicable. The entities will review these results on an annual basis, prior to the beginning of the following school year, and make programmatic changes, individually and collectively, as needed. These students will be compared to a control group in order to isolate the effectiveness and/or deficiencies of the various early childhood programs. Facilities - The largest Head Start center is located in a building owned by the Little Rock School District. The Little Rock School District anticipates the abandonment of I 1 additional buildings in the future. If this occurs, additional lease arrangements with Head Start will be explored. The parties will continue to share facilities for training programs, recreational activities, etc. Page 111 ROCKEFELLER EARLY CHILDHOOD MAGNET SCHOOL \"J' The Rockefeller Early Childhood Magnet Program will be available to children from ages six weeks to four years old. The program will serve as a model for improving the academic achievement of disadvantaged students and attracting students to comply with desegregation requirements. All students will be assigned by the Little Rock School District Student Assignment Office. Little Rock School Districts Rockefeller Elementary School is considered separately because it provides a unique opportunity to explore and develop excellent early childhood education service to children and parents, models of early childhood education programs, and training opportunities. With a physical plant built to house the continuation of the Kramer Project begun in the late 196Os, Rockefeller contains the only early childhood education program in Pulaski County providing complete continuity of education and childcare (\"educare\") from early infancy through grade six. Parent devotion to the program is almost legendary with at least one family having had children enrolled in the program for 16 consecutive years. The following will apply to the early childhood education program at Rockefeller School: 1. Capitalize upon the schools high quality early childhood education as a I 1 K desegregation tool. Coupled with the schools other excellent programs, early childhood education can help to achieve racial balance by attracting white children as well as by helping any disadvantaged children achieve an equitable education. Parents have noted that the early childhood education program at Rockefeller is presently more racially integrated than the schools elementary grades. 2. Designate Rockefeller as a Cooperative Early Childhood Education Demonstration Magnet between UALR and other area colleges, and the Little Rock School District. As a demonstration center. Rockefeller will be used for training college students as well as for inservice observation and training for the countys teachers, administrators, aides, HIPPY, and daycare program workers. Special emphasis will be given to developing and piloting innovative approaches to the education of young children. Parents and educational professionals from UALR and other area colleges will advise the Rockefeller and Little Rock School District staffs on all aspects of planning and implementation of the early childhood program. Page 12 J3. 4. 5. 6. 1 7. Include the early childhood education program at Rockefeller as an integral part of the whole school, and not a separate or \"add-on\" program. It must receive the same attention as to supervision, support, staff development, resource allotment, accountability, monitoring, and evaluation as grades K through six. Allow the early childhood education three-year-old students to continue on into the schools four-year-old program, kindergarten, and beyond. Siblings of early childhood education students will be allowed to attend Rockefeller (sibling preference) in order to help retain children in the school. Explore developing Rockefeller as a year-round, full day school for children from infancy through sixth grade, working with a biracial group of parents, teachers, administrators, and experts from area colleges and universities to assess the desirability and feasibility of such a program. A year-round program will promote continuity of services to children, alleviate the learning losses often experienced by young students over the long three-month summer vacation, and provide opportunities for enrichment not ordinarily included in the regular nine-month school year. Re-evaluate Rockefellers early childhood education policies in terms of their impact on desegregation and educational goals. In order for early childhood education to serve as a viable desegregation tool at Rockefeller, to remain competitive with private schools and daycares, and to hold both its private paying and Title XX students, early childhood education policies on private pay rates, lunch charges, vacation days, enrollment age, and sick days for long illnesses must be evaluated by the parent committee on early childhood education. The early childhood education curriculum and daily activities will be b2ised upon young childrens interests and styles of learning, emphasize developmentally appropriate learning, and appeal to childrens sense of curiosity and eagerness in order to help them experience the joy of learning. There will be a full spectrum of activities to stimulate children at various levels of development. The curriculum will be multicultural in focus and sensitive to the cultural and ethnic heritages of children. LRSD will work cooperatively with local colleges and universities to enhance and support the Rockefeller Early Childhood Magnet Program. i i I f Page 13 J LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Early Childhood Education Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. To promote the HIPPY program. 1.1 To compose and mail Public Service Announcement for local radio stations and Channels 14 and 16 flyers. July Annually July Annually Mailed letters Appear on show 2. To select HIPPY aides. 2.1 Interview and select fourteen (14) aides. August Annually August Staff By applicants response 3. Initial training of aides and staff. 3.1 Arrange logistics with state for the initial training. Annually Annually Supervisor Pay the bill 4. To enroll families into program. 4.1 5. To recruit families. 5.1 Conduct home interview and enroll families into program. Compose and mail correspondence to community churches to recruit families and instructional aide trainees. September Annually September Annually Supervisor Coordinators 6. To determine service of coordinators. 6.1 Identify families to be served by each coordinator. 7. To assign families to be serviced by aides. 7.1 Identify families to be served by each aide. 8. To organize instructional material. 8.1 Print curriculum material. 9. To familiarize aides of the HIPPY implementation in LRSD. 9.1 Conduct three (3) day workshop. (B 00 o 10. 11. Obtain material for program. To orientate enrolled families to the Hippy program. 10.1 11.1 Order material. Conduct orientation meeting. August Annually September Annually September Annually September Annually September Annually September Annually September Annually October Annually October Annually October Annually September Annually September Annually September Annually September Annually Certification of aides Supervisor Coordinators Coordinators Secretary of HIPPY Supervisor Coordinators Supervisor Supervisor Coordinators Printing completed Agenda/ Receive material Receive materials Families enrolled in program fl LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Early Childhood Education (continued) Objectives Strategies / Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 12. Identify meeting sites of group meetings. 12.1 Secure meeting sites for group meeting. October Annually November Annually Coordinators Confirmation of site 13. To schedule implementation of HIPPY curriculum. 14. To provide parents with information that will assist them with their children. 15. To evaluate aide trainees mid point (15th week). 16. To determine program success. 17. 122 13.1 132 13J 13.4 14.1 15.1 16.1 Mail out notification of meeting sites. Schedule aides weekly home visits and group. Schedule area group meeting - print flyers. Schedule weekly service for aides. Schedule aides first teaching with (own child). Schedule workshop for parents and aides, mail out and print materials. To evaluate each aide trainee. Conduct survey of parents - print materials. ca OQ fl) 18. Oct-Nov Annually October Annually October Aimually October Annually November Aimually December Annually January Annually November Annually November Annually November Aimually October Annually November Annually December Annually January Annually Supervisor Coordinators Coordinators Coordinators Supervisor Supervisor Coordinators Supervisor Coordinator Coordinators Supervisor Coordinators Receive materials Received materials Completion of survey Began second-part of programs implementation. Evaluation of aides. 17.1 18.1 Implement second part of HIPPY curriculum: a. print material b. print flyers c. mass mail out Evaluate aides. February Annually March Annually May Annually March Annually Supervisor Coordinators Coordinators Participation of parents Materials completed Completed 1' ^,1 maI LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Early Childhood Education (continued) Objectives Strategies / Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 19. Provide parents with information to be successful with their children. 19.1 Obtain a site and speaker and schedule a lecture for parents. March Annually March Annually Supervisor Consultant fee paid 20. Build the aides children self esteem. 20.1 Activity. April Annually April Annually Staff Consultant fee paid 21. Graduation of HIPPY children and aides reception. 21.1 Staff will organize. June Annually June Annually Staff Completion of program 22. Evaluate aides. 22.1 Schedule final evaluation of trainees in the program. June Annually June Annually Coordinators 23. Staff in place. 23.1 To begin implementation of HIPPY program. July Annually June Annually Staff began implementation of program 24. Maintain regular staff. 24.1 Secretary. July Annually June Annually Supervisor To assist in the implementation of program 25. To assist in traveling eiqiense. 25.1 Aides made home visit. July Annually June Annually Aides Pay stipend P3 no o oiWleeb WMiiW LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Early Childhood Education - Four-Year-Old Programs Goal I: To implement the Four-Year-Old Program in selected schools. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. Identify and assign new four-year- old program participants in the incentive schools. 1.1 Provide pre-registration inservices to elementary principals. Second Semester February Annually Student Assgn Office Communications Dept Principals Applications returned to Student Assignment 2. Recruit teachers and aides as needed. 3. Obtain curriculum materials, suppUes, and furniture as needed. 4. Train teachers and aides in the implementation of E.CJE. curriculum. 5. Familiarize parents with Four- Year-Old Program. 12 1.3 2.1 3.1 4.1 42 5.1 tu no n\u0026gt; 52 Conduct media publicity for preregistration. Assign four-year-old students. Interview interested teachers and aides as needed. Complete and send orders to vendors. Conduct orientation and inservices. Conduct monthly inservices. Conduct parent orientation meeting and parent conference. Include four-year-old children in Master Schedule-students receive services of counselors, music teachers, school nurses, librarians, physical education and art teachers. January Annually April Annually May Annually June Annually August Annually September Annually August Annually July Annually April Annually Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing June Annually Principals Student Assgn Office Communications Dept Supervisors Human Resources Dir Principals Principals Supervisors Supv/ Staff Dev Supv/Staff Dev Classroom teachers Principals Participants identified A list of qualified applicants Materials available Agenda Agenda Number of parents attending Parent/ Teacher Conference Master schedules s LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Early Childhood Education - Four-Year-Old Program Goal I: (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Rt^nning Ending Date Date 5. (continued) 5.3 Ensure key experiences occurring in the classroom. August Annually June Annually 6. Evaluate effectiveness of the Four-Year-Old Program. 6.1 Administer appropriate evaluation to four-year-olds. Annually 62 Analyze Student Assessment test data and prepare report for LRSD Board of Directors. June Annually July Annually 6.3 Utilize results for program improvement. As needed but no less frequent than annually Responsibility Principals Classroom teachers Supervisors Classroom teachers Assoc Supt Supervisor Evaluation Curriculum checklist Evaluation results Evaluation report TS ta 00 I 00 i pj TO ft VO 17 . .* mmhc Ml LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Early Childhood Education Goal: To cooperatively develop a plan for the implementation of a city-wide comprehensive early childhood program. Objectives * 2. 3. Strategies/ Activities Rr^inning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1.4 To receive a letter of support from each agency desiring to participate. May 1989 May 30,1989 Key representatives from each agency File record of letters To develop a pbn for planning a city-wide early childhood program. To initiate the planning for the implementation of a citywide early childhood program. 2.1 22 2.3 3.1 32 3.3 3.4 To establish pbnning procedures and identify key committees and chairpersons needed for the pbiming process. To identify appropriate additional representatives form each participating agency for each committee. To delineate the goals to be addressed and the tacks to be accomplished by each committee, including approprbte timelines to be met. To conduct periodic meetings to review progress of each committee. To identify resources needed by identified by each committee, including monetary. To review the first draft of the comprehensive plan and to make recommendations for refinement. To submit the final draft for approval to all participant Boards of Directors (where applicable). June 15, 1989 July 15, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1989 Sept 1, 1989 January 1989 Feb 1990 June 15, 1989 July 30, 1989 Sept 30, 1989 Dec 1990 Sept 30, 1989 Feb 1990 March 1990  Objective 1 and Strategies 1.1 - 13 were not filed as part of the original document submitted to the Court. Key representatives from each agency Key representatives from each agency Key representatives from each agency Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Structured plan for plaiming on file Record of committee members Record of committee members Minutes of meeting Identification of committee Submission of first draft Draft submitted to Board 1 A II SPECIAL PROGRAMS The Little Rock School District has developed and will continue to develop special programs for meeting the needs of its students. Several such programs are described below. The Asset Program, the JTPA/HIPPY Program, and the Summer Learning Program are described elsewhere in this Plan.  New Futures/Little Rock School District Homework Program: The Homework Program will provide Homework Centers in selected junior high schools throughout the city. I 1  Little Rock School District/Arkansas Power and Light Company Summer Science Institute: This is a one-week summer enrichment program which provides science activities and experiences designed to generate an interest in the study of science. 1 The Little Rock School District recognizes the need to expand educational opportunities for all of its students. Business, civic, professionals, and other organizations will be an ongoing resource for special programs that are designed to provide remediation and motivational experiences. LRSD and the Joshua Intervenors will be involved in discussions with representatives of various business organizations in order to secure summer jobs for LRSD students who will participate in a summer program which will combine academics and job opportunities. I  II t I I I c Page 20 J SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM I. Overview The Job Training Partnership Act/Summer Learning Program was initiated during the summer of 1987 to provide educational assessment and remediation in the areas of reading and mathematics for youth employed for the Summer Youth Employment Training Program. Students assessed as deficient in either area are required to participate in a six-week half-day summer tutorial program that has the following characteristics: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A small class size with a pupil-teacher ratio of 12:1 and certified math and reading teachers. Counseling services provided through two (2) JTPA counselors. Motivational and enrichment sessions conducted on a weekly basis. Computer-assisted instruction with appropriate software in reading and mathematics skills. Positive interactions between teachers and students with high expectations for student academic performance and behavior. To meet the needs of underachieving students (ages 14-21) the Summer Learning Program should be expanded to increase the number of student participants. If not filled by those students who are JTPA eligible, participant slots should be allotted to any student in the Little Rock School District who is having difficulty in reading or mathematics. All classroom participant slots should be filled in both the morning and afternoon sessions with JTPA certified participants. The counseling staff should be increased by two-one male and one female. In addition, a psychologist would be contracted to assist those students who are having serious problems. College students will be hired as instructional assistants, with one (1) assistant available for each teacher and three (3) clerical aides will be added to the program. The college-age instructional assistants must be returning students or twelfth grade graduates who are college bound. This program model has demonstrated its potential for increasing student performance. A significant factor has been the utilization of highly motivated, competent, and caring staff members. This program model has been effective because all of the components have been carefully blended. I Page 21 JIL Goals By the year 1993-94, the number of Summer Learning Program participants will increase to 350 students who will show significant growth gains as a result of their participation. III. 1 Evaluation Pre- and post-test results will be used to assess student gains. Follow-up data will be used to determine the transfer effects of the program. Programs and individual components will be continued if JTPA funding is available. I d'\n- I 1 : V  I i i 1 lit  I I ') 1 I. 'll I .'J' Page 22 J 1I1 LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Summer Learning Program Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Responsibility Evaluation 1. To identify students in need of remedbtion. 1.1 To test all students between the ages of 14-21 that are certified by the City JTPA Summer Programs to determine the number of students that would have to enroll in the program for reading and/ or math. 2. To individualize instruction to meet the needs of students. 2.1 Group students according to test scores, i.e., slow learners together. 3. 22 2.3 2.4 2.5 Date April Date June Director will oversee the overall program. Administrative Assistant will assist the Director and handle all office duties and manage the office. Submit pre-test results. Ongoing evaluation is done to teachers every two weeks on standard JTPA evaluation form which is kept by the City of Little Rock and our office to JTPA. Ca OQ n Give students faith in his/her ability to learn. 3.1 32 Provide a tutor to help students with greatest needs. Schedule cbss time so that teachers have time to work with each student on a one-to-one basis. Use classroom instruction, training, and the computer bb in the learning process to address remedbl needs. Properly motivate the students to encourage him/her to want to learn. Sponsor a luncheon where students could perform and express talents. Set up field trips of cultural events, childrens shows, the art center, and visits to other sites of interest of young people. Counselors will setup sessions for individual counseling with students that are having problems. Contact parents when necessary. Work closely with teachers. Help setup group counseling sessions. Teachers work with students to help them improve in reading and math. Motivate and encourage them in the learning process. Tutors will assist the teachers in the cbssroom, help the slow learners. Assoc Supt Deseg Assoc Supt Educational Programs To post-test at the end of program to see the growth differences gained by each student. Teachers will keep daily or weekly evaluation reports on each student in a personnel folder. Students will be permitted by teachers to review their evaluations, discuss, sign, date and write any comments that they might have. 1I ASSET PROGRAM / 4^ I. Overview Initiated during the 1986-87 school year, the Job Training Partnership Act/After School Special Enrichment Tutorial Program (JTPA/ ASSET) provides educational support services to junior high school youngsters who need assistance beyond what is available during the regular school day. Participants meet individually and in small group sessions to receive concentrated assistance in reading and mathematics. Peer tutors who are JTPA certified (lower socioeconomic youth) work under the supervision of certified teachers. A motivation component is integrated into the instructional model. Well-planned instructional activities are complemented with a variety of multiethnic and audio visual materials. During the 1988-89 school year, the program activities will be implemented at four (4) junior high schools. The program model has been revised to include more non-certified students to participate. However, a significant number of students (grades 7-9) in need of academic skills improvement will not have the opportunity to participate. To be totally successful in preventing its marginal students from becoming dropouts and in increasing the academic and social skills of every \"at risk\" secondary student in the District, the program should be expanded to address the following needs: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. three existing junior high populations are not receiving remedial assistance\nthe location of the remediation sites prevents access by some students to the services\nt I I the \"at risk\" students need life-coping and life-planning skills essential for success\nthe \"at risk\" populations is not restricted to students only in grades seven, eight, and nine, but \"at risk\" students in grades ten, eleven, and twelve are not receiving the needed services\nthe lack of wide-spread parental involvement in the program prevents the occurrence of the critically needed home reinforcement. I IL Goals By the end of the 1993-94 school year, the JTPA/ ASSET Program is expected to achieve the following: The services of the program will be available to all \"at risk\" junior high populations. The program will be offered at sites easily accessible for students needing the services. Page 24^1? m. 'I 1 1 Students involved in the program will demonstrate improvement in academic achievement as evidenced by standardized test scores and grade reports. Participating students will demonstrate an increase in self-concept, school/social adjustment, and goal orientation. The services of the program will be available through easily accessible sites to \"at risk\" high school students. Students participating in the program will receive needed reinforcement at home through increased parental involvement. The degree of \"risk\" - low academic achievement, high absenteeism, poor self-concept, lack of goal orientation, and low motivation - for all participating students will be reduced. The on-the-job training received by the economically disadvantaged tutors will improve their academic achievements, self-concept, and goal focus, and thus, increase their opportunities for future employment. Evaluation and Monitoring The activities of the JTPA/ ASSET Program, will be monitored by the Districts Office of JTPA/ ASSET Program and the Division of Curriculum and Instruction, and yearly evaluation of the Program will be made, using the following data\nA. B. C. D. E. F. G. The number of identified \"at-risk\" students grades 7-12, needing the services compared to the number participating\nStandardized test results of the participating students\nAcademic performance in regular classrooms according to nine-weeks grade reports\nAbsentee records from the home schools of participating students\nNumber of school drop-outs\n1 1 Follow-up reports concerning employment and educational activities of participating students who exit the program\nThe number of parents involved in parental/ home reinforcement activities. Programs and individual components will be continued if JTPA fimding is available. Page 25 I 4 J k1 -li*'! 'itaaMMkl LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: JTPA ASSET Program/Extended Tutorial Program Goal: To eiqjand the JTPA ASSET Program to include the program in all junior high schools except Mann Magnet. Objectives Strategies / Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. To continue JTPA-ASSET Program in existing four junior high schools to provide remediation in reading, mathematics, and computer-assisted instruction. 1.1 12 1.3 1.4 IJ 1.6 2. To implement the above program through remaining non-magnet junior high schools. 2.1 22 2.3 2.4 Identify students needing services. Advertise and employ counselors. Advertise and employ teachers. Advertise and employ tutors. Order materials/supplies. Schedule/ Implement home transportation. Identify students needing services. Advertise and employ counselor. Advertise and employ teachers. Advertise and employ tutors. Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 30, 1989 May 31, 1990 May 31, 1990 May 31, 1990 Ongoing Ongoing Sept 30, 1989 May 31, 1990 May 31,1990 May 31, 1990 Local school counselors Director of Personnel Director of Personnel Director of Personnel Director of JTPA/ ASSET Director of Transportation Local school counselor Director of Personnel Director of Personnel Director of Personnel Class rosters Signed contracts Signed contracts Signed contracts Materials received Busing schedule completed Ctass rosters Signed contracts Signed contracts Signed contracts xJ OQ n KJ 2.5 2.6 Order materials and supplies. Schedule/ Implement home transportation. Sept 1, 1989 Sept 1, 1989 Ongoing Ongoing Director of JTPA/ ASSET Director of Transportation Materials received Busing schedule completed L LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: JTPA-ASSET Program/ Extended Tutorial Program Goal\nTo expand the counseling components. Objectives Strategies / Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation ta 00 n 1. To provide more indepth and group session counseling. 1.1 12 1.3 Advertise and employ additional counselors. Revise existing counseling progress to include emphasis on life-coping and life-planning skills. Implement above skills. Sept 1,1989 Sept 1, 1989 Sept 30, 1990 May 31, 1990 Sept 30, 1990 Ongoing Director of Personnel Director of JTPA-ASSET Counselors Signed contract Development of program outline Student involvement in identified activitiesSCHOOL OPERATIONS The LRSD Office of Desegregation will be responsible for monitoring the implementation of the LRSDs desegregation plan with respect to the following goals: 1. To ensure an organizational structure which provides equal opportunity and access for parents, students and all staff. 2. To provide a climate in each school which is based on the belief and expectation that all children can learn and to provide resources necessary to support that belief. 3. To develop and implement policies which influence school climate and improve discipline and student attendance while also meeting individual student needs and learning styles. The student hearing officer will be responsible for developing and monitoring plans to reduce the disparity of disciplinary actions. 4. To provide guidance and counseling service which address students needs, are supportive of strategies and interventions to enhance student success and expectations, and provide communication to families of students. 5. To provide guidance and counseling which makes students aware of their options and to assist students in acquiring habits and attitudes necessary for success in school and in later life. 6. To monitor student class ratios and instructional practices to ensure equal opportunities for all students. 7. To provide and ensure opportunities and encouragement to all students to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities and to assess the results of school practices, paying special attention to their impact on minority and disadvantaged students. 8. I I 1 i I I-i\nr I a 9. To assess the results of school practices, paying special attention to their impact on minority and disadvantaged students. I II 1 To review and assess testing practices, formats and results in order to better address the needs of all students while providing special intervention for disadvantaged students. 10. To give school principals sufficient authority to improve schools and to advocate for students, and to hold them accountable for results and opportunities for all students. II Il 11. To review staffing patterns and staff assignments in all schools and district offices for equity. 12. To establish recruitment programs for representation of minorities in all positions in the District. Page 28 1 I 13. I 14. 15. 1^ H) To ensure schoolwide planning and individual academic achievement\nto address disparities, individual needs and student success\nand to provide staff development on an ongoing basis. To provide information to parents in regard to topics relevant to increasing student access to educational and extracurricular opportunities. To collaborate with PCSSD and NLRSD in regard to aspects of the plan which will facilitate and enhance desegregative efforts. LRSD will establish programs as described in the following timelines to accomplish the goals set forth above. Page 29 ,1 p J ! 1 1, I, I J LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal I: To ensure an organizational structure w4iich provides equity of opportunity and of access. Objectives Strategies / Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. To review organizational structure in schools and central office to ensure sufficient support for students and staff success and for implementation of the desegregation pbn. 1.1 12 1.3 2. To provide inservice to raise staff awareness/ expectations of equity concerns for students. 2.1 3. To provide programs which raise parental awareness of district structure, poUcy and programs and ways to access them. 3.1 4. Appoint school based biracial committees to monitor implementation and data. A districtwide biracial committee will monitor districtwide desegregation efforts and data. Establish a reporting system. Inservice cycles for existing and new staff including: a. b. c. d. teacher expectations working with parents at-risk youth learning styles Mini-seminars at PT A meetings and in the community. June-July Annually June Annually August Annually June Annually Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Principals Associate Supt Associate Supt of Educational Programs Associate Supt of Desegregation Assistant Supts Appropriate Assoc Supts and Staff of District State Dept of Education District Staff PTA Council (local and area) Survey of staff and patrons Report of the biracial committees Roster of teachers/ participating staff Data based Improvement in targeted student schools Calendar showing programs held Rosters of attenders *13 P3 OQ rt CP o To monitor school standards to ensure high quality education for all students. 4.1 42 Review of data. School monitoring visits. Annually Ongoing Assoc Supt Principals Asst Supts Planning, Research and Evaluation Calendars of visits Monitoring reportsLRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal II: To provide a climate in each school with is based on the belief and expectation that all children can learn and to provide resources necessary to support and effect that belief. Objectives Strategies / Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. Provide education to staff and patrons regarding school culture and positive school climate. 1.1 12 2. Monitor school climate and resource allocation. 2.1 22 2.3 3. *13 ta 00 O To work with schools to help them design programs vdiich meet the specific needs of their students. 3.1 32 32 PTA Board and general meetings to have educational components re: climate and expectations. Use of cable Channel 4 to carry brief messages to staff re: e:q\u0026gt;ectations, working with at-risk and disadvantaged students\nand creating positive climate. Monitor facility, staff morale, student achievement, status of media center books and materials. Enhance equipment, supplies and materials in buildings. Provide staff development and intervention plans as needed. Provide resource assistant to school staffs. Provide planning time and formats to school staffs. Develop school profiles which show complete data pictures. Set goals for improvement. Annually Annually Annually Annually Annually Annually Annually Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing District personnel as designated by the Assoc Supt Asst Supts Principals Media Supervisor Asst Supts Principals Media Supervisor Asst Supts Principals Media Supervisor Identified district staff Educational Programs Educational Programs School Principals and Staffs Agendas of meetings Measurable improvements on individual school climates Reports of Supervisors, Asst Supts Staff development rosters Quality of education survey results Completion of program designs School profiles and monitored building plans aiiiBi J MM. LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal II: (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 4. Establish a program to familiarize parents with school ejqiectations and to build a partnership with them. 4.1 Share schools objectives, discipline policy, standards for testing, placing and promoting students. Annually Ongoing Principals Staff Development of and sharing of school based objectives, discipline poUcies, etc. 42 Involve parents as full partners in planning at schools for students' growth and success. Annually Ongoing Principals Staff PT A Board Patrons Statistical improvement in student behavior and achievement ta Cto o to I lanLRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal 111: To develop and implement policies which enhance school chmate and improve student discipline and attendance while also meeting individual student needs and learning styles. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Date Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. Provide inservice training to district personnel on discipline in a desegregated setting. 1.1 Conduct inservice training on discipline management in all local schools. As Needed Director of Pupil Services Building principals Asst Supt 2. Provide inservice to district personnel on behavioral styles and learning styles of. students and divergent backgrounds. 3. Provide a committee to review attendance and discipline policies and data on an ongoing basis to ensure equity of policy and policy administration. 4. Appoint joint committee with PCSSD and NLRSD. 12 2.1 3.1 32 4.1 Provide follow-up training for new staff on a regular basis. Provide training for school based improvement teams (to involve staff and parents) v4io will train staff at the school site with annual maintenance. Committee and sub-committees to include principals, staff, patrons, students (on the secondary levels) and at least one (1) Board member to review data and recommend modifications to meet students needs and district needs. Revise student handbooks as needed. Review attendance and disciplinary policies and consequences. Annually Annually Annually As Needed Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing m n U) CP Building principal Director of Pupil Services Associate Supts Staff Development Staff Identified Staff Associate Supts Principals Teachers Director of Pupil Services Patrons Asst Supts Appointed staff 3 districts (see Tri- District component) Review and revision of tri-district attendance and disciplinary policies I I i i h. JLRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal III: (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Responsibility Evaluation 5. Put in place alternatives to suspension across the district with at least one such intervention to be pbced at each school. 5.1 Develop school based discipline plans to be reviewed at district level and to include suspension alternates. 52 6. Establish a school based student discipline and attendance incentive system at each school. 6.1 Effectiveness of these alternatives to be regularly assessed. Review research and develop rewards program such that recognition and incentives will be individual to the school. 7. Provide counseling intervention for students with chronic disciplinary and/ or attendance problems. 7.1 Activate discipline/ attendance intervention teams at school. Mandate the pupil services team to do monitoring and involve the counselor with students who have discipline/ attendance problems. 72 Involve parents in the team process regarding their children through meetings/ conferences. Date Ongoing Fall 1991 Annually Annually Date Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing *10 co 00 n Asst Supts Principals School Based Staffs Principals/ Staff Asst Supts VIPS Patrons Principals Guidance Depts Director of Pupil Services Building Staffs School Health Services Coor Principal PTA Officer PTA Council Counselors Pupil Serv Teams School Health Services Existence of alternative plan in each building Statistical data to support validity of plan and improvement in discipline and behavior Records of counseling intervention Records of parent/ team involvement Statistical decrease in student attendance/ disciplinary referrals J b.LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal IV: To provide guidance/counseling services -wdhich address individual student needs\nare supportive of strategies and interventions to enhance student success and expectations\nand provide communications to families of students. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Responsibility Date Date 1. Inform students of all opportunities available to them and encourage them to take advantage of these opportunities. 1.1 12 2. Make parents partners in education of their children - by making information accessible to them and keeping them informed. 2.1 22 3. To make students aware of educational and post educational opportunities. 3.1 4. Evaluation Publish a document annually which lists financial aid, vocational and higher education opportunities for all students. Encourage students to take advantage of opportunities open to them. Hold a community educational meeting each year during the spring to inform parents of curriculum and student opportunities (to include co-curricular opportunities). Provide written information to parents regarding curriculum and student skills. Skills and employment fair to be held annually in conjunction with business community. Summer 1990 Annually Spring 1990 Annually Annually Ongoing Annually Ongoing Ongoing p 00 o\u0026gt; CM Create community linkages to assist students in need of special services. 4.1 Through Ford Collaborative, New Futures Initiation, city, courts, pubUc and private service providers, provide school linkages with guidance staff for student special needs interventions. Ongoing Counselors Director of Pupil Services Vocational Director Principals Counselors Director of Guidance Assoc and Asst Supts Educational Programs Building principals Communications Department Vocational teachers Counselors Volunteers in Schools PTA Counselors LRSD New Futures Liaison Assoc/ Asst Supts Dir of Pupil Services Deputy Supt Publication of document Statistical increase in number of students, particularly minority students, receiving financial aid and proceeding into post secondary education Rosters of meetings Employment Fair Student attendance Established community linkages MMi LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal IV\n(continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Spinning Ending Date Date 5. Create academic intervention strategies on a school basis. 5.1 Each school to put into its annual plan a designed set of interventions to help increase student academic success, i.e., Peer Tutoring, Volunteer Tutors. Annually Ongoing Responsibility Evaluation 0o0 o\\ Principals Staffs of Buildings Assistance from Educational Programs Assoc/Asst Supts Annual plan and annual evaluation report comparisons J 9 B fl 5 5 li I AREA: School Operations LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE Goal V: To provide guidance/counseling which assists students to acquire habits and attitudes necessary for progress in school and in bter life. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. Provide minicourses for students in study halls, testing skills, and precareer skills in a sequenced program beginning in grade four and through high school. 1.1 12 2. Raise awareness of student or future career options. 2.1 Minicourses to be developed in sequence beginning with grade four. Provide teacher staff development in the use of curriculum of these areas. Use of resource volunteers in classes and assembUes beginning in elementary schools to address career options. Annually Ongoing Classroom teachers VIPS Guidance counselors Development of minicourses 1991-92 School Year Ongoing Ongoing As needed *13 co (W o Curriculum staff Staff Development Director Teachers-gr 4-12 Student participatioi in these (comparative numbers) Rosters of volunteers I I J k iiBImhmiJ Hm an !  S B ! LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal VI: Monitor student class ratios, instructional and teaching practices to ensure equity for all students. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Date Date 1. Achieve equity in class structures by grade and by subject area. 1.1 Review class ratios by subject, by class, by teacher on a semester basis. Annually Ongoing 2. Achieve equity in student instructional practices. 3. Achieve equity in teaching methods. 12 1.3 2.1 22 3.1 Responsibility Evaluation Address disparities with intervention activities. Remove barriers to equitable participation of students. Review grade distributions by subject, by cbss, by teacher on a semester basis. Address disparities with intervention activities. Provide inservice assistance to principals and teachers in reference to variant learning styles and effective methods. Annually 1989-90 School year Ongoing Ongoing As needed Principals Asst Supts Assoc Supt Principals Asst Supts Assoc Supts Staff Development Human Resources Principals Asst Supts Assoc Supts Monitoring of ratios* and student outcomes Monitoring of master schedules Attendance at inservice Classroom Visitations fl w OQ f UI 00  Ratios are not to be construed as quotas. The intent is for all barriers preventing full participation in classes and programs to be removed. JB B I ! LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal VII\nProvide and ensure opportunities and encouragement to all students to participate in extracurricular and co-curricutor activities^ Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Responsibility Evaluation 1. Inform all students and patrons of co-curricubr/ extracurricubr activities avaibble for students and of participation requirements. 1.1 12 1.3 1.4 2. Staff recruitment of students to participate. 2.1 22 3. Increase student participation, particubrly minority student participation in co-curricubr activities. 3.1 32 3.3 4. Use of media and press. Send printed information to parents. Make clear public address system announcements to students. Use community agencies such as churches to assist with recruitment. Individual staff contacts with students encourage involvement. Staff shall specifically recruit from among students who do not typically participate in particubr activities. Profile student involvement in each club or activity. Disaggregate participation data. Annually Annually Annually Annually Annually Annually Date Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing x) 03 00 n CP Remove all barriers to equitable participation of students who wish to participate in extracurricubr activities. 4.1 Develop school based recruitment pbns. Provide a district transportation program for student transportation when necessary to assure equitable participation for students participating in district sanctioned extracurricubr activities. Annually Ongoing 42 Provide a program for student access to equipment/uniforms etc. needed for participation at minimal cost. Annually Ongoing Communications Dept Principals Staff PTA Board Educational Programs School based Dir of Extracurricubr Activities Log of announcements, media usage, other community student contacts Individual staff members Principal Staff Asst Supt Directors of Extracurricubr Activities Manager of Support Services Asst Supts Assoc Supt Deseg Principals Comparative review of data regarding numbers of applicants and participants by race Yearly analysis of participation data and comparative profiles Yearly analysis of participation data and comparative profiles J AREA: School Operations Goal VII\n(continued) Objectives 5. Develop school profiles which provide overview of school success or its impact on students so that changes and/ or interventions can take place as needed. co OQ O) B 9 B M  LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 5.1 52 52 Profile school by: a. grade distribution b. attendance Annually Ongoing c. d. e. f. disciplinary outcomes test scores student involvement in school related activities course enrollments/ special program enrollments Data to be disaggregated by race. Provide for development of and implementation of intervention strategies to address disparate situations with specific steps for improvement. Assoc and Asst Supts Principals School Staffs Use of data based school profiles Yearly comparative students Production of improvement plans to address disparities Outcomes evaluation  imlaiMH LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal VIII: Review and assess testing practices, formats and results in order to better address the needs of all students while providing special interventions for disadvantaged students. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. Visits to school by testing/ evaluation monitoring team to assess validity and reliability of testing procedures and strategies employed to prepare students for test taking. 1.1 12 1.3 1.4 2. Disaggregation of test results by grade, by race for review and assessment for intervention purposes. 