1. Public Comment (3 Minutes):

2. Student School Committee Report:

3. Presentation of the Records for Approval:

• March 14, 2024, Budget Workshop
• March 19, 2024, Regular Meeting

4. Reconsiderations:
None

5. Unfinished Business/Calendar:
None

6. Awaiting Reports:
None

7. Superintendent’s Agenda:

7a. Superintendent's Update:
None
7b. Presentations:

Office of Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Update

Manuel J. Fernandez, Chief Equity Officer

Dr. Leslie Jimenez, Director of Equity

Dr. Raymond Porch, Director of Family & Community Engagement

7c. CPS District Plan:

None

7d. Consent Agenda:
#C22-108 Recommendation: 2022-2023 Rules of the School Committee
#24-050 Recommendation: Fiscal Year 2025 Recommended Budget
#24-051 Recommendation: Approval of the Appointment of the Chief Financial Officer
#24-052 Recommendation: FY23-24 General Fund Budget Statutory Transfers
#24-053 Recommendation: Contract Award: Amplify: Instructional Materials & Professional Development
#24-054 Recommendation: Contract Award: Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: Student Tuition
#24-055 Recommendation: Contract Award: Community Art Center: Student Tuition
#24-056 Recommendation: Contract Award: East End House: Student Tuition
#24-057 Recommendation: Contract Award: Baldwin Community Center: Student Tuition
#24-058 Recommendation: Gifts/Miscellaneous Receipts
#24-059 Recommendation: Grant Award: FY2024 SEL & Mental Health Grant-Additional State Allocation (SC24833)
#24-060 Recommendation: Grant Award: Genocide Education Grant (SC24859)
#24-062 Recommendation: Grant Award: FY24 Homeless Emergency Support (SC24860)

8. Non-Consent Agenda:
None

9. School Committee Agenda (Policy Matters/Notifications/Requests for Information):
None

10. Resolutions:
##24-061 Joint Motion by Member Rachel, Mayor Simmons, Vice Chair Hunter

WHEREAS: Cambridge native Khari Milner is the child of Poppy and Marshall Milner, themselves longtime community leaders, MIT/Upward Bound director-parents, consummate educators, and artists; and

WHEREAS: Khari went through the Cambridge Public Schools, distinguishing himself as a young person for his involvement in social justice work and as a star swimmer; and 

WHEREAS: Khari has worked tirelessly for three decades to improve educational and life outcomes for Cambridge students; and

WHEREAS: Khari serves as the Co-Director of the Cambridge Public Schools - Department of Human Service partnership aptly named the Agenda for Children; and

WHEREAS: Khari and his colleagues have built a community of dozens of afterschool and summer programs, provided capacity-building and connections to the school department and City, and designed vacation week and Saturday programs; and

WHEREAS: Khari has modeled how to apply an equity lens to educational work, for example thinking proactively about students who might need supportive remote learning environments during the pandemic schooling period, drawing upon his strong relationships with community-based organizations to establish sites, and working with CPS to secure appropriate funding; and

WHEREAS: Khari was a central leader in the Building Equity Bridges movement, which convened students, caregivers, educators, and community members to make sense of educational data together, identify barriers to racial equity, and define strategies for taking down barriers; and

WHEREAS: The BEB movement has led to numerous improvements in Cambridge, including the establishment of the Cambridge Families of Color Coalition, as well as the Office of Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging; and

WHEREAS: Khari keeps his focus on the racial equity work still needed in our schools and community; and

WHEREAS: Khari is a parent to three wonderful children, each of who have attended Cambridge Public Schools; and

WHEREAS: Khari had the good sense to marry Tanya Milner, one of the treasures of the CRLS administration and a leader in her own right; and

WHEREAS: Tutoring Plus named Khari Milner as the organization’s 2024 Children’s Champion; now therefore be it

RESOLVED: That the School Committee go on record congratulating Khari Milner for this well-earned recognition and thanking him for his continued dedication to young people and families in Cambridge; and be it further

RESOLVED: That the Executive Secretary prepare a formal copy of this resolution and present it to Mr. Khari Milner.

11. Announcements:
None

12. Late Orders:
None

13. Communications and Reports from City Officers:

None

Updated on 04/01/2024