6/6/24 AUHSD Board Meeting (6:00 p.m.)

001e e e kids all right good evening everyone uh Welcome to our June 6 2024 it's called to order um our Anaheim Union High School District for trist's meeting at 6:05 p.m. the following members are present Brian O'Neal Katherine H Smith Jessica Guerrero and Anar rondall tro staff has requested the following amendments to the agenda page two of the agenda remove Janette James from item six and then on exhibit a replace Pages B 29 B bot 33 B b84 b85 to correct typos okay do I have a motion second all right all in favor I I all right and we will now stand uh for the Pledge of Allegiance um in thinking back to our um service folks men and women who um bravely have served our country right hand over your heart ready to

002begin I flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands Nation indivisible with liy and justice for all and for our moment of silence just to uh Ponder the last weeks of our school year and um as it's come to a close um and I know most of you are still working um but to really appreciate and be grateful to all the folks who have made um our district successful um and to wish our graduates um a bon voage all right moment of silence all right thank you okay moving on to the agenda see okay we do not have any student speakers moving on to public comments Open Session items opportunities for public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for um items not

003on the agenda persons wishing to address the board should complete a speaker request form available at the information table and um each topic item is limited to a total of 20 minutes board members cannot immediately respond to the public comments as stated on the speaker request form uh first up Jeff Morganstern welcome all right good evening uh Board of Trustees superintendent msud and cabinet just want to give a couple updates and comments um I do want to express it's been a little less than a month since the decision was made to resend the layoffs on May 10th and I want to express as's appreciation to the consideration given by the board in that decision um I also want to extend our appreciation uh to Brad Jackson jiren freed uh Celeste Krueger and Amanda Bean for

004working diligently with Asa myself and Lisa e and James Goran to kind of figure out Staffing in a very rushed and way in the last week or two of school uh but it was uh we' really appreciate that collaboration one of the other asks that we had in addition to resending the layoffs um was to begin thinking about that collaborative structure that we want to set up going into the next school year here I was reminded of this on Wednesday at a Los Amigos meeting and I was asked by the folks there um if I was going to continue to follow up on that and so just putting this on your radar and we can begin these conversations in August about setting up a transparent and collaborative structure with the board the cabinet ASA leadership

005the leadership of the other associations as well as parents and community members we haven't done this before so I don't know exactly what that's going to look like but I think we should should all be thinking about that um and have those conversations in August so we can begin that work immediately once the school year begins and I'm available to discuss that in any way that you like I know tonight as well that they're going to uh give the lcap recommendations and as for now about 10 years I was part of the elcap um stakeholder meetings and always appreciated sitting in with parents and students and other staff and having those conversations about what's going on here in the district and once again the topic of class size came up as a top vote getter

006with the lcap recommendations um this is a definite concern of students and parents and staff and I do want to put on your radar and it's something that we're going to address uh in the coming school year the idea of looking at and talking about class caps I know this is something that we haven't really dug into much in the last 5 years or so in bargaining but it is a topic that I think has had a lot of action with our community and is definitely on the minds of teachers so just wanted to put that on your radar to continue those conversations uh when we begin discussion about the elcap priorities and also into next year so anyway thank you for your time and appreciate it thankk you chff okay so the rest of

007these are for item six we're moving on to item six right hey uh Kenna Kenna Russell can can we call and open the public hearing please oh sorry we're closing the public hearings um item six is a public hearing for candidates for a provisional appointment to the Board of Trustees uh just going to give folks a little bit of background on May 6 2024 uh trustee piery passed away following an extended illness trustee Pier's passing has created a vacancy On The Board of Trustees for trustee area five on May 10th 2024 the board voted to fill the vacancy by making a provisional appointment the process for making a provisional appointment is to the board is outlined in Ed code sections [Music] 509-9500 1111 pursuant to the board policy this public public hearing is scheduled to

008provide an opportunity for input from the district Community regarding candidates written comments may also be provided through this process so we're considering Stephen Blount Sheila Hart and Ron hosi um we will convene a special board meeting on June 11th 2024 at 5 to interview the candidates and then on June 13 2024 the boy the board will consider appointing a new member to the Board of Trustees at its regular meeting the public is invited to attend both of these meetings all righty Kenna Russell will you please come forward time limit time limit have you stated uh based on the number at this time it looks like the regular three minutes would be appropriate thank you we do this yeah I'll be brief hello and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to come speak in support

009of Ron hosi as many of you know I am Kenna Russell I am Anna Pier's daughter and the hole she has left here in our district is large before her passing she and I had a lot of time to talk and we talked about what the opening that she was leaving behind meant and what we were looking for um and who we thought should fill it and Mom and I loved a good debate so we had lots of good debates mom heard Ron was interested actually I heard Ron was interested and I told her and we talked about what a good candidate for the board would look like I feel Ron possesses those good qualities Ron knows Cyprus he knows the community he knows its strengths and its challenges Cypress is a unique a unique

010area in our district the west side in general is um he was a huge part of the Oxford Community for many years he knows Cypress residents as a principal as a teacher and as a business owner in the city of Cypress but more importantly Ron knows the ahsd he knows the district as a teacher he knows the district as an administrator and he knows the district as the head of the ambassador program we need representation that knows all of the different sides of the ahsd and I do believe that that is Ron thank you very much uh next up Elizabeth oi good evening everyone my name is Elizabeth o and I'm honored here today to endorse my candidacy for Mr hosi for a seat on the Board of Trustees my connection to Mr hosi runs

011deep originating in 2018 when we first collaborated through the nonprofit organization youth leadership America even then as I worked alongside Mr hosi to empower the young people in our community his servant leadership qualities shown through he inspired me and so many others to dream bigger do more and create positive change his drive to build environments truly designed by students for students gave me a new vision for leadership our paths crossed again when I was elected as the student represent representative to this very Board of Trustees in 2020 2021 school year as my adviser during those tumultuous times of the covid-19 pandemic Mr hoshi's steadfast hand helped me steer the ambassadors and the school district through unprecedented challenges when confusion reigned his deep expertise about our schools and wisdom from years of community service provided an

012inval valuable guide quite simply serving our thousands of students would not have been possible without Mr hoshi's leadership his commitment to our schools and families goes beyond that one year however for decades this district has been fortunate to have Mr hosi working tirelessly behind the scenes to uplift our education system time and time again he has rolled up his sleeves to do the hard work of enacting real positive change yet he carries himself with humility and Grace never seeking the spotlight his integrity and ability to help people and bring people together makes him a unifying force when I think about the qualities this Board needs expertise servant leadership a strong moral compass and collaborative Spirit Mr hosi embodies them all he's a true Workhorse dedicated to the children of this community I've seen it firsthand

013through his mentorship and outstanding example he sets on a personal note Mr hoshi's impact goes beyond just being an adviser he is a friend for whom I know I can always count on for wise counsel his caring presence has been a Guiding Light for all of these reasons and more I give my highest recommendation for Mr hosi to be the elected to this board our schools our teachers and most importantly our students would be tremendously fortunate to have such a principled experienced leader fighting for their interests his passion for education in this community is unmatched Mr hosi has already given so much to uplift our district and I'm confident he will continue making a lasting positive impact in this new role I Ur you to all vote for Mr hosi thank you thank you Fabiana

014maget MCH I'm so sorry oh hello hi everyone my name is Fabiana Minch Casanova and I a teacher at Oxford Academy I'm here to support Ron hosi for the position of ah uhsd board member I have known Ron since 2002 when I joined a district as a new and inexperienced teacher back then he was our legendary choir director and his enthusiasm and passion uh made for the most uh fabulous shows his attention to detail and excident planning skills not only ensured the success of his choir shows but also helped him transition into new roles at Oxford as he sought new challenges over the years he served as our assistant principal and later as our principal after he retired whenever we needed an interim principal which was way more often than you might imagine Ren Ron

015stepped in without hesitation he has consistently supported our school and the district and despite his countless attempts to retire the district frequently calls on him to fill various roles which speaks volumes about his reliability and dedication this opportunity to serve as a board member is another Testament to his commitment this position is particularly high stakes especially given our current circumstances and I believe he is an excellent choice for this vacancy not only due to his extensive experience with the district but because of his remarkable generosity Ron is incredibly generous with his time connections and resources always willing to help especially when it comes to students he is a Fierce advocate for students and has a special knack for supporting the underdog if he sees even a spark of potential he will do everything in his

016power to nurture it helping students become confident and successful his dedication is evident in his current role as RSVP director and in his countless contributions to my club in particular at Oxford the association of Latin American Scholars um he has really helped us build a sense of community among our Hispanic population at Oxford where we are a minority despite being a majority in the district he has been instrumental in planning events and supporting and encouraging our students to thrive and succeed at Oxford which as you can imagine is no easy feat one of our biggest successes was our club president J Joseph Reyes um where he became the auhsd Ambassador last year and he excelled in this role and now is driving at UCI achievements to which Ron significantly contributed to um he has Ron

017has proven himself to be a dedicated public servant to this District time and time again he is a strong advocate for students always putting their needs first and he is not afraid to question or push back on popular opinion when necessary his experience in passion make him an ideal candidate for the board and he would be a great addition to it because let's face it this man is never going to retire so we might as well benefit from it thank you thank you fa an malori good evening uh thank you very much for having me here tonight president Randall tro honorable members of the Board of Trustees and esteemed professionals who um put Education First that's our our purpose and why we exist and I'm here to speak on behalf of Ron hosi who I

018think would be a really good addition to an already wonderful uh board that provides excellent educational for our youths um I here I'm here speaking as a resident of Cypress and a mom of kids who went through the system I'm not here speaking in my capacity as an elected official for another organization um I have known Ron for over 20 years uh as a a mom when my uh oldest went off to Oxford I was so fortunate that his core teacher was Ron hosi and Ron was a instrumental Mentor for my son throughout his entire career at Oxford um in many many ways people really know of Ron's expertise in um and the way he brings kids out in the choir program Eric definitely Ben benefited from that but Ron is a good counselor and

019encourager and uh just a wonderful educator which is what we're all about um I think in addition to the E for Education Ron is enthusiastic this is is a man who never tires never stops if you have work to do I know that he will get it done because we've seen it that's what he's been doing I guess uh we all agree he's never going to retire the um engagement piece is really critical you need somebody who is going to represent the um perspectives from the district which he you know the section of the district which he represents but I also know he's going to take the message back to the community where he lives and um and is going to make decisions based on what's good for the district overall he's going to be

020that voice that understands the local the microl local issues but I know he's going to make decisions that are best for the entire um Anaheim Union High School District I know him to be a man of great ethics I have had the opportunity to work with him on many projects in a variety of capacities and I commend everybody who has put their name forth for this position I I I appreciate their uh desire for additional public service but you do have a decision to make and I encourage you to um choose Mr hosi for the reasons that I have um spoken of thank you very much thank you Andrew compano welcome Andrew hello everyone I'm here to speak on the appointment for the Cypress area board member and I'm also here to just give a

021few comments on the lcap presentation um you know my biggest thing is the school board is up there for the people in my opinion that is the taxpayer's chair that is the seat of the people so when we have someone who's up there we need someone representing the students most importantly but also the cypers community so I've heard a lot of people and there's Mr hosi so my message to the candidates are we need to engage in discussions with what happened in the last year we need a candidate who's going to reach out take initiative and speak to the students um what what we really need is delegates of the community we don't need any more political or we don't or trustees we need someone who is a champion of the community last time we

022had an appointment if I recall was anarie who is still up on that board um so in appointing a candidate there is a very good possibility that the candidate's going to be up there for a while now Miss Randall Trejo we have had our disagreements and we have had conversations um and so my biggest thing is we need someone who is going to Champion the community but most importantly we need someone who's going to hear us at the last board meeting you said that it wasn't right how people could go up here and say whatever they want I'm a firm believer in the First Amendment and I Champion that I believe that too so I think the community should be able to go up here and voice their opinions so we need a candidate who's

023going to stand up here and advocate for the community and I really hope one of you does I really do now after reviewing some of the lcap um presentations I was just you know I um had a meeting with with a few community members and a a teacher and we um overviewed some of the spending um now I'm just a kid in the end of the day um I don't know much about budgeting but I think one thing we really really need to push is having the money reflect the amount of students if we're going to be pushing money to schools that have a smaller School Community I don't think that's Justified I think we should be investing where the majority of the students are um and I just really hope that we can continue

024to engage in conversation we need transparency and I really hope that with the new member up on that Das we get more of that thank you thank you uh Germaine Newman Chan Chow sorry thank you um my name is Jermaine Newman Chow I'm a Community member member here in Anaheim longtime resident um I just want to talk about the school board um the role of our school board is oversight Community oversight of our school district and it's really important especially after what we've just gone through this past spring on the issues the the issues that we've talked about about transparency accountability um ending the perceptions of nepotism and Chon ISM in our district we we need to really like focus on trying to heal and make sure that people feel that they can trust our

025school board and trust that we're having that oversight and when we have situations where people feel like they're not being heard or they're not being listened to whether it's our teachers our students our parents when parents feel like they're being shut down by our Administration when they're talking when um things like that are happening that doesn't bode well for our community and it doesn't mean make us feel that we're in a safe space with our our school board we we rely on you guys to provide that oversight so I want to request that when you're considering these candidates you consider who doesn't have Financial contacts with our district who is isn't already financially benefiting from our school board our school district we have long-term candidates I don't know any of these people um but I

026think we should put that as a priority and say okay what are your contacts with the district where you know have you taught for us have you substituted for us do you are you a consultant are you going to be are you being paid this is something that we talk about on the national level we talk about it on the state level it's really important especially here at the local level so we can heal as a as a district and heal as a community um that's that's my biggest concern and I hope you guys when you're considering those candidates next week you really take that into consideration um just food for thought for our community here the ACLU is offering some training coming up that's free on school boards and how to file complaints and

027how to oversight and how to um make sure we're following all the rules and I think that's something that we need as a community to keep that oversight and hopefully our school board will show us that the rest of us can stop coming to these meetings because I'm sure you don't want to see me here every month um I know I have got other things to do but um I just really hope if anybody's interested in that information about the ACLU or any of the other training come see me I've got the info thank you thank you gerine okay were there any other forms no all right all right we are closing the public hearing for our candidates thank you everyone for speaking we really value your input there was one for my je John

028Pete I apologize welcome honorable trustees superintendent matsuda and cabinet my name is John Pete I'm an active member of the community of Cyprus the passing of truste an a piery represents a tremendous loss for the city of Cypress as well as the Anaheim Union High School District Mrs piery was deeply invested in the city of cypress as an educator as a member of the city council and as a member of numerous Civic and philanthropic organizations as a longtime educator and member of the Board of Trustees Mrs piery was equally invested and committed to the development and education of Youth throughout the district Mrs Pier's longtime service to the district as an educator and in-depth involvement in the city of Cyprus gave her a unique perspective that allowed her to represent her constituents in area five

029while Al also prioritizing decisions that were in the the long-term best interest for the entire District I come to you this evening to speak on behalf of Mr Ron hosi as the best candidate to fill the vacancy On The Board of Trustees in area five as with Mrs piery Mr hosi has had a long successful career with the Anaheim Union High School District as a teacher coach advisor assistant principal and principal in his 40 years of service Mr hosi has worked at schools all across the district which means he has an understanding of the issues and challenges that the district faces in all areas of ahsd not just in area 5 in his various roles within the district as an educator advisor and administrator Mr hosi has worked tirelessly to help students achieve their goals

030and realize their fullest potential I believe Mr hosi is a living representation of the district's philosophy unlimited you Mr hosi is also deeply involved in the community of Cyprus as a business owner and as a member of Civic and philanthropic organizations Mr hosi has received CE numerous awards for his service as an educator administrator and as a community leader among his many awards M hosi was selected as the prestigious Cypress College Foundation Americana citizen of the year in 2018 through his years of service all across the district I believe Mr hos has developed a unique understanding of the needs and challenges that the district faces over the next several years as well as the opportunities that abound to serve students and families in new and innovative ways this combined with his understanding of the interests

031and desires of the families in area 5 make him the best candidate to fill the vacancy and I hope you will select him thank you thank you apologize again all right now we're going to close the public hearing for the candidates for provisional appointment and we are moving on to our presentations but before um I've neglected to announce and Welcome to our board meeting um AE and him elementary school trustee Paulo mollus to the audience welcome all right moving on to oh there you are right in front of me North Orange Community College District trustee Stephen blown welcome every welcome Stephen all righty now we're moving on to presentations the local control and accountability plan elcap and annual update SL California school dashboard and local indicators all right well good evening everyone good evening Madam

