LYNN – School administration officials have met with faculty and staff at Lynn Vocational and Technical Institute on several occasions since the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education slammed the school for a series of problems in a Coordinated Program Review of the district.Superintendent Catherine Latham addressed the issues contained within the report, which included safety and civil rights violations, along with concerns over class sizes and student discipline, at Thursday night’s School Committee meeting, and indicated that administrators have had meetings with LVTI’s leadership team and staff this week.Latham said that the district has responded to all of the complaints within the report with a series of corrective plans, which have all either been accepted or are in the process of review at the state level awaiting approval.”We are working with (LVTI Director) Jim Ridley and the faculty, we had a department meeting Tuesday afternoon with the leadership team and we will be doing follow ups in about two weeks,” said Latham. “The most serious part of this is accountability, we need to show the state evidence that we are following these plans. We need to make this work for the future of Lynn Vocational Technical Institute and the district as a whole.”Part of the reclamation project will include a series of professional development courses for faculty and staff at the school, paid for with Perkins funds which are handed down from the federal level for vocational and technical programs.Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction Patricia Poska told the committee that a consultant has been hired to oversee data driven differentiated instruction for teachers, and both the consultant and school administrators will spend time in classrooms making sure that teachers are using the proper methods contained in the professional development plan.The professional development plan includes instruction on dealing with special education students, who were extensively highlighted in the state report as having been secluded and kept from participating in the same activities as traditional students.Legally, the department cannot mandate that teachers participate in the professional development courses, but administration “strongly suggested” that they take part and encouraged Ridley to include it as a goal for teachers that will be reflected in their evaluations.”This is not a hit and run course,” said Poska. “I assure you that the curriculum department will be in the classroom at Tech. I think this is a fantastic first step but only the first step in making things better at Tech.”Meeting just three days after first receiving the 112-page report, School Committee members expressed frustration that they were not informed of the problems this summer when the School Department first received the review, and have scheduled a special meeting to discuss the information contained in the report.”I am really disappointed that the School Committee did not get this earlier,” said Committee member Donna Coppola. “This is not something you can digest quickly, and many of these things are issues that all of us on the committee have brought up to the administration over and over again.””It took me close to seven hours to go through this,” added member Vincent Spirito. “There is a lot of serious information that we need to go over and a lot of questions that I have.”The committee will hold a special public meeting to discuss the report Thursday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m., one hour before the next scheduled meeting.