001Good evening. It's 5 o'clock PM and I'd like to call the June 18, 2025 regular board of education meeting of the Englewood Unified School District to order. And I would like our to ask our board president, Mrs. Margaret Turner Evans, to please lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Would you please stand? Good evening. Please stand. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. May be seated. Thank you so much Mrs. Evans. Next we'll have roll call. Miss Sbrano, would you please call the role? For president, Miss Margaret Turner Evans, present. President Board Vice President Dr. Carlos McGee present board member Miss
002Joyce Randall present board member Mr. Brandon Myers present board member Mr. Ernesto Castillo present Dr. James Morris present Dr. Bernardet Lucas present Dr. Brian Coffee present Mr. Rafael Guzman present. Thank you. Please be informed that Spanish language interpretation is available during this meeting. Thank you very much, Miss Sbrano. Moving on to approval of the agenda. I hereby I approve the agenda with no modifications. Reporting out of actions taken in this evening's closed session. In this evening's close session, the county administrator took action to reject the following claims. A skip claim 2513525. A skip claim 241243. In close session, the following settlements were approved. O a case number 202502060. O a case number 202520179. O A case number 202502020826. O AH case number 2025040097. And finally, O AH case number 2025021 029. That is all of
003the reportable actions from close session. And now we're going to transition to record reports and presentations. We have several presentations this evening. Our first presentation, I'm going to begin by telling you a little bit of a mystery story. It's one of the great mysteries of Englewood Unified School District. I haven't been able to figure out. About 40 years ago, two community members whose names were Don Perkins and Audrey Wood gave an endowment quite a large sum of money to the school district. I never been able to find I asked every historian in Englewood. Nobody can tell me who Don Perkins and Audrey Woods are. But they gave a lot of money to the school district and said put this in a bank account and then every year in perpetuity take out the interest that's earned
004on that money and give scholarships to students. and they had a criteria for those scholarships and they said, "Okay, well, we want the scholarships to go to students who are selected by their principal for two things. Being excellent scholars and being excellent citizens and students who have limitless potential. Students who are going to go on and do great things in life." And so we give out this scholarship every year. This year we have a total of 10 scholarships that we're going to present this evening and each of the scholarships in the is in the amount of $2,500. Um exciting opportunity. So we're going to honor these 10 students. I want to just thank their principles and counselors because they spent a lot of time deliberating who are the students at our school who exemplify scholarship,
005citizenship, and have limitless potential to make a lasting impact on the Englewood community. These are incredible, incredible young people that we are so proud of. And so I'm going to begin uh call the 10 students up. Um, we'll first have the group from City Honors International Preparatory High School. First student that we want to call up. [Applause] Sure. Dr. Aria, do you want to come up with them? And first it is Alexis A. Costa and Adela Peace. Um, and Dr. I don't know if you want to just offer a couple of uh your comments about these students and how incredible they are. Of course. Um so standing to my left we have Peace Adela Y. I always get her name mixed up. I said it right at um graduation but she was our validictorian and
006she boasts a 4 three 49 GPA. She'll be um attending UCLA in the fall and she wants to major in bio psychology I believe. Did I say that right? Psychiology. Psychobiology. I knew it was something like that. Um it's beyond me. So we're very proud of Peace. And next we have Alexis A. Costa and he is right behind peace. Um very brilliant young man. Man man. And do you want to say where you're going in the fall or is it Jason? Okay. He doesn't want us to know. It's a secret. But he is also going to be amazing in his career. I'm very proud of these two. Um and I know that they're going to um make the world proud as well. That's awesome. [Applause] Maybe we'll call all of the students up and then
007we'll take a picture with all of them together with the board members. Um, next are students from Englewood High School. Um, and Miss Pittz is here for the students from Englewood High School. We're going to have them come up. Raphael Vandoeva, Gian Bradshaw, Jorda Smith, and Natalia Vasquez. And Miss Pits, would you like to come up? Do you want me to say? Absolutely. I just would like to say these students are amazing. Um they're involved in if every club activity they are there. Um these are students that you will find in the classroom. They're participating um turning in their work by the due dates. I mean these are students who scholarships. I'm very proud of them. Thank you so much. And we're going to have you come back up in just a minute. We're going
008to do our last two students from Morningside High School, Vince Samonino and Caitlyn Forbes and they're proud proud Dr. Kane is going to Okay. So, not only are these two scholars, they are amazing role models on campus and one of the criteria which you didn't mention was sportsmanship. So, they're multi-talented students. So they were able to play their sports, be at the top of their game, and be role models on campus. They always exude positivity and citizenship and just great children, and I am so proud of them and I wish them the best in their endeavors. So Vince and Caitlyn, and if we could have all 10 of our students come forward and then we'll go down and take a picture with them. Come here. Come. You want to be in the middle. You get
009some money. Everybody that's okay that way. We'll all go over this way. Congratulations. Now, with all that brilliance to 10 of the brightest, most incredible young people in Englewood, I'm going to challenge you to see if you can figure out who Don Perkins and Audrey Woods are because that's your challenge because we that's a great mystery of Englewood Unified School District who gave this great gift, but it'd be nice if we could uh know who we were we were being thankful to. So, thank you. Congratulations, young people. I don't know if Miss Evans wanted to make any comments, but we're so so proud of you and and we just know and have an expectation that you're going to come back, that you're going to come back and give back to this community and continue to
010make us incredibly proud. Thank you, Dr. Mars. Um, I didn't know about this scholarship until the other day when Dr. Mars told me about it. But this is wonderful. Now, this money, I understand, has been around for a while and uh I am so happy that it's going into the hands of our scholars and they can do so much with this money. I'm sure most of them will be going to a college somewhere and their parents will be happy to know that they have $2,500 to get them started. So, thank you so much for doing this, Dr. Mars and whoever Mr. Perkins is and and Miss Woods. I'm going to look them up and I'm going to find them because they might have some more money somewhere. Anyway, thank you very much. Our next presentation
011this evening will be given by Dr. Bernardet Lucas, assistant superintendent of educational services. And Dr. Lucas will present the proposed local control and accountability LCAP. LCAP for Ingwood Unified School District, LCAP for City Honors International Preparatory High School and the LCAP for Latiara Academy of Excellence. Thank you so much, Dr. Morris, for President Evans, board members, cabinet mates, and community members. This is um for you. Um I do have the honor of introducing the presentations on the local control um accountability plans for the district, Inglewood Unified School District. Um, shortly thereafter, we'll bring up the principles of our dependent charters first, the principles, uh, principal of city honors, Dr. Sabaraya, followed by Miss Robbie Tate, principal of Laji. Um, with that, I'm going to ask Dr. Danielle Goulby to come up as she's coming up
012as I always do. Are you here again? I know you're here, but are you close? Um, as I always do, there's no way that I can't um, uh, point out and acknowledge Dr. Goulby's extraordinary leadership. And when I say extraordinary, I'm not being hyperbolic. Um, it's the truth. Um, she has coordinated the effort around the writing of the LCAP from data collection to coordinating and hurting all the cats um, who are the leaders in the district to bridging um, between the divisions to make sure that we have all of the information and planning that we need to have. She is an extraordinary leader and I want to take the opportunity to commend her for her leadership not just for this but for everything. [Applause] And so with that, I'll give the general information. All right,
013next slide. Okay, so we um we put together a glossery for the um the board and the community just letting you know about some new terms that are going to be in this LCAP. And it's all centered around um the implementation of the OKAP, the progress that we're um making on our matrix and um the uh effectiveness of our actions. Next slide, please. So the LCAP is made up of these components. And so um hopefully today's session will give you kind of an idea of how this um document works. And this is the same document that every school district in the state of California um is utilizing. and and we're all asked to answer um the same questions. So the uh first part of the LCAP is the um budget overview for parents. Um then
014there's a uh plan summary uh uh engaging of parents goals and actions and the um increase and improved services. Next slide please. So at this time I would like to introduce my counterpart um Sid um Sid um if I said his last name right Batu Ba sorry I put these two names together Batu. So he's gonna go over the um budget overview for parents. Good evening everyone. Uh thank you for being here. I'd like to take a few minutes to share Englewood Unified School District budget overview for parents for the 2526 school year. Our funding comes from multiple sources. The local control funding formula, also known as LTF, is our largest and um most critical source of revenue. LCF provides base level of funding to all the school districts in California. LCFF also provides supplemental
015and concentration grant which are extra dollars directed to support foster youth, English learners, and low-income students. These grants are designed to ensure equity by giving more to districts that serve the highest need populations. On the slide here, for the fiscal year 2526, we're projecting a total revenue of 144.4 million. 90 million will come from LCFF sources. 26.8 million of that LCF revenue is generated specifically because of the number of high students we serve. Our planned expenditure for 2526 is $182.44 44 million. Of this 93.2 million is aligned with goals and actions in the LCAP and 31.9 million is budgeted to serve the high need student population. It is important to note that these figures do not include the two dependent chargers Lihir and city honors. We remain focused on our using our resources effectively to
016serve all students especially our most vulnerable ones. through continuous improvement and community engagement in the LCAP process. We are working to ensure every student has the opportunity to thrive. Thank you. So, at this time, we're going to have uh Dr. Lucas share some of the general information. We had an opportunity. I'm I'm very proud to say there are a lot of highlights that we um had this school year and um I would like Dr. Lucas to share what's been happening here in Englewood. So, I have a tendency to focus on what we need to work on. So, Dr. Goulby had to um professionally uh urge me to uh do this and I'm happy to do it. Um so, there are many many highlights to share. I'm not going to be able to go over all
017of them tonight, but the community deserves to know what some of them are. Um, we've rolled out and you can see in the last year's LCAP the one before that that we've spent quite a bit of money on professional learning communities really called collaborative teams where teachers and other educators come together to analyze student data and use that data to make decisions around student learning and wellness. Those are um getting stronger and stronger every single year. And you see the results in our increased student um achievement as measured by our internal assessments. Um I shared those a couple of um board meetings ago. We should all be very proud of that. Additionally, we have um increasingly defined and enhanced our CTE pathway so that they are extremely clear um and meet college career requirements. Our
018afterchool offerings have become more robust um and more accessed by families and students. the implementation of new core instructional programs, including um for our TK8, we went from piloting with um three schools last year to full implementation this year. We also rolled out a new standardsbased English language arts program for high school. We rolled out a new math program two years ago that we continue to do, very rigorous. High school rece um gets a new math program next school year. Early college was implemented um and our students will earn an um AA at the end of their high school experience. That's a new program. Small group instruction has become stronger and stronger in the district. That's incredibly important because our focus on individual student groups is how we'll get to our increased student achievement. We
019had we've had an explosion in English learners who've reclassified a music program that continues to be become more and more award winning student voice has been amplified in all aspects of the district. Our college um our college visitations including our HB.CU tours um continue. We've increased the number of wellness rooms and wellness programming. Now you might be wondering this sounds great. what are you all going to do to get even better? So, next year we continue our commitment to um the multi-tered systems of support to provide individual differentiated supports for students. We are implementing a three academy model at the comprehensive high school, Inglewood High School United. This is very important. I'm hoping the community is listening to this. Each high school will have its own assistant principal and its own counselor thereby lower lowering
020the counselor ratio and the administrative support ratio. Do do we all understand how important that is? The three Okay, good. The threemies are um AM animation media entertainment. The next academy is the medical academy steam and our third academy is early college. In thesemies, students will receive differentiated individual support and um counseling that will keep them on track to getting to college and completing their CTE pathways. Now, I could go on, but I don't have time. But what I do want to do is celebrate, like I did last time, every single employee in this district because without them, none of this would have been possible. [Applause] No one Oh yeah, that one. Can I go back? Oh, can I go back? Okay, there we go. All right. So, the next part of the um LCAP
021was the annual performance and um you saw this in um in uh at the midyear report. So, this has not changed. The new information will come out in October. So, this is just um letting you know this we have to add that to the um to the uh plan. And then you've also seen um our AM performance from 2023 to 2024 where we landed with all of the subgroups. Um I'm going to Oh, and then this year we had to um share what um uh how we utilize the um the learning recovery uh block grant. And so here's just the update of um how that funding was spent. Now technical assistance, Dr. Lucas will be back to share about that. So um you can see noted at the bottom left um Dr. Eugima Hosea designed
022this um this system which deserves to be in a book. I say that every time I talk about it. This is critically important because we use this cycle to support the professional growth of our principles thereby supporting the professional development and growth of our teachers. This cycle is about accountability, implementation, and monitoring where the principles provide evidence of their individual support of teachers based on um conversations, student data, and classroom visitations. I I do want to emphasize that um Dr. Josea's leadership with this has had um epic ripple an epic ripple effect throughout the organization because it's facilitated authentic growth in our um site administrators and our classroom teachers. This model is also supported by the differentiated support model that is rolled out in every department of ed services. Now, this next slide, I don't
023get tired of showing it because I'm so excited that we are we have no uh CSI schools in our district. No um uh comprehensive um support and improvement schools. That is a hand clap for um this year. So, I was very happy to report on the LCAP and just give that one sentence that there are no CSI schools in England Unified School District. So, that was the best part of the report. All right, the next one. Um I see some of our um educational partners in the um uh room and I always like to shout them out. I see Mr. Archae one of my uh uh uh loudest and most uh not loud negative loud positive in terms of advocacy for all kids. So thank you so much Miss Archa. I just wanted to give
024her p a public acknowledgement for that. She comes in she comes in every meeting and it's always about all kids not just hers all kids and how we can um support our kids. And I see more of our parents. I see Mr. um uh Sanchez and other parents here um that have been very active in our um educational partner groups. Um we have educational um partner um LCAP committee as well as our parent advisories, our ELAC and our um DACA. And our students this year, I can never say enough about our students. Our student um um advisory groups are phenomenal. Elementary, middle, high school and they do give feedback on the LCAP. They do talk about um what's happening on their campuses. They do we do go over data. We talk about attendance. And I'll
025give you an example. The students at um at at Payne. Um after our first session where we talked to them about our attendance data, they went back to their campus and they started an attendance campaign. They have posters all over the campus. They were encouraging their classmates to come to school and that was all because they learned about the data and they start tracking the data. So, our kids are in tune to what's happening um with them and on their campuses and and how um everyone else being there or not being there impacts them. All right, so this was our um our LCAP survey. Um it went out to all of our um parents and students and staff and these are the um the folks who responded to the surveys and the school sites that
026um participated in the survey. Um we took all of the responses in the survey. Um there was the there were um uh open-ended questions and then there were um multiple choice questions and we took all the um feedback and and brought it down to five themes. And so there were five themes for each group. There was five um that um were most important to the uh students, most important to the parents and then most important to staff. more importantly, we took their feedback and um incorporated it into the LCAP because what the most important thing and I and I share this with our our parent group and even with the student groups that their voice does matter and we have to show them that their voice matter. They do have influence on our um our
027district and decisions. And so having their thoughts reflected in actions within the LCAP um is very important to them. And so these are where the their um their thoughts are reflected in these particular actions. All right. Now getting into the LCAP and the goals and actions. So um you have for your reference our metrics for each one of our goals. So uh for the first one goal one these are the metrics for goal one. Um we and you see our first year what was our baseline that means that you know the first year that we utilize data this the um the the the the next year that we're comparing it to and then when we f by the time we end the LCAP where we're hoping to to land in terms of um our ratings.