032president members of the board also to our executive cabinet of course to our families parents students and community and staff colleagues out in the audience and watching online um gives me a great pleasure tonight have a team with me to talk a little bit more about the California school dashboard our local indicators and of course we'll talk more deeply about our local control accountability plan our lcap and the process that we have gone through um I want to First just thank and recognize uh the team who helped put this presentation together Dr roxan Hernandez who will be here with me tonight Robert salivar our executive director of ed services who will be here along with Amanda be our director of career preparedness systems framework so the four of us will present tonight but of course

033there's a whole team behind us uh who are part of this work including um as you're going to hear in a little bit the incredible community that was a part of the elcap process it's always an incredible event to see um our community come together for a series of five nights to really work through and wrestle with the the data and the assets but also the challenges and needs of our district and to come together with recommendations that we can bring forth to the board in terms of how we might best serve our students and our families in our community so I look forward to the presentation tonight I also ask oops did I do something was that me I don't think I touched anything yet see Paulina oh I was like I didn't touch

034anything I swear umy yeah this isn't counting techology so but I again want to thank the community I also want to thank and I think we'll talk about this later to the steering committee we have a steering committee made up of a number of our Community Partners including our teachers our classified staff our counseling staff our unions um our we have parent representatives and of course staff Representatives uh both on the Ed Services side business side HR side and our site Administration side that are part of this process to um kind of vet the work that our lcap does as a whole uh and kind of guiding the work that's being done so I want to thank a lot of folks that were part of this great journey having said that we're going to begin

035with a review of the purpose of this presentation remember this is a two-part presentation first we're going to talk a little about the local indicators and then we're going to go into the elcap process I do respectfully ask if you can uh to hold your questions till the end because we likely will answer some of the questions that you might have throughout the presentation but of course once we've completed any questions that you have we'll be happy to to to answer the purpose of this presentation is really just to Pro provide A Brief Review and overview of our California school dashboard it's also to share the reflective process we're required to go through in the implementation of our local indicators what's nice about this process is it's not looking the local indicators is not connected

036to any quantifiable uh data per se it's really a chance for the district to use rubrics that the state provides as a reflection tool to reflect on how we're going about our work uh so again there's no um data that we're looking at to see if we've met or didn't made it's really that we go through a process to reflect on where we are and where we're headed and we'll share the the the reflections that were done that were collected as a part of the elcap discussions that happen in different rooms plus the discussions that happen at the site level spsa that we've collected and at the district level with different conveni that we've had this is also meeting a requirement of the state that we present this process to you as a school board

037at a at a current board meeting if you think about the California accountability system it has changed over the years where you may recall before we had um an ayp annual year yearly performance or API academic performance indicator which was typically boil down to one score or one one number this dashboard really looks more at a holistic measurement of students in their achievement and their growth so it's not connected to just a student or a single number it's connected to a number of things what we also like is this this dashboard focuses on continuous Improvement so it's not necessarily about comparing School a or School B with other schools it's really about comparing ourselves with us in terms of how we were and how we are now and then what we can do to get

038better so it's about measuring measuring growth uh and continuous Improvement it does also focus on the equity bless you the the focus is on Equity of all student groups um as you just heard from uh one of our speakers I think it was Andrew who talked about the need for equity-minded Concepts right that we of course always have traditionally in districts look at through the lens of equality but we're looking through the lens of equity and how we best serve the needs of students and their groups while also finding times to celebrate and recognize the assets that both the student groups and all of our students bring uh to our schools each and every day along with our families so it focuses a lot on Equity uh it's also integral to the lcap process and

039development so when we we hear from both Dr Hernandez and Mr salivar on our elcap process you're going to see how the work of our local indicators also connects and feeds what we do with our elcap process uh and of course it also allows us to measure the progress around the state priorities which Miss Bean will talk about momentarily actually we're here at the part where miss being will talk about that thank you good evening so the California school dashboard um has 11 indicators that are used to measure performance six of the indicators are reported through the state um data reporting system system known as cow pads and those would include the College and Career Readiness indicator and that includes um different combinations of student attainment of ESC scores passage of AP exams CTE pathway

040completion dual enrollment completion um leadership or military science or IV exams and so students are marked as prepared um based on earning any combination of or certain combinations of those things um um the other indicators that are reported through the data system would be our graduation rates our Ela and math scores through our esac testing our English learner progress chronic absenteeism and suspension rate um tonight the really the focus of this presentation is the local indicators as Dr Fred mentioned they are locally evaluated um and they are uh again done through Rubik and a self-reflective process and um and then a a a submission of a narrative to the state around around on these five indicators those five indicators include the basic conditions the implementation of academic standards parent engagement School climate and access to

041a broadc course of study so as we go through the presentation tonight we're going to go through each of those and what some of our areas of growth and our areas of strength are and how we rated ourselves throughout that process to give you just a quick snapshot on the dashboard so back to the the the data that is submitted to the state through cow pads um this is another piece that is used for the lcap development um districts and schools receive one of five performance levels for each state measure and it is based on comparing the current uh year data um and the growth or the decline from the prior year so there's a comparison from year to year uh during the covid years there was not a comparison so our previous presentations were

042about single-ear data only but now we're back to comparison from year to year so the 200 2023 dashboard is a comparison from our growth from 2022 and so when you look at the metrics on the dashboard um a red would be the lowest and a a blue would be the highest and each of those indicators would have a score based on how we how we grew or how we declined from the year before the College and Career Readiness indicator um is is still not being comp compared from year to year uh so when we look at that data when it comes out this year we will just see receive a status level of of ranging from very low to very high um and that has tied to how many kids are meeting the prepared metric

043or the not prepared metric um but for the bulk of this presentation we're going to talk about the local measures and again um basic conditions is really related to teacher assignments safe and clean facilities and having instructional materials for all students um implementation of the standards um School climate surveys uh so student safety feeling connected to School parent involvement and family engagement and access to courses so uh we went through a series each of the Departments that oversees these areas um so that includes you know um Dr Adam Hernandez in the student services office um Carlos Hernandez in the family engagement and Community Schools um Diana Fujimoto and her team around academic standards um all of the teams um contributed to the self- evaluation um and completed the rubrics to determine whether or not we

044met each of these indicators um and so once we go through that we receive one of two ratings we can either um determine that we have met it or we have not met it and so we'll we'll share that with you tonight hand it back to jiren to St talk about our first indicator thank you Mana so our first indicare is basic services that again talks about appropriately assigned teachers access to curriculum align materials and safe clean and functional schools facilities again we have a rubric a tool that we're used we had to use to to measure our progress which was a St uh Stu the school accountability report cards was part of that process to help us gauge uh whether we were able to meet or not based on our reflection when you look

045at where we are uh we had 24 out of our all the teachers that we have in our district that were what was called the Miss assigned that's assigned misassigned as the board may recall um based on credentials um teachers who are assigned to teach in an area that they're not credentialed has to go through a misassignment process of the 24 the majority are actually connected to JC if you may recall that all of our teachers had to go through a clad certification process many many years ago which authorized them to work and teach with English Learners both um in the integrated but also the the designated courses so jrtc teachers do not have that authorization so they have to go through this misassignment process so a good chunk of the 24 are our jrtc

046teachers um because they're not because again they're hired through a different agency when they work with us so they're not coming with the clad certification you may also see a handful of teachers as a part of the 24 who are teaching in elective courses that maybe they don't have the unique credential for but we're allowed and permitted to assign Miss assign them to do that one course you may also see that coach who has let's say the social science credential but teaching that one section of PE because they're coaching the football team and that's our PE section so you you'll see again of the 1100 plus teachers 24 were assigned misassigned and that's something that's standard each year that we we share with you that's what those numbers wen't again a good good percentage were

047connected to jotc because of the the not them not having the cloud certification with access to curriculum line materials we go through a Williams audit each year um and I'm grateful that we get back um a great rating 100% rating that our students had access to aligned CR line materials and and and access to those materials either online platforms or is a hard copy uh we are required to make sure students have one or the other um now we know that some teachers will use those materials um as as as part their class on a regular basis and some may choose not to use them as often in in certain times that's perfectly okay but the key is students have access to those materials which we we do have that access and the Williams finding

048showed that um also clean and functional schools facilities it just showed again that our that Williams comes and does an audit on that that we do have our facilities and good repair and standard it doesn't mean that we don't have facilities that need to be upgraded or upkept uh or that have additional needs I know we have a master plan that shows significant needs in our district but it doesn't mean that they're not functional in clean spaces so that's different concept and based on the purpose of the local indicator um that is one of the things you'll see in a bit with Dr Hernandez and Mr salivar when they share the lcap you're going to see one of the I think it was the top recommendations talked about facilities um so you're going to see

049this kind of surface back as something that our community has identified as a priority the second local indicator is the implementation of State Standards this is um something that obviously is as part of the Ed division team as a priority for for for for our team right in the way that we make this real we had a reflection rubric that we had a look at in guiding um kind of where we thought we were in the process and where we feel like we need to go based on to the conversations and dialogue collected at the elcap from our community as they were looking at the same kind of data points in determining where the recommendations were going to be in terms of how to move the needle towards equity and Justice in the this this

050area and we have a specific focus group that did a lot of work in this area so want to start highlighting some of the strengths that were identified through not just the lcap process but just through the work we've done as a district uh we show a lot of areas of strength in the way that we approach professional learning and instructional materials aligned to those standards and Frameworks um this is something we're really proud of as a district we'd like to think it's our our bread and butter um our drivers as you know as a whole child approach when you think about the 15 schools that have received Federal funding and have been awarded the distinction of as a community school um we believe our all of our schools whether they receed that funding or

051not are Community Schools and as a at the center of that approach is a whole child approach and that is done through as you see on the right of the screen our cpsf or our career preparedness systems framework this brings in uh both the 21st century skills which as you know the collaboration critical thinking creativity communication and perhaps the most important uh character compassion kindness these skills are integral in the way that our amazing teachers teach and instruct our students um but also Central to the cpsf framework are the technical skills this is where the traditional content uh lives but it's also where the pathway work lives with our exclusive Pathways and also the Google cert certification programs that we have and our uh cre Career Tech Pathways connected to dual enrollment so uh a

052number of technical skills that are integrated into the work that we do and then lastly it's the youth voice and purpose it's making sure that our students voices are Amplified uh both in the classroom and out of the classroom providing feedback in terms of what they learn but also um bringing Civic engagement to the classroom allowing students to leverage the content and the skills that we're trying to build and Empower and equip them with uh to be able to tackle the issues that they care about as you all know Mac uh our Magnolia agroscience Community Center at Magnolia High School a lot of that really stemmed from the voices of our students in our community when they identifi the food insecurities and the food deserts uh surrounding our area and that's what really prompted both

053uh the board and of course the cabinet then to respond to the clear need that the students identified through their Soap Box uh and ahd Ted Talks um so that's an example of that voice being Amplified and helping to impact um local community to to be a better place part of what we do that we identified in that reflection are the systems of support and like anything one of our core values that we speak about uh if systems not silos and be the first to tell you that although we do a lot of great work in this area we of course have things that we constantly are working on to improve these are some of the systems of support that we have in place to support professional learning so that our teachers are equipped to

054deliver first best instruction uh we talk about our Ed division as a team the curriculum specialist but also at the site level we have incredible 5c coaches Community School teacher leads I know on here are our Title One coordinators we have our edtech coaches and then through that the last two years we've invested some of the onetime monies on the site leadership team to have that release time to be together and work to improve uh systems and instructional outcomes on their campuses like the the development of the Capstone program and the performance task assessments which are essential to the work that we're doing as a district and of course our our teacher leaders who serve as Department chairs all those systems as an example are helping to move the needle in the way that we

055meet outcomes and and support our students with their academic growth what we did identify as areas of growth and some next steps based on the feedback that we've heard at the lcap and just through conversations we had at the sites and the survey that's been collected is the need to continue to identify professional learning needs of individual teachers just like we ask our teachers to differentiate their instruction with the students that they're serving going back again to that concept of equity we want to make sure that we're doing the same thing with our staff that when we deliver um professional learning that we're also thinking about the teachers and where they're at um and not just teaching kind of to the middle right that we're really trying to support our teachers and their growth around

056cpsf implementation and the the work of um our drivers we also talked about the need to continue to refine and grow our performance task assessment system and the Capstone program as a district who doesn't um who teaches to the whole child and doesn't believe in teaching to a test um it is essential that we have a way to progress monitor how our students are doing academically engage their progress and for us the the performance task assessment is the way that we we Monitor and progress monitor our students um we believe very much in our teachers and believe uh them to be the experts and so these are teacher developed performance task assessments that help gauge connected to their content while implementing uh the the 5c's and allowing student students opportunities to amplify their voice and

057find their purpose uh those ptas that we we do across our district again with each teacher having a minimum of two U ptas per per um their content area um this is a way that we as a district begin to Monitor and progress monitor our students in their academic growth and that Capstone is really that collection of performance task assessments that you see happening across our schools and Central of that process is the reflection where students are constantly reflecting on how these ptas made them a better collaborator Communicator critical thinker Etc um because you know John Dewey talks about learning is not just from the experience it's really from the reflection on the experience so the reflections are part of a central part of our cap Zone Program and this is something that as a

058district we want to continue to refine and grow um we believe that we need to also continue to provide support for our teachers on the standards they have not yet mastered so as teachers begin to identify where they can use the support going back to that first bullet that we can provide better support as a system to help support their growth um in the way that they support students whether that's leverage leveraging our late start time in the way that teachers and sites are given more of that time back to work together on on their professional learning plan and how they support students or things that we do at a more Global level District level in the way that we leverage um our Ed Summit and other professional learning opportunities that we provide through our

059Ed division um as you may know the the science teachers across our district have been going through a process to adopt uh new textbooks so part of what we identified also as a next step is to provide support for them in the way that they leverage that tool remember the textbooks are not the curriculum they are tools the teachers are the experts to to be able to bring the curriculum to life in their classrooms and the textbooks are a tool to assist in that work but we want to make sure that we're providing professional learning on how to leverage that tool to support first best instruction and our science teachers because they have these new tools we want to make sure that we have the support in place for them to utilize that tool at

060the highest level and then the last thing is the increased use of what we call Street data um as a district we are constantly looking at the satellite data and just as a reminder satellite data are more the global Trends and patterns that you might see with a through G data graduation data chronic absenteeism data um suspension rate data those are all incredibly important things for look at for us to look at and engage in but what's more powerful is you can take that data and break it down and listen to the voices of our students and our families who are living that data right they're the ones who can share their lived experience through either Community circles empathy interviews things of that nature where we can uncover more of the reasons as to why

061the satellite data is what it is uh so we as an ed Division and as a district can be more informed to guide the next steps that we take to better support our students so we're going to see more efforts this year this upcoming year on how we leverage and use Street data to really hear as you heard from some of the speakers as they were endorsing one of the candidates how that the voices of our community are essential to the work that we do so hearing that we want to absolutely make sure that we're leveraging the voices that street data to really influence what we do and how we go about that work next indicator is the parent engagement process and I'm super proud of the work that we've done with our parent engagement

062uh we again had a reflective rubric that we had to go through and it talks about looking at how we build relationships between School staff and Families how we build Partnerships for Student Success and how we seek input for decision making uh that is that is shared and as you know that's a that's a central aspect too to the pillars of our community school approach that we have these these collaborative forms of shared leadership and that we seek the input of different voices to be a part of the decisions that are made um so so I'm really proud of the work that we're doing I would argue these are all areas that we're working on but things that um are to not only are they strengths but they're also areas of improvement right we know

063that we have to continue to improve in these areas as we started to identify the areas of strength um we're proud that we have 15 Community School uh centers at our Our Family Resource Centers at our 15 Community Schools they look different each each of our schools but we're working to create a space where both families uh parents and also our Community Partners can come and be a part of our work together um we're also talking about the service and programming that's implemented based on the individual site and asset needs one of the pillars of our community schools PR is also the asset needs survey data so it's looking at what's right and what are bright spots within our community how do we leverage those as strengths to bring back into our schools to leverage