2.1 12 2.3 Meetings with principals, teachers. Informal classroom visits by monitors. Compilation of comparative data by school. Evaluation of data with recommendations for changes/ improvements. School analysis of test results by grade, teachers, race and subject area. Development of comparative data to assess disparity areas, if any. Preparation of intervention pbns to address specific student needs. Spring Atmually Annually Annually Annually Annually Annually Ongoing Ongoing ofrao D Planning, Research and Evaluation Asst Supts Principals/ Staff Educational Programs Monitoring visits and reports Principals Principals Asst Supts Testing/ Evaluation Principals/ Staff Assoc/ Asst Supts Data assessment Documented interventions as needed Report of outcomes Existence of plans A J AREA: School Operations J LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE Goal K: To give local schools sufficient authority to improve and to advocate for students, and to hold them accountable for results. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Date Date 1. Develop/enhance site-based management at designated schoob. 1.1 12 IJ 2. 3. Provide support to revitalize school environments to make it conducive to student learning and to order. Respond to principal requests for assistance in a timely manner. 2.1 3.1 Staff development for principals. Revision of district procedures to provide central office technical support rather than strict control. Enhance principal accountability for program at the building. Plan of district school renovation to meet programmatic and student popubtion needs. Set up format for technical assistance with assigned personnel to work with individual schoob. Annually Annually Annually Annually Immediately Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing As needed Responsibility Assoc/Asst Supts Support Services Assoc/Asst Supts Educational Programs Curriculum Directors, Supervisors, and Coordinators ISa M SB Evaluation Conduct of staff development Principal feedback Asst Supt evaluations of school climate and programs and principal management of these Completion of task Principal evaluation of pbn T3 ca 00 n 6 I B H LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal X: Review staffing patterns and staff assignments on all schools and district division for equity. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. Update review of recruiting needs by age, race, sex and seniority in positions in the district to ascertain projected needs. 1.1 Review of all current staffing with identification of staff by sex, race and subject area wdio will be retiring to project needs. Annually Ongoing Semiannual Director of Human Resources Completion of tasks 2. Review of position assignments related to racial equity such that all races are represented in every position and job description in the district. 12 2.1 22 f1a0 enra 6 Projection of student population on two year basis to validate expected needs. Development and assessment of school and divisional staffing patterns. Recruitment of support and nonteaching staff to reflect equitable racial representation in all positions. Spring Ongoing Assoc Supt-Deseg Aimually Summer 1989 Ongoing Director of Human Resources Building principals Division heads Principals Director of Human Resources Assoc Supts Completion of tasks Enhance racial balance in all positions J LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal XI: Establish recruitment programs for representation of minorities in all positions in the district. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation \"13 (W o 1. Create pool of currently certified teacher applicants and of students pursuing certification. 1.1 12 1.3 1.4 Share applicant pools with PCSSD/NLRSD (see collaborative). Share with NLRSD/ PCSSD recruitment processes at local, state and regional schools with particular concentration on schools with populations of minority students. Establish \"in school\" recruitment procedures for junior and senior high school students who evidence an interest in the teaching profession. Provide internship programs at district schools for aspiring teachers and aspiring administrators. Fall Aimually Spring Annually Annually Spring 1992 Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Human Resources Directors-three districts Human Resources Directors-three districts Practicing teachers (3 districts) on a voluntary basis Principals Human Resources Office Teacher Sponsor of FTA Collaborative effort with local universities Human Resources Office Educational Programs Completion of task Preparation of and implementation of sharing plan Implementation of procedures Increase in pool of teacher/ administrator applications for LRSD JLRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal XII: Ensure schoolwide planning for programmatic excellence and individual student achievement. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Responsibility Evaluation 1. Provide school based pbnning based on analysis of all available data\na specific format for addressing school racial, gender, SES disparities. 1.1 12 1.3 1.4 IJ 1.6 1.7 Date Date hd to ere (D Ln Formulate guidelines for school improvement plans which will lead to specific achievement increases and interventions to assist students. Via disaggregation of data rebtive to: a. student performance b. discipline c. attendance d. participation in school activities e. pbcement in cbsses Train staff to deal with data and implementation of strategies. Evaluation of outcomes of interventions via milestone reports and final yearly reports. Reassessment of and modification of objectives and strategies. Creation of final plan and strategies. Atmual assessment of outcomes of yearly plan. FaU Annually Annually Annually Annually Annually Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Educational Programs Committee of principals Planning, Research and Evaluation School Staff/Principals Sch Improvement Teams Educational Programs Planning, Research and Evaluation Principals/ School Staff Sch Improvement Team Asst Supts Principals/ Staff Principals/School Staff Deputy/ Assoc and Asst Supts Principals/ Staffs Sch Improvement Teams Formulation of guidelines, plans and interventions Disaggregated outcome based data Outcomes evaluations conducted on a comparative basis Assessment process and remediation plans for areas in need of improvement I LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal XIII: Provide staff development on an ongoing basis to staff and information to parents relative to student success. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Responsibility Evaluation Date Date 03 00 Q 1. To update skills of all district staff on a regular basis and to keep all staff abreast of developments in their field of endeavor. 1.1 12 IJ Provide selections of staff development opportunities for individual staff and entire faculties to include but not limit to: a. TESA b. PET c. Classroom Management d. School Management Send selected staff to professional development sessions in order to increase the number of available trainers and in return for a commitment to assist with collegial staff development. Provide districtwide program of staff development. Annually Annually Annually HI Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing with maintenance Assoc Supt-Educ Programs Asst Supts Director-Staff Dev State Dept of Ed Assoc Supt-Educ Programs Asst Supts Director-Staff Dev State Dept of Ed Assoc Supt-Educ Programs Asst Supts Director-Staff Dev State Dept of Ed Provision of staff development Evidence of enhanced classroom instruction with improved student performances LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: School Operations Goal XIV\nCollaborate with contiguous districts regarding aspects of the plan which wiU facilitate and enhance and desegregative efforts. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. To create a collaboration whereby all students in all schools in the three districts (LR, NLR and PCSSD) will benefit from a mutual set of beliefs and expectations for success for all students and equity for all students and staff. 1.1 Contained in the 'Interdistrict Desegregation Plan\". See Interdistrict Plan See Interdistrict Plan Superintendents and staff of three districts Successful implementation of collaborative plan Positive, measurable outcomes for students, staff and the three districts in areas addressed I T) ta era n 1 I PROGRAM FOR ACCELERATED LEARNING/ACADEMIC SUPPORT PROGRAMS 1. Overview The Program for Accelerated Learning (PAL) and other LRSD academic support - 1. L (remediation) programs provide learning experiences to remediate and address a students deficiency while minimizing the removal of the student from the regular classroom setting. PAL and other support programs are available for all grade levels, K-12. These programs provide maintenance and reinforcement for the student in need of this kind of support while enabling the student to experience success within the regular classroom setting. Pal and other support programs are transition programs that are designed to assist students in learning the requisite skills necessary for instruction and success in reading and mathematics at the elementary level and with emphasis on the core areas of English, reading, and math at the secondary level. PAL and other support programs are planned to be fast-paced, high-interest, high expectations, and individualized. These programs will have specified time frames by which students will meet performance criteria. These programs must have the specific written approval of the parent or guardian before students may be placed in them. Even then, pullouts will be a last resort and will be kept at a minimal level. Technology assisted instruction is used to provide remediation/academic support and intervention learning/ teaching strategies for targeted students. Computers, video discs, VCRs, and appropriate software support the instructional needs of each student, and instruction, utilizing technology, incorporates cooperative learning strategies. In the PAL/ elementary computer component, the goal is for targeted students to attend the computer lab for at least 70 instructional minutes per week. Normally, this yields 35 or more minutes a week in both math and reading. PAL specialists, at the elementary level, in mathematics and reading work closely with the computer component to monitor student data. They investigate student difficulties pinpointed by the computer and assist the student as needed. A non-certified instructional aide (lab attendant) supervises and assists the students as they participate in the individualized state-of-the-art instructional program administered by the computer. The eventual goal is to add a computerized management component to provide (1) annual pre and post criterion- referenced tests for most grades including grading and reporting, (2) computerized scoring of I 1 Page 48 i: 11 J5'. ^1' J unit tests for mastery and (3) the automation of record keeping to provide the teacher with more time to work with students and better data with which to approach that task. PAL/ Academic support programs are cooperatively planned and developed by the staff for students. The staff offers a stimulating, multi-cultural, and inter-disciplinary approach to learning, with a language (oral and written) base for emphasis in each central core area. Staff members use a variety of instructional strategies and utilize both in-district and community resources for motivating students. Parents are actively involved in each phase of PAL, including individual assessment, individual improvement planning, formative assessments, workshops, and summative evaluations. Each parent signs a written agreement, along with school representatives, identifying the responsibilities of the parents, school staff, and students. n. Areas of Collaboration Possible areas of collaboration among the three Pulaski County school districts are as follows: A. Information/ Resource Sharing, especially related to planning for \"at-risk\" students r- B. Cooperative development of programs and assistance (based on results of MPT and student needs, etc.) c. Establishment of complementary sites for summer schools and other programs D. Joint applications for funding by grants, foundations, etc. III. Expected Outcomes A. Elementary and Secondary Programs for Accelerated Learning (PAL) as well as other elementary and secondary support programs have the following goals: 'll 1. To identify educationally-disadvantaged students through appropriate assessment procedures. I' 2. To develop a profile on each educationally disadvantaged student that identifies his/her strengths and weaknesses. The profile may include information from the following: EPSF Screening, Arkansas Minimum Performance Skills Tests, MAT-6, CRTM, letter grades, teacher/parent anecdotal records, etc. I I 3. To utilize the student profile in developing an Academic Skills Improvement Plan based on the assessed need(s). The plan must be cooperatively developed and implemented by the regular and PAL/ support teachers. 11 a. The individual school will initiate plans to remediate skills not mastered. I I I p 4I  I I I I Page 49 J b. For area(s) which the student failed, the school will list unmastered objectives on the Improvement Plan(s). c. After this initial information is entered on the Improvement Plan(s) the plans will be attached to the Needs Identification Form. d. The Needs Identification Form and partially completed Improvement Plan will be placed in the permanent records of the student. it 3 4. To provide a fast-paced, multicultural, technology assisted, language-based, individualized instruction program for educationally disadvantaged elementary students. 5. To set academic performance/achievement timelines for each student in the program 6. To actively involve parents in the development and implementation of the Academic Skills Improvement Plan for the student. 7. To provide ongoing assessments (formative and summative) to ensure student progress in meeting the expectations of the academic improvement plan. B. Secondary Program for Accelerated Learning (PAL): In addition to the goals outlined above, the secondary support programs including the Program for Accelerated Learning (PAL) has the following goals for the secondary level: 1. To provide transition/support programs for students who need assistance in developing the competencies needed for functioning effectively in the regular English and math classrooms. 2. To identify and provide placement of students who may need instructional support for functioning within the regular classroom setting. A profile of students will include the following: former placement level, Arkansas Minimum Performance Skills Tests, MAT-6, CRTM, letter grades, teacher/parent anecdotal records, etc. 3. To utilize the profile information to identify student strengths and weaknesses and to develop an Academic Skills Improvement Plan based on the assessed need(s). i 4. To provide a fast-paced, multicultural, inter-disciplinary, language-based, individualized instruction program for students placed in the program. 5. To set performance/achievement timelines for each student in the program. I Page 50 J 6. To actively involve parents in the development and implementation of the skills improvement plans for the child. 7. To provide ongoing assessments to ensure movement of students in meeting the expectations of the skills improvement plan. C. PAL/ Academic Support Programs - Grades 7-12 I IV. 1. To include a wide range of strategies and programs to assist students with basic communication skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. 2. To provide learning and study skills as an integral program component. 3. To include a diagnostic/prescriptive approach which will include direct instruction in the areas of word-attack, vocabulary, comprehension, and application of reading and study skills. 4. To involve the PAL and other academic support teachers in developing, implementing, and evaluating the Academic Skills Improvement Plan for all students assigned to their program. 5. To cooperate with regular classroom or core area teachers to provide reinforcement and support for students. 6. To adhere, as appropriate, to the goals and procedures outlined for PAL and other support program. Evaluation and Monitoring A. Student: Evaluation (formative and summative) of the student is based on the Academic Skills Improvement Plan. Parents are provided information during each grading period on the students progress in meeting the performance goals in the Academic Skills Improvement Plan. B. Program: The program is monitored and evaluated based on student improvement/achievement outcomes in accordance with District and other regulatory standards. An Evaluation Design and Checklist have been developed to provide program evaluation data. Page 51 I I iJ n n Ki B B B BBbhBBBB LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Educational Programs - Compensatory/Remedial Education Goal: To refine the overaU implementation of the Little Rock School District Program for Accelerated Learning (PAL), Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. Refine the program implementation of the Program for Accelerated Learning (PAL) and Academic Support Programs. Ll 12 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 \u0026lt;fwt tzi Reconvene the ad hoc committees: Junior High, High School and a steering committee with representatives from each committee. Review program goals, objectives, guideUnes, and findings of reviews and audits of Board Committee. Recommend modifications for effective program implementation during 1988-89 with responses to needs of individual schools and program levels. Refine criteria/preferred quaUties for teacher selection. Refine pbcement criteria (secondary level). Refine exit criteria (secondary level). Obtain recommendations for student placement in PAL and complete academic skills needs assessment. Develop improvement plans for students who did not achieve mastery on the Arkansas Minimum Performance Test (grades three and six) and for eighth-grade \"at^isk\" students. FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 Spring-FaU 1988 Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Superintendent List of committee members Assoc Supt-Educ Progs Assoc Supt-Educ Progs Assoc Supt-Educ Progs Assoc Supt-Educ Progs Assoc Supt-Educ Progs Principals Principals Documentation Committee meeting agenda Recommendation Criteria for teacher selection Placement criteria Exit criteria Student registration Completed Improvement Plans I i ww LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Educational Programs - Compensatory/Remedial Education Goal: (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. (continued) 1.9 Implement Learning Lab curriculum guide and continue revision of program as needed. FaU 1988 Ongoing Supervisors of Reading, Math, and EngUsh Classroom monitoring documentation 1.10 Develop list of suggested material and suppUes that wiU address students specific skills deficiencies. FaU 1988 Ongoing Supervisors of Math, Reading, and EngUsh Suggested list 1.11 Order needed materials and suppUes. August 1988 Ongoing Supervisors of Math, Reading, and English Purchase of materials and suppUes 2. Design and implement effective staff development to ensure equity. 2.1 22 Plan and conduct inservice for Central Office staff. Plan and conduct inservice for teachers. Inservice should focus on the foUowing activities: a. b. c. d. FaU 1988 Ongoing Assoc Supts Agenda FaU,1988 Ongoing Assoc Supts Agenda (*a0 efrsa Ul LU e. f. 8- Ensure heterogeneous grouping in regular math and EngUsh classes Schedule math and EngUsh PAL teachers with simultaneous cbsses Review faculties crlterb Review pbcement criterb for: (1) Learning Lab (2) Specbl Education (3) Math/EngUsh PAL Cbssroom Review personnel selection criterb Select and order suppUes and materbb Provide training on administering TABE (pre/post) Test. Supervisors of Reading, Math, and EngUsh I S S 5 KM Hi LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Educational Programs - Compensatory/ Remedial Education Goal: (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 2. (continued) 2.3 Plan and conduct buildmg4evel inservice for entire faculty. Fall 1988 Ongoing Principals Agenda 2.4 Continue monthly inservice meetings (six per year) at IRC for elementary reading and math PAL teachers and elementary principals. Also include computer personnel when appropriate. Fall 1988 Ongoing Supervisors of Math, Reading, and EngUsh Agenda 25 Implement preschool inservice (five days) for secondary PAL teachers and address the following activities: a. Obtain class rosters b. Gather student profiles c. Identify skill needs for each student d. Cluster students within classrooms and among PAL teachers according to need August, Sept 1988 Ongoing Assoc Supt - Educ Progs Agenda 2.6 Paired teachers will develop instruction schedules (English/ math) according to student needs and class periods. Alternatives may include: a. instruction on alternate days b. mini-class periods (25 minutes per period within each period) c. team teaching (by content area) 1989 *p0 ToO\u0026gt; y ri Ml LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Educational Programs - Compensatory/ Remedial Education Goal: (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 2. (continued) 2.7 Plan individualized instruction based on each students assessed needs. A common pbn may be used for students who have similar deficits. Instructional strategies should be outlined on profile sheet and/ or attached on sheets as needed. This profile then becomes the pbn. a. b. c. d. e. Identify approprbte materbls/ resources Determine approprbte instructional strategies Determine method/means for student mastery evaluation(s) Begin to develop daily lesson pbns that reflect the above procedures and information Identify strategies for simultaneous instruction 2.8 Assist secondary PAL teachers with incorporating motivational strategies into the instructional program. 2.9 1988 Fall 1988 Ongoing Ongoing Teachers Plan tc era n CA UA Assist secondary reading teachers to become more involved in the PAL program by scheduling one day of inservice with the English and math ALP teachers. August 1988 Ongoing Secondary principals and supervisors of Reading, Math, and English Supervisor of Reading Classroom observation and documentation Agenda LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Educational Programs - Compensatory/ Remedial Education Goal: (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 3. Provide equity in program facUities. 3.1 Develop criterb for facilities to address cbssroom: a. attractiveness b. lighting c. ventUation d. accessibUity e. essentbl space Ongoing Assoc Supts Criteria 4. Employ approprbte personnel to implement an equitable and effective program. 5. Provide ongoing program evaluation to ensure educational equity. 32 3.3 4.1 42 5.1 52 53 Provide bcUities criterb to buUding principals (refer to 22). Monitor adherence to facUities criteria. IdentUy regubr substitutes for computer bbs. Train computer bb substitutes. Develop a PAL evaluation design after considering recommendations from the committee. Design evaluation instruments. FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 FaU 1988 Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Assoc Supt for Ed Progs Assoc Supt for Ed Progs Assoc Supt for Ed Progs Supv of Instr Tech Evaluation and Testing Director of Evaluation and Testing Agenda item Visitation documentation List of identified substitutes Agenda for training sessions Completed evaluation design Evaluation instrument V 03 OQ Ul Monitor PAL cbssrooms and evaluate PAL Program. FaU 1988 Ongoing Director of Evaluation and Testing Assoc Supt-Educ Progs Supervisors of Reading, Math and EngUsh Annual Board Report Documentation MMN 5 LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Instructional Technology Objectives Strategies/ Activities Rt^ginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation Implementation of PAL Computer Program Replacement of lab attendants as needed June 1 Aug 30 Redistribute computers based on enrollments Sept 1 Sept 8 Schedule initial update and reriew inservice and new staff training August 1 Aug 15 Director-Human Resources Supv-Instructional Technology Staff Contracts Internal Base Pre-school agenda Conduct initial inservice August 22 Sept 1 Staff Pre-school agenda Conduct new staff inseiA'ice Conduct and field test systems Develop schedule Select target students Input student names Conduct student orientation Complete computer basic skills placement Notify Math/ Reading Specialists of placement results Conduct individualized instructional assessment per schedule Provide reports, intervention modes and files Monitor students progress and change placement as appropriate on classroom teachers recommendation Process installment payments for hardware and software Monitor program Repair equipment as needed August 24 Sept 12 Staff Weekly reports Sept 8 Sept 8 Sept 8 Sept 8 Sept 11 Sept 8 Sept 12 Sept 10 Oct 1 Oct 1 Oct 1 Sept 8 August 1 Sept 12 Sept 8 Sept 14 Sept 18 Sept 18 Oct 1 Oct 1 Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing Nov 1 Ongoing Ongoing SUff Lab attendant Lab attendant Lab attendant Lab attendant Lab attendant Lab attendant Lab attendant Lab attendant Lab attendant, Math, Reading Specialists Supv-Instr Technology Staff Staff Pre-school agenda On file Listing Printouts Schedule Report Report Monitoring Monitoring Documentations and approval Copy of reports Visitations and weekly reports Invoices P 90 O Ul Input students \"pre\" data Input studenu \"post\" data Complete school \"Gain\" report Complete district \"Gain\" reporU August 23 April 13 June 1 June 6 Feb 1 June 1 June 8 June 22 Lab Attendant Math/ Reading Supv Lab Attendant Math/ Reading Supv Lab Attendant Staff Monitoring Monitoring Report Report II II GIFTED EDUCATION II I. II a Overview The Little Rock School District Gifted Program offers services to its students through design that consists of observation and enrichment for all students in grades K-2. Resource II II II rooms and indirect services are provided for grades 3-6 and special classes for students in grades 7-12 are offered. The program operates in compliance with the Arkansas Department of Educations Gifted and Talented Program Approval Standards. The Standards provide the framework for establishing equitable criteria for the identification of gifted and talented students. Services are provided to these students by teachers (specialists and facilitators) who have completed or who are pursuing graduate credits in gifted education. II II. Areas of Collaboration In the Gifted and Talented Program Approval Standards issued by the Arkansas II II II II II II II Department of Education, gifted and talented children and youth are defined as \"... those of high potential or ability whose learning characteristics and educational needs require qualitatively differentiated educational experience and/ or services.\" The criteria for placement into gifted and talented programs shall be above average intellectual ability and creative ability. To the extent that task commitment and/ or motivation may be objectively determined, they too may be utilized as criteria for identification and placement. No one criterion shall be used if the result has a disparate impact upon either racial group within the District. Moreover, special attention shall be devoted to the identification and placement of black students and students from low ind middle socio-economic levels. While the program models and the special needs and strengths of the gifted and talented program in each district differ, all three districts are committed to foUowing the best practices in the field of gifted education in identification, curriculum, and program evaluation. In order to strengthen the programs in all three districts and to further desegregation, all three districts agree to collaborate in the foUowing areas: (1) curriculum, (2) staff development, and (3) research and administration whenever possible and/or feasible. Page 58 Js LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Gifted and Talented Education Goal I: To establish collaborative efforts in terms of research and in the administration and/or operation of Gifted Programs. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation *13 {C no n LA VO 1. To share research and/or findings in the operation and/or administration of gifted programs. 2. To investigate the feasibility of initiating a tri-district effort to establish a model program to identify and educate socio-economically disadvantaged gifted children. 1.1 12 2.1 Establish a schedule of regular meetings of the tri-district gifted supervisors. Establish a procedure to inform and/ or involve other administrative personnel and/ or staff of research and/ or iimovative procedures. Participate in Project Promise through the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (one junior high school in initial group). November 1988 November 1988 November 1990 Ongoing November 1992 December 1992 LRSD Supv and PCSSD/NLR G/T Supervisors LRSD, PCSSD, NLR Supvs for Gifted Programs LRSD Supervisor and PCSSD/NLR Gifted Coordinators Minutes of meetings Copies of reports and/ or data Records of Program participation AREA: Gifted Education \u0026amp; LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE Goal II: To collaborate staff development efforts in gifted education. Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. To share the cost of outside consultants to the gifted programs whenever feasible and possible if funds are available. 2. To plan and implement tri-district inservices conducted by the tri-district staff on identification, curriculum, and program evaluation if funds are available. 1.1 Supervisors meet to discuss individual program needs and to determine if consultants can be shared. 2.1 Supervisors meet to plan tri-district inservices and tri-district inservices are held. September, 1989 September, 1989 Ongoing Ongoing LRSD and PCSSD/NLR Supervisors LRSD and PCSSD/NLR Supervisors Minutes of meeting Minutes of meeting, workshop agenda, participate registration, tri-district developed evaluation form fa (re Ol 8 I Mrim ' s  LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Gifted and Talented Education Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 1. To introduce, explain and train all teachers/ facilitators, specialists in the tri-district gifted programs on the use and implementation of the existing tri-districts gifted scope/ sequence instrument. 1.1 Conduct gifted staff meetings in each district each fall for teachers/facilitators new to the program. Ongoing Ongoing LRSD and PCSSD/NLR Gifted Coordinator and Supervisor Roster of participants Participants questionnaire 2. To refine and to complete the Scope and Sequence Instrument. 2.1 Appoint a tri-district curriculum committee to refine and to complete the document. Oct. 1989 Oct. 1989 LRSD and PCSSD/NLR Gifted Coordinators Roster of participants and completed documents *13 nno OS 1 ri SSb S S B AREA: Gifted Education Objectives 1. To implement all objectives relating to the LRSD refinement/ restructuring implementation plan in terms of identification, curriculum and staff development. LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation (aXJ 00 o\u0026gt; os 1.1 To implement all strategies/activities delineated in the refinement/ restructuring plan in accordance to their objectives. Aug 1988 Fall, 1992 Superintendent, Assoc Supt and Special Programs and Staff Development. Assoc Supt Division of Schools, Coordinators Gifted programs\nNational consultants\ndistrictwide committees\nprincipals and school teams. Communications Office. Arkansas Dept of Education. College professor Implementation and monitoring of the gifted program I II MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM I. Overview and Sununary of Background Information It II The use of multicultural curricula is an important factor for effective school desegregation. LRSDs approach to multicultural curriculum development will include the following areas of concentration: 1. Il The multicultural approach will be integrated into the subject areas and courses (Example: Historical and/or social events will be viewed from several racial, cultural, and ethnic perspectives. These studies will be incorporated into rather than added on to the regular curriculum). tl 2. A multicultural focus will permeate the total school environment: materials, libraries, assemblies, textbooks, bulletin boards and other displays, holiday observances and extracurricular activities. tl 3. Students will be provided opportunities to develop better self-esteem. II 4. Multicultural curriculum and a multicultural approach to education will be in place in each school. tl 5. Students will have opportunities to examine the artistic, musical, scientific, literary, social and political accomplishments of many ethnic groups. Il II fl The Little Rock School District shall use its Office of Educational Programs to ensure equity and excellence in all areas of curriculum and programs, including, but not limited to, the following:  instructional methodology appropriate for a diverse population  teacher/ student interaction behaviors 11  quality multicultural materials and supplies El  seek textbooks free of race, ethnic and gender bias fl  organization for instruction (within schools and within classrooms and in classroom seat assignments)  special activities  development of objective and non-discriminatory criteria for student placement in enriched/honors and advanced placement classes Page 63 B II  inservice training ::  staffing The Office shall integrate human relations activities for the individual classroom into the curriculum by promoting:  the use of multicultural textbooks and instructional materials.  role-playing and group projects,  discussions of race relations and ethnicity as they relate to the classroom, the school and the society. A speakers bureau will be developed to promote a better understanding of multicultural education in the schools and throughout the community. n. Areas of Collaboration The three districts in Pulaski County will work cooperatively in examining, developing ll and implementing a multicultural curriculum. Each district will retain its own general ll El curriculum approach, but will join the other districts in the following areas of collaboration: A. Annual Multicultural Materials Fair: During the summer of 1988, Little Rock School District hosted a Multicultural Materials Fair with representation by approximately forty (40) vendors. North Little Rock had a smaller exhibit. Both projects were very well received by staff and vendors. ll The need for the review and purchase of books, materials, posters and other multicultural instructional aids will be ongoing. Annual Fairs will be cooperatively planned and implemented to meet this need. If 11 B. Inservice Training: Training for staff on the appropriate selection and use of multicultural resources will be an integral part of the tri-district staff development model and will be provided through a variety of strategies/ activities. C. Access to Higher Education Training Opportunities: The three districts will ll ll cooperatively access information on courses/seminars related to multicultural curriculum development and ethnic studies in higher education institutions in Arkansas. This information will be shared with staff members in the schools, and strategies will be developed to motivate teachers to take the identified courses. Page 64m. Expected Outcomes LRSD expects to achieve the following goals through the processes set forth in the attached timelines: By September 30, 1989, the curriculum for pre-school through grade 6 will reflect a multicultural approach. 1. By September 30, 1993, the curriculum for grades 7-12 will reflect a multicultural approach. IV. 2. By September 30,1991, a curriculum review/revision cycle will be established. Evaluation and Monitoring Each building principal is responsible to ensure that the multicultural curriculum II permeates the school environment as required by this Plan. A section on multicultural curriculum will be added to the LRSD monitoring checklist. II II II II II II n 11 fl Page 65 LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation O\u0026gt;Q13 fl 8^ 1. To provide teacher learning opportunities through formal course training. 2. To develop a districtwide multicultural audiovisual resource catalogue. 1.1 12 1.3 2.1 22 2.3 2.4 25 Contact local colleges and universities to obtain information on proposed course offerings related to ethnic studies for the summer and fall, 1991. Receive and advertise course offerings to aU certified staff, including opportunities for tuition reimbursement and/or salary credit. Identify participants in summer and faU courses. Review and catalogue present audiovisual materials related to multicultural curriculum. Purchase additional audiovisual materials from the 1988-89 budget. Identify and catalogue other resources for multicultural audiovisual materials, i.e., AR Dept of Education, LR Public Library, AR Library Commission. Revise, print and distribute multicultural audiovisual resource catalogue for the LRSD. Pbce initial supplemental order for multicultural audiovisual materials from the 1989-90 budget. FaU 1988 Spring AnnuaUy January 1989 Summer and FaU 1990 FaU 1989 FaU 1989 Spring 1989 Summer 1989 July 1989 February 1989 Ongoing April 1989 October 1990 April 1990 April 1990 May 1989 August 1989 (Pre-school conference) July 1989 Assoc Supt-Educ Programs Dean of Grad Sch Academic Deans Assoc Supt-Educ Programs Office of Human Resources Employees Supv of Media Services Supv of Media Services Supv of Media Services Supv of Media Services Media Specialists List of college offerings Copy of information provided Copy of Academic Course completion on file in Personnel Office (Office of Human Resources) Current catalogue fisting Requisition material Completed catalogue Distribution of catalogue Requisitions submitted LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Ending Date Date 3. To plan and implement the Instructional Materials Fair (Multicultural). 3.1 Involve a team of parents, community resources, and teachers in detailed planning for the Fair-specific dates, time, place and format-to be held as a component of 1988-89 pre-school conference. Fall 1988 April 1989 32 Identify national and local vendors of multicultural instructional materials. Spring 1989 April 1989 3.3 Establish pre-school conference dates and extend invitation to vendors. Spring 1989 End of May 1989 3.4 Confirm Fair participants. End of May 1989 End of June 1989 35 Acquaint principals and central office staff with plans and Fair relationship to desegregation efforts. Spring 1989 June 1989 3.6 Conduct media campaign for Fair to staff and parents. July 1989 July-August 1989 Responsibility Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Executive Staff Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Supv of Media Services Assoc Supt for Deseg and Schools Supv of Media Services, Dir of Communications Evaluation Implementation Plan Completion of mailing list Conference scheduled Confirmation Staff agenda Publicity fD 00 n 3.7 Host tri-district \"Instructional Materials Fair\". August 1989 August 1989 (Preschool Conference Assoc Supt of Educational Programs working with committee Validate Fair participation aw LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 4. To develop criteria for textbook review and adoption. 4.1 Revise Board pohcy for textbook adoption. FaU 1988 Sept 1991 Oct 1988- Dec 1991 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Approved criteria 42 Identify an ad hoc committee to review criteria presently being used in LRSD and other districts for textbook adoptions (10 members). September 1988-1991 Oct 1988- Dec 1991 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Roster of committee members 4.3 Conduct staff development training on avoiding sex and race bias and stereotyping in textbooks. July 1991 December 1991 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Schedule of meeting and agenda 4.4 Submit revised poUcy and criteria to the Board of Directors for first reading. November 1989-1991 November 1989-1991 Superintendent Assoc Supt for Ed Progs Board agenda 4.5 Adopt policy on textbooks. November 1989-1991 December 1989-1991 LRSD Board of Directors Board agenda 4.6 UtUize a local consultant to train staff on 'Avoiding Sex and Race Stereotyping in Textbooks.\" FaU 1989 December 1989 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Monitoring 4.7 Select and recommend to Board for adoption of textbooks (elementary and secondary) based on criteria for adoption. Ongoing FaU AnnuaUy Ongoing Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Board approval hO 03 OQ n 00 LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum (continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Reginning Date Ending Responsibility Evaluation 5. To develop and implement a multicultural curriculum for prekindergarten through grade 6. 5.1 Plan and host at least three (3) public meetings to receive suggestions from patrons on areas to be included in a multicultural curriculum. FaU 1988 52 Identify and retain the services of a national e:q)ert in multicultural curriculum development (lead consultant for two (2) year contract). FaU 1988 FaU 1988 5.3 In cooperation with the lead consultant, the Division of Educational Programs will issue a detailed curriculum development timeline for the year, including a checklist for task completion. FaU 1988 5.4 Develop expectations for members participating on multicultural curriculum committee. FaU 1988 5.5 Identify curriculum committee members and contract for services: Date October 1988 October 1988 October 1988 October 1988 October 1988 P3 00 rt O\\ VO 5.6 Assoc Supt for Educ Prog Assoc Supt for Desegregation Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Lead Consultant Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Lead Consultant Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Transcript of suggestions Contractual commitment for the 1988-89 school year TimeUne/ checklist Ejqjectations Identification of committee members 8 - Health/Science 5 - Music 14 - Reading/ Language Arts 3 - Art 4 - Social Studies 4 - Libraries 38 Obtain multicultural curriculum units from models used in other cities. FaU 1988 End of Oct 1988 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Copies of multicultural materials distributed to committee members LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum I continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 5. (continued) 5.7 Develop expectations for use of local resource consultant in multicultural curriculum development. FaU 1988 October 1988 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs List of expectations 5.8 Secure the services of six (6) local resource consultants to serve on the districtwide curriculum development committee. FaU 1988 October 1988 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Contract services of consultants 5.9 Conduct inservice session on \"Methods for Developing Multicultural Teaching Strategies\" to include (a) understanding the rationale, trends, and goals multicultural . curriculum, (b) developing a conceptual framework for multicultural curriculum, and (c) establishing procedures for developing a multicultural curriculum. 5.10 Conduct task completion monitoring as identified in timeline. 5.11 Operationalize the curriculum development timeline (monthly meetings with specific dates developed in cooperation with committee members). 5.12 Review and edit the comprehensive guides in each content area at each grade level. 00 o 5.13 Type and print aU guides. November 1988 Ongoing FaU 1988 Spring 1989 Summer 1989 November 1988 (first two weeks) Ongoing May 1989 June 1989 July 1989 Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Div of Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Participants written evaluation Implementation of monitoring instrument Agenda of each meeting Implementation of guides Guides completed LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum I continued) Objectives Strategies/ Activities Bpginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 5. (continued) 5.14 Conduct inservice for all elementary principals and teachers. Summer 1989 August 1989 Principals Institute and Teacher Pre-school Conference Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Agenda 5.15 Involve principals and teachers in ordering multicultural materials from local building budgets: a. Make available materials catalogues to building level principals. b. Order and acquire materials based on curriculum to be taught. 5.16 Extend inservice through scheduled district level regular elementary cluster meetings (reading, language arts, social studies, science, art, and music). 5.17 ta OQ O Host three (3) education meetings for parents of elementary children to provide an overview of the comprehensive multicultural curriculum. Summer 1989 Summer 1989 Ongoing Fall 1989 August 1989 September 1989 Ongoing 1989-90 school year End of Sept 1989 Assoc Supt for Educational Prog Elem Teachers Principals Principals Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Division of Educational Programs Acquisition of materials Program and roster of participants (hBa 0r0e KJ a a a MR MR MR LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum (continued) Objectives 6. To develop and implement a multicultural curriculum for grades 7-12. Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation i1!! 6.1 62 6.3 6.4 6 Ji Verily second year contract of national expert in multicultural curriculum. In cooperation with the lead consultant, the Division of Educational Programs will issue a detailed curriculum development timeline for the 1989-90 school year, including a checklist for bst completion. Pbn and hold at least three (3) pubhc meetings to receive suggestions from patrons in areas of multi-curriculum and programming. Develop eiqjectations for member participation on multicultural curriculum committee. Identify secondary curriculum committee members and contract for services: 4 Reading 4 Librarbns 4 Math 4 Science 12 EngUsh 12 Socbl Studies 4 Music 4 Art Spring 1989 Spring 1989 FaU 1989 Spring 1989 Summer 1989 June 1989 June 1989 September 1989 September 1989 September 1989 Div of Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Assoc Supt for Desegregation Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Assoc Supt for Desegregation Contractual commitment entered into for second year Timeline completed Suggestions received, reviewed, and considered List of eitpectations Contractual implementation for each committee member ta era ft B B 5 5 LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum (continued) Objectives 6. (continued) Phase in Multicultural and learning (social studies, music, and art). Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Obtain multicultural curriculum units from models used in other districts. Develop expectations for use of local resource consultants in multicultural curriculum development. Identify secondary social studies, music, and art committee: 1991: 1992: 1993: 19 teachers: 11 teachers: 11 teachers: 7 social studies 6 music 6 art 3 social studies 4 music 4 art 3 social studies 4 music 4 art Secure the services of eight (8) local resource consultants to serve on the districtwide curriculum development committee. 