028So that's this is goal one. Now this is the um first year of the new uh LCAP cycle and with this um we had to do our goal analysis for the first time and so how this reads is that we have our actions in goal one for this year we had 10 actions um each action had um uh funding that was allocated to it. Um what's in the next column is how much was actually spent of the money that was allocated to that action and the percentage whether it was fully implemented, partially implemented or minim minimally implemented is all based on the amount of funding that the funding that you that you used. And then in the second column um the metric is based off the metrics from the the previous slide. Did we meet
029that um metric? Are we progressing towards that metric or did we not meet it at all? Because some metrics are you either meet or you don't or some you are able to progress over time. And then the effectiveness, was it highly effective, minimally effective? um was it partially effective or or not effective at all? And so um in looking at this, I do want to highlight um um number one. Although number one um um says that it was partially um implemented, this actually ended up being a very highly um uh action. This um this the the the reason why a lot of the money wasn't used is because it was a cost saving. We had a a new staffer who was um uh who's assigned to this particular action who made sure that we had
030all of our students uh were getting all their materials and and um helped us from um prohibit not prohibiting but help helped us from having to spend additional funds to buy books and materials because we have a lot of that throughout the district. So this is a cost savings. We didn't have to buy any new books. We didn't have to buy any new um curriculum because we have plenty throughout the district. And so organizing that um was um a huge um responsibility and a huge task. And so as a result we met our metric for that and um it was very highly effective. So that gives you an example. So moving forth into the 2025 2026 school year. Um we're reducing the um goal one by one action. Um we found that uh one of
031the actions really belonged in another goal. So, we removed it from there and now we're down to um nine actions in um goal one. All right, goal two. Same thing. We have our matrix. These are the um measures that we're that we're uh grading ourselves on um to see if we can make these um these marks in terms of our our expectations, increasing our um our test scores by 20% by the end of the the LCAP cycle and um upping our ratings and our uh college and career pathways and and our our certification scores with AVID. Um all of these are are our matrix for goal two all centered around um multi-ter system of supports. So the summary for goal two um same thing you can see um where we've um have uh spent in
032some places over spent. That means that we for the 2025 2026 school year, we have to look at, okay, what's in there that we need to um uh uh add more supports to andor the reverse if it it wasn't as uh much money spent in that area, is that something that um needed to be um trimmed? And as a result, um we did um collapse two of the actions because we felt as though they over overlapped. And so for the 2025 2026 year, um we're down to 12 actions versus 13 because there was an overlap in um in uh two particular actions. Um goal three, same thing. You have the metrics for goal three. This is all centered around culture and climate and uh uh our culture and climate statistics. That's all looking at attendance,
033uh, chronicism, suspension, expulsion, um, uh, graduation rate, all of these things. We're we're looking or monitoring, uh, those, uh, statistics and all those activities that are helping to increase, um, those rates. And so, here's the, um, summary. Uh this was the amount of money that was spent for these actions and where we landed in terms of our progressing towards our matrix and um and being um uh effective, highly effective or minimally effective with these actions. And all of these, like I said, centered around um attendance in schools, our our uh the implementation of our wellness spaces, our um positive behavior individual supports, all the folks who are supporting around that at the school sites um and our parent engagement, all of those things. um and uh community relations. All of that is within goal three.
034And then for um there was no changes to goal three. We're still keeping the seven um actions um as is for goal three. Um goal four is all centered around um special education. Um these are the metrics that are centered around special education. Um with with this we drill down in our um state um uh data uh to look specifically at our um our mod uh our our mild moderate students who are taking the CAS and then our mod severe students who are taking the CA and I I do want to shout out our M severe students who took the English call. I mean they jumped from 12% to 21%. That's huge for um um um those students. So that's I just want to give them a shout out for that. I thought that was
035really cool. Um I'm sorry. The um the that's the uh the um state test for our our mod severe students. Um English they take um English language arts um math and science. So all of our students are tested but that particular assessment is done at their um their their level and um but they're able to respond and um and show what they know. So I was very proud to see that. Um the summary uh uh same thing. uh we had four actions. We're uh looking at the um the funding that was used for those actions. Where are we in terms of progressing and um the effectiveness of those actions? And then uh we're actually it's going to stay oh I thought I caught this. Uh it's going to stay um at four um actions four
036and five. That fifth act actually I know why that fifth one is here. The fifth one is there because that was the one that we took from um goal one. it's not going to be in goal four and um we're collapsing four and five to one action because that that particular action all centers around staffing and support for student um learning. So that's from our classified staff the the um our certificated staff. So that's all in one area. All right. And then um uh goal five is our uh English language learner uh goals centered around English language services. And um this the statistics here are all centered around our English language learners. So how are English language learner students performing on the CAS? How are they performing on LPACT? What's our reclassification rates? Um how
037what and all of our actions are centered around these particular um matrix? And then um again you have the summary how uh what we were allocated, how much was spent um and uh and how we're uh progressing on um and and Dr. Lucas already shouted out we had a a huge um jump um in our reclassification rates for this upcoming year. It's not official yet, but it's the numbers are looking really good. So we're very proud of that. And then um there was one change to um goal five. Uh the number of actions didn't change but um one uh action was replaced and so that's uh was action two that was replaced. And then u finally our goal six goal is center around the equity multiplier. The equity multiplier deals with our non-stability rate. That's
038basically um rating how many students um uh begin the year and end the year at the same school. And um the rate of students that you um do not want to go over is 25% or more of students who are coming in and out of the school year. And so all of these stat statistics help in looking at how can we um uh minimize that um that instability rate. So we're looking at um their attendance um students academics, the uh culture and climate on those campuses and um college and career opportunities at the high school level. And then here's a summary. this this this particular action was only for the schools that qualify for that. So for this year it was um let me go back for this year it was only for um Ingwood
039High uh Morning Side and Engle continuation. Next year it would be for Inglewood Ingwood High continuation and Whitw with Monroe and then here's a summary on um those actions. Um and then the actions that will be um discontinued will be the actions for um uh Morningside and then uh the new actions from what work remote will be um inserted and oh there you go here are the new actions. So here are the new actions for um that include the um continuation Ingwood High and Woodworth Monro and that's it. Are there any questions? So, I just Are we going to go and do the other two and or at the end? Oh, no. That's fine. Maybe we'll do them at this point. Sorry, Dr. Lucas. I didn't uh follow what I was supposed to be doing.
040Uh I just want to make just a general comment about this LCAP because the presentation that you saw, Dr. Dr. Goulsby didn't sit in an office and write all this up and think all of this up. It's been a committee. It's been a model. I really Dr. Goulsby has led and our district has become a model of what it means to have community involvement to have a committee, a large committee, people who have strong opinions, who have a lot of knowledge and have had great input. This is not something that somebody sits. It's not a technical document. It's a living document that's really created by the community. Yes, Dr. Goulby leads it. She leads it with grace and style and an iron fist when she needs to, but it's a community document that people have
041input on and they say this is what the children in our school and our community need. Um board members, I'll see if there are any questions or comments on this and then we'll have a presentation on city honors and then a presentation on Latihara. Well, I'll start off. Dr. Goulby, you must dream about this at night because it's so easy for you to come off and tell us all of this. It's just in your head and it's just amazing that you keep all of this in your head and that you can make such a wonderful report that shows that we are improving. That's the goal here is to improve in every every area that uh the LCAP supports. So, I thank you for all the hard work that you and your team have put in.
042Your your parents, everybody who works on this and I'm I'm thinking now I'm a retiree. I'm I'm sitting at home every day and you're at work doing all of this. And I'm feeling guilty because I said I should be up here doing something something else more than what I'm doing. But this is amazing. And I'm just really happy to see that we are progressing. I want everybody in Englewood to hear that Englewood is on the move. We are doing what people have been saying that we weren't doing, but we are doing it and you have the evidence to show. So, thank you. Board members, do you have anything else to say? You have question? Yeah. Okay. Dr. Mr. Castillo. Yeah. Well, you know, ditto with everything Miss Evans said, um, you seem like you're made
043for this and we're just happy that you're here at the district with us. The only question I have is when we're consolidating our goals, are we also consolidating the budget or are we reallocating that budget to fulfill the needs of the other goals? Yeah, they they were collapsed. So, I'll give you an example. 2.5 and 2.6 um instead of having two separate actions, they would just collapse because they were the they what we were finding is that they were they were kind of overlapping. And when we're looking at when the spending was happening, we're like, okay, how this just put them together. It doesn't make any because they're they're doing the same thing. And then um in terms of just uh tracking, we moved like the special ed one out of 0.1 so we can
044track it better in goal five. It was things were getting kind of lost in terms of the tracking. So we want to be able to track all of our actions and know exactly what's happening and be able to do um any course corrections that need to happen because it's very important. We don't want any money sitting. We want to make sure that we're utilizing the funds, but we we can't do that if we don't know what's happening and not being able to track them. Girls first, ladies first. Okay. I just want to say uh Dr. Goose me. I I I know the dedication and the commitment comes first because if you're not dedicated or commit committed, there is no way in the world you could come up with this. This report is heavy. You know,
045I'm getting muscles from lifting it, but it is so comprehensive. And when people are asking questions about where monies are being allocated, this is this is a report that we can all refer to because I think you probably have one of the most um um challenging jobs to make sure that the monies that we get are allocated and spent. So I know the time that you spend you know, making sure that um Mr. Guzman is is in sync. So, just kudos to um my new um weight. Thank you so much, Mr. Myers. Thank you, Sister Randa, if you wanted to go. Go Queens first. Dr. Gby, not only is the information off the chain accurate, but you had to work with a whole lot of folk, a whole lot of folk to pull this off.