064our approach to instruction and to make sure that those are highlighted in the work that we do while at the same time recognizing there are challenges that are within our communities and the challenges are unique to Unique to each Community though as you heard from some of the speakers earlier what Cyprus and and Kennedy per se might have their needs and assets might look different than what you see at South and catella or Anaheim and Sycamore so it's it's take taking the time to really understand specifically where the assets and strengths and the needs and gaps lie within each community and then using that to inform our next our next steps in the process uh we talk about work work being an asset based approach and collaborative interactive that's something we feel um is a

065strength for our district but also something we need to continue to work on and grow um our parent learning walks our parent leadership academies family education series our ready to set go curriculum these are all things that we're doing culture responsive environments that build on the assets of our community something that we've been doing the last several years um and something we want to continue to do but those we we feel are strengths and I want to take a moment just to talk a little more about some of the parent engagement things that we've done as a district that just shows how these are strengths for our district you know we've been recognized as a leader in this area that the community engagement initiative also known as CI their Consortium that's at the state level

066we have been recognized as one of the top districts in the state of California in the way that we engage families and parents um not to say that we don't have areas of growth but we've been recognized as an outlier for the state so we are one of the original cohort members and we've been actually charged with helping to lead and facilitate other districts throughout the state um in their own growth in their own journey in terms of how they can better engage and support families as you know through our community school approach we've been deemed and recognized as one of three Deep dive transformational districts we've been hosting in the past monthly visits um with with visitors not just throughout the state but also across the country and we've had a couple of educational

067agencies that have come outside from International Canada Korea to name a few um so really proud of the work that's being recognized in terms of what we've we've been able to do and what we are still working towards in our district also as it relates to um this shared leadership you'll see examples that constantly in the great work that Dr Bryant does with our daac and our site elac teams you'll see that at the school site councils uh it's something that we're really trying to integrate in the work that we do across our district um so all of our community members are at the table helping to determine and decide where our next Collective steps are we talk about buyin versus ownership buyin is a top- down construct where you know I'm selling you something

068I hope you buy in we are really trying to operate through the lens of ownership where when we co-construct co-develop together there is that ownership where we're all a part of developing or co-creating what it is that we're trying to accomplish so um that is something that is a goal for us but we feel like it's an area of strength but it's certainly something we want to continue to grow and strengthen uh and then of course opportunities for parents to actively participate in decision-making what we talked about one other data point that I want to share that I think is worth noting at the last last year um local indicator in elcap presentation I think maybe it was trusty O'Neal Who asked about how we're collecting data on parent engag what does that look like

069and you may recall that we've been leveraging our five-star um software to be able to track how many parents are participating in the work that we're doing so we actually have data now at each of our sites in terms of how many parents are participating in our coffee with their principles our elac our um College and Career Fair activities our um parent workshops Ready set go the modules parent leadership academies all the different things that our sites are doing we're now tracking the data and we're able to track it not just on our repeat visitors so parents who attend a lot of different things but also our parents who maybe only attend one or two things so you're going to see data and we're we're talking about how we can publish that data so it's

070very transparent and visible to our community so they can see just how active our parents are in participating in school events and in community events um one of the things that our team has been working on and I want to give again Mr Carlos Hernandez Kenny Perez aeli Chavez a lot of accolades and the work that they're leading is we're also working to create these modules that will also be online so I think about me as a parent I have I have students that went through the K12 system and although I didn't go to the PTA meetings and I didn't go to all the events at the school I was super engaged in my own students high school and Junior High junor Journey um so we have these modules that parents can log in at

071their Leisure whether it's 10 at night or 5 in the morning where they can log in and be given capacity building opportunities and through their login we can capture that data so even though they may not be attending physically the lcap or they may not be physically attending that coffee the principal we know that they're still contributing and we're still engaged with our schools just like I was as a parent even though I didn't physically go so we're now starting to capture that data so we can see just how active our families are again we think it's a strength but we recognize know better do better we want to continue to grow and support that effort as well some of the ne areas of growth and next steps that we've identified is the building of

072relationship between School staff and families we are never done with that work we will never be satisfied with where we are we know that we have to intentionally continuously build staff professional learning and how we connect and engage with our families as you may recall this past school year we began our school year with our staff getting on a bus and visiting their local communities to understand the context of where our students are coming from the the the way that they may walk to school uh that is something we want to do every other year um so we continue to have our staff engage and visit we're doing home visits now our teachers are doing home visits to to our schools not in a disciplinary or negative way but to really learn about the aspirations

073and the goals and hopes and dreams for our students and our families so again cont continuously looking at how we can build capacity in our staff and the way that they connect and engage with our families in our communities we want to design structures to ensure that teachers are able to meet with families and students to review student alchem progress so it's not just something a counselor or the admin is but teachers are a part of that work uh so these are things that we're working on as next steps and as goals um and again you heard the last couple months how much our students love our teachers so we feel like we can leverage the love that they have for our teachers to continue to grow and strengthen this as a part of our

074work uh we talked about building Partnerships for student outcomes um one of the things that came out from a number of our families who serve students with disabilities is they want to be able to be at the table as well in terms of how we support our students with disabilities we have a structure that's already in place that's a legally bound structure is through our greater Anaheim Sela where it's the community advisory Community called CAC don't ask me why but that's that's what it's called uh where we've committed to making sure that our families who serve students with disabilities um have opportunities to not just access but able to participate in those meetings and our director of special Youth Services Amy Maya who does a great job along with our coordinator Lauren claser have committed

075to making sure that those families are given opportunities to be there and participate at those meetings that was something that came out via our lcap process and then lastly again you can see the theme seeking input for a decision making we want to make sure that even though that's a strength we know that we can do better and we want to make sure that all of the things that we're doing are really seeking the input of our families uh Dr Bryant reminds us all the time it's officially called liberatory design right it's those most impacted by the decisions have a voice at the table to give input in terms of what that might be uh we want to make sure that we're committed to making sure that voice is loud and clear before decisions are

076made so we have the input before we move forward so we hear clearly from our students and our parents our caregivers in terms of what it is that they need what is they see as assets that we can leverage as a part of the ultimate decisions that we we make our next one I'm gonna hand over to to miss bean and she's going to talk more about school climate so the local indicator of school climate again centers around um school safety and connectedness so the um standard that we have is is to administer a local climate survey at least every other year that Val that is a measure of perceptions of safety and connectedness uh so we administer lcap students survey yearly that includes questions in this area and then every other year uh we

077give a a healthy a California healthy kids survey to um our seventh ninth and 11th graders uh so this year um in terms of school climate we primarily wrote Our reflection and narrative around the elcap student survey we had an approximately uh 50% participation rate in the survey which was about just under 15,000 students um and so some of the highlights from the survey are that 87% of students feel accepted at their school for who they are um 79% reported that they get what they need to be successful in at least half or more of their classes um 81% say they're cared for it and found um and they're treated with kindness in all of their classes or at least half their classes um 69% reported they have at least one adult they can go

078to to ask for help and 76% reported their teachers have high expectations for them in all of their classes and so while these numbers are on the higher side um there are a number of kids who don't feel that and so we still have a lot of work to do to make sure our kids are feeling safe and connected at school and so some of that oh we lost it again I swear I just hit one button think we don't have a keyboard up yeah I don't unless I hit the off button accidentally I don't I don't know they're all kind of right in the same spot thank you thank you sorry uh right here so we have a number of um efforts that we engage in to improve climate um the first is is

079that our student ambassadors at each school um leads an rsbp Summit two to three summits a year uh where they are soliciting feedback and input from students on the things that are of concern to them on their campuses and then the ambassadors engage with their administrators to talk through the student responses and to set action plans on some of those areas of improvement um we have Civic engagement to encourage all students um to have use their voice and um and whatnot and that happens through our democracy school activities and all 20 of our schools are California democracy schools uh our focus on first best instruction um really just that idea of knowing kids by name and need making feel sure they feel connected in the classroom really helping them to build um again their skills

080through um through the cpsf 21st century skills the technical skills and most importantly elevating um voice and purpose um many of our staff have been have been trained in capturing kids hearts and each year we continue to add staff new staff um new schools to to ensure that they have this training to create safe and welcoming environments in their classrooms um we have restorative practices through um a number of um res restorative justice um practices that our staff has been trained in and some staff that has been contracted to work in our schools and then this year to address um physical safety uh we did um work with the city of Anaheim to add six um school resource officers um to our campuses and we have increased the number of campus safety aids to help

081just with the physical the physical safety on campuses and then last the last indicator is course access and so really this is tracking um that students have access to and are enrolled in a broad course of study and so we would look at um some of the long-term uh the satellite data if you will have graduation rates and a through G completion um a review of our course catalog and participation in things like CTE Pathways our world language courses our vapa courses um our PE offerings and PE electives um we've also done a lot of work in the last couple of years around um transcript and IEP audits um with a specific intent to identify the gaps in Access for students and so you know where are we falling short in a through G placement

082um especially for our students with disabilities and and how do we help our case carriers and counselors um remedy that and um call attention to to where the problem might be and then we also have um our English learner task force students with disability task force and our foster Youth and mck mckin vento task force teams that meet twice a year year to review um the outcome data and progress for those student groups and to set action plans at the site levels to increase access to course options so our areas of strength um are that we have a 54.3 a through G compl completion rate and that is above the state average as well um we offer CT Pathways and 12 officially recognized Industries and um we have a 27% completion rate of pathways and

083um just to make sure everyone knows when a student completes a CTE pathway that is a two-year commitment to a sequence of courses in a in in an industry area so when a student completes a CTE pathway they've made a long-term commitment to do so um we've introduced a number of innovative Pathways that are meeting the labor demands um in our immediate area here in Orange County um such as biotechnology cyber security a medical um nursing and medical assistant droning um film and Digital Arts um and Pathways like that um we also have World language courses that include eight languages um Spanish Vietnamese Korean French Japanese Arabic American Sign Language and Mandarin um and we also have a number of courses for our heritage language speakers and our of course our dual language programs um

084we are leader in the state for state c biliteracy attainment um in this year or typically we hover right around 23% of our students earning the state SE by Literacy for vappa um we are working a lot to align our programs in the junior high to what's being offered in the high school so students can have a a Continuum um from Junior High to high school um with the recent passage of prop 28 um it's providing us an opportunity to continue to expand our offerings and um and to think about new ways to offer vapa courses so we already have a couple of um new courses in the pipeline for examp example a modern band class for for South Junior High um and and really trying to think about um uh new ways to think

085about vapa offerings for students um and we also offer a broad set of dual enrollment courses um we are now I'm I'm proud to say we have embedded dual enrollment which means it's during the school day at every single high school in our district um including Gilbert and CVA um and this year or last school year in 2223 we had approximately 3200 students stents complete a dual enrollment course um as part of their of their academic program and of course we have areas of growth um and so we really are working on strengthening the connection between students interests and strengths to their six-year academic plan their course selection process and our master schedule practices and so through our learning management system e Cadence we're working on building a dynamic six-year plan that's feeding data from

086a Str strength and in interest assessment students 5c's Reflections and some other pieces of data to help curate an academic experience that is is fitting to their to their needs and their um their goals and so we hope to launch that in the fall a pilot of that in the fall um but we really want to build a strategic system um that is helping students to make sure that they can take their a through G coursework and take a CTE pathway earn the Sy by literacy and take dual enrollment and to build that all within within their um their six years with us and so um so again those next steps is that implementation of the EC Cadence six-year plan that we are um that we are working on and then to continue to leverage

087our master schedule process um to create flexibility this year we went through a process to identify ways that we could provide acceleration for students um we've expanded our summer school offerings um and through CVA for students to be able to create space and flexibility in their schedules to take more of these courses of interest and be able to do it all basically right if if they choose to um and then we're really again doing that work to identify um some of our um student groups students with disabilities and English Learners to ensure that they have access to the courses as well and um and that we are creating the systems and the structures that allow for that hand it back to Dr Brie the before we shift to the local control and chy plan with

088Mr solivar and Dr Hernandez I want to double down on something that Amanda said I think it's important for both the board and the public to bless you um we talked about course access and the implementation of standards and one of the things that we looked at was a through G rates so as a reminder the a through G is a set of courses that the UC system University of California school system and the Cal State system csuf right foron as an example they use the a3g as a metrics to determine college readiness you cannot be admitted into the Cal State or UC system let you've unless you've met a through G requirements uh so that is the bar to be deemed College ready and in our district we have gone from a 37 or

08936% rate to a 54% rate in the last several years so a tremendous tremendous growth and what's most impressive about that growth when you think about we serve 70 some odd percent I don't remember the exact number but 70 something 78% thank you Mr solivar my data guy right there 78% of our students qualify for the free and reduced lunch program and when you look at our a3g data not only overall are we outperforming Orange Unified Saddleback in Santa Ana but when you look at our plural lingual students we are outperforming Huntington Beach when you we're outperforming Newport Mesa we're outperforming placent or blinda right these are districts that on paper demographically should be outperforming us but our students our plural lingual students are students with disability they're also outperforming floron in Brea uh so

090you're seeing the great work of our teachers uh really help our students be deemed College ready remember a through G there are math classes they are our English classes they are our science classes they are World language classes there are our arts classes so we have students being recognized and being deemed College ready at higher levels than M most districts that you're seeing who serve similar populations and in the districts that have less of the free introduced lunch uh students who qualify we're still outperforming students who the student groups that they serve that are comparable to us so it's just something that we're really really proud of it just shows the great work that our schools our teachers our classified supports that they're all doing our admin to make an impact on our students again

091we still have work to do we know that we can do better we know there's gaps that we need to continuously look at and improve but I think that's something to really celebrate the that the students that we have in our district are really doing amazing amazing things and it's something that we want to continue to leverage and build upon having said that now it gives me great pleasure and I wanted to introduce them specifically before they turn it over because I recognize a lot of people in the beginning who have done great work participating and being a part of the lcap process but I really want to give a big shout out to Mr salivar and Dr Hernandez they are the ones who have led our community through this process it's not an easy

092feat it's also the incredible classified staff that works in our office because they are doing so much work on the front end and the back end not just in prepping for the the the six or the Five series but helping to do the invites all the logistical stuff so there's a huge effort that goes into making this a successful event because you know many districts just do the survey that's all that's really required to get input we go above and beyond just the survey we really do bring people in and and really listen to the the voices as we craft and develop the recommendations that come before you so I want to give Mr salivar and Dr hernandz a big shout out for their leadership so thank you so much I'm going to turn it

093over to Dr Hernandez first who's gonna walk you through the process thank you Dr Fred um it's my distinct pleasure to provide an overview of this year's local control and accountability plan as well as our education partner engagement process before I do that I want to first take a moment and acknowledge the work of our board and cabinet for your continuous support in this inclusive process I want to start with a quick review of the local control funding formula and how it works the local control funding formula is the way the state provides funding to school districts under lcff school districts receive a uniform base grant for every student adjusted by grade level school districts such as ours receive additional supplemental grants for students with greater needs defined as unduplicated pupils which include our low

094income English learner plural lingual students and Foster youth we also receive additional concentration funding when the number of unduplicated students enrolled in the district make up more than 55% of our District's total enrollment the state has identified eight State priority areas to help students succeed the eight State priorities can be categorized into three domains conditions of learning engagement and student outcomes we'll mention these later in the presentation as we speak to our elcap focus groups and the work that they did at ahsd we see the elcap development process as an opportunity to tell our story highlight accomplishments and gain comprehensive insights from our educational Partners in auhsd the development of the elep has been a unifying process that involves significant and purposeful engagement with our educational partners ERS and we're very proud of that this

095year we have two separate reports that were presented to you beginning with the 2324 annual update this report is a one-time transitional Standalone document which must be included with the new lcap this document summarizes our last three-year lcap cycle it is important to mention that the metrics reported in the annual report were based on the Ava ailable data at the time in which that Year's l cap was written the Baseline data in the annual report captures the metrics from 2020 21 which was the first year of that lcap cycle and in some cases the metrics from that previous year which is 2019 2020 the annual update therefore captures the metrics preo during covid and postco which if taken out of context May illust illustrate may not illustrate our full story and processes of continuous Improvement

096in academic growth so it's important that we consider that as we look at those metrics you also have the 2425 El lcap plan which is written in the newly adopted State template beginning with this new lcap cycle the district will need to change actions that have not proven effective over a three-year period the 2425 plan includes our District's newly revised lcap goals added recommendations and data for subgroups not making progress in metrics required by the stage which are found on the California dashboard and include academic performance academic engagement and conditions in climate in the plan our actions have been aligned with metrics that will help us identify our progress and meeting those actions additionally it's important to note that some actions are marked as non-contributing which indicates that the monetary resources attached to those actions

