001e e e good evening and welcome to the regular board meeting of carpentera Unified School District it is February 25th 2025 if everybody could please stand for the flag salute ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay um we're going to begin with C2 our closed session report we had a conference with labor negotiators information was exchanged no action was taken and we are now going to move on to C3 public comment for items not on this agenda if you would like to speak to something that is not reflected in this evening's agenda please feel free to come up to the podium now um and just if there's multiple
002then go ahead and and line up at the podium um you'll be given uh your time and so this is an opportunity to comment for things that are not on tonight's agenda okay not seeing any oh there we go make sure the green light's on there you go thank you okay so hello Crystal Marshall uh gifted education coordinator uh so since I last spoke I thought more about how eliminating gate will be a disservice to the approximately 80 students I proudly teach according to RJ Maloney's oral PhD defense with Lutheran University in 2024 about 10% of California students are English Learners however only two to 3% of those English Learners are gate identified in the current gate cohorts in carpentera the English learner representation for third fourth and fifth grade is as follows 25% 10%
003and 5% uh respectively as a note when I calculated these figures I did not factor into these percentages that students who speak Spanish at home and have already passed the lpac um this Choice may explain why the English learner percentages decrease across grade levels since those students have had more opportunities to pass the lpac while I will be the first to acknowledge that uh that only one gate Co cohort has representative English learner status we are doing at least twice as good than the rest of the state at identifying gifted English Learners the reason I bring this up is because anguage status and race are correlated with income I Fe that if gate is eliminated the trend will continue of more affluent and more often white families enrolling their gifted children in private school sure
004the wealthier families will be able to access an intellectually stimulating and meaningful school environment for their child but where does this leave families who are financially barred from those schools gate programming is equity work please do not leave the gifted English Learners with fewer resources thank you thank you please just come on up hi thank you um I'm just here on behalf of Carpenteria Family School specifically to thank Andy Schaefer for coming to meet with us we really appreciated it so much um it was a gracious offer we really appreciated the warmth of our conversation and your willingness to listen and to share our conversation was um we all left feeling really good about our time with you and we wanted to thank you for listening to some additional perspectives including from some teachers in
005the community and thinking about with us the unique um position that CFS is in to serve specific needs of some specific children in our community and also to think with us about how that would be lost if family school has phased out so thank you um we're also grateful we loved hearing you speak about out the way that you saw public education as the heart of a community and we also share that value so thank you for sharing that um just we just wanted to come and say thank you for your time we appreciate it and we look forward to more warm and thoughtful conversation thank you thank you next any further here we thank you um as you know um my name is Jay hotner and I serve as the employee union president in
006Carpenter Unified School District I deliver the following comments on behalf of District employees who elected both myself and the members of our Union leadership team to share their experiences questions and concerns now 21 months after the 2324 contract negotiations began CD's last best offer remains a 2% increase for teachers and a 2 and a half% % increase per District support staff meanwhile based on CD's most recent public remarks the district appears to be walking away from even that not only have District officials spent the same 21 months squandering several million dollars on now verified unlawful attacks against employee Representatives these same district officials gave themelves two salary increases that already um the highest paid administrators to already the highest paid administrators in the district all during the same time period that employees working directly with
007students and families received none now you'll hear the school board say that the district is receiving insufficient revenues to maintain adequate resources and programs for cusd students and once again A District board members point in every direction but themselves offering more Spin and no accountability sure more money would help but CD's problem is not insufficient revenues because despite robust property tax revenues which cusd receives at a rate higher than 96% of public school districts in the state cusd continues to prioritize Reckless spending priorities as the December audit exposed 3 and a. half million the equivalent of 177% pay increase a 17% pay increase for All District employees was not invested in those who work with District students and families as was required by Ed code instead that three and half million dollars was spent attempting
008to silence the voices of employees and undermine the economic and professional stability of both employees and their elected leaders it also came out of quality programs for example the underfunding per pupil compared to the state of carpent of family school students at 44% lower than State average again CD's revenues would not be the problem had District officials not misappropriated $3.5 million in the last 21 months as is concretely evidenced in the CD's annual audit page 82 released in December which confirmed that cusd again underpaid a staggering 35 million had the district officials invested These funds legally in with Mount malice cusd would have more than enough revenues to make appropriate investments in essential employee positions in the programs they're now cutting like the gate program in maintaining a robust Carpenteria family school and a variety
009of Afterschool tutoring opportunities and students special education rights and IP goals which are currently going unfulfilled the ongoing impass threatens the stability of the workforce in the maintenance of a demonstrably successful student and family centered programs and the biggest losers will inevitably if this continues be the district students and families as employees are now forced to discuss things like work slowdowns working to the contract and even a general strike thank you further public comment for items not on this evening agenda would like to translate what uh J just said so J hner Gate Family School say sones Las familias that's the end of uh that translation now I would like to proceed with my own public comment but the budget um Monica can you please ensure you restart the clock thank you uh the budget
010uh about a month ago or so uh the board said that uh 7% increase was offered to teachers and employees if one of you mentions that and the other four do not disagree with that then that applies to the whole uh uh board the superintendent Diana uh Rigby when the when the news uh newspaper uh call her for an interview regarding the march of the teachers she said well the district has suffered three and a half% 2% she never mention 7% it's on the record she never mentioned 7% but you did so it's been 24 uh 25 21 months without the teacher uh getting a decent salary 2% that's an insult to teachers students and families try to survive with a 2% increase and not only not receiving it for 21 months but try you
011yourself try to survive with that 2% increase can't it's an insult problems with the budget you don't have a problem wasting millions of dollars on on legal Feast president 21 you lost to the union and j h you appealed you lost lost in December 2023 you should that state on 30% is a chance that they're going to lose so what you're doing is that you're affecting students teachers special education teachers and and the most vulnerable special education students be careful be careful thank [Applause] you members of the board superintendent Rigby I too want to to thank you Andy for coming and joining us and having a great conversation we really appreciate that during the conversation it it sounds like there's a assumption that there's going to be a significant bulk savings um to the budget
012by moving the multi-level classroom to canalino and in followup to that meeting we've asked to really kind of see what those numbers look like with a side by-side comparison Carpenteria family school has a 22 23e track record of multi-level classrooms and we would request consideration to keep that multi-level classroom at Family School as opposed to moving it to canalino and we would love to understand what the board is envisioning um by way of cost savings by having that same structure those same students there aren't Administration costs that will be saved outside of the teach teacher that is retiring but there's still going to need to be a teacher for those students so we really appreciate your consideration and that we really appreciate the conversation and look forward to the followup from that thank you okay
013not seeing any further public comment we are going to move on to see oh appreciate sorry for the it's okay quick jump in here um I'm here to speak uh today about the Carpenteria Family School both my my father and my mother they worked within public education sector so I recognize all of the challenges and the frustrations at times um but certainly the victories that exist for cusd and all of the district's teachers and workers but by all measures of success qualitative and quantitative the Carpenteria family school is a victory from students and their experiences it's a success from the teachers and the administrators there it's a success from a rating standpoint you look at the rating that CFS has and it's not just a success for Carpenteria but it's a marker of success for
014all of espb County and much of the Central Coast too and what creates success is good policy and we're fortunate to have very solid elementary schools here in carpentera thanks to wonderful teachers and administrators and staff but we have the CFS because of good policy decisions from Legacy cusd members in the 90s and the 2000s and what advances success is to take good policy decisions and then you determine how to either scale those good models of success or you repeat parts of them somewhere else and based on the initial budget um outline and what I understand of the CD's plans to reduce budget there's very little logic found in deconstructing a successful model you can't rob Peter to pay Paul in hopes of adding to your overall success it won't happen you'll simply incur a
015debt elsewhere and bad policy takes away from an existing sucess it thinks this works so maybe it can still work with less CFS is not just a good school program but it pays dividends for karp's ability to draw new residents to pay higher taxes to then fund cusd programs it pays dividends in creating a more diverse population of middle school kids who become high school kids who become adults and citizens in town and the workforce that's the impact of good education so my question to the board is what makes scaling back CFS funding a good policy decision why subtract from arguably the best success as a school program that karp has and so my challenge to the board is then to come up with more Dynamic Solutions to the budget issues I know it's hard
