Enrollment numbers came in much higher than expected at McDonogh City Park Academy, Principal Christine Mitchell announced at the board’s October 16 monthly meeting. The current enrollment of  420 marks the highest total since New Orleans Charter School Foundation took over the school, according to Mitchell.

At Tuesday’s monthly board meeting school leaders at McDonogh City Park Academy announced a new partnership with the Center for Restorative Approaches and the successful implementation of the Kickboard program. Kickboard is an online data-collection tool that helps teachers gather information about students’ academics and behavior. The program allows teachers to keep detailed digital records of each student, which are used to improve classroom instruction and inform weekly communications with parents.

Optimism and enthusiasm abounded as the McDonogh City Park Academy board met Aug. 21 to kick off the new school year.

With the projected student count rising from 395 to 452, McDonogh City Park Academy’s 2012-13 budget will rise accordingly, the board learned at its monthly meeting, July 17.  More students means more expenses, but also more revenues; just how much more remains to be determined, finance director Keeanyu Dupre said. Dupre said the school was “working with the bare bones” when constructing a budget based on an enrollment of 395.

Revenues and expenses are expected to hold steady as McDonogh City Park Academy prepares for the 2012-13 school year.  The school projects $4,155,180 in available funds and $4,071,986 in expenses for the year – a one percent drop in both categories compared with last year. The projections are based on a student count of 395, five fewer than the official count on Feb.

Review the 2012-13 proposed budget for McDonogh City Park Academy here. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for Tuesday, July 17 at 5:30 in the school’s library.

By Mary Catherine Cassidy

The McDonogh City Park Academy school board met May 15 to discuss the end of the school year and suggestions for improvements in 2012-13. With principal Christine Mitchell out of town, master teacher Sheila Hebert presented the school leader’s report.

Directors of McDonogh City Park Academy welcomed two new board members during their monthly meeting, April 17: Brittany Major and Monica Candal. Major recently moved back to New Orleans from Atlanta and works with the city in economic development.

On March 20, at the monthly meeting of McDonogh City Park Academy board of directors, the Children’s Bureau presented data  they have collected over the past eight months while working with the school’s leadership to enhance the emotional well-being of students. Children’s Bureau president Paulette Carter led he presentation with Stacy Overstreet, a professor and co-director of Tulane’s School Psychology Program.

The board of McDonogh City Park Academy welcomed new school staff and new board members at their monthly meeting on Feb. 14.

The monthly meeting of the McDonogh City Park Academy board, on Jan. 17, discussed interviews with potential new board members and the school’s recent acceptance into the Medicaid program before yielding to a disgruntled parent.

The group of disgruntled McDonogh City Park Academy teachers who attended last month’s board meeting to ask  for help with student discipline seems to have been satisfied. As detailed at the board’s monthly meeting, Dec.

McDonogh City Park Academy’s monthly board meeting on Nov. 15 focused on student discipline problems.

In attendance at the meeting were board President Mary Kay Parker, Treasurer Jim Nelson and board members Laurie Charbonnet, Mike Bagot and Lee Hampton.

McDonogh City Park’s D-minus school performance grade focused the attention of New Orleans Charter Schools Foundation board members at their meeting on Oct. 25.

The New Orleans Charter Schools Foundation board meeting scheduled for tonight at McDonogh City Park Academy has been pushed back a week to October 25.