6.10 Conduct inservice session or \"Methods for Developing Multicultural Learning Strategies\" to include (a) understanding the rationale, trends, and goals of multicultural curriculum and (b) establishing procedures for developing a multicultural curriculum. Summer 1989 Summer 1989 Spring 1991 Summer 1989 FaU 1989 AnnuaUy End of Sept 1989 Sept 1989 Spring 1993 Sept 1989 Oct 1989 (first two weeks) Spring 1993 Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Supervisor of Social Studies Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Supervisor of Social Studies Secure multicultural curriculum units for committee members Develop ejqjectations Roster of committee Contract for services agreement entered into Roster of participants 03 00 o a a LRSD DESEGREGATION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE AREA: Multicultural Curriculum (continued) Objectives 6. (continued) Strategies/ Activities Beginning Date Ending Date Responsibility Evaluation 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 Conduct bst completion monitoring as identified in timeline. Operationalize the curriculum development timeline (monthly) meetings with specific dates developed in cooperation with committee members. Review and edit the comprehensive guide for each content area at each grade level (social studies, music, and art). Type and print all guides for social studies, music, and art. Conduct inservice for all secondary administrators and teachers. Involve principals and teachers in ordering multicultural materials from local building budgets: (a) Make available materials catalogues to building level principals (b) Order and acquire materials based on curriculum to be taught Monitor the use of curriculum guides. Ongoing Fall, annually Monthly Ongoing Spring Annually Annually Annually August 1990 August Annually Ongoing April 1990 Spring 1993 May 1990 Summer 1993 July 1990 1993 Aug 1990 1993 August 1990 Spring 1993 Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Supervisor of Social Studies Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Supv-Soc Studies Assoc Supt for Educ Programs Assoc Supt for Educational Programs Principals Area Supervisors Tasks completed in accordance with timeline Meetings held according to timeline Review and edit guides Guides typed and printed Monitoring of inservice Materials purchased Schedule/ Documentation \u0026gt;13 P 00 fS 9 9 B LRSD\nThis project was supported in part by a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives project grant from The Andrew W. 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Enrollment Data - It is imperative that one consistent date be used from year to year so that a valid comparison can be made. The reason that October 1 of the previous year has been chosen is that this is the actual date used by the State Department of Education for certifying enrollment of all Arkansas school districts for accreditation purposes. D. Base Year 1989-90 shall be the base year computation of cost per student in the area schools. for E. Consumer Price Index - measure of change in consumer price, determined by monthly survey of U. s. Bxireau of Labor Statistics, many pension and employment contracts are tied to changes in consumer prices. Application to doxible funding is to see that prior school year costs are increased in an amount equal to inflation. F. Spread Amount - the spread is a specific dollar amount that was established in 1989-90. This amount is the dollar figure that was required to achieve doubling of the amount per child in the area schools for that year. The amount will be a constant for al'l computation of double funding. The dollar amount is ?1,887.46. IT. Double Funding Process - 1990-91 School Year The criteria applied for determining that double funding is occurring i the incentive schools of the Little Rock School District shall be as follows: (1) The comparison will be made to the area schools, of Little Rock School District that were operating in the 1989-90 school year on a per student expenditure basis (instructional expenditure). (2) For the 1990-91 school year, the amount of expenditure per child that is to be doubled is computed by taking the October 1, 1989 (10,752) enrollment of each area school of LRSD. The next step is to compute the actual expenditure for the 1939-90 school year in each area school. After computation of expenses (instruc- tional related) for each area school, these schools will have expenditures totaled and divided by total enrollment. expenditure. The process will yield a per pupil06Z01Z 92 16:34 301 324 2032 L R School Dlst ODM @004'006 Double Funding Page 3 The next step is to compute the inflationary adjustment to the prior year instructional related costs per child in the area schools by application of the Consumer Price Index. After this computation, the inflationary adjustment (dollar amount) will be added to the prior year ..area selyol eycenditure. The total will then be added to the spread amount that was computed in the 1989-90 Base Year computation. The total will be the required expenditure per child that doubled. is to be The next step is to take this dollar amount and double it, then the doubled amount is multiplied by the October 1 child count of the preceding school year. (3) Example of process for 1990-91\nOctober 1, 1989 enrollment - area schools - 10,752 Total expenditure 1989-90 school year area schools $20,293,917.95. $20,293,917.95 10,752 = $1,887.46 $1,887.46 X 6% = $113.25 Inflationairy Adjustment Consumer Price Index - July 1, 1989 July 1, 1990 124.4 130.4 6% increase through this time period. $1,887,46 amoxint per child in area school - 1989-90 -rS113.25 Inflationary Adjustment $2,000.71 Total amount required to be doubled. $2,000.71 X 2 = $4,001.42 The $4001.42 amount is then multiplied by the October 1, 1989 child count in the incentive school. October 1, 1989 - 1,461 students06/01/92 16: 33 301 324 2032 L R School Dlst ODM 0003/006 Double Funding Page 4 $4,001.42 X 1,461 = $5,846,074.62 minimum amount that must be expended for double funding for 1990-91 school year. The actual expenditure in the incentive schools for the 1990-91 school year was $6,833,005.68 - please see attached packet for year ended June 30, 1991. 4. Example of process for 1991-92 October 1, 1990 enrollment - incentive schools 1,366 1939-90 Base Year Spread = $1,887.46 1990-91 expenditure per/punil in the area schools - $2,249.24 Consumer Price Index adjustment from July 1, 1990 to July 1, 1991 equal 5.8% July 1, 1990 = 130.4 July 1, 1991 = 136.2 5.8% increase The computation is as follows: $2,249.24 exp. per child 90-91 in the area schools $ x5.8% C.P.I. adjustment factor 130.46 inflationary adjustment dollar amount $2,249.24 4-S130.46 $2,379.70 Total $2,379.70 +1_,_887_.46 spread amount from 1989-90 Base Year $4,267.16 amount per pupil $4,267.16 xl,366 (Oct. 1, 1990 child count) $5,828,940.56 minimum amount that must ise expended for double funding. The actual budgeted expenditure in the incentive schools for the *$3,223,093.15. 1991-92 school year is * Note this amoun\" must be corrected to revision of budget or to actual year end expenditure 6-30-92 in the incentive schools.08/01/92 16:33 501 324 2032 L R School Dlst ODM @006-006 Double Funding Page 5 5. Example of process for 1992-93 October 1, 1991 enrollment - Incentive Schools 2,235 1989-90 Base Year spread = $1,887.46 1991-92 expenditure per pupil in the area schools = $2,449.08 Consmer Price Index adjustment from July 1, 1991 to July 1, 1992 equals 6% (this is estimate since July 1992 Consumer Price Index figures are not yet available). July 1, 1991 136.2 July 1, 1992 The computation is as follows\n$2,449.08 exp. per child 1991-92 in the area schools $ x6% CPI adjusted factor 146.84 inflationary adjusted dollar amount $2,449.08 4-146.94 $2,596.02 Total $2,596.02 $1.887.46 spread amount from 198990 base year $4,483.48 Amount per pupil $4,433.48 child 1, X 2,235 (Oct. 1991 child count) $10,020,577.80 minimum amount that must be expended for double funding08/01/92 16:32 301 324 2032 L R School Dlst 0D5I @001/006 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 W. MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, AR 72201 FAX (501} 324- 2032' DA7c TO FROM L\u0026gt;u-. !/ . S SENDERS ONE # SUSJECT (uieJu^g Ij .Vuw, *a ro?. DATA PXOCSSSJ.KC CeTJCE VS O.\\LY TrizrzK-.^.Cii Sy Dz\nt : J ff OFMCE OF DESEGREGATION MONITORING 201 EAST MARKHAM, SUITE 510 HERITAGE WEST BUILDING LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 MEMORANDUM TO: Jim Ivey and Bobby AckEn FROM: SUBJECT: Connie Hickman, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith Summer school transportation DATE: June 11, 1992 Pursuant to our phone conversation of June 11,1992 we reviewed the settlement plans for information regarding summer school transportation. The Interdistrict Plan does make reference to transportation as follows: \"Students shall be provided transportation in order to attend their assigned schools (including its programs and activities).\" (Page 5) \"Cooperative planning for summer school with the Pulaski County school districts will be conducted each year. Students in the three districts will be better served if the districts coordinate the program....transportation.\" (Page 14) following aspects of the summer school \"All students will be accorded equal opportunity to participate in all academic and extra-curricular program[s] and services in the districts. All students.....will have equitable access to...programs, school, and district activities r (Page 23) Summer school is a critical component of the plans in that it is a means to improve academic performance and serves as an alternative to retention. Based on the language in the plan, it is our interpretation that the districts should provide transportation to summer school students, including M-to-M students.1 flue RECEIVE o2 Rf QO CENTRAL HIGH NEIGHBORHOOD ---------r INC.T-------------- JUN 1 5 (992 Office of Desegrecslion f,fon,'!oring 0 D ~We've Got Heritage? June 12, 1992 To: From: Little Rock Board of Directors Central High Neighborhood Association, Inc. Subject: Sale of the City Park at 9th and Pulaski Streets to the Little Rock School District for use as a site for the Martin Luther King Elementary School. We urge you to sell the park site at 9th and Pulaski Streets to the Little Rock School District for use as a site for the new Martin Luther King School which is mandated under the school desegragation plan. Both the preservation of the West Side Junior High School building and the development of a neighborhood elementary school are important to the stabilization of our neighborhood. If the LRSD acquires the block of land between Pulaski and MLK Blvd. and builds the school fronting on MLK Blvd, as they propose to do, it would be highly visible from 1-630 and in close proximity to Children's Hospital. This would facilitate attracting white students from suburban neighborhoods. Removal of structures in the block west of the park which at present create an eyesore would enhance the neighborhood aesthetically, increase property values and address the goal of the city to reduce crime by reducing blight. Children's Hospital has reaffirmed their desire to purchase the West Side Junior High School, As a corporate neighbor they have indicated a commitment to restoring the building and developing the property in a way that would enhance the neighborhood and increase prooerty values If the Little Rock School District can acquire the park site at 9th and Pulaski. Streets plus the block of property west of the park and build the new inter-district school there and if Children's Hospital can purchase and renovate the West Side Junior High School, we feel the needs of the city, the neighborhood, the school district and 0Little Rock Board of Directors, page 2 and Children's Hospital can be met. This could create a win-win compromise which would encourage families already living there to stay in the nieghborhood and would help to attract other stable families to move into the neighborhood. Again, we urge that the city sell the part site at 9th and Pulaski Streets to the Little Rock School District. cc: Dr. Mac Bernd Dr. Ruth Steele George Cannon Patricia Gee Willie D. Hamilton Dorsey Jackson 0. G. Jacovelli Katherine P. Mitchell John Moore Judge Wright Tom Dalton Dr. Randall O'Donnel Scott GordonTO: FROM: SUBJECT: The SLIP SHEET FOR REGULAR BOARD MEETING ON JUNE 25, 1992 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS June 15, 1992 Board of Directors 8 51 Oj'ics C! Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent of Schools 1592 RECOMMENDATIONS FROM NEW FUTURES FOR LITTLE ROCK YOUTH HEALTH PLANNING COMMITTEE purpose of this report is to transmit to you .the recommendations of the New Futures for Little Rock Youth Health 7 Planning Committee. II lit \u0026lt; 0 uJN 1 0 Ms. Nancy Kirsch, Chaiirman of the Committee, will be available at the Board meeting to answer any questions you may have.NEW FUTURES FOR LITTLE ROCK YOUTH ADOLESCENT HEALTH PLANNING COMMITTEE OBJECTIVES FOR IMPROVED SCHOOL HEALTH The Little Rock School District has over the past several years demonstrated its recognition of the importance of good health services for students through the placement of full time nurses at most incentive and magnet schools, and through its work with the Arkansas Department of Health in establishing two school based clinics. commended. The actions taken by the District are to be The Adolescent Health Planning Committee of New Futures for Little Rock Youth wishes to recommend the following objectives be pursued jointly by the committee and the LRSD as a way of further enhancing the health of all students: 1. Form Health Committees at each of the target junior high schools. The focus of the committees will be to emphasize \"Healthy Students Perform Better Academically, emphasized. tl All aspects of health will be This will be done through wellness assemblies, health fairs, health weeks, PTA presentations, and health career awareness days, school will be surveyed to determine the health Each concerns/problems of their students. This information will give the Health Committees a data base from which to operate and assist in determining their activities. The membership of the committees will consist of students, teachers, and parents and will be headed by the school nurse. 2. Have school nurses formally involved in the family life education components at the target junior high schools. Nurses have been prepared to be involved through classroom presentations and by working individually and in small groups with students. 3 . Prepare the nurses at the target junior high schools and adjacent elementary schools to do EPSDT screenings. Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) portion of the Medicaid program offers school nurses the opportunity to offer to students health The screenings to identify a wide range of health problems. Medicaid reimbursement can be received for screenings and follow-up treatment for eligible students. The Arkansas Department of Health provided training for the nurses. The cost of equipping the health rooms to do the screenings will be paid by New Futures, work is needed to: Additional5. b. c. Identify and train personnel to assist with the Medicaid billing procedures. Establish the necessary billing procedures with the state Medicaid office. Develop a system to determine the Medicaid eligibility of the LRSD students. Money collected from the screenings should be used to expand health services. NOTE: The Division of Exceptional Children is currently doing its own medicaid billing. Pupil services may also be able to do or assist with the billing for services provided by the nurses. Institute the Voluntary Physicians Program. Community physicians have indicated a willingness to provide free health care in school health rooms. This program would begin in those elementary schools which currently have no other special health initiatives. the principals of those schools have been informally surveyed and have indicated enthusiastic support for the additional health services. Expand the number of school-based health clinics in LRSD high schools and iunior high schools. Currently, Central High School is the only full service, school based clinic in the LRSD. Forest Heights Junior High has expanded health services with a full-time school nurse (LRSD, ADH), a part-time physician (ADH), a part- time social worker (ADH), and a nutritionist (ADH) available. McClellan High School has acquired a full- time school nurse (LRSD) and is working with the Community School Health Committee to open a full service clinic by Fall, 1992. 4. a. Clinic utilization over the past several years has uncovered serious physical and mental health problems which impeded students' academic performance. We believe that school-based clinics offer many students their only access to regular medical care and should be expanded through the joint efforts of both the public and private medical community and the LRSD. 6. Develop and adopt a Board policy which states the mission, philosophy, and goals for school health and which emphasizes the relationship between academic performance and good health. Currently, the health services staff have developed a mission statement, philosophy, and goals. These may be useful for the Board to review in developing a Board policy. A public policy statement by the Board will, in the opinion of the Committee, help generate additional health resources and volunteer support from the health community.TO: FROM: SUBJECT: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS June 18, 1992 Board of Directors JUN 1 6 1992 Oitice o! Dosogrega-iX-n Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent of Schools APPOINTMENT OF EX OFFICIO FINANCIAL SECRETARY .lOnitCI ifiQ Because the current Ex Officio Financial Secretary will leave the District on June 30, 1992, appointed to begin seirving on July 1, 1992. it is necessary to have a successor Bernd concurs, I recommend, and Dr. that the Board approve the appointment of Mark Milhollen as the District's Interim Ex Officio Financial Secretary effective July 1, 1992. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET RECEIVED TO: FROM: THROUGH: SUBJECT: LITTLE ROCK, AR June 18, 1992 Board of Directors 72201 JUN I 9 1992 Office of Desegregation Monitoring Ivey, Manager of Support Services Tony Wood, Deputy Superintendent'. Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent (JIT/ Proposed Budget for Annual School Election Ark. Code Ann. 6-13-622 (1951) states \"The requirement of Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 40, for publication of the budget shall be discharged by the board of directors of each school district by publication of its budget one (1) time...not less than sixty (60) days before the annual school election.\" It is recommended that the Board of Directors approve the proposed budget of expenditures for 1993-94 as attached. c:\\memos\\elecbud.updPROPOSED BUDGET OF EXPENDITURES WITH TAX LEVY FOR FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1993, TO AND INCLUDING JUNE 30, 1994 The Board of Directors of the Little Rock School District No. 60-01 of Pulaski County, Arkansas in compliance with the requirements of Act 403 of 1951, as amended by Act 117 of 1979 and Amendment 40 to the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, has prepared, approved, and does hereby make public a proposed budget of expenditures for the District in 1993-94 together with a supporting tax rate as follows: Salaries \u0026amp; Fringe Benefits Purchased Services, Supplies, Capital Outlay Debt Service $ 82,967,545 25,252,071 9,090,123 To provide for the foregoing proposed budget of expenditures, the Board of Directors proposes a total tax levy of 43.9 mills. This total tax levy includes 34 mills for the maintenance and operation of schools and 9.9 mills for debt service previously voted as a continuing levy pledged for the retirement of existing bonded indebtedness. Surplus revenues produced each year by debt service millage may be used by the District for other purposes. Given this 18th day of June, 1992. Little Rock School District No. 60-01 of Pulaski County 0. G. Jacovelli, President Patricia Gee, SecretaryJ LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS RECEIVED JUN 1 9 1992 TO: June 18, 1992 Board of Directors Office of Desegregation Monitoring FROM: SUBJECT: Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent of Schools APPROVAL OF LAND SALE AT HENDERSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL I am attaching a memorandum from Jim Ivey in which he recommends that approximately eight (8) acres of land at Henderson Junior High School be sold to the City of Little Rock for $45,000. I recommend that the Board approve the sale of approximately 8.05 acres at Henderson Junior High School for $45,000 and that the proceeds from the sale be invested in the land and grounds at Henderson Junior High School in cooperation with the City Parks and Recreation Department to improve the soccer fields, basketball court, and parking area of the school. \u0026gt; TO: THROUGH: FROM: SUB J: DATE: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT PLANT SERVICES 3601 SOUTH BRYANT STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS (501) 570-4020 Dr. Ruth Steele, Superintendent 72204 Jim Ivey, Manager, Support Services?^ Doug C. Eaton, Director, Plant Service'^^^C Land Sale - Henderson Junior High School June 16, 1992 The City of Little Rock, by letter dated 15 June, has offered the Little Rock School District $45,000 for approximately eight (8) acres of Henderson School property, which presently has been condemned for the widening of Fourche Creek. A purchase price of $74,000 readjusted to $28,000 was offered the Little Rock School District for this property last year. offer was made of $45,000, but never received Board approval. Instead, Mr. Tom Ferstl, acting on behalf of the Little Rock School District, and Mr. Tom Meeks, from Friday Law Firm, into litigation. made of $45,000, but Ferstl, on behalf of District, and Mr. Meeks, rejected the offer, thereby throwing the case whereby the City condemned the property for its project. A third Bunton, Director of the City I have been working with Mr. Bill Parks and Recreation Department, on a project to invest both City and School District money into the Henderson soccer and football fields. Bv Mr. Bunton's letter of May 7th, he indicates that By approximately $90,000 is available for investment into the Henderson soccer fields, and, he asks that we contribute to this project. I have contacted Mr. Tom Ferstl, and by his letter of 16 June have ascertained that the $45,000 offered for the property may not be the very best price we could receive, but it is well within the range of land values and can L_ reasonable. is I be considered As a result of these actions to date, I recommend that the Little Rock School District Board of Education accept the offer from the City of Little Rock of $45,000 for the 8.05 acres Henderson Junior High School. of property at I further recommend that $45,000 and re-invest it Plant Services be allowed to take that Junior High Department to parking area in cooperation improve the at the into the land and grounds at Henderson with the City Parks and soccer fields, basketball junior high chool. I feel that Recreation court, and this expenditure on the part of the and the City Parks Department time when we are making Little Rock School District _ --- gh a magnet school would go far in stronger youth program in that section Henderson Junior attracting students and a of the city. at a school It is requested that this Education at your earliest convenience. It is action be placed before the Board ofSLIP SHEET FOR REGULAR MEETING ON JUNE 25, 1992 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRIC 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS June 25, 1992 3 C' Offics of Desegrsgstion Monitonng TO: Board of Directors FROM: THROUGH: SUBJECT: Estelle Matthis, Associate Superintendent for Educational Programs Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent of Schools Program Application, Chapter 1 of Public Law 100-297 The ESEA Chapter 1 Application is being prepared for submission to the Arkansas Department of Education by the June 30, 1992, due date. Please fine attached a copy of the Program Abstract. When completed, copies of the Application will be provided for your review. The 1992-93 allocation is $4,376,161, which is based on a total of 10,164 eligible students. This represents an increase in funding in the amount of $1,001,279. The additional funds will be used to provide added services to our secondary students. The largest portion of Chapter 1 money will be utilized for paying the salaries for reading and mathematics teachers. We are continuing to work toward the completion of the Chapter 1 Application. It is recommended that you authorize the administration to submit the 1992-93 Chapter 1 Application to the Arkansas Department of Education.CHAPTER 1 APPLICATION FOR 1992-93 SCHOOL YEAR PROGRAM ABSTRACT The purpose of assistance under the Chapter 1 Program is to improve the educational opportunities of educationally-deprived children by helping such children succeed in the regular program of the local educational agency, attain grade-level proficiency, and improve achievement in basic and more advanced skills. These purposes shall be accomplished through such means as supplemental education programs, schoolwide programs, extended day/week, and the increased involvement of parents in their childrens education. Based on the annual needs assessment, which included a program survey, it was determined that our program should be expanded to the secondary level and provide remedial services in the areas of reading and mathematics. To this end, the greater portion of the program budget will be earmarked for paying the salaries for reading and mathematics teachers. While the major part of the budget will cover these personnel, other authorized activities include the following:  Acquisition of equipment and instructional materials Employment of special instructional personnel, school counselors, and other pupil services personnel  Extended day/extended week tutorial services Parental involvement activities A major change in Chapter 1 regulations in recent years is the increased emphasis on allocation of resources and the selection of students for the program. Chapter 1 guidelines specify that districts must utilize uniform criteria for selecting and serving students of greatest need. Utilizing the normal curve equivalent scores (NCEs) for each student, we are able to identify appropriate students to be served in a manner that is comparable from school to school. The process used to identify students to be served for the 1992-93 school year will allow the Little Rock School District to be in compliance with Chapter 1 guidelines. This Program Abstract should provide you a summary of the 1992-93 Chapter 1 Application. The Application will be forwarded to you for your review in the very near future.SLIP SHEET TO REGULAR BOARD MEETING JUNE 25, 1992 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 9 5PWn 1 U JUNE 25, 1992 JUN 1 9 1992 To: Board of Directors Office of Desegregation Monitoring From: 'tony Wood, Deputy Superintendent Through: Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent Subject: Recommendations Concerning Classified Staff Reemployment for 1992-93 School Year I recommend the approval of the following non-renewals and terminations: NAME POSITION SCHOOL Aides Dealer, Henry Supervision Aide Washi ngton Geter, Romunda Instructional Aide Rockefeller Securi ty Fells, Jackie Security Officer Central Mai ntenance Craig, Freddie Pl umber Mai ntenance Bus Drivers Nelson, Daivona Bus Driver Transportation Tate, Sammie Bus Driver Transportation Wi11i ams, Mary Bus Driver Transportation All employees who have been recommended for termination and non-renewal may have additional grievance rights which have not been exhausted. Pending the outcome of the grievances the employees may be recommended for reelection or seek individual hearings before the Board to determine their employment status for the 1992-93 school year. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS July 1, 1992 TO: FROM: Boaj3^ of Directors C. mT'Bernd, Superintendent of Schools - !' r\n4 9 1992 OtiicQ 0$ DeseafSy^'*' Moniicring 2 M SUBJECT: EMPLOYMENT OF NEW ADMINISTRATORS I recommend that the Board approve the employment of the following individuals: Janet L. Bernard as Associate Superintendent of School Operations and Climate, effective August 1, 1992, $68,900 plus car allowance of $1200 per year\nat an annual salary of Marie Parker as Associate Superintendent for Organizational and Learning Equity, effective July 27, 1992, at an annual salary of $65,000 plus car allowance of $1200 per year. Estelle Matthis as Associate Superintendent for Educational Programs and Learning Improvement, at an annual salary of $65,000 plus car allowance of $1200 per year. I am attaching biographical information on Ms. Parker. Bernard and Ms. In addition. I am recommending that the Board appoint Earl M. (Chip) Jones as Interim Manager of Support Services at an annual salary equivalent to $60,000, prorated for the number of days he serves in this position. 1, 1992. Mr. Jones' appointment is effective JulyLITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS July 1, 1992 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JANET L. BERNARD Education San Diego State University Master of Arts, Multicultural Education, 1979 San Diego, CA Bachelor of Arts, and Music, 1975 Social Science, Experience 1988 Present School Principal San Marcos Unified School District 1985 1988 School Principal South Bay Union School District 1984 1985 Curriculum and Instructional Specialist Carlsbad Unified School District 1982 1984 Administrative Intern, Coordinator Carlsbad Unified School District Proj ects 1981 1981 Lead Teacher, Chapter 1 Reading Teacher Carlsbad Unified School District 1976 1979 Kindergarten/First/Second Grade Teacher Carlsbad Unified School DistrictLITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS July 1, 1992 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MARIE ANTOINETTE PARKER Education University of Central Arkansas Administration and Supervision Elementary Principal's Certification August, 1982 Conway, Arkansas Ouachita Baptist University Master of Science Reading Education August, 1977 Arkadelphia, Arkansas Sacramento City Unified School Dist. 63 Hours - Education Related Subjects 1970-74 Sacramento, CA A. M. \u0026amp; N College (Now UAPB) Bachelor of Science Elementary Education 1963 Pine Bluff, Arkansas Experience 1984 Present Ark. Department of Education Associate Director-Planning and Development Program Manager 1982 1984 Principal and Vice Principal Okmulgee School District Okmulgee, Oklahoma 1980 1982 Tutorial Supervisor, Reading Teacher, and PET Instructor/Observer Helena-West Helena School Helena, Arkansas 1978 1980 District Representative for METRA Educational Planning and Evaluation Services, Magnolia, Arkansas1975 1978 Assistance Director Arkansas Technical Assistance and Consultative Services (ATAC) 1974 1975 Reading Teacher Service Trainer and Special In- 1970 1974 1963 1970 Lakeside School District Lake Village, Arkansas Teacher and Special Services Sacramento City Unified School District Sacramento, California Classroom Teacher Lakeside School District Lake Village, ArkansasFOR SPECIAL MEETING FOLLOWING BOARD COMMITTEE MEETING hk: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 'K July 16, 1992 TO\nBoard of Directors 1792 JUl 1 FROM: SUBJECT: Mac Bernd, Superintendent of Schools ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FOR NEW KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL We are required by the desegregation plan to construct a new King School on the 1-630 corridor. The Federal District Court has approved the site at Ninth and Pulaski for the construction of the school. The District must acquire the property in the block bounded by Ninth Street, Martin Luther King Drive, Tenth Street, and the Ninth Street Park. We have obtained appraisals on the property that we need to acquire. I am recommending that the Board (1) act to declare the necessity to acquire the property within the boundary of Ninth Street, Martin Luther King Drive, Tenth Street and the Ninth Street Park\nand (2) to authorize and direct the administration to proceed to acquire the privately owned property within the said boundary by purchase or, if necessary, condemnation. It will also be necessary to enter into lease agreements with the City and the State for some property outside the above described boundary, but these leases will be submitted to you at a later date for your approval.jlS28/92 . 16:59 501 324 2032 L R School Dlst @002 Little Rock School District August 28, 1992 Mrs. Ann Brown, Monitor Office of Desegregation Monitoring 201 East Markham Street Suite 510 Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Ann: Mrs. Kumpuris spoke with Mrs. Gulden this afternoon on my behalf concerning a situation and a proposed resolution. This letter is to ask your ratification of our solution. A white student by the name of Jasmine Elizabeth Cassel lives in the Little Rock School District at 3701 Boyd Street, which is in the Southwest Junior High School attendance zone. This address is a racially mixed neighborhood and the student lives on a street where a number of black students attend Fuller Jr. High in the Pulaski County Special School District on an M to M transfer. By mistake, Jasmine was enrolled in Fuller Jr. High and was accepted The residency error was discovered and the into the TAG program. parents were informed that the child, because she is white, could not be released from LRSD to a PCSSD school. student was extremely disappointed and upset, friend is black and attends Fuller Jr. High. Needless to say, the Jasmine's best Our office has conferred with Mr. Bobby Lester of the PCSSD, and we feel that we could resolve this matter on a win-win basis by assigning a willing Fuller Jr. High white student to the LRSD in exchange for Jasmine enrolling at Fuller, the racial balance of either district. This would not affect Mrs. Gulden and Ms. Powell conferred and gave our office verbal approval to assign Jasmine to Fuller. sensitivity to the plight of this young lady. I appreciate their Sincerely, Mac Bernd Superintendent of Schools cc: Mr. Bobby Lester Ms. Marie Parker Ms. Melissa Gulden APPROVED: Ann Brown, 16:59 Q501 324 2032 L R School Dlst @1002 Little Rock School District August 28, 1992 Mrs. Ann Brown, Monitor Office of Desegregation Monitoring 201 East Markham Street Suite 510 Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Ann: Mrs. Kumpuris spoke with Mrs. Gulden this afternoon on my behalf concerning a situation and a proposed resolution. This letter is to ask your ratification of our solution. A white student by the name of Jasmine Elizabeth Cassel lives in Lttle Rock School District at 3701 Boyd Street, which is in the Southwest Junior High School attendance zone. This address is a racially mixed neighborhood and the student lives on a street where a number of black students attend Fuller Jr. High in the Pulaski County Special School District on an M to K transfer. By mistake, Jasmine was enrolled in Fuller Jr. High and was accepted into the TAG program. The residency error was discovered and the parents were informed that the child, because she is white, could not be released from LRSD to a PCSSD school. student was extremely disappointed and upset. Jriend is black and attends Fuller Jr. High. Needless to say, the Jasmine's best t. i 1C Our office has conferred with Mr. Bobby Lester of the PCSSD, and we feel that we could resolve this matter on a win-win basis by assigning a willing Fuller Jr. High white student to the LRSD in Gxchang for Jasmine enrolling at Fuller. This would not affect the racial balance of either district. Mrs. Gulden and Ms. Powell conferred and gave our office verbal approval to assign Jasmine to Fuller. sensitivity to the plight of this young lady. I appreciate their Mac Bernd Superintendent of Schools cc: Mr. Bobby Lester Ms. Marie Parker Ms. Melissa Gulden APPROVED\nAnn Brown 810 West Markham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)324-2000 )(t )K :lt )K * )K * P.Ol TRANSACTION REPORT AUG-28-92 FRI 16:49 DATE START SENDER RX TINE PAGES TYPE NOTE AUG-28 16:47 501 324 2032 t 2' 06'' 2 RECEIVE OK X )(( )K  )K )t: * :K- '08-*^/92 16:58 '501 324 2032 I. R School Dlst  001 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DlSTRiC 1 810 V'/. MARKHAM Si REE! LITTLE ROCK. AR /2201 FAX (5Q1) 324 - 2032 I X TO 2^4 77\nER'S ? cr-qi ! 1 ^^^.VZsZi FRIDAY, ELDREDGE * CLARK HERSCHEL H. FRIDAY. P.A. ROBERT V. LIGHT. P.A. WILLIAM H. SUTTON. P.A. JAMES W. MOORE BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR., P,. JOE 0. BELL. P.A. MICHAEL G. THOMPSON, P.J JOHN C. ECHOLS. P.A. JAMES A. BUTTRY, P.A. PREOERiCK S. URSERY. P.A. A PARTNERSHIP OF INDIVIDUALS ANO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS ATTORNEYS AT LAW 2000 FIRST COMMERCIAL BUILDING 400 WEST CAPITOL H.T. LARZELERE. OSCAR E. 0AVI8. iR JAMES C. CLARK, JR., R.A. THOMAS P. LEGGETT. P.A. JOHM OEWEV WATSON, P.A. PAUL B. BENHAM UI. P.A. LARRY W. BURKS.P.A. A. WYCKLIFF NISBET. JR.. P.A. JAMES EOWARO HARRIS, P.A. J. PHILLIP MALCOM. P.A. JAMES M. SIMPSON. P.A. MCREOITH P. CATLETT. P.A, JAMES M. SAXTON, P.A. J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III DONALD H. BACON. P.A. WILLIAM THOMAS BAXTER. P.A. WALTER A. UL3ON It, R.A. BARRY . COPLIN. P.A. RICHARD 0. TAYLOR. P.A. JOSEPH B. HURST. JR.. P.A. ELIZABETH J. ROBBEN, P.A, CHRISTOPHER HELLER. P.A. LAURA HENSLEY SMITH. P.A. ROBERT S. SHAPER. P.A. WILLIAM M. GRIPPIN III. P.A. THOMAS N. ROSE. P.A. MICHAEL $. MOORE LITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS 72201-3483 TELEPHONE S01*376-2011 FAX NO. 5O1-37S-2147 January 16, 1992 A W 1 SEP 1 5 1992 Ofiics cr Ds: rec n OIANC S. MACKEY. R A WALTER M. EBEL UI. R KEVIN A. WILLIAM CLYDE '1 .CRASS \u0026lt; A. WAOOELL. tab- TURNER R CALVIN J. HALL. P.A SCOTT J. LANCASTER JERRY L. MALONE. P.A. M. GAYLE CORLEY. P.A ROBERT B. BEACH. JR.. P a S. RANDOLPH LOONEY J. LEE BROWN JAMES C. BAKER. JR. H. CHARLES G8CHWEN0. JR HARRY A. LICHT SCOTT H. TUCKER JOHN CLAYTON RANDOLPH our ALTON WADE PRICE C. GARDNER THOMAS P. MEEKS J. MICHAEL PICKENS TONIA P. JONES DAVID 0. WILSON JEPPREY H..MOORE T. WESLEY HOLMES ANDREW T , TURNER SARAH J. HCPPLEY JOHN RAY WHITE eOUMBBl WILLIAM J. SMITH WILLIAM A. ELDREDGE. JR . P A B.S. CLARK WILLIAM L. TERRY WILLIAM L. PATTON. JR.. P A viraa oircct no. 1501) 370-1506 Dr. Ruth Steele Superintendent Little Rock School District 810 West Markham Little Rock, AR 72201 Re: Joshua Intervenors Monitoring of Desegregation Plan Implementation Dear Dr. Steele: I am writing in response to your request for an opinion concerning the nature and scope of any authority the Joshua Intervenors may have to place monitors in LRSD classrooms to monitor implementation by LRSD of its desegregation plan. Nothing or Interdistrict Desegregation Plans requires authorizes the Joshua Intervenors to monitor implementation of the plans. The Settlement Agreement requires the Arkansas Department of Education to monitor the implementation of compensatory education programs by the Districts, but does not require or in the LRSD or authorize the Joshua Intervenors to but does not require monitor the districts' implementation of their desegregation plans. The December 12, 1990 Decision of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals established Office of Desegregation Monitoring, but did not require authorize monitoring by the Joshua Intervenors. Finally, there does not appear to exist any inherent legal right of a party to monitor implementation of a consent decree, especially in a case where the court has established a monitoring system. an or This is not to say that the parties to the Settlement Agreement did not intend for the Joshua Intervenors to have a role in the implementation of the settlement plans. __ do not specifically authorize the establishment of Although the plans a Joshua monitoring team, LRSD told the Eighth Circuit Court of appeals in June, 1990 that the size of the Joshua fee award was partly June,attributable to the fact that Joshua would be required to continue to work on the implementation of the desegregation plans and would not seek additional fees for that work. The Joshua monitoring team was introduced to the Court of Appeals in September, 1991, and no party objected to Joshua monitoring at that time. The original \"Monitoring and Evaluation\" section of the LRSD plan required that the LRSD Evaluation and Testing Department share its monitoring reports with the Joshua Intervenors. The parties have proposed somewhat different language, however, in the May 1, 1991 revision of the plan. Similarly, although monitoring of Incentive Schools is required to be done by LRSD personnel and Biracial Committee members, any proposed change in the monitoring instrument must be submitted to the Joshua Intervenors. The LRSD plan also requires that a consultant monitor review the monitoring reports of the districts, visit LRSD schools at least quarterly, and report findings and conclusions concerning desegregation implementation to the court on a quarterly basis. This information would be available to the Joshua Intervenors as well as the other parties. As a practical matter, the job of consultant/monitor is now being done by the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. The Interdistrict Plan contains a section on monitoring which requires the districts \"to carry out their respective monitoring responsibilities as provided in their existing and proposed plans\" and to make quarterly reports to the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. The Interdistrict Plan also requires that \"the parties\", which would include Joshua, conduct an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of each district's implementation of the desegregation plans. In order to do this, the Interdistrict Plan says that \"the parties' monitors will be provided reasonable access to records and facilities, provided that requests for access are not disruptive, unreasonable or intrusive.\" In summary, the Joshua Intervenors are clearly entitled to receive the regular written monitoring reports of the Arkansas Department of Education as well as any monitoring reports produced by the three school districts or the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. The Joshua Intervenors are also entitled to appoint members to one of the entities involved in monitoring LRSD's implementation of its desegregation plan. Committee. the LRSD Biracial Finally, the Joshua Intervenors are authorized to participate in an annual determination of the effectiveness of each district's implementation of the desegregation plans. The settlement plans and the settlement agreement contain no requirement or authorization for the Joshua Intervenors to compose an independent monitoring team with unrestricted access to LRSD schools. Any request by the Joshua Intervenors for \"reasonable access\" to LRSD records and facilities should be granted only if it will not be \"disruptive, unreasonable or intrusive.\" Unless Joshua can demonstrate to the court that the monitoring required by the desegregation plans and by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which must be done by the districts themselves, the LRSD Biracialr Committee, the Arkansas Department of Education and the Office of Desegregation Monitoring is inadequate, I do not believe that the district court would require the districts to allow unrestricted independent monitoring Intervenors. on school premises by the Joshua Yout! t: y Christophev Heller CJH/kOffice of Desegregation Monitoring United States District Court  Eastern District of Arkansas Ann S. Brown, Federal Monitor 201 East Markham, Suite 510 Heritage West Building Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (501)376-6200 Fax (501) 371-0100 To\nJames Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation Incentive School Principals From: ODM Monitors: Ann Brown, Melissa Guldin, Gonnie Hickman, Bob Morgan, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith Subject: Review of the Incentive School Monitoring Guides Date: May 29, 1992 I Attached you will find your advance copies of the Incentive School Monitoring Guides. These are being provided to allow you to review the information, alert our office if an error exists, and incorporate corrections. As you review the document, remember that the Guides reflect the situation that existed at each school at the time of our initial visit. Updates have been included at the end of each report. This updated information reflects our communications with you during the entire school year. Any corrections must be submitted in writing to our office no later than 5:00 p.m. Monday, June 1, 1992. If no corrections are needed, you may retain your copies of the documents. , Reports which have been changed will be reprinted and the corrected version furnished to you by Friday, June 5, 1992. We look forward to your reactions. Please remember that the deadline for changes is 5:00 p.m. Monday.OFFICE OF DESEGREGATION MONITORING 201 EAST MARKHAM, SUITE 510 HERITAGE WEST BUILDING LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 To: From: Mark MiUiollen, Controller Little Rock School District i^^4oUy Ramer, Office Manager nn S. Brown, Federal Monitor Subject: Payroll Reimbursement Date: May 5, 1992 LRSD has paid $263, 513.03 from July 1, 1991 through March 31, 1992 for ODM payroll. As previously arranged, LRSDs share of the ODM budget (which is $169,728.15) would be deducted from ODMs payroll reimbursements. Using those calculations, as of March 31, 1992 ODM owes LRSD $93,784.88 for payroll reimbursement over and above the budget payment. A check for that amount is enclosed. Hereafter, LRSD will be reimbursed for ODM payroll on a monthly basis as the Financial Activity Reports are received. If you have any questions, please call. OrnCE OF DESEGREGATION MONITORING 201 EAST MARKHAM, SUITE 510 HERITAGE WEST BUILDING LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 MEMORANDUM TO: Jim Ivey and Bobby Acklin FROM: Connie Hickman, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith SUBJECT: Summer school transportation DATE: June 11, 1992 Pursuant to our phone conversation of June 11,1992 we reviewed the settlement plans for information regarding summer school transportation. The Interdistrict Plan does make reference to transportation as follows: \"Students shall be provided transportation in order to attend their assigned schools (including its programs and activities).\" (Page 5) \"Cooperative planning for summer school with the Pulaski County school districts will be conducted each year. Students in the three districts will be better served if the districts coordinate program....transportation.\" (Page 14) the following aspects of the summer school \"All students will be accorded equal opportunity to participate in all academic and extra-curricular program[s] and services in the districts. All students .will have equitable access to...programs, school, and district activities (Page 23) Summer school is a critical component of the plans in that it is a means to improve academic performance and serves as an alternative to retention. Based on the language in the plan, it is our interpretation that the districts should provide transportation to summer school students, including M-to-M students.OFFICE OF DESEGREGATION MONITORING 201 East Markham, Suite 510 Heritage West Building Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 DATE: July 22, 1992 TO: FRO Mac Bernd, Chris HeUer, Alston Jennings, Steve Jones, Richard Roachell, and John Walker Brown SUBJECT: Corrections in the 1991-92 ODM Incentive Schools Monitoring Report Please note the following corrections in the June 5, 1992 ODM Incentive Schools Monitoring Report. The affected wording is underlined.  