097come from other funding sources and not lcff for contributing actions we may have a combination of lcff funds and other state and federal dollars which help us support those actions also new this year is our Equity multiplier funds these funds provide additional funding to districts for allocation to school sites with prior year non-stability rates greater than 25% and prior year socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil rates greater than 70% and this is pursuant to California Education Code 38024 non-stability rates is a measure to identify the number and percent of students who do not receive a full year of learning in the same school Equity multiplier funding is required to be used to provide evidence-based servic and supports for the students at the qualifying School sites which for us includes Gilbert High School Polaris independent studies and Cambridge Virtual

098Academy the receiving sites have developed goals and actions through consultation with their local educational Partners these goals are extended to maximize student outcomes These funds must be used to supplement and not supplant funding that the sites already receive such as lcff and other state and federal dollars as you can see there have been some significant changes to the plans and at this time we're working closely with the Orange County Department of Education to review these plans as we speak ocde is reviewing both the annual update and the 2425 lcap and we're waiting feedback this may cause some changes to the plans reviewed tonight change may include added metrics and expanded language the over overall content however of the plans will remain the same but please note that additional edits will be made in the coming

099days we are also rereading and closely reviewing metrics to ensure we capture the most current and accurate data available so in developing the ELC cap we closely looked at data specific to our unduplicated pupils our lowi income our English learner plural lingual students and Foster youth we also reviewed the needs of important student groups such as our students with disabilities and homeless youth during the engagement process we ask our educational Partners to keep these important subgroups at the Forefront of the decision-making and as they draft the elcap recommendations at this time I'd like to invite uh Mr salivar our executive director of IT services thank you Dr Hernandez good evening everyone so here what we have in front of us are the lcap goals that guided our work starting in July of 2021 as mentioned

100by Dr Hernandez and will end at the end of this month June of 2024 um I just wanted to provide a quick slide to just a remind us of what those goals are still are and then in the next slide I'm going to show you what our new goals are based on the input that received in our uh recent lcap process so I'm going to go through those goals all students goal number one all students will demonstrate college career and life Readiness and Success Through implementation of the five C's goal number two provide meaningful educational engagement opportunities for all parents and families to advocate for all students and goal number three provide and nurture a safe reflective responsive and positive School culture um before I go to the next slide what we did recently back

101in March at one of our um alcap meetings is we ask we surveyed our educational Partners all those in attendance and we asked for some feedback or some input to help revise or refine our goals questions asked um or do the goals still reflect um or still speak to the vision mission and values of our district and what recommendations or suggestions would you provide to us um and so with that input that we gathered we were able to refine our goals so our new goals that will begin in July of 24 and take us through June of 2027 for the next three years are as follows through a whole child approach all students with specific attention to our district students who are lowincome Foster youth in eel plural lingual will be college career and life

102ready by successfully demonstrating 21st century skills youth voice and purpose and technical skills when you look into goal number one and you see what are some of the actions and services attached to the goal you'll find some of our programming like Avid buente DLI Google search which are very important and critical for our students all students and families but in particular those at the lcap calls out our foster youth our e and our um low-income students goal number two through a community schools approach co-create and provide meaningful culturally and linguistic linguistically responsive educational opportunities for all parents and families to advocate for the assets and needs of all students with specific attention to our district students who are lowincome Foster Youth and eel plural lingual again examples of what you will find on the goal

103number two for actions and services our faces you know our faces at each of our sides who are providing all kinds of different programming as as Dr Fred had mentioned earlier and in his in his slide deck presentation and also some of our staffing that are um being used to the brating of funds for our Community School staff and then goal number three provide and nurture a safe positive and inclusive School culture that is responsive to the assets and needs of all students with specific attention to our district students who are low-income Foster Youth and E plural lingual and once again examples of this work Services would be our social workers um our counseling support and all of the programming and and services that go along to support the mental health um um of our

104of our students and all students and families but in particular those at the outc cap calls out so as you can see there is a much more robust three goals but just thanks thanks again to the input from our our families and our students and our staff um that were part of the outc cap processes um for this past outc cap season as we like to call it the outc cap season just to an overview of the timeline um you know this is although the main part of the uh of the process is you know between February in in May um we do start some of this work in early September and thanks to the work of Dr Bryant um with our daac folks um we start to present and provide input meetings and an

105opportunity for our deac um uh staff and parents and those who are a part of that of the of the daac and the site Ela to provide input on on the um on our lcap January is really for um where our We Begin our introduction workshops for our parents and students um and that is something that we just started this past year I'm sorry a year ago so this was the second year that we did this and it's been very successful with the support of our student ambassadors as mentioned earlier led by uh Ron hosi um they've been integral to that work as well and also OKO which we'll mention in a bit our steering committee will begin to meet in January and meet all the way through April the 22nd and we want to

106give a lot of thanks as as we've mentioned them before for all those that are part of the steering committee for all of the work that goes on behind the scenes to really to really um help bring everything together um February through May our our educational partner meetings we have five of them and we'll go I'll have a slide on that as well just to go do an overview that in a second here and then we'll have our draft completed in early May in miday we'll submit our draft to ocde and that brings us to June 6th um our public hearing on on our outc cap and then with um a board approval uh next week on June the 13th our school sites will begin their work on their single plans for student achievement beginning

107in August all the way through December based on what's approved by our board um next Thursday and making sure that what's in their spsa is reflective of the lcap as well here's some pictures just to provide um of what you would see if you were to attend any I know a lot of the folks um here in uh in attendance have been a big part of our our um alcat process some for the first time this past year and many of you for many many years now so we owe a lot of gratitude to all those who have been there um whether it's your first time or or for for the past few years um on our next slide we have the uh overview of the educational partner engagement process again we have five meetings

108beginning with the uh general meeting in February early February this year was February the 88th where we provide an overview of the process for all of our educational Partners we had over 400 in attendance and then we also go over our vision and and um things like that our second third and fourth meeting is where we our our um educational Partners based on their interest will be uh will be placed into a focus group and I know roxan will be going a little more in depth with those Focus Group in a second here but they're placing a a focus group based on their area of interest and they begin to look at the needs Gap analysis they look at analyze data uh at their second meeting which is our our third official meeting um they

109be they continue those activities and begin to develop the recommendations um and in their fourth meeting they're refining the recommendations and uh building consensus at our last meeting which is our fifth meeting we bring everyone back together um and that's where we uh were able to uh gain consensus and make the recommendations um which will be presented to you okay all right so a couple of just before before I hand it back to um Dr Hernandez um we just really want to give a lot of gratitude to OKO um OKO um thanks to the work of uh Mr Hernandez and his team Mr carers Hernandez and his team who has a seat at the uh table for our our community school steering steering committee um came to us with an idea to um further support

110our parents um in a second here I'm going to provide some some data on our parent involvement over the past couple of years and you'll see that there is was quite a differen this year with the the number of parents involved and we do believe it's in in part to not only the work that's being done back at our sites through our our um you know faces and Community School coordinators but also by because of the work of OKO right OKO um was able to uh bring to us an idea to put together some um debrief sessions for our parents where they had you know the um opportunity to in a space in a safe space to ask additional questions um get clarification on things uh continue to look at data make sense of the

111data and then they would come back to our um elcab sessions and obviously be be more uh engaged in that participation right and so we had five of them um that we implemented this year and again Mr Miguel hernandes who I'm not I'm not sure if he's here but maybe he's uh tuned in online um who's the uh executive director of OKO and then we also have Marissa bermudes who's uh not only a staff member for OKO but also a parent of our district who are a big part of that work um and just as a reference this alcap booklet was provided to all of you um we do provide to all of our partners in in four different languages we provide it obviously in English and then we also have it translated to Spanish

112Korean and Vietnamese um we also have it online and thanks to our um graphic arts team um they did a lot of work this year to make it more user friendly so if you were to access it online you no longer have to scroll through you know 100 Pages you could just go to the tab click on that Tab and it takes you directly to that section so it's definitely more interactive more user friendly and what you're going to find in this out in in in this uh resource you're going to find our a priorities our our three outc cap goals from the previous three years obviously um you're going to find uh our need and GAP analysis template you're going to find a glosser of acronyms um so there's a lot of different resources

113that are made available to to our educational Partners during the process okay so here's the data I was I referred to earlier so what you see highlighted here is I know we reference a survey the outc cap survey which we use as one of the um obviously one of the uh uh groups of data that we analyze in 2022 a little bit of trend data for you we had 12,000 students 12,800 students who took the survey 2023 we went to 14,300 and this past year we had 14,860 students who took the survey so we're very proud of the work that our sites are doing our admin teams our teachers encouraging our students to take the survey um all the work that goes on back at the um back at the sites we very um grateful

114for that and you see that that work is paying off as you see more and more students partaking in this survey um I also want to take you to the you know we we referenced the um our parent participation if you notice last year in 2023 we had 64 parents who who were a part of our our outc cap um this year we had 165 parents so again going back to the support from Moko going back to the work that's being done back at the sites with our faces and Community School coordinators and our admin teams and our staff to to reach out and and connect with their parents and and um invite them to be a part of this process so again a lot of gratitude um and Kudos goes to all of them

115okay I'm going to go ahead and hand him back to Dr Hernandez thank you so as part of the process we had four focus groups structured around the eight State priorities focus group members concentrated on drafting recommendations that were related to those State priorities assigned to their focus group and each focus group consisted of Partners from all groups students parents staff district office district office folks um community members so our focus group members examined and refined our lcap recommendations through the lens of these State priorities to which they were assigned the focused groups developed recommendations that were considered by all Partners in the final lcap whole group like Mr salivar mentioned our educational Partners were able to submit electronically their to top three unduplicated recommendations so for group one basic Services they focused and paid

116attention to the rate of teacher Miss assignments access to standards aligned materials facilities and good repair and group one came up with these following uh recommendations one to increase the proficiency for students and staff in using technology for educational purposes and preparing students for life after graduation the district will research and purchase tools that are that all students have access to implement proper professional learning for the tools to maximize their effectiveness the second recommendation School administrators faculty facilities and maintenance staff and community volunteers will Implement a comprehensive plan to upgrade and maintain school facilities this includes repairs Renovations and necessary improvements to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment which is crucial for the academic success and well-being of all students including lowincome Foster Youth and eel plural lingual students upgrading facilities demonstrates a commitment

117to equity and enables students to thrive so as the board considers going for a bond we feel that our educational partner recommendation around facilities May support your considerations so group two focused on State Standards pupil achievement course access and other pupil out outcomes they looked at performance standards standardized test scores evidence of college career Readiness pupil enrollment in Broad course of study and pupil outcomes in the broad course of study group two's recommendations included the district will continue its efforts to increase the number of school counselors as funding permits to support academic development to ensure all students including low-income Foster Youth and El plural lingual students are aware Ware of and meet the a3g requirements learn about possible post-graduate education receive personalized academic guidance and support to ensure that all students are College and Career

118ready the second recommendation the plural lingual services department will provide districtwide elel plural lingual professional learning support such as belief modules for all teachers not just ELD teachers and bilingual instructional AIDS BAS the strategies will benefit all students as well based on available funds and site needs more Bas will be hired to provide the necessary support for our plural lingual newcomer students and then the final goal in this group was a modification of an exis existing action 1.10 the district will continue its efforts to reduce class size retain teachers and offer professional learning that increases student engagement and improves the teachers ability to address the assets and needs of all students with specific attention to our district students who are lowincome Foster Youth and El plural lingual students as funding permits this action was actually

119a Consolidated recommendation from group one two and four which our our elcap steering committee worked on uh refining as a team uh group three focused on parent involvement and they looked at efforts to seek parental input in decision making and promotion of parent participation um this group had the following recommendations the district will appoint parent representatives to the greater Anaheim special education local plan Area Community advisory committee and disseminate information gathered in those meetings to all parents of students with disabilities as appropriate hire faces assigned to represent special education parents at all schools as funding permits and the next recommendation the district will revamp parently Leadership Academy which will include placement of parents on committees professional learning for parents parent training to recruit and engage parents to present to the school community and the final

120recommendation from this group The District and school sites will work collaboratively to ensure the availability of interpreters interpreters in multiple languages to enhance on-site family and Community engagement IEPs and other parent communication and finally group four focused on people engagement and school climate and they looked at attendance rates Dropout rates graduation rates chronic absenteeism suspension rates sense of safety and connectedness here are the recommendations from group four teachers and School site staff will attend professional learning yearly provided by the district focused on social emotional mental health lowincome Foster youth El plural lingual student groups to ensure lesson design and classroom environments are culturally engaging and relevant for students the second goal this district will continue its efforts as funding permits to allocate Staffing such as social workers counselors faces Community School coordinators for every site

121specifically to support Foster Youth and lowincome students mckin vento students to provide transportation mentoring programs supplies Mental Health Services and care coordination with outside agencies here's the poll um in how it looked after our we received our electronic educational partner results as you can see we had a total of 168 total responses each participant was able to select three unduplicated recommendations um that they deemed important so I stated earlier we were very proud of the outpouring of oured educational partners and here are their top three recommendations for the board to consider at this time so the first recommendation came from focus group one recommendation two which emphasizes that the district will Implement a comprehensive plan to upgrade and maintain school facilities this includes repairs Renovations and necessary improvements to ensure a safe and healthy learning

122environment which is crucial crucial for the academic success and will wellbeing of all students the second recommendation was focus group came from focus group four recommendation uh number two which emphasize the allocation of Staffing specific to social workers counselors faces Community School coordinators and also the emphasis on providing Transportation mentoring programs supplies Mental Health Services and care coordination with outside agencies to our unduplicated PU as well as our mckin vento students and then the final recommendation came from focus group two recommendation three which emphasize continuing the district continuing its efforts to reduce class size retain teachers and offer professional learning that increases student engagement and improves the teachers ability to address the assets and needs of all students as you can see the elcap process provides a structured opportunity for us to align our Resources

123with the the priorities that matter most to our community as our superintendent stated at the launch of our lcap session this process is not just about budgeting it's about ensuring that our investments reflect our Collective values and aspirations for our students future and I believe that what we have accomplished during the elcap process does just that now I would like to invite Dr freed to make the final remarks thank you all right so first of all as we come to a close I just want to kind of end with the celebration of although we still have a lot of work to do and we have a lot of work ahead of us the next couple years with the three-year uh aspirations of our lcap um there's a lot of things that the lcap has allowed

124us to do over the years which is why you're going to see some of the just the highlights that I want to make sure that you're reminded of one again we're still number one in the state of California with the state seal of Civic engagement um we're number two in the county of our state seal of biliteracy number two in the county with our c te or Career Technical education completion we have over a 90% graduation rate which is above the state average we saw an 11% growth in our a3d compation rates which I just talked about as well earlier and then again this year we were named a California democracy School District as all of our schools have that distinction and that is the first school district in the state to earn that distinction

125and it's because of our lcap and the work of our community to outline priorities and our drivers our core values that allowed us over time to be able to reach these Great accomplishments we're we're optimistic and hopeful that the great work of our community will inspire and continue to allow us to do great things moving forward with that I want to come to a close thank you for your attention and now we'll go ahead and uh take any questions that you may have um for our team okay and I have the book here is the consensus of the board to ask questions first uh we have a speaker for this item um for public speaking would you like to ask questions first or would you put the speaker put the speaker all right that would

126that would be under the next item the next item is the public hearing okay any questions then Mr O'Neal yeah I'm trying to figure out what questions you've answered so hold hold on just a moment all them Mr well I'm sure you have to some degree um says uh in the uh handout that we have in our in our agenda packet the district and sites will regularly assess the impact professional learning intervention Etc uh who in the district is responsible for that and then who is this reported to is starting at the sites I'm assuming and then what's the sort of the chain of command how does that work talking about the assessment of professional learning that's the effectiveness of implemented strategies how do you how do you determine the effecting of those strategies so

127well one it's going to depend on the strategy that we're talking about so as you saw one of the lcap recommendations were the belief modules so as Dr Bryant and I see V here as the team and I I don't think Paul is here but Paula is part of that work as they work with our sites on the implementation of those strategies for example we're going to want to monitor throughout the process um the implementation of those strategies and then the effects uh which can be done through PLC conversations one of the things that we've talked about next year with our principles is having data dive days where at as principal meetings we're looking at data specifically connected to the things that we've identified as values and metrics uh one of the things that we're

