Children'S Development Academy Inc

“The draft 2018-2019 audit and 2018 form 990 are first reviewed by the cda finance committee with the independent auditors. The revised documents are then provided electronically to the full board of directors for their review. Questions, comments and concerns are addressed by the finance committee and the auditor prior to the board's final review of the documents. The board of directors approves the filing of the audit and form 990.”

“Directors and key employees complete a disclosure questionnaire annually.”

“Determining the compensation of the executive director begins with a performance evaluation by the chair, immediate past chair, chair-elect and the chair of the human resources committee, which is shared with the full board. The executive director's compensation is reviewed by the human resources committee, which is comprised entirely of independent individuals and includes experienced, senior hr managers. Their review relies upon executive compensation data gathered from other local nonprofit organizations or other comparable bodies, and the cda's own past practice. Their recommendation is presented to the full board for approval.”

“Compensation of all employees begins with a performance evaluation by the supervisor. Compensation is then determined by the quality of performance and a review of market data to ascertain comparable salaries for comparable organizations. The cda strives to maintain competitive compensation rates in order to retain valued employees and to protect our investment in training and professional development of key employees.”

“Governing documents such as our strategic plan, budgets and financial statements, and conflict of interest policy are available for public inspection at our office at 89 grove way, roswell, ga 30075 immediately upon request. The cda also shares these documents electronically when requested, for example in the process of applying for foundation or other funding.”

“Children's development academy”

“Mission: affording all children in our community high quality early education. Vision: best start. Brightest future. Every child.”

“Children's center: in 2018-2019, the cda served over 250 children, providing full-day early childhood education in the cda community center. This facility has ten vibrant classrooms-seven for toddlers and preschoolers, three for prekindergarten children-with well-qualified teachers nurturing and educating 156 youngsters each day ages one to five years. These children received: -comprehensive curriculum promoting cognitive, physical, language and social development. -wholesome nutrition, including breakfast, lunch and a snack each day. -immunization, health and dental screenings. -developmental screenings throughout the year to monitor each child's progress. -parent-child conferences twice a year to inform parents about their child's progress and to engage them in their son or daughter's education. -enrichment activities such as field trips, cultural performances and nature explorations. Cda's hardworking parents earned median incomes of only 21277 in 2018- 2019, so market-rate tuition of 250-300 per week would be beyond their reach. With scholarships, parents' median tuition payment was only 62 per week, which still represents 15% of their household income. Cda families make tangible sacrifices for their children's education. Scholarships made possible by generous partners are providing enormous opportunities like these: -we have had a family in our program who lives at another emergency housing for women and children who was very unhappy with her previous daycare experience. She received a caps certificate which stated she would pay us 49 a week. She was still struggling financially, but wanted to remain in the cda program enough to refer other families to us. The cda was able to give her an additional scholarship to reduce her tuition. She continues to promote cda in the community and participates in all of the activities/events we offer. -another family who came from an emergency service, and was referred to us by the family described above, had two children, one of whom is age- eligible for our program. Even though mom works, she was unable to pay her tuition each week. Because of our 3-star program, and the quality rated grant, she was eligible to participate in the grant which allowed her daughter to attend our program for free. She is eternally grateful to us and our program which will change the trajectory of her child's life. -joseph (name changed) was enrolled in the cda program since being 3 years old. Throughout that year staff spoke with his parents about some developmental concerns. It wasn't until the asq results in pre-k that the parents agreed to refer him to fulton county schools. That fall, he was evaluated and the recommendation was for him to attend a special needs pre-k program thereby leaving the cda program. It was a tough decision but with the help of our family advocate who had been working with the family for over a year, they decided to enroll him in the special needs program near their home. Early literacy: our early literacy program, now in its ninth year, is demonstrating tremendous impact on our kids for whom early literacy skills and language acquisition are essential. Research shows that achievement disparities exist between poor children and their affluent peers even before the age of five, so early intervention is critical to close the gap. Our el coach works with both teachers and parents to stimulate early literacy activities in the classroom and at home. Keep kids safe-grove way-bush street enhancement: in 2012-2013, the cda launched an exciting public-private partnership with the city of roswell, which has completely changed the property surrounding the cda community center and the adjacent streets. Together the cda and the city re- engineered the grove way-bush street intersection to improve visibility and to add sidewalks making the neighborhood safer for vehicle and pedestrian traffic. The regrading of grove way and bush streets has enabled us to overhaul our parking lots-one of which”

“Georgia prek: since august 2010, the cda has had three ga prek classrooms and has retained all its prek classrooms, despite extensive budget cuts across the state, which is a testament to the quality of our program and its value to our families served. The state raised class size to 22, so we are able to serve 66 prek children. Our prek program has an excellent reputation: an independent, national study of prek classrooms ranked the cda above the national and georgia averages on 9 out of 10 criteria in 2012. In 2012, the cda was chosen for a six-week pilot program, the prek summer transition program(rising kintergarden) which served 32 children deemed to be at risk of school failure without additional support in making the transition to kindergarten. This prek summer transition program(rising kintergarten)was renewed in 2013,serving 32 children and was also renewed in 2016, serving 16 children and in 2019, serving 16 children. In the summer of 2013, we were asked by bright from the start to help launch another pilot program - this one providing a six-week summer preparatory curriculum for english language learners entering prek in the fall. This rising prek summer transition program was renewed in 2014, 2015,2016,2017,2018 and 2019, with two classrooms serving a total of 28 children.”