Ish Elementary Incentive School section, page 52, number 53: change the last word in the paragraph from \"Franklin\" to \"Ish\". Original: As of May 27, 1992, no incentive programs had been developed at Franklin. Correction: As of May 27,1992, no incentive programs had been developed at Ish.  Rightsell Elementary Incentive School section, page 44. Original: page omitted. Correction: page attached.  Stephens Elementary Incentive School section, page 37, number 67, second paragraph, second line: delete \"social worker\". Original: Stephens staffing data indicates that recommended full time positions presently unfilled are social worker, alternative classroom specialist, supervision aides, and assistant principal. Correction: Stephens staffing data indicates that recommended full time positions presently unfilled are alternative classroom specialist, supervision aides, and assistant principal. Corrections to 1991-92 Incentive Schools Monitoring Report Page 2  Summary section, page 10, sixth paragraph (first paragraph under Student Grouping): change the first word from \"four\" to \"five\". Original: Four of the seven incentive schools have enrollments that are over 90% black. Correction: F^of the seven incentive schools have enrollments that are over 90% black.  Summary section, page 31: change the wording of the third paragraph. Original: At the time this report was prepared, only the results of the first 1991-92 AMPT test cycle were available. (Students have three chances to pass the elementary level test that is given to third and sixth graders.) Because the 1990-91 AMPT data cited in this report is the final result of the three test-taking cycles, no accurate comparison presently can be made between 1990-91 and 1991-92 test data. However, the preliminary AMPT results are very discouraging: overall performance of incentive school students between last year and this year has dropped significantly. Correction: At the time this report was prepared, results of the 1991-92 AMPT had just been made available to the ODM, leaving monitors insufficient time to analyze the test data for inclusion in this report. However, a preliminary review of the AMPT results is very discouraging: overall performance of incentive school students between last year and this year has dropped significantly. Enclosure cc: Judge Susan Webber WrightMentoring program: According to LRSDs October 24, 1991 Desegregation Status Report, the district is implementing a mentoring program which will serve 10% of the student population at each incentive school. The districts tentative schedule provides that students will be identified, mentors recruited and matched with students, and that orientation for mentors will take place during November. According to the VIPS Incentive School Coordinator, 54 mentors have agreed to participate in the mentoring program and approximately 35 mentors have been trained. A video tape of the training will be available for mentors who could not attend the orientation. An orientation for students, parents, and teachers is scheduled and recognition programs are planned for the Spring of 1992. Mentors will receive training every nine weeks. In addition to the districts mentoring program. Rightsell received a grant from the Arkansas Community Foundation to implement a mentoring project entitled PALS (Partners Are Leading Students.) The project focuses on positive attendance, behavior, and achievement goals for students. According to the principal, 17 mentors have worked with Rightsell students in the PALS Project. Rightsell also has a Career Mentors Program which the school counselor operates. Records indicated that 19 guest career mentors have participated in the program so far this school year. 91. Parent contractual conunitments are signed prior to enrollment. (JDR 2317) STATUS: Review of SEP files indicated that aU teachers had parent contracts in their SEP files. A sample review of two class files with a total of 39 students revealed that 30 contracts were signed by a parent, two contracts were filled out but lacked a parent signature, and seven files contained no contracts. 92. Home and school linkage is evident in parenting education classes, evening and Saturday math/science classes, and the school is used as a community center. (JDR 2309, 2318) STATUS: Parenting education: LRSDs October 24,1991 Desegregation Status Report indicates that surveys were distributed to Rightsell parents on Parent Night, September 5, 1991 to determine what workshops the district should offer. Rightsell parents returned 30 surveys. Based on that feedback, workshops on using the computer and helping children with reading have been scheduled for Rightsell and Mitchell during November. Math and science classes: The principal stated that math and science classes and activities are scheduled in the Extended Day Program and the Saturday Programs. School as a community center: An objective of the PALS project is to \"assist students in realizing that the school was a vital neighborhood community center.\" However, there was no evidence of the school being utilized as a community center so far this school year. Page 44. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET TO: FROM: SUBJECT: LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 September 17, 1992 Associate Superintendents and Manager of Resources and School Support Mac Bernd, Superintendent of Schools ATTENDANCE AT PARENT FORUMS AND TEACHERS' MEETINGS As discussed in cabinet. parent, forums and teacher meetings with, me. schedule. it is important for . you to _ attend the I am listing below the DATES FOR PARENT FORUMS Wednesday, September 23 Monday, Thursday, September 28 October Wednesday, October Wednesday, October Tuesday, Thursday, October October 1 7 14 27 29 Mann Junior High Franklin Elementary Hall High McDermott Elementary Parkview Magnet Geyer Springs Elementary McClellan High All parent forums will begin at 7 p.m. DATES FOR TEACHER MEETINGS Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, - Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, October November December January February March April May June 6 3 1 5 2 2 13 4 1 Central High School Pulaski Hts. Junior High Jefferson Elementary Terry Elementary Southwest Jr. High Otter Creek Elementary Dunbar Jr. High Stephens Elementary Forest Heights Jr. High All teachers' meetings begin at 4 p.m. /bjf cc: Board of Directors FYI Board Members: For your information, I am also scheduling quarterly meetings with bus drivers at the bus terminal.LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPLAINTS/ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATIONS Constructive criticism of the District is welcome when it is motivated by a sincere desire to improve the quality of the educational process and to assist the schools in performing their tasks more effectively. The Board of Directors encourages the resolution of all complaints at the earliest possible stage and in the most effective manner. Therefore, any person who has a complaint concerning any matter connected with the schools shall apply first to the teacher or principal, then to the appropriate central office administrator. and finally to the Superintendent. to adjust the matter satisfactorily, If the Superintendent is unable the person making the complaint is then invited to refer the matter to the Board. The procedure for referring a matter to the Board is to address a letter to the Board in care of the Superintendent. This letter must reach the Superintendent prior to the Board's agenda meeting if it is to be considered in the regular meeting. In order for all complaints to receive a fair hearing, important that the communication. complainant be available for it is further verifiable. If an anonymous complaint contains facts that are they will be investigated\ncommunications will not be considered. otherwise. anonymous It is the policy of the Board of Directors that Little Rock School District employees will treat patrons courteously at all times\nhowever, teachers or other school personnel will not endure insults or abusive treatment from any person pertaining to any complaint. Complaints will be investigated fully and fairly, and the employee's rights to due process will be protected at all times. Records should be kept indicating how complaints have been dealt with. .J SEP 2 9 1992 . Cf!ic3 of Doscgri ,cr MoiiiioriiigA F. Y. I. Date: Bob Connie Horace Ann Unda Margie Melissa Polly Please return to: Date returned: 1 I i \u0026lt; ( X c \"H\ni \u0026gt;1 Little Rock School District October 6, 1992 ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE - 92-llS To: All Administrators From: Mac Bernd, Superintendent Subject: News Media Interviews, Inquiries Please be reminded that District policy is that all press inquiries for information about District issues, programs and events will be referred to the District Communications Office. I will act as District spokesman. In my absence, Dianne G. W\u0026lt; director, is designated to be District lokesman. communications 'his procedure is necessary to ensure coordination, clarity~~anrf''cbnsistency in our messages to the public. When you receive any media inquiry, direct the news representative to the Communications Office. At the same time, telephone the Communications Office to alert it about the news media inquiry and the nature of the information being sought. This will allow the Communications Office to prepare for the forthcoming media call and either prepare an information response or begin to determine from whom the necessary information will be obtained. To generate news coverage about school-related events, such as special programs and photo opportunities, you should continue to channel your information to the Communications Office which will, in turn, forward your information to the appropriate news outlet. Attached is a form which you may duplicate. fill out as needed and send to the Communications Office. If you have questions, telephone the Communications Office at 324-2020. Attachment 810 West Markham street  Little. Rnr.k. 72201 W W w little rock school DISTRICT SCHOOL EVENT NOTIFICATION FORM School Date sent to Communic t ions Sc h 1 Contact Person Phone Date of the event Time of event (begins.'! (ends) Per son in charge of event (if other than school contact) Phone Who is doing the event'? What is the event'? Where will it be held'? Why are you doing this event? What issue are you addressing with this event'? Effective Schools Parent involvement Teacher/Student recognition Student achievement Other (specify.'! Cur r i c Li 1 urn Partners in Education Special programs involvement E.xplain why this event would be a good photo opportunity for the newspaper or television stations. What makes the event \"visual? For Communications Office use only\nSent to media Date sent Did not send Comments Used by media yes nou . LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET OCT 1 ? LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201\n3 ci C\" e\ni October 15, 1992 TO: Board of Directors FROM: C. M. Bernd, Superintendent of SchoolsC- V-'\" SUBJECT: APPOINTMENT OF ACTING ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS I recommend that Sam Stueart be appointed as Acting Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools effective October 19, 1992, at a salary of $50,128 plus $1200 per year car allowance, attaching a copy of Mr. Stueart's resume. I am* Resume of Sam Stueart 1407 Pinewood Drive Benton. Arkansas 72015 (501) 776-1663 PHONAL: 45 Marital Status: Marrigfi^ _______________ Oae-ehiWf Stephanie, agell Healuft Excellent Heigh t/Wei^hn 58\"/169 lbs. EDUCATION: 1987: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Fayetteville, AR Completion of Certification in School Administration 1975: University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR Completion of Certification in Counseling 1972: University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR Master of Science in Education Degree (Major in History) 1969: Hendrix College Conway, AR Bachelor of Arts Degree (Major in History, emphasis in American) 1965: Benton High School Benton, AR Honor GraduateOffice of Desegregation Monitoring United States District Court  Eastern District of Arkansas Ann S. Brown, Federal Monitor 201 East Markham, Suite 510 Heritage West Building Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (501)376-6200 Fax (501) 371-0100 Date: October 15, 1992 To: Mac Bernd, Bobby Lester, James Smith From: an Brown Subject: ODM Monitoring Priorities for 1992-93 My staff and I have identified our monitoring priorities for the 1992-93 school year. These are the desegregation areas we will most closely examine, summarizing our findings to the court in a formal report. To determine where we would place our emphasis, we reviewed the desegregation plans and all court orders and directives that relate to ODMs responsibilities. We paid close attention to those plan areas the circuit court has termed \"crucial.\" We also noted district court orders, and directives issued during hearings, that require ODM to scrutinize particular aspects of the desegregation plans. Although subject to change, depending upon unforeseen events and new court orders, the areas listed below are ODMs monitoring priorities this year. We will not monitor all three districts in every one of these areas, but we will monitor all districts in most of the subjects. Well also visit many schools to assess their general compliance with the desegregation plans in addition to the emphasized areas.  School racial balance requirements and efforts to improve balance in out-of-compliance schools  Incentive schools and double funding  Parent and community involvement  Extracurricular activities: participation equity and secondary school selection processes  Special education and placement parity  Interdistrict schools\nemphasis on Crystal Hill, Baker, Romine, Henderson, McClellan, and progress on King, Stephens, and the 67/167 school Academic achievement and closing the achievement gap between the races  Early childhood education: developmentally appropriate curriculum and practices\neffectiveness as a desegregation tool  Finance: assuring that settlement money use is consistent with the desegregation plans and court orders\ndetermining that the districts exercise fiscal responsibility such that they can fulfill their plan obligations  Public relations: emphasis on the new PR section in the interdistrict plan, cooperative efforts between the district, relationship of PR to desegregation  Discipline: procedures and application parity( 1 Ann Date: F. Y. I. Bob Connie Horace I Unda Melissa Margie 1 Polly Please return to Date returned: I Qi^.' LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, AR 72201 I October 15, 1992 TO: Board of Directors FROM: Gary E. Jones,/Manager of Resources and School Support THROUGH: C. M. Bernd, Superintendent of Schools SUBJECT: Proposed Refinancing of Bonds It appears that the District could realize an estimated savings of $323,632 by refinancing the May 15, 1988 bonds. The Department of Education requires that a refunding produce a $100,000 savings or a five percent reduction in debt service. whichever is less. criteria. This proposed issue meets both refunding In order to initiate this process, the Board will need to adopt an intent resolution. With the State Board of Education approval, the bond forms will be filed in February, 1993. Should interest rates increase between now and the time the bonds are scheduled to be refinanced, the District can cancel the refinancing proposal. In the event this refunding cannot be sold so as to produce sufficient savings, there will not be any charge for the services of Stephens, Inc. I recommend that the Board approve proceeding with the refinancing of this debt by adoption of the attached resolution.NOTICE OF INTENTION TO ISSUE REFUNDING BONDS TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: A meeting of the Board of Directors of Little Rock School District was held at the Administration Building in Pulaski County, Arkansas on the 15th day of October, 1992, at the hour of p.m. All members of the Board had due notice of the time and place of said meeting, and the purpose thereof, and a quorum consisting of the following members were present: After consideration, the Board adopted a resolution reading as follows: \"This School Board will authorize Stephens Inc. to file application with the State Board of Education to issue bonds in the estimated amount of $5,500,000 for the purpose of refunding the Districts bonds issue dated May 15, 1988. The sale of the proposed issue is subject to determination by the Board that the savings generated is adequate to justify the issuance of the refunding bonds. M BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PULASKI COUNTY, ARKANSAS By: , President By: , SecretaryRESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Little Rock School District continues to be alarmed at the violence and drug activity that threatens the safety and well-being of community and in our schools\nand our students in the WHEREAS, it is the belief of the Board of Directors that the presence of police officers in secondary school buildings would be of great value to the students\nand IT IS, THEREFORE, RESOLVED that the Board of Directors remains committed to the Police Resource Officer Program which was approved by the Board on December 19, 1991, as follows: \"...that the Police Resource Officer Program be piloted at one senior high school (J.A, Fair) and at one or more junior high schools (Henderson, Cloverdale, Pulaski Heights, and Mann) during the 1992-93 school year, ....and that the program be evaluated very carefully and see if it has a positive impact on our students... and assuming that half the costs can be paid by the City of Little Rock.\" ADOPTED this day of October, 1992. BOARD OF DIRECTORS LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 0. G. Jacovelli, President Pat Gee, SecretaryOffice of Desegregation Monitoring United States District Court  Eastern District of Arkansas Ann S. Brown, Federal Monitor 201 East Markham, Suite 510 Heritage West Building Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (501)376-6200 Fax (501) 371-0100 September 17, 1992 Mac Bernd, Superintendent Little Rock School District 810 West Markham Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Mac: Now that the school year is underway, ODM is preparing to visit schools in the three districts. Our monitoring procedures will vary slightly from those of last year. While well continue to conduct some announced monitoring visits, we will also institute a less formal site review procedure at many schools. These unannounced visits will be short (lasting less than two hours) and as low key and unobtrusive as possible. Well begin this type of monitoring next month and continue periodically throughout the year. Since we will not notify schools before we make an abbreviated visit, we wont expect principals to interrupt their day for a lengthy interview with us. Of course, the monitoring team will check in at each school office and will be happy to meet with the principal if his or her schedule permits. The principal may also decide whether s/he would like an exit conference with us. Our observations will be guided by an instrument we call our monitoring guide (copy enclosed), a shorter version of last years ODM guide. It includes charts we use to reflect various information, such as enrollment and staffing. ODM monitors will gather this data from the annual school profile\nwe wont ask school staff to fill out forms or charts. Because we depend on the profiles for information, please send them to our office by October 19, 1992. During the year, ODM will also make lengthier, more comprehensive monitoring visits to certain schools. For example, because the court has emphasized the importance of interdistrict schools, some of them will likely be the subject of thorough monitoring. Anytime we plan an extensive visit, well notify you and the school beforehand of our schedule and expectations.Mac Bernd Page 2 September 17, 1992 In all instances, well endeavor to coordinate our visits with the monitoring schedules of Joshua and the biracial committees so no school will be unduly inundated with monitors. If you have any questions or comments, please call me. Were looking forward to being in your schools during the year ahead. Very truly yours, Ann S. Brown cc: Marie Parker enclosure \u0026lt;7 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS October 21, 1992 :s .i  ^*7 MEMORANDUM CCl' 2 5 i592 TO: Mac Bernd, Superintendent of Schools FROM: Estelle Matth^s^^^k.si Oll'jCQ of T ) iJonitoring isociate Superintendent for Curriculum and Learning Improvement SUBJECT: Academic Support Program Proposal Provided per your request is a copy of our Academic Support Program proposal for Ann Brown, Office of Desegregation Monitoring, to review prior to our submission to the Court. A copy has been forwarded to our attorney, Chris Heller, for his review. Please advise if additional concerns and/or issues are raised regarding this document or the program.Little Rock School District November 20, 1992 RECEiVD Mrs. Ann Brown, Federal Monitor Office of Desegregation and Monitoring Heritage West Building NOV 2 5 1952 Little Rock, AR 72201 Cffice of Desagregaiion Monitoring Dear Ann: Thank you for inviting me to the meeting in your office to discuss matters related to the desegregation plan. Per our discussion, this letter is submitted to provide an update on the Staffing Committee for Incentive Schools that is required in the desegregation plan. At the inception of the Incentive Schools, the purpose of the staffing committee was to determine the staffing needs at each school and then develop criteria for principal and staff selection based on a needs assessment. An interview team was to have been selected from members of the staffing committee to interview and make recommendations to the principals. It is my understanding that although an interview team was established and recommendations were made by this committee, the contracted agreement actually dictated which teachers were placed in the schools. Therefore, at this time, Ms. Arma Hart will assist me in instituting a new staffing committee that will determine the present staffing needs at each of the schools and develop criteria for principal and staff selection needed in the future. Each principal has submitted names of patrons and staff personnel to serve on this committee. In the future, when positions become vacant, the interview team will be involved in the hiring process and will make recommendations to the principals, goal of this administration to have quality staff in the It is a Incentive Schools who are committed to the goals of the program. A District-wide Staffing Committee for Incentive Schools meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 9, 1992, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. , in the Board Room of the Administration Building. If you need additional information, please let me know. Sincerely, 1, Janet Bernard Associate Superintendent cc: Marie Parker 810 West Markham Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)324-2000 Little Rock School District January 7, 1992 RECESVED Mrs. Ann Brown, Desegregation Monitor 201 East Markham, Suite 510 Little Rock, AR 72201 JAN 1 5 Office of Desegregation Monitoring Dear Mrs. Brown: The Board of Directors will soon Superintendent of Schools to succeed Dr. begin searching for Ruth Steele,  a who new has announced her plans to retire at the end of this school year. The nationwide search will be conducted by co-consultants. Jan Cummings, president of C-Net\nand Susan Jernigan of Sockwell \u0026amp; Anderson. Ms. Cummings and Ms. Sockwell will be in Little Rock on January 17 and 18 to gather information about the school district and the type of individual the community wants the Board to employ. To that end, the co-consultants and Board members have scheduled private meetings with groups closely associated with the school district to receive information concerning the qualifications, both personal and professional, superintendent of schools. that the community desires in You and your staff are cordially invited to attend a meeting with the co-consultants and Board members on Saturday, January 18 at 1 p.m. to share your thoughts. This meeting will be conducted in the Board Room of the Administration Building at 810 West Markham Street. This will be an informal, roundtable discussion, so please feel free to dress casually. Sincerely, 0. G. Jacovelli, President Board of Directors a 810 West Narkham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)324-2000 Little Rock School District January 10, 1992 RECBIVEO JAN Office of Desegregation Monitoring TO: Ann Brown, Office of Desegregation Monitoring FROM: James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation\"3*7^ Monitoring and Community Services SUBJECT: Information Request Please find enclosed the school profiles for all elementary schools. Also, information is included on the racial breakdown of the elementary PTA organizations. 810 West Narkham Street Little RocR, Arkansas 72201  (501)374-3361i i FRIDAY, ELDREDGE \u0026amp; CLARK I 1 i I HERSCHEL H. P ROBERT V. L1G A partnership of INOtVIOUALS ANO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS WILLIAM H. SUTTON. P.A. JAMES W. MOORE BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR.. P.\u0026gt; JOE 0. BELL. P.A. MICHAEL a. THOMPSON. P.A JOHN C. ECHOLS, P.A. JAMES A. BUTTRY. P.A. FREDERICK S. URSERY, P.A. H.T. LARZELERE. P.A. OSCAR E. OAVIS. JR. ATTORNEYS AT LAW 2000 FIRST COMMERCIAL BUILDING 400 WEST CAPITOL LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201-3493 JAMES C. CLARK. IR TELEPHONE 501-376-201 1 THOMAS P. LEGGETT, P.A. JOHN OEWSY WATSON. P.A. PAUL B. BENHAM III. P.A. LARRY W. BURKS. P.A. A. WYCKLIFF NISBET. JR., P.j JAMES EOWARO HARRIS, P.A. J. PHILLIP MALCOM. P.A. JAMES M. SIMPSON. P A. MEREDITH P. CATLETT. P.A. JAMES M. SAXTON. P.A. J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III DONALD H. BACON. P.A. WILLIAM THOMAS BAXTER. P WALTER A. PAULSON 11. P.A. BARRY E. COPLIN. P.A. RICHARD 0. TAYLOR. P.A. FAX NO. 501-37-2147 January 15, 1992 ED DIANE S. MACKEY, P.A. WALTER M. EBEL IK. P.A. KEVIN A. CRASS WILLIAM A. WAOOELL. JR . P A CLYDE TAB*TURNER CALVIN J. HALL. P.A. SCOTT J. LANCASTER JERRY L. MALONE. P.A. M. GAYLE CORLEY. P.A. ROBERT B. BEACH. JR.. P.A S. RANDOLPH LOONEY J. LEE BROWN JAMES C. BAKER. JR . H. CHARLES CSCHWENO. JR. HARRY A. LIGHT SCOTT H. TUCKER JOHN CLAYTON RANDOLPH GUY ALTON WADE PRICE C. GARDNER THOMAS F. MEEKS J. MICHAEL PICKENS TONIA P. JONES DAVID 0. WILSON JEFFREY H. MOORE T. WESLEY HOLMES ANDREW T. TURNER SARAH J. HEFFLEY JOHN RAY WHITE JOSEPH B. HURST. ELIZABETH J. ROBBEN. P.A. CHRISTOPHER HELLER. P.A. LAURA HENSLEY SMITH. P.A. ROBERT S. SHAFER. P.A. WILLIAM M. GRIFFIN 111. P.A. THOMAS N. ROSE. P.A. MICHAEL S. MOORE JAN 1 5 1992 Office of Desegregation Monitoring COUk WILLIAM J. SMITH WILLIAM A. ELOREOG E. JR . P A B.S. CLARK WILLIAM L. TERRY WILLIAM L. PATTON. JR.. P.A OIMCer MO. (501) 370-1505 R M. Samuel Jones WRIGHT, LINDSEY \u0026amp; JENNINGS 2000 Worthen Bank Bldg. Little Rock, AR 72201 Steve Jones JACK, LYON \u0026amp; JONES, P.A. 3400 TCBY Bldg. Little Rock, AR 72201 1 i John Walker JOHN W. WALKER, P.A. 1723 Broadway Little Rock, AR 72201 Richard Roachell MITCHELL \u0026amp; ROACHELL, P.A. 1014 West Third Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Counsel: Please find enclosed a Little Rock School District proposal for the establishment of magnet programs at Henderson Junior High School and McClellan Community High School. The proposal explains the need to establish magnet programs at the two schools and outlines programs which LRSD believes will be effective in reversing trends which threaten to resegregate those schools. LRSD desires to establish these programs for the 1992-93 school year and are to begin reciruitment for the programs as soon as the programs approved. Please let me know as soon as possible if you have any concerns or objections with regard to this proposal. Yours very t: CJH/k Enc cc: Ann Brown Christopner ieller3 FRIDAY, ELDREDGE \u0026amp; CLARK HERSCHEL H. FRIDAY. P.A. ROBERT V. LIGHT. P.A. WILLIAM H. SUTTON. P.A. JAMES W. MOORE BYRON M. EISEMAN. JR.. P.A. JOE O. BELL. P.A. MICHAEL G. THOMPSON. P.A. JOHN C. ECHOLS. P.A. JAMES A. BUTTRY. P.A. FREDERICK S. URSERY, P.A. H.T. LARZELERE. P.A. OSCAR E. DAVIS. JR. JAMES C. CLARK. JR.. P.A. THOMAS P. LEGGETT. P.A. JOHN DEWEY WATSON. P.A. PAUL 8. BENHAM III. P.A. LARRY W. BURKS. P.A. A. WYCKLIFF NISBET. JR.. P.A. JAMES EDWARD HARRIS. P.A. J. PHILLIP MALCOM. P.A. JAMES M. SIMPSON. P.A. MEREDITH P. CATLETT. P.A. JAMES M. SAXTON. P.A. J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III DONALD H. BACON, P.A. WILLIAM THOMAS BAXTER. P.A. WALTER A. PAULSON II. P.A. BARRY E. COPLIN. P.A. RICHARD 0. TAYLOR. P.A. JOSEPH B. HURST. JR., P.A. ELIZABETH J. ROBBEN, P.A. CHRISTOPHER HELLER, P.A. LAURA HENSLEY SMITH. P.A. ROBERT S. SHAFER, P.A. WILLIAM M. GRIFFIN III, P.A. THOMAS N- ROSE, P.A. MICHAEL S. MOORE A PARTNERSHIP OF INDIVIDUALS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS ATTORNEYS AT LAW 2000 FIRST COMMERCIAL BUILDING 400 WEST CAPITOL LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201*3493 DIANE S. MACKEY. P.A WALTER M. EBEL III. P.A KEVIN A. CRASS WILLIAM A. WADDELL. JR . P A CLYDE *TAB' TURNER CALVIN J. HALL, P.A. SCOTT J. LANCASTER JERRY L. MALONE. P.A. M. GAVLE CORLEY. P.A ROBERT B. BEACH. TELEPHONE 601*376*2011 FAX NO. 601*376*2147 January 16, 1992 RECEIVED S. RANDOLPH LOONEY J. LEE BROWN JAMES C. BAKER. JR. H. CHARLES G8CHWEN0. JR HARRY A. LICHT SCOTT H. TUCKER JOHN CLAYTON RANDOLPH OUY ALTON WADE PRICE C. GARDNER THOMAS F. MEEKS J. MICHAEL PICKENS TONIA P. JONES DAVID 0. WILSON JEFFREY H. MOORE T. WESLEY HOLMES ANDREW T. TURNER SARAH J. HEFFLEV JOHN RAY WHITE SEP t 5 1992 COUNCCl WILLIAM J. SMITH WILLIAM A. ELDREDGE,JR..P.A B.S. CLARK WILLIAM L. TERRY WILLIAM L. PATTON. JR.. P.A. Office of Desegregation Monitoring iCT NO. (soil 37O-1SO6 Dr. Ruth Steele Superintendent Little Rock School District 810 West Markham Little Rock, AR 72201 Re: Joshua Intervenors Monitoring of Desegregation Plan Implementation Dear Dr. Steele: I am writing in response to your request for concerning the nature and scope of any authority an opinion the J oshua Intervenors may have to place monitors in LRSD classrooms to monitor implementation by LRSD of its desegregation plan. Nothing in the LRSD Interdistrict Desegregation Plans requires authorizes the Joshua Intervenors to monitor implementation of the or or plans. The Settlement Agreement requires the Arkansas Department of Education to monitor the implementation of compensatory education programs by the Districts, authorize the Joshua Intervenors to but does not require or monitor the districts' implementation of their desegregation plans. The December 12, 1990 Decision of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals established Office of Desegregation Monitoring, but did not require authorize monitoring by the Joshua Intervenors. Finally, there does not appear to exist any inherent legal right of a party to monitor implementation of a consent decree, especially in a case where the court has established a monitoring system. not an or This is not to say that the parties to the Settlement Agreement did not intend for the Joshua Intervenors to have a role in the implementation of the settlement plans. Although the plans do not specifically authorize the establishment of a Joshua monitoring team, LRSD told the Eighth Circuit Court of appeals in June, 1990 that the size of the Joshua fee award was partlyattributable to the fact that Joshua would be required to continue to work on the implementation of the desegregation plans and would not seek additional fees for that work. The Joshua monitoring team was introduced to the Court of Appeals in September, 1991, and no party objected to Joshua monitoring at that time. The original \"Monitoring and Evaluation\" section of the LRSD plan required that the LRSD Evaluation and Testing Department share its monitoring reports with the Joshua Intervenors. The parties have proposed somewhat different language, however, in the May 1, Similarly, although monitoring of 1991 revision of the plan. Incentive Schools is required to be done by LRSD personnel and Biracial Committee members, any proposed change in the monitoring instrument must be submitted to the Joshua Intervenors. The LRSD plan also requires that a consultant monitor review the monitoring reports of the districts, visit LRSD schools at least quarterly, and report findings and conclusions concerning desegregation implementation to the court on a quarterly basis. This information would be available to the Joshua Inteirvenors as well as the other parties. As a practical matter, the job of consultant/monitor is now being done by the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. The Interdistrict Plan contains a section on monitoring which requires the districts \"to carry out their respective monitoring responsibilities as provided in their existing and proposed plans\" and to make quarterly reports to the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. The Interdistrict Plan also requires that \"the parties\", which would include Joshua, conduct an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of each district's implementation of the desegregation plans. In order to do this, the Interdistrict Plan says that \"the parties' monitors will be provided reasonable access to records and facilities, provided that requests for access are not disruptive, unreasonable or intrusive.\" In summary, the Joshua Intervenors are clearly entitled to receive the regular written monitoring reports of the Arkansas Department of Education as well as any monitoring reports produced by the three school districts or the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. The Joshua Intervenors are also entitled to appoint members to one of the entities involved in monitoring LRSD's implementation of its desegregation plan. the LRSD Biracial Committee. Finally, the Joshua Intervenors are authorized to participate in an annual determination of the effectiveness of each district's implementation of the desegregation plans. The settlement plans and the settlement agreement contain no requirement or authorization for the Joshua Intervenors to compose an independent monitoring team with unrestricted access to LRSD schools. Any request by the Joshua Intervenors for \"reasonable access\" to LRSD records and facilities should be granted only if it will not be \"disruptive, unreasonable or intrusive.\" Unless Joshua can demonstrate to the court that the monitoring required by the desegregation plans and by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which must be done by the districts themselves, the LRSD BiracialCommittee, the Arkansas Department of Education and the Office of Desegregation Monitoring is inadequate, I do not believe that the district court would require the districts to allow unrestricted independent monitoring Intervenors. on school premises by the Joshua Youri t: y Christophev Heller CJH/k (i I CENTRAL HIGH NEIGHBORHOOD --------------r INC.T-------------- January 17, 1992 \"We ve Got Heritage.' c \\1 Ms. 0. G. Jacovelli President Little Rock School Board 6622 Gold Court Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 Oftcs 0^ 0e25' Dear Ms. Jacovelli: The undersigned residents of the Central High neighborhood and patrons of the Little Rock School District hereby submit for consideration by the Little Rock School Board an alternative proposal for the development of an interdistrict school in the Central High neighorhood. We propose creation of a two-campus educational facilitythe Dr.  Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Park--as the centerpiece of a neighborhood redevelopment initiative. Our proposal also would enable Ish Elementary School to remain in operation as an incentive school, an approach supported by patrons of' Ish. The School Board's response to this proposal should be directed to Ethel Ambrose, president of the Central High Neighborhood Association, who can be reached during the day at 370-5950. HER fZ^SHT TO: FROM: SUBJECT: Little Rock School District January 27, 1992 wso Offica JUN Ann Brown, Office of Desegregation Monitoring James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation Monitoring and Community Services Rockefeller Early Childhood Enrollment 1989/90 and 1990/91 In response to your request, please find listed below the enroll ment figures for the Early Childhood Education Program at Rockefeller School (Infant through Three Year Old) for 1989/90 and 1990/91: 1989/90: White Black Other Total %Black Infant/Toddler 2 Year Old 3 Year Old 6 10 12 7 13 14 8 6% 7 7% 8 6% Total 28 34 82% w 3 1 1 3 2 6 0 0 0 0 1990/91: Infant/Toddler 2 Year Old 3 Year Old 4 6 6 4 10 8 0 0 0 8 16 14 50% 63% 57% Total 16 22 0 38 58% 810 West Markham Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)374-33611 1 TO: FROM: THROUGH: SUBJECT: SECEna Little Rock School District January 29, 1992 Ann Brown, Office of Desegregation Monitoring James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Z J\" Desegregation Monitoring and Community Services Dr. Ruth Steele, Superintendent of Schools Educational Equity Monitoring Schedule Please find attached the Educational Equity Monitoring Schedule for the third nine weeks. 810 West Markham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)374-3361 To: From: Subject: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS March 19, 1992 Principals Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent of Schools .(i O' Requests for Reports from Monitoring Teams It has come to my attention that you have been asked to supply detailed information and compile reports on various topics for members of the Joshua Intevenors Monitoring Teams when they visit your buildings. Please understand that the Teams received courteously in our schools and are to be given II ..(5. access\" to information to assist them in their work. reasonable are to be 'reasonable However, access compiling reports and surveys. does not include asking you to spend time I am certain the Joshua Teams would not expect you to do so were they aware that this information they need can be obtained elsewhere. Much of the information requested is already available in the Central Office, and if the monitors wish to do so, they may come here to gain access to it. As administrators in our schools, you should be spending most of your time working with teachers, students, and parents. not compiling reports - especially if the information already exists. I appreciate your attention to this very important matter. cc: John Walker Chris Heller Assistant Superintendents James Jennings Tony Wood Estelle Matthis To: From: Subject: LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS March 19, 1992 eV' Principals Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent of Schools 6'' 0- Requests for Reports from Monitoring Teams It has come to my attention that you have been asked to supply detailed information and compile reports on various topics for members of the Joshua Intevenors Monitoring Teams when they visit your buildings. Please understand that the Teams are to be received courteously in our schools and are to be given \"reasonable access\" to information to assist them in their work. However, reasonable access does not include asking you to spend time compiling reports and surveys. I am certain the Joshua Teams would not expect you to do so were they aware that this information they need can be obtained elsewhere. Much of the information requested is already available in the Central Office, and if the monitors wish to do so, they may come here to gain access to it. As administrators in our schools, you should be spending most of your time working with teachers. students. and parents. not compiling reports - especially if the information already exists. I appreciate your attention to this very important matter. cc: John Walker Chris Heller Assistant Superintendents James Jennings Tony Wood Estelle Matthis (2^\n/Cje^r) Little Rock School District April 1, 1992 RECEIVED APR 7 '1992 Ofiics of DeoSgrecaticn Woriiforing TO\nAnn Brown, Office of Desegregation Monitoring FROM: James Jennings, Associate Superintendent for Desegregation Monitoring and Community Services THROUGH\nDr. Ruth Steele, Superintendent of Schools 0^ SUBJECT: Educational Equity Monitoring Schedule - Fourth Visit Please find enclosed the District's schedule for the fourth monitoring visits to all schools. 810 West Markham Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)374-3361LRSD PRE DEPT. EDUCATIONAL EQUITY MONITORING FOURTH VISIT SCHEDULE 1991-92 PAGE 2 SCHEDULED DATE Mon., 05-04-92 ft fl Tue., 05-05-92 II II II II Wed., 05-06-92 II II If II Thu., 05-07-92 If II It 11 Fri., 05-08-92 Mon., 05-11-92 II II Tue., 05-12-92 II 11 It II Wed., 05-13-92 11 II 11 II Thu., 05-14-92 II II II II SCHOOL Bale Elem. Fulbriqht Elem. Baseline Elem. Gever Sorinqs Elem. Metropolitan Vo-Tech. Bradv Elem. Cloverdale Jr. Hiqh Williams Maqnet Cloverdale Elem. Mabelvale Elem. Pulaski Heiqhts Jr. Hiqh Mann Maqnet Dodd Elem. Woodruff Elem. Fair Park Elem. Gibbs Maqnet Southwest Jr. Hiqh Chicot Elem. Forest Park Elem. Henderson Jr. Hiqh Forest Heiqhts Jr. Hiqh McDermott Elem. otter Creek SPECIALISTS Davis, Brooks Dunbar, Tadlock Davis, Brooks Tadlock, Dunbar Smith, Hobbv Davis, Brooks Hobbv, Smith Dunbar, Tadlock Davis, Brooks Tadlock, Dunbar Hobbv, Smith Smith, Hobbv Davis, Brooks Dunbar, Tadlock Davis, Brooks Tadlock, Dunbar Smith, Hobbv Dunbar, Tadlock Davis, Brooks Hobbv, Smith Smith, Hobbv Tadlock, Dunbar Brooks, DavisSCHEDULED DATE Mon., 04-06-92 Tue., 04-07-92 tl 11 II II Wed., 04-08-92 It II II It Thu., 04-09-92 II II If It Tue., 04-28-92 II It Wed., 04-29-92 II II II II Thu., 04-30-92 tl II II tl Fri., 05-01-92 tl ft 11 II LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT PLANNING, RESEARCH AND EVALUATION EDUCATIONAL EQUITY MONITORING FOURTH VISIT SCHEDULE 1991-92 SCHOOL Franklin Elem. Carver Maonet Fair Hiah Garland Elem. Central Hioh Ish Elem. Western Hills Elem. Jefferson Elem. Mabelvale Jr, Hiah Mitchell Elem. Hall Hiah Riahtsell Elem. Parkview Maanet Rockefeller Elem. Washinaton Maanet Booker Maanet McClellan Hiah Steohens Elem. Badaett Elem. Dunbar Maanet Wilson Elem. SPECIALISTS Brooks, Davis Tadlock, Dunbar Hobbv, Smith Brooks, Davis Smith, Hobbv Brooks, Davis Dunbar, Tadlock Tadlock, Dunbar Hobbv, Smith Brooks, Davis Smith. Hobbv Brooks, Davis Hobbv, Smith Brooks, Davis Dunbar, Tadlock Tadlock, Dunbar Hobbv, Smith Brooks, Davis Davis, Brooks Smith, Hobbv Dunbar, TadlockLRSD PRE DEPT. EDUCATIONAL EQUITY MONITORING FOURTH VISIT SCHEDULE 1991-92 PAGE 3 SCHEDOLED DATE Mon. 05-18-92 II II Tue., 05-19-92 II II Wed., 05-20-92 SCHOOL Pulaski Heights. Elem Terry Elem. Meadowcliff Elem. Romine Elem. Watson Elem. SPECIALISTS Brooks, Davis Dunbar, Tadlock Tadlock, Dunbar Davis, Brooks Dunbar, Tadlock Thu., 05-21-92 Wakefield Elem. Tadlock, Dunbar1 Little Rock School District May 13, 1992 Ann Brown, Federal Monitor Office of Desegregation Monitoring 201 East Markham Street Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Ann: The Little Rock School District is pleased to provide you with our new video \"LRSD Today\" featuring \"spokesmouse\" Mortimer Mortarboard. This is your own office copy provided by the LRSD Office of Communications. We hope that parents seeking the appropriate school and programs for their children, new residents needing information on various schools, and community leaders bringing new residents to the area will find this tool invaluable. In our effort to evaluate the marketing tools we produce, we would be pleased to hear any feedback you receive about the video. Sincerely, Dianne Woodruff Director of Communications 810 West Markham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)324-2000:r/-^ RECaVEO MAY 2 7 W7 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 WEST MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS Office of Desegregation Monitoring / TO: Board of Directors May 28, 1992 FROM\nTHROUGH: SUBJECT: Estelle Matthii,' Associate Superintendent for Educational Programs Ruth S. Steele, Superintendent of Schools Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) Grant Proposal The Arkansas Department of Education recently announced the availability of funds to establish and expand developmentally-appropriate early childhood programs which identify and assist educationally-deprived children, ages three (3) to five (5), as specified in the Arkansas Better Chance Program, Act 212 of 1991. The request for proposals was released after April 16, 1992, and the deadline for submission is June 1, 1992. Provided for your review are copies of the Program Abstract for applications for expansion of our center- and home-based early childhood education programs. The goals, objectives, and other components provide the basic information that was provided to you in our Early Childhood Continuance Grant last month. The proposed expansion sites for our center-based program are Bale, Cloverdale, Geyer Springs, Watson, and Wilson Elementary Schools. Southwest Little Rock is the targeted area for expansion of our home-based program. We are also requesting funds to improve playgrounds and expand our staff development activities for our early childhood staff. Attached is the proposed Arkansas Better Chance budget request for funding. We recommend the approval of our submission of this expansion proposal to the Arkansas Department of Education.LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL Rockefeller Elementary School 700 East 17th Phone 374-1226 Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 * .ic - U I . To: 5^ O' Office of Desegregation Monitoring ODM Monitors: Ann Brown, Melissa Guldin, Connie Hickman, Bob Morgan, Margie Powell, and Horace Smith Through: James Jennings, Associate Superintendent Desegregation of 73 From: Anne Mangan, Principal, Rockefeller Incentive School Subj ect: Corrections of Review of the Incentive School Monitoring Guides Date: June 1, 1992 Please note the following corrections: ^VL/Page 7 - POSITION - Change Registrar to Bookkeeper Page 40 - #67 are social STATUS: worker, The recommended positions not filled alternative supervision aides and program specialist classroom specialist, Participants ^^^'^age 54 - #23 Participants included the principal, primary teacher, an intermediate teacher. a parent and one grandparent a specialist, one l\u0026gt;pM^ Page 56 #55 in Camp Pfeifer. Four students from Rockefeller participated Page 56 #67 order would be followed. Principals were told that the recent court Individual positions particularly discussed but all rulings were mentioned. principal so necessary. Rockefeller Incentive School has in general not were an assistant commitment regarding this position was not (The last two sentences on #67 do not necessarily reflect the situation at Rockefeller and could be deleted on our individual school report.) a (Ip- -// 06.01/92 16:33 E.501 324 2032 L R School Disc 0D5I 0002/008 Process A DOUBLE FUNDING FOR LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT INCENTIVE SCHOOLS: I. Conmitment. to double fund - Explanation of terms A. Double fund - a process by which incentive schools are funded, in an amount that shall be two times the instructional costs per student in the area schools of the Little Reck School District for the previous school year. B. 