128going to be a that's going to be a goal for our district next year with our Ed division through and the work of our sites are the elk Cup goals being our goals uh we're also going to leverage that time with data dive days at the sites where the sites will engage in a very similar process where they're looking at specific data connected to the work they're doing and have those bless you reflective conversations um we also at the end of professional learning opportunities we we've talked about surveying our teachers who've gone through that professional learning to get a sense from them in terms of of what was valuable about the process and then again that progress monitory is also going to be part of survey data that we collect with our staff as we

129see kind of what's been happening the the challenges when you when you're implementing a number of things right we have our cpsf Frameworks the implementation of the 5c's we have our Civic engagement trains there's a number of things that are also happening simultaneously so sometimes it is challenging to pinpoint this this Improvement or this impact is because of this one strategy when multiple things might be happening but that's where the voices of our teacher going be important so they can share the strategies that they're using which can help us understand some of the impact that we're seeing those classrooms but it's it's complex in the sense that it's not just one strategy that may be making the impact or not making the impact um I know one of the things that we've talked about through

130the K reads Grant as an example with reading um there are very specific strategies that we've been talking about and this really began at the junior high with I know we've talked about our writing Journey but we talked about having some type of reading Journey where we're using the the strategies that are outlined in the calar grant that we've seen impact with and how that's rolled out across our schools to measure and impact students growth in Reading as an example both fluen and comprehension as an example okay another question um recommended action one school administrators faculty uh facilities maintenance staff and community volunteers will Implement a comprehensive plan uh to upgrade and maintain school facilities who would be coordinating that is is that under the offices of of petty Neely or how does that work

131yeah so so i n you're not necess part of the presentation but you certainly can answer it's going to be part of the business office per se I mean they're the ones to manage and oversee the facilities both a great work not just of Nancy but Patty Ney quinton's here I saw um so they're going to be charged with working our sites we have a workflow system so when schools identify a challenge they do the workflow system where it triggers the next steps uh for both the business office to then work to accomplish or repair whatever that that that facility issue might be um I know that the both the business office uh and quinton's work along with the work of Patty they regularly on our campuses um walking the campus to to see regularly

132what is in good repair versus is what may need to be addressed um so that's something the business office will definitely take the lead on and I know Nancy is constantly coming to cabinet with updates for for us as a Cabinet in terms of what's been identified as a project that we may need to invest in or something that we can't wait on we have to address now so I don't know if n you want to add to that so we track all the work orders as well to see how long it takes to get something done if there's earning um specific uh requests on the site obviously there's a certain form that they would submit um obviously and then if there's any like major facility project uh then we would kind of plan that

133as part of our facilities program and obviously we're coming to an end of our our current um Bond at this point um and so most of the book the major projects are currently you know they're going to be done pretty quickly at this point um but we do track all these projects we also have a Citizens Bond oversight committee that oversee those funding as well and so it's very important that there is accountability on all levels and um we also implemented um a tracking so that all the major projects are tracked on a document we send that to the board as well as send it to our our School site principles as well so everyone knows at any given time where all the projects are are at if it's at at the stage of bidding

134is it um is it getting done uh when and so there's all the timelines as well and so I think it's very important that there is a mechanism to be able to continue to track these projects as well I'm I'm assuming what was discussed uh during this process in order to up upgrade and uh maintain our facilities is a lot is going to be based upon having a bond successfully passed is that a correct statement the bigger projects for sure okay yeah so there there's um so obviously those are the bond projects we also have different maintenance projects for example the roofing some of these things and they do cost money right obviously and um you I'm sure we've some seen some of our roofs as well um that they do need to be repaired

135as well um and then there's some other things right and so some of the pipes that there's some bigger stuff that we really need to open things and then those do require um Bond dollars to work down the road right okay um I think it's my last question is um on all these action plans uh we we see a a title description and we see total dollar funds that so um there's there's many uh action plans have have there been detailed plans for each one of these action plans developed or is that sort of an an evolving process as we move down the line if it's evolving when is the plan actually totally planned so so yes uh some some of these plans are continuance of of of like it's work that we've been doing

136but we need to continue doing because it's like I said we're never there right we're always working towards Improvement uh where other plans maybe have surfaced from the community as a need right identified need that we want to work on so part it depends on which department it would fall under right so if it's something that's very specific let's say to um our plural lingual students then although as an ed division we'll wrap around support with with with Dr Bryant and her team Dr Bryant and her team will take a lead on working with the El Department chairs and our other teachers on building what that plan might look like as an example so it really depends on what the actionable item is and who oversees it per se in terms of um the work

137right so where you see things connected to families and then Carlos oselli and Kenny their team will take a lead in working on developing that plan with their teams right the community school coordinator the faces Etc um we do this kind of it's very fluid throughout the throughout the process but some of the plans that you see identified are a continuance of work that we've already begun but we just as we constantly review its impact or how our students are progressing we make adjustments along the way it's part of that continuous Improvement cycle okay so I'm I'm assuming that as the next board meeting if we pass this um plan of the elap then everything we just talked about is going to be go correct correct it's it's when it's if if and when it's

138approved then yes that's our then it gives us our marching orders okay this is the plan and we all know that the lcap is a living document so even though it's approved we also know that things may change right based on our asset need survey data we may identify a different need uh in a year from now that may cause us to revisit how we want to approach something so there is fluidity in the way that we work through this plan you'll see the school site uh the spsa the sipsas right the single plan for student achievement those are updated every year there rying to our district elcap but those those are going to be very sight specific so we we have the ability to make adjustments as the needs or assets change within our

139school Community thank you I don't have so much questions but I am in awe of how education has changed and over the years that I've been on this board the changes have been remarkable and the schools were not in good condition when I came here and I suggested the first Bond and now we're asking for a third Bond and all I can say is the quality of schools matches the quality of your neighborhood and your homes one of the first things that people do when they want to move to an area they want to know what the quality of the school is and um I'm just proud we've done so much I my heart almost goes pitter patter but I do have one question the one group and this is a new group that I

140haven't seen in past years is homeless how does that is that determined and um how do these um youth get to school again it depends right so so we have our Mento Foster youth students and and actually Dr Cruz is is here she she helps to work with with our students and we have um our social workers who serve as case carriers uh when students are identified one of the hard Parts about um identifying students who are homeless is they often have to self-identify and as we all know um sometimes there's um it's hard right there could be shame there could be feelings uh in being able to acknowledge and say that hey I'm homeless right I struggled so sometimes we have more students who technically would fall under that student group but they're not

141identifying because of the potential stigma that can be connected to it so I know Dr Cruz and really our whole team but um Dr Cruz and her team work really hard to work closely with the county and a number of the agencies along with the great work that Carlos and our community schools are doing too to make sure that we have the agencies we have the resources and this in the linkage to be able to provide the supports needed to those students in terms of how they get the school um it depends on on where they are currently residing um some of our students who are identified as homeless will take public transportation which we do provide bus passes for some of our students are in areas where they are not terribly far to be

142able to walk to school so it really depends on the student in their specific C circumstance um but it's nuanced and and our team Works hardly hard very hard to support um our students who are unfortunately faced with that with that challenge do you know how the number of homeless students that we have in the school district yeah a little under a thousand under a thousand identified so for buses that has to be worked out so these kids can get to school a thousand so how is that all determined well as we work with the students depending on where they live um again they get free public transportation passes that we provide to the students and their families so depending on where they live we work out the public transit routes for them to be

143be a part of to get be able to get the school because that's the other thing is even though a student may be living in point a or home a temporarily uh and may move they still have the the ability um to to continue residing or attending the same school that they've been a part of because as you can imagine if they're constantly moving around it'd be very it'd be very challenging difficult to constantly be moving schools um so there's things that both the Dela team and really our site teams are doing to support those families when they learn of the circumstance to help provide as much stability as we can the transportation issue um can be challenging but we leverage the public transport Transportation um services in the county provides in the way that

144we transport a lot of the students who identify as homeless but some of our students get to school in other ways I just want to thank you one and all uh you've had a preview of what has changed in our country in society and what we are having to work out to take care of all of the youth that need to be if not college career ready and I take such pride in what our group has done Mr matuda and all the people that work here it's a heavy heavy load and I just want to thank you thanks Smith can I say something about the homeless um it's a very fluid population often invisible and uh they're not these young people are not necessarily out on the streets they're in motels they sleep on the

145floors of garages um many of us here have seen the conditions and um this is the challenge of urban spaces like Anaheim where there was just a lack of planning uh around um ex uh access to uh low income and homeless shelters so this uh this is a bigger problem than just the schools and that's why I think that our Partnerships uh with the Community Schools folks and all of our churches and nonprofits are so vital uh to provide support from them we're lucky uh Dr Cruz and your team working directly with and trying to identify this population um this has been an ongoing Challenge and I I know that um we this is why Dr freed earlier was talking about the importance of Street data of understanding our kids and their uh their voices

146and their narratives and their stories and um giving them a space to share that and develop strategies to support I me it's very complex and um it's an ongoing challenge so I really applaud um our teachers and our social workers um on the front lines thank you thank you uh I want to start off by thanking all of you presenting um and everyone that took part in the elcat process we appreciate you um and our partners including OKO who helped with our uh parent engagement I'm had two questions um the first was on you mentioned home visits um does that help with The Chronic have centm uh that has been going up so there's different kinds of home visits so the one that I was speaking to in terms of um listening to the voices

147of our students and our families were the home visits that we're actually doing through the K School approach that's approach where um our teachers are actually going to visit homes not as a negative or disciplinary effort it's more to connect with students and their families and to listen to them right give them their voice again in terms of what their hopes aspirations and dreams are so that one builds capacity our staff but also kind of forges that connection um because we know that when students feel connected when they feel a sense of belonging at Schools they're more likely to come um and um so that's one aspect of home visits the other home visit is the more traditional perspective where both the work that Dr Cruz does the work that our site admin teams are

148doing um you may recall we have um Outreach workers at our schools where those are the ones who were kind of knocking on the door to make sure families and students are okay because we haven't seen you in a while right so we're doing those as well so there are two different kinds of home visits we're doing both um one is more um proactive right we're really trying to build relationships connect uh and find ways that the schools can better support and serve uh connected to their aspirations hopes and dreams the other one is unfortunately it's more reactive where they haven't been coming so we're trying to do some Outreach and figure out maybe why that is and what we can do to get them back right so so they're two different versions but hopefully

149accomplishing the same thing and giving us Street data that's going to allow us to better connect and support and serve them that Mak sense yes that does make sense thank you do we have any data on the visits the so the home visits we just recently board approved the ones that the community schools are doing so no not yet on those and then I'm sure we do have some data um I don't have it with me but we can certainly get you data on what those home visits look like and the kinds of impact they're having okay we have a couple we have one at Gilbert we have yeah oh thank you yeah the training for the new one the the where the teachers are going to visit the to learn more about the aspiration

150hope dreams that's starting August 1st so it's to start for this implementation of this school year thank you m thank you um and then my second question um on the we met some of our goals in the first threeyear outcome um and then some of the new desired outcome was um created I was just curious how those percentages were I guess calculated I I'll give an example um the graduation rate uh um the e3g completion uh we had a goal 55 we met uh 54% and then our goal for the next three years is 58 I was just curious um yeah so when we're selecting goals we truly we we usually aim at a three to 5% increase based on where we were last time based on the base so that's always something that's we

151try to make sure the goal is reasonable you know obviously Within Reach um we don't want to set ourselves up where we're we're I mean obviously we always want to shoot for the moon right but but we also want to make sure that the goals we're setting forth are are reasonable and and obtainable right it's kind of like that smart goal right the they're measurable they're actual they're time bound but they're also Within Reach okay that makes sense thank you y thank you uh again thank you uh to all of our um our employees and parents and students that served on this committee is it is a commitment um again uh we uh I think uh do it do it the best and as I recall um when we first started this program because it

152was so in depth um other school sites were uh coming in and seeing what we were doing uh back in the days when uh menuel starred and uh and also we were nationally re recognized for this process so I'm really uh impressed as how you you you've improved it tenfold um and one of the things that you talked about was um making sure that our parents understand um it's hard for us up here to understand a lot of the um the jargon and the and the and the education talk um but I'm really um really proud that one of our partners reached out and and really um and thank you also Renee that uh you you helped our parents understand this language because sometimes it can be intimidating to sit in a room where everybody

153kind of already knows uh you know what to talk about so um getting that input from them is very very vital with the understanding not just kind of being in the room and and going along so I really appreciated hearing about that um I also wanted to um understand what is the difference when you're talking about um the local indicator of uh of you know making sure all of our schools um facilities are upgraded and all that uh and and and supplies I mean we have the Williams Act to also make sure I'm just kind of curious what is the reasoning behind um having that in the in the lcap well I think then the state identified their priorities under basic um that was considered a basic function is is that we want our schools

154in at least good standing repair so you know you want students to come to a place that is safe that's clean and that's it's in good standing of course we have facilities that um are older because of just the sure age of our schools but that that's I think the premise so they wanted School community through local control to identify um where we stand within that process and if that's something that um has been met or not if it's something we need to address so I think that's really why that's been that on in the elcap because it's a basic function basic need that we want to make sure um is established you know we want students to feel they're coming to a place that that looks and feels good they're to be a part

155of and I I understand I think um because it's a process it's not the dict the district dictating what needs to be done because I have seen other school districts that take priorities with uh buildings I feel like for you know the district and you know and and they they take care of those needs uh rather than the school sites so um I understand that uh when um you talk about the Capstone um approach that's usually isn't that a a college requirement uh not necessar I mean it it for us I mean it's Capstone is not a college requirement um certain programs uh may have a Capstone um as a part of their process but I don't think it's something that across the board schools have capstones for us we wanted to make sure that

156um since we teach the whole child and we're trying to you know we we talk about do you um value it can be measured or do you measure what you value right our community through the visioning process at almost all of our schools we have we have have uh three schools left um they have clearly identified this whole child approach as a driver right they've talked to parents and students specifically even our staff when we did these visioning processes they've identified very clearly they want their students to be collaborators communicators critical thinkers they want them to be employable right I want my student to get a job and get off my payroll someday right that's what parents wanted so as schools how do we create the space and the conditions for us to build capacity

157and equip and Empower our students to be able to do just that while at the same time teaching the content and the standards so those drivers are very different than what is often measured on the traditional standardized test it's still important it's still something we must do um but with this whole child approach we have been looking for ways to better measure and assess what we value the 5 C's as an example student voice so the performance task assessments which our teacher created allow us to do just that they allow us to be able to to revisit how our students are progressing as it connects to their Seas we're also leveraging our partnership with e Cadence right in Chan Zuckerberg we have a grant in the way that we're leveraging um the AI algorithms to

158then analyze the student Reflections that happen after these ptas to give us a sense of how students are progressing as it connects in relates to the 5c's so for us it's a way of and my hope and I think our team's hope is that in the coming years as this gets built out that will be another metric that is integrated into our lcap so when we're looking at data in terms of analyzing our assets and our our gaps that 5c data will also be a part of that work to inform our community how we're doing and where some of the next steps might be so for us it's about measuring what we value and so that is big part some of the other grants that we we've received are focused on that whole child approach

159and empowering us as an institution to better assess uh where we are and inform our next instructional um steps Mr mud I feel like you have something you want to say yeah yes um one of the outc cap recommendations is under uh focus group for about school climate and it talks about the importance of uh ensuring that lesson design and classroom environments are culturally engaging and relevant for students could you explain the connection between that and school climate and the performance task assessments that you talked about earlier absolutely that's really the the Crux of all of this so one um when you through the lens of Civic engagement in our community schools when you allow students to bring in the issues and the topics that they are deeply care about um and the teachers through

160their you know expertise and and just um sure Talent right they're finding ways to still connect it to um their content and so when students start engaging in things that have meaning and relevance in their own life one school becomes a place that they want to be at they they start wanting to be more engaged in their classrooms it impacts absenteeism it impacts behaviors right it also impacts um just the connection to what they're experienced in their classroom right we I remember a day when I was a teacher and when I was a student right A lot of times students stud would ask why do I have to learn this I don't ever want to do this when I'm older and because we're so deeply connected to the 5c students are starting to see more

