Opportunity Charter School

“The delegation of the accounting manager/controller position was outsourced to an outside firm, kiwi partners, inc., that works under contract with opportunity charter school and reports directly to the ceo. In fy 2020, kiwi partners, inc. Received $110,967 for services provided.”

“The accountants review the form 990 with the ceo, and the ceo reports to the finance committee of the board of trustees. The 990 is distributed to all board members prior to filing with the internal revenue service.”

“Conflict of interest forms are submitted to the human resources department by each trustee, officer and key employee annually. The human resources department manager resolves any issues related to the conflict of interest policy. In the event of a conflict, the individual with such conflict is prohibited from participating in the deliberation and decision related to the transaction.”

“The organization's finance committee, in collaboration with the ceo, uses compensation surveys, related market research, and evaluation of performance and experience in determining compensation for the ceo and if applicable other officers and key employees. The finance committee then presents the recommendations of any increases to the board of trustees. The compensation discussions and determinations regarding the compensation arrangement are documented in the respective contracts, which are signed by the board chair. There were no other officers or key employees during the year.”

“The organization completes an annual report containing this information. This report is provided to the nyc department of education and the state education department and is available to the public upon request for the same period of disclosure as set forth in section 6104(d).”

“The organization, in a full transparency posture to reporting, is reporting all benefits in full in part vii, column f, and not applying the $10,000 per item exception for certain benefits.”

“The organization needed to make a significant change to how it conducts its program service activities due to the lockdown and the resultant transition to remote learning: prior to schools being closed in march of 2019 all of our teachers already prepared google classrooms where students were invited to join. Students were already familiar with how to navigate this platform. In addition, the following took place: - intervention and special education programming was delivered through the support of our special education teachers. - special education teachers monitored each class to support and differentiate instruction. - special education teachers and learning specialists provided our students with strategies, suggestions, graphic organizers, or any other resources that best fits each student's learning needs. - students participate in our three-tiered reading intervention program where they are placed based on their lexile level. Depending on their class placement, they either work on their phonics, reading comprehension or their writing. For math, students participated in our online program that sets a learning pathway for each student based on initial knowledge assessments. - each student was assigned two mentors that reached out to them to discuss their daily attendance and academic progress. Teachers and mentors logged all individual contacts with students in our student information system. Administration, social workers, culture team members, mentors and teachers participated in weekly grade team meetings with teachers and other staff members to ensure students were engaged in their learning. - created rigorous and differentiated activities in google classroom aligned with the curriculum.”