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Although ordered to do the staffing needs assessment in May of 1992, the LRSD had not yet completed the task at the time of the February 1, 1993 hearing. 2. During the February hearing, the district could not produce a copy of the needs assessment for the court. The court requested that the LRSD submit a copy of the needsassessmentwhen it became available. A copy has not been submitted. Questions: 1. What is the status of the incentive schools staffing needs assessment? Why hasnt a copy of this document been submitted to the court as requested during the February 1 hearing? 2. Explain who was involved in the development of this assessment. What was the involvement of the Incentive School Staffing Committee? Of incentive school principals? 3. The plan refers to six factors which must be considered as part of the needs assessment process in the incentive schools: Number of students per grade level, race and gender, academic achievement needs and interests, disciplinary needs, social interaction needs, and health needs. Describe how each of these factors were addressed through the needs assessment administered in the incentive schools. 4. When was the staffing needs assessment administered in the incentive schools? 5. Describe how the staffing needs assessment was administered at the building level. Who was involved in the process? (e.g. administrators, teachers, support staff, parents) 6. What was the percentage of parent questionnaires returned? How many parent questionnaires were sent? 7. Have any staffing decisions already been made on the basis of the assessment results? 8. Describe the process used to analyze the assessment results. Could you supply a copy of that analysis to the court?Program Specialists Issues: 1) Program specialists were ordered to be in place at the beginning of the 1992-93 school year to assist in the incorporation of themes into all areas of the curriculum. Well into 1993 ODM discovered that the specialists were still not in place in all incentive schools. Findings: This information is the result of discussions with all seven incentive school principals on March 16,1993 regarding the program specialists, supervision aides, and staffing committee. Status of Program Specialists Franklin: Garland: Ish: Mitchell: Rightsell: Rockefeller: Stephens: Candidate being recommended for hiring 3-16-93 Candidate about to be recommended for hiring Specialist hired and presently working. The specialist was employed at Ish already and served as the specialist previously. Candidate has been recommended for hiring Recommendation made for hiring. The specialist will begin on April 3, 1993 due to the period of notice needed for her present job. Specialist hired. The specialist emplyed at Rockefeller was employed at the school and previously served as specialist. Not considering filling the position pending decisions regarding the new Stephens interdistrict school. The principal was told that she would not be able to hire a specialist until a new theme has been chosen for the new school. Questions: 1. How many incentive schools have program specialists working in the schools as of today? 2. When were the last specialists hired? 3. Themes were ordered restored in May of 1992 and program specialists were to be in place at the beginning of the 1992-93 school year. ODM has constantly reminded the district of the need to hire program specialists to support theme implementation. At this point, yet another year has passed and another group of incentive school students have been denied the services the district commited to provide for them. Why has it taken so long for the district to respond to the order?4. Describe the Incentive School Staffing Committees involvement in the selection process. Did the committee help determine procedures for staffing? 5. Have all of the specialists presently in place been provided with a comprehensive orientation to the incentive school concept? Describe the content of that orientation. If specialists havent been oriented, when do you plan to do so? Will program specialists be allowed to participate in training opportunities (e.g., trips to speciality schools with similar themes, workshops, conferences) which will enhance their ability to incorporate the themes into the curriculum? 6. Why has there been no attempt to fill the program specialist position at Stephens?S-18-A3 INCENTIVE SCI A7 The Staffing Committee of the Little 1 determine what positions are needed i Classroom Specialist, Social Worker, e \u0026gt; ASSESSMENT ucting a Needs Assessment to help :h as Assistant Principal, Alternative Please complete and return the form to your childs teacher. This information will be used along with other data compiled by teachers and principals in each school to determine if additional staff is needed. Thank you for your help. (2. yr[jjh/0 1. The number of persons living in my home is (check all members with the conect numberj , The number includes the following: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Mother Aunt Faer Uncle Children Cousins Grandfather I attend Parent-Teacher Conferences at least twice a year. ____Yes I attend PTA meetings regularly. Yes No Grandmother No\" I work with my child on lessons each evening and sign the homework nightly. Yes No I make sure that my child attends school regularly and is only absent when too ill to attend. Yes No My child gets to school in e following way: School Bus Car Walk I get my child to school on time by either making sure he/she is at the bus stop on time, leaves home early enough to walk and be on time, or drive him/her to school in time to arrive before the tardy bell. Always Never Sometimes Number of times I, as a parent, have been responsible for my child being late to school: 8. I pick up my child promptly after school/after extended day. Yes No 9. I discuss/question my child about what he/she has learned at school each day. Yes No 10. When my child is absent, I call the school to notify them of the reason for the absence. Yes No 11. I keep in close contact with my childs teacher to keep abreast of his/her progress.S-lg-A3 INCENTIVE SCHOOL PARENT NEEDS ASSESSMENT The Staffing Committee of the Little Rock School District is conducting a Needs Assessment to help determine what positions are needed in each Incentive School, such as Assistant Principal, Alternative Classroom Specialist, Social Worker, etc. Please complete and return the form to your childs teacher. This information will be used along with other data compiled by teachers and principals in each school to determine if additional staff is needed. Thank you for your help. 1. The number of persons living in my home is (check all members with the correct number) . The number includes the following: 2. 3. 4. 5. Mother Aunt Father Uncle Children Cousins Grandfather I attend Parent-Teacher Conferences at least twice a year. ____Yes I attend PTA meetings regularly. Yes No Grandmother No\" I work with my child on lessons each evening and sign the homework nightly. Yes No I make sure that my child attends school regularly and is only absent when too ill to attend. Yes No 6. My child gets to school in the following way: School Bus Car Walk 7. I get my child to school on time by either making sure he/she is at the bus stop on time, leaves home early enough to walk and be on time, or drive him/her to school in time to arrive before the tardy bell. Always Never Sometimes Number of times I, as a parent, have been responsible for my child being late to school: 8. I pick up my child promptly after school/after extended day. Yes No 9. I discuss/question my child about what he/she has learned at school each day. Yes No 10. When my child is absent, I call the school to notify them of the reason for the absence. Yes No 11. I keep in close contact with my childs teacher to keep abreast of his/her progress.IN THE UNITED STATES-DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS WESTERN'DIVISION }l LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT PLAINTIFF V. PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOO DISTRICT NO. 1, ET AL LR- - i . I I DEFENDANTS MRS. LORENE JOSHUA, ET AL INTERVENORS KATHERINE KNIGHT, ET AL INTERVENORS NOTICE OF FILING The Little Rock School District hereby gives notice of the filing of the attached Incentive School Staffing Needs Assessment and Little Rock School District Organizational Structure-September 1992. The latter document shows the actual organizational structure of the Little Rock School District. It is marked \"draft\" because it has not yet been approved by the Little Rock School District Board of Directors. Respectfully submitted. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT FRIDAY, ELDREDGE \u0026amp; CLARK 2000 First Commercial Bldg. 400 West Capitol Street Little Rock, AR 72201 (501) 376-2011 Christopher Helleir Bar No. 81083 kail^\\No(-Fil.Necd 4 CERTIFICATE OF- SERVICE I certify that a copy of the foregoing Notice of Filing has been served on the following people by depositing copy of same in the United States mail on this 2nd day of April, 1993: Mr. John Walker JOHN WALKER, P.A. 1723 Broadway Little Rock, AR 72206 Mr. Sam Jones WRIGHT, LINDSEY \u0026amp; JENNINGS 2200 Worthen Bank Bldg. 200 West Capitol Little Rock, AR 72201 Mr. Steve Jones JACK, LYON \u0026amp; JONES, P.A. 3400 Capitol Towers Capitol \u0026amp; Broadway Streets Little Rock, AR 72201 Mr. Richard Roachell Roachell and Streett First Federal Plaza 401 West Capitol, Suite 504 Little Rock, AR 72201 Ms. Ann Brown Desegregation Monitor Heritage West Bldg., Suite 510 201 East Markham Street Little Rock, AR 72201 .ristopher Helle: kaihyVNot-Fi!. NeedNAME OF SCHOOL Franklin Incentive School PRINCIPAL Mr. Franklin Davis r 1. How many students are enrolled? 407 os GRADE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN BLACK HALE 18 19 BLACK FEMALE 9 20 WHITE MALE 11 2 WHITE FEMALE 7 I 1ST GRADE 2HD. GRADE JI 25 20 34  1 T I 3 a A 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE 5TH GRADE 29 23 15 19 20 10 1 1 3 1 i 1 0 z I 6TH GRADE Self-contained J. 0 4 1 2L 3 ,1 0 2. Do you have a full time counselor in your building? \u0026lt;substitute) 3. Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A 4. Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in No, the Social Worker comes one day even' two weeks 5. On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? average 12 6. How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? Expulsions?. 7. Do you have in-school suspension? DC. Vgc 6 0Franklin 1 1 6. If not, explain. We do not have an empty classroom to hold the in-schrol suspension in. We do not have a full-time -certified teacher to hold the in-school suspension. 9. How many out-of-school suspenBions did you have last year? 18 Expulsions? 10. 10- self-contc- How many students are enrolled in special education? -rn towwn 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 26 -Speech 1 -Visually : 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. 75% How many homeless students attend your school. none known. 14. 15. 15. Foster Care none known Residential Care Facilities What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? What is the average number o post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine vzeeks. What percentage of the s f is nontenured? 1, 5 0 2 02 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? none 13. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? _No time / (circl  one) full tine / part19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above:  -63 _____ 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 339 Percentage of attendance__96_j_^2XilGSSI'J'IV.SJ SGWOli NAME OF SCHOOL PRINCIPAL l.^royJOj TTr 1. How many students are enrolled? 2^ GRADE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN I 1ST GRADE li 2iro GRADE I 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE li 5TH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. BLACK HALE C IQ IL 1 ID BLACK PEHALE i5_ 15 JL |g Ito 15 WHITE HALE JL Q_ 0 WHITE FEHALE JL  A 0 0 Q. i\nJ Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? Un Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in Mo - ^V\\c is here oncfc every seven Jays, \\Af^ necJ On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? O  2. How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? I Expulsions?. Dll you have in-school ^u'pcrsion? 'NQ I I ( r I I I I 0 I O I I8. If not, explain. ,XV npV keen ri\u0026amp;cpsSAry scV\u0026gt;oo1 -Ver m  9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? . - Expulsions? *5 rffomrri4-0 Id Aa'/ 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? Ik 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? QD'/, W 12. 13. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. How many homeless students attend your school. Vle've 2 Io erfttrU Foster Care Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? Z. 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. what percentage of the staff is nontenured? 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language?_____ 0.4 (X. 18. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) full time / part- 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 20. Khat is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 4^ 0 8 0:\n^\\5j:sjSLiiw NAME OF SCHOOL Ish Incentive School PRINCIPAL Stan Strauss 1. How many students are enrolled? 174 T GRADE BLACK HALE black female WHITE KALE WHITE FEMALE 3 PRE-K KIHDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 11 8 5 2 6 1  0 2  0 21ID GRADE 3RD GRADE 4'IH GRADE STH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 16 15 _2 7 10 12 9 T_ 15 19 \"1! Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Counselor resigned 1-29-93 Ra Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in no 5. oh a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions?. 6. How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? 9 Expulsions?, 1. Do you have in-school suspension? 0 2 0 \u0026lt; 0 0 1   0  0 0Ish 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 3 Expulsions?0 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? a 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 154 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. 75g 13. How many homeless students attend your school. 0 14. 15. 16. Poster Care 0 Residential Care Facilities 0 What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 7_____________ What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 1 What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 8g 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? 0 No 18. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? full time / part-  time / (circle one) . _______ . _______ 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: ___________ 20, What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school yew?Percentage of attendance Qfi ab-?? \u0026gt; II LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Mitchell Elementary School 24\u0026amp; Battery Streets  Phone 324-2415 * Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 March 3, 1993 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: memorandum Hart, Desegregation Facilitator J^ita Hudspeth, Principal, Mitchell  \u0026lt; Principal, Social Worker, and Alternative Classroom Teacher   memorandum is the completed needs committee recommends r - .  --------- r--------- --------- 1 assessment. The  VicePrincipal as well as an increase to indicated^^t Primary justification forth\nVice-Principe is inaicated at the bottom of page two and page three. Jocial^Wo^kJ^^^JT! feels that in order to benefit from the services of cial Worker this position must be elevated to at least .50 FTE. increased emotional and social needs of families due school neighborhood, iucteased needs for lamiiies needing neeLrt ^\"^\"i^y\"based services together with Increased services lor why we believe ap\u0026lt;pa rent n'e glect - and- /or ch-r o- nic absentisra. to the dramatic The a increased needs for families needing social worker. - ----- --------------- , head the list our school population would benefit from a halftime I alternative classroom. time, the Committee does not believe a need exists for an aasaBsatEsce NAME OP SCHOOL Mitchell Elementary School principal Donlta Hudspeth jH n 1. How many students are enrolled? 255 GRADE PRE-K KIMDSRGARTEH 1ST GRADS 2hd grade 3RD GRADS 4TH GRADS STH GRADE STH GRADE  2. 3. 4.  5. 6. 7. BLACK MALE BLACK FEMAT.R 5 WHITE MALE 4 WHITE FSHAT.g 14 18 22 11 Do you have a full time Is there an additional 450? ' 3 9 1 1 25 14 11 1 3 1 1 0 counselor, in your building? ^es counselor, if your enrollment is the building every day? social worker? over If SO, is he/she in We have a social worker every seventh day. On a daily average, how SB pprriinnccitpoaaln cs office, for discipslitnuadreyn tsa catiroen sr?e fer3red Preventive as well as problems already to the Do you have in-school suspension? Expulsions? n yes Mitchell 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? Q Expulsions? 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 27 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? Over 902 's 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes, How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care 2 Residential Care Facilities 1 2a What is the average number of certified personnel absent each What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 15 What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 102 How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? nnno 18. Is a foreign langj^uge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? no full time / part- time / (circle one) 19. 20. no Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: ____ Khat is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? _ Percentage of attendance 982 260 The membership at Mitchell increased by fifty-one percent during the Of that number, approximately two-thirds entered We now have approximately This combined 91-92 school year. reading at least one year below level, Wc nuw 40 percent of our students functinonir|g below grade level. with the number of extra, programs witl}in the incentive school creates a very difficult task. The number of programs include but is nnoott lliimmiitteeda to the following: . School Themes . Extended Day . Saturday Enrichment . Latin . Spanish .. Student Education Plans . Learning Styles . Monthly Reporting to Parents  Instructional Aides . Special Interest Clubs . Rites of Passage . Wellness Program . Writing to Read  Teacher Demonstration/Master Teacher Pregram \\  3CiE!C\u0026gt;01 NAME OP SCHOOL Rightsell PRINCIPAL Sharon Davis 1. How many students are enrolled? 249 GRADE BLACK KALE BLACK FEMALE WHITE KALE WHITE FEKALE PRE-K 6 2 2 KIHOERGARTEH 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 12 17 19 15 25 20 17 10 16 15 14 13 14 21 Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in The seven Incentive schools share a social worker. approximately two times per month. She is in our building On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principals office for disciplinary actions? How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? 2 Expulsions? 0 Do you have in-school suspension? Yes 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0Rightsell 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? - 12 Expulsions? 0 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 7 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? Over 90Z 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. Over 852 13. How many homeless students attend your school. None 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities None What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 1 to 2 What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 82 How many children in your school sp-ak Spanish as a second language? an Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) No full time / part- 0 2 1 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent nonn-reference test? student at/above: 77 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 245 Percentage cf attendance 97.55XifCOf'lIXZS SCHOOL NAME OF SCHOOL Rockefeller Incentive School PRINCIPAL Anne Mangan 1. How many students are enrolled? MO GRADE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADS 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. BLACK KALS 21 li 18 11 14 _1SL 17 135 BLACK FEMALE WHITE HALS WHITE FEMALE 14 20 12 17 ___11 14  140 -12. 11_ 10 5 21 11 15 9 Total 92 58 61 _1 0 61 52 36 38 37 5 Th 36 410 Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Oo you have a full tine social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in No one social worker rotates to the seven incentive schools. 2 5 2 5. On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principals office for disciplinary actions?. 7 I-.-. R I fit-nHonf-g 6. How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? iq Expulsions? 1 npnHinp haar^no 7. AJH Do you have In-school suspension? but generally do not. Wc have hbd in-school suspensionsAJH Rockefeller 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. If not, explain. A How many out-of-school - Expulsions? How aany students suspensions did you have last year?  are enrolled in special education? How aany students receive free/reduced lunch? Bstlaate the percentage of hoaas. 50Z - 60% How many homeless students Foster Care 6 Free-24Q. RadnoH.?? * yr - 6th grade your students from single-parent attend your school. Residential Care Facilities What is the day? 2 0 0 average number of certified personnel absent each  ? What percentage of the staff is How many children in language? 0 nontenured? your school speak Spanish langauge teacher hired during the regular school day? time / (circle one) Identify the number of NCE on the recent 69 -20. What is the as a second in your building to teach No /____ M fall time / part- students scoring at/above the 50th norm-reference test? student at/above: average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 308 Percentage of attendance 96.04 308laCSa'l'TOT SCHOOL NAME OF SCHOOL Stephens PRINCIPAL Lonnie S. Dean '0/v 1. How many students are enrolled? 192 GRADE BLACK HALE BLACK PEHALE I WHITE HALE WHITE FEMALE ! PRE-K I \u0026gt; 9 . KIHDERGARTEH 12 8 I i I 0 0 1ST GRADE 8 17 i 2 0 2ND GRADS 13 15 1 i 3RD GRADE 16 16 4TH GRADE 11 STH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 13 18 18 Do you have a full time counselor in your building?. Is there an additional counselor, 450? i'/A ves tl l{ i! if your enrollment is over Do you have a full time social worker?i^oif so, is he/she in the building every day? Ve have one every seventh day. On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office or disciplinary actions?. How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school vear? Expults:-ii onnncs'?? 0 Do you have in-school suspension? No I 0 0 0 i s IT 4 1 0 0 0 I 1 0 0 Stephens 8. If not, explain. We do not have the space. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 14 Expulsions? 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 11. How many students receive free/reduced Ixinch? 185 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. 13. How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care^ Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average niuaber of certified personnel absent each day? 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. Khat percentage of the staff is nontenured? 29 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second 1anguace? 0 18. Is a foreign lang^PS teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? full tine / part- no 19. 20. time / (circle one) Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 35 What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 191 Percentage of attendance_2^4 0 0 2 6 0 0 3Introduction I.THEMES/PROGRAM SPECIALISTS In compliance with the Judge's court orders, the District has made an honest effort to assist the schools in developing themes and hiring theme specialists for the Incentive Schools. Due to the transition period of the new superintendent, the hiring process was delayed. The District kept the Monitoring Office apprised of this situation, and the grave illness of the Director of Human Resources, who was responsible for reciniitment and assisting with the hiring procedure. Each principal was provided assistance by the Desegregation Facilitator and the Director of Magnet Schools on ways to involve parents and staff in developing themes. Magnet school theme sumreys, brochures, and other helpful tips were provided by both offices. At this time, surveys have been sent to all the school communities for their input, and themes have been selected. Job descriptions have been written and Human Resources has advertised the positions and they are filled. The Themes for each school are cited below: Mitchell - Creative Dramatics Ish - Environmental Education Garland - Multimedia Technology and Education Research Franklin - Communications Technology Rightsell - Mass Media and Career Awareness Rockefeller - Rockefeller Early Childhood Education Magnet - Computer Science II. Staffing Committee with the assistance of the Desegregation Facilitator, staffing committeecomposed of principals, t__:___, ______, administrators, and members of the Joshua Intervenors--has been a diverse teachers, parents, organized and has developed criteria and steps for hiring all new staff to Incentive Schools. A representative interview team of 5-7 members was selected from each school to interview and make recommendations for the hiring of unfilled staff positions. Program Specialists will be responsible for inservicing staff and writing curriculum for the Incentive Schools. This committee also developed a Needs Assessment and made recommendations regarding whether these unfilled positions cited in the Desegregation Plan should be filled.III. Unfilled Positions 1. 2. 3. 4. Alternative Classroom Specialists Assistant Principals Social Workers Spanish Teachers The recommendations made by the Staffing Committee are: Recommendations SCHOOL ALTERNATIVE CLASSROOM SPECIALIST ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL SOCIAL WORKER SPANISH TEACHER ROCKEFELLER 1.00 Not requested .50 .50 STEPHENS Not requested 1.00 Not requested Not requested GARLAND Not requested 1.00 1.00 Not requested FRANKLIN 1.00 Not requested 1.00 Not requested ISH Not requested 1.00 Not requested Not requested RIGHTSELL Not requested 1.00 1.00 .50 MITCHELL Not requested 1.00 .50 Not requested IV. Science Labs Science Labs have been placed in every Incentive School so that teachers and students will have better access to science materials and be able to adequately do experiments, vill be stored in the science rooms. V. Homework Hotline All science materials The plan specifies that a Homework Hotline is available for students who do not attend the Homework Centers. During the 1991- 92 school year the student's interest declined substantially in the Homework Hotline. During the period of 11/26/91 to 1/9/92. the 92, number of calls de^^xned to a total of twenty- oklve. Due to the continued decrease in the number of calls from Little Rock School District children it was determined that students would be given flyer about the AP\u0026amp;L Hotline for the- 1992-93 school year. VI. Information Hotline An Information Hotline is maintained by the Student Assignment Office for parents who will need additional information about the Incentive Schools. The number (688-3085) has been published in the newspaper by the Communication Department, and will be published again in April for recruitment purposes. VII. Instructional Aides An instructional aide has been added to every classroom in the two schools that have one or more classes that exceed twenty students.Cemmunicai ions I Aisoc Supt Opanizational \u0026amp; Leomrig Equrt/ J Etteciive Schools Student Assignment I Monilorirtg I  lmpternentai\u0026gt;orV Plarvw^ I EvaluMiort Pubc Schools Before-1 L,.^er School CARE Parent Recruit merS Parent Coordinator BOARD OF DIRECTORS I Superintendent Human Hesouroeef MmmSmSm\u0026amp;SL I Assoc. Sup). School OpwaL ACtmato I Assoc. SufC Ctaria4um\u0026amp; I Leaning knpivrrt. I Hearino ONicar IncerShre Schools (7) Heading Hne A^ Su^. ElemerSary 15 Schools Aesl.Supl. ElemerSwy 14 SdhooH 1 Asai. b Secondary I USchoob I Language Aris Soence Prineipala Prirvipab Principals Mathematics Teachers Teachers Teachers New Futures Alhletica ARemitare teaming Social Studws kistnictiorta)' Technology Physical Education Orvglt Health Education Earl^ Childhood Staft OevelopmerS Little Rock School District Organizational Structure September 1992 1 ' Maruger Resotjrces \u0026amp; School St\u0026lt;3poil I Vocational Controller Risk Management _ Foderai Programs/ Grants Faotites Services Procurement Eioeplional Children Adu* Education Library Services Foreign Language Transpo rial tort Food Serviois Security Data Pfocv4s.r\u0026gt;g i 1 I LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 W. MARKHAM STREET LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS A A .1 April 19, 1993 received APR 2 ) 1995 MEMORANDUM Office of Dosesrsgation Monitoring TO: Horace R. Smith, Associate Monitor, ODM FROM: Arma J. Hart, Desegregation Facilitator SUBJECT: INCENTIVE SCHOOL STAFFING NEEDS ASSESSMENT Thank you for your observations and input regarding the incentive schools staffing needs assessment content and process. Your comments detailed the sentiment of the district and my comments to you regarding the purpose of the needs assessment, during your brief visit in my office. As I stated to you at that time, the work of the Staffing Committee was not final and they would reconvene to review and analyze the findings before making a final recommendation. Other information that provided the basis for the individual school recommendation that was not privileged to you was certain data in the individual school's profile and School Improvement Plan, during the meeting for members to discuss Time was devoted regarding enrollment. parent attendance. and analyze economic status data of parents, support services already available, and services presently provided by other staff. The parents even discussed the possibility of eliminating some existing positions as we evaluate programs in the future. You mentioned in oouurr conversation that the proposed staffing recommendations made by the schools should be aligned with what their greatest needs are. At our April 3, 1993 meeting, I reiterated the charge of the committee. Given the District's limited resources, it was decided to prioritize all recommendations before resubmitting them. As you know, these positions have not been recommended for hiring at this time. After the staffing committee completes its work. Mrs. Bernard will request appropriate district personnel to review the recommendations carefully and meet with the staffing committee once again before final recommendations are made to the superintendent. Mrs. Estelle Matthis will also be involved in this process since Spanish is a curriculum issue. Mr. Horace Smith April 19, 1993 Page 2 Most of the persons involved on the staffing committee had no previous knowledge on how to develop, conduct and analyze a needs assessment. However, we feel they have shown great commitment to this task and ultimately to total school improvement. Since parents and members of the Joshua Interyenors are represented on this committee. other parents by developing and the committee did not see a need to involve assessment. sending out another needs I am sure the committee chairpersons and members will appreciate any assistance you can provide in the completion of this task. 5:30 p.m. Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 26, 1993 at Horace, Thank you, for your suggestions, guidance and help in reaching the goals of our Desegregation Plan. seeing you at one of our committee meetings. We look forward to AH/sh cc: Janet Bernard AH0415 iDate: April 14, 1993 MEMORANDUM From: To: Subject: Horace R. Smith, Associate Monitor, ODM Arma Hart, Desegregation Facilitator, Little Rock School District Incentive Schools Staffing Needs Assessment Pursuant to our March 30,1993 meeting, I am submitting some observations regarding the incentive schools staffing needs assessment content and process. The staffing needs assessment process should transcend simple plan compliance and actually provide an excellent means of determining how best to serve incentive school students while meeting the districts goal of fiscal responsibility. An effective staffing needs assessment should help the district determine which positions are needed as well as those which dont efficiently meet student needs. Both decisions should be based on a thorough analysis of quantifiable data and standardized objective correlates between need factors and ways (positions, etc.) to deal with those factors (meet the needs). For example, if a school expresses a need for a full-time social worker because \"We have many families with special needs\", it is not unreasonable to request that the need be quantified in terms of the number of families and examples of the types of \"special needs\" they have. Otherwise, there is no tangible basis on which to request a social worker or a specific period of time for which that social worker is needed. Quantifying specific staffing needs helps district planning in the following ways: 1. 2. 3. Brings student needs in individual schools into focus in a data-driven manner Provides measurable criteria on which to make staffing decisions Establishes a baseline against which progress can be measured and program/staffing modifications recommended. The individual school rationales for positions lack substantive data to buttress their staffing requests. They also lack any rationale for why certain positions are not needed. There are at least two obvious reasons why a recommended position in the plan would not be filled: 1) It was already filled prior to this needs assessment (e.g., instructional aides) 2) The responsibilities of that position are being effectively accomplished by others. In the latter case, it is still important to document how those responsibilities are being effectively carried out. The most frequent examples of this were the Spanish teacher and alternative classroom specialist positions. Five schools didnt request these positions and offered no explanations as to why. As I mentioned during our conversation, the assessment and the resulting requests seemed to indicate a perception by the schools that they should request the positions they desired most rather than all of the ones they need. The thinking may have been one of \"putting all of their eggs in one basket\" out of fear that numerous requests would decrease the probability of receiving the position(s) (e.g., assistant principal) they most desire. 1 have outlined observations regarding each schools staffing needs assessment in terms of some of the basic information an effective needs assessment should contain. These observations provide examples of questions to prompt further thought and should not be considered to be all inclusive. I will comment on the rationales for assistant principals separately. Franklin Certified Full-time Alternative Classroom Teacher: The rationale mentions that this teacher would provide \"an immediate, structured consequence for a student who displays inappropriate behavior.\" The rationale contains no reference to specific needs such as the type of \"inappropriate behaviors\" and the frequency of these behaviors as a disruptive element of the school environment. Reference could be made to referrals (12 per day at Franklin according to the needs assessment). However, not all referrals are going to need the use of an alternative classroom as an intervention. Social Worker: Mentions that the social worker would be involved with \"court referrals due to attendance, abuse and neglect\". How many cases is the school currently involved with in the course of a year? Who handles this responsibility now and why cant they continue to do so? What are the fundamental needs of students (e.g. housing, clothing, etc.) that the social worker might be instrumental in providing? How many students have these needs? Why would a full-time social worker be needed rather than a part-time? The answer to this question would involve determining the number of students in need, the degree of individual need and the amount of time considered reasonable to effectively meet those needs. A school social worker could be instrumental in helping the school staffing committee determine the amount of time. Spanish Teacher: Why is there not a need for a Spanish teacher? Are the goals and objectives described in the plan being met effectively without a teacher? What is the criteria for evaluating whether the goals and objectives are being met? Garland Social Worker: The rationale states that the social worker will make \"social investigations in a home when student observations and/ or discussions indicate: chronic absentees\ndeviant behavior, apparent neglect or need\nemotional or mental disturbance.\" A question which is not answered is to what quantifiable degree these problems are present at Garland. There is also some question as to the types of services a social worker would provide in cases of \"deviant behavior\" and \"emotional disturbance\". Will the services envisioned entail referral? Therapy? The type of services will dictate the individual qualifications of the social worker required for this building. The rationale further mentions that 95% of students are from single parent households. This statistic has little meaning on its own. The relevance is in explaining the risk factors associated with living in a single parent family combined with living in poverty. As with Franklin, the determination of the time a social worker is required should be based on a formula which relates identified needs to the amount of time reasonably needed to address them on the average. A school social worker could help determine the amount of time Garland specifically needs a social worker. There are eight homeless students at Garland. What are the special needs of these students that the expertise of a social worker could fulfill? Alternative Classroom Specialist: According to the assessment, the number of out of school suspensions dropped from 65 during the 1991-92 school year to one thus far in the 1992-93 school year. An alternative classroom specialist was not requested. However, one of the factors supporting the need for a social worker was the 65 out of school suspensions for the 1991-92 school year. There seems to be an inconsistency in the use of the numbers as related to the staffing requests. Spanish Teacher: Why is there not a need for a Spanish teacher? Are the goals and objectives described in the plan being met effectively without a teacher? What is the criteria for evaluating whether the goals and objectives are being met? Ish I Social Worker: A social worker was not requested. The assessment reveals that 885% of Ish students are on free or reduced lunch and 75% are from single-parent homes. Although they havent thoroughly documented the need, the schools with similar demographic characteristics have requested either full or part-time social workers. Is there a particular reason why Ish does not need a social worker? Are the needs of Ish students which may have been met by a social worker being met in other ways? If so, how are they being met? (This information may also be helpful to the other schools.). Is there substantive data that reveals that the social and physical problems with which a social worker could help are not as prevalent at Ish? Alternative Classroom Specialist: The assessment data revealed that there were nine out-of- school suspensions thus far this school year, compared to three during the 1991-92 school year. What interventions are present at Ish which preclude the need for an alternative classroom specialist? Spanish Teacher: Why is there not a need for a Spanish teacher? Are the goals and objectives described in the plan being met effectively without a teacher? What is the criteria for evaluating whether the goals and objectives are being met?Mitchell Social Worker: The rationale states \"The increased emotional and social needs of families due to the dramatic change in our school neighborhood, increased needs for families needing more access to community-based services together with increased services needed because of apparent neglect and/ or chronic absenteeism...\". This description is provided as the reason the position of social worker should be elevated to 50 FTE. Is there information which indicates the types and degree of needs specific to the Mitchell population? For example, there must be some basis in fact for the committee to include \"neglect and/or chronic absenteeism\" as part of the rationale. What is that basis? A start might be to tie in the fact that Mitchell has the highest number of homeless students (20) among the incentive schools according to the assessment. Without any type of data it is impossible to determine if a 50 FTE social worker will effectively meet the needs of the Mitchell student population. Once quantified, the identified need will then drive not only the request for a position but also the amount of time a person will be needed to effectively begin to meet the needs of students and their families. Alternative Classroom Specialist: The position was not requested. Mitchells discipline statistics reveal a low number of out-of-school suspensions and a comparatively low number of referrals. This type of information could form the basis of a rationale for why Mitchell doesnt presently need an alternative classroom specialist. Mitchell also has one of the lowest percentages (10%) of nontenured teachers among the incentive schools. Does this statistic combined with the data on suspensions and referrals indicate effective classroom Interventions? If so, these and other schoolwide interventions should be part of the rationale for why this position is not necessary. This information could also be of benefit to other schools where discipline may be a problem. (Again, a situation where the assessment serves several purposes.) Spanish Teacher: Why is there not a need for a Spanish teacher? Are the goals and objectives outlined in the plan being met effectively without a teacher? What is the criteria for evaluating whether the goals and objectives are being met? Rightsell Social Worker: The Rightsell rationale mentions the need for a social worker to \"promote and sustain student attendance\". Yet the average daily percentage of attendance at Rightsell is 975% according to the information provided in the needs assessment. Is there an attendance problem warranting the services of a social worker? If so, does this indicate that the 25% of absent students are basically a recurrent group? In that case, that would represent approximately seven students based on the schools current enrollment. There is a need for more clarity and explanation of the request for a social worker as it relates to attendance. Also \"promptness\" is mentioned. Assuming that this relates to tardy students, what percentage of students are tardy and to what degree does this disrupt not only their education but that of others? The rational also refers to the need for a social worker to make \"social investigations\" when there is some indication of \"chronic absentees, deviant behavior, neglect, emotional disturbance.\" To what degree are absenteeism, deviant behavior, neglect, or emotional disturbance problems at Rightsell? There is some disagreement between the principal and the committee as to the amount of time a social worker is needed. The committee favors a full-time social worker and the principal believes \"that one (1) day per week would help to meet minimum social welfare needs.\" Identification of specific needs at Rightsell and the time necessary to reasonably meet those needs would solve the difference of opinion on a more factual basis. Alternative Classroom Teacher\nRightsell didnt request this position according to the chart of recommendations. However, the rationale provided by the committee states \"Students could still be educated and not on the streets. This could be a shared position with 2 or 3 other schools.\" This indicates that the committee favored some form of alternative classroom teacher. However, the principal noted under the committee rationale that she personally disagreed with the committee recommendation. Apparently the principals position was favored over the committees in the final recommendation. Again, this disagreement could be avoided if the rationale for the position was based on discipline data and knowledge of building-based interventions. The data would either reflect a need for an alternative classroom and teacher or provide evidence that the school is presently dealing effectively with discipline. ( Spanish/Latin Teacher\nRightsells committee recommends one day per week of \"Spanish or Latin\" instruction as a minimum. There is no statement of how instructional goals and objectives arent presently being met. The committee does state that \"Students are not interested in the AETN Spanish program.\" How can the committee determine that one day per week with a teacher should be a minimum if the there has been no effort to determine whether program goals described in the plan are being met? Rockefeller Alternative Classroom Specialist\nThe rationale given is actually a job description rather than a reason the position should be filled. Among reasons that could be given are the high rate of out-of-school suspensions and referrals at Rockefeller. Also, the rationale might include some anecdotal information regarding what happens academically and socially to suspended students in the absence of any type of intervention. Additional Auxiliary Teacher\nThe rationale explains that Rockefeller needs this position due to the fact that it has a large staff with more than one certified teacher absent on any given day. It further states that \"S.O.S. cannot supply enough substitute teachers on many occasions.\" The information which would strengthen the case for this position or lead to the investigation of other options would be the teacher absentee rate, number of times substitutes have not been available during the current school year, and a description of the type of responsibilities this teacher would have when not serving as a substitute. Social Worker\nThe rationale describes \"many\" families with \"special needs\" but fails to quantify the number of families or describe the types of needs. The social worker is described as providing assistance in eliminating \"excessive absences.