016it's hard enough running just a budget for a house our Educators don't expect simple answers to complex problems from their students so in turn the public expects Creative Solutions thank to Dynamic problems thank you feel free to email and reach out to further the conversation thank you good evening I just wanted to reiterate that a 2% raise for our teachers here in carpentera who take care of our kids and are creating these creative um future Educators that we need even more now need a bigger raise with their medical benefits the cola for Santa Barbara County this year is larger than 2% when we look at Section 8 Housing and what we consider low income $79,000 is considered low income for a home that's two parents with no kids we all know we need to make
017more than that but a teacher who works in Carpenteria barely makes that a 12-year teacher in carpent area only makes around $888,000 and yet across the state the the county line it's $25,000 more than that we need to come up and give them a fair living wage they do not stop working when they get home after they've put their kids to bed they take out their teacher bag they grade their papers they send emails they write IEPs they do not come to school on time they come to school 30 minutes to an hour before the kids get here so they can prepare the classroom for the day we are not in this business to make money we are in it for the education of our kids and it's a calling but we have to be
018paid to continue to survive and live and be good and healthy at what we do for our future kids for our community Ox um Carpenteria wants the best teachers we want to keep the staffs we have who are highly qualified who work together in teams our seasoned professionals are working with our new teachers to build them up we want to continue to keep them but we have to pay them so 2% is not enough you need to up it you need to find the money you need to defund something any salaries you're receiving need to be done we need to end these lawsuits I know I was thinking that too um we need to end the lawsuits you need to figure out a way to cut it and make both sides happy so we can
019have that money back $20,000 is too much money to spend for a lawyer that should go into a classroom where our Carpenteria future Generations are able to take that money and grow where teachers can use that to supplement what they need and to get more training if needed consider other ways to find money to fund your teacher salaries these people take care of your children my children from 8:00 to the end of the day but their day is not over when they go home it continues into the evening have any of you been to a school in the last two weeks I challenged you have you been to a classroom and seen what these people are doing what's going on thank you [Applause] go okay moving on to C4 approval of the minutes um we
020will now take public comment on approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of February 11th 2025 if you have comment on C4 approval of the minutes from February 11th please step up to the podium at this time right thank you uh let the minutes show for the second board meeting in a row our board members again reduce the amount of time community members were permitted to provide public comment on February 11th District officials further reduced the remaining in public comment allowance by limiting speakers to two minutes instead of the routine 3 minutes let the minutes show that as soon as teachers support staff and community members began to attend and speak at board meetings in Mass sharing their concerns about District leadership's performance arbitrary and politicized decision-making cusd board members immediately acted to reduce
021public speaking opportunities at all future meetings while telling the community that they want to hear from you go figure let the minutes show that once again the superintendent report on February 11th was more noteworthy for what she left out versus what she included let the minut show that although Miss Rigby shared STAR testing data suggesting 60% of some elementary students are reading a grade level the star test is no longer used as a highly reliable Benchmark for student achievement although the star test was was a norm Nationwide between 1998 and 2013 it was replaced over 10 years ago by the more precise Casp superintendent Ry knows this and she also knows that our board members and many community members probably do not let the minutes show when examining the more reliable benchmarks the cast results
022contained in this evening's lcap presentation at item E4 we find very different results than those Miss Rigby shared last week or two weeks ago the cast data on page two of the lcap confirms that just 50% of all fifth graders 46% of eth graders and just 40% of 11th graders met the state's English language standard ards English language arts standards and when remaining students with and uh and examining students with disabilities just 177% of all fifth graders 133% of 11th graders and exactly 0% of eth graders met the state's English Language Art standards Miss rby was also aware that the data on page three confirms that 37% of fifth graders 43 of eighth graders and just 24 of 11th graders met the state's math standards let the minutes show that no less than 29 individual
023public speakers provided comments pertaining to the impact of the district's mismanagement of revenues to include reducing investments in Carpenteria family school already funded at a rate of 44% less per student and state averages or cutting the entire GATE program or the failure to budget for cost of living increases and attempts to cut employee Healthcare further cutting federally mandated sped services for our most atrisk students in families and cuts to other highquality student programming and experiences like Elementary field strips field trips finally let the minutes show that the property tax presentation at minute 12205 confirmed that even with the district's recent decision to reduce property tax projections to 5% cusd will still receive thank you your time is up far more far more than 96% of the districts in the thank you your time is up
024uh this is Jay's translation uh of the minutes stand thank you further public comment on approval of the minutes uh from February 11th okay seeing none may I get a motion I'll move to approve the minutes of February 11th I'll second that okay discussion all in favor I I uh we are going to move on to C5 approval of the agenda and consent agenda I will note there are several changes um that will be part of my motion um so the first will be that in D1 um field trip request to the Mystic Whaler it states the district's financial responsibility is transportation and that is being struck because it the parent group is paying the 15440 for transportation and then on D2 um my motion will also include that that is supposed to include Summerland
025school as well so canalino family school and Summerland on D2 um it's reflected by the teacher it just didn't St the school name so um just for your information if you're going to be commenting on approval of agenda and consent agenda there will be those two changes um and at this time we will take public we will take public comment now um on C5 all righty the consent agenda as with the rest of the board meeting is governed by the brown act the brown Act is is designed to prevent the advancement of public Business Without transparency it is designed to provide members of the community an opportunity to more thoroughly consider the details associated with matters of District business before those matters are quickly processed through the consent agenda in Mass none of this evening's
026consent agenda items have been brought before the public at a previous board meeting and CD's consistent practice of ramming through items this way to be approved with a single upper down vote obscures debate and prevents dissenting viewpoints and concerns from being placed on the public record this evening's consent agenda is fairly innocuous it does not contain any significant monetary investments in Highly Questionable or concerning items but make no mistake CD's consent agendas often do contain such items and the continued misuse of the consent agenda process is intended to grease the wheels for when the consent agenda does not contain less innocuous items the district officials would prefer do not receive the full measure of scrutiny that they deserve and are legally entitled for example recent purchases on handheld technology at the very time the district
027is removing and discarding the same similar items from students or how about the hundreds of thousands of dollars rammed through recent consent agendas and provided to Contracting firms to replace the service of permanent employees Services purchased at extraordinarily High rates in part because CD's unprofessional workplace culture has driven away many talented employees as have low compensation and partly also because the superintendent would prefer to supervise those who do not have access to either contractual rights and collective bargaining agreements or access to legally protected advocacy provided by competent Union Representatives examples would be contracted nurses instructional AIDS and special education teachers one who was just fired last week because she reported to law enforcement the potential abuse of a sped student under Miss rg's supervision Now setting a side our concerns associated with the district Brown
028act violations employees do strongly support several items contained in this evening's consent agenda the FFA field trips the Aliso Summerland and cantalino field trip to the harbor which by the way are being cut next year as a result of CD's mismanagement of its robust basic Aid revenues the purchase of perab bound uh for DLI books at Aliso the contract between CD and United Way and the January payroll but of course for the portion associated with the to pay raises that already the highest paid administrators in the district gave themselves in the same 21-month period that employees have received no cost of living increase but don't for a second think that employees support how CD processes these expenditures under the consent agenda and don't for a minute think that employees support for any specific item should
029shroud the much larger violations that this process that you use represents thank you any further public comment on approval of the agenda and consent agenda seeing none um I'll make the motion to approve the agenda and consent agenda with the following uh amendments um to D1 strike the final two sentences that begin with the districts only um and to be replaced with Transportation paid by uh parent support group um and then on D2 uh add Summerland as one of the three schools noted in the parenthesis of the title canalino Family School and Summerland all second that motion okay discussion um okay uh roll call Eric hi Aon hi Sally hi Jamie I I'm I wonderful okay so now we are moving on to public interest reports and presentations so we will now take public comment