161relevance in terms of what it is that they're learning that that that we're learning the content but through these skills connected to things that they care about and so these performance task assessments allow students to go deeper with the topics issues that they care about while at the same time building those skills that we know the world of work and just life demand um so those are huge and then you're seeing even more so now keep in mind we're still in our infancy stage so it's important to say that all the success that we've been talking about we are still in the beginning of this process where our teachers through the work of our community school teacher leads our 5c coaches and just our teacher leaders throughout the district we're building more and more capacity

162at our schools the way we leverage our larts to integrate more of these thoughtful and intentional performance task assessments where they're connected to community issues so again our vision to create a better world through the unlimited you right A lot of these performance tasks not all but a lot of these performance tasks are connected with doing just that helping to improve our community again the Mac is a perfect example example of students identifying issues that were local to their community and the Mac is a response we're now that is feeding our students it's feeding families as a way as as a as a solution to address the food insecurity and food deserts that within our community you're seeing that across the board I know Mr mallus is here I remember when he was a teacher

163short-term rentals were a very big deal in the city of an specifically at ball and Lera because of what was happening at Disney and I remember our students going to city council and petitioning for them to change laws around short ter rentals and it was because of our students and their voice and what they got to experience in the classroom they were empowered to make change in our community not by the adults but by the kids the adults create the conditions for the students to really Thrive and that has been our approach uh and we're seeing that grow uh exponentially over over the years and again we're not where we need to be but that's where this is foundational and as we continue to refine and refine and grow our Capstone our belief is that

164in time these ptas are going to become exemplary and they're going to be a model for schools Across the Nation in terms of how you can help support your community to become a thriving place that meets that where schools as the Hub are serving to meet and address the needs of that local community where it's happening in the classroom and we're also empowering the next generation of Voters and our citizens and we don't believe it's something they can do when they leave you saw clearly in the last few months our students are empowered to make change now and so uh you know so it's exciting to see our students voice Amplified and be able to make this kind of impact while they're 13 and while they're 14 um so we're seeing our teachers integrate this

165beautifully into their classrooms still have work to do but we're already seeing incredible results because of the Capstone in these collection of performance task assessments that we've integrated as a part of that process okay thank you um I I really loved the you know the healthy approach that even though we are doing these things there's still room to grow and we're still learning um every day um on the uh School climate it was talked about our um sro's and and you talked about Anaheim but can you uh expand on that there at our other sites yes we we focus on because that's where the expansion was but we're very we're very blessed to have a relationship with both the Anaheim PD who now is serving those six sros that we mentioned and matter of fact

166today Dr hernand want to give him a shout out the other Dr Hernandez doing a great job um and overseeing that process but we also have a tremendous partnership with the city of Lama and an SRO both at Kennedy and Walker and then the city of cypress where we have SOS at Lexington and um Cypress High School I believe they also support Oxford a little bit but it's more Cypress and Lexington so very blessed to have relations with all three um police departments as you know we're also engaged with all those all of our our five City that that were a part of but those three cities in particular we're very close with um so that those three cities have the SRO program where we work close with today we had a meeting with Anaheim

167Police Department uh we were with their team to to debrief on this year Lessons Learned things that we can do better in terms of next year with strengthening our SRO program this one was specifically anim because they're the newest right we've been doing this for a few years now in Le and in Cyprus but um that's the SRO program and the other two cities they were actually in place prior to us now doing uh the Anaheim so we're very fortunate that we have the SR program at all of our schools within our district and Anaheim had shared today that they're hopeful that um because they shared Fresh Off The the Press right that um they have seen a reduction um and not to say there there isn't but they've seen a reduction in gang violence

168and they've seen a reduction in some of these other violent crimes and they attribute some of that to the work that's happening at our schools with the SRO program um so it doesn't mean it's not happening but they're seeing it at a much lesser level um and they attribute a lot of that to the work of the sro's and the work that they're doing to build relationships and make connections with families and Community because that is really the tener of that program they're not there to enforce and and and and be security they're there really to build relationships and make connections they help with investigations but they're there as really another Community partner uh which is really their their purpose wonderful um I uh I really um am very impressed with the number of um

169participants of our um our uh parents going from 64 to 165 because that number indicates um that we're doing this with Fidelity so I really applaud that however I did notice that um the participation um in the survey uh went down and so uh I wonder uh have we discussed or have we thought about how we can improve we're always talking about that and we we are very much aware of survey fatigue uh between the assets and needs survey we have the lcap survey we do other surveys with our sites um no excuse I mean we've talked about things that we can do more intentionally to get more folks involved we have worked closely with our sites uh where with our students for examp example if it's integrated into the school day they're in their

170check and connect for example um there's no reason why we can't get close to 26,000 students participating in that survey right um you know how do we leverage multiple parent events if we know that the sites are having cof principes other ways to be able to get more parents engaged we did see and we learned when we had a lot of all hands on deck full full um um Blitz effort on the needs and asset surveys if you look at the data there I mean I don't remember off the top of my head Mr Hernandez and Mr Morganson but I want to say our asset need survey was kind of off the charts in terms of the number of survey respondents we got from families so learning from that experience right how can we replicate

171that kind of effort with our lcap so we can get the same kind I know we've talked about integrating that survey into our lcap so we're not duplicating our efforts and surveying our families there's really one survey that they get that feeds the process so that's part of us working smarter not harder that's part of our knowing better doing better but um we obviously have something that has been done that showed tremendous results so it's learning from that and doing more of that to get more parents more students engaged in participating in that survey so we can get the information we need in addition to the voices right the empathy circles the the community circles and hearing firsthand what they're feeling what they're experiencing to to inform some of the next steps that we take

172thank you and just one last comment um I really uh love the brand new goals um and something that we all learned in the last couple of months was to be more specific and uh and I think these uh three goals so I applaud everyone one um that participated and um I I applaud the change in the in the language for our new goals so Bravo to everyone on the team uh is there any more questions question thank you so much thank you okay thank you all right item 7.2 we are opening a public hearing for the local control accountability plan lcap and annual update up to speak is Jermaine Newman Chow hello again I I'm going to be try to be really quick because I know we're all getting tired um I've been participating

173in elcap for six years now um for the past two years I've been on the state standards group and I've been deeply concerned over the years about our um results for our state testing on math and English Arts especially our math I'm really pleased pleas to see that in page three of 95 in the annual report um our district is finally addressing this current situation with the mathematics on State Standards it's nice to see that our Administration is finally addressing its uh this critical issue with ahsd we are 10% below the state standard for mathematics that's including Oxford that is at 90 90 something per and um Kennedy and Cyprus was really raised the standard our percentage but our whole District at a whole we below um 24% so um it has taken a lot

174of work we're working hard on it I appreciate it but at our District's Nam stake School Anaheim High School the math scores results have declined for three straight years we are now below 10% of our student students meeting the state standard for mathematics that is shocking um the whole point of the lcap is to bring areas of concern to the surface and Target our funds to address these issues um ahsd has been addressing this the issues at our schools that are not meaning the standards but by not identifying any funding in the lcap we are leaving this to chance you've address you've talked about it's there but you haven't actually identified any funding sources in the lcap that is actually going to make it a priority so I would like to state that we have

17510 schools that are in the red on the state standards or the state dashboard they are all in the red this accounts for over 11,000 students in our district that's more than 60% of our student body are at risk for mathematics I'd like to ask you to address those needs and call it out and put an item on our LC cap that we're actually addressing this issue you've added the district has taken the Liberty outside of the group The Community meetings to add goal number four goal number five and goal number six goal number four and five are for Gilbert and Polaris 100% support of that but goal number six is for Cambridge Virtual Academy you have 141 students at Cambridge Virtual Academy according to the elcap this is a very small percentage of our

176students our class sizes at Cambridge are at 13 students 14 students 16 students per teacher where our red schools are more than double does class sizes we need to put the funds at the school sites on the students who need it we have more English Learners at Anaheim High School than CVA has as a total student body if we address the math issues at those 10 schools and really focus on them we could raise the percentage for the whole District that number of 11,000 students would increase it and make our schools more attractive to our community where people would want to send their kids to their schools so I'm calling on you guys to ask the team the administration to really relook at this and and see what we're doing to focus on our mathematics

177and the bigger School sites where we have our larger populations there's also a couple issues on our elcap where we have a addressed money that we're going to spend on page 64 we were going to spend $8.2 million to improve attendance and yet we actually spent $2 million less than that I'm wondering what happened with our chronic absentismo that is our Revenue Source we hear about it all the time if we're not spending money on that item then how are we going to approve our chronic adism where does this money go and why do we put it on the budget and then we're not spending it there same item question for our faces on the action item on 64 it's item number 2.1 we said we were going to spend $2.5 million on our faces

178but we actually spent an additional $2.2 million on that item how are we spending double the amount of money on our faces what happened with that item why are we increasing the money there and where's the accountability to I'd go back to the chronic absen ASM item on um those are the things I I hope we look at in this LC cap and look at what we're actually spending our money on and please please address the needs of our students in mathematics at our actual School sites where they we have 11,000 students that really need the help that could really use the attention of this District thank you [Applause] close the public hearing public hearing yeah so we will close the public hearing on that item presentation 7.3 public hearing for 2024-25 proposed budget perfect

179well good evening Madame President members of the board superintendent mauda cabinet members members of the public and those watching online tonight I'm happy to be presenting the proposed adop the budget to 2425 but before I get started I do want to take the time to thank my team Karen or Joe kimona as well as Rihanna Krill for um their hard work on getting this budget done together um and it does take a whole village and and as well as as working with ed services um on that side as well to get all the budget together so I wanted to start to see what what was being proposed at the mayis by the governor and so at the May Revis the governor Nome must resolve the projected deficit shortfall in 2425 25 26 and the actual

180deficit in current budget year as well outside of Education he proposed significant spending cuts to government operations reduction to programs and the pause of new Investments thankfully k14 so far we've been shielded from some of these ongoing programat IC reductions um and he was able to do this by three different ways first one is to fully deplete the prop 98 ring day fund that's about $8.4 billion so it's being fully depleted at this point in order to balance the state budget next one is increasing the size of the prop 98 funding maneuvering and I'm going to be explaining that a little bit and then the third thing will be the adding the one-time education uh cuts so prior to the governor coming out with his May revise uh back in April um AB 106 the

181assembly Bill 106 um was adopted on May um on April 15th so it included um some of these early Solutions in order to balance the budget um there were um $3.6 billion in reductions $5.2 billion in revenue and borrowing $5.2 billion in delays and deferrals okay remember deferrals it's coming back again now um and then 3.4 billions in Cuts uh shifting from general fund to other state funding but ABC 106 does not address the um core Educational Funding however it does factors in some of these uh points here it has now delayed $550 million contribution to the California preschool TK and food day kindergarten facilities grant program that does not affect our district but at the Statewide level that will be a significant impact as well and the next is the it uh basically reduced

182um the $875 million one-time investment to the school facilities program uh initially by $500 million at that time and then the May Revis the governor basically scried the entire um $875 million and so these are the matching funds that we as a district could have uh received in matching from the state and so the entire program now is scraped um obviously the governor does recognize there is the state um bond that is being proposed osed for the November 24 um ballot at this point uh currently the latest polling that I'm receiving is um 59% voting yes uh to support the state Bond of $14 billion um the last one does the state fail was back in March of 2020 with $15 billion however if the CSUS and the UC systems are involved um in that

183the pooling drops to 55% and so at this point at this juncture um they're going to have to figure out or is the UCS and CSUS is going to be part of this $14 billion State Bond or not for this November and obviously we are closing closely monitoring that because that will be a significant um program to the entire State of California and I and we're going to being proposed a 2425 budget but why am I bringing you back to 2324 the reason why we're bringing back is there's is this shifting of the uh budget of the loss of the $8.8 billion so we can see here this is a 2223 budget so the uh basically how we how um k14 uh K1 14's fund is we get about 40% of the total dollars from

184the state revenues and so back um when the state budget was adopted back on June 27 of 2023 the 2223 budget at that point for Education was $17 billion however by May Revis of current year it dropped to $97 billion and so that's a huge drop as you can see here and obviously the reason why that this happened was because in 2022 personal income tax and corporate taxes came in$ 26 billion dollar below the estimates at that time and so this is a big issue because how we get funded is always based on prior year that is your base and then you add it on to the cost of living adjustment and then you adjust for your attendance but however if you look at this so that's first slide so this is what's being um

185happened at this point um if you can see in 20 um the 2223 minimum um it was initially um$ 107 billion and then now it was back in May revised the 97 billion so just's $8.8 billion Gap um but there was about a $800 million U revised minimum guaranteed um that was being uh proposed between uh January and may but the issue is this the governor at that time proposed in order to balance the budget for the oute he was proposing to basically um reduce the funding um of that Gap um over five years beginning in 2526 with annual payment of $1.8 billion to uh back to the um General to the general fund for at the state level and so just doing basic math at this point $8.8 billion what does that translate to

186our district so there's about 5.6 million students in the state of California so 8.8 billion you take that math about $1,571 per student approximately um and if we take it the number of students we have assuming that they take into the 88 account n enrollment so depending on how that funding so we're looking at for our district about a 3 um7 million uh shortfall that this could happen starting 25 26 what they're saying is Well pay the pay the state back starting at that time okay we're not going to take it out from this year 245 we're going to take it out from 2526 and that is something that is something that we dread it when we heard that I was like wow this is what kind of math is this this is called funny

187math Nobody Does this kind of math we don't this kind of math I don't just do this this kind of math um so that would mean approximately $7 million that the district would have have to quote unquote not receive in starting in 25 26 for the next 5 years so this is a significant uh significant issue that was um you know that came upon how the government is trying to balance the budget um thankfully there was a good solution thank you so much CTA they came to save the day they uh made a deal with the governor on May 27th this year um in order to balance the budget till that $8.8 billion do will not be a factor at this point and so you know um and so how they did it was this

188so if you look at this basically they said okay fine we can um figure out how to do the math but overall um there are going to be some deferral so number one thing will be inclusion of the $6.2 billion funding from the 12 the 2223 uh 2223 above the minimum guarantee meaning that they will account for that $6.2 billion so we're not going to be losing that funding that's very important and then there'll be a suspension of prop 98 in 23 24 meaning that okay we're not going to worry about that the piece that's missing and then they're also going to draw the uh prop many Reserve to maintain at the 23 24 level at this point in order to support 20 425 budget now the last thing will be um a budget deferral

189from June of this year 20 uh 24 2 24 currently into July so using basically our 20 in our budget for current year the year that we're still in right now 23 24 the money we're supposed to be receiving in June they're saying we're going to defer that into July so one month of deferral we have done this many many times in the past this is not as bad as back in 2008 2009 when those deals were six months long this is a one month deeral okay so uh this will be for this current year as well as the 2425 meaning the because how we budget the money is a different than the state when they give us defal let's say into July we still count the money as our 2324 budget we acre that

190amount that's why we call it acral we acre that amount into our current budget so that will be okay we're not losing money it's a cash flow issue right if some District cannot afford that we're able to do it so this will be a two-year um defal at this point and so I do want to make sure that I do want to give credit to CTA for at least solving this issue as for right now and there's not the $8.8 billion dollar that money would have come master stting in 2526 and then right after that on May 29th so there's a lot of things developing at this point even as we speak there's a lot of negotiations going on but on June 20 uh sorry on May 29 2024 uh Senate and the assembly they

191came with a joint um uh proposal for the government at this point it first one is to fund the 1.07% cola as you have seen the cola went down to about 0.76 but now we are back to the 1.07% cola and these uh proposals also include the following actions um first is to maintain the universal meals meaning that we provide Universal meals to all um all our students the next one is to adopt an amended version of the instructional continuity plan that was proposed back into uh back in May to retain short-term independent study program then the next piece uh will be to eliminate the $875 million in the uh general fund for the school facilities program in an in anticipation of a November 2024 school bond initiative so $875 million that we've been receiving

192for part of those matching that we were able to receive that piece is no longer in the budget um and then finally it provide a $20 million onetime for new and ethic City uh block grant for local adoption of the curriculum and so so so far this is what's happening and obviously once the governor um once they they send the whole entire package and then there's going to be a lot of negotiations and so once we get those information then we'll come back to the board and to update those numbers so these are what we currently have as of today one of my favorite topic enrollment and so we can see here this is the state enrollment from 201819 to uh 2223 as you can see that at the state level uh we had about

