Ratifies up to $20,000 for a contractor to connect LIFE Academy students to summer programs

The district is approving, after the fact, an agreement with an individual contractor to run workshops for all LIFE Academy advisories on available summer programs and help students and families apply. The goals include 80% of grade 9-11 students applying to a summer program and 40% connected to science programs. The agreement runs May 1 through June 30, 2023 and is capped at $20,000.00.

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Vendor / partner: Individual contractor
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: May 1, 2023 – Jun 30, 2023
This vote: $20,000
Schools: LIFE Academy
Funding: Measure N
Resource / site: 9333-335
Vendor no.: 008083
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 23-1317 · agenda T.-55
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Jun 7, 2023

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2022-2023 by and between the District and Mahader Tesfai, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to run workshops for all advisories on summer programming available, reaching 100% of high school students; ensure that 80% of students in grades 9-11 apply to some form of summer program for enrichment and advancement of learning (for example, California State Summer Science School or SMASH at UC Berkeley); meet with families in order to ensure that they are on board with their students in participating in what are often residential programs outside of Oakland; ensure that 40% of students in grades 9-11 are connected to summer programming, specifically programming in the sciences; track all of the above in order to use the data to support meeting the goals and following up consistently with students and families to ensure successful completion of summer learning opportunities at LIFE Academy, for the period of May 1, 2023 through June 30, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $20,000.00.

History

Jun 7, 2023 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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