Another FINE Meeting!!!

On behalf of the PEP Board I want to thank all of the Parents, PTO Presidents and Community folk who attended our meeting last night.

It was an outstanding meeting full of insight, sharing, learning and most importantly providing us all with a high-level understanding of parental and student needs to effectuate the progression of our educational system. In addition, awareness was raised with regard to the need for family, community and the public to commit to the cause of Educational Excellence!

We are currently circulating a petition for a Parental Involvement Policy, and will follow-up with the formation of a committee of parents and community that will work to create this guidance document based on the New Jersey Department of Education – NCLB mandates and submit it to the Board of Education.

If you are interested in signing this petition and/or working on the committee please send me an email with your name, address and school affiliations and I will attach it to our petition. If you indicate you are interested in joining the committee a follow-up meeting notice will be forwarded to you with the pertinent information. (rasrahmataz@comcast.net)

We WILL move this district towards educational excellence – 1 Parent at a time!

Again – thank you all for your continued support!

One last thing, PEP shared with the community last night that the current District structure (paradigm) will no longer provide countenance for a (this) citywide PTO and therefore any funding previously afforded this organization through Title I funding is no longer available. As such – parent, former PEP VP, current PEP Program Advisor, as well as a parental and community advocate: Dr. Susan Phifer – offered to donate $200 towards food funding for our next few meetings. The PEP Board wishes to extend our sincere gratitude and a hearty THANK YOU for believing in the Vision and Mission of PEP!

Let’s PEP it UP!