030for anything that falls under e of public interest reports and presentations um now is your chance for public comment on anything within e Ro carpent res last December at the city council meeting I talk about school balance uh in general at the national at the national level loal level why did I mention that well as we know at the national level there's been shootings there's been tbings and I talk talking about school safety in here that sheriff was there city council members join in a question the sheriff have you ever train school officials teachers on violence how to react to violence at the moment how about active shooter training you might say nothing will happen in a small City so I asked the sheriff again we have been going on uh contacting each other have
031you ever trained our local officials school officials on violence on safety meetings active active uh shooting drills probably gotten that training why not I'm going to meet again with a sheriff along with community members about this uh thank you your time is up thank you any further public comment on E regarding the superintendent's report on school safety plans employee leadership takes no pleasure clarifying the following employees in their elected leadership strongly encourage parents to dig into this topic although some schools are doing better than others and recognition goes to principal's corneo at the high school and principal wyberg at Aliso the utter lack of standardization collaboration and coord ation across the system leaves the district's overall safety response in a pants down posture on paper we look fabulous but in practice these documents are a
032paper dragon upon arrival Miss Rigby inherited a safety protocols and pra inherited safety protocols and practices that included the following standardized School site and facility registration processes in badging for all employees visitors and contractors no more but for the high school single access points at all School sites facilities during instructional and after school program hours no more mandatory districtwide CPR and first aid training no more so robust School site facility safety committees including parent leaders Mental Health Specialists site administrators counselors faculty and support staff Union representatives and at the secondary level even student Representatives no more a robust District Safety Committee that met monthly including all principles supervisors directors faculty and support staff leaders elected Union Representatives student leaders and even the following external agency partners from henet Mental Health Services law enforcement fire and
033rescue Carpenteria planning Santa Barbara Ready Set prepare and occasionally even FEMA no more in fact there has been a single District wide safety meeting this year held on December 5th and it was approximately 1 hour it was informational and no safety recommendations were processed and no safety inquiries were responded to afterward but look we only have 3 minutes so we must move on as for the lcap this is another document we encourage parents and our school board to actually dig into certainly 3 minutes is insufficient time to provide serious observations on such an extensive set of data although we suspected the board will do all it can to emphasize the very few modest gains the overall observations that we have is that why such robust basic Aid revenues and our numbers are still so very
034low the following Pages contain some pretty revealing data page two language arts standards proficiencies page three math standards proficiencies page four the discrepancy between local data here collected in the district and external data that is not subject to admin's pressure pressure and thumb in regard to grade inflation page five page eight page n confirmation that gate is having a significantly positive impact I could go on thank you your time is up any further public comment on E okay seeing none we will now move into our student representative Report with Angel good afternoon for those of you who do know not know me I am Angel p I a senior at carpentry high school and I'm this year's student representative um and this is the report that I have to give from the high school from
035March 10th to the 12th CHS will welcome the was visiting committee for a full self-study visit a team of four Educators from Southern California schools will be on site to observe classroom instruction and engage in discussions with students parents and staff this visit represents a significant opportunity for D HS to Showcase its commitment to Excellence in education and comprehension student support onto Sports softball is on the road on Tuesday today while boys volleyball hosts fentura and boys tennis hosts Bishop Diego the swimmers will dive into the 2025 season on Wednesday at wiimi high school tomorrow this weekend begins with boys tennis hosting fill Tech on Thursday baseball hosting Santa Clara on Friday and boys volleyball part participating in the Pioneer Valley tournament in Santa Maria on Friday and Saturday the first official track and field
036me of the year will be the ringcon races on Saturday at Carpenteria Valley Memorial Stadium starting at 10:00 a.m. in for clubs carpa FFA has placed second place team and individually at the Filmore farm power contest located here at the vur County Section uh carb FFA has taken students to many of these Career Development events and this is the closest one to our area and the students love going to this event every single time as it has our old adviser and also has many opportunities and just super cool machines thank you I think you ought to share with everybody what you're running for at the moment uh yes in regards for FF I am running to be a state officer representing the state of California to further advocate for agricultural literacy and advocacy throughout the
037entire State of California representing the California Farm Bureau and California dep Department of [Applause] Education I do have to go through VAR interviews starting in 6 days it is not an easy task and and it is very much likely that I will not make the running this year but I do have next year and I hope to improve on what I can and to bring back to back to the community of carbonaria there be crazy if they don't get you angel please let us know if there's anything we can do to help support you or letters of recommendation um I know just there's probably nobody that would say no to that um so thank you and I would just encourage anybody all you kids out here when you get to the high school to to
038look into the FFA program because um it's it's not just animals it's it's it's learning about agriculture in general your public speaking um uh you you get to do competitions you can learn about how to judge vegetables and fruit and you can go to public speaking contests and learn about the legislative process and advocating for things you believe in and I I had it I and part of the Boosters club at the high school for the um FFA program and I will just say we had a meeting last week and the the young Stu the students the officers who who uh spoke to us are incredibly impressive the the their speaking ability um and especially since I've know I've known a lot of you since you were your age out here and your Poise and
039confidence and and grasp of the subject is is very impressive and and I I so I wouldn't downplay your ability or your chances angel I think you're you're you're going to surprise us all and and good luck to you so any of you guys the kids out there that went to the high school or got pumpkins around Halloween time that was part of the FFA program and so you someday if you participated could be helping other kindergarteners pick out their pumpkin which is really fun um thank you again Angel any anybody else no okay thank you we are now moving on to our superintendence report thank you and Angel we have full confidence in you being very successful so we can't wait to hear about the results thank you so tonight I'd like to begin
040with appreciation I'd like to recognize all the CHS student athletes coaches athletic director Pat Cooney and assistant athletic director Charles Bryant for a great winter season of water polo basketball and soccer all teams competed in several rounds of championship play with hardfought contests highquality sportsmanship and true warrior spirit and grit read Across America 2025 read Across America is an annual event celebrated on or near March 2nd which is the birthday of children's office author Dr Seuss it is a nationwide reading celebration that was created by the National Education Association in 1997 to promote literacy and encourage a love of reading among children guest readers will join our Elementary classrooms for read alouds on Friday we are grateful for all our school staff in their support for our students as readers next week canalino and family
041school will have a career exploration week the canalino and family school students will explore job training job interviews dream jobs and career choices during the week and on Friday career day students will meet a variety of professionals including a former NFL player a police officer chiropractor film producer screenwriter coffee business owner executive chef a school counselor and a California avocado farmer and School Board member thank you Andy staff and families appreciate the community's volunteerism to help our students imagine a future with their dream career and counselors shanana harget and Trisha humbles organized and facilitated this wonderful career of of wonderful week of career exploration my next item is our school safety plans as a district we're committed to be prepared as possible for school emergencies and to maintain safe and orderly learning environments each year
042school safety plans are reviewed updated and adopted by the school site Council or designated Safety Committee and approved by the school district California Ed code section 32281 outlines the requirements which include an assessment of the current status of school crime child abuse reporting procedures disaster procedures our crisis response plan our suspension and expulsion policies procedures for notifying teachers of dangerous students School discipline and dress code safe in Ingress and egress discrimination harassment policies protocols for secondary schools in response to and tactical responses to criminal incidents our safety plans are posted on our district website at C usd.net last week our CHS excuse me in January our high school hosted parents and students from the class of 2029 for parent student orientation an overview of CHS academic athletic art and extracurricular programs was provided in addition
043to a senior student panel and our last item is the UCSB destination College Mesa day 2025 CMS and CHS Mesa students will attend UCSB College Mesa day on Saturday March 8th our students will participate in college tours College Prep workshops and stem events thank you thank you um any questions or comments from the board on the superintendent report I'm just looking forward to the career day yeah as I know our students almost everyone yeah yeah and there's yeah there's a lot going on on Friday at calino that's for sure wow um okay we are now moving on to calino dual immersion presentation uh principal Luis cantero uh along with third and fifth graders will present on our dual l imersion program thank you so [Applause] much second good evening everyone um thank you for having
