IA SGC: School Governance Council Meeting

Description

You can join IA for the next meeting at 7:45am via Teams (available on the SGC website) or in Mission Control.
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As many of you know, Fulton County has established SGCs in most schools that bring the voices of parents, students and teachers together in a dialogue with school administration.The SGC is responsible for allocating approximately $45,000 in discretionary charter funding and supporting the development of the school's Strategic Plan.

Parent and Teacher positions on the SGC are elected, and Principal Kent names Community members and Staff representatives to the group, which also includes two non-voting student representatives.

Last year, in addition to allocating funding for design thinking faculty training, buildout of the student hubs, and security glass and cameras, the SGC engaged parents with a survey and a series of focus groups.We used this input, working closely with Principal Kent, to provide guidance on the school budget for 2024-25 and for requests for Value-added Flexibility (VAFs) that can customize the IA experience for our students.

For this school year, we will continue that engagement as we adapt to four grade levels on campus.You can find minutes of past meetings and agendas for future meetings (which are open to the public) on the IA websitehere.

The members of the 2024-25 IA SGC are:

- Scott Kent (Principal),
- Jeanietta Howard (Parent-Chair),
- Haaris Quraishy (Assistant Principal-Vice Chair)
- Robert Alford (Community Member),
- Dahlia Restler (Staff),
- Charu Agrawal (Parent),
- Donald Lynch (Staff-Parliamentarian),
- Ron Wright (Community Member),
- Jit Saha (Parent-Treasurer),
- Bob Kuhn (Staff),
- Reema Mistry (Student Representative), and
- Yash Varakala (Student Representative)