The Black Parallel School Board (BPSB) is a community organization developed to work parallel to the Sacramento City Unified District Board of Education. Its major responsibility is to support the educational growth and achievement of Black students. In order to do that we will monitor all educational activities and programs of the school district to ensure that they are compatible with the needs of African American students of the district. Additionally, the BPSB provides support services to parents regarding the education of their children. BPSB members will attend school meetings with parents to advocate for their children; BPSB members will also provide workshops for parents interested in learning techniques to make learning more successful.
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The BPSB has been a hard-working group from its outset and its accomplishments are measurable. They include the following activities:
1 Conducted “Operation Doorstep”: on within the Rosa Parks Middle School attendance area distributed 150 packets to residents;
2 Extensive testimony has taken place at each Board meeting over a two year period, far too voluminous to represent here;
3 Assessed the status of Black students in the SCUSD;
4 Developed The Village Volunteer Program (VVP) at Rosa Parks Middle School;
5 Addressed requests from parents in other school districts providing services in their districts and to help others form BPSB in their districts;
6 Investigated discrimination in the SCUSD effecting Black teachers, principals and staffs;
7 Conducted BPSB training sessions centered on: Parent/Family/Student/Community Involvement, No Child Left Behind Act 2001, the Williams Act, Education Protocols, and Student Empowerment;
8 Conducted training for parents, BPSB members, and all other interested people at Rosa Parks Middle School on January 10, 2009;
9 Initiated a BPSB “Call to Action” Plan which consisted of assisting SCUSD to recruit more effective Black teachers and administrators;
10 Investigated SCUSD poor enrollment of Black students at West Campus High School;
11 Facilitated a Parent Training Workshop;
12 BPSB investigated and addressed SCUSD’s policy and individual site practice relative to allowing students to take textbooks home to study.
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Black Parallel School Board Goals and Objectives
The Sacramento Black Parallel School Board will use every means at its disposal to see to it that:
The Sacramento City Unified School District will consistently address by specific identifiable and measurable practices the racial achievement gap associated with differences in G.P.A., API, graduation and retention rates, disciplinary actions, expulsions, inequality in educational services and exit test scores between African Descended students and other population groups throughout the coming academic year, 2009-2010.
1. An annual report on the status of the African Descended achievement gap.
2. An increase in API scores for African Descended students in the District from 664 to 750 points.
3. A realistic effort to achieve 21% African Descended teachers in the District.
4. A realistic effort to achieve an equitable increase in African Descended Administration staff in the District.
5. A realistic effort to achieve 75% of African Descended staff retention rate in the District.
6. A realistic effort to achieve a 10% participation rate of African Descended Students in the District’s GATE program.
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