044us tonight to present our dual language immersion students here we have some of our third graders inaras and mamaritas class and we have some fifth graders in Maestra Garcia and Maestra Strong's class today they wrote uh a little something for you all about what it means to be bilingual so first we're going to start with our third graders and then we'll move on to our fifth graders Armstrong y for for to [Applause] practic for [Music] [Applause] h for [Applause] hi my name is Derek I came from Mexico and I had been here in the United States for 3 years during my life I have realized that begin bil langual is a benefit from being able to say good morning to my teachers to being able to have a conversation in both language also being bil
045langual is not something that happens every night you don't just W wake up a day a become bil langual it is something that recurs is for dedication and Hur because if you don't support yourself you will never progress in the becoming bil langual thanks to the the immersion program we can continue learning in the B language I am very grateful because the dual immersion program at canalino has given me the opportunity to learn English so many times as childrens we think that our boys do is Mario but thanks to people like you we realize that we are very important thank thank you for listening to me and for giving my the space and time to share this [Applause] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] is important benef [Applause] hi my name is Nicolas arnellas and I go
046to canalino elementary school where I learn in English and in Spanish being able to speak two language means I will be able to communicate far into the world which will soon enable me to explore with confidence for me knowing my family's native language allows me to connect deeper into my culture language and other people in addition the benefits of knowing two languages means more opportunities to to get a great job when I get older these are some reasons why bilingual education is important important and beneficial hi my name is Ka Smith I'm here to share with you what it means to me to be bilingual to me being bilingual means you can explore different cultures music and books and so much more being bilingual is helpful when you travel to other places like Mexico or
047Italy where they speak other languages it's important to know how to speak and understand their native language so you can be able to do more when you travel also being bilingual allows you to listen to music of different genres in other languages being bilingual is truly an amazing benefit in so many ways all in all that's what being bilingual means to me EXP [Applause] hello my name is Rebecca Gonzalez to me being bilingual is a beautiful and valuable skill with many benefits it helps me connect with others even if they come from different cultures by building understanding and better communication also being bilingual can improve my oh thinking skills make problem solving easier and even help slow down memory loss once I get older I also feel it boosts my creativity and helps me remember
048things better lastly knowing more than one language can create more job opportunities for me once I'm older making easier to adapt to new places and give a better understanding and appreciation of different cultures Hola May fa curas hola Sanchez Interra Maestro beling Miss Garcia hello my name is jar San and being bilingual is an amazing benefit for many reasons for example I could get to meet more and different types of people being bilingual and it's beautiful knowing that I could communicate with different people from different places another benefit is that I could get a better job when I I could get better jobs when I am older because I can speak two languages and understand more people some jobs that I could get for being bilingual are being a translator interpreter and a teacher that
049is bilingual like Miss Garcia but there are not just those but many more while being bilingual I can also understand other languages because Spanish is similar to Portuguese Italian and calan these are just a few reasons why being bilingual is beneficial for [Applause] me as you can see our teachers and our students have been hard at work all year and as you can see our teachers and students have been hard at work all year and we just want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to share thank you I'd like to thank the students they're not only good speakers but they're wonderful writers as well those are great essays Wonder great job everybody wow um any comments from the bo I'd just like to say it's so encouraging to see this you know uh
050um there were I I think I was the only one on the board when we when we um started this as a trial uh uh program five six seven eight years ago um and there was some resistance in the you know the community and and and in and staff uh but but I think it's it's shown its value and and I think the the just the community here that of of families that is is participating that's really what it comes down to to be successful is you need the support of not just the staff and the and the administration but you need the families and the students obviously bought into this and they see the value and um I'm I'm just so glad that that it has been successful and now it's it we've got
051it uh we're offering it at liso as well and uh I'm I'm just so happy for all of you students um that you're going to have the skill for your ire lives and it's going to and I think you're all recognizing the benefits and and the advantages it's going to give you so um it's just it's really good for us to see because um you know uh you know ultimately it's it's the decision of the board to offer programs like this and and and I'm I'm really glad that the the the the board members we had back then uh we're we're willing to to do this and and it's paid off so thank thank you you all for participating and and making the program so successful um I just want to say this is really
052great um my first two kids missed the opportunity for the Dual language immersion program but number three is right in there uh at calino and um and seeing whenever the Dual language program whether it's at the elementary level or the Middle School level seeing the presentations it just it's as a parent who has a child in the program it's really amazing to see where they will be um in one year two years 3 years or or more and um and the beyond the academics what I've seen is relationally among the students what happens and whether it's in the classroom or at a birthday party or at the playground or at the beach and their ability to communicate and not have that barrier that that was there that may have kept them from playing with the
053other kids right over there that's gone and that is no longer even something that's considered from what I've seen and um and it's it's created just a stronger and bigger sense of community it's broken down barriers um between the kids but also with the parents um and I just I'm really hopeful for where this will take us into the future as a people as a whole um with more people being able to communic Comm unicate and um Mr Sanchez as he quite quite said quite well was um explaining that the similarities between Spanish and other latin-based languages how that creates all these other opportunities to be able to communicate even if it's a little looser but um I totally understand that I took Spanish in junior high and then Italian in high school and I
054mixed those two up so badly for so many years but I got through it um was able to get back into it but um it it really does carry you far um and so uh good job parents good job kids thank you so much teachers where you have brought this program um today is amazing so thank you so much really proud of [Applause] this any final comments before uh I forget and I escort our students home because they have homework and dinner thank you thank you have a good evening everybody yeah really thank you thanks okay we are moving on to our lcap midyear update report presentation superintendent Rigby will present the lcap report uh midyear update report thank you so you'll recall in June you approved our local control and accountability plan for three
055years so the goals that we uh discussed and we approved are for three years and this is the first report of progress towards those goals uh we had five major areas for goals student achievement student well-being and parent participation College and Career Readiness facilities and student achievement for special education students the first goal so um our first goal focuses on student achievement high quality standards based instruction that's differentiated for every student uh we identified actions at the elementary middle school and high school level that would work towards making progress towards that goals our mid-year expenditures are about approximately 1.4 million and you'll notice that um the actions are relative to the uh grade levels uh what's similar is that we have funded early release for elementary and middle school and at high school we have
056late start Mondays so what has really uh been important work is our teachers are at grade level teams at the elementary and departments at middle school and high school they form professional learning communities and on a weekly and monthly basis they're monitoring monitoring academic progress of students um especially those students in the disaggregated student groups and then they are determining interventions that need to be put in place to support those students so at the elementary level we have reading intervention Specialists that support reading at the middle school level we support uh teachers providing after school tutoring and at the high school they have an advisory period in which content teachers provide specific support for students as well as the Student Success Center in addition we provide professional development for teachers and in the elementary level
057we F we're focusing on math this year and they've received professional development during that early release times in the areas of math um for the secondary we provided some professional development artificial intelligence as well as at the middle school they are working at um implementing strategies for special ed students in the regular Ed classrooms and at the secondary level they've been involved in their their was process as part of their professional development okay the next um page indicates our midyear outcome data and I'll remind you that this data is from June 2024 and um we're required to report of course the Casp data so I want to remind everybody that um for Progress our groups that scored higher than the county and the state where third grade fifth grade seventh grade and eighth grade are
058English learners our economically disadvantaged and our white student groups um our goal of course is 50% or more of our students will achieve at and above grade level and so grade five we already met that goal and remember these are threeyear goals so we're already making progress towards that goal for groups that scored higher than the county that's all student groups fourth grade and students with disabilities in our Hispanic groups of students our English language arts scores have increased 12% for fifth grade 7% for 8th grade and 1% for 11th grade so the highlighted scores indicate uh progress since last year students with disabilities we have a 133% increase for fifth grade and a 8% increase for 11th grade and so we met the goal at 8 at 11th grade and then um we also
