So I do have something to a testimonial that a teacher had uh given me about her coaching experience. Um, receiving math intervention coaching has truly strengthened my effectiveness as a second grade educator. By closely analyzing student data and collaborating on targeted next steps, I've been able to better identify learning gaps and provide more intentional differentiated instruction. That's what we're going for. This process has not only improved my students confidence and achievement math, but also has deepened my own understanding of how to respond thoughtfully and strategically to their individual needs. That's our goal. So we did that succeed. I just want to thank the entire team. This is a a demonstration or an example of it takes the whole team. There's not one person in this room, middle school, high school, elementary school, that's not a not a part of trying to do what's best for kids.
So, we thank you so much. Appreciate your work. On behalf of the board, thank you so much for your presentation and to our committee members for being here tonight. Appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> We will now go to 9.2 2025 through 2026 second interim budget report and I will defer to Dr. Nian. Well, good evening board president Guerrero, members of the board, Dr. Free, our superintendent, new superintendent, um members of public, and those watching online. Tonight, I'll be presenting the latest um budget report to the board. Uh this is the second interim report. want to give an overall to see what is currently happening in the um forecast for the US economy. So overall inflation con uh continues to be um persistent um going up. It is coming down a little bit. The latest uh inflation number was at 2.4% in um January 2026.
But They don't Sorry. We're going to wait just like a minute or so. All right, Kylie, do we have any public comments pertaining to the close session agenda? >> We do. We have four tonight. >> Okay.
And I think we're really grateful to be able to have these these resources here. So certainly we'd answer any questions, but I just want to thank you for your time today. >> Oh yeah, sure. Sorry, but yeah.
So this is down from the 2.7% um in December. So it's coming down since we come down a little bit. there is a weakening of the labor market. Um, so far at this point, California unemployment rate, the latest number we received is from December 2025 at 5.5%. So, this is still higher than the national average of about 4.3%. So, and this number is actually getting kind of higher, right, from what the numbers was in the past. Um there's a lot of global uh politics that's going on right now with the policy shifting um the timing of the financial conditions the geopolit political risk currently happening around the world um that's you know the currently in what's happening in the Middle East as well. So there's a lot of concerns with the overall um economy and what's happening in the world that has um right now that's something that is continued to happen.
As provided on our public comment cards, speakers are requested to limit comments to a maximum of three minutes. If more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic, subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only. Uh, public comment shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item. So, first up we have Deanna Climma since 2001. Um, I was here almost three years ago speaking pretty much on the same topic. Um, but this time it affects teachers who um, basically were non-reelected because of it.
Are there any questions at all? comments. Thank you. >> Coaching's got real time. >> She picked up on it. >> If only I could change him. >> I got that one for my wife. She will appreciate it. Um, but honestly, I want to thank you all. This this was a a wonderful wonderful description of the effectiveness of coaching and working together and looking at data and analyzing and moving, you know, kiddos forward. And um, so I want to thank you. I I I love this tonight. Thanks for the team. >> And for anyone who doesn't know it, she's former assistant superintendent in the nearby school system. She's deeply She's fully >> I'm still going to change it, Tim. I don't >> What do you say about me? I'm still next. >> Uh, so with that, I think we have a motion to >> motion. >> All those in favor?
Um but there are some good news as well. The overall economic forecast we're near and above the trend growth. So as you can see the market has been doing very well in the equities market. I mean we have not seen such a high level. I mean it's very volatile at this point but you can see the latest u market um upturn in that as well. Um and um the AI investment has actually boosted the productivity and business capital expenditures as well. um then the economists at UCLA they are projecting um the federalist policies will continue um to have growth and so we're hoping that you know this economy hopefully the inflation will be continuing to come down and hopefully there's more stability in the overall global economy at this point. So the governor proposed his budget um his uh the January proposal in January. Um overall for the 2627 budget is project um it's a balanced um um budget but starting in 2728 there is projection of a 22 billion deficit and the uh next two years after that there's also going to be shortfalls.
So, good evening members of the board, superintendent. I stand before you today mentally exhausted. I'm exhausted because I am watching a system where from the classroom to the administrative offices, it feels like the bullies are winning. We are living in an environment where consequences have ceased to exist for perpetrators while the victims are the ones forced to bear the burden of doing better. In our classrooms, teachers are struggling to manage professionals who are openly insubordinate. We have paraprofessionals who refuse to follow directions, talk over the teacher, threaten them by um telling them they're going to get them fired or they're going to have their job. um they stay on their phones instead of engaging with students and those are in classrooms with uh mod severe students and these are paras who are and this is not every parah obviously we have excellent paras we have a lot of excellent paras and unfortunately the ones who are not um there for the children are the ones who are making everybody look bad um after teachers speak with these paras they then file a complaint and all because the teacher asked the parah to do basically what was expected of them.
So we are starting to see that um so far California tax collection um are outperforming projections so far. So that is a good news for the state budget as a whole and the overall US um gross domestic product is about over a little over 4% with what I talked talked about earlier the equity market is actually at a new all-time high. So that has something that we are continuing to watching. So it seemed like the confu uh the consumer confidence is actually up. So I think that's a positive direction. Um but there are a lot of uncertainties um because the the gains in the stock market are driven by only a few technology companies at this point. And so that is something extremely volatile and there's a lot of uncertainties with um immigration as well as foreign trade at this point. So the governor does not assume um there's going to be any economic recession in his budget uh nor a stock market downturn in the uh fiscal year which actually did occur back in 2022.
