Meeting Time: December 14, 2022 at 4:00pm PST
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Agenda Item

S.-17 22-2685 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2022-2023 by and between the District and Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, San Francisco, CA, for the latter to provide ESL classes for up to 90 newly-arrived refugee adults during the 2022-2023 school year; provide home-based tutoring/mentoring for at least 20 high-need and at-risk refugee students K-12 as referred by the OUSD Refugee and Asylee program; provide three Community Navigators to provide language assistance and navigation to refugees speaking minor languages in OUSD: one full-time Mam Community Navigator, one part-time Mam Community Navigator and one Arabic Community Navigator, and additional administrative costs to support those staff members; provide after school tutoring programs and peer interns supporting youth at Fremont High School and Oakland International High School; provide interpretation for OUSD staff as needed in Pashto, Dari, and Burmese; help students and parents better navigate the educational system and help the OUSD ensure access to the services for these students and conduct all programming, curriculum design, student recruitment, retention activities, and data collection, via English Language Learner and Multilingual Achievement Department, for the period of November 15, 2022 through June 30, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $60,000.00.