059include our star reading because that is closer to actually what our students are achieving our goal is that 60% are reading at and above grade level at third grade and we've already met that goal so we expect that there'll be more students at and above grade level by June then our next goal is similar in math and um however our goal was 40% of our students would be at and above grade level and the good news is that um most of our groups scored higher than the county and the state so all student groups third fourth fifth sth and eighth grade English Learners economically disadvantaged students with disabilities Hispanic and white all scored higher than the state scores and the county scores and then we met the goal in eth grade in which we had
060more than 40% of our students at and above grade level groups that scored higher than the county just the county were 11th grade and then our math scores increased by 11% for fifth grade and 4% for grade eight our economically disadvantaged subgroups saw an increase of 8% for fifth grade and 1% for eighth grade so we met the goal for fifth grade our Hispanic subgroup increase their scores by 5% so they met our goal and with our star math 60% of our third graders scored at and above grade level so we've met that goal our next goal our next uh metrics excuse me it's still focused on student achievement is particularly for our students with um learning English language so our number of el students have decreased by 77 students we have uh in in
0612023 we had 408 English Learners now we have 331 we expect 30% of our students to score um a four in the elpac so we still need to make progress on that goal um 36% of our English Learners are making progress towards English language proficiency and again our goal is 60% uh 10.9% of English Learners were reclassified by grade six that was 36 students again our goal is at least 30% um we have increased our long-term English Learners from 11.5% to 7.7% and our goal is to decrease the long-term English Learners to 5% we had 111 long-term English Learners in 2023 and last year we had 68 the other metric we use is student grades and so uh we have shown an increase of the students earning a 3.0 or higher for fall semester and
062so we've met the goal and we also showed an increase of high school students who earned a 3.0 or higher um it increased by 7% and they've met the goal because we expect more than um 70% will earn a 3.0 or higher and the last um metrics are asso associated with our full implementation of academic standards 100% of our students have access to instructional materials and we've met the goal except for our percent of teachers who are appropriately assigned and fully credentialed um we expect 100% And we only have 80% at this time because we have hired DLI teachers who are still working on their bclad and our specialed teachers now are required to have a new authorization they are credentialed for special ed but in the field of special education they've required a new
063authorization for autism if you're teaching students on the autism spectrum of which all of our special student specialed teachers work with students on the on the uh Spectrum so they need to earn that special authorization in order for this to be considered uh fully credentialed our next goal is associated with uh students student engagement and uh positive School culture as well as uh parent participation and these are all the activities associated at the different levels that we've put in place to make progress towards that goal and our midyear expenditures are $223,700 um our first metric was school connectedness and we met the goal and we increased by um 1% students who reported schools are safe increased by 1% and we've met the goal for 90% or higher our parent participation our goal is 75% or
064more and it's at 68% so we still have uh work to do there and then for attendance we have um increased our daily attendance but not have met the goal yet we've uh decreased our chronic absenteeism by 2% but our goal is 10% or less for chronic absenteeism and um we have decreased our suspension and expulsion rates and we've met the goal because our expectation is 5% or less our next goal is uh students graduate being ready for college and career and we've spent midye $ 46,7 123 and we have uh computer science courses and introductory CTE wheel and Avid classes at the middle school and then we have quite a a few programs at the high school related to our CTE Pathways an internship program uh alignment of our sbcc courses with the CTE
065Pathways as well as increase of our dual enrollment classes and our measurements are related to our graduation rates in which our goal is 100% And um we've not met that yet our College and Career Readiness our goal is 70% or more we still working on that goal our UC meeting our ucsu requirements uh we have not met that yet that goal is 65% or more advanced placement we expect students we expect 30% of our students score 3% or higher and we have 25% and then three not a 3% I'm I'm sorry a three not a 3% oh I'm sorry score three or higher excuse me I'm I'm yes our goal is 30% but three or more higher and then our enrollment however of our AP honors and dual enrollment classes we have met the goal
066of 73% for enrollment we continue with um looking at our enrollment in the CTE courses and meeting um UC requirements our goal is 55% of more students will complete at least one CTE pathway we have 44% from last year last year we had 45% of our students enrolled in CTE courses and our goal is 60% or more uh we did have an increase of our students meeting the UC and Cal State requirements and and they've completed at least one CTE pathway we also met the goal of students earning the state steel state seal of biliteracy and that increased by 2% and then uh our high school dropout rates have gone in the wrong direction because our goal is z% for high school dropout rates our next goal is related to facilities and um the funds
067that we uh connect with the these actions are not part of the lcap but this is part of our um goal our district goals is that our facilities are safe updated and wellmaintained for all students and staff and the activities again are listed by the different um age spans and they're very similar from sight to site the the one difference is our measure youu projects right now are at the elementary level so our goal was to um or our goals are to keep our fa our facilities clean and wellmaintained and 84% of our students reported that schools are clean and that increased by 1% staff 84% parents 90% and our goal is that all three groups will report uh 90% of all three groups will report uh favorably and then for measure U projects our
068goal was that the Learning Center at calina would be completed in December 2024 we met that goal and that we would begin the Aliso TK and K project and that has begun so we've met that goal and our last goal is um associated with students with disabilities and that they will increase their performance on both the math and the ELA Casp again those funds um are not included in the lcap but our uh activities related to this goal is that we implemented math and English language arts formative assessments and we provided targeted support interventions for specialist students and if you look at the next uh page you'll see that um we've increased our English language at score scores by 3.7% and our students uh scored higher than uh they scored higher last year than the
069year before and that students with disabilities scored higher than the county average and then in math our students with disabilities scored higher both than the with the county and the state compared to the county and the state and that uh more students with dis abilities met or exceeded the math um proficiency on math CP and their scores increased by 3.5% but our goal remains at the we want to see a 5% increase each year so that is the progress uh based on our metrics for the half midyear of the first year of the lcap and so in June you will see that we have uh refined our goals to Pivot in the areas in which we've not we're not making the kind of progress that we expected and that for the goals where we've made
070progress then we will uh increase what the goal attainment is for those particular areas okay questions from the board just looking for a little clarification on the CTE pathway so that's the student has to complete two years of a particular path way yes to to make that yes like for example um they in n9th grade would take a culinary and in t 10th grade they take Advanced Techniques for culinary or for a Sciences okay so do we understand what's driveing these numbers as to why well that's what um Mr can and his staff are investigating so that we can pivot and have more kids participate but I know from this year's enrollment that that this was last year compared to the year before mhm so this year's enrollment is higher and we have more students
071that will be completing those Pathways so in June we'll report that data so in June we'll have more students that have completed year number two on that pathway okay yeah and I and we know that because of the enrollment of this year yeah okay great I would I would imagine that this partially related to the a mechanics you know the uh Mr Lopez took a job down in his hometown for last year and and so that that reduced the a mechanics offerings and I think that probably um is is affecting the that last year that last year yes yeahh but we provided um different courses for this year we've added courses yes so that should that will change that result um yeah the uh uh I was um so I was just starting at the
072beginning here so the um we go to the uh English learner um progress and progress towards being reclassified is that is that kind of a um that bar that that that that uh goal gets harder and harder as we reclassify more and more students because because the ones that are left are the are are the students are struggling to are really struggling yeah yeah so so that's a that's a difficult goal then plus they also changed um the requirements when you reclassify specialed students so that is also made oh they did yes so that's also made an impact and um okay so that uh and then so the so they've added it so if you go to the special ed um Ed Educators the calpads uh yes and and having teachers that uh the DLI
073not not DLI the uh sped teachers is that sped no that's that's uh the bcloud yeah specialed teachers yeah having appropriate assignment yes so so I that went down by 6% but that's because a new requirement has been added yes so all of our teachers have special education credentials yeah what has been added in special education is that if you teach any student on the autism spectrum you need special authorization for autism that's a new requirement so our student our teachers are working on that but they did not when we hired them they did not necessarily have that special authorization especially if you've been teaching for a long time the newer graduates will have that authorization okay when is that when was that requirement effective uh last year okay so that that actually doesn't apply
074to here because this is 2223 data not 24 2223 yes so it was two years ago last year was yeah but the 80% applies to before that no it was two years ago it's it start it started two years ago okay in 22 23 okay and then um if we go to the healthy kids survey and are we getting good participation in that from parents or no no we're not not from parents not from staff but really good participation from students students okay okay so we're we're getting probably okay well that however the healthy kids um uh the countywide committee that looks at healthy kids uh survey and looks at the data and we compare ourselves countywide we're all within the normal limits in terms of the number of staff and parents that are reporting
