Superintendent Vital Performance Review at Tonights Board Meeting

At tonights Board Meeting during closed session Superintendent Vital is being evaluated. I hope Trustees will bring up her statement at last months meeting regarding accelerated programing for high achieving students:

District Staff; without Board of Trustee approval; has, since 2012-13 let CUSD's GATE program die. Concerned parents are now appealing to the Board to provide funding and special programming for CUSD's high achieving students.

STATEMENT FROM SUPERINTENDENT VITAL

Board Audio at 190.24 (3 hours 10 minutes and 24 seconds) http://cusd.capousd.org/…/…/CU...

"I think that one of the outcomes of tonight is because this was something that was happening at the Staff level without the Board, having a conversation with the Board, and getting your values is really important. And so, I think what I have heard is that the majority of you very much want to see a GATE like program with some level of humm - separation... I don't know another word. Some way of meeting the needs of kids in that way and that we need to build some programming and potentially bring that conversation back along with some evidence and research about what this means or doesn't mean for all kids. Frankly this helps us to be able start this conversation because before what was happening is that in isolation, not now, a year or two ago making some plans without the Board. So I do think this is important and we are happy as a staff to be able to given that value to build something and bring that back. Does that make sense?"

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