Agenda Attachment B - Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools Board of Education FY2019-20 Operating Budget Request and CIP

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9 CHCCS Superintendent’s Budget Request 2019-2020 Expansion Funding Requests from Local Funds We are requesting minimal funds for program expansion or new programs in the district at this time. Our primary focus this year will be on aligning our resources with our strategic plan and ensuring all are maximized. The following are some points of pride from our work this past year: • CHCCS has the highest average SAT and ACT scores in North Carolina. • Our cohort graduation rate continues to outpace the state at 91.6%. • We continue to average 20 students being selected to the Governor’s School. • We provide 21st Century learning opportunities for our students through our Academy of Information Technology, Google Apps online learning accounts for all students, technology rich classrooms, and certified technology specialists in all schools. • We offer and continue to expand our advanced learning opportunities through AP courses, gifted specialists throughout the district and our Middle College at Durham Tech. • We provide our students with Fine Arts opportunities and have state and national award winning programs in choral, band, orchestra, drama, ceramics, and visual arts. • We continue to strive for a safe & healthy environment for our students by providing school nurses, school social workers, counselors, resource officers (secondary schools) for all our schools. • We also emphasize healthy living initiatives through our high nutrition standards and physical activity commitments. We know the programs we have implemented over the past few years and continue to strengthen will help our students achieve great things. We are looking within existing resources to sustain this upward momentum and are not looking to the county to provide any changes required for staffing in the district for FY 2019-20. We do request funds to help us accelerate our work surrounding equity, literacy, crisis and mental health services, school safety and expanded academic and enrichment programing for our struggling students. Below are the efforts for which we request county support through additional funds: 1. Increasing our benefit offerings for our staff to include up to 4 weeks of Maternity/Paternity leave for qualifying staff. Based on our current average numbers annually, $450,000 would provide funding to support at least 85 employees at 90% or 75 employees at 100%. This would provide CHCCS with a competitive benefit package to help us recruit and retain high quality teachers and staff. 2. Creating a Comprehensive Social/Emotional programming to build a continuum of services for our youth would require $232,000. Students need to understand how to regulate their emotions, build positive relationships, make responsible decisions, and understand what it means to care about self and others. Through additional financial support, Student Services will be able to create a social and emotional (SEL) district-wide program that will support the development of aforementioned skills which promotes student success. We will use these funds to create programming that helps with trauma and socially sensitive training, restorative practices and provides the supports our students need to learn in a safe and supportive environment. 3. Core Equity and Culturally relevant literacy content training for the district. This work is the cornerstone of our strategic plan and efforts to ensure our district closes all achievement gaps. We will be collaborating with Orange County Schools in this work so as to create the cohesive understanding surrounding equity our community expects. We are requesting