075okay they they don't expect more than 15 20% so just about everybody like we we're it's nothing out of the ordinary nothing out of the ordinary no it'd be helpful to have context because a percentage without knowing the percentage of the percentage of responses without know of a specific question like in a in one way or another that makes sense yes the percentage of parents or the the number of people participating in it it it'd be nice to get if there's a low number of people participating yes 10% 20 30% is I mean it's still it's not necessarily reflective right when youb still conducting the survey no it's West Ed it's West Ed okay well it start I think it started at ecsb and then it became a a a adopted by the state I
076believe the healthy kids survey California healthy kid survey it didn't start out that I think they were triing it a long time ago and then um okay um well it be it would be good to get that you know to give some context how many how many people are actually responding to this yeah it's a small percentage for adults um and then uh but it's the same every year so I it's nothing new yeah yeah so then as far as AP um uh scoring three or higher so we have a lot of participation in AP and honors CL inment classes MH but are we having an is it an instructional issues that why we're not getting as many kids passing the tests or or getting a three or higher uh that's a question for Mr
077Cano that's nice it'd be nice to to get because I because I I know you know just based on my kids um participation in those classes uh the the level of in the the the instructional um rigor varied greatly from class to class well it shouldn't in an AP class it should not but it does and and well that's definitely going to affect the quality of the AP scores um so we touched on the CTE already um I think that was it that's everything I have okay um anybody else before I start okay um can you clarify uh you said that at the high school um uh back to goal one at the with under actions um the was process is part of PD and explain how that is part of Prof like how that
078help is that because it's a task that needs to be done or is it professional development what about it is professional development uh the part that um really brings the teachers together is their discussions around What U the quality of Standards or expectations they have for student work and how they're going to um devise interventions in terms of helping those students who are not uh performing at grade level that's all part of the was process because it's all focused on student progress so it really helps the individual departments to explain their process for um setting the standards what curriculum they're using and what strategies they're using for disaggregated student groups and the kind of progress that those disaggregated student groups are making and what they're doing for interventions so the Departments actually write reports about
079all those aspects and then they share it across departments so it's almost professional development within their own uh School site and then it's evaluated according to the to the wasque standards was has set some standards and so they have to compare what they're doing at the school site to the um um was high school standards okay thank you um and again noting that this is year one of three this is a midyear of year one of three years of goals um so I I don't expect us to to be knocking it out of the park on all of them right out of the gate but I um I there are a number of areas where um we dropped below our Baseline um and so I I'm hoping that first of all we don't see us
080because we've had gains or maybe have met goals we don't we aren't saying oh we've met the goals so we can back off that we keep pursuing to con continue advancing that but also we are really doubling down or tripling down on the areas where we've where we've seen um decreases um and so and and like what are we attributing decreases to our Baseline data I it looking through this if you don't pay attention and I I believe this is because the different tests are offered at different times of the year when the different reports come out are at different times of the year so sum are 22 23 Baseline with a 23 24 outcome data some are earlier than that um so you have to kind of understand that this is not comparing same
081grades even when we're looking at fifth graders down the row it's not the same fifth graders all the way down the road and it's pre like years previous to but um but you should see you should see increases yeah we should be seeing increases and and there's a a number of areas where we're not and so um I just want to emphasize that that is um having checks early on like this are the things that help us understand is was there we're going to be looking I'm assum I would well I'm asking I'm not going to assume um when we see decreases are we looking what are we looking at at this point in the year are we going to I mean I don't want us to be kneer reacting to things but at the
082same time I want us to be mindful and thoughtful about how we move forward as far as do we is it a is a new curriculum that's not working is it a new um a new process is it something with uh a specific cohort a remnant of cohort like what is the ration what is the reason for these decreases um and how are we responding to it and how are we finding how are we finding out the reason and how are we responding to so that um so what we've been doing all along at leadership team is that we continue to monitor it's really about monitoring progress of students and it's you do it by grade level and you do it by classroom so that's the responsibility of the principles in working with their grade
083level teams and working with teachers at those particular grade grade levels because it's all about instruction in the classroom our curriculum is sound it is not about our curriculum it is about how that curriculum is taught how we're evaluating whether students have met the standard and have not met the standard and then what are you doing differently in the class to help those students meet the standard and what resources are you bringing to Bear to that particular grade level or that particular department for example at the middle school when we look at uh student grades we look at all the Departments and we look at all the classrooms to look at the grade range and when we have such disparity among grades we need to look at what the student work looks like let's take
084the science department we have a number of teachers in that science department if the grades are so desparate and yet they're teaching the same content and they're teaching the similar students in the classrooms we need to understand what that instruction looks like why is it different and why are different students making progress where other students are not across the classrooms so those are conversations that we have at the leadership team and then the principles are working with their grade level teams and their departments to not only to monitor the progress It's Not only in analyzing the progress but then you have to determine what the interventions look like and measure how well those interventions are working but it absolutely is reflective of the instruction in that particular classroom okay so it's professional development supporting teachers
085and helping teachers uh learn different ways to work with different groups of students which is why the professional development for middle school has spent time focusing on how they work with specialed students in their classrooms and you notice the special ed students have shown some growth GR in math and English language arts right yeah um because it's it's really disaggregated groups of students that are not making the kind of progress that we expect eth and well 11th is the same from year to year but 8th grade went from 18% to 0% in special ed yeah yes in math and then uh and then in eng English okay hang on this is making me wonder it's also 0% for English language arts it went from 17% to 0% for 8th grade last year last year yes
086um so that's like that's pretty significant but and you recall yeah the challenges in special education last year at the middle school yep um okay uh English Learners also really uh didn't didn't make uh much of much gains in math or English um in English language arts we had 5% growth in 11th grade from 0% Baseline um 8th grade it's dashed out I'm guess we maybe we don't have any we didn't have any English we don't have enough to be the group 20 okay so that didn't yeah okay um but it was down from 8% to 0% in fifth grade um and so and then similarly in math um and reclassification rates our Pro our elpi and our lpac um so what from uh previous are we looking forward to doing differently or engaging more
087strenuously what what what what type of what types of changes are we going to make with our or have we are we making with our English Learners to move forward with that we changed the El program at the elementary after last year so we've implemented a new ELD program a different way of instructing ELD at the elementary level for this school year great and our hypothesis is that this different way of instruction um with smaller groups more focused on specific standards for language development will be more effective than what was in place last year thank you what's the relationship with these grades for students that were um out that year and a half with Co that were being taught at home is that have you figured that out or is that not taken into account
088it' be fifth graders no eighth graders well all of them yeah I mean I I would say at this time uh we should be showing increases in progress I mean I think we've we we know what the issues are and we've been working with it for the last three years and so we should be showing more progress okay um let's see here um so for the metric of goal three sorry moving on to goal three yeah um all students are metrics uh all students will graduate from high school be College and Career ready um this has been the idea of what we're considering College and Career ready um has been brought up in the past and how we measure that and um and I I'm forgive me for not other than a through G um
089and possibly making like yeah aside from passing a through G what is the metric for College and Career Readiness um there's three three elements a through G it's um uh passing the Casp math and English MH and it is uh math or it's one of the two that you have to pass and then you have to complete a CTE pathway okay so passing one of the two is that our own metric or is that like a state no no this is a state thank you and then College and Career Readiness also requires completing a CTE pathway yes so if students are interested in something other than a CTE pathway that we offer they would not be considered College and Career ready uh if they didn't if they weren't interested in agary I shouldn't say complete
090they have to take one CTE class excuse me one CTE class so taking a class not completing a no correct that's right yeah thank you because that would definitely yeah make it much more challenging make it very challenging um let's see [Music] here um students who completed at least one pathway I do want to I I think there was confusion because this is from of the Baseline of 2223 with the midyear data from 23 24 but um Mr Lopez left at the end of 24 so it he he was here during that drop um and so I don't know uh what else we want to look I mean I I know that I know plenty of kids who took several initial courses of CTE but it wasn't something that they wanted to pursue um a
