The meeting opened with a presentation from CECHCR (California Education Coalition for Health Care Reform), a non-profit health care advisor, that covered the reasons for skyrocketing health care costs and what they can provide in services.

Next there were a series of decisions to:

During my PRPE report I addressed some upcoming meetings and thanked the board for their support for the PRPE/PRJUSD Tentative agreement that will allow Common Core training for all certificated unit members to take place on 6/16/14 and 6/17/14 at their full daily rate of pay.

In addition, I commented on the Governor’s State Budget proposal that will provide approximately $10M for the PRJUSD. This is very good news and although it is subject to the approval of the legislature, most observers in Sacramento expect it to remain in the same form when it is approved by the legislature in June. $6M will come in the form of deferral elimination and will not be new money. However, $4M will be new money to the district and will be subject to our furlough elimination agreement.

The school board met to “receive information on the program needs for the 2014-2015 school year”. As per the Board’s direction in December 2013, the priority list is again presented for Board discussion. The board will also receive information on the needs for CCCSS/SBAC (Common Core Curriculum State Standards/Smarter Balanced Testing Consortium) and recommendations from the DSLT (District Site Leadership Team).

Tuesday night, 1/14/14, the PRJUSD School Board held three meetings. The first was a special closed session meeting to address the PRPE Level 5 Grievance concerning the misapplication of the formula for elimination of furlough days contained in the PRPE/PRJUSD Mediated Agreement dated 5/9/13. The second meeting addressed inter-district student transfer requests. The third meeting was one of the regular bi-monthly meetings