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Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corp, Oakland, CA, for the latter to: provide on-going translation services for non-bilingual teachers, outreach to families to increase participation of ELL families at school events, i.e. Data Night, Family Literacy Night, ELAC, SSC Meeting and Parent-Teacher Conferences; focus on increasing parents and caregivers access to resources to support their children's education as well as organizing parent volunteers; meet biweekly with non-bilingual teachers at designated times to provide face-to-face, phone and/or written translations of their communication with Spanish-speaking parents/caregivers of their students; organize and train parent volunteers to work with identified Far Below Basic (FBB) and Below Basic (BB) students and/or prep materials and do other clerical tasks to support teachers at New Highland Academy, for the period September 9, 2013 through June 11, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00.