091wasn't something they wanted to pursue culinary wasn't necessarily something they wanted to pursue they took at least one year of several different CTE courses but didn't complete um so I don't know um I mean we want kids to be completing CT Pathways but also are we and again this may be getting to knee-jerk I feel like maybe we need another another another yeah Milestone down um but our they're wonderful programs but is there a shift in the in where students are wanting to go and so the pathways we currently have maybe are not meeting I mean we're close it's not like this is a and this is the beginning of a three-year goal but um I think something we need to keep on mind and I know that herard is really great at looking at
092Future Pathways as well well and not necessarily that we need to not do Pathways that we I believe the future is CT Pathways but it um what we're offering we just need to make sure that that is engaging the most students so that they do at least want to complete it if they start it um I don't know how to I think we have four yeah so we've got the engineering we have egg egg we havein we have culinary and we have uh Visual Arts yes yeah so um like we have a good array like broad interest um or Broad and the egg is really not just egg it's it includes it includes you know egg mechanics is is you're doing Small Engines you're doing electrical you're doing welding you're doing some fabrication so I'm
093I think it's too early to like say to really say make much of of the why there's a drop I think we need another point but if it continues to drop we need to look at why it's dropping down the line yeah the completion rate I think there were number of kids that moved from EG um last year to the engineering and and we all you know that was our first year really of the engineering pathway um and so there wasn't a completion there but a a lot of students who had maybe taken egg mechanics one and two didn't go to three and and they move to to engineering so I I think you know we I think that because the participation levels in in these classes is very high yeah I can get the
094data for you well like I said Mr has that this isn't something to like do anything with yet but it's more of a flag like we want to keep an eye and make sure that the interest and the enrollment is still is stays up and and if there's something we can do to en encourage students or how we can better encourage students to finish the path way or a pathway I think in the egg you have um you could go several ways you could do egg mechanics or you could do vet medicine and so point being I think once we get more points down more touchstones down the down the line we'll be able to kind of sleuth out um and maybe that will go up you know it was maybe the the shifting into
095engineering from a or something like that so um it's just one of those things I want to flag that we want to keep an eye on to make sure that what we're offing stays relevant for the the students we have that's all um let's see here okay that's all I got okay so this is no action this was just a presentation and update report um any further comments from the board okay thank you very much I mean we're doing well in a lot of areas I think it's our job to look at the areas where we're struggling and figuring out how to move forward so thank you sure and I'll get the information from um Mr CR regarding the um a Pathways because he has it at his fingertips yeah and that if if it's
096as simple as something like we had a bunch there they moved into he'll be able to say that we we'll take a look at that thank you okay we are now moving on to F business operations and Facilities if you would like to make public comment on anything under F uh please step up to the podium at this time first shame shame on you Mr Schaefer for blaming Salvador Lopez for the poor CTE numbers in the lcap it's not his fault that he had to leave we're speaking about the lcap excuse me we're not speaking about the l cap and so if you would like to comment on employees we represent want to thank those community members who provide grants and gifts to the cusd without any unethical or unprofessional strings attached special thanks to
097teacher Ryan ethington and previously uh custodian Eric queller uh for their generous gifts to Mr pava's music program both offer their donations uh to support students the music program and the extraordinary contribution of Mr pavilla um that he provides our district these donations are even more remarkable given the compensation that Mr queller and Mr ethington received from cusd and the patience they have demonstrated while enduring the absence of any cost of living increase throughout the last 21 months all while the highest paid CD administrators provided themselves two salary increases totaling 10 to 12% these donations are especially valuable at this time because they arrive after another theft has occurred recently on the CMS campus a theft that occurred when the previous theft of music equipment was brushed under the rug and our security systems were
098not hardened in any way miss rgby it is no wonder that similar theft occurred once again and that employees are now um donating precious dollars to support the music program directly to further clarify the board and the community should be aware that concerns regarding security pertaining to the exploratory music lab and Band Room were clearly expressed by employees before this second theft Unfortunately they were also as as much of the experience and insight of Highly qualified employees in the district thoroughly disregarded by both missp pursu and Miss rri Even though tens of thousands of dollars of District owned and privately owned equipment is stored in the music lab and Band Room this time unlike the last time similar theft occurred District admin had stated that the district will replace what is taken it won't be
099the responsibility of Mr queller and Mr ethington thank goodness to replace that equipment um but this is yet to be seen so let's hope these aren't empty promises meanwhile Mr pava will receive gifts and donations and try to again Cobble together the materials needed to provide highquality instruction to students in the exploratory music lab Mr Coler and Mr eon's donations will certainly help replace some of the items that were recently stolen including eight headphone sets eight guitars one ukulele two keyboards two practice drum set pads a very large set of Congo drums the Apple TV and Wi-Fi device and even a red emergency backpack that probably contained detailed School map safety protocol responses and even Q cards for an emergency event to communicate with law enforcement okay shame on you again stuff uh I'd like
100to make a motion to approve the warrants of 27 February 7th through February 20th I'll second that uh any discussion all in favor I I okay and F2 gifts grants donations uh we have let's here I'm going to go ahead and read them all out and we can do one motion covering all of them if we're okay with that uh gifts grants and donations 2A donation from Amy Blakemore to cusd Middle School uh music department um Miss Blakemore is donating a Casio digital piano and stand valued at $295 uh we have a donation from Jane Craven and CF to cusd uh CHS engineering club um Jane Craven and CF is donating $1,500 to the warrior engineering Workshop club uh to see we have a donation from Terry wag to carpentera Unified School District uh CHS
101FFA the board has asked to accept the donation from Terry wag of $500 to cusd CHS FFA club and 2D a donation from Ryan ethington to cusd Elementary music program uh uh Mr ethington is donating a small size violin valued at $50 to the elementary music program um so I just like to say thank you so much to everybody with their donations um if I could get a motion for 2 a through D I'll move to approve with gratitude to all of those thank you very much I'll second that motion and thank you discussion okay um all in favor I I and moving on to G measure U if you would like to make public comment on measure u g measure U now is the time please step up to the podium not seeing any
102we will move on to G1 approval of architectural services from Robert robes for canalino elementary school and Aliso Elementary School we being asked to approve the proposal for architectural services for the removal of Portables at Aliso Elementary School and kolino Elementary School the estimated fee of $15,200 based on Robert robo's proposal will be paid with measure UB bond funds any questions from the board may I get a motion to approve I'll move to approve I'll second discussion okay all in favor I I H Personnel if you'd like to make a comment on Personnel please step up to the podium at this time so the Union's remarks will be generally focused on resolution number 25935 which seeks the approval to release four highly qualified and desperately needed teachers who cusd will release with this resolution uh
103due to your own fiscal mismanagement it should be known that these teachers were not associated with any performance concerns they received positive performance evaluations they were not deficient in any way and they have dedicated themselves their integrity and their talents to the students families and colleagues of carpentera to senior administrators like Miss Ry and the school board these teachers are literally just numbers on a resolution but to the students and District colleagues the termination of these employees is much more personal and harmful once again we are witnessing yet another self-inflected wound the release of four teachers um also did not have to happen CD receives more than sufficient revenues to maintain these valuable human and student- centered resources but how could cusd possibly afford to keep these young talented teachers when cusd invests so much
104money in frivolous and unlawful disciplinary actions a whopping $3.5 million in the last two years and how could cusd afford to maintain these positions when it provides District administrators to salary increases while refusing to respect and value the stability of teachers and support staff by either providing a cost of living increase in over 20 months or even budgeting for a cost of living increase adjustment in the three-year District budget that lays head not even budgeting for it for clarity here's how these Cuts work when a teacher is hired they do not receive any job security for at least the first two years during this period teachers are terribly vulnerable to each and every administrative whim unethical demand political passion Etc of Senior Management because even when these probationary teachers are fabulous by all measurements the
105district is legally permitted to non- reelect them which really means terminate them at any time in the first 2 years without citing any reason whatsoever and to be certain this annual release annual release of probationary employees it's not a oneoff last year it was 12 employees this year so far it's four employees it's not an outlier it's a routine it's the way Miss rig does business and it couldn't happen if you didn't support it so we hire Talent who are brave enough to take the risk and then just before they reach permanent status we cut them before they can safely advocate for themselves their colleagues and their students good job you own it okay may I get a motion we have our our H1 Personnel summary the board has asked to approve the following recommended