In response to the complaints, admin meets with the teachers and I've been in a couple of these meetings. Um, and they're told to work on the relationships and set the expectations. Um, admin doesn't always want to hear about what's actually happening in the classroom because they keep repeating themselves and saying, "You need to work on the relationship and you need to set the expectations for the routine." Um, in the end, we've had two teachers let go because of too many complaints. That's my opinion of what happened. The other issue is when we're supposed to find time, when are we supposed to find time to build these relationships? Our contract hours are dedicated to the safety and education of our students. There is no magic hour before or after school to bond with a professional who is threatening our livelihood. We should be able to trust that a person hired for a classroom is there to work, not to be managed or babysat like a child.
We had the uh corrections at that point. So that's something that we need to be um continue to monitor that there are some risks to the overall Prop 98. as how the the school districts are funded through the LCFF uh local control funding formula um from the state. The risks are the biggest ones are first of all declining woman and I'm going to talk about the our figures and what it relates to state overall numbers as well. Most districts in California are now declining most districts especially in Orange County the decline has been extremely significant. And the next one is the deficit spending. A lot of school districts are now starting to deficit spend and our district as well. We are going to start being desperate spending starting next year. I'm going to share the exact numbers what that will be. The governor trying to balance his budget for 2627.
by the teacher. And instead of addressing the root cause, these pair of professionals are simply moved from one classroom to the next. We are setting our new teachers up for failure by handing them known issues and then gaslighting them with the same work on relationship script when the inevitable conflict arises. We're we are seeing a disturbing trend of staff video recording teachers and students in the classroom without their knowledge without their obviously their um oh my gosh thank you permission. Oh um parents have no idea about this and sorry these individuals are facing zero consequences. Um basically the culture of the victim must change. It extends to our students. We have students that are being bullied and that they have been told that if they want to get away from the bully, they can choose to leave the school, leave the class instead of the bully being chosen to move.
He is now proposing once again a settle uh a settle up amount of $5.6 billion. That means he will be giving us the money in the following fiscal year although we are owed that money. So this will impact cash flow when we get there and we will um know how approximately how much depending on how much is actually being proposed at the May revise. So that is going to be a concern for cash flow purpose. Once again, the governor is is proposing uh some one-time dollars. And so we are looking at um this is a additional one time $2.8 billion that's coming from the state is uh for our district. We're looking at about 11.9 million and this is basically to fund any type of discretionary um funding for the district. We can use it for ELA, ELD framework development, math framework for PD, teacher recruitment retention, career pathway, and the rising cost and attendance and enrollment decline.
So, in conclusion, we're seeing a domestic violence dynamic play out in our workplace. An atmosphere where the victim is told that if they just acted differently, the abuse wouldn't happen. And that's basically it. I know I'm out of time. I'm sorry. Thank you. Next up, we have Richard Redern and Elena. You're on deck. Um, I'm here on behalf of Hopkins, Miss Hopkins from Phoenix Academy. I'm just a 9 to5 father. >> I'm okay. >> I'm just I'm just a nineto-ive father. I work 50 60 hours a week. Um, that really basically nailed it on the head. I see a lot of uh, as like I said, I work a lot. So, the times that I've had came over to the school and picked my kids up. You see a lot of teachers just kind of not really doing what they need to be doing. And Miss Hopkins, his son Jaden was in her class first.
So this this dollar is flexible. However, our county, the Orange County Department of Education have asked us do not budget for this dollar amount at this point. So this amount is not budgeted. We should budget that when there's better clear picture that this we are going to receive this money. It's going to be depending on how the state shapes up with their May revise. So this this um portion is not being budget. Another pot of onetime dollars. This is the learning recovery emergency block grant. So we did receive portions of this dollar uh in current fiscal year. We receive about onethird and so in the proposal this will be a uh restore of the amount. And so this is a $4.5 million that instead of uh being getting that in over 2627 and 2828 2728 this money will be now coming in as one time in 2627 and this dollar amount is a restoration.
And I saw an exponential change in his education because I've heard he pushes She pushes him to the next level. My daughter is in our class now. Um, and she loves her. I just I don't understand why you guys would let somebody like her go or even why she's even here. You know, if I had a teacher like her growing up, I wouldn't be that guy at 50, 60 hour a week job. Be at home more with my kids. But I didn't have teachers like her growing up pushing and striding people, you know, pushing kids. My daughter's got kids in her class that can barely spell their name, barely add and subtract. It's sad. Really don't know what else to say. It just it's educational system. It seems like it's failing more and more. I said it's when I was a kid, if I had teachers like her pushing me further and stronger ahead, I would I would have probably did a lot better in school and be working 50, 60 hours a week.
So we are allowed to budget for this. So the 4.5 million is part of the second interimm report. Okay. Okay. So, this is budget as you can see that. And the next is um the governor proposed um an an ongoing $1 billion for community schools. So, so far there has been about $4.1 billion as statewide um for community schools or for 2500 schools across the state and we have 15 schools right here in our district which we're excited about. And so the UN the ongoing a billion dollar in new investment uh will be basically to expand the community school models across the state. But at this point um we do not know what the funding could look like since we when we received our grant it was over a five-year grant. That's how we have received it. And so at this point there is no guideline to see how this could come.
Kids enjoy going to school, enjoy that school. As far as I've been told, the school's got one of the worst rankings in the district. It seems like nobody ever has anything good to say about Phoenix Academy. But then when you got good teachers like Miss Hopkins trying to change that, you know, it seems like other teachers don't want to. What what I'm what I'm really trying to get at is I think that other teachers don't want to put in the work or the effort. Like the guy that goes to work kind of just skates by, you know, just get paycheck bare minimum. You know that whole no child left behind I think was a huge mistake because you know teachers don't feel like they have to push. They don't have to you can go any gray the next person's problem. You know the next teacher's problem and when you're done with school and we gave you that cool little certificate you go out >> 30 seconds needed to be our problem.