\" Is the absentee problem one of a high daily percentage of absences or a few students who are habitually absent? The answer to that question begins to reveal the type of assistance a social worker could provide and the amount of time services would be required by the school. As it stands, the rationale provides no insight into why Rockefeller would be better served by a JO FTE rather than a 1.00 FTE social worker. Spanish Teacher: Rockefeller did request a JO FTE Spanish teacher. However, there is no rationale for the amount of time requested. How well are the goals and objectives described in the plan being addressed? What is the criteria for evaluating whether the goals and objectives are being met? Stephens Alternative Classroom Specialist\nNot requested. There is no mention of why Stephens does not need an Alternative Classroom Specialist. What are the schools discipline statistics? What are the interventions in place at the classroom and building level to deal with disciplinary problems and provide alternatives to suspension? According to the assessment data, Stephens has the second highest number of out-of-school suspensions of any of the incentive schools thus far for the 1992-93 school year. Social Worker: A social worker was not requested. The assessment reveals that 963% of Stephens students are on free or reduced lunch and single-parent home data was not provided. Although they havent thoroughly documented the need, the schools with similar demographic characteristics have requested either full or part-time social workers. Is there a particular reason why Stephens does not need a social worker? Are the needs of Stephens students which may have been met by a social worker being met in other ways? If so, how are they being met? (As mentioned with Ish, this type of information may also be helpful to the other schools.). Is there substantive data that reveals that the social and physical problems with which a social worker would deal are not as prevalent at Stephens? Spanish Teacher: Not requested. Why is there not a need for a Spanish teacher? Are the goals and objectives outlined in the plan being met effectively without a teacher? What is the criteria for evaluating whether the goals and objectives are being met? Requests For Assistant Principals Ish, Garland, Mitchell, Rightsell, and Stephens each requested assistant principals. Rockefeller and Franklin presently have assistant principals based on their population. The May 1992 Court Order stated \"The district must place an assistant principal, or any other staff position which has been recommended in the plan, in accordance with equitably meeting the identified needs of the staff and students in a particular school. For example, an assistant principal may be needed to help with additional documentation, services, and enhancements that are required at the incentive schools.\" It is important to emphasize the phrase \"identified needs of the staff and students in a particular school.\" This indicates that the assessment of need for an assistant principal should reflect the individual needs of each building. The rationales given by the five schools requesting assistant principals dont reflect individual needs. In fact, all five rationales are almost identical. Like the other position requests, they lack any type of specific quantification of needs. An area frequently mentioned as a rationale for an assistant principal was the \"amount of documentation required for desegregation purposes.\" How much documentation is generated? How frequently is information required? To whom is the documentation submitted? Is it necessary in all cases that the principal be responsible for the preparation of the documentation? Not only is it important to make this type of assessment at the building level, but also at the central administrative level. Recently, ODM requested an audit of the type of documents and reports generated by the district, when, and by whom. The purpose of this request was to accurately determine the type of information needed by our office and when it would be most efficient and reasonable to request it. This is an attempt to streamline our process and eliminate unnecessary data and duplication. A similar audit of the types of documentation required of the incentive schools may prove to be valuable as you address staffing issues. Parent/ Community Involvement As I mentioned during our meeting, the low degree of parental input into the needs assessment process is of concern. Both the district and circuits courts have frequently emphasized the importance of substantive parent involvement. Parental input into the needs assessment process included in most cases only the parents on the individual school staffing committees. Broader parental input and information about community involvement would prove valuable in developing a more comprehensive composite of the schools and their needs. The following information might be a starting point. Transportation: have own car\nuse city bus\nuse taxi\nwalk\nother travel arrangements Level of volunteer activity in the building: number of volunteers number of school partners types of services provided by parents, volunteers, and partners average number of volunteer service hours per month Comparison of Services Valuable information can be gained in the assessment process by comparing the types of positions at the incentive schools. What position(s) (full-time and part-time) does one incentive school have that another doesnt and why? (e.g., last year, only Stephens had a full- time social worker.)As I stated during our conversation and earlier in this memo, the staffing needs assessment is more far-reaching than a \"wish list\" for incentive school personnel. It should be the very heart of planning for e success of those schools. As such, it also plays a vital role in the overall scheme of district program and budgetary strategies. The needs assessment should be viewed as a continuing process rather than an isolated event. The following diagram outlines the benefits of the assessment process. It is also readily apparent that the various areas of benefit are also interrelated. SHOULD HELP OeFINE/CLARIFY RELATIONSHB'S AND RESPONSIBILmES WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND BETWEEN THE SCHOOL AND CENTRAL OFFICE. SHOUUJ act AS A COMPONENT OP A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM EVAUIATION SYSTEM BY WHKH PROGRAM EFFEt. 11VENESS CAN SE liCASUREQ ANO MOODnCATIONS RECOMMENDED. Incentive Schools Staffing Needs Assessment SHOULD AID THE aUDGCTINa PROCESS BY OCTERMNBia SPECIFIC AREAS OP WED ANO WHERE RESOUnCESZRESPOMSiaEJTIES CAN BE REDBnOBUTEDL CTERMMNG STAFFWa CRITERIA SHOULD ENTAIL DOENTVKATnN OK STUDENT NEEDS (STUDENT Body CoiieusiiE). THn \"PICTURE* OF TW STUDENT POPULATION HELPS THE SCHOOL \"FOCUST SERVICES. gMrnnpwrtVinrniin-rw^AMiwAfir OBTERIA FOK YEAKLY STAFFMa OCOSIONS. cc\nJanet BernardSCHOOL R0CK2FSLLER STEPHENS GARLAND FRANKLIN ISH RIGHTSELL MITCHELL Reconunendations ALTERNATIVE CLASSROOM SPECIALIST 1.00 Not requested Not requested 1.00 Not requested Not requested ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Not requested 1.00 1.00 Not requested 1.00 1.00 SOCIAL WORKER .50 Not requested 1.00 1.00 Not raquesXsd 1.00 SPANISH TEACHER .50 Not requested Not requested Not requested Not requested .50 Not requested 1.00 .50 Not requested !PROGRAM SPECIALISTS HIRED 1992-93 SCHOOL POSITION NAME OF PERSON HIRED RIGHTSELL Mass Media and Career Awareness Specialist Stacy Blacknall ISH Environmental Education Specialist Belinda White ROCKEFELLER Early Childhood Education Magnet/ Computer Science Specialist Mary Kay Roe MITCHELL Creative Dramatic Specialist Mary Trulock FRANKLIN Communications Technology Specialist Berthena Nunn GARLAND Multimedia Technology and Educational Research Specialist David L. JoneslaCWJTSCa SCHOOi St\u0026amp;awias -gryatPjai NAME OF SCHOOL Franklin Incentive School PRINCIPAL Mr. Franklin Davis 1. How many students are enrolled? 407 GRADE BLACK HALE BLACK FEMALE WHITE MALE WHITE FEHALE PRE-K KiroERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 2ND. GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE 6TH GRADE Self-contained 2. 5. 7. 18 19 21 25 29 23 15 21 7 20 2k 20 19 20 10  19 Do you have a full time counselor in your building?. ves fsnbstitute) Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in No, the Social Worker comes one day everx- two weeks On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions?. average 12 How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year?. Expulsions?, Do you have in-school suspension? IKL 4 . 6. 9 2 A 1 T I ) T I I I 1 2L 3 6 1 3 1 A 0 i I 2 3 1 A 1 1 0 A 0 0Franklin J 1 8. If not, explain. We do not have an empty classrocm to hold rhe in-schro3 suspension in. We do not have a full-time-certified teacher to hold the in-school suspension. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 18 Expulsions? 10. 10- self-contai How many students are enrolled in special education? is -in toinnrpp 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 3A2 26 -Speech 1 -Visually im 12. Estimate the percentage of your homes. 75% tudents from single-parent How many homeless students attend your school. non? knam, 14. 15. 17 . 13. Foster Care none known Residential Care Facilities What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 5 What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. What percentage of the s is nontenured? How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? none Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? tine / (circle one) No full time / part- 15. 0 a 9 60 r 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above:  63 _____ 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 339 Percentage of attendance._9Li?^SCHOOL LiasEiS iissasawwf NAME OF SCHOOL A ScXrknd PRINCIPAL 1. How many students are enrolled? r r GRADE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 21 GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6, 7. BLACK MALE jg IQ _ IS 1^ 10 K BLACK FEMALE J5. 15. l\u0026lt;0 15 12 ik 15 WHITE HALE | WHITE FEMALE 1 _L 0 0 o !i 1! I! Do you have a full time counselor in your building?. Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? Ho Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in Mo - ^V\\c is oncfc every stven One -Pull 4~1fne. ___________________________________ On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? O - 2- How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? Expulsions? Q. Du you have in-schoo'. i^u^pcnsion? KQ. I 1 I I I I \u0026lt;1 0 Q O 0 I I J8. If not, explain. m. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? Expulsions? 'S fckanyd fo It SiASpntJ 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? lU 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? qpy, w 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. g5% 13. How many homeless students attend your school. 'Me 14. 16. 17. 18. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 2. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 15 What percentage of the staff is nontenured? How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) Un. full time / part- 15. 0 8 O.\u0026amp; (X. 3 Io fli-RenJ 19 . 20. Identify the number orf students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: Khat is the average daily membership for the first quarter ofXaCiiSKI'TSCSi SCHOOL aw5-Tas 'iisiSDS ^issassii-xsLia' NAME OF SCHOOL Ish Incentive School PRINCIPAL Stan Strauss 1. How many students are enrolled? 174 GRADE BLACK KALE BLACK FEMALE WHITE KALE WHITE FEMALE 3 PRE-K KINDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE II 8 5 9 6 1 1 0 2 0 0 2!n3 GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE STH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 16 15 JL 7 10 12 9 JL 15 19 li 0 1! II II Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Counselor resigned 1-29-93 no Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in no 5. oh a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions?. 6. How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? Expulsions?. 7. Do you have in-school suspension? VP?: 0 2 0 I 0 0 4 1 0 0 0Ish 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 3 Expulsions? 0 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? Q 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 154 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. 13. How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 8% 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? 0 18. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? __time / (circle one) No full time / part- 2 0 0 0 i 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above\n__________ 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 173 Percentage of attendance gfi dS's:TO: FROM: * \u0026gt; / r II k k LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL i h Ik I DISTRICT Mitchell Elementary School 24'* \u0026amp; Battery Streets  Phone 324-2415 March 3, 1993 Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Ms. Arma Hart, Desegregation Facilitator b^ita Hudspeth, Principal, Mitchell Needs Assessment for Assistant Principal, Social Worker. Alternative Classroom Teacher and Attached to this memorandum is the completed needs assessment. a .50 Social Worker. unis memoranaum tne The Committee recommends a full time Vice-Principal as well as an increase to primary justification for the Vice-Principal is indicated at the bottom of page two and page three. a The The Committee feels that in order to benefit from the services of Social Worker this position must be elevated to at least .50 FTE. The increased emotional and social needs of families due to the dramatic change in our school neighborhood, increased needs for families needing more access to community-based services together with increased services -needed because of apparent neglect and/or chronic absentism, head the list for why we believe our school population would benefit from a halftime social worker. At this time, the Committee does not believe a need exists for an alternative classroom. SCESOOli n aS3S3aiW p SMS OF SCHOOL Mitchell Elementary Schnnl PRINCIPAL Donita Hudspeth 1. How many students are enrolled? 255 GRADE PRE-K BLACK HALE KINDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE STH GRADE  2. 3. 4.  5. 6. 7. 14 12 18 la J-5. 22 11 BLACK FEMALE 5_______ 9 kz 25 14. lA 11 Do you have a full time Is there an additional 450?.____ Do you have WHITE MALE 4 1 3 1 .1 3. 1 WHITE FEMALE 3 1 k 1 1 i 0 counselor, in your building? i !\u0026lt; . Yes counselor, if your enrollment is -u  1 J  full time social worker? the building every day? We have a social worker over If so, is he/she in every seventh day. average, how many students principal s office for disciplinary Preventive _ actions? as well as problems already are referred to the tions? J Do you have in-school suspension? yes Mitchell f- A 8. 9. 10. 11. 12, 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. If not, explain. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? Expulsions? none How many students are enrolled in special education? How many students receive free/reduced lunch? Over 902 27 Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 15 What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 102 How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? nnnp Is a foreign langj^uge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? no full time / part- time / (circle one) Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: A A 1 20. Khat is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 260 Percentage of attendance 982 esii-The membership at Mitchell increased by fifty-one percent during the Of that number, approximately two-thirds entered We now have approximately This combined 91-92 school year. reading at least one year below level, Wc iiww 40 nercent of our students functinoniqg below grade level. with the number of extra, programs witbin the incentive school creates a very difficult task. The number of programs include but is not limitea to the following: P . School Themes . Extended Day . Saturday Enrichment . Latin  Spanish .. Student Education Plans Learning Styles  Monthly Reporting to Parents Instructional Aides . Special Interest Clubs . Rites of Passage . Wellness Program . Writing to Read .  Teacher Demonstration/Master Teacher Prcgram 3CE!OOJj saayzcas {rygnai :i\\33'5ig!3t.ryi!f-H NAME OF SCHOOL Rightsell PRINCIPAL Sharon Davis 1. How many students are enrolled? 249 GRADE BLACK HALE BLACK FEMALE WHITE HALE WHITE FEMALE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN _Z. 12 10 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 17 19 15 25 20 17 16 15 14 13 14 21 Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in The seven incentive schools share a social worker. approximately two times per month. She is in our building On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? 2 Expulsions? Do you have in-school suspension? Yes 2 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0Ri ghtsell 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 12 Expulsions? 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? Over 90% 0 7 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. Over 85% 13. How many homeless students attend your school. None 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities None What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 1 to 2 What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. What percentage of.the staff is nontenured? 8% How many children in your school spi-ak Spanish as a second language? Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? No full time / part- time / (circle one) Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 77 What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 245 Percentage of attendance 97.55 0 2 1TiiGSfflW: scaooi 3\u0026lt;K?y?znjs jisaasst^w NAME OF SCHOOL Rockefeller Incentive School PRINCIPAL Anne Mangan 1. How many students are enrolled? 410 GRADE PRE-K KIHOERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE STH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. BLACK KALE ?1 15. 18 18 ii 14 -12 17 135 BLACK FEMALE lA 18 20 12 11 ___Li 14  140 WHITE HALE 12 12 10 5 1 _1 0 61 WHITE FEMALE 21 11 15 9 5 JL 5 74 Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in No, one social worker rotates to the seven incentive Total 92 58 61 52 36 38 37 36 410 schools. On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? .? to 8 gtnHpnfg How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? ____r Expulsions?j g^^jj^hearing 7. Do you have in-school suspension? but generally do not. We have hhd in-school suspensions AJHAJH Rockefeller 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. is. If not, explain. A.seruflff1, ,te^Qhfir n needed tn be in charge oF an ak.rn.iH-? who have difficulty in performing in a regular classroom How many out-of-school - Expulsions? suspensions did you have last 2 How many students are enrolled 1 in special education? How many students receive free/reduced Estimate the percentage of homes. 50% - 60% e StnHont-q setting. year? lunch? p^ee-240. 4 yr - 6th grade your students from singleparent How many homeless students attend your school. 0 Foster Care 6 Residential Care Facilities What is the average number of day? 2_______ 0 certified personnel absent each ' 4 What percentage of the staff is How many children in 1 anguage ?0 nontenured? 24% your school speak Spanish Is a foreign langauge teacher hired during the regular school day? time / (circle one) Identify the number of as a second in your building to teach No fun Um,* /___ full time / partstudents scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the recent norm-reference test? 69 -20. What is the 1992-93 school year? student at/above\naverage daily membership for the first 308 quarter of Percentage of attendance 96.04s\n- 315r2SLi'W2' NAME OF SCHOOL Stephens \u0026lt;? PRINCIPAL Lonnie S. Dean 1. How many students are enrolled? 192 GRADE BLACK HALE BLACK FEMALE WHITE MALE WHITE FEMALE ! PRE-K Is 1 1 2 , KINDERGARTEN 12 S I I 0 0 l! |i 1ST GRADE 8 17 2 0 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE i 6TH GRADE 2. 4 . 5. 6 . 7. 13 16 11 13 18 I 1 15 16 8 4 18 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 I 1 0 0 Do you have a full time counselor in your building?. ves 11 !l 11 ! Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 4 5C?_N2i______ Do you have a full time social worker?NIf so, is he/she in the building every day? We have one every seventh day. On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? 3 How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? ^0 Expulsions? Do you have in-school suspension? No f Stephens 8. If not, explain. We do not have the space. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 14 Expulsions? 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 11. How many students receive free/reduced Itinch? 185 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes.______ 13 . How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 29 0 0 6 0 0 2 3 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language ? 0 18. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) no full time / part- 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 191 Percentage of attendance 96.34SCHOOL ^ssassHaaa' NAME OF SCHOOL Franklin Incentive School PRINCIPAL Mr. Franklin Davis 1. How many students are enrolled? 407 GRADE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN BLACK HALE 18 19 BLACK FEMALE 9 20 WHITE MALE 19 2 I WHITE FEMALE 2 3 1ST GRADE 31 34   2ND. GRADE 3RD GRADE 4'rH GRADE I STH GRADE 6TH GRADE Self-contained I i 25 29 23 15 4 7 I 2. 4 . 5. 6. 7. 20 19 20 10 2^ 3 ) 1 1 3 1 3. 0 I I A 1 1 0 A 0 Do you have a full time counselor in your building? ve.? (substitute) Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over ' 450? Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in No, the Social Worker comes one day every two weeks On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? average 12 How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year?. 6 Expulsions?. 0 Do you have in-school suspension? noFranklin ! 8. If not, explain. We do not have an empty classrocgn to hold the in-schro] suspension in. We do not have a full-time-certified teacher to hold the in-school suspension. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 18 Expulsions? 10. 10- self-contai How many students are enrolled in special education? rs -rn Rggnnrre 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 342 26 -Speech 1 -Visually im 12 . Estimate the percentage of your homes. 75% tudents from single-parent How many homeless students attend your school. none knom 14. 15. 17. 13. 19. Foster Care none known Residential Care Facilities What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. What is the average number o What percentage of the is nontenured? How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? none Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? No full tine / part- tine / (circle one) Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 3 _______ 15. 0 2 5 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 339 Percentage of attendance_9^%\u0026gt;\\j52ilIAWl^ NAME OF SCHOOL PRINCIPAL  L. Ji- 1. How many students are enrolled? Zll GRADE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 2iro GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE 5TH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. BLACK HALE BLACK FEHALE WHITE MALE WHITE FEMALE 10 Zl 4 11 li 10 15 lb 13 12 Ik 15 JL _L .l 0 0 O b !| Ji Do you have a full time counselor in your building?. Ves Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? Mo Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in Uo - ^V\\c. 15 once, every stven clay^, \\a/\u0026lt; necJ On_ -Pull 4-itne. _________ On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions?. 0-2 How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? Expulsions? Q. Du you have in-schoo'. ^upension? 'NO r II I ( I T i| I n 0 I 1i Q O 0 I 8. If not, explain. 9. 45 How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? -----45------ Expulsions? 5 J CckanyJ fo ID 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? lU 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. 25% 13. How many homeless students attend your school. VjeMg Vxsjt Io a-ftenJ Foster Care Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 2. 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. what percentage of the staff is nontenured? 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? 5 SjieeJt 18. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) full time / part- 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? Percentage of attendance Qoy, 0 8 15 30% o.i (X. seco\u0026lt;\\ASCHOOL LLLOS Ji\\SS2SCkIWl NAME OF SCHOOL Ish Incentive School PRINCIPAL Stan Strauss 1. How many students are enrolled? 174 c GRADE I PRE-K ! KIHDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 2!ID GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3, 4. BLACK KALE 14. 8 16 15 _2 1 10 BLACK FEMALE 12 9 JL 15 19 WHITE KALE a. 0 WHITE FEMALE II II Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Counselor resigned 1-29-93 no Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in no 5. oh a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? 6. How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? Expulsions?. 7. Do you have in-school suspension? VPS 3 5 9 6 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 I 0 0 4 1  0 0Ish 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 3 Expulsions? 0 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? \u0026amp; 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 154 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. 75^ 13. How many homeless students attend your school. Poster Care Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 8? 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? 18. Is a foreign leuigauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? __time / (circle one) No full time / part- J 0 0 0 i 0 19. Identify the nximber of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 4fi 20. Khat is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school vear? 173 Percentage of attendance gfi hmLITTLE ROCK SCHOOL district Mitchell Elementary School 24'* \u0026amp; Battery Streets  Phone 324-2415 Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: March 3, 1993 MEMORANDUM Ms. Arma Hart, Desegregation Facilitator J^ita Hudspeth, Principal, Mitchell Needs Assessment for Assistant Principal, Alternative Classroom Teacher Social Worker, and Attached to this memorandum is the c\nomp--l-e-t--e-d- - -n--e--e--d-s-- --a-s--s-essment. The Vice-Principal as well as an increase to J. J ------- - The primary justification for the VicePrincinal is indicated at the bottom of page two and oaee three. Committee recommends a .50 Social Worker. page two and page three. The Committee feels that in order to benefit from the services of a Social Worker this position must be elevated to at least .50 FTE. increased emotional and social needs of families due to the dramatic change in our school neighborhood, increased needs for families needing more access to community-based services together with increased services -needed because of apparent neglect and/or chronic absentism. for why we believe our school population would benefit from social worker. The head the list a halftime At this time, the Committee does not believe a need exists for an alternative classroom. SCHIOOi  n IH NAME OF SCHOOL Mitchell PRINCIPAL 1. Elementary School Donita Hudspeth How many students are enrolled? 255 GRADE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3rd grade 4TH GRADE STH GRADE STH GRADE ' 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. BLACK HALE _A 14 11 18 12 iS. 22 11 BLACK FEMALE 2 9 12_ 25 14. 14 14 11 WHITE HALE 1 J 1 1. 3. 1 WHITE FEHAT.g ' \" 3 1 k 1 4- i 0 Do you have a full time counselor, in your building? Is there an additional counselor 450? ' Do you have a full time social the building every day? We have a social worker POnr ian edlpaialyJs average, how Preventive Yes if your enrollment is worker? over If so, is he/she in every seventh day. as well as problems already How many students have, x during this school year? Do you have in-school received out-of-school suspensions Expulsions? n suspension? yes Mi tchell } 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? Expulsions? none 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 27 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? Over 902 12, Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. 13. How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? A. 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 102 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language? 18. Is a foreign langj^uge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? no_____ full time / part- time / (circle one) jia 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 20. V?hat is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 260 Percentage of attendance 982 A 1The membership at Mitchell increased by fifty-one percent during the Of that number, approximately two-thirds entered We now have approximately This combined 91-92 school year. reading at least one year below level, ..ww AO oercent of our students functinoniqg below grade level. with the number of extra-programs within the .incentive^school creates^a very difficult task. The number of programs include but is not limited to the following: . School Themes . Extended Day Saturday Enrichment . Latin . Spanish Student Education Plans . Learning Styles . Monthly Reporting to Parents . Instructional Aides . Special Interest Clubs . Rites of Passage  Wellness Program . Writing to Read .  Teacher Demonstration/Master Teacher Pregram scwcrii siEmoas istsLSLcts ii3s:sstixsm' NAME OF SCHOOL Rightsell PRINCIPAL Sharon Davis 1. How many students are enrolled? 249 GRADE BLACK HALE BLACK FEMALE WHITE MALE WHITE FEMALE PRE-K KINDERGARTEN _Z. 12 2 6 2 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE 6TH GRADE 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 17 19 15 25 20 17 10 16 15 14 13 14 21 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Do you have a full time counselor in your building? 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If SO, is he/she in The seven incentive schools share a social worker. approximately two times per month. She is in our building On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? 2 How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? 2 Emulsions? 0 Expulsions? Do you have in-school suspension? Yess, Rightsell 8. If not, explain. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 12 Expulsions? 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? Over 90% 0 7 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. Over 85% 13. How many homeless students attend your school. None 14. 15. 16. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities None What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 1 to 2 What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. What percentage of .the staff is nontenured? 8% 2 1 17. How many children in your school spt.ak Spanish as a second language?^ 0 18. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) No full time / part- 19. Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above: 77 20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 245 Percentage of attendance 97.55rsicss'jws\nscaooi ^r.asirzs :t\\i3:sisaww,-' NAME OF SCHOOL Rockefeller Incentive School PRINCIPAL Anne Mangan 1. How many students are enrolled? 410 GRADE PRE-K KIHDERGARTEM 1ST GRADE 2HD GRADE 3RD GRADE 4IH GRADE STH GRADE 6th grade 2. 3. 4, BLACK KALE 21 11 18 18 1 14 -12 17 135 BLACK FEKALE 11 18 20 12 17 li 14  140 WHITE HALE 11 10 5 _1 0 61 WHITE FEKALE 22. 11 15 9 _2. 5 74 Do you have a full time counselor in your building? Yes Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450? N/A Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in Total 92 58 61 52 36 38 37 36 410 No JL one social worker rotates to the seven incentive schools. 3c: 12 1 2 1 5 5. On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principals office for disciplinary actions? 6. 2_Lo_J5=siiAd e n t s How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school yar?j 2^ Expuls ions hearing 7. Do you have in-school suspension? but generally do not. We have hhd in-school suspensions AJHRockefeller 8. If not, explain. Jl.certififfi teacher i5 needed to be in charge of an akernuHvo 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. AJH who have difficulty in perfa How many out-of-school - Expulsions? e SbnHgnha setting. suspensions did you have last year?  How many students are enrolled in special education? How nany students receive free/reduced lunch? Estimate the percentage of homes. 50% - 60% Eree-24Q. ReHnned-37 yz ~ 6th grade How many homeless students Foster Care 6 your students from single-parent attend your school. Residential Care Facilities What is the average number of 2 0 0 certified personnel absent each What percentage of the staff is How many children in language? 0 nontenured? 24% your school speak Spanish Is a foreign langauge teacher hired the regular school day? time / (circle one) Identify the number of as a second in your building to teach No 1 ,____ full time / part- students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the recent norm-reference test? 69 -20. What is the 1992-93 school year? student at/above\naverage daily membership for the first 308 quarter of Percentage of attendance96.04TilGSsI'JTSCS SCWOi ^grararr)^ is:3saiWJ NAME OF SCHOOL Stephens PRINCIPAL Lonnie S. Dean 1. How many students are enrolled? 192 GRADE BLACK HALE BLACK FEHALE WHITE HALE WHITE FEHALE ! PRE-K 4 4 1 ) 2 KIHDERGARTEN 12 8 S I I 0 0 1ST GRADE 17 2 0 0 i 2ND GRADE 13 15 1 3RD GRADE 16 16 4TH GRADE 11 STH GRADE 13 i 6TH GRADE 2. 5. 7. 18 18 Do you have a full time counselor in your building?. Is there an additional counselor, 450? X/A ves if your enrollment is over Do you have a full time social worker?Noif so, is he/she in the building every day? We have one every seventh day. On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principal's office for disciplinary actions? 3 How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year? ^0 PEvxnpnui lcssi oonnes'?? 0 Do you have in-school suspension? Ko 3. 4. 6 . 1! 8 I tI 4 0 0 0 0 0 I 1 0 0 I Stephens 8. If not, explain. We do not have the space. 9. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? 14 Expulsions? 10. How many students are enrolled in special education? 11. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? 185 12. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes.______ 13. How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities 14. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? 15. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. 16. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? 29 0 0 6 2 0 0 3 17. How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second 1anguage ? Q 18. Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) no full time / part- 19, Identify the number of students scoring at/above the 50th NCE on the most recent norm-reference test? student at/above\n20. What is the average daily membership for the first quarter of 1992-93 school year? 191 Percentage of attendance 96.34PROGRAM SPECIALISTS HIRED 1992-93 SCHOOL POSITION NAME OF PERSON HIRED RIGHTSELL Mass Media and Career Awareness Specialist Stacy Blacknall ISH Environmental Education Specialist Belinda White ROCKEFELLER Early Childhood Education Magnet/ Computer Science Specialist Mary Kay Roe MITCHELL Creative Dramatic Specialist Mary Trulock FRANKLIN Communications Technology Specialist Berthena Nunn GARLAND Multimedia Technology and Educational Research Specialist David L. JonesSCHOOL R0CK27ELLER STEPHENS GARLAND FRANKLIN ISH RIGKTSELL MITCHELL Recommendations ALTERNATIVE CLASSROOM SPECIALIST 1.00 Not requested Not requested 1.00 Not -requested Not requested Not requested ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Not requested 1.00 1.00 Not requested 1.00 1.00 1.00 SOCIAL WORKER .50 Not requested 1.00 1.00 Not r-eques-ted 1.00 .50 SPANISH TEACHER  50 Not requested Not requested Not requested Not requested .50 Not requestedNAME OF SCHOOL PRINCIPAL_______ * 1. How many students are enrolled? GRADE BLACK MALE BLACK FEMALE WHITE MALE WHITE FEMALE PRE-K KIHDERGARTEH 1ST GRADE 2ND GRADE 3RD GRADE 4TH GRADE STH GRADE STH GRADE 2. Do you have a full time counselor in your building?. AJH 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Is there an additional counselor, if your enrollment is over 450?__________ Do you have a full time social worker? the building every day? If so, is he/she in On a daily average, how many students are referred to the principals office for disciplinary actions? How many students have received out-of-school suspensions during this school year?. Do you have in-school suspension? Expulsions?.I 8. If not, explain. * WH 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? ________ Expulsions? How many students are enrolled in special education? How many students receive free/reduced lunch? Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes.______ How mciny homeless students attend your school. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities, I I What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? How many children in your school speak Spanish as a second language ? Is a foreign langauge teacher hired in your building to teach during the regular school day? time / (circle one) Vke -Ct-f \u0026lt;U' jco n\u0026gt;- \u0026lt;3 r f IS \"'A i\\u c: full time / part- O A Scti . J ' I 1 I I ^2ra)3 JiSSiaSSLiiSiaq.-' I NAME OF SCHOOL PRINCIPAL. * 1. I visit the school - daily / weekly / monthly / twice a year/ once a year / only when I have to/, (circle one) ! 2. My child(ren) has been.sent to the principal's office this year for breaking the rules. Yes No 3. My child(ren) has been to see the principal as a reward for good behavior. Yes No 4. When I need to speak -to the principal he/she has time to listen. Yes No 5. I live within two miles of the school. Yes No 6. I have 3 or more children at home. Yes No 7. I am employed / full-time / part-time / not employed, (circle one) 8. My child has gotten into trouble at school for fighting. Yes No 9. My child likes his/her school. Yes No 10. My child has been sent home for getting into trouble at school. Yes No f t r I 11. My child has trouble sitting still in the classroom. No_____ Yes 12. My child likes to talk. Yes No 13. My child gets upset when he/she doesn't know the substitute teacher. Yes No 14. The best time of the day for me to come to school to talk to my child teacher is   1 I iDisciplinary actions are very time consuming, and depending on the number and severity of the problems, could have a negative impact on the principals ability to concentrate on other areas of importance in the school. 5. How many students are enrolled in special education? Special education students bring unique problems and situations to a school. Couple that with students from economically and socially deprived backgrounds and the need for specialized intervention grows exponentially. Social workers are of enormous benefit to faculty and parents because they can serve as facilitators in arranging services or providing intervention for this high-risk population. They can train faculty and parents in methods to work with these students in areas that are not directly related to curriculum and instruction, but are important to their educational process. 6. How many students receive free/reduced lunch? The answer to this question helps to determine the number and proportion of economically disadvantaged students in the school. The higher the number, the greater need for specialized social services. 7. Estimate the percentage of your students from single-parent homes. Single parent homes are generally headed by females. This often means smaller incomes and little to no male influence in child-rearing. The lack of proper role models or the presence of an overworked parent can lead to problems that place families at risk of winding up in the social service or criminal justice system. A social worker may be the difference between success or failure for some of these families. 8. How many homeless students attend your school. Foster Care Residential Care Facilities (Dorcas House, Battered Womens Shelter, Elizabeth Mitchell, etc.) These speak for themselves. 9. Do you have in-school suspension? The LRSD desegregation plan commits to placing alternatives to suspension in each school. (LRSD Desegregation Plan, April 29, 1992, page 34) 10. If not, is space available? Schools are required to develop a school-based discipline plan and to have discipline/ attendance intervention teams, (page 34) Incentive schools are required tohave time-out rooms staffed with trained personnel. This person provides training in problem solving techniques, (page 175) 11. How many out-of-school suspensions did you have last year? Expulsions? High numbers strengthen the need for an alternative classroom specialist. 12. What is the average number of certified personnel absent each day? This helps to ascertain the cost-effectiveness of hiring a permanent substitute teacher. 13. What is the average number of post-observation conferences held with teachers each nine weeks? These conferences take the teacher out of the classroom during normal instruction time. If a principal averages three of these conferences a year per teacher, the need for a permanent substitute increases with the size of the teaching staff. 14. What percentage of the staff is nontenured? A large nontenured staff also poses the need for an additional person, preferably a certified teacher. That person could wear more than one hat. Questions 1-4 relate to the need for an assistant principal. Schools with large student populations, high numbers of disciplinary incidents, and significant absentee rates would benefit from an assistant principal. Questions 5-8 would indicate the need for a social worker if a disproportionate number of students fall into those categories. Questions 9-11 address the need for an alternative classroom specialist. Questions 12-14 help to identify the need for a permanent substitute. This person not only substitutes for absent teachers, but also serves as classroom replacements for teachers during post-observation conferences.DEVELOPING A NEEDS ASSESSMENT There are four basic steps in developing a needs assessment and utilizing the information. 1. Assessing needs. The importance of a needs assessment cannot be overemphasized. It allows the planners to address the most important and/ or manageable needs of a target population. It can avoid wasting time, energy, and resources. The results of a needs assessment shapes the contents of a complete list of goals and objectives listed in order of priority. 2. Developing Objectives. Goals should be clearly spelled out in simple statements. The means to reach these goals are the objectives. Objectives should be specific, observable, and measurable, including the who, what where and when of their accomplishment. They also serve as guide posts that help measure progress or as \"reality checks\" on the course of action taken. Objectives also serve as the basis for further planning activities and determine the focus of evaluation. 3. Assessing Resources. In order to achieve success in implementing goals and objectives, consideration must be given to what will be needed to be successful. Resources come in several forms: human, materials, organizational, financial, and facility. Do not be afraid to look outside traditional arenas. Be receptive to unusual ideas and nontraditional approaches\njust because youve never done it that way before, doesnt mean it cant be done. 4. Developing Strategies Start by brainstorming and work towards refinements. Consider all ideas and approaches and then start analyzing and selecting the best for exploration and implementation. At this phase, you already have completed the first three steps. A needs assessment should be short, simple, and easy to return. Captive audiences work best because you dont have to wait for responses, nor trust that they will even be returned. Many people fail to respond to surveys even when free postage is provided. The downside to using the captive audience approach is that your results are tainted. You may get a certain result because the audience consisted of people with the same problems, beliefs, or biases\ntherefore, they would tend to have a strong common link and results might not be truly representative of the population that will be served. A combination of captive audiences, mailouts, and deposits at places frequented by the target population is recommended (neighborhood stores, beauty shops, churches, laundromats, etc.)* Based on Arkansas Scope And Sequence K-12 Guidance and Curriculum Guide, Appendix E, pages 56, 57 (1987) STAFFING NEEDS ASSESSMENT 1. How many students are enrolled? Grade Black Male Black Female White Male White Female Total Pre-K Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 2. If your enrollment is over 450, do you have an additional counselor in your building every day? Aside from the fact that a school is technically out of compliance when they have a student population over 450 and only has the part-time counselor in the building on certain days instead of every day, the lack of an additional counselor requires more time on the part of the principal to handle personal, social, and developmental matters usually referred to a school counselor. 3. Do you have a social worker? If so, is he/she in the building every day? Social workers spend a great deal of time working with students and their families. Some of the services they provide include referrals to social service agencies, assisting with applying for public assistance, counseling, and home visits. Without a social worker, the school must depend on the principal to assume some of these duties. 4. How many students are referred to the principals office for disciplinary matters on a daily average?NEEDS ASSESSMENT - PARENTS/STUDENTS 1. I visit the school - daily weekly monthly twice a year once a year only when I have to (circle one) When parents visit the school, they generally see the principal, even if they have a meeting with the childs teacher. This is an important part of a principals job, but it too can take time from other essential duties. 2. My child(ren) has been sent to the principals office this year for breaking the rules. Y This question is self-explanatory. Disciplinary hearings and other discipline related activities are very time consuming. 3. My child(ren) has been to see the principal as a reward for good behavior. Y N While principals should love these types of activities, they too take time, and plenty of time should be given to students who are being \"rewarded\" with a visit to or by the principal. 4. When I need to speak to the principal he/she has time to listen. Self-explanatory. 5. I live within two miles of the school. Students who live in the neighborhoods of the incentive schools tend to come from families of low socio-economic backgrounds and are often headed by single parents. These circumstances sometimes requires the intervention or assistance of a social worker or counselor. The higher the at-risk population, the greater the need for a full-time social worker. 6. I have 3 or more children at home. Poverty can be defeating in itself, add several children and some parents have trouble coping. Sometimes a trained specialist is the only thing standing between neglect and assistance. 7. I am employed full-time part-time not employed N Y N Y Y N N This will help the administrative staff to determine the number of students that are from families of \"the working poor.\" These families are often eligible for assistance and are not aware of the help that is available to them. Social workers are invaluable to these families.8. My child has gotten into trouble at school for fighting. Y N Fighting leads to suspension or expulsion. Trained specialists help students to acquire the skills necessary to handle and express anger. They are also helpful in designing and implementing an equitable disciplinary policy. 