106Personnel items uh leave of absence one Personnel coaching extended Season Winter four Personnel spring coaching assignments 17 personnel may I get a motion to approve I'll move to approve I'll second discussion all in favor I okay and then uh H2 resolution number 25- 935 non- reelect a certificated probationary employee Public Employee discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section 54957 the board is asked to approve resolution number 25- 935 non- reelect certificated probationary employee Public Employee discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section um do we need to go through the yeah do you have the do you have the form for me it should be in your pocket no than you Okay resolution 25935 uh whereas California Education Code section 4492 n. 21 requires that the Board of Trustees notify a probationary employee in
107a position requiring certification qualifications of the decision to reelect or not reelect the employee to such a position for SEC suceeding school year and whereas the employees identified an exhibit a here to are probationary employees in positions requiring certification qualifications and whereas the Board of Trustees of the carpentera Unified School District has determined not to reelect the employees identified an exhibit a for the 25 26 school year therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees of the carpentera Unified School District directs the superintendent or design to deliver a notice of non- reelection to the employees identified in exhibit a um I need a motion and then we will do a a roll call and the motion to approve resolution uh number 25- 935 uh to not you have to fully State oh okay uh
10825935 anony elect for certificated probationary employees employee um number 1710 22 employee number 226 employee number 995 and employee number 1577 we have a motion I'll second that motion okay discussion okay this is roll call Eric hi Aron I Sally I Jamie I I'm I adopted by the Board of Trustees of carpenter Unified School District on this 25th day day of February 2025 in Santa Barbara County we have five eyes none abstaining or uh or voting no and that passes okay we are moving on to I future agenda items if you'd like to make public comment on future agenda items please step up to the podium at this time Roo Delgado Carpenter resident I really hope that uh the proposed budget will benefit uh everyone teachers students employees the budget is uh uh basically due
109to uh property sales uh last month in Carpenteria there were only 10 properties sold our town this month February 16 months having sold or they're pending pending meaning that that's I've seen I've seen uh properties falling out of w and FY in the county properties for sale or pending meaning that uh it's a sellers Market people are not selling only if there's an emergency that they have to move out out of town for whatever reason that's when they sell otherwise they won't don't blame them properties are rising 6 and a half% it's all right I mean don't play them wouldn't sell my property I wouldn't but buyers don't have many choices because it's the seller's market so the seller determins the property value we don't know how the current Trump Administration will affect or budget
110we don't know we don't know what is going to happen with the Department of Education for example Public Schools sharing money with private schools probably School launches will be C that's Federal isn't it any federal uh or the district receive some federal uh assistance isn't that right thank you thank you okay so at the last three board meetings Union leadership requested that the board include a few items on a future agenda first we asked it and again asked that the board explore resolution that educates kids on what to do if someone enters their physical space with a firearm one stop two don't touch three leave four tell an adult and if you can't do that call 911 not a single District official has responded to this request which has been made at no less than
11110 board meetings second we again Ask the board to explore the concept of exit interviews to acquire better understanding of why cusd employees leave the district not why employees in general leave their jobs but why District employees who intended to provide C D many more years of quality service leave cusd not a single District official has responded to that request either a request that's been made at no less than eight board meetings finally we asked the board to explore at a future board meeting why even though cusd is a basic Aid district and it is in the top 4% of the most robustly funded TK through 12 school districts in the state why are both expenditures per pupil and teacher salaries so far below State averages at every School site Aliso expenditures per pupil 9.9
112compared to the state calino 27.3 compared to the state the middle school3.6 and at the high school - 22.8 and at the family school the whopping 44- 44% less than the average spent across the state when we mentioned this at the last two board meetings superintendent rby discounted this data the district's very own data stating that it was a year old and she failed to share that the sarc data is always a year behind the current and if it were crunch today the numbers would be far worse because there has not been a cost of living increase in 21 months and because the district according to its own audit failed to invest the required three and a half over $3 and a. half million dollar in teachers that it should have invested so if you
113wish to focus on this distraction that Miss rig is so good at throwing out there and you all just jump right on it um the D the dad is a year old think for yourselves who was in charge a year ago superintendent rgy seven plus years ago she arrived board member Diamond four plus years on the board board member Smith four plus years on the board board member green six plus years on the board board member bridgeford two plus years on the board and Mr schaer a whopping 15 years on the board so I'm not sure that the year old data makes that much of a difference when we look at accountability and who's responsible for these figures it's time to run this District better thank you um so for future agenda items we have
114coming up our second interim budget uh our second interim report our 2526 proposed budget and a transportation plan um are there any requests from the board for other items at this time no okay uh nothing notable On The Board calendar we do have our expulsion hearing on Thursday um board announcements swim season starting yes it is going to be exciting um also I and I spoke on it earlier about the FFA but I cannot be more proud of that group um you know the the the you know especially when you when you when I I reflect back and see how some of these these students were so scared to speak in front of their classes much less a group of adults and they're standing up in in front of uh auditoriums full stadiums really I
115mean small basketball stadiums full of people and uh giving long eloquent speeches and winning Awards and I just you know FFA is not just about animals or farming it's about you know developing skills that they're going to live have for the rest of their life and I cannot be more proud of our program and and and and uh and the the the work that uh miss Emily Garcia is doing you know she's taken on an awful lot of responsibility there and um and she's really uh doing an excellent job and um uh I just you know it it I don't get to be around these kids as much as I was because I don't have any kids in school but um when I am I'm always impressed and and I just you know I think
116our community should be really very proud of and I know they are of the program and I'm hope hoping uh we'll be announcing the F the uh drive-through barbecue for the spring uh sometime soon okay anyone else um so uh a few things we have lots of like I feel like we hit like February March and all of a sudden like there's spring break and then the rest of the year just like flies by with so many activities um and so uh just noting that there are a a whole bunch of different school events going on across the school's uh career day College and Career Day um at canalino uh lots of field trips coming up um and uh just to touch on field trips um I think it's important to note that a lot
117of our field trips are grant-funded um and a lot and as far as future field trips we are working with with finding Partners um if we need to fill gaps in the future but um like the field trips in particular today are Grant funded um and so anyways we have uh a lot of marine science programs that are happening right now which um I am particularly fond of um and so I'm really excited for all the kids that will get access to our oceans um and access to Marine Science um in a bunch of different very Hands-On types of opportunities um I want to bring up that uh the board finished uh four different meet and greets at the different School sites um we met at canalino for canalino and family school we met at
118the middle school we met at the high school and we met at Aliso for Aliso and Summerland and it was an opportunity to meet and talk with teachers and staff um at each of the sites uh in a in a in a casual setting um not about anything in particular it was an opportunity to get to know each other um great conversations a really good opportunity especially if you maybe didn't have kids at that site um getting to know the staff on a more personal level um in both ways and so I really appreciated that I want to thank everybody that that was able to make it and recognize that not everybody was because there's so much going on and uh we look forward to continuing this into the future um and get some type
119of ongoing schedule for these uh I'd also like to point out that um uh I just want to take a moment um several weeks ago uh we lost a staff member Eric reer um and who was uh with special education at Aliso and um he was a very uh a iconic person over at Aliso and um and so our thoughts and prayers are with him his family and his friends and colleagues um there is a clear uh void in their hearts at Aliso right now um and so I just want to recognize that um and recognize uh his time at the district it was how many years he was here for three years and in those three years he he did a lot of really good work with our students and and made great connections
120with our staff so um just take a moment real quick to uh for Eric thank you um and I'm trying to think if there's anything else I feel like there's something coming up but uh oh the girl Inc Gala was this weekend um and I was was uh I was offered a ticket to attend it was an amazing event raising a lot of money for they raised over $200,000 oh wow I I I turned it went late and I turned into a pumpkin after 9: so I was out of there but um yeah it was an amazing night with a lot of people that love our community and love the work that girl zinc is doing and recognizing that it serves all our students um whether they're and students not from cusd all all of
121our youth in Carpenteria um and uh so incredible work I believe boys and girls that was it Boys and Girls Club has their event coming up um 14 yep okay um am I forgetting something on that no I think that's it okay all right and with that we are adjourned thank you good night