1936.2 million of students in California at that time and since then uh the latest number that certified the state level we dropped down to 5.8 million students we lost a lot of students it's about 5.4% lost in the same period our districts dropped over 88.4% um in the same period um uh when we're comparing from 201819 to 20 um and this is our latest projections um we went back just to kind of show you what the historical numbers are to our current year uh number and um and what we are projecting for um the next uh four years out as well as you'll see we're currently projecting uh to decline by about 1300 students from current year into next school year and then the next three years after that we are projected to lose over

1942900 students and so obviously um we have all know that it's very very expensive to live in Orange County especially Orange County as a whole has lot lost a lot of students during the pandemic and then given the the housing market is continued to be extremely tight in in Anaheim as well um and as well as in our other um cities Cypress as well as Buena Park laama all these um cities we're having a big issue of housing as well and so we are continuing to see a declining woman Trend in our district as well and do you want to share the impact of um covid-19 projections on our multier projections as you will see here um I'm showing you some of the Statewide numbers of what the um attendance rates are in compared to

195enrollment right and what was back in 201920 versus what um it was back in 2223 as you can see um in comparison at the state level back in 201920 the average um um attendance r about 95% and look at our numbers we're 95.15% that is extremely high for a high school district since the little kids for some reason they tend to attend to school a little bit more and so um but if you can see in uh 2022 23 uh the attendance rate went down to about 92% across the state level okay but the same period um our numbers dropped down to about 90.9% but if you just look at ours compared to the high school the 912 um were pretty much in line and so if you look at on um back in 201920

196on average a student miss about 90 days of school but in 22 23 they miss an average about 14 days and in our district that number increased to even 16 days of instruction and that's a lot of um days that our students are not here and so it's very important that we know how many days right because this is equivalent to um as well I mean we get funding based on attendance but it's not only that is for them to come to school we need to make sure that they want to come to school and I know our a lot of our staff work extremely hard to get them to come to school and this is something that we need to continue to work on in order to improve um and so this is something

197that I just want to share to to make sure we know this is a Statewide problem at this point um and um I think numbers are coming up we're hoping the numbers are coming up um and then I'm going to have some numbers to share with you uh what current year um has has brought so far if you look at this is our district numbers here we're going back to just to share with you from 201920 to 20425 that's our projection numbers at this point if you can see here um in 201 1920 our um attendance rate we're about 95% that is extremely impressive but as you can see um throughout covid uh dropped down to 22 23 about 90.9% right it's start dropping and this year we were at we dropped below 90% 89.2

198three that's the number that um the latest number that we have at this point I do want to point out that we did file three emergency days because of the flooding we have a lot of students that did not come um the first day was approved back in April um the the one from August 20 21st that was finally approved and then just this afternoon I receiv received an email from the California Department of Education the the two days back in February 5th and 6th just got approved as well and so we'll be going back to those data and to up to update those data and we're hoping that that number will at this point then hit beyond the 90% but we're going to have to work with it to go back and adjust those

199data um but I am very um thankful that we're able to get those days approved as well so thank you so much Karen for submitting all these documents we literally have to submit a lot of documents and a lot of backup in order for us to justify why we needed those days to be emergency days and now I want to share with you the wild s we have seen from uh really first interim budget back in 2023 24 when I took the budget to board back in December um to currently now and you can see here the green line is the line that will sh that will show you what those assumptions were at that time and the the the cola as well as what what the um Ada um are projected at that point

200and what I want you to see is between um the green line and the red line that is between the first interim and second interim when the cola dropped from 3.94% to 0.76% for 2024 25 and the um because of that drop in that one fiscal year you can see the revenue continued to um be be lower for those years so back in so for example between the Green Line in 2425 and the red line it's $1 million difference and you can see sorry it's a $9 million difference and between 25 26 you can see that between the green line and the red line um what the significant impact was $14 million and so it is very important that we can see as we take the budget to board why we say there's a lot

201of adjustments every time a cola change even from 3.94 which is a huge col out difference to a 0.7 uh 76 and then how when the um the the latest number right now for 2425 is at 1.07 you can see the line it's a little it's you know Improvement but because we did have the um the uh attendance rate lower we had to adjust uh those assumptions as well for those Adas okay I want I show this so we can see what a difference even a 3 percentage of cola makes onto the budget and so with all that said we're going to be um sharing with you the current year and then the next three years of budget um that we are preparing for right now and this is our budget assumptions um for um

202next year as well as the next three years after that by law we just need to have um the current year in the next two years but in our district we always prepare for your budget just to share with u with the public as well and one of the things I do want to point out to you is um so you can see the cola next year is at 1.07% going up to 2.93 then 3.08 to 3.3% and stirs rate continue to stay about the same 19.1 so stirs is most people um who are uh teachers a lot of teachers are in that program um some of these certificate admin and then the pur are classified folks um including as me c as well even myself I'm a person employee but you can see that

203um purse rate going up from 27.05.2012 to 29.2% and so for every dollar for example we're looking at um in 2425 27 cents is going into the um the purse for that uh employ for for that account so the district has to pay the 27 um um% of the uh Pur rate for that and in order for us to balance the budget um we had to make some adjustments to the budget um as you can see here we have are using a lot of our one time dollars coming through we are going to be using up that in the next couple of years to balance the budget uh you can see here the Arts and Music blockr $16.3 million we have a lot of our facilities project totaling over $40 million at this point that

204we had to reduce in order to balance uh this budget for the next three years and so these are some of the other Pro um other items that we had to make reductions as well um some of the overtime extra pay as well as the school side budgets and so this is the uh proposed 2425 budget um as well as the uh budget for the next three years as well this is a combined general fund so that um would have our unrestricted and restricted and I'm going to go I'm going to break that budget down for uh for you as well so you can see what are the different parts of money that we do have and so for um you can see here um uh for 2425 we're looking at to bring in uh

205$532 million in revenue and we'll be spending about $540 million and so you can see here in the combined general fund we are entering uh a deficit spending of $8.4 million in 2425 this number increased to $29 million and to 45 almost $46 million in 2627 and uh to almost 65 $ 5.4 million in 2728 and I do remember that um as a president Jeff morgon talked about a budget committee a budget stabilization committee and we did have the committee back in 2016 and it is also my a proposal to the board and um that we need to start addressing the problem of death deficit spending in our district this is something we need to start earlier so that we have time so and then I'm going to show you on the on the unrestricted

206side and that will give you a better idea of what are some of these dollars are as well okay so for our budget for current year in the next two years we are able to afford um based on the current plan that we have right now and so we're able to certify a positive budget for to the county um for the current year and the next two years unfortunately in 2728 we are not going to be able to meet our fin financial obligation at that time but obviously a lot of things will change between when now and when the budget is adopted right at the state level um but this is the best guest we have as of today and as you can see here this is our total revenue um the $584 million for

207re for Revenue side and you can see our bulk of our revenue is coming from the state 77% coming from lcff that's the prop prop 28 with all these maneuvering that the governor is trying to do and we're thankful that hopefully that um will be gone at this point um um but that's our bulk of our revenue and that's where it is critical for us to really address the attendance issues that we have and extend uh in terms of expenditure as you can see here we spent both of our dollars on Staffing and we continue to do that and that's is very very critical to us as well but just give you a pie shart to see where we spend our money we also have some of the one time dollars coming through as well

208so we do have some of the projects they're coming off as well and so but once all those $1 time dollars are gone we are now back to to our base our a general fund that we have in Prior years uh prior to co I wanted to so in general fund when we talk about combined general fund there's the unrestricted side meaning that these money you can spend on anything you want well some of them have a little restriction still but nothing like the restricted programs which I'm going to talk about in in one slide but in terms of the unrestricted general f you can see here um in current year um we're actually not deficit spending but we but we are deficit spending in the restricted side so I want to make sure that

209we understand that but so this is our general fund that's there's the least strings attach but starting uh next year in 25 26 you have a $6 million deficit then $44 million deficit and a $65 million deficit and so it is critical that we start addressing that now so we can come up with options uh starting next year so that we can have a softer landing and the goal is really anything that we can start addressing it sooner than later then we can have a much softer lending by 2728 we cannot work on 2728 in two years we must work on that right now because any thing we can cut now then you will basically doubles a dollar the following year and it triples a dollar right anything we can start addressing earlier the best

210it will be the um restricted General funds you will see here so these are programs for example entitled one title two title four um and so these are programs with a lot of strings attached there's a lot of rules and for example special education is also part of the um um um expenditure in the restricted site program and so for example and I'm going to talk about that in just a little bit here and so in the restricted program as you can see we also have a deficit spending but part of it also because we receive a lot of one-time dollars those dollars has come in and basically we already had those Revenue in the past and now we have to spend them based on the those deadlines as well and I do want to

211share um that um special education this is one of the the things that we have been way underfunded and I know that our uh Board of President you sit on the Sela board as well and this is something that I do want to bring up um to the public today is because we have been way underfunded in in special education um overall and for many many many years as you can see I went back to 20112 to look at what our total enrollment was in that year and um and we had about almost 33,000 students and at that time we had about 3300 students who are are receiving those services but if you look at um this just this last year in 2023 24 we have dropped our enrollment to about 27,000 students uh but

212our as you can see the orange line but our um students receiving um special services have gone up um can and has actually continued to go up even though our enrollment overall enrollment has actually dropped quite a bit okay so just I want to kind of share with that with you but this is not um the phenomenon just only here this is the phenomenon across Orange County and across the state of California so if you can see here this is a percentage of special education uh in relations to the overall enrollment and back in 20112 we're about 10% uh 10.24% and you can see back in um in Cur uh 23 24 like current year we're about 14.5% so it has gone up quite a bit but if you compare to what the number um

213is at the state level so um the state had $6.2 million two million students back then in 20112 um and then uh state had about almost 700 students who are receiving the um special um Services um so the number was actually 11% so back in 1112 our district numbers were actually lower than the state averaging at that time but if you move forward to 2223 that's that is the uh latest number that we have um from the um certified number from the state level we we were at 133% of 13.5% Orange County as a whole was about 133% or so so we're pretty much in line with Orange County so this is something that I think ac across the county those numbers have gone up um but but at the state level the numbers was

214a little lower at 12.19% and so so we were a little bit lower back in 112 but then now we have kind of caught up and then we actually increase but as as a whole in Orange County the numbers has gone up as well and the reason I do want to address this is this the um idea which is the individuals with um Disability Act is a federal law that mandate that um special education to be provided to students and children who receive the services across the entire United States and the goal is to provide up to 40% of the additional cost um of special education cost however um as I'm going to share with you right now the level has been extremely low to maybe close to 15 to 20% at the federal level

215and this is something that we need to address as a whole we need to advocate for more money at the federal level to come into our state to address this problem and so you can see back in 201 um 111 12 the contribution from um general fund into special program was about $17 million at that time and the current number for as we're projecting to close this year at 2324 is $71 million okay it's a huge number and I wanted to bring to everyone's attention so we can really start advocating and send Advocates and really lobbying um the federal government to really need to improve these services to the these kids and to continue to maintain the services we have for them you expect the districts to educate these kids but you do not give

216us enough funding to help us to have this program and so we really to need to to address this so in 23 24 our total expenditure is about $11 million we received from the state level revenue of um it's called ab62 funding of only $6 million and the federal government on the federal level the Ida program we have a few different programs with uh from the federal programs $23 million so I want to address that to to contain for us to for our board president when said the Sela to really advocate for our district and as well as for all all the students in our district we need to address this problem because if you can see um we have basically contined this trend and we are going to deeper and deeper and that's because

217things do cost more and but the federal um level has not increased um for many many years and so what is next um at this point um the governor has Pro provided his May revise um but he re really used the uh use of one-time dollars for the ongoing problems that we're having and so we really cannot um work with his math he's doing so we are appreciative of CTA and a lot of different lobbying groups as well to make sure that um there's no funny math being done for our Revenue we cannot live with that um and then at this point the governor does not assume a recession um at this point but if there is a recession then there could be other risk that would affect prop 98 at this point and I

218don't know um if if you're aware for example San Diego County have not uh filed their taxes either they have I believe until June 16th to file their taxes because there additional flood in that county so they were given the extension and so the the issue at the state level is you keep pushing out the tax collection date when you already finished your fiscal year and you have not even collected your revenue and this happened in 22 23 and then it moved into and in 23 in 23 we collected all the taxes much later so it was very tough for the state to do their balanced budget and we understand that but we even right now with current budget we still have one County that has not even submitted their tax uh returns at this

219point so the personal and corporate tax as well um and so uh today we're sending you the proposed adoptive budget uh to you and if there's any adjustment from the lcap as well uh we will be taking those and update the budget uh for your approval on the June 13th board meeting and then once the state adopt its budget uh we have 45 days and so we're hopeful by the early um August board meeting then we'll be bringing um any uh changes to the board so that you have um the opportunity to review those numbers as well so giv you a lot of information uh tonight um and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have before I I open it up to our um my colleagues I uh want to thank you

220Nancy but I also have a correction that our organization the California school boards Association was right on the dime thank you uh in the get-go and uh so I'm really uh glad that uh CTA has also uh jumped on that because it was funny math and and it was extremely surprising and upsetting uh to you know try to try to uh you know hear the reasoning behind uh you know what the governor was doing so um I'm really thank you for that comment yes relieved that there's pressure and that um that hopefully that doesn't occur um so opening opening up to just have one question first of all thank you and your staff for all the work you put into doing this um you mentioned there's uh a 13 % other state revenues what consider

221constitutes other state revenue so there's um the all the state different programs the um so the ones we received from the um state so anything um so some of the Arts like the the program from came from the state level so the Arts and Music block grant any of the uh dollars coming from the state those are those other State uh revenues from there so which which page are you talking about I'm I'm just looking at page 16 okay where and it says 133% of our total revenue is other state revenue I was just want to get a clarification of that out of the lcff so lcff no beyond the lcff you say there's a 13% Revenue yeah so for example the lottery program that we receive from the state level that's also part of

222that that um other other state programs as well okay so anything that's coming from our the state revenues are coded into that pot thank you Nancy oh yes uh thank you for your presentation um to your staff um I know it's been a challenging uh budget year but appreciate all your work uh throughout the time I just had one clarifica clarification question uh you mentioned the 70 million um I lost the page for the special education contribution or uh no the uh uh multi-year projections uh that we um decided to deviate from the 70 million will impact 3 years out correct the oh the um the facilities and yes so that yeah we had to because they were at different um they're being used at different times right so that's part of our three-year projections

223yes okay so we were able to uh reduce um a lot of those contributions some of them came out from current years some of them are coming out from the out years as well got it okay um and then I want to Echo your comment uh to the organizations CTA um csba that advocated for prop 98 I know I also sent a letter to some of our legislators um it was looking a little uh scary there uh for a few weeks um so we appreciate their advocacy um and I Echo your comments about the continued advocacy for our special education um funding that is definitely impacting us um on the ground um so appreciate all your work thank you thank you uh so um you mentioned I do on the Sala board but I'm also

224um an employee that works with special education um and we absolutely adore our special education students and um you know public education takes on a lot of um factors where private institutions can kind of um you know ship them out and and you know we take pride in the service that we provide however um you know we're mandated to to um you know make sure that the um students are getting that proper proper education since 1970 but we have never been fully funded and I've been in special education for over 20 years and um all of the organizations have just been hounding um the federal government and so I really think at this point we really need to continue that advocacy um because we we can no longer continue um you know to to bleed

225out with this um it just kind of gets higher and higher um but we will continue to uh uh provide um you know excellent service for all of our students um there was one other thing um oh I uh Echo um the sentiments about the budget stabilization committee I think that's a fantastic idea um we can get started on this uh right away so thank you for that thank you for that Jeff I I have just one question Nancy that that approximately 15% that we are receiving for the special needs is that's a na that's not just to California that's a national number correct yes it's a national number yes I also um in in getting a couple of emails uh folks think that this is just just happening in our district uh I know

226I've seen you know the national news and this is a phenomenon you know with uh budget deficits across the the the you know the C the um this not only the state but the nation um so um can you just can you speak to that yeah so and and I think what what's happening too is since Co 2 the number has actually increased as well right and there's different types of um programs right that that the students needs and um and so I think overall we seen the number increasing and we also seen the cost also of increase if you look at how much it costs per pupil right like you you I've did a lot of different analysis but I just kind of wanted to highlight these three but the the the the biggest