046So, I'm just proud of you that your personality, that your integrity didn't change when you was a girl in high school. you always operate in excellence. And my questions to Dr. Lucas when we got when I got that first big map report is we have all these people who operate in excellence. Why does this report look like this? And they say it's going to take three or four years to move a percentile. And I'm looking at her, she says, "No, no, I got it. I got it." Well, she had you. And this is an outstanding report. You had to pull a lot of people together. a lot of personalities. It's not easy to work with us, but you pulled it off. And I'm very, very, very proud of you. Thank you so much. [Applause] Oh,
047I forgot to add one more thing. I'm sorry. If I can just take a moment of personal privilege. Our gate numbers went up like a lot. And so I I just um uh that was one of a personal thing. I wanted to see more kids be identified for gay and we we did. We have well over um it's likeund and something kids now who are engaged. Amazing. The numbers on this report the numbers on this report I want to take all the extra time to say so but it's like yes on here. I am so proud of this report and our students and the staff that had to work with the students, the teachers that had to work with the students, the resource specialists, the special all the teachers, all the staff that had to
048work with these students to get these scores. So, we went from 180 students um to 250 249. [Applause] So you can use the summary as one pagers if you have community members who have questions. That summary page just kind of um says it all. So that was the whole point of it. Please don't go nowhere. Sorry. I'm sorry. M I waited all sorry I'm sorry this question. All right. So when we're looking at I guess the second to last page um for the goal six summary um the equity multiplier. Yeah. I'm looking at um some of the action titles which are designated to Morningside staff and then we see some with Englewood High staff. So just um kind of echoing uh excuse me echoing what my colleague is saying about uh merging a lot of
049these goals together because of the merging of the high schools. Yeah, if I can share if I share with you equity multiplier is different. So we're we are told what the that we're given an amount from the state and so with that amount they have to create their actions. So with Morningside these actions are going to be retired. So when Morningside retires the the funding and those actions go away. So for the next year the new funding for Inglewood High um their their actions reflect their new funding for 2025 2026. So if you look at the slide that has the um uh the 1 through 10 these are the new actions. So the first four are um are Inglet continuation. The um and they have funding that was assigned to them by the state. Um
050the next three three are from Ingwood High funding assigned by the state and the next three for Woodworth and Monroe the funding was assigned by the state. The school set up their actions but the funding is assigned by the state. So I guess my my question is now being that the school sets up the actions we still have the same kids that attend that school minus the seniors. So, a lot of those actions uh could contribute to a lot of the support that just uh support those students that are still currently going there. Yes, absolutely. And so, that's what I'm looking at just merging. And I get it. I know you can't do it. Can't there's no money to merge. So, what they what uh they did was pretty much looked at um they they
051did have opportunity to work together to look at their SIPs and look at this information to see what the needs were for both of the campuses. So the hope was that the action reflected the conversation. That's the hope. So I just want my morning side babies to be Yeah, we were we were we worked hard to try to make sure that they were not their voices were not left out. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Okay. Um as Dr. Ry comes to the mic, I do I do it's really important that I share um this was a collaborative effort with human resources and business. Um, business and ed services are, for lack of a better word, married through this process. Um, and it's it's impossible to do it without the other two divisions. So, thank you,
052Mr. Guzman and Dr. Coffee. Um, if Dr. Ry would start approaching the mic, our next two principles, the principles of our dependent charters, um, their leadership has led to significant gains in student achievement as measured by our internal assessments, and we can't wait to see what CASP reveals to us. that a lot of that um achievement has resulted from their planning with their communities um around their individual site LC caps. But please please as as they both present think about the fact that they've led their schools to significant student achievement and increases. Thank you Dr. Lug. Good evening Dr. Morris. Um board members, cabinet members, community members, students. Um my name is Dr. Sabariah and today I will be presenting our end of the year LCAP update. Um first I want to start with my
053reflection. We usually end with a reflection but I wrote some notes before um I got here this evening. So I want to say um what I've learned about this process. It is a long process of course with stakeholders. Um, City Honors only has 12 teachers and so we do a lot of the work, double the work, triple the work, but I want to give thanks to my team because without my team, we wouldn't be able to pull off some of the things that we do. So, let's give it up for the tips team. Okay, so this is my reflection. Embracing the LCAP takes multiple personnel to analyze data, lots of it. Plan to spend dollars, lots of them, based on student needs. And that's the key, student needs and flex time. So, a lot of
054times we're doing this after school at night um to do this work for the next school year. We are going to be more intentional about all factors mentioned to support our students better at sitting honors because again as you see it takes a lot of different areas um to analyze to make this LCAP come to life. Okay, next slide. Thank you. Tonight I really will be focusing on that light bulb that you see. So I really wanted to give my mantra for this year is celebrate the small wins. I really believe that yes, this is the doc this is a document, but I want to show how we bring it to life at city honors. Okay, next slide. You've seen this already at the middle um of the year presentation. The focus for goal one
055is access to excellence. Next slide. Um as you can see, Dr. Blby did a great job at our wonderful job representing baseline in year one. So we're in year one. We're using data from last year because our dashboard data has not come out yet. So, we met all areas as you can see in year one. And what I would like to do is not necessarily focus on the expenditures because I I what I did realize and looking over this um for the past few weeks is that our team really needs to sit down and comb through some of the goals and actions so that we are um we can speak to these things better. Okay, next slide. So, what I would like to highlight tonight for goal one are our future projections and our opportunities
056for growth this year. I would like to say I'm so proud. Um, and this is coming from our Aries analyt analytics, excuse me. Um, we're looking at metric six, which is the percentage of students completing A throughG requirements, CTE pathways, and AP courses. Um, from Aries Analytics, we know that 95% of our students met A throughG requirements. So 95% of our seniors, and I said this at the graduation, but I can't be more proud. This is the highest we've ever been for A3G completion. Yes, that's something to really celebrate. Okay, our CTE pathways, if you just go down to technical alignment strategy, if you're reading um on the screen, um and this is a districtwide effort. I know that we've realized that our students are taking CTE courses but they're not getting the proper um
057acknowledgement for doing so based on some coding. Um so that's what that technical alignment strategy is. Um and I also came together with our team and we created a survey to see what our students want, not what we want to give them, but what do they want um to look at to major in. Um and they said they wanted to they were interested in cyber security. We did this last fall and financial literacy. And so what we've done is created a cyber security pathway with El Camino College. It's a two-year pathway. Um and we'll be using our CCAP funds as well as our LCAP funds. Um so I'm really excited about that. Our students will be going to El Camino for a few classes um for this pathway and for certification and they'll be making
058more money than me when they finish. The other thing we want to do is have an extension of our um AM pathway and that's arts, media and entertainment. We have art, we have creature salting. We want to look into now dance movement and drama and theater. And so we're broadening our CTE course catalog. The last thing I'd like to highlight, um we've had some challenges this year. We've lost about We've lost one teacher. Um and we didn't lose physically the teachers, but um they weren't with us second semester. So, I'm just saying we took a loss. We took a hit. So, we were down three teachers, which means we lost three AP teachers for second semester. So we are concentrating on hiring our qualified AP teachers to replace what we lost um because we still
059want to give our students the optimal um experience that they deserve. Okay, next slide. Um LCAP go thank you two is on family engagement enhancement. Um next slide the surveys are there. So we did survey um our parents. What I would like to focus on is our parent engagement physically. So that's them coming out to activities and um we're going to go to the next slide. Um and I really would like to highlight something that was so phenomenal this year. Our back to school night was the highest attendance we've ever had in my opinion. Um and our honor roll was amazing is not even the word. We had Thank you. We had 197 students on honor roll for semester 1. Um, and our students said, "Why can't we go somewhere else and have our honor
060roll cere ceremony?" So, we took it to the miracle theater. Um, and it was standing room only. If you go to the next slide, I believe in celebrating students all the time. And so, we really invest in giving students something physical but also giving them an experience. So, if you look on um on the screen, you'll see the different types of plaques and trophies that students received. We also highlighted our parents um for our perfect attendant students. And you'll see piece I think peace is up there too in the middle um and I believe Alexis um and some other students. And so, I don't know if you've ever been to the Miracle Theater, but there were no seats at all. people were like it was just like it's it was phenomenal. So we what we
061do notice is that our parents come out when they're when they're um when their students are being celebrated. It's challenging to get parents out sometimes forformational purposes. So we do a hybrid model. We're working on it. We have to figure something out. Get our parents out all the time. We know it's hard. Um when we survey parents, we know that a lot of parents are working two jobs, three jobs, and they're working night shift and different things. So, we're trying always to figure out um how do we reach our parents? Okay. Our LCAP goal three. Um we're focusing on academic achievement. Next slide. Play that video. We played that video before uh which highlighted Summerbridge. Um, we're noticing that our achievement is constantly on the rise and I know we can't speak about embargo data
062is not out yet, but we are predicting a huge jump at least a 20% jump um in our CASP ELA and math scores. Okay. over this this goal. If we go two slides over, I want to talk a little bit about our schoolwide focus. Um for our WASP visit a few year three years ago, Wasp said, "You need a schoolwide goal. You guys are doing some great things here, there, everywhere, but what are you really focused on?" So, we wanted to focus on literacy and everyone knows about writing across the curriculum. So, we did a spin on that. It's called CER, claim evidence, and reasoning. So, I want to celebrate our wins by showing a video. We worked with Solution Tree and um with Mr. Vez and he put together a video about our wins
063for the year. Um and and actually I think it's the next if you go over. Okay. It's under the video part. Yeah. [Music] Come on. Come on. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Thank you. That's the work of our guiding coalition really work with our our teachers to focus on CFAs. We built our CFAs and CFA is comment common formative assessment. Um we gave the CFA at the same time. Our students were taking the test at the same time and we did this three to four times for the year. So the first thing you saw was define the student. We want to know do the students know what these words mean? Claim, evidence and reasoning. I think that was 80 something percent. Um and then we wanted to know if they can identify in
064a passage what that was. And what you saw plastered on the walls um that my community liaison came up with uh was students actually writing a claim. So 96 97% of our students were able to write a claim based on a passage given from the four agreements. I was so impressed. Um and I think I was like at a principal meeting or something that day. So, I'm truly grateful for the work we've done with our small little 12 teacher team, plus our instructional coach. Um, and as you see on the screen, we're predicting that our 11th grade task force will show gains of the district's annual goal of a 20% growth or more in ELA and in math. And I want to give a huge shout out to the teacher who brought this to us
065two years ago, Miss Balden. She's phenomenal. um our instructional leadership team, which we're going to switch to our guiding coalition team, and Mr. Valz from Solution Tree. Um he's the most amazing support I could have had for the past two years. Okay, next slide. Okay, you guys have heard me talk about this. This is one of my favorite things to talk about, student engagement and wellness. Um okay, next slide. Here are our metrics. And the metrics the metric that I'll be f focusing on is metric number five. So a little bit about our wellness space. Many of you have been there. Um it's phenomenal. I sneak in there for five minutes when I need a respit. Um but now we have started our programming for 9th and 10th graders. They have the opportunity through their
066PE class to have wellness time. Okay. So can we go two slides over? So I just want to highlight some of the things that um students do in PE. Can you next slide? And then yeah. Um so these are live pictures from our students. Um the picture on the left is students um I think they're writing mantras um in the wellness space and then we took it to the gym and they're having I don't know if you can see I think that's Naomi um by the stage. She's giving she's doing a sound bath. Um our students take well to all the things that are going on. And then it's also a great place to just socialize. So at lunchtime, our students can go in there, they can lay down if they want, have a, you
067know, um or just have a moment with a friend or read a book. And one of the quotes that I really pulled out from one of the videos we took of of a student is, "It's an experience. It's medicine for the mind, the heart, and the spirit." If you go can go to the next slide. And another quote is um I kind of chopped it up because um it needed to be chopped up, but um one young man said just for other people to know that you're welcome and you can talk about how you feel, the pressures that everyone feels, it's just normal. And our students also do art therapy and I do art therapy too. Okay, next slide. Um this summer we are proud to announce the algebra foundations academy. We had to scale
068it down a little bit based on um what's happening at City Honors this summer. Uh we will be using this grant starting with the incoming ninth graders. We know that algebra is something that um students have to take for the for the state and then we're going to continue it in the fall. So if any student needs um support, we're going to use this grant to provide that support. Okay, believe that's it. All right, any questions? Thank you for listening. Thank you. Thank you so much, Dr. Mariah. Miss Evans, I'll turn it over to you. Well, Dr. Mariah, I I want to thank um for all the work that you've done with City Honors. At graduation, I was impressed with all of everybody at city honors was an honor student. Everybody, you know, it was
069just amazing to see all of them graduating with, you know, three point and above grade point averages. Just about everybody in the class. I said, I guess that's why they're at City Honors because they deserve to be honored and they're keeping up the name. So, I wanted to thank you, but the thank you for this report also. Um, you're just re-emphasizing what was already said with Inglewood being on the move and doing great things. So, I thank you for your leadership. Anybody else? Thank you. I have to move faster. I'm sorry. I just wanted to thank you for thinking outside of the box and being an example of finer womanhood. Your students want to be excellent because that's what you exude. You telegraph excellence even in the way that you speak, the way that you