9. My child likes his/ her school. Y N If a child does not his/her school, this dislike is often manifested in the form of behavior problems. Alternative classrooms can be designed to accommodate problem students and to help them to learn how to become members of the school community. 10. My child has been sent home for getting into trouble at school. Y N Students cannot learn when they are not in school. An alternative classroom should be a part of the schools structure. 11. My child has trouble sitting still in the classroom. Y N Hyperactive children, kinesthetic learners, and some gifted children have trouble in traditional classrooms. It is like trying to put square pegs into round holes\nthey dont fit. Many of these children wind up in disciplinary trouble and too often out of school. While punishment isnt the answer, a good alternative classroom could be. (See 1991- 1992 Monitoring Report on the Alternative Schools, ODM, December 18, 1992) 12. My child likes to talk. Y N See #11. 13.My child gets upset when he/she doesnt know the substitute teacher. Y N Children like stability. They like familiar surroundings and faculty that is familiar to them. Getting to know a new teacher takes time, and there is a need for a certain amount of bonding to occur before a new person is accepted into the \"academic family.\" 14. The best time of day for me to come to school to talk to my childs teacher is If the only time a parent can visit the school is during the regular school day, then the teacher has to leave the classroom or the visit doesnt take place. This survey should be filled out by the parent and child together. The sequences of questions reveal the need for an assistant principal, social worker, alternative classroom specialist, and a permanent substitute teacher. Some of the other recommended positions in the incentive schools (pp. 190-191) would require similar assessments. The district must also take into consideration space allotment, number and types of special programs in the school and staff positions already in place. Some other areas of exploration are outlined below. PE - Does the school have a gym? If not, does it have a good play area, equipment, safe surroundings? How does PE fit in with the required wellness program? Do the nurse and PE instructor coordinate activities? What is the level of fitness/health in the school? Art - What is available in the neighborhood or community to enhance art instruction (museum, historic buildings, local artists, art gallery, etc.)? How is art infused into the curriculum? Can it help to provide integrative experiences? Media Clerk - How often is the library used?. Are the library and its staff a regular part of instruction? What programs are currently in place for the students in the library? Are students allowed easy access to the library? Is the library well stocked? Does it have the latest equipment? Can parents use the library? Are guest speakers and presenters a regular component of library services? Consideration should be given to the effectiveness of parent and volunteer participation in the school. How strong is the PTA/PTO? Does the school have a functioning parent center? Are parents utilized in the schooLon a regular basis - do they serve as mentors, classroom aides, tutors, chauffeurs, office assistants, or guest lecturers? How can parent participation be strengthened so that the school can become self-sufficient yet economically viable? By looking at each position and analyzing information obtained through the needs assessment, the district can make informed decisions about staffing needs in any of the schools. The publication A Curriculum Audit of the Little Rock School District (1990) points out that the district has a wealth of data but is weak on information. By following the steps outlining how to develop and use a needs assessment at the beginning of this document, the district will have the technical ability to develop plans, guidelines and policies on any subject affecting the LRSD.\nThis project was supported in part by a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives project grant from The Andrew W. 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Local radio personality Craig ONeill will visit with parents and students about programs at the schools. Drawings for books, dictionaries and other prizes will be held hourly. The seven incentive schools are in east and central Little Rock and are generally accessible to working parents in downtown Little Rock. The schools offer enhanced funding for each child, homework centers, in-state and out- of-state field trips, extended- day and Saturday programs, aerobics, gymnastics, dance, choir and band. Incentive schools also offer a homework hotline, a computer program allowing students to check out laptop computers for home use, and a fullday program for 4-year-olds. Students eligible to attend incentive schools include ma- jority-to-minority transfer students from the Pulaski County Special and North Little Rock school districts, students now attending private schools, and new and current Little Rock district students. The seven incentive schools are in east and central Little Rock. The incentive schools are Franklin, Garland, Ish, Mitchell, Rightsell, Rockefeller and Stephens elementaries. For more, information or to arrange tours of the schools, call the student assignment office at 324-2286 or the office of desegregation at 324-2110.ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE  WEDNESDAY, APRILS. 1992  I Incentive schools report assailed LR board blind-sided by inaccuracies, committee told BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Oemocrar-Gazette Slaff Writer A recent report to the Little Rock School Board criticizing the districts incentive schools blind-sided district administrators with its inaccuracies, James Jennings, an associate superintendent for desegregation, said Tuesday. The March 26 report was prepared by a subcommittee of the districts Biraeial Advisory Committee, but the full committee never approved the document before it was read to the school board by committee Bennie Smith. A chairman copy of the report was also sent to U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright. The report accused the district of failing to implement the entire federal court-approved plan for the seven incentive elementary schools. The schools are supposed to offer double funding per student and extra programs as a way to improve the achievement levels of black children and attract white children to the I schools. hard-to-desegregate I am very frustrated by the inaccuracies and the process that was used to write the report, Jennings told the committee Tuesday night. I am not trying to muzzle the committee. My concern is the students. He agreed that programs in the schools have room for improvement, but said the programs do exist. The committee's contention that the district had failed to implement the programs was a serious charge that could lead to a contempt finding against the district in federal court, he said. I have no apologies for this report, Smith told the committee. He said the committee directed him to write the report. The committee approved a new policy requiring the fui! committee to act on all future reports before they are submitted to the school board or court. Committee members also voted to study data that Jennings provided to contradict the findings in the report. The\nwill decide at their next meeting whether to amend the report to the board. tArkansas Democrat (j^azctte SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1993 Copynght C 1993, Little Rock Newspapers. Inc. Schools sponsor youth art exhibit in sispsgssps S-SSS==$s=SS to Sprove btehuS/n P-\u0026lt;gra'ns designedArkansas Democrat '385 C^azcttc SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26,1993 Spec la I Report Incentive School Program Money not yielding right answers in LR, systems critics say BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer  Incentive schools each fill a niche The Little Rock School Dis- .  Rockefeller Elementary receives trict is pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars a year into an incentive school program that isnt working. And, although enrollment in national recognition 6A operate as it has so far. For four years the incentive schools have received twice the bL 1 w. the program is dropping at an alarming rate, the six incentive schools will Incentive schools per-pupil fund-ing Enrollment continue to siphon off mon- ! ey at twice the ! rate of other elementary schools for at least two more years. Little Rocks incentive schools were supposed to become national models of excellence and effective desegregation. Both educators and par2100 2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 0 Year 90-91 91-92 92-93 93-94 Note: These numbers do not include the enrollment at Ish Elementary, which closed after the 1992-93 school year. Ish had 187 students last year. Source\nLRSD Oct. 1 enrollments SCALLION I Democrat-Gazette schools get, with the federal court-mandated aim of attracting white students to the inner- city ele-mentaries and closing the gap between black and white performance levels on standardized tests. Under terms of a desegregation lawsuit settlement, the Little Rock School District has committed to ents say the schools have the potential to realize that image, but but if the program continues to the court that it will maintain Jouble funding for the schools See SCHOOLS, Page 6A regular B .ft t Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen B. Thornton A DIFFERENT TUNE  Rightsell Incentive School students (from left) Gian Craig, Johnny Brown and Adam Ballard sing during a holiday PTA program last week at the Littlj^ock school. Despite such bright mome/ts, statistics suggest the double funding^e six incentive schools receive has bo'j^ht mostly broken promises. Schools  Continued from Page 1A tor at least six years. The schools would use the extra money to create special programs to attract white students and improve the standardized test scores of black students. The district also promised to provide special programs beyond the six-year period if the schools are not yet desegregated. But the program has failed so miserably in attracting and keeping white students that five of the six schools have enrollments that are more than 86 percent black. By court-ordered formula, the districts schools are supposed to have black enrollments of 40-72 percent, And, because the incentive main low, and the academlc dis- i parity between black and while children remains wide, Brown said. The report concluded that I: !lhe extra money allocated for : the schools has been spent in- I efficiently. ' Arkansas Democrat-Gazelle in- schools operate under racial I tervlews with Brown, educators and parents found general agreement on a list of reasons for the programs ineffectiveness:  No advertising or promotion for the incentive schools. Most parents know little or nothing about the programs and iviiat the incentive schools should offer. In my opinion, the district did a wonderful job advertising the magnet schools. I dont believe the incentive schools were marketed as well, said Melanie Gibson, mother of two Rockefeller School students and one bf the schools most ardent advocates. bunuvib operaie unaer racial r- . limits, declining white enroll- iiory doing good things ment has forced down black en- Kkll?nJ5!r weH^below canacH^*^ schools l^rincipal at Franklin Incentive well below capacity. Elementary. In fact total enrollment for  Unlike the districts popu- Ine six schools has plummeted lar magnet schools, which have by nearly 30 percent in the last k Magnet Review Committee, in- two years.\nThe incentive schools get mil- j lions of dollars in extra money and offer programs and re- sources not available in other Central Arkansas schools. But most white parents are either unaware of the central and east Little Rock schools or choose not to send their children to them. Black families, too, are leaving the schools in significant numbers, both for other public schools and for private ones. Principals said transfers have been especially heavy to two magnet elementaries  Crystal Hill in the Pulaski County Special School District and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Little Rock District. They expect the new magnet program at Clinton Elementary, which will open next year, to draw even more students away from the incentive schools. With the exception of Rockefeller School, the incentive schools are not making much progress toward desegregation and improving student achieve- ihent, federal Desegregation Monitor Ann Brown said in a report to U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright earlier this month. At a glance INCENTIVE SCHOOLS HISTORY: Little Rock Incentive schools date back to 1982. when the I\n8lh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at  St. Louis allowed four identiliably , black schools. The. number later in- . creased, and they were called ma- 'lor enhancement schools. The cur- I rent double-funded incentive schools\ngrew out of a 1989 Pulaski County  desegregation settlement. ' COST: The district is projected to\nspend $8.5 million to $8.7 million of : its $113 million operating budget on 1,454 incentive school pupils this . year. This exceeds the distrfcfs oblig- ' alien to fund the schools al $7.9 million, or $4,566 per pupil, to cover : special program costs. In contrast, . regular area schools will cost $2,678  per student, and magnet schools will I cost $3,823 per student, I ENROLLMENT: Incentive school : enrollment has dropped by more than 600 students in two years, from  2,072 in 1991 -92 to 1,454 this school\nyear, not counting 180 students lost when Ish Elementary closed this . year. The schools lost 536 black children and more than 100 whites. Only the number of children of other races and ethnic groups has increased. Incentive school enrollment makes up 10 percent of the district's elemen- . tary school enrollment and 6 percent I of overall enrollment. centive schools have had no advocacy group.  Slow and uneven implementation of special programs. Several of the schools are only beginning to implement their academic themes because the district delayed in selecting themes and hiring needed specialists. And the district has had three different associate superintendents for desegregation in the past two years. Its difficult to determine if the incentive schools are effective because program plans have not always been properly executed, said Connie Hickman Tanner\nan associate federal desegregation monitor. We cant say these are bad ideas until they are implemented.  Almost no recruitment of whites. The district must prove to the judge that vigorous white recruitment took place before releasing more seats to black children. Dr. Russ Mayo, the districts new associate superintendent for desegregation, said he can find little evidence of student recruitment efforts or promotion of incentive schools in past years.  Some of the most-involved families are among those lost to magnet programs at other schools.  Parental concerns about the locations of the schools, safety, old buildings and a perception the schools are not for academically successful pupils.  Declining populations in the school neighborhoods between 1980 and 1990. The decreases range from 2.9 percent in the Garland attendance zone to 27.8 percent in the Stephens zone, Ron Newman, a city planning manager, said.  A catch in the districts desegregation plan that eventually would penalize successful incentive schools by taking away their extra funding. For the most part, even parents who have moved their children out of incentive schools have high regard for the program's potential. But generally they were frustrated by lurching development of the .schools. Vera Brownlee, a black parent, was PTA president at Mitchell this year before a spot opened up for her son at the private Word of Outreach School. We had a change in the school administration and in several teachers, Brownlee said about Mitchell. It would take until midyear for them to settle in, and my child does better in a more controlled environment. The order and discipline are much better at the new school than at any other public or private school she has visited, she said. But Brownlee praised the idea of incentive schools and the extended-day program. If the \"edges could be ironed out, parents should line up to attend the incentive schools. The schools need more parental involvement and a strong relationship between the staff and parents, she said. More advertising of the school is necessary. Incentive school people feel like stepkids, she said. Why, if you are spending so much money on a school, do you not let anyone know about the programs? Another black parent, who asked not to be named, moved ,9. Stanford Achievement Test results District Grado 92 '93 1 2 3 4 5 6 (Black children at Incentive schools) Scores are in percentiles. The 50th percentile is the national average. Franklin Garland 31 28 33 33 34 32 36 40 32 34 43 45 '92 '93 19 29 .ag, '93- 21 18 22 19 34 32 10 27 24 30 Improved: 24 classes 26 23 17 28 28 38 23 48 16 30 32 45 Ish 92 '93 25 14 43 45 31 46 38 41 32 56 44 47 Mitchell Rightsell Rockefeller Stephens '92 '93 25 25 26 23 27 23 29 36 40 35 36 44 '9g '93 Stayed the same: 4 classes 40 58 34 35 29 40 42 65 35 40 31 40 '92 -93 37 30 24 37 18 36 27 27 32 30 40 37 Dropped: 14 classes '92 '93 24 46 22 22 31 28 47 34 26 25 30 40 Note: Composite scores are a combination of math, reading, language arts, science and social studies scores. Source\nStale Oept. of Education Franklin was too big. I would drop Laura Jane off, and it was as if she was swallowed alive, Silkwood said. Elizabeth Frazier, black former PTA president at Franklin, moved her child to King this year, also because of its proximity to her job and to her familys day-care center. One noticeable difference between the schools is the sense of pride at King, she said. I think incentive schools are good, Frazier said. But some people have the wrong impression that the incentives are for children with special needs or are remedial schools. That took pride away from the staff and the children at Franklin. Sandra Thomas, black president of the Ish PTA, was forced to change schools for her family when Ish closed. She regrets the loss of the special programs, even though her daughter enjoys King. She criticized the district for not doing more to support and promote Ish and to ensure that it had the best possible staff. I never saw a billboard advertising the incentive schools, Thomas said. They never sent brochures to the neighboring districts to recruit to the incentives the way they do for the magnet schools. The double funding is the best thing the district can do  if its spent properly  to bring up children who may be behind, said Malvin Jones, former PTA president at Garland. The incentive schools can bring kids up to a level playing field. But Jones, who is black, said he is disappointed with the low number of whites in the incentive schools. And he disagrees with the Garland principal on the emphasis placed on African- American history. Jones unsuccessfully applied to have his daughter assigned to King this year. Mayo and his desegregation staff are trying to turn things around by assembling a recruiting plan to go into effect this school year, prior to preregistration, which will be Feb. 7-18. The incentive schools present a special problem for the district's new superintendent, Dr. Henry P. Williams. Before he came to Little Rock from Syracuse, N.Y., this fall, Williams said he believed he could help the district extricate itself from federal court control. That would require, among other things, reversing the desegregation monitoring assessments the incentive program has received so far.Arkansas Democrat (gazette SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1993 Each incentive school designed to fill a niche BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democral-Gazetle Education Writer The annual Christmas program at Mitchell Incentive Elementary School is just a few hours away. Fifth- and sixth-graders dip pretzels into bowls of chocolate and slice cheese-filled tortilla rolls in their after-school cooking class. The ballet class downstairs goes through steps one last time before the big show. Members of the creative writing class take notes on the festivities. Several blocks away, children at Rockefeller Incentive Elementary prepare for their own program. The computer class designed the programs, and the fifth-grade string orchestra will make its debut.    Such after-school classes are among the academic and leisure activities offered three days a week in the Little Rock School Districts incentive schools. The schools offer class sizes of no more than 20 pupils an- daverage almost two adults per classroom\nacademic themes\ncustomized educational plans for each child\nschool uniforms\nlessons in Latin\nfield trips\nand Saturday excursions to museums and Razorback football games. If people would come see what we do, they would be impressed, Dr. Samuel Branch, principal at Mitchell, said last week. Incentive school backers say the districts magnet schools have been glamorized at the expense of other schools in the district. The different kinds of schools can be confusing. In some cases, schools differ only in the way they are funded. The incentive schools are intended to get double the funding spent per pupil in the regular area elementary schools. The extra money enables the schools to offer the extended- day and Saturday programs and to provide specialists for the schools academic theme. Rockefellers theme, for example, is computer science, Rightsells is career and mass media awareness, and Garlands is communications technology. The Garland program is very new. The district school board only recently approved the purchase of equipment and training for it. Little Rocks magnet programs on the other hand generally are older, and the academic themes are better infused into the overall curriculum. The magnet schools dont have the extended-day programs or guaranteed smaller class size. Class sizes in nonincentive schools must meet state standards of maximums of 23 to 25 in the primary grades and 25 to 28 in the intermediate grades. Magnet schools require parent participation in conferences and PTA meetings. One of the schools asks pupils to wear uniforms. Themes are even part of each magnet schools name  Booker Arts Magnet Elementary School, for example, or Carver Basic Skills/Math-Science Magnet Elementary. The districts six original magnets are funded jointly by the three Pulaski County school districts and the state at a rate of $3,823 per student this year. Seats are reserved in the schools for a certain number of students from each district. Newer magnet programs, such as the Dunbar International Studies/Gifted Education Junior High, are funded primarily by the Little Rock district. But extra state money is provided for each county and North Little Rock student who attends. Interdistrict schools, such as the Romine High Technology Interdistrict School, are similarly funded, but the school doesnt have the magnet title. The area schools in the district are the neighborhood schools that are not magnets and not incentive or interdistrict schools. The schools also may have areas of emphasis, such as drama or environmental science. The schools are eligible to apply for district grants for their programs.Arkansas Democrat (Bazctte SUNDAY. DECEMBER 26,1993 Rockefeller school showing way Appearance, location, unique offerings bring goals in reach BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer Rockefeller Elementary is the one incentive school that U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright has recognized as making some progress toward  desegregation goals. 'The school has a 29 percent white and 71 percent black enrollment this year and is the only incentive school within racial guidelines for regular area schools. Those guidelines call for black enrollment levels of 40 to 72 percent. Rockefeller is the incentive school farthest east. But Anne Mangan, the schools principal, says the relatively new buildings appearance and its location at the intersection of Interstates 30 and 630 attract families. She also cited a dedicated staff and sound programs. The school is unique in that it offers early childhood education for about 100 children, including those 6 weeks to 4 years old. Other district schools, including the other five incentive schools, have such programs only for 4-year- olds. The early childhood program predates the building of Rockefeller. Dr. Bettye Caldwell started the program at the now closed Kramer Elementary. Caldwell is a nationally recognized expert on early childhood education and a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock The early childhood program attracts families from across Pulaski County and is open in the summer. Its a plus for the schools desegregation efforts, Mangan said, because many parents become comfortable with the building and the staff, and choose to keep their children in the school for kindergarten and first grade, rather than return to their neighborhood schools. Computer technology is the theme at the school. Each classroom has at least two computers, Mangan said. 'There is also a separate computer laboratory. Parents can check out lap-top computers to work with their children at home. Like all the incentive schools. Rockefeller has a specialist for the theme. A physical education teacher, a music teacher, an art teacher and a social worker are included on the staff. The school has two instructional aides for every three classrooms. Also like the other incentive schools. Rockefeller has extended-day and Saturday programs. The school has business partnerships with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, and the College of Education, and the Friday, Eldredge and Clark law firm. Ann Brown, federal desegregation monitor and parent of a Rockefeller pupil, said the schools parents have a team spirit and have worked hard to support the school. Melanie Gibson, the mother of two Rockefeller pupils and the schools PTA president, praised the small classes at Rockefeller and the school allows her son to progress at his own rate. Roy Albert, a black Rockefeller parent, said he would match Rockefeller with any magnet school in the district.WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1994  Aifaansas Democrat 7^(jjjazcUc racr ? rM\n\u0026lt;\u0026lt;5'1 \u0026lt;y. HR J SHOPPING FOR A SCHOOL  Principal Anne Mangan {foreground, left) escorts Janet Rhoda and her daughter. Jennifer, 5, and son, Philip, 9, on a Arkansas Democral-GazeHa'Slaton BteWenIhal tour of Rockefeller Elementary School on Tuesday morning. The Rhodas are moving to Little Rock from Atlanta and are looking for a school. Incentive schools recruit whites Parents encouraged to tour classrooms, seek information BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazetle Education Writer The Little Rock School District wants your childs scout troop, Little League team, Sunday school class or group of neighborhood friends. The district is working to increase the white enrollment at its six incentive schools for next year by encouraging groups of parents to decide together to send their children to those schools, which are in east and central Little Rock. So far, no large groups have signed up, but Dr. Russ Mayo, district associate superintendent for desegregation, said recruiting efforts will continue this spring although the initial preregistration period for all Little Rock schools ends this week. Parents of children who will be kindergartners next year, or otherwise will be new to the district, should complete pre- regislration forms by 3 p.m. Friday at the school in their attendance zone. Also, current students who want to change schools within the district or transfer to the North Little Rock or Pulaski County Special school districts should complete preregistration forms this week. Parents who are uncertain about the location of their attendance- zone school can contact the districts student assignment office at 324-2272. Letters telling parents of their childs school assignments for next year will be mailed March 14. At that time, ^reregistration will reopen for children in kindergarten through grade 12 who did not register this month. Preregistration for the districts early childhood education program for 4-year-olds will be April 18-29. The school district has intensified efforts to attract white families to the six incentive schools, which get extra money to offer special programs to improve student achievement and entice whites to transfer to the schools voluntarily. The incentive schools, which range in black enrollment from  71 percent to 97 percent this year, are Franklin, Garland, Mitchell, Rightsell, Rockefeller and Stephens. Each school offers a particular academic theme, such as computer science, basic skills, creative dramatics and technology. The schools also offer an afterschool program that includes programs in scouting, cooking, dance, computers, orchestra, book publishing, and physical education and games. See INCENTIVE, Page 7BIncentive  Continued from Page 1B On Tuesday, Janet Rhoda and her two children, Philip, 9, and Jennifer, 5, of Atlanta, toured Rockefeller and two other district schools in an effort to select a school to attend when they move here. The family bought a home in west Little Rock. Anne Mangan, Rockefeller principal, showed the family the school, including the two computers in each class, the art room, the early childhood rooms for children 6 weeks to 4 years old, and the science laboratory occupied by birds, tadpoles, gerbils and other animals, as well as pupils and teacher Melvia Mathis. Our school in Atlanta offers more in some areas and less in others, Rhoda said at the conclusion of the tour. The class sizes are much smaller here, she said. The incentive schools have: cap of 20 children per class room. Parents are invited to tour any district school, including the incentives. Tours can be arranged by calling the student assignment office or the schools this week or even after the registration period closes. Recruiters will speak to parent groups if asked. The district sent about 10,000 letters last month to inform prospective incentive-school parents about the schools, Mayo, the associate superintendent, said Tuesday. The district's court-approved desegregation plan obligates it to balance all of its schools racially, including the incentives. About 6,000 letters went to white families in the Pulaski County district, and the rest were sent to the families of children in private schools, private day-care centers or in seven Little Rock school zones that are predominantly white. Mayo said the response hasn't been as great as district officials would like. Additional steps, including more mailings, may be undertaken this spring. While no large groups have signed up for the incentive schools so far, the technique may work at other district schools. Kate Frazier, a parent in tlie Fair Park Elementary School attendance zone, has worked with friends to encourage families in the school neighborhood to consider Fair Park for next year. She was host of a party in her home in January at which school district officials talked about the school and the registration process. We want to hold hands and jump in, she said.Ariainsas Democrat Tgr (gazette WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9,1994 Only 5 whites preregister for LRs incentive school^ BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer Only five white children preregistered last month for Little Rock School Districts six incentive schools, despite efforts to intensify recruiting this year. District employees sent letters to 10,000 white families in the Little Rock and Pulaski County Special school districts asking them to consider an incentive school for next year. But the five applicants this year equaled the number who preregistered for the current school year, when very little recruiting was done. I am kind of surprised the number is that low, Dr. Russ Mayo, the districts associate superintendent for desegregation, said Tuesday. The bottom line is the results are not what we wanted and we will continue to recruit. Preregistration for incentive schools will reopen in the district Monday and remain open through the summer. The 10,000 letters were sent to families of preschool and private school children and of children now in predominantly' white Little Rock schools. They also were sent to families in the neighboring Pulaski County Special School District, which has a predominantly white enrollment. Mayo said a second mailing may follow. The district is preparing brochures describing each incentive school. The district will continue to open the schools to parents who want to tour them, he said. Each school has a recruiting team of parents and teachers to make one-to-one contacts with other parents. The six incentive schools get extra money and have special programs designed to improve student achievement and attract whites to the hard-to-desegre-gate buildings. The schools have academic themes  such as computer science, career awareness, and technology  and extended day programs during which students can learn to cook, work on computers, sing, do their homework, play tennis, and participate in Girl and Boy Scouts. The schools also offer Saturday and summer activities. The five incentive schools in central Little Rock have black student enrollments of more than 85 percent. Those schools are Franklin, \u0026lt;G__a_rl_a_n__d, Stephens, Rightsell and MifcE-ell. At Rockefeller Elementary School in east Little Rock\nen4 rollment is 71 percent black, 29 percent white. Desegregation of the incentive schools is seen as a key component of the desegregation plan that district officials wrote in 1989. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright and federal school desegregation monitor Ann Brown have harshly criticized the districts operation-of the six incentive schools. In. a recent report to Wright, Browns office found that virtually no recruiting was done for the schools before this year and\nthat the schools were underj-en-rolled. \u0026lt; At a Jan. 26 hearing,'the judge complained of some serious foot-dragging and dqlay: regarding the incentive schools\nDeficiencies she noted includ\ned the districts slowness in im-plementing themes, recruiting students and hiring Spanish teachers. Its disappointing, very dis- - See SCHOOLS, Pagd 5B Schools  Continued from Page 1B appointing, Brown said Tuesday of the latest statistics, though she noted the numbers are preliminary. The schools can continue to recruit children and will open up registration for pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-oIds on April 18. Pre-kindergarten classes are offered at each incentive school. Brown, who has a child in an incentive school, said that while she is convinced that the enrollments can be more racially balanced, the district must mobilize its resources and energies in new ways to attract families to what she said are very fine schools. incentive school enrollment 100 I I White 50 0 IH Black 1993-94 1994-95 SOURCE: Little Rock School District Arkansas Oemocrat-Qazetle While the district worked to recruit students to the incentive schools and all other schools this winter, officials also were preparing a comprehensive recruiting plan that will be implemented more fully next year. That plan includes all the districts legal obligations for recruitment and assigns people and time lines to each task. District statistics show the number of black children who chose an incentive school has increased from 63 last year to 79 this year. The statistics include only those pupils in kindergarten through sixth grade who listed an incentive school as their first choice on the preregistration forms. The numbers do not include children who live in the schools attendance zones. The statistics show that three white children chose Franklin, one white child chose Garland and one white child chose Mitchell Elementary for next year. / A^nsas Democrat W(5azclk FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1994 Panel scores schools lack of pupil pull BY RACHEL O'NEAL Democrat-Gazette Capitol Bureau Little Rocks incentive schools  which attracted only five new white children during preregistration last month  prompted lawmakers Thursday to question whether those schools are successful. Earlier this week, Little Rock School District officials said they sent out 10,000 letters to white families asking them to consider an incentive school for next year. Few families responded. Little Rock needs to be spanked for not doing all it needs to do, Rep. Irma Hunter Brown of Little Rock told other members of the Desegregation Litigation Oversight Subcommittee. The six incentive schools get about twice as much money as regular schools in the Little Rock district and have special programs designed to improve student achievement. The schools have academic themes such as computer science and career awareness. They also offer day-care programs and summer activities. Brown said that while the district's plans look good on paper, nothing has been accomplished. Brown questioned why the incentive schools are having a hard time attracting whites while magnet schools are more successful. Magnet schools also have academic themes, but the incentive schools get more funding. And magnet schools are seen as more established and have a better racial balance, while the incentive schools started out as predominately black. No one was present at the subcommittee meeting to answer the lawmakers questions. Instead, the group agreed to ask the heads of the incentive and magnet schools to attend a future meeting. Sen. Mike Beebe of Searcy said the incentive-school concept needs to be studied to determine whether it is getting results. He said that if the schools are not successful, the district should consider scrapping the incentive schools and replacing theih with magnet schools. Five incentive schools Have black student enrollment of more than 85 percent. The incentive school with the best racial balance is Rockefeller Elementary School, which is 71 percent black and 29 percent white. Rockefeller has an ear- ly-childhood program that accepts children as young as 6 weeks old.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1994 Incentive-school recruiting in LR gets bad report card BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer A report by the federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring underscores problems of the Little Rock School District in recruiting white children to its six incentive elementary schools. A 20-page report has been sent to U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, who in January accused district officials of foot-dragging in recruiting and implementing incentiveschool programs. The findings, conclusions and recommendations on recruiting were prepared by desegregation monitor Ann S. Brown and associate monitor Connie Hickman Tanner. The incentive schools receive extra funding and have special programs designed to improve student achievement and attract whites to the hard-to-desegre- gate buildings in central and east Little Rock. The schools have the lowest pupil-teacher  ratios in the district and offer after-school academic and recreational activities. Despite the programs that are supposed to make the schools more attractive than the districts popular magnet schools, enrollment in five of the six schools exceeds 85 percent black. The federal courts have said desegregation of the incentive schools is critical to the success of the districts deseg- regation plan. The newest monitoring report focuses on recruitment done in 1992-93 for this school year and doesnt try to evaluate what is being done now for the 1994-95 school year. District officials have made a more concerted effort to plan and recruit this winter, although during the February preregistration period, only five white students signed up to attend incentive schools next year. The district did not conduct a well-organized, ongoing campaign to recruit white students, the report said. The LRSD approached incentive school recruitment in a sporadic, piecemeal fashion, the report said. It also noted that the other parties in the Pulaski County desegregation lawsuit did little to assist in recruiting although they are obligated to do so by their court- approved desegregation plans. Following are some of the monitors other findings\n White enrollment declined in the schools between 1992-93 and 1993-94, with the exception of Garland Incentive Elementary School.  The district reserved about 50 percent of the seats in the preschool and kindergarten classes for whites but eventually released some of those seats to black pupils without obtaining federal court approval. The remaining seats went unfilled.  The district has a Trickle-up plan for desegregating the incentives. If the preschool and kindergarten classes are racially balanced, the other grades will become bal- anced as the children are promoted from_year to year.  Because most of the schools have only one preschool class but two kindergarten classes, they cannot rely totally on recruiting for the preschool program to achieve racial balance in future years.  More than half of the white pupils enrolled in the district's preschool program atthe incentive schools attended kindergarten at other schools.  The district established a telephone hot line on incentive schools and made presentations to real estate agents about schools but did not make presentations to special-interest, community or church groups as required by the desegregation plan. No parents ever called the hot line.  Parent recruiters employed in the district sandwiched incentive-school recnjitment among their other responsibilities. Their job descriptions did not make incentive-school recruiting a priority.  The district's biracial citizens committee did not monitor the recruiting efforts as required by the desegregation plan, nor did district officials make any recnjiting reports to the committee. - Arkansas Democrat (gazette TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1994 LRSD turns to public in crisis Schools conduct community feedback sessions on funding woe^ Democrat-Ga2ette Staff Writer districts lier desnite little PPCniifino' 1 Consolidating incentive schools could be an option the Little Rock School District may someday consider to cure part of its deficit spending ills. Superintendent Henry Williams said Monday night. We have no sacred cows, Williams told a dozen listeners at a community feedback ses- sion on the districts planning and budgeting process. District officials previously announced they must cut $7.2 million from the districts budget, to be submitted next month to the federal judge overseeing the Pulaski County desegregation plan. The only sacred cow we do desegregation plan, Williams added, and the desegregation plan is our plan, \u0026gt; Mondays 30-minute feedback session followed six community forums held during the fall semester at various school district campuses. Another feedback session is set for 6 p.m regular board meeting. Williams said he didnt mean he intends to close any school. But at some point in the future wed have to look at what happens at our incentive schools to decide if all should continue in their current formats and locations, he said. Incentive schools were discussed extensively during the community forums, he said. During preregistration in February for the six incentive schools  Franklin, Garland Stephens, Rightsell, Mitchell and Rockefeller, all in central or east Little Rock and with high black enrollments  only five white students applied. That was the case despite 10,000 recruitment letters mailed to students in preschools, private schools, predominantly white Little Rock schools and the predominantly white Pulaski County Special School District, 'That matched the number of whites preregistering a year earlier despite little recruiting. Incentive schools receive extra funding and offer special programs designed to improve student achievement and attract whites to the hard-to-desegre- gate schools. If incentive school enrollment doesnt improve, Williams said, the district must look at the $8,000 it spends per student at some of the schools, You cant operate a business at a loss and be successful, Williams said. He added that any change in incentive schools must be approved infederal court to remain in compliance with the desegregation plan. At a Jan, 26 hearing, U,S, Dis- trict Judge Susan Webber Wright criticized the district for being slow to recruit students to incentive schools, to implement themes and to hire Spanish teachers. The district reopened'preregistration for the schools last week and will continue it through the summer, i\u0026gt;.  SUNDAY. APRIL 10. 1994   ^air ^^3 - T, a a\n'? L ipi Aw - * OOc Kj.M / .Xi Study  Continued from Page 1A are inner-city schools that receive double the usual funding to pay for programs meant to lure white students while improving black students achievement levels. The incentive-school money goes for after-school and Saturday programs, smaller class sizes, field trips, academic themes, and auxiliary staff including art, physical education, and music teachers, a social worker, theme specialists, nurses and counselors. But the black enrollment in five of the six schools still exceeds 86 percent. And despite the extra money, black student scores on the Stanford AchievementTestgenerally fail far below the national average and below those of white Little Rock students. In only two incentive schools last year did the scores go above average. the second grade at Rightsell Elementary and the fifth grade at Ish Elementary. On average, the gap between test scores for black and white pupils districtwide ranges from 3J points to 39 points. I 'Little Rock has spent as much as $34 million on incentive schools since the 1990-91 school Wfe were not informed in terms of what was going on with the (financial) settlement negotiations. So what happened was that we came up with a plan that was much more e.xpensive than what the settlement group settled on. CHEERS! ~ Jacque Kesler (center), a fourtli-grade teacher at Rightsell Elementary School in Little Rock, cheers along with her class Friday during a pep rally aimed ArkanMs De(nocat-G#iSflS^Stpnen B.' year, according to the Office of Desegregation Monitoring. This yi^ar, the district says it will at lifting the children's spirits for the Stariford Achfev^^.' merit Test they will begin taking Monday. Of the live school's 189 students, 184 are biack. y *-  Study points to Little Rock to show desegregations failure BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Oemocral-Gazeite Education Writer , Little Rocks incentive schools illustrate how federal courts nationwide have forced school districts to spend money they cant afford on desegregation programs that dont work, a Harvard University study says. The incentive schools program has largely failed to achieve its goals of attracting white students to the nearly allblack inner-city schools and reducing the gap between white and black students perfor- mances on standardized tests. It also has caused constant financial strain for the Little Rock district, the Harvard Project on School Desegregation concludes. To compound the problem, the court-enforced Little Rock desegregation plan leaves local officials little latitude to modify ineffective programs. In their report, \"Still Segregated, Still Unequal, the Harvard researchers said other districts with one-race schools are in similar straits. After looking at schools in Little Rock\nDetroit\nPrince Georges County, Md.