227issue is they have not been really um they just give the same kind of cola and sometimes at the federal level when the federal government do not when when it doesn't have the money it basically either even Cut You Down 10% right and so the issue is they need to continue to fund beyond that so to even catch up to where we're at and if you can see from our numbers we were um and we can go back and take a look at at those um figures and see you know how much of a federal portion was in that year versus what it is now we can definitely go back and do some analysis uh because we already have all those data as well and say look was it always spend about the 15 20%

228I mean has that even been um more or less but I think that the issue what we're seeing is as a percentage of overall budget this is a um you know is a big number for us and we're not I'm sorry to say this many districts are we're in the same boat and this is something that we do need to address um you know it's it's it's a federal program problem but it's also a state problem state only give us a cola for that number and that's not enough either they're giving a 1.07% cola to our base AB 602 and that's not enough either thank you did you have something to say I have a question on page 22 um like Amy Maya if you can come up um because I do want to talk

229I want to ask you I I think it's very important that our public know uh the the challenge of uh you know serving our special needs students and on page 22 if you just look at the number the contribution uh in in terms of the budget um you know it's it's it it's arguably exploding now my question we have five Feer elementaries um is this is this number going to continue to increase or are these students being identified while they're in our system uh yes it will continue to increase in fact I I predict the next two years years you're going to see probably an incredible increase um kind of looking at the data the number of students who've been qualified in like fourth and fifth grade sorry sorry Nancy I got really set up

230um fourth and fifth grade uh specifically those numbers have increased therefore that's going to impact us uh the number of students that we qualify in our district at the secondary level is is not as significant as what happens in elementary which which makes sense yes so I think it's really vital that our public um understand um the trend is um despite declining enrollment we are seeing a rise in the actual numbers of identified students which we by law and by moral obligation uh need to support and it's um really going to eat up more and more of our general fund thank you thank you and um also there is a little bit of bright light I want to say with um how did you predict the cola how did you get oh we get um

231we receive it from school Services as well as the Orange County Department of Education to see what number we should put in there for now um but in my opinion those Al colas are pretty high and so if that does change then we'll come back and adjust those numbers so it's going to depends on if there's a recession the inflation number come down a little bit then that could soften those numbers as well and so but we do get the advisory from the county as well as from school Services as well okay and the question that I know is on a lot of folks Minds on page um 14 and 13 um a lot of this um a lot of these funds were already projected were already almost being spent they were already uh you

232know and you um and team really uh have I think has done have done something that I don't know if any other District would be willing to do and go back and you looked at those those projects that hadn't started yet right and we already were starting to work with Architects and um getting to those project design and I people that came and talked to me afterward and said Nancy you know we really need that project at that school and I said I absolutely do know we need it um but I I think at this point given what we have and given what's also that could be happening at the state budget level um it's it's the right thing to do and um so you know we have an opportunity to pass a state Bond

233we also have a possible opportunity to pass our local Bond as well and um we will be going out to solicit support from that as well but we will be working hard to make sure the state Bond passes but if the state Bond passes if we don't pass our own Bond then we do not have the opportunity to have matching funds from the state level only when we put in our own money put our own projects in then we can apply for those State matching funds and so I do um want to make sure that we um you know um are looking at that and um yes and some our facilities are looking really really well but there are many schools still that still need a lot of help I mean you can see some

234of the the new buildings they look great but if you go to another site we need to work on a lot of our school buildings as well and so um I think that's something that we do need to to make sure that we support um you know the local bonds as well as the state Bond as well and the state Bond pass rate will be at 50% and then the district school bonds are 55% but I want it's a little different I want to publicly thank you and the team and our cabinet for rolling up your sleeves to um to come up with this solution um and uh you know we didn't want to do what we were doing um and you provided a solution so um however these are great needs out here um

235and uh you know I hope that we can all work together and uh and do what we need to do in the next coming years thank you anyone else I just want to thank you the complexity of your job is just horrific and then you're always having to think where this money is coming from and how you're going to allocate it so thank you you have a tough job well I love numbers and um absolutely love that kids here and we want um we Tred to cut as much far away from the school size as we as we could um and we feel extremely terrible that we did have to cut some of the S money um but you know it's it's gonna it's it's going to hurt and we're really really um sorry about

236that we that was the last thing we wanted to do but in order to bounce the budget at this point we we had to look into everything and look through every line Bud budget to figure out is there just anything else we can take and um and we did cut the district office too by a lot of the services too and so um I'm sure it's going to be very tough for those um directors as well and so um I know it's going to be very very tough and um you know I'm sorry I'm going to have to tell a lot of people no from this point forward and I always to find ways to say yes but it's going to this is going this at this point we need to make sure that we

237can take care of our our people first we can take care our students and then um that's a priority right now thank Youk you Nancy all right closing the public hearing item 8.1 a resolution number 2023 line 24- bot d06 order of banial trustee election and specificate specifications of the election order this is an action item so moved second okay just um some background information a Consolidated election is required in the district this year in accordance with Education Code section 5340 a resolution and Order of election are required to be completed and provided to the Orange County Department of Ed and Orange County registar of Voters so um the board has requested to adopt resolution um so that we can have uh the elections can be held on Tuesday November 5th um not sure the

238cost of this but every election cycle it costs District's right uh Revenue so the approximate cost it's about 300,000 um that's how much we budget for right now and just to mention that the clarification this has nothing to do with the appointment process we're going through no absolutely notk you for for mentioning that although the um individual who is appointed will need to actually run in that election yes yes okay you said it's 300 how much about 300,000 that's how much we budget for for um for this year okay it used to be 25 250,000 yeah yeah yeah cost has gone up but well that's how much we project and if it's less then that'll be great but it's we need to make sure that we budget enough all right any other comments or questions

239on this item okay uh vote uh Mr O'Neal hi Miss Smith I Miss Guerrero hi and I vote I 8.2 employment agreements and compensation for assistant superintendent and District Council action item so moved second okay it's been moved and seconded uh any questions or comments on this item okay hearing none all in favor I I I uh all right Miss Smith you say I all right I'm moving on to superintendent's office 8.3 employment agreement for superintendent action item so moved second okay and we do have a speaker Mr main all right thank you guys um so I just want to say um I I I appreciate appreciate Mr matsuda's work um I appreciate what he's done for us but um I'm asking you to vote no on this item um his contract is currently up

240in June 20 uh June 30th 2027 that's three years from now that is a great time to spend working on our district but we just saw this Reckless waste of time and money caused by Mr matsuda's leadership with our teachers L layoffs this spring the massive disruption of our classroom education caused by four full days of hearings the loss of morale caused at every School site and also the huge financial cost to pay for the administrative judge the lawyers and the substitute teachers I'd really love to see the line item on how much this thing actually costs us that would be great transparency it's not just this recent failure but in fact under Mike matsuda leadership our schools have declined with the the state uh English language arts math science scores as reported and documented

241in exhibit a of this agenda many of our schools are now below 10% of completion uh for State Standards we we have 10 schools on the red list with the state dashboard we have less and we have less students passing our AP exams we have less students completing dual enrollment courses we have less students in aapa classes we have less students in World languages classes we have less graduates enrolling in postsecondary college we have less students completing CTE Pathways our parent engagement is actually declining if you look at the exhibit a and read the numbers our chronic ABS Tome is skyrocketing with little Direction I would say let let Mr Matsu approve to us do the work get down to business focus on our school sites stop traveling so much and spending all this time

242at conventions talking about how great we are and really work with our teachers work with our students work with our families to improve our school sites so our schools won't have the declining enrollments so people will feel proud to come here will want to be in our schools um I speak to a lot of teachers and staff they're all saying that they're afraid to speak up on issues at our district they're all saying that Mr matsuda is extremely vindicative and vengeful that is no way to be a leader if you want to continue to be a leader here at our district we need you to change we need you to be uh listening to your staff listening to your people working together and I want you to be successful I just think it's premature to

243give you a contract extension for the next four years we cannot wait four years and see where this is at right we need changes now we need you to earn them we can't give you rewards today without results thank [Applause] you okay there was a motion and a second um I I can't speak back to you about some of the things that you had said uh I can direct uh staff to kind of answer some of the misnomers because I think when uh I can't speak on that would you so yes thank you madam president and thank you Germaine for your public comments a few things just to clarify uh some of the things that that was said that um is actually not accurate but I want to make sure we have that um it

244is true we we we do have areas of growth in our sback scores but as I had shared with the dashboard um that is we're no longer looking at a single number uh to measure how students and how our schools are performing and when you she talked about uh declining enrollment um the county alone has lost 60,000 students so it's not something that's unique to our district it's something that we're all faced with um when you look at our College and Career Readiness indicators on the dashboard um we are consistently showing some growth where right now we are at 46% prepared Which is higher than the state average which is 43% as a part of that indicator our our ESC scores so it's showing that we have more students prepared and as I mentioned a

245through G rates that is a metric for college readiness to get in and perform at a UC or a Cal State which I know I'm proud of Andrew who's going to UCLA you have to show proficiency and Content Mastery and when we have 54% of our students meetting a through G um that's a pretty high record especially given the demographics of who we serve I mentioned earlier um we have 78% of our students who are qualified for the free and reduced lunch and when you look at a district like um Huntington Beach as an example their their overall a through G rate is 56.1 or 54.3 they are not close to 78% free and reduced lunch so when you think about the work that we've done over the last several years and the growth we've

246made it is remarkable that I also agree we still have a lot of work still to do um when you look at she I think was mentioned CTE has gone down that has actually gone up we have gone um we have a 27% completion rate we're second ranked highest in secondary school districts in Orange County uh we have 22 Pathways which 11 of those Pathways offer dual enrollment courses to certification uh she had mentioned dual enrollment is down dual enrollment uh in 2016 we served 482 students in 2023 we served 3,4 242 students that's not going down um when you think about the AP exams we actually have 15% more students taking AP exams in 22 23 versus what we've had previously um and when you factor in our dual enrollment success a pass rate

247plus our AP we are exceeding the number of students who are earning both high school and college credit um we do have um when we talked about the CTE Pathways uh what wasn't mentioned tonight which shame on me for not saying this but Google certifications um we are the first Public School District in the country to offer Google certifications to not just our students but also our parents um and that's something to be really proud of because the Google certification uh is equivalent to a bachelor's degree and we have students who are earning those in our school classes during our school day which is again a tribute to the amazing teachers that we have um when you think about parent engagement and she said I think said parent engagement is down on the contrary we

248are actually up and that's why we're getting the recognition we are at both the CI level this community engagement initiative and also the Deep dive transformational District I had shared with you the data um some of the different things that we're doing we can very easily make public the data to show how many of our parents are actually engaged work and I think with the new modules that are being created where parents don't have to physically come here but they can do things online to build capacity in different topics or areas that they've identified as priorities um we can show that our parent engagement is actually thriving and growing still have work to do we have a lot of just like we have students who are often disconnected or disengaged and we have to do

249more work and Outreach to reach them we're seeing the same efforts with our families who maybe aren't coming in but finding other ways to engage them in our work um I think it was mentioned that college enrollment is down that can't be furthest from the truth we have 75% of our graduates who enroll immediately after um leaving us from school um compared to 64% in in the class of 21 and 67% in the class of 23 so we're seeing growth in the number of students who enroll in our universities um we think about our vapa programs I would argue there's no District that comes close to the work that our vapa programs do both in the Performing Arts and the visual arts in addition to the drama and theater classes um we have seen about

250a 55% uh incre or 55% rate of access to Broad courses study in our vapa programs has to compare to 42% in 2021 and 46% in 2223 so that's growing um it is true that after the pandemic a lot of our classes took a dip and as you know with declining enrollment you're going to start to see some programs take a dip because we have lots of choices but when you have fewer students some programs naturally will decline that's a normal part of the process when you're faced with declining enrollment chronic absenteeism is a problem for all districts across the state of California it's not unique to our district it is a challenge though it is something we're doing having to deal with one of the things that we're doing with our multiplier Equity funding

251is we're going to be expanding the ilcs or the Independent Learning Centers we're using that funds because we know from the ilcs they have shown tremendous success I know Robert was a great principal at anim High School where they had an IC and you can see consistently their tenance rates have taken students who traditionally were either Trent or habitually chronic chronically absent from school and they're coming to school and they're finding more connections so we're expanding those programs to I think Savannah and um Magnolia next year so those are things that we're doing in response and we have a tenant site task force teams that are working to address these problems as well I mentioned next year the lcap goals will be our Ed division goals for the entire District as we work through um

252our journey next year but also is going to be a deep focus on attendance there is great work that um the Gilbert team uh has been doing this year in partnership with Diana Fujimoto um Kenny Perez and Danny Warez uh part of our SF team doing again the street data work around students who have been missing school and and kind of understanding why that is what is it that would get them coming to school getting that feedback from students Gilbert is beginning to engage with their staff on the feedback that they have received from the students voices directly and so they're building plans to help actually address we talked about the strategies right these are strategies that the students and families are giving us that might help them get back to school more often so

253we're going to be leveraging what we've learned from that experience with Diana Kenny and and um um Kenny Kenny Diana and Kenny Diana and P yeah there three of there's three of them my mind sometimes goes so fast I can I can stutter um Danny Danny and and Diana thank you yeah say that fast three times um we're going to be leveraging that same process with all of our schools next year so that's something we're going working with them on next year to continue to increase chronic caps which we recognize is a challenge and something we need to we need to continue to work on um the World Language um I'm so proud of the work that we done with the world language we have the state sale by literacy where um we have over

254a, 1100 students who have earned that state seal by literacy and we have 23% of our students receive that state seal which is again amongst the highest in the state and I'm really excited about the work we do with our world language programs offering a variety of of different languages in addition to the work that we're doing to expand our dual language immersion cies right we have South that began and it can tell us shortly not too far behind we have a great program at Sycamore in Anaheim along with Brooker and Savannah and then a couple years from now we anticipate growing our Korean uh dual language pathway at um Walker and Kennedy right now we do have the first Vietnamese dual language program at um Magnolia and Dale and I know where working closely

255with Dr Bry on ways that we can revive that program because they've been impacted by declining enrollment as well um and then in terms of suspension data we have RJ specialist our school we actually are parallel to the state average um we did see along with a lot of other districts after the pandemic a spike in discipline um so we have been working closely with teams we have a discipline task force from the site level and also site level teams where we've been working in our discipline task force and I know Miss Smith you've come to to a number of these where we're taking our task force to the sites to listen to them about what they're seeing what they experience to brainstorm ways that we can better support our students so we have less

256students getting U themselves in trouble and we have taken quite advantage of our Pathways to success program which is our alternative to suspension program where we've had over 900 students take advantage in lie of suspensions because of choices that they made so a lot of things that were said are not necessarily um accurate um in terms of the current data that we've we've been able to collect but we recognize we still have areas of growth and that we're committed to to making those improvements uh as we as we talked about in our earlier presentation throughout the year and the coming years thank you any other comments or questions um just one thing uh that I that's off the top of my head uh we are uh employing uh how many students this this summer uh

257through our Partnerships um and no other district is doing 500 students are receiving um an income during this this summer we're employing them and so I I think there's just so many Innovative things that other districts are not doing um you can't you can't yeah that's priceless you know to put actual funding in a student's hand that helps Elevate uh their opportunities to go to school uh elevates maybe their family um and uh you know I was going to I saw that over there I mean we're talking about students coming out of high school certified to go into the job market uh Brian and I serve on um Roop board and uh we know of three uh Simon Builders students in in the program that are being employed uh professionally employed coming out of school

258the Kennedy student that got her nursing assistant certificate I mean what we're doing as a an entire School District um is is expansive and it's Visionary um and we could not have done it without the superintendent sitting to my right so if I can add U I just want to uh also add that uh the superintendent also declined a salary this year um and I want to thank you for sharing an overview um and areas to work to and um I think that work is very important and we look forward to continuing that work and we're still growing we're still going going all right uh all in favor proudly yes I I I item 8.4 so moved second okay action item all in favor I I I abstain okay item nine Advanced planning 9.1 future

259meeting dates we will be here next uh Tuesday um um and we will be interviewing our candidates and then uh Thursday uh for a regular June 13th 2024 at 6: PM motion for adjournment or I'm sorry any suggested agenda items not this time time okay second all in favor I hi thank you