070approach, the way that you always dress to the hilt. I mean, they want they want to emulate that. And because you post the scores on the wall without their names, right, that gives them their dignity. So just keep thinking outside the box. You're going to keep on growing well. Well, thank you. Thank Thank you so much, Dr. Aria. Um, yeah, and we we truly appreciate all that you do. Our final presentation this evening, Miss Tate from Latiierra. Um, good evening everyone. Uh, good evening Dr. Morris, board president, Miss Evans, board members, uh, cabinet members, and our amazing Inglewood community. My name is Miss Tate, and I am the pre, uh, president one day. I am I am the principal at Liyhair Academy of Excellence. Um today I'm going to present to you our um 2025
071local um control accountability plan. Um next slide. I'm used to the clicker, but thank you. No, I don't want it. It's all good. Um, in today's presentation, I'll go over and review um the current LCAP goals, um, services and supports, the LCAP matrix, and the expenditures. Um, before I get into it, I just want to um acknowledge uh some of our dashboard data that we were very intentional with looking at so we can make a change. Um, so according to the California dashboard, there was an increase in suspensions, particularly for the following student groups: African-Americans, uh, Hispanics, so economically disadvantaged, and students with disabilities. This dashboard indicated that these student groups were suspended at a rate of 10 uh 10.6%, which was an increase of 7.8% 8% from 2023, thus causing these students to fall
072in the red indicator on the dashboard. However, as a result, as a result, I monitored this closely as principal to decrease the suspension rate for 2024 2025 school year by providing alternative settings for students using our wellness center, uh restorative justice methods, uh mediation, and our PBIS framework. The goal behind this action is to hold students accountable for their behavior, but also to move towards positive results resulting in less suspension. And I can promise you we did it this year. Next. Okay. So for goal one, support services. This is just the basic foundation that all schools need to function. um teachers, principles, assistant principles, um student supervision assistants, um our special ed um staff and um instructional um materials. Uh we've met all those areas. This metric for goal one measures conditions for learning. As
073you can see, we are monitoring student access to materials, a safe learning envir environment, and fully credential prepared teachers. As you look at the uh expenditures, the expenditures align with this goal and matrix um address the conditions of learning. Three of the four actions are funded through the general funds. The last is for extra support for students including um an AP who works to ensure that our students receive um all services they need. Um, and our AP this year left in January to uh serve our country. Did we skip one? Oh, go to the next. Okay. Overall, the action in this goal were effective, but the staff shortage did not allow for all actions to be as effective. We will work more diligently with HR to ensure that the vacancies are filled for the upcoming
074year. Throughout the year, the positions were flown, but unfortunately, the applicants didn't match the credential requirements or the candidates didn't match our school vision. As for students having equal access to their uh required materials and resources, this provided this proved to be very successful. All students had access to core resources. Um, as far as changes based on the effectiveness of the goal and its potential for success, there will be no changes or modifications to this goal and its actions. And I can uh I be proud to say that all our vacancies I feel confident will be filled this year, this upcoming year. All right. Next is goal two, uh, supports and services curriculum implementation and supports. Um, so these things include professional development, um, our sped curriculum, college and career readiness, our hey tutors, our
075avid implementation, I'm just naming a few, our college and career counselor, field trips, technology supports for our English learners. Next, uh, looking at the matrix, this particular goal focuses on student achievement, which is something that I'm extremely proud of this year. uh Liy Hair staff has worked extremely hard to raise student achievement and we are on the rise. Um if you look at um I just want to just point out a few things. Um our cal scores has not come out yet. However, just looking at preliminary scores, we're looking pretty good and um that's something to be extremely proud of. We were very intentional with preparing students for the state tests um so they are globally competitive and feel comfortable taking those assessments. Um and the same with math. However, uh dibbles something that we
076are very proud of. This uh amplifies a new curriculum uh to Latihara. Uh we piloted I believe TK last year um in this year and uh first and second. This year we did K through five. At the beginning of the year um our dibbles um score showed that um 61% of our students were and this is when I say dibbles and amplified I'm talking about ELA. I'm talking about literacy. So this is extremely important because when kids read and they can succeed in math and science and all the other content areas. At the beginning of this year, 61% of our students uh were at um grade level and above. At uh our midyear assessments and dibbles showed that we won up 1% at 62. And our end of the year Dibbles assessment showed that 72%
077of Lassiara scholars are proficient or above proficient in literacy. Um, I'm g just shout out my uh instructional coach, Miss Jued, and and my u intervention teacher, just the admin team and all the teachers who were willing to be open to a new curriculum and really just dived in and did what was best for kids despite how they were feeling. It was beautiful to watch. um our English language learners, I have to say last year, uh we um there were four reclassifications and this year we have nine reclassifications. So that's something else I want to highlight. Another thing quickly before I move on, I think this is also very important. Our goal as a district was to increase students um proficient on grade level or above by 20% and several grade levels met the 20%
078mark. And so that's um something to be very proud of. Uh we also use I Ready and for our I Ready end of the year um scores. We're um also moving up. We're also doing increasing scores in I Ready. So at the beginning of the year for ELA, this is middle school. Um they were at 32% proficient or above um proficient above grade level. In the middle of the year, uh, we went up to 40% and at the end of the year, we went up 49%. Yes, that is that is a big deal. Um, and then in math as well, math is the district's focus was literacy. Um, and we're going to continue that. Um, but also lot here will be focusing on math now that we see what we can what we can do.
079And so, um, one thing at a time. That's what everybody say. You can't do it all at one time. But I sure tried. But we are for sure going to math will be a focus. Um at the end of the year we had um K through five 33% of our students were above were a grade level or above and then middle school was 43 um at grade level or above. So a lot of academic improvement um and it's something that I'm extremely um proud of and I'm grateful for the staff and team that I that I work with. All right, expenditures. Um, as you can see, I'm just going to highlight the two areas where we over spent, but it's okay because we had the money. We learned a lot. We just know we needed
080to allocate it to a different um action. So, if you could look at 2.4, um, we overspent there. However, um, just in reflecting on this, we know that we need to move more money in that area. And then also um AVID in our college awareness. Um we over spent but it was worth it because at Liy Hair we are building a culture and a mindset of college career readiness. Um every classroom is a college. All the students had their college shirts and they are extremely proud and every year they will attend a different college, a different class. Um we want to give them much to look forward to and just expose them to as many um college institutions as possible um as well as career. All right. The actions that supported students allowed us to
081address closing the achievement gap overall. Students were identified for supportbased data or identified for support-based data that indicated areas of need. teachers had been given more to identify to focus students through the use of teacher release and planning interventions and support. After school tutoring began early this year um and was consistent throughout the year. Saturday school was offered to students to function in alternative learning environments. Uh we use hate tutors as a positive impact with working with students especially our small group instruction and our interventions. Um the SST process or student support team process also served as a vital tool in addressing particular students and allowed the students and families to become partners in learning. The implementation of schoolwide AVID goals uh supported students to move forward um towards a college and career mindset but
082also exposed students to potential highwage careers. We are building towards platinum status. Uh based on the analysis of the expenditures, action 2.4 and 2.5 we will be will be changed to plan expenditures for the 25 and 26 school year. As for changes in any other part of the goal, none will be made. More focus will be deliberate on actions uh 2.6 and 2.7. All right. Goal three, supports and services, culture and climate. Um, this is also uh extremely important. It has a huge influence on student achievement. So, this consists of our um our counselor again, school clerks, our safety assistants, our PBIS support, uh, community liaison. We are community schools bound now. That's something I'm extremely proud of. Um, parent training and support positive climate in school in our school site. So if we look
083at goals three uh matrix um just a few highlights uh I like to highlight um attendance. We were um extremely intentional as a district to raise attendance because we realized the huge effect it had on uh student achievement. Um I'd like to um give kudos to Dr. Lucas who really made this a priority this year as well as Miss Debbie Tate who led the forefront in empowering principles to not just focus on those students who have perfect attendance but to focus on the group of chronically absent students. And so principles were able to put together every month with something. Um, so at our school at Liy Hair, we created a I'm here team where we checked in with those chronically absent students and we um told them how important it was to be in school.
084We would do daily check-ins. Uh we held um a hour of fun for them. They had a goal to attend school for four weeks. And um I'm proud to say that the elementary students who we had the uh biggest amount of chronically absent students, 60 out of 62 students, about 33 attended school for four weeks. It was huge. And so we are empowering um our kids and our community and supporting the families um by calling them and checking in on them um weekly and monthly to make sure that kids are at school because we tell them when kids aren't at school, they're not learning. And also um okay you can keep going. All right. Uh this goal was oh let me mention okay no I'll keep going. The goal was effective um because we made
085uh wellness if you can look on the chart you'll see that um we have two new wellness centers at Liyhara uh very grateful for those wellness centers um the staff u has built relationships with the students um and now uh well towards the end of the year the staff actually start coming out of the wellness center uh being with kids out on the yard and it made a huge difference with problem solving and conflicts on the yard. So wellness can went from the wellness center out to the yard and that's going to make a huge impact on our uh referrals um and discipline and so I have to say I have to thank the district for for the wellness centers and of course Dr. McGee. Um however moving forward we are going to use more
086funds towards wellness. Um this was our first year. The staff um saw every class at least twice a week. Students that were um having um a little some hard times during school got special one-on-one time with the wellness staff. And so we are learning day by day how we can use the wellness staff and the wellness center um for the betterment of our kids. So that is an area we plan on spending more funds in. But I have to say we're off to a good start. All right. Before I um talk about um our amazing learning recovery grant, I have to just acknowledge and u reflect on this process. Um I still consider myself a new principal. There's much to learn. Uh, however, um, in writing these reports, getting input from families and staff, we're
087learning together along the way, and I intend to continue to empower the community so they can help us make decisions on how we can allocate money and use their input um, so they can feel more apart. And so, the more I learn, the more they're going to learn. And so, I just wanted to acknowledge that because um, this is not easy. It's a lot of money. However, we this year have began to use it with intention and we are seeing the results. Um, moving on. So, lastly, I'm going to talk about uh talk about the learning recovery grant. This grant is 9,000 I mean $969,000. In spring of 2025, we took a needs assessment to identify what action to include in our LCAP that would allow for the use of these funds. The funds for
088the grant will be primarily used to provide additional support for students who have not met standards in ELA, math, and science. And so, while we're extremely proud of the growth and the percentage of the students who have mastered grade level and above, we are still focusing on those students that are on their way. That's extremely important. So, these funds will help in the supports that they need to get them to grade level and above. This action will be added to goal two of our LCAP. The funds for the grant have not been used to date, but will be an uh important fund for our work to support students next year as stated in action eight of goal two. Next year, we are adding an action to include, like I said, our learning recovery fund. We
089may change personal personnel in our goal three that may include a social worker to address students social and emotional needs. Students will receive additional support to close the achievement gap for all content areas. Some of these resources will include intervention teachers staff to release teachers to participate in performance student data conversations. Additionally, hey, tutor support, supplementary instructional materials, alternative learning opportunities, and exposure to learning opportunities outside the classroom. Teachers will be provided with ongoing professional development and coaching and implementation of standards for language arts, math, as well as strategies to increase language art development and reclassification to decrease our percentage of long-term English learners. Some activities will include learning walks, uh, collegial planning, peer observations. Um, and I have to say this is something that really helped us raise our ELA scores. Um, giving teachers
090more time to plan. Um, I want to thank Dr. Jose for pushing the principles to implement our cycle of inquiry and our cycle of implementation and improvement, which really helped us support teachers with instruction and also hold them accountable for doing what's best for kids. uh it really empowered uh the teachers and the students saw us in their classroom. So that helped them understand that we knew that instructions were instruction was important and that we wanted them to understand that instruction was important. And so this year we're going to continue to pour money into um empowering our teachers and making sure that they are well trained and u ready to um educate our kids so they are globally competitive and just so they can be their best selves. And that concludes my report. Are there
091any questions? Thank you so much, Miss Tat. I'm turn it over to you, Mrs. Evans. Well, first of all, this is uh my colleague school, so I'm going to let her start off talking to you because I'm sure she has something to say. I ain't got nothing to say. But, uh, Miss Tate, you are, as I indicated earlier, you are a breath of sunshine. I am so pleased with the progress that your school is making, but more importantly, you see the gaps and where we need to be more intentional. And that's really important because a lot of times we just want to talk about all of the good things, you know, to give the illusion that everything is fine. But when you are intentional about those gaps that we need to improve on, that makes
092you a really, really good leader. So, um, I want to congratulate you from earlier today. Thank you. I think all of my principles are superstars. It's important to me that I acknowledge that you have to be responsible for your teachers. Your teachers have to be responsible for their students and the parents have to be responsible for their children. And I think I'm responsible for making sure that my principles know that I care about them and that I I I know how hard it is. So, continue to be mindful because I love to see those kids do that. They go into that wellness center and they are like totally into their mindfulness. So, um, kudos. Thank you. Yeah. I would say have a great summer, but I know you Oh, it's never over. Thank you, Dr.