\nand Austin, Texas, researchers found no evidence whatsoever\" that extra money and programs equalize education for black children or redress harm caused by years of segregation. About 16 percent of Little Rock's black elementary children attend incentive schools: Franklin, Mitchell, Garland, Rockefeller, Stephens and Rightsell elementaries. The six Seb STUDY, Page 10A spend alniosl $0,000 per black child ill the six schools, as coin- I pared to $2,700 per black child j.. in other schools. J, Meanwhile, the Little Rock district faces $7.2 million in cuts to balance its $134 nullion bud- get for next year. The district also faces loss of millions of dollars when state desegregation aid runs out in the next few years. The Harvard researchers de- scribed the Little Rock plan for incentive schools as unchecked and unlikely to succeed. They said the ambitious promises the Little Rock district made in its desegregation plan have not been kept and are bringing more trouble than expected from financial pressures and from U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, who wants suits. re- . Wright has told the district that some changes can be made in the desegregation plan if district officials prove current pro- state money provided under the settlement fell short of program costs. The study quoted James Jennings, former Little Rock associate superintendent for desegregation who helped develop the educational plans. \"We were not informed in terms of what was going on with the (financial) settlement negotiations,\" Jennings said. So what happened was that we came up with a plan that was much more expensive than what the settlement group settled on. Former Superintendent Ruth Steele is quoted as saying the district simply cannot afford its plan. The Little Rock district gets $73 million in state aid for de- Horace Smith, an associate monitor in the federal Office of Desegregation, said the Little Rock plan fostered measure- ment according to whether programs were implemented, not by whether they achieved suits. re- B Stanford Achievement Test scores segregation over 10 years, plus access to a $20 million loan. The district doesnt have to repay the loan if black test scores improved by the year 2000. But the Harvard resfearchers said improving test scores did are not appear to be a priority in the district. They also noted that the Little Rock district already has spent about $55 million of the state aid and $12 million of the loan  with little progress. We really got caught up In just meeting deadlines, Smith said. Evaluation was more on 'Did you do it? as opposed to Was it successful?'  The study does not advocate an end to all extra money and special programs but says that simply adding money and programs at one-race schools will not desegregate schools or improve student performance. The study blames school districts and courts for failing to plan and implement effective programs tied to specific goals for educating black children Few of the programs get evaluated. Still fewer are changed by the districts or the courts, even if they dont work. The study recommended that the courts should identify the needs of black children, use experts to help formulate remedies and should not hesitate to discontinue ineffective programs, despite community resistance to reform. Progress of one grade level of black incentive school students in Little Rock: 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 I Whiles Blacks DISTRICTWIDE 1sl grade 2nd grade ...1992.........1993 64 31 72 33  1992-1 si grade 1993-2nd grade Franklin Garland -.i. I I \"Ish II J i JI - James Jennings grams arent working. But the report said Wright can approve only limited modifications. The Harvard study places much of the blame for this on U.S. Supreme Court decisions that date back to the Milliken vs. Bradley desegregation case in Detroit. In a 1974 ruling in that case, the high court limited desegregation plans that required students to cross district boundaries. leaving few options for urban districts faced with white flight. In a second ruling in the case, in 1977, it authorized lower federal courts to order states to help pay for desegregation plans. As a result, Detroit, which had few white students to integrate its schools, put -stale money and programs into the predominantly black schools to improve them. Since then, courts across the country increasingly have approved that approach, with increased state funding, the Harvard study said. When the predominantly black Little Rock district sued in 1982 for consolidation of the three Pulaski County districts as a way to end segregated schools, U.S. District Judge Henry Woods ordered the merger. But that decision was overturned by the Sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. The districts and the state eventually reached a financial settlement and negotiated desegregation plans along the lines of the Milliken ruling. That settlement won appeals court approval. Tlie Harvard study noted that desegregation prograi for the Little Rock area were designed without regard to cost. As a result, the additional inis Mitchell Rightsell Rockefeller Slephens.. district students have taken the Stanford test for only fhfl r. yoars, students look another standardized test the Metropolitan Achievement test. onud.uueu lesi, *Ish closed in 1993-94. Black White ' Percent black Source: Office of C mceritlpfraehlrtl gHrellhieit^^ 88-89 1,766 207 90 89-90 1,643 162 90 Desegregalion Monitoring 90-91 1,455 189 87 91-92 1,962 253 88 92-93 93-94 1,690 1,261 220 87 155 87 3TEV6 SCALLION / Mt. Drnocnl-OazM9Arkansas Democrat azctte WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1994 After 37 years, whats changed? e really didnt need that study by those Harvard folks to tell us that the court-ordered incentive w schools in Little Rocks desegregation plan arent working. Just a few short weeks earlier, it was spread across the pages of the Democrat-Gazette that only six white students had signed up for the incentive schools. For the uneducated, incentive schools are schools that are traditionally black. The goal is to attract enough white students to make the school racially balanced. The schools had caught my attention a couple of months ago, when a friend with a child in an area school, known by lay folks as neighborhood schools, told me that Martin Luther King Elementary, the brand-spanking-new provisional m^- net school, was going to take the entire student body on a district-paid spring break trip to Atlanta to study all things there connected to the schools namesake. A magnet school is an inter-district school that begs, borrows and steals to be racially balanced. It has a theme and gets extra money. There were only supposed to be the original six from some court order a few years ago\nno additions. But U.S. District Judge Susan Webber i Wright added King provisjonally last : summer. If you arent confused yet, you are under the illusion of control. Well, it turned out that Principal Sadie Mitchell had originally planned on the Atlanta pilgrimage but had instead opted for the sixth-graders to take a day trip to Memphis on April 29. Although the students will pay their admission to the Civil Rights Museum and buy their own lunches, the district will spend $1,000 on transportation. Upon learning of this $1,000 district Pam Strickland expenditure, my friend with the child in the neighborhood school almost lost all decorum. Were paying for jump ropes out of our own pockets, she screamed. Now, mind you her child is at Pulaski Heights Elementary where the PTA is probably better heeled than any in the city, but it seems that for many parents its not so much the money as it is the principle of the matter. Back to the incentive schools. They are given double funding in order to  well, I wasnt given a satisfactory explanation as to why they are given twice as much money as the other schools in the district. But the two people I would expect to know the most about them both told me, You know, they get double funding. Before I could absorb the concept of six schools in the district receiving twice as much money per student as the other schools, both experts had backed out of that shorthand explanation. The longer explanation each person had attempted to give me reminded me of a combination of statistics class and property law, both very unpleasant experiences that I really didnt want to repeat, so I cut short the conversations about the funding. The federal budget is more easily understood. Those two very informed people were Jeanette Wagner, the Little Rock School Districts communications manager, and Cynthia Howell, senior education reporter for this newspaper. Howell and I have been friends almost since I set foot in Arkansas a little over 10 years ago. She was already covering the school district and anticipated she would be doing so as long as the desegregation suit, filed in November 1982, was ongoing, I dont think she realized it would be a life-long job. In the last few weeks, as I tried to gather information about Little Rock school funding, I gained a new level of admiration for her and all the stuff she carries around in her head. (She walked into the newsroom as I was doing a rewrite. One question produced reams of information. They need a glossary, she said, obviously aware of my confusion.) I first met Wagner last fall when I interviewed to be her assistant. I was impressed, liked her a lot. A personable woman, obviously overworked. When I began trying to gather information on this funding mess, I looked forward to working with her, but Wagner tested my patience. She has a full-time assistant now. Nonetheless, it took four days to have a conversation of any substance. I do know that the Memphis trip is being paid for out of district start-up funds for King, but Ive never been told how much was in the start-up fund. Its been 37 years since the Central High crisis. It seems that nothings any better between the races than it was, and its all gotten so much more complicated. Maybe its time to do something drastic. How about everybody has neighborhood schools and every school is funded the same? Pam Strickland's column appears every Wednesday.Aikansas Williams says incentive curriculum too full Urges streamlining to emphasize basics at the 6 LR schools BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer The curriculum in Little Rocks double-funded incentive schools needs to be streamlined to emphasize basic academic subjects, Superintendent Henry Williams said Friday in federal court. Testifying in the school desegregation lawsuit for the first time since becoming superintendent in October 1993, Williams said the curriculum at the six predominantly black schools is too full and that the focus should be on reading, math, social studies and science. We are looking at how we do business in the incentive schools, he said. We need to restructure the academic program to emphasize what is important. We do children a dis-- service by giving them too much. Williams is only the latest in a long line of people to express concerns about the incentive school program, which includes small class sizes, academic themes, extra staff and afterschool academic and recreational programs. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright and the federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring have criticized the districts lack of progress in racially balancing the schools enrollment and in improving achievement levels. One of the primary concerns has been the districts failure to fully implement all the programs promised in its desegregation plan. In addition to the judges concerns, a team of researchers from Harvard University said in a recent study they found no evidence that spending extra money on special programs in one- race, minority schools led to improved student achievement. The study focused on four U.S, city school districts, including Little Rock. Reaffirming comments she made at a hearing in February, Wright again said Friday she is beginning to doubt the incentive school program is workable as written. By the spring of 1995, she said, she will likely seek modifications to the incentive school plan. She said she believes there must be ways to establish desegregated, equitable and constitutional schools in central and east Little Rock. She pointed to the success of the new Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School as an example of how black and white families will attend an inner- city school. The school is attractive to both races, at least in part, because of its new building, Wright said. The districts desegregation plan obligates the district to operate the incentive schools for six years, but there is a dispute about when the six years started and when they will end. Wright said the district appears to be making a greater effort to implement the incentive school programs as described in the districts court-approved plan, but it may be too little, too late. But even on Friday, Wright questioned why the district is proposing to phase in technology themes at the incentive schools. She said the themes should have been in place as early, as 1991. The issue of the incentive school program was raised when John Walker, an attorney for the black Joshua intervenors in the school case, questioned how the district could earmark $377,000 for new technology and Spanish teachers at the schools next year without adding to thei districts expenses or cutting  other programs at the schools. : Williams said that in some cases the districts spending ini incentive schools is triple the\namount of money per child in regular schools. In a related matter, Williams , said Friday he had some con-'j cems about the physical condi-  j tions of the Stephens and Gar- land Incentive School buildings. While he did not propose immediately closing the buildings, he questioned their attractiveness to parents. He noted that the district has some long-standing plans to replace Stephens. He said Garland, a two-story building, has restrooms only on the first floor. The purpose of the hearing Friday was to review the districts preliminary 1994-95 budget, which has a $7.1 million deficit.08/10/94 11:30 501 324 2032 L R School Dist ODM 001/003 CZQK LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 810 West Markham Little Rock, AR 72201 FAX (501) 324-2032 DATE : TO: IO FROM: SENDER'S PHONEp SUBJECT: 2^^' ____________ SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS\nNumber of Pages (include Speed Dial cover page Fax Phone Number ^C\u0026gt;\\08/10/94 11:31 Q501 324 2032 L R School Dlst ODM @002/003 Little Rock School District NEWS RELEASE August 10,1994 For more information: Dina Teague, 324-2020 Five incentive schools in the Little Rock School District wiU benefit from a clean up effort by the Girl Scout Trash Busters, Saturday, August 13, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Over 275 people are expected to attend. The clean up will begin at 8:00 a.m on the grounds of Franklin Communications and Technology Elementary School, Garland Multi-Media Technology and Educational Research Elementary School, Mitchell Creative Dramatics Elementary School, Rightsell Career Awareness and Mass Media Elementary School, and Rockefeller Computer Science/Early Childhood Magnet Elementary School. At 10:30 a.m. all participants will meet at the Rockefeller School for activities including games, storytelling and action songs. (more)08/10/94 11:31 Q501 324 2032 L R School Dlst ODM [g] 003/003 Incentive School Clean Up August 10,1994 Page two of two The purpose of the clean up is to bring the community together to work for cleaner schools. \"We're so pleased that the Girl Scouts are putting their community spirit to work to help us get ready for the new school year,\" said Estelle Matthis, deputy superintendent. \"This kind of community involvement is a big part of keeping our World Class Schools' looking their best.\" The Chipato Valley and Pocahontas Service Units of the Ouachita Girl Scout Council are sponsors of the event. ###I Arkansas Democrat'^(J^azctte [ SATURDAY, JANUARY 28. 1995 Incentive schools slate open houses Preregistration BY CYNTHIA HOWELL  Democrat-Gazette Education Writer : The Little Rock School District will host open houses Thursday .in all incentive and interdistrict elementary' schools in preparation for the 1995-96 preregistra- tion period, which begins Feb. 6.  The open houses are 5:30 until 7 p.m. They were originally set for last Monday but were canceled because of a snowstorm. Parents and guardians of current and prospective Little Rock students are encouraged to visit with teachers and administrators about educational opportunities at each school. Incentive and interdistrict schools are open to students in all three Pulaski Coun- for LRSD students starts Feb. 6 ty school districts. The incentive schools names include a description of the schools theme\nFranklin Communications and Technology Elementary School. Garland Multi-Media Technology and Educational Research Ele- academic mentary School, Mitchell Cre- Dramatics Elementary alive School. Rightsell Career Awareness and Mass-Media Elementary School and Rockefeller Computer Science Elementary School. Little Rocks schools include Dr. interdistrict Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet Elementary School, where the academic theme is high-intensity learning\nRomine Interdistrict Elementary School. where the theme is computer science and basic skills\nand Washington Magnet Elementary School, where the theme includes basic skills, math and science. The district also is hosting open houses\n From 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. Monday at each of the 23 area elementary schools.  From 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday in the district's area junior and senior high schools. Faculty will be at the schools to greet parents. At Southwest Junior High, the student choir and band will perform, and tours of the school will be offered to visitors.ArkaxLsas Democrat 'gg(gazcttc TUESDAY, APRIL 11. 1995 Independent panel suggested as way to help incentive schools BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer Improving Little Rocks five double-funded incentive schools might involve shifting oversight from school district officials to an independent committee, the federal judge in the Pulaski County desegregation case said Monday. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright took no action on the suggestion, made Monday by attorney John Walker in a hearing on the districts proposed 1995-96 budget. But she referred to the idea a couple of times, saying it intrigued her. She urged all the parties in the case to weigh the idea of an arrangement similar to the Magnet Review Committees oversight of Little Rocks magnet schools. The incentive schools are a very important part of the desegregation plan, Wright said. This court has stated time and again that these schools have not been well-managed. Thats either because the district is unable or unwilling to do it. She said she would have difficulty releasing the Little Rock district from court supervision of the desegregation plan when you really havent given it your best shot  when it wasnt implemented the way you said it would be implemented. Im not saying its in bad faith\nit just hasnt been done well. The district oversees the five incentive elementary schools, which get extra money for programs to increase black student achievement and attract white pupils to the hard-to-desegre- gate schools. ^The incentive schools are a very important part of the desegregation plan. This court has stated time and again that these schools have not been well-managed. Thats either because the district is unable or unwilling to do it  U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright Only one of the schools has achieved a significant degree of racial balance, and the achievement rates are mixed. The Magnet Review Committee oversees the general operation of the six original magnet schools in Little Rock. The district manages those schools day-to-day operations but must submit changes in budget, staff and programs to the committee for approval. The committee, which meets about twice a month, consists of representatives of all three Pulaski County districts, the Joshua intervenors in the desegregation case and the state Department of Education. The discussion on the incentive schools came up in a review of proposed budget cuts for the Little Rock district. The district initially proposed eliminating 45 positions and $608,000 in staff at the incentive schools. After administrators met with staffing committees at each school, the proposed cuts were revised to eliminate 11 positions and $211,000. Walker, attorney for the black families who intervened in the lawsuit, questioned three incentive school principals about their staffs and the programs at their schools. He told Wright the incentive schools have inexperienced staffs and said the district has committed the schools to failure. Karen Buchanan, principal at Garland Incentive, testified that 10 out of 14 classroom teachers had less than three years of experience. Buchanan also said Gar- , lands academic theme hasnt I been fully implemented and that she believed a martial arts course at the school was a waste of district money. She said there was evidence a school custodian and teachers had paddled students at the school before she arrived there in January. Corporal punishment is a violation of district policy.SATURDAY, AUGUST 12.1995 ---- In,. Judge withholds blessing on LRSD cuts BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer Whatyou are asking the trations, Wright said. What you trict agreed to the Spanish pro- ! gram when the plan was written 1 A federal judge said Friday court tO do is approve a she wont approve Little Rock , , , . School District plans to cut staff budget that in essence are asking the court to do is approve a budget that in essence will violate the plan require- if the program wasnt feasible. John Walker, an attorney for ments. You have not modified the the black children who interand the elementary Spanish pro- violate the plan gram at the five incentive plan. vened in the desegregation law-- schools, but she probably wont stop the cuts, either. requirements. You have not modified the plan. That is what you are asking suit, questioned why the lanthe court to do, and I will not do guage program failed at the in- U.S. District Judge Susan Web- , ber Wright said the proposed  lJ.!s. LHStriCt Juage that. You cannot just budget centive schools but is successfully willy-nilly while ignoring the plan. ! 4 attracting families to Gibbs International Studies Magnet Elemen- ' tary. He blamed it on changing But Wright later compliment- . _ _ ed the district for efforts to follow principals and shifting staffs at cuts were further evidence that Susan Webber Wright district is managing its incentive ____________________----------- ------------------------------------- .... , , - _\n_ ___ __the modification process more the incentive schools and the dis-  extra funding to make the schools old school desegregation lawsuit, pro- tricts lack of effort to make it ____ She made the comments at a posals to alter the desegregation successful. daylong hearing on the districts plan. The district started circu- Parker said the Gibbs program . -. . .    would not comply with the requirements for the incentive schools. At that school, children choose between Spanish, French and German. While parts of the desegrega- school program poorly, despite attractive to black and white students. Of the five elementaries, she the modification process more closely on a different set of proplan. circu1995- 96 budget. She oversees the lating those proposals among the ____ __________________ budget as part of an effort to parties in the case in March. ETementary'seemed successfully monitor the districts compliance They have not yet been sent to desegregated. with its desegregation plan. the judge. If we scrap the Spanish pro- Eliminating Spanish and some Gene Parker, the districts su- gram, how will we desegregate staff would mean that the district pervisor for foreign language, . _ _ the incentive schools the judge had made significant changes in told the judge he tried to comply tion plan are working well, asked What will we do to make the desegregation plan without with requirements that Spanish Wright said, the incentive school the schools attractive You said going through the approved be taught at the five schools. plan was ill-conceived and not But a lack of qualified elemen- working, at least partly because said, only Rockefeller Incentive in your plan that the Spanish was process for modifying the plan, necessary to desegregate the Wright said. The staff cuts, totalschools. ing $211,000. will affect six in- But Wright also pointed out structional aides and five other forts, he said. And the district that four of the five schools had counselors and music, art and had difficulty adding Spanish to be seeking ideas for modifying disproportionately high black en- physical education teachers. the schools already-crowded cur- the incentive schools during a se- , rollments even with the Spanish The modification process calls riculum. ries of hearings that will begin \"  ...................................................... Parker said the program envi- Aug. 30. tary Spanish teachers, despite the district isnt able or willing to national searches, stymied his ef- implement it correctly. riculum. program and staff. She said the for all parties in the desegrega- reductions would She told the parties she will 6n the subject of incentive probably tion case to discuss all proposed sioned in the 1989 desegregation  \" ......................... plan was outdated and inappro- school staffing, district officials would have no effect on racial changes before taking them to balance. Wright presides in the 12-year- the judge. You can understand my frus- priate for young children. told the judge the same programs The judge asked why the dis- could be provided with less staff.ZB  TUESDAY, JUNE 4,1996 Pulaski Arkansas Democrar \"ST (5az^ 1 Parents want overseer to act on incentive schools behalf BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer Supervision of the Little Rock School Districts five incentive elementary schools should be turned over to an independent director, an attorney for black -.parents said in documents filed ,dn federal court, John Walker cited 18 areas where he believes the district has .failed to comply with desegrega- j.tion plan provisions regarding the inner-city incentive schools.  The schools get extra money .ifor special programs to attract white pupils and improve the achievement levels of black stu- T\u0026lt; dents. Most of the schools remain racially segregated, which Walk- ,-,er blames on grossly inadequate , implementation of the plan, e In a motion filed late Friday, Walker asked U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright to create the position of incentive schools director to ensure the schools are operated as envisioned in the districts plan. 1989 desegregation Walkers complaints about the schools and the request for a director follow an announcement last month by Little Rock Superintendent Henry Williams that the district complies with 96 percent of its more than 1,700 specific desegregation obligations. After the announcement, the district filed briefs asking Wright to release the district from court supervision and return full control of the district to the school board. Walkers request for a director taries. Only Rockefeller has suc- also comes at a time when Wright cessfully attracted a large per- has asked the parties in the lawsuit to propose changes in the desegregation plan, particularly in the incentive schools. Wright has said in the past that she believes the incentive schools arent working. But, she said, she was uncertain whether the problems come from poor implementation or a flawed concept. The incentive school portion of the court-approved settlement plan cannot be deemed a failure, Walker said in his motion. Its implementation in a meaningful manner has never been attempted. ITie incentive schools are Garland, Franklin, Mitchell, Rightsell and Rockefeller elemen- centage of white students and has had the same principal for more than five years. Most of the incentive schools lack experienced and stable faculties, Walker said. They also are deficient in building upkeep, summer and weekend programs, field trips, science education, foreign language programs, school themes, student record-keeping, and parental involvement. The Office of Desegregation Monitoring is scheduled to complete its fifth annual report on the incentive schools by the end of this month. In last years report, the monitors said their visits to the incentive schools were discouraging because of the number problems and deficiencies they saw that were avoidable and correctable. Walker argued in the court documents that Wright is obligated by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to make sure the incentive schools are properly operated. In 1990. the appeals court directed the school district to scrupulously adhere to its plan regarding incentive schools. The court further directed Wright to take appropriate action if the parties in the lawsuit dont live up to their commitments. The proposed director of incentive schools should be a well- qualified educator who would work independently of district officials, Walker said. District employees should be ordered to work with the director and provide the director with an office. The director should be select- \u0026lt; ed by the federal Office of Deseg- regation Monitoring in consultation with Walker and his clients. Walker said. The district should pay the directors salary at a rate approved by the judge. The judge would have the authority to eliminate the position once it is no longer needed, he said. The idea of an independent overseer for the incentive schools is not new. Walker suggested an oversight committee during- a court hearing in April 1995. Wright said at the time that the idea intrigued her and she asked the parties to consider it Williams vehemently opposed the idea, saying it would dilute the authority of the Little Rock school board and superintendent.^^i'cscgregalion effort heads nofwOBt-Oazotto Educniloti WtHor I yuRansasDeniotrdl __________________10, 1996 into crucial exams h?'n.r'\" '\u0026lt;P''''cblg the Issues 111 dilferenl-------- sxtSs'''* -w SSBSsB 1 '\u0026gt;'ip''5 Sa' srws.SSsj ''* .st. I'ouls. serves to lie mio Aner 13 . vasutim \\^^l era! school (Jescgregatii U.. p 'vavgivgtiuon coi.ii.lies tons. vened\" h? 'h' 1^ fi'ed o Properly --------'-feuv uuvifinmR. nr w^b F'\"\"\"'I matter ot weeks or months. I Some participants in the plex case liave been worxing rcvcnshly lately to move the casf \"'cntual end  relea.se rJ.lei'ni''ecades ledeial court supervision But opposing parties In the coni- Schools incentive schools get extra money for programs designed to  ZsCatSis SBss j''.bari inoiith. Little Rock School plris'\" Uhei'r' 'Sm''c'?-lKr ooverVe^ 2^^E^Sba{'fi!ettl ''wSK l../i.L'.r','5  filai s\"n!^df:!,5^?:p See SCHOOLS, Page tOA W who has pr^shi^ I ?1 u/C? lIlB i f a inonitoriiig the districts of  Continued from Page 1A -J country and deserves to be released from court nvnt-eirl\u0026lt;* oversight. Schoo district olllclal.s filed the iiiotlon despite encoiirage- *^1'\".' Wi tfjlit to start with an iiilcriiiediate o.iti U.I.V4 wiiiuii sue wilt set a hearing dale on the issue A court order could follow that Meanwhile. John Walker, attor- ror the Joshun Intervenors ! 'sl week asking .5'^?''!? \" position for an WIW Joshua inte\n^ , d?cS?'u?..'='Sies in other _what she believe.s ''as pointed out those are probleiiKs in I llll loouieil.., t Hurt nl s existing plan, in- '  incentive schools and vtiuli?!' ^'a'ines for indi } . director is needed because all districts in an effort to cover \"\"\" oo.sts, but the state rin'l7r\"H \"' \"\"\"ty dis- tri^ s full cost, Jones said. nients alone. The formula penalizes his dis- judge must act iflhe parties dont s=F: Wright said Tlmrfday durPnTa about win i' Xi's\"\" to a lesser degree^h'a*^ SSll SS^ glBle something about the Little Rock '. An^ n County districts. ----------------------------------------- Sclinni . .  Ann Brown, the federal desee regahon monitor, called the the ' ponding motion the most signifi- cant of those pending before the spt Jodge this year because it has tlie vu uie motion tor an incentive kX= htate of Ar- school overseer. But, Wright told \"'o lawsuit school district olficiais t^ce big challenge in fighting the i- centive schools proposal. That part of the plan is ex- ^aTh\" l'hp\"dT'!':l '^\"gbt said. And, the distnct has not done a good job of implementing it for hard, maybe you just didnt do it ^,Z.=^!i:'''T/'ai!ure'toy^ School District's Mure to in^ ment the plan,\" she said. \"We now have a motion before the court... And I must rule on it \" 00^? bas been on the motion for - ~ as a a in- Sam Jones, an attorney for the Pula.slti County Special lltf\u0026gt;V*.aabA II r.y'r*' -outily Special School Oistrict, said last week that he  .... ou.u weeK mat he ex- motion will kxv . ,''*Hv iiiuiio be scheduled for later this s...s.Mutcu iur laier ihi.$ vear perhaps in October or November. i ruled in favor of the districts on tlie issue as did the 8tli Circuit Court of Appeals. But attorneys for the districts are a.sking the 8th Circuit to reconsider the workers compensation issue because they believe I he court misinterjireted the tiement. They believe the tricts are actually entitled more funding than what the court awarded them. ve set- dis- to ''0 said. which is contrary to the 1989 er districts. The settlemZr aTso rnn^'*^'^ ' continue to IV Jones is asking Wright to enforce the terms of the ? 'P\"' against the state The Lit Ie Rock and North Little Rock districts have joined with the county district in the motion iri lb 'be second time the districts have sued the state to force the settlement. Two years ago tlie districts accused tlie state of shorting them in funding work en- ers compensation costs. Wright Irii^ r  formula for dis- iVl^sc!.\" Arkansas - --------------- agieeu 10 00 11 \" n ,  . \"I districts does hot com-  As she has done repeatX'for ^001^,'V dle- : 'be judge cabled laski^ Cnb^'^'cen the Pu- .Thursday for the Little Rock dis sfaiJ 5''\"'^' .districts and the .'{f'ct.to negotiate with other pa?- led*taR?p!?' settlement\nto change par of a nartvTn * as Jhe plan that don't work 000^30? ForX\"e lawsuit. In return Phanges are approved bv he?, the mv Fi m m ^^te agreed to d strict would be required to im afd in i 'un m desegregation plement them and comply with in 1995^!*^^^*?'''''- ?eMse ?  b'\" '^'1 new cS. o.'?:^?bers adopted a ' I. icom court supervision. D.. I 00 1 But your distnct agreed to do it\" Uhe donVworrOnce Phonrrno __ . . '-V required to im- ii,~ c.......... 'J comply with *'\"6 to win iir  I J t----- *viaiuii. Wright has pushed for modifi- bringing in three na tional experts to testify about de- laski County districts Iori* 4, rti\u0026amp;eiueme led to the dismissal of the state aid to the three districts^ requires all districts to tMcher retirement benefits to pay reiirement benefits and '\".sui'ance. The state i.s increasing its fumfingin( Arkansas Democrat gazette \\ TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1996  Federal monitors raise 'Schools  Continued from Page IB questions in their report bn LR incentive schools BY CYNTHIA HOWELL ** Oemocrert-Gazstto Education Writer When Dr. Don Roberts takes over next month as interim superintendent of the Little Rock School DistricL one key issue awaiting his attention will be the fate of the districts five incentive elementary schools. In a new report the federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring is the latest group this year to raise questions about the controversial schools, which get extra money for special programs. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright has said she doesnt believe the incentive schools are working to promote desegregation. Last month, civil rights attorney John Walker said the schools were never properly implemented. He asked Wright to remove control of the schools from the district and place them under the direction of an independent overseer. i -  Also, at least two citizens groups have said in recent weeks that changes in the incentive schools are in order. .u In their report to WrighL the federal desegregation monitors urged school district officials to determine whether their incentive school efforts are producing reasonable results. We repeatedly hear that the incentive schools are not working, and indeed they have fallen far short of the expectations set for them, the monitors said in the 93-page report. I Part of the problem is that district officials dont evaluate their programs to determine whether they are really helping the district meet its desegregation goals, the monitors added. Instead, they confuse busy-ness with getting results. The LRSD must come to terms with whether the efforts ex- ' pended in the incentive schools have created results that are a reasonable return on the invest- i ment, or have merely created activities with a costly price tag, the monitors said. The monitors report is the fifth annual report on the five schools, which get extra money for programs designed to improve black childrens achievement levels and attract white pupils to the hard-to-desegregate buildings in east and central Little Rock. The five schools are Garland, Franklin, Rockefeller, Rightsell and Mitchell elementaries. At four of the five, black enrollment exceeds 90 percent Rockefellers enrollment is about 64 percent black and 36 percent white, counting a preschool program open to children from 6 weeks through 4 years old. The monitors listed 64 recom- See SCHOOLS, Page 8B mendations for improvements in ---------------- the incentive schools. The bulk of were criticized as well. The dis- the recommendations are repeat- trict employed only about half of the almost two dozen recruitment ed from earlier reports, but others are new. They cover such issues as parent involvement building repair needs, under-enrollment and the number of student disciplinary no money was specifically earsanctions levied last year. marked in 199^96 for incentive The monitors complimented school recruiting, although a the instructional program in the modest $34,000 was budg^ed five schools, calling it above av- for overall district publicity. The erage \" They also said they were lack of money prevented the dis- gratified to see the coordination trict from updating incentive and vigor with which the five school brochures and videos or schools have implemented their paying for advertising on bill- academic themes. Poor imple- boards and bus benches, mentation of the themes was a The performance of the dis- criticism of the schools in earlier tricts Biracial Advisory Commit- years tee continued to be abysmal, the But in other areas, the moni- monitors said. Membership dis- erage.\" They also said they were mentation of the themes was a But in other areas, the moni- tors found poor or spotty compliance with the incentive school re- , - quirements in the desegregation tendance was poor and the com- plan mittee did not fulfill its obligation For example, none of the in- to regularly monitor the incentive centive schools offers Spanish in- schools, the report said. For example, none of the instruction during the regular school day, even though the desegregation plan requires it. District efforts to recruit white families to the incentive schools i strategies listed in the desegregation plan. The monitors also found that proportionately represented certain parts of the city, meeting at-Arkansas Democrat W'Ofjazelle 1HURSDAY, AUGUST 15,1996 LRSD argues courts role in plan ended Ignore intervenors, attorneys urge judge BY CYN IHIA HOWELL Dcinoctal-Gazello Hdiicalion Writer The Litlle Hock Sclioel Dislriets (lescgii'hiilioii plan has expired, leaving the I'ederal cinn ts unable to  appoint an incentive school diiee- lor or order the liistrict to perforin desegregation obligations, attorneys for the district say. In the latest in a lluriy of Pulaski County school desegregation legal briefs this sununer, attorneys for the Little Kock district asked U.S. District .ludge Susan Webber. Wright to deny requests by civil ' rights attorney .lohn Walker, who is. challenging the district's conipli-' auee with its desegregation plan. Walker represents black families in the ISyear-old lawsuit lie accused the district earlier this year of violating large sections of its desegregation plan and the inter-' district plan that involve.s all three Pulaski County districts. Walker said the judge should deal more harshly with the Little Rock district, lie asked her to ere- . ale the position of independent director of Little Rock'.s live incentive  elementary schools. He also asked . the judge to order the district to im-  ' pleinent more than 25(1 recommendations issued liy the federal OHice  of Desegregation Monitoring in the last four years. .\nChris Heller and Clay Fendley,  attorneys for the Little Rock dis- , trict, have argued that the districts ' desegregation plan was supposed to last six years. That jieriod expired at the end of tlie 191)5-96 school year, they said. .Since the term of the plains has expired, the court no longer h.y jii-' risdiction based on tlie plans,\" the attorneys wrote. \"Accordingly , this con It. has no jurisdiction to order the relief sought by\" the black parents  known as the .loshua inteivenoi-s.' Wriglit lias not yet ruled on Little Rock's motion to end the desegregation case based on the six-year argument or on the district's contention that it has complied with virtually all paiTs of the plans. Heller and Fendley saitl that even if Walker's motion was timely, it should still be denied because  Walker failed to prove that the district has not complied with its plans. Walker cited rindings by the 01- llce of Desegregation Monihiring, , which is specifically charged with monitoriiig district compliance . witli its plan. Heller and Fendley said that the monitors' fniding-s and reconunen-' dations are advisoiy and not bind- . ing. Many of the recomniendalions are unrelated to the district's oblig-. atioirs under tlie plans and do not necessarily reflect noncompliance, , they said. Walker filed his motions seeking the incentive school director and eiiforceinent of the monitor's rec-, oninicndation.s before he declared a two year moratorium last nioiith on filing new complaints against the district.' Arkansas Democrat'^ (gazette   THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1997 / Think tank paper: Strong hand from court due in LR schools I C BY CYNTHIA HOWELL ARKANS.\\S DEMOCRATCAZETTE thing, Riggs said. The board is doing something. Were following A federal judge should appoint the recommendation of the super- a chief operating officer to the Lit- , intendenL We are going through tie Rock School District to over- \" '  haul its unworkable desegregation plan, the authors of a new Arkansas Policy Foundation publication say. Bob Morgan, a former associate monitor in the federal Office of Desegregation Monitoring, is the the process to change the plan, long and arduous as the process may be. i Riggs predicted that by late summer the Little Rock district will approach the other school districts in the county and parent in- than 60 percent black. The plan further called for the incentive elementary schools to get e.xtra money for programs that would raise the achievement levels of black pupils and attract whites. The double funding has proven ineffective in improvini 12 5 achievement in the incentive schools and promoting desegregation, Morgan wrote. i Additionally, the incentive schools have created inequities - - tervenors with proposals for revis- author of the analysis entitled, A ing the dese^egation plan. Earlier Catch-^ and More: Little Rocks this year, eight work teams were among black students, he* said Incentive Schools. The paper is appointed by Superintendent Don Only 15 percent of the district's accompanied by an afterword Roberts to determine how the op- black elementary school children written by Michael Watson, presi- eration of the district and its edu- dent of the Arkansas Policy Foun- cational dation, a conservative think-tank. were enrolled in the five existing program might be incentive schools in 1995-96. The foundation publication got tions are expected to form the ba- mixed reviews from the president ' \" strengthened. The recommenda- Eighty-five percent of the black of the School Board and from the segregation plan, federal desegregation monitor ' -------- VW .u.m wiv iwc- students, 6,6^, were in other ele- sis for proposed changes in the de- mentary schools, some of the which did not have the same re- c 1. \u0026lt; ) f ) 1 I E i i c 1 t i who is Morgans former boss. A court-appointed chief operating officer could force changes in the districts operation and re- the districts desegregation plan. ' place the desegregation plan with  ' : an education plan that focuses on Watson said in the afterword sources as the incentive schools that he, like Morgan, believes the even though the pupils might be district is in crisis and that a judge just as disadvantaged or more so. can intervene ifthere is a defect in ' ' ' Morgan also argued that taxpayer money is wasted on under-en- However, Watson said he and rolled, excessively st^ed incen- j . - some Arkansas Policy Foundation tive schools. student achievement Morgan said, legal experts doubt that U.S. Dis- The parties m the 14-year-old Pu- trict Judge Susan Webber Wright, Ann Brown, federal desegrega- , , . ,---------/., b- ..iiftiiu, tion monitor, said she was disap- lasta County desegregation lawsiut, who is presiding in the lawsuit, pointed with inaccuracies and dis-  including the Little Rock district will act unless there is a demon- tortions in the publication, espe- and the black parents who are in- stration of political and civic will daily in regard to her offices role tervenors in the case, have taken no by the people, action. Being involved in court for \" so many years has created a paranoid mentality that stifles innovation in the district, Morgan said. . . in reserving seats for white chii- Watson said Little Rock is more dren at the incentive schools and John Riggs IV, Little Rock ately needed initiative.' School Board president, said he than ready, but the School Board in the way Morgan used informa- cannot seem to muster the wis- tion on the numbers of poor chil- dom or courage to lead a desper- JI dren served in each school. Brown said the criticisms of the Morgan particularly criticized incentive schools consistently agreed that parts of the desegrega- incentive schools, calling them the omitted references to Rockefeller tion plan may be unworkable, or at crux ofthe desegregation plan and Incentive Elementary School Jeast outdated, and that some pro- particularly unworkable and which has been able to attract a grams may not make the best use wasteful. desegregated enrollment. of resources. 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