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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Carter-Kelly Consulting/Lifepoint, Oakland, CA, for the latter to develop parent involvement strategies and provide pertinent information and education for high school parents from Oakland Technical High School. Services will include parent engagement and participation events, gathering information and data from parents, including supporting the gathering of California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) data, allying with parents to develop a more ethnically and socio-economically diverse Parent Advisory Council, and encouraging parent presence and participation. Lifepoint will also teach parents successful communication techniques with their high school children and their teachers and prepare parents' expectations for high school tasks, especially developing strategies with their children for graduation and college and career readiness, for the period August 20, 2014 through June 30, 2015, in an amount not to exceed $50,400.00.