093Anyone else? I am absolutely impressed that every classroom is a college that will give them a growth mindset that they I need to go to the next level, make their parents proud, they can go to college. That's just so motivating. and the fact that you want to go to platinum status. The fact that you just didn't uh for lack of a a better analogy preach to the ones that were already in the church. You went outside and would got the students who weren't there and then said, "We're going to celebrate you with a party." So, they're just little little grown people. They were happy to come get their food. So that was just thinking outside the box, making the hard decisions to make sure your school grows and that's why all of your numbers are
094phenomenal. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. U Miss T, thank you very much for this report. Uh Li Harris do again doing what we said. We're growing and you and your team are helping it to do that. And I wanted to comment about the classrooms of college. That that struck me when you said that. I thought, "Wow, that's really good." And you have your hands full from elementary school through junior high. So, you got a double barrel, a double load there. TK, you have TK, elementary, and middle school. So, you are doing a phenomenal job. You're new principal, but you are killing it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone. And so before we turn it over for our next presentation to Mr. Guzman for the budget presentation. I just want to say the
095common theme that I think we saw through all of the LCAP presentations this evening is strong and courageous leaders working hand inand with teachers at their school who are giving it their all for students in partnership with parents and seeing the result. This district is on the move. Test scores are going up, students are achieving. With that, we're going to turn it over to Mr. Guzman, who is always the man who tells us we got to put our money where our mouth is and focus the resources on students. So, Mr. Guzman for our final presentation this evening. Thank you, Dr. Morris. And, uh, good evening, uh, Dr. Morris, uh, board president, Miss Evans, um, and our board members, community members, as well as staff. Uh it's a pleasure to be here today to present the
096proposed budget report for 2025 2026. So um we're going to go ahead and get started here uh for these slides, these first couple of slides, I'm going to have Mr. Saddam Bata come up and present. Uh before he does, I just want to say and I want to publicly thank Mr. Baza as well as Miss Isa who's also in the audience for their phenomenal work. they they have done tremendous work. This year has been a rather challenging year in regards to the budget um and LCAP development uh due to a variety of factors. Um but what I can say is uh you know we they really burn the midnight oil to get this done. Uh they did their best. Um we worked really hard to try to identify as much as we can with the
097information we have. Um, and I just got to say they did a tremendous job and I want to thank them because of their professionalism and everything they that they do for the district. They are a gem for our district and we um need to invest in a a uh a ball chain so that they cannot go anywhere else other than Englewood Unified. So with that I'll present Mr. Va. Thank you Raphael. Good evening again. Um so developing the budget for 2526 it said it has been a collaborative approach. I want to thank educational uh services as well as human resources and also the department leaders and the school site principles administrators. Thank you everyone for providing us with all the information we requested from you and working hand in hand with us. With that being
098said um here's our few key terms that you'll be seeing throughout the presentation. There are couple of them that I want to highlight. ADA which is average daily attendance. We get funded on ADA which is average daily attendance not the enrollment and also the cost of living adjustment. It's a percentage increase in our funding to mitigate the inflation. So it varies year-over-year. LCFF which is local control funding formula which is our largest product money. Um and MPFP which is multi-year financial projections. Here's our agenda for tonight. Um, I'll let you look at it for a couple of minutes. I'm not going to go over all the things that's on the agenda. So, here is our budget financial reporting cycle. As you can as you know that our financial year begins July 1st and June 30th.
099uh we're here today with the proposed budget uh proposed LCAP as well as the budget whereas June we'll be adopting the proposed budget on July 1st. So the public hearing for um the proposed budget, it's a education, it's a ed code that requires us before the 1 of every fiscal before the first of July of each fiscal year, the board must approve must hold the public hearing and approve the budget and the budget has to be adopted and it has to be prepared in accordance with ED code 42126. So u when the budget was prepared the So when the budget was prepared, the California State Budget Act had not been signed prior to the creation of district's budget. Therefore, there will be some needs to incorporate any significant changes related to the final budget that's
100been approved. So uh if there's well, we know that there will be changes. So we'll be coming back to you with a 45day revision which will be presented on the August 6, 2025 board meeting. And I'll pass from here to talk about Thank you, Mata. And um as he mentioned before, I just wanted to just also take the time to thank uh Dr. Goulby for her leadership and as well as uh Dr. Lucas uh in the development of the LCAP. This is definitely a monumental document that you have to put together. I mean, we love we love numbers, but you know, I don't know how they put together all those uh figures that are around the numbers, also known as words, right? I don't know how they do all that, all the writing that they
101do, but they somehow get it done. And and we're just thankful for their leadership. There's been a lot of collaboration. And I I gotta say, and I think Dr. Lucas is there, and she could, you know, correct me if I'm wrong, but I I I think this year has been the best year of collaboration between educational services and business services. It has just been tremendous. And um I think it has a lot to do with Mr. Bata and and Dr. schools be just, you know, working together and really putting our eye on the prize, which is student achievement. That's what we want. We want to increase student achievement. And the way you do that is through um a lot of different ways. Um but I think budget is essential for that. So that's what we're
102trying to do. So in the LCAP, uh we've including we've included the LCAP assumptions into our budget. So the budget has the LCAP. It's actually in the account code structure which is great because other districts don't even have that level of detail. So we have the level of detail necessary to properly track the LCAP expenses. Um LCAP is is very particularly supplemental and concentration cap funds have to be tracked carefully because there is a carryover implication. So if all of the funds aren't spent and you know in the estimated actuals those funds get to be carried over to the next fiscal year. And so we have to make sure that we're tracking it greatly. And I think and I again thank Dr. Goldsby uh for her leadership in in making sure that gets done. Um
103as well as her staff and and everyone uh that that works in that department, Miss Setta as well who I I don't think she's here today, but she does tremendous work. I mean they all are fantastic. Uh but as you can see the goals are here. Um they align to the LCAP. Um and we're making sure that the allocations are carefully uh put into the budget and the carryover has been budgeted. So, moving on to cash flow. I know this is a document that's that's kind of uh difficult to to see uh but we we that's why we try to uh print it out as best as we can. But as you can see, we do have the month of June projection that we will end about $134 million in cash. So, we're very in
104a very good cash position, budget position, uh in regards to our reserves is is different from cash. Um what you will note in this report and I did want to stress this and it could tell you this is how I know that we're really looking at things. Um so this number here in March was 3.8 then it went up to 4.4 and then it went down to 3.5. And so in our assumptions we were like what happened in the month of of April did we give some other raise that I wasn't aware of and and who got it because it's on the certificate aside. So you know it was like what's going on? So no, what happened is that the transition to HCM happened in the month of April. So you saw that in classified
105as well. It the cash was 1.6 and went up to 2.2 then went back down to 1.6. It has to do with the fact that now the posting of journals in the new payroll system posts on the last day of the month versus the first day of the following month. So it seems like there was a a mixup, but it really is more having to do with the acrual uh when it's actually posted. So the cash is looking good. We're making sure to monitor even those like finite details of why we're seeing fluctuations from month to month. Um major assumptions uh this trend line is something that I hope can turn around, but that is what we have today and we have to go with the best assumptions that we know. uh enrollment is around
1066,500 students right now. We do anticipate that dropping to about 6,200 students in 2526 down to 6,000 in 2627 and down to 5800 in 2728. So that's what we've modeled our budget towards. Um I don't want that to happen. I I don't think anyone wants our declining enrollment to continue. Um so every anything we could do to turn this around, that would be great. But as of now, this is what we have. And uh this is what we're assuming in our budget. So moving forward in regards to uh some of our other assumptions and just so you know the lingo assumptions means there's there's a reason why we put a number into the budget. It's not just we just picked a number out of the air. So there's some there's assumptions we have to clearly
107define. We just saw the enrollment assumptions. We also use the school services of California dashboard for the other set of assumptions. For instance, when it comes to uh the COLA assumptions for 2526, we're using a 2.3% COLA increase in 2526 to uh you know based based on the LCFF and then 2627 3.02 and 2728 3.42. Those numbers can change and most likely will change. Um so that's always we're always keeping track of that and that just goes to show you the volatility of external factors. that 2.3 was 2.73 earlier this year. So that's a point4% drop. When you do 4% against your largest pot of money, that's a significant drop. And so that's why like we have to be very mindful of our reserves that we have sufficient reserves to absorb fluctuations just like it
108could turn around and be completely different and go up to three point. You know, it would be great if the governor says, you know what, let's just give let's just run them at 3%. That's not going to happen, but that would be great, right? Um, and so we would make that assumption change, but you can see the assumptions there. The base grants means uh what what the base funding is for each grade level from TK3, 4 to 6, 7 through 8, 9 through 12. This is a per student uh uh amounts that we get funded on. That's the base. Then the COLA is right there, 2.3. And then we have the uh grades span adjustments that some grade levels have. And basically, we have the adjusted base grant based off of that. and of course
109the TK add-on. So all of those assumptions is what we're using. The way we plug this all in is through the LCFF calculator. Some other major assumptions that we have in this budget, again we've already gone over the COLA. We are assuming CPI which is the consumer price index increases about 3.42% 2.98% and 2.77% uh in the out years. Um we've assumed the lottery numbers that we know of right now and also the instructional materials lottery numbers. they're we're keeping them consistent with what we know. Uh interest rates uh based off of what we know as well are there. And finally, uh SR rates, you can see we're just going based off of the trends that we are aware of as well as PERS. Um step and column, as you know, even if you don't
110do a raise year after year, you have to assume step and column increases as as your staff move through steps or maybe even columns. So, uh that is something that we have to make sure that we account for. So we've we've done that here. Uh we've also assumed an 8% increase to health and welfare. Uh we don't know if that's going to be the actual amount. We don't have that final number. That could be lower, that could be higher. Um so that again just shows you the volatility of a budget and why it's usually, you know, you're changing it. The important thing is understanding why you're changing it and being able to have a contingency plan for each for different scenarios. Here is the final document of our estimated actuals what we're presenting right now.
111Um basically as you can see uh in summary our total revenues for the unrestricted side of the house we usually focus more on that because that's where your reserves that you could use uh for unrestricted purposes line is about $118 million is the total. Um if you were to compare that to second interim um the other local revenue line this 10.1 is actually about $2 million higher that has to do with interest. uh we wanted to make sure that uh we didn't miscalculate that and our interest actually came out a lot higher over the different quarters. Um that also has to do with maybe in regards to the expenditures we projected some expenditures uh that have placeholders and so you know in the budget it's not going to capture that. So usually if your expenditures
112are are projected more as placeholders then your your um interest numbers are going to be off and so that's what you're seeing there. But now that we're at the estimated actuals, we didn't want to have a wild swing at the unodudited actuals. So, we decided to just put it in now. So, we have a more realistic picture of our budget. So, that's good news that we have a higher amount there. Um, in regards to um the expenditures, you can see our total expenses are about 99.3 million. Um, this means a decrease of about 13.6, which puts our ending fund balance at 70.5. That's slightly lower than what we had projected at second interim. Our total budget though with the restricted side is 185 million in revenues, 190 million in expenses, a net increase or decrease
113of 5.5 million. And so our ending balance there is 116. As you can see though, there's 70 million and then 46. Oh, sorry. I don't know. It uh jumped. 70 million and then 46. the restricted side is important to note that that is restricted. So usually we can't count on those reserves. So we that's why we always try to focus on the unrestricted side of the house that so now uh that's the estimated actuals that's what we're anticipating to end the year which is in line with what we had projected at second interim. Uh the only variances that we saw again were higher interest uh amounts and we also saw um some increased assumptions for SNC. uh we were able to determine that that uh in regards to LCAP we were going to expend some
114more funds. Um it doesn't really impact our our reserve in the sense of we already had a reserve hold for carryover. So it just lowers the carryover for next year. um proposed budget as you can see if you look at last year or in this case this year right to the 425 the LCFF sources are 106.1 million next year that number is dropping to 102.7 million and and uh that's not that you did anything wrong what happens is that's the impact of your declining enrollments but it's it's a it's coupled with the expiration of some of the benefits we had when we had the uh COVID uh kind of uh uh when when the governor kind of imposed those COVID rules that last year that we were able to use for our three-year average expired.
115Uh and so now we're actually living on what we have for ABA. However, that is kind that is in the in the ballpark of what we projected at second interim for the current year. So, it's not new to us, but it you know, once you're actually adopting the budget, you pay a little more close attention. And that's why you're seeing that kind of uh a variance there. When when you look at and compare it to the um adopted budget, you're also going to see um your federal revenues total has dropped as well. If you look at last year, the federal revenues total uh was at 17 million. Now it's down to 13. And that has to do more with the expiration of the ESR dollars um and things of that nature. So overall the budget
116is we're projecting our unrestricted side $112 million um in regards to revenues expenses are coming in at 94 but we also have contributions that that impact that. And so when you add the contributions, we actually end up with a net uh decrease in our fund balance, which brings our ending balance down to 54.1 from 70.5, which when we combine that to the restricted, we're down to like $90 million overall. Now, how does this look in regards to the multi-year uh projection and and reserves? So if you look at the total revenues uh for 25 26 26 27 27 28 you'll see how that ending fund balance is being reduced year after year. That last number here it goes uh to 61 down to 32 and that has to do with the fact that we're spending
117down our reserves. Um the concerning portion of this is that really the unrestricted side this 48.4 24 down to 28 down to two is uh basically showing that we're if we don't make any adjustments we will essentially deplete most of our reserves by 2027 2028. So that is a a bit of a concern. However, we do have time to make adjustments and we had talked about this already, how 2728 was going to be a difficult year. Um, and we have to start to make real adjustments uh to our budget uh to make sure that we're able to uh survive uh in the future. So, uh let me go back to that side uh just real quick. And so, when we're looking at the um unrestricted side of the house, that's the one that you really
118want to pay attention to. And as you can see in the unrestricted, our ending fund balance in 2728 goes all the way down to 7.6 million. Um, so we we really have to be very careful with identifying new reductions in 2627 and 2728 because if I add one more year to this 2829, then if I move everything over one like and I and we have a decrease again of let's say 26 million, you're going to be in the negative, right? So that's not the case right now. We're good for the current and the two subsequent years, but it's always good to look even that fourth year out and and see what's going on. Why? Because you can make adjustments now. And honestly, in 2829, there'll be a lot of different things going on in in
119our even in our country, you know. So, uh there will be some substantive changes to to everything regarding our economy, government, everything will change by that time. So a lot of assumptions could change. You know, it could make our economy go up and our colas go up and that might help some of this or it could go down. But as we know today, we have to start planning for reductions. But that house that also is coupled with the need for increase in salaries. We have to do something to increase salaries. With this type of picture, it looks really difficult to do so. But I think if we made targeted reductions and and use some of the savings towards curing this deficit spending, but also towards increasing salaries for our teachers and our classified staff, I
120think that's going to be monumental and that's really the focus. Um, as I've said repeated times to our our team, even our bargaining team, my main goal, uh, among one of my key goals here in the district is to find ways to increase teacher salaries and classified salaries because they are they're not where they need to be. So, we have a bit of a challenge and I think a lot of that can be done if you look at these numbers just at the adopted budget, right? Let me go back. Look at this services number like you know it's it's uh 73.8 million dollars. You know if we could some of this you could solve by just saying we're not going to do these services anymore. We're going to hire our own employees because you know
121when you look at that analysis a lot of times you're paying two or maybe even three times what you would have paid a normal employee because you have a consultant or you have a service provider. And that is something that can help resolve these issues in regards to salary increases. Now, it's really easy to just say, "Let's do it." But it has to be where we be we're strategic about it. We bring in staff. I think we're doing that right now with some of the uh certificated positions that historically we've funded out of consultants. Now, we're actually flying those jobs. And that's going to not only increase salaries, but also reduce your deficit spending. So, it's it's it's a challenge for us. Another thing about this budget is it's going to change by by the
122time we twice and and most likely they're going to see some some drastic swings. Number one, at the 45day revision, we're already hearing about some things that we're going to have to add to the budget, which is good news uh in regards to revenues. Um so, that's that's that's good for us. But when we actually see the settling of uh once students come back in the year especially with all the changes that we had uh between 2425 and 2526 we'll be a once the students are here sitting in the classroom we'll be able to look and we need to do a new assessment of the entire budget because it's it's a different type of landscape. Um and so once we know those numbers you're going to see the first interim report reflect a different type
123of budget. Um and so that may by itself help towards aim towards the aim of reducing your deficit spending. Um but if you were to look at any budget at any school district in the state of California, for the most part, you know, I would say 80% of the time, you're going to find this same picture that we're seeing here today. The third out year is always a year that looks bad. And and and oftentimes this is a difficult thing for bar in bargaining because they're like, "You guys always say we're going to run out of money by the third out year." But you know what happens is the district and the and the staff along with the unions work together towards addressing the issues and we're able to fix them. So we're in a
124good spot. We have sufficient reserves. We just have to know that we have to make adjustments and even more so in order to also address the issues of our salary uh and be able to work towards increasing salary for our um ITA members as well as the our teamsters. Um fiscal stabilization plan is is super thin. This is a document that we'll have to add a lot to at first interim, but we have to put something together for the adopted budget. What you'll see here essentially is reductions in certificated personnel. Um that's more so a formula reduction, meaning if your declining enrollment goes down by a specific set of numbers, um you can make certain assumptions of what reductions would look like and a lot of that is done via attrition. Um but there's going
125to have to be a lot more added to this document. Um if you ask me kind of firsthand like you know well you know what I don't want to scare anyone we'll wait till you know the first interim to really look at what that number is going to be. Um but we're going to have to make reductions to 26 27 and 2728. We're going to have to add to that document. So what's our next steps just to finalize because I know I'm taking a little too long approval of the adopted budget. Uh that's coming up uh on June u sorry that should say uh 23rd. Um revisions expected at the 45day budget revise. We're going to have revisions. Uh we're going to have substantial revisions again at first interim as our enrollment settles and we
126know where students are and and our teachers and all of that. Uh update the fiscal stabilization plan. We have to make those updates to the FSP. Um begin to focus on year end closing and carefully monitor changes in enrollment. That's going to be important. So we do have a couple uh we have a meeting coming up for the audit and finance committee. Um and we're hoping that we meet with them uh in in as soon as students come back and we and ideally like in December for first interim we'll be seeing like what happened last year where you know there was a we did the interim and then there was hopefully a raise somewhere around there. I can't commit that that's going to happen but that's that's one of the aims right is that every
127year we'll try to you know make a dent in that disparity that we have. Um so that is about it. That's the budget. Again, it's going to look different in about three months or four months, but um we're what I can say in summary is we're I'm cautiously optimistic about our budget. Um I think we have the right uh staff, the right team to and the right members uh as well in regards to our bargaining units. Um and I think that together we can make sure that we accomplish our main goals. Number one being increasing student achievement. That's the most important thing. And I think the second thing is increasing our employee salaries. We have to figure that out. And know the third and and also vitally important thing is to be able to be
128fiscally solvent because if you have to if you become insolvent with all that then you're back to square one and we don't want that. So um that is where we are. So that is about it and I'll turn it back over to you Dr. Morris. [Applause] Thank thank you Mr. Guzman. I have just a couple of summary comments because I think there's many many things that that I appreciate about Mr. Guzman's leadership, but I think the three that I just want to point out is number one, this commitment to transparency, a commitment to accuracy in the budget, and finally clear communication. Because one of the things I've talked many times with Mr. Busman about is you know whether it's you know the the the second interim to estimated actuals to the 45day budget to the
129first interim if a number shifts from one presentation to another we need to be able to communicate why that number changed and he does a masterful job of that. One of the things that we know in order to have credibility with our community, with our labor partners, with our staff, and with our board is we have to have accurate information. This team does a masterful job of making sure that the information that we provide is clear. I did want to just follow up on one of the comments um and just give a very real example that Mr. Guzman made. One of the things that historically has happened in Englewood Unified, because our salaries are low, we've had a hard time hiring positions. This year, through Dr. Coffey's leadership, were for the very first time hiring
130in-house language and speech specialists, so we don't have to contract out for that service. It saves us money and we have folks inhouse who are committed to our students, who are part of our community and are part of the school family. So that is a good example of what happens. Yeah. Um, and you'll see throughout the presentation and you'll see later even in the board agenda items, we really are working toward that goal of bringing folks inhouse, hiring the expertise here. But, uh, I just want to end Mr. Guzman, transparency, accuracy, clear communication. We thank you for it. Mrs. Evans, I'll turn it over to you for questions. Thank you, Dr. Thank you. U Reverend um you know what I'm going to say what I always say after you do this presentation about the year's
131projections and so forth. If we build it they will come. We have done such tremendous work and it's getting out there. people know what Englewood is doing and people are going to want to come here to Englewood. Uh bring their children back here and when we build that new school, they're going to want to come here. So, I'm looking at all, you know, every you tell us about these enrollment trends. I keep saying, why do you always show it going down? Why not show it projected going up sometimes? But I think it's going to change. That's going to change tremendously when we turn this district completely around when the people in the neighborhood hear what Englewood is doing. But we that's why we have to really advertise and let people know this is what's happening
132in Englewood and when they look at the scores and they look at all the projections that Dr. Goulby has told us about and the money that you're watching which I'm so happy that you're here watching the money and like you said the transparency and you can tell you know there's a little fluctuation you know Why did this fluctuate? You you don't have to wonder where it's coming from. You already know. But I just think that um you're doing a tremendous job, an amazing job, I should say. But I just want to see this. You know, when when I look that we're going to be down to a million dollars, a whole lot of things going to change in 2728. Thank the Lord it will be changing. Um I wanted to just ask a question about
133what's happening in this world now. And you're looking at the economy. We're talking about our enrollment is well, not well attendance. Our attendance is going up and our our money is based on ADA now because we don't have all this extra money that we used to have. But before school closed, did you notice any difference in our ADA with all the things that are going on in the world? We we had we so before they closed, we were seeing upward tick in in enrollment. I'm sorry, an ADA. Uh so that was something uh through the efforts you know Dr. Lucas and and the team uh we we saw some increases there. Um I think that though with that said with some of the things going on to now um which happened a lot of this
134kind of ramped up after school finished and then we have summer school and we're seeing an impact to sadly an an impact to summer school with the situations that we're we're living through today. Um, and so we're hoping um that we that that this, you know, uh that these these impacts to our community will cease um and that we could find a way to make sure our students get the education they deserve without having to be scared to go to school. And so we're that's one of the topics that I know we're discussing in cabinet as we get closer to the beginning of the school year, what we're going to do about that because we don't know really the reality of what that's going to look like once students come back into into campus. And
135so um but we're going to do everything we can to make sure our students feel safe, feel comfortable um when as they come to school. Thank you. Is tomorrow a holiday for school after tomorrow? It is. Okay. I got I got a question. What did you guys do? Go to bed and have an epiphany or or a brain explosion? We have been crying out to use in-house people since I've been here, which is 13 years. So, if we're projecting to do it now so that we save some money for the next four years, I'm just curious, when did you wake up and decide that this was like a great idea and that that idea that we've had since we've been here wasn't so great. I'm curious. Yeah. No, thank you, Dr. McGee. I think that
136really that boils down to more so our position to be able to hire. Um, with the 10% increase that we were able to give, it put our salaries in a more competitive realm where now we could reach out and hire. I think one of the frustrations was we would have positions out. No one would apply for them. We weren't able to hire. And now with that 10%, we've actually seen more volume in submissions for applications. Um, but you're absolutely right. I know you've been advocating for that for a while. Um I know uh important members of our community like like Mr. Hughes, he's been advocating for that for a while and and I have too. Um but it's just we haven't been in a position um to where we could do that. So with this
13710% increase, it put us in that beginning stage, but if we're able to do more on salary, it'll put put us in an even better stage to be able to recruit because you know um that it really that's what it boiled down to the ability to offer a position and people to apply. And so now that we have higher salaries, we're able to attract more people. We um you put out a plate at the last board meeting that you know we knew if we where we could get some extra money be it from the government, state, whatever for our um our um special needs population. Um because we we are fighting an uphill battle, you know. Um, the last time I checked, our students that are on the spectrum, less than 10 years ago, one
138in 61 kids were on the spectrum. One in 161. Today, 1 in 31 are on the spectrum. And we're seeing that population um come into all school districts. and we simply do not have the money or the staff to really focus on the most vulnerable population within our school district. So I hope that we are looking at some alternative. Parents really depend on us for all of the answers, all of the services for their children. But I am suggesting to save some money that we train those parents to work with their children so that they are not so dependent on a system that cannot cannot we are on overload and we have to address that because if we don't get any more money, they shouldn't have to suffer. But we should have something in place
139and that would cost less money to train parents what a speech therapist is doing so that they could come home repeat that if they're going through occupational therapy whatever we have got to start training those individuals that are the caregivers of our babies so I'm done thank you Dr. M that's an excellent point thank you run out of money. I believe that we got the bright idea to hire in in-house staff when we reach ground zero. Yeah, I've been I mean, I heard it when I came. I've been saying it over and over and over and over. We hire all these outside people who they don't care. They have clean it up. They half do it. They half do the job. They put in hours and just take the check and go home. They don't
140care. They don't live here. We've been saying it over and over and over and over. But once we had accurate picture of the money exactly where we stood and once Dr. Coffee was in place, I heard your name four times. So you wouldn't budge. Thank you very much. So that's how we were able to get to the point. I believe I listened quite well. I believe that's how we got to the point. Let's hire folk from inhouse. Let's pay our own staff. That's demoralizing. You're doing a job and you go up here in more money than me to come in and do the job I'm already doing. Miss me? My lunch is going to be an hour long now. So, it's demoralizing. But if you take care of folk that are in house, then we
141have happy staff. They come to work, they do the job because now you taking care of me, too. Just so you know. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. I agree and and you know I got to say like I I think in the past the issue has been this this fear to increase salaries because it's where deceiverhip and all these other things you have to you have to do it you have to some of it is risky and giving a 10% raise is a is considered a risky yeah it's it's like paying an attorney for something you could do yourself that's what I'm talking about if You don't pay somebody else for something we can do ourselves. Yeah. And I agree and I think that with time with with this race that we just recently did that put
142us in a better position to offer employment to our own employees that could do it because you're right, you know, not only is it that sometimes they pay somebody else is paid more, they don't do as good of a job as our own employees do. And so that's what we're trying to fix. But it has taken, you know, decisive action, being able to present a set of books fairly to the county, to everyone that they could say, okay, we trust that you could do this, right? And so we've done that with this 10% raise and we hope to continue with that momentum. And I think we will um you know, as we as we move forward to Thank you for the enthusiasm you bring to your job. I I have a little bit more historical
143background now. It's always good to be vindicated. So, thank you so much for doing such a good job. Thank you. Well, you know, just to clarify, I don't get paid more than boys because we we don't get paid we don't get paid at all. So, the zero is not greater than zero. Um, but I do want to piggyback on on what our board president board president mentioned. We had a great board meeting. We've seen how amazing our students. We've seen how amazing our principles are. We see amazing how our cabinet is, our board. Things will turn around and I I do want to be a little more optimistic as she shared as well and as a board has shared. Are we preparing for a at least um for our attendance and our enrollment to balance
144out or even better increase because you know we we do lose a lot of students in high school but the charter schools are closing and they don't have these meetings where they're so transparent. and they talk about what they're doing because they're clo they're closing for many issues because they're not being transparent with the community. So, they're losing the trust and we may be able to regain that trust. Are we prepared with that budget comes to have that enrollment uh number come higher and we have a new budget where we have all this money we weren't expecting? Yeah. No, we that's that's what we're aiming for. The the thing is with the budget, right, it gets reviewed by the county office and eventually by the state. So if I were to say, "Okay, we're going
145to go from 90% to 95%." They're just going to laugh at me and they're going to ask me to redo the budget. So, you know, I have to present a reasonable assumption. Um, but there is a lot of things going on. I personally think there's two things that drive your enrollment. Uh, I think number one is test scores, student achievement. If if your parents see that your your kids are are achieving and their test scores are going up, they're going to come to school. I think the second thing is your facilities to a certain extent. um could help. And right now, I mean, in the summer, we have a lot of things going on. Inglewood High School starting construction. BenQ is getting a new middle school area. Uh Sentinel is getting a whole makeover done
146as well over the summer, ready for our kids to move in. Warren Lane Kelso is now I mean, if you've gone out there, it's going to have a brand new soccer field. Um there's so much going on. Don't forget Oak Street. Oak Street as well. Oak Street's going to have a whole new ed early education center uh for our students. It's beautiful. We'll present that in a in a future board meeting, the new look of it. Um, along with a bunch of other miscellaneous projects we have going on this summer. I have to mention two more. CDC CDC project and City Honors is getting a multimedia library that nothing short of spectacular. Absolutely. You're right. It's happening all over. Sorry, I just had to ask. So there's a lot there's a lot and I think
147that's going to drive some of this our kids back because when they see that brand new even even Sentella I could tell you it's going to look fantastic. Um yeah. So but the test scores will will help that as well. Been looking crazy for the last 125 years. I just have one thing and not to cut you off Mr. deal, but y'all need to probably put some money into your um your online platform. I get too many complaints about parents trying to enroll their kids on our platform. I go on there and I see the same thing. So, we're losing money because we need to update our our computer system so that it's a lot more friendly and that it works. It don't work. Just so y'all know, it don't work. Yes. And Dr. McGee,
148that's that's we've absorb observed some of that. We're actually rolling out a brand new website. I believe I want to say in July, if I'm not mistaken, we're going to be rolling a brand new website that's going to be a lot more user friendly that fixes some of those issues because you're absolutely right, like there's issues with navigation. We've had several people uh let us know about that. And so now, so we've uh reached out to Edio and and it's going to be redesign. It's being redesigned now. Okay. That's a good use of funds. Yes. because um parents need to um I've had especially with City Honors, they they have had a very difficult time uh going on that platform and um you know being successful. Yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you. That be the last
149one. Okay. I want to remind my colleagues in the community, we are doing the work here. Okay. When I got here, this district was in receiverhip. Okay? Going back to serving uh uh uh the sins of our past. So, I want us to be clear about when we're addressing our comments and saying, "Well, this needs to be done. This needs to be done. It hasn't been done for the last 12 years." If we're looking at it, our district has been failing. So, I want to take my hats off to my colleagues first of all because I have never seen a unified board like this ever. I look at the little council uh uh shows in Detroit and I tell you they're so in disarray. But this one right here is amazing. I want to take
150my hats off to the cabinet that you guys stay, you know, focused. You guys are are all connected. You communicate well, which I love. Dr. Morris, you know you're bomb.com. So, just keep it up. and my community, the ones that keep supporting and advocating, keep voicing, keep voicing what's right because we are on the right path. I just don't want us to get boggled down and keep digging up the sins from the past and keep focusing on that because we can become emotional about it. But today is a new day. Today is a new day. And so I'm so appreciative. I know we we're going to get out of this uh receiverhip situation and we'll back we'll be back to local control, but I know it it's going to take all of us, not one
151or two of us. All of us. And I'll digress right there. Thank you, Mr. Mar. Absolutely true. Thank you. And that's that's really that's really all our prayers is that this could continue. This positive momentum will continue and and and we we believe that it will. All right. Thank you so much, Mr. Ghan. Next on the agenda, we'll have a public hearing. Members of the community who desire to address the county administrator and board of education may speak on any of the items on the public hearing section, which were A, the proposed 2526 local control and accountability plan for Inglewood Unified School District. B. The proposed 2526 local control and accountability plan for City Honors International Preparatory High School. C. the proposed 2526 local control and accountability plan for Latiara Academy of Excellence. And finally,
152the proposed budget. The public hearing will open at 7:15. And I just want to read the uh uh guidelines for public comment. Members of the public who wish to speak about an item on the public hearing agenda must indicate the item number on the public comment card. Three minutes will be allocated to each speaker. for a maximum of 30 minutes. If public comment cards exceed 10, the time may be reduced. Speech or conduct that is disruptive, defamatory, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting is not allowed at the discretion of the presiding officer. Anyone who disrupts, disturbs, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting will be required to exit the meeting room. Guidelines for public comment are in accordance with board bylaw 9323. Uh, and the Brown Act does not uh permit members
153of the board of education or cabinet to um address specific public comments. Mrs. Zbrano, do we have public hearing public comments? Yes, we do. Dr. Morris, we have one public comment on the public hearing section. Um, it's from Mr. John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comment on the public hearing action item. You have three minutes. you may begin. Uh good evening to everyone. Um uh regarding the LCAP and the budget, I'll be speaking on both. Um in terms of the LCAP, we heard a lot of um successes um across the board. Um and we looked at um various metrics and to determine um our growth and they need to be applauded and celebrated. But at the same time, I want to look at um a point that uh
154board member Meyers brought up, which is the um the uh merger of the two high schools and the intentionality of of how we approach uh servicing all of the students. Um and basically what I heard, I was not comfortable with the fact that um is going to be basically based on uh whatever happened at Inglewood High School. And I don't think that truly accounts for a lot of the growth that occurred at Morningside High School. And I also don't believe that it um addresses um the monumental task of launching um the three uh um CTE um uh portions at the newly merged situation or the high school because that's that's a lot um given a lot of the movement that has transpired in the district and you know I would have preferred that to be
155delayed. paid by one year. Um because we need the stability first as far as um from what I can see and just just having vision of of the uncertainty. There was uncertainty um with um some of the transition and I understand the leadership is due back maybe uh soon. Um however that still is uncertainty and that's unsettling. So, we have to um rather go fast, we need to go far. And it seems like we're moving fast. Uh and more people that are involved in in stabilizing the momentum that has taken place before we venture into new things. See, my whole thing is I'm all for uh growth. I'm all for uh vision and opportunity uh to expand but at the same time we do not want that at the expense of the stability that is
156necessary when you have so much transition occurring. So I just want us to be mindful and look at that as a um as a um cautious uh uh focal point because we need to we need to really look if we're setting up our students um with a lot of movements, you know, we don't want to use lose that momentum. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes the public comments for the public hearings portion. Thank you, Miss Embran. We'll move directly to public comments on agenda and Oh, I am so sorry. Thank you very much. The public hearing is closed at 7:19 p.m. Now we'll move directly to public comments on agenda and non-aggenda items. Miss Sbrano, we're starting with public comments on agenda items. The first public comment is from Miss Ava Enisa. Miss Angisa, please
157come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. I'm sorry. You said this was agenda. I'm sorry. Did you say agenda or agenda? Yes, agenda. I'm sorry. Okay. Agenda. Okay. Thank you. Um, good evening, Dr. Morris, board, cabinet, members of the audience, females. Oh, Aben Giza and I'm speaking um as CTE advisor in the district. Females are really not seen in the world of music production, audio engineering, and DJing. Girls make beats is on the agenda right now. Thank you very much for that. Their goal is to make this change. We have a lot of girls in Englewood who are interested in these careers, but they don't feel that that's a space that they should be in. And to combat this, what we're doing right
158now is building the program so the girls are seriously considered along with the boys. When the district and schools host events where music is being played, events are taking place. We would like you to consider using those students who are in the programs because they can do the work. We have some who've already started their business and they've made it clear they will work for pay, but sometimes they'll volunteer as well. I also want to use this time to give a shout out to Mr. T today who couldn't be here today. Another one of our pathways is our animation teacher. We'll talk about this at a next meeting when he can come. But what we did was we challenged a pilot group of seven students who are in his animation class. We said just go
159ahead and we want you to take this exam certification exam industry exam. It's called Toun Boom. It's it's industry standard where the adults, college students, everybody who's trying to get in the industry takes. Out of the seven students who took the exam, four students passed. So now they are listed in the and they're going to be listed in the industry has this list of people who can apply to, you know, when they're looking for jobs and stuff. So they'll be listed in that. So that's really good. Four almost three almost passed and so they're able to retake the exam soon. those that didn't feel comfortable taking it, they were scared and they're like, you know, we want to wait and see what our friends do. So, that really emboldened the rest of them. So, um
160we should have a large group. Um and I just want you to know in Tomb Boom, it's really this is a huge deal for Englewood. It's an industry um it software that's used throughout the world for um award-winning productions, anything in animation. This is what one of the big software programs that are used. Um and next time we'll get an update about the um cyber teach course that um certificated classified and management participate in in thanks to Dr. Lucas and Dr. Jose and this is going to be a huge game changer for our students AI and cyber security. um we don't want to be behind. Um it's using being used everywhere and just thank you Dr. Lucas, Dr. Jose James, Dr. Mama Jones for really supporting this and Dr. Goulsby for ensuring that these pathways
161are paid for so our students can get these courses. Thank you. Our second public comment is from Mario Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Good evening board. Good evening um cabinet. Good evening uh community. Uh thank you. Uh that was a wonderful presentation on the budget. Um numbers are looking good. But this time uh if I recall we'll be close after 25 years of being here. We should be closed. But resilience to our community has become um that thrive on it. Every time they they say that we are underdog, we deliver here in when nobody believed on us, we believe in ourselves that we can do it ourselves. I'm glad that you going to back uh those uh
162uh back in the day practices with hiring within. follow the guidance of our members who've been there all the time in our uh uh things uh seeing how the the community is coming together because these are our kids. It's nobody else kids but ours our neighbors our grandchildrens are coming too. I I look at me like really literally I can say like I I can see it three years four years from this point on my ch my grandchildren will might be here. Um, I'm excited to see the change. I want to thank everyone for doing the wonderful work. I trying to keep it positive. Okay. Uh, I do, uh, believe that we need some to do a little bit more work on the special education area. Um, there's other areas that we could look into
163Gala to do the fundra. We have a wonderful foundation. They always been supporting our children here. We can increase that with the wonderful partners that we have in Engle. They make millions of dollars. They have to put the money where the mouth is. So they came here and partnered up with us. We need the budget. Pitch in. They can do it. We always do it to the district. You come and ask us for B money. What do we do? We'll pitch in. Right. Right now our community is in debt with those big facilities they were created out there. We know how county work. So please um make sure that we always keep the follow on the money because that's that's the results of what we put our work on. Thank you. Our third public comment
164is from Mr. John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Uh, thank you. Um, I was tasked with reading through um a lot of the proposed the proposal for the contracts um that's upcoming for the cabinet as well as um basically taking hourly text messages and emails um on the on the topic. And um I just want to say that um we have a couple of of of issues. And one is um we read through and we found these um the contract extensions are through 28 and I just heard the projection that uh in 28 we may be down to 5,800 students. Um, first and foremost, we've said from day one that we have to address student attrition and
165that should be a primary or or uh a starting point for all of these things that we're discussing. And effectively, that has not really happened. Actually, before receiverhip, we were losing students at a less rate than we have under receiverhip. Now, they say there are many factors to that, but if it's an expert, I expect differently. and the community expects differently. Uh secondly, Fikmat being an outside um organization, their metrics um have changed during receiverhip as well. Um and I just I just can't um fathom tying a bonus or anything to a tomat metrics. If the if the intention is to get us out of receiverhip, then doing so would would would be bonus enough. you don't need to incentiv incentive incentivize it. Um third they said that the entire organization benefits the entire organization
166is responsible but it seems like the benefit are set selected to four. Um they also say that students uh are are are our our ultimate goal here and as soon as we show growth all of a sudden it seems like credit is just limited and it's not that it's the students. It's actually the students that are doing this that's driving all of this and the benefits should be reflective of that not select for people in the cabinet for that benefit. Um, dissension comes when you have artificial agilation. So, we may say things to people, we might encourage people, but when they do, they're when they look at things, they're going to look at what is in writing here. Okay? There's a guarantee. It's like a contract like athletics. You get a guarantee and you get
167performance bonuses. So as soon as we dis demonstrate the ability to be equitable in our praise and our and our focus, then we will finally get to the point where everyone eats, not just a few people. Everyone's a diner, not just a few people at the table. Thank you. Thank you. We're now going to transition to public comments on non-aggenda items. The first public comment is from Salvador George. Mr. George, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Uh, good evening board. My name is Salvador George and I'm a representative with the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters. I'm here to talk about the future of Morning Sight Project U and the 571 units and also the other five sites that will possibly
168have new developments in them. Uh um it's important to remember that we we have both the opportunity and responsibility to ensure that this development reflects the values and priorities of our community. The current agreement which leases our public land to a private developer has already been amended twice. That means it can be amended again and it should be to include strong labor standards that protect workers, ensure for pay and open doors for local families. Specifically, we're asking to include prevailing wage requirements so workers aren't underpaid, apprenticeship opportunities so our own students can one day build these projects, local higher goals so Anglewood residents benefit from Anglewood developments, and the project labor agreement to make all of this enforceable. These aren't new ideas. School districts like LUSD and Long Beach already include these standards in their
169joint use projects. They don't raise costs when they're a part of the plan. But they do raise accountability, opportunity, and fairness. I hope this can be done before worker exploitation is found on any of these properties. We are building homes on land owned by our schools. This is our chance to set an example for what responsible public development should look like. I would like also like to add this specific developer has built other projects with these labor standards but only when they are required to if they're not required all the other built um all the other projects that they have built they absolutely choose uh cheating contractors to build those projects. So I urge you, let's move forward with a formal amendment to this agreement because we we don't just teach our students about dignity
170and fairness. We need to build with those values, too. And thank you for your time. Thank you. Our second public comment is from Kyle Patterson. Mr. Patterson, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. getting to uh superintendent, president, board members, community. Uh really enjoyed those presentations, too. Uh it was a lot of information that was heavy. Um I seen a, you know, just all of that information on there about, you know, just uh opportunities. I heard about uh um you know, the numbers, all of these things like that. So, uh my name is Kyle Patterson and I'm a representative and a union carpenter for the western states uh carpenters union and um I grew up not too far from here. Uh if
171you're all familiar with like Sentry and Vermont, I grew up right there. Um and I used to come through Eaglewood all the time as a youngster growing up in the uh uh 80s and 90s. Uh my last high school, this was 1994 um August. Um I ended up uh I was in the 10th grade 17 and I lost my freedom for six years and three months. Got tried as an adult. Um one of the things with that story why I wanted to touch on that is because when I came home um finally God delivered me, brought me back, took me away for a minute, put me on the shelf and uh he had a plan for me though. Came right here in Englewood. Well, it's borderline. Linux. There was this program called Century Freeway Program
172uh right down the street, not too far. And um I seen this flyer on the wall. It says uh at the parole office, it says uh introduction into construction, teach you how to get into the uh uh read your tape measures, uh get hired with a contractor, and they paid you $1345. The money was already spent in my head, right? I already had a plan. Um and and and the thing about that was I my first job out of this eightweek program, two weeks into it, my first job site was on the corner of Exposition in Vermont at the USC dorms um northeast corner that was built in 2000. um I helped build that and um it was a project like that that had labor standards on it that gave me an opportunity to get
173into the construction industry and u you know growing a family uh having new mentors and friends that I've uh uh met along the way. Uh I think that for a project like this uh Morningside High School in the wood uh in the Woodwork campus, I think uh holding developers uh that are going to be building those projects, holding them accountable to make sure that the uh u the land has labor standards on it just like it has right now with the project labor agreement on there right now. Um, you know, it just it's just going to continue to help give opportunities to other folks that look like us. There's going to be approximately a little over seven 79,000 jobs uh from now until the Olympics that are projected. So, thank you for your support and
174uh continuing to create opportunities. Thank you. Our third public comment is from Yarita Gonzalez. Miss Gonzalez, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Arita Gonzalez and I'm here with Karisen, the Central American Resource Center and on behalf of the consortium for multilingual learner success. The consortium is a regional collective dedicated to advocating for educational system that fully supports the needs and embraces the assets of multi-ingual learners. Given increased federal immigration enforment enforcement, there has been growing fear within local communities about federal agencies and immigration presence and activity, including in Englewood and South Bay cities like Hawthorne and Torrance, where a fourth grade student that attended Torrance Elementary School was attained by immigration at an immigration
175check-in with his father. We are concerned that fear for basic safety will result in declining attendance at school or lead to fear while in schools. Other school districts like the LA Unified School District have passed sanctuary policies that support the families of every student and connect them with resources and assistance. We recognize that this board passed a resolution trying to address some of these concerns in February of this year, but the political landscape has changed since then. Therefore, we urge this board to stand alongside the international newcomer and immigrant students, most of whom are multilingual learners um in your district and ensure that existing mandated protections are strengthened on how to respond to federal agencies and immigration who request information about students, families, and staff and or are attempting to enter school property. Thank you.
176Our fourth public comment is from Eleanor Murphy. Miss Murphy, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Good evening, board members. My name is Eleanor Murphy. I'm here on behalf of the South Bay City's Council of Governments. So, if you're not familiar with who we are, we're a local government agency of 15 cities in the South Bay. Um each one of those cities has a council member that sits on our board. So from Englewood that is Mayor Butts and we advocate for the cities in the South Bay. We also partner with agencies like municipal water districts, SoCal Gas, Metro etc. But the program I'm here to tell you about tonight is an LA County program through their regional energy network called kits for
177kids. So this program is completely free and it is for third and fourth grade students to learn about energy efficiency. So teachers get a short lesson plan to administer to the students and then each student takes home a little kit. So I actually have an example here. They have this like cute little monster branding and each kit has um LED light bulbs and faucet aators inside. So every student takes this home and um implements them in their home. And if more than half of the students in a classroom implement them at home, the teacher gets $1,000. So, not only is it a free program, but the teachers actually have an opportunity to earn money that can be used for their students, textbooks, pizza party, whatever. And um so lots of other uh schools in the
178South Bay have taken advantage of this because the program has recently increased their capacity by 300% which is why I'm here telling you about it. I would love to get all of your elementary schools enrolled in the program. Um, and all I would really need to do that is for if I may reach out to you all after this meeting, if you may direct me to a person that could administer the program, which is basically just, you know, administering the delivery of the kits to all of the students. Um, then all of your students in third and fourth grade could have access to this program. And I really just wanted to come in front of you all and tell you all about it so you're all excited about it. and I hope that I am
179here after the fall semester with a big check for all of your teachers and thank you so much for your time. I brought flyers and I didn't get a chance to give them at the beginning of the meeting, but I will leave them over here and you can take a look at them here. Thank you so much. Thank you. Our fifth public comment is from Mario Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Um, good evening once more. Thank you. Uh, I took to twice just in case I would get to reach uh the second one. Hence, you know, it goes late sometimes, you know. Uh, but again, um, one of the things that I wanted to bring bring up
180uh was the special education. Um I know why I'm continue going in this area and is because my child was diagnosed when he started the ENO district here. Um he was going to be put through the whole entire system but with the support of my wife myself and uh other professionals we were able to exit out of that program and he's still thriving in your school. He actually exceeded that amount of in the last uh California assessment. He was over like 2,500 something score. So he's in the blue. All right. Uh and this is a child that was diagnosed um that he was not going to be able to speak or write. So possibilities are unlimited. Um, if you really put your emphasis on what you're really going to focus and like you guys said
181earlier, the focus should be the children. I came back here to help the children. And if we really consensus ourselves to say what we're going to do, we help the children. This year is going to be the year that you're going to make some hard decisions here for those children. They got been in the red lines for the last 10 years, 15 years. Those children that have been forgotten, have nobody at home. They're single mothers, single fathers, grandparents helping them out. You're going to make those decisions. We're going to come in because this is what solutions we're going to bring to those children because those are the children that need to help the most. So, you're going to see me again here when you guys see that data and let's we could come. I get
182a respond for that email. Thank you, Dr. Morris, for responding on my email because I always see that um when I see things like that happen, they hit me, I always say like, where is our pause? If a teacher didn't behave properly when one of the children that has nobody at home, what was his action to that child? Did that teacher hundreds of stories from our community students have been shut down by the by the teachers and I'm not saying we have great teachers just how we can help that teacher understand if we're going to do pause the theory versus practical you big gap for us to talk about that. So that's why I said like um thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak on that item. Um have a great day. Thank
183you. our six public comments from John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Uh thank you. Um, I just like to uh commend um the the movement, you know, the community activism, the the parents, the the the uh teachers, you know, the working working out these these kinks with cabinet and with with everyone because um you know what is needed is a recognition of um uh I guess mutual respect that you know we have to respect the opinions of of everyone and um to Dr. McGee's report. We've been we've been talking about this uh contracting for uh even before receiverhip really, but definitely all the way through. And it's not a um how can I say it's not when
184you get to that point. It's having the vision to see um the pitfall before you fall in the hole. and see we get into the hole and we start conforming to um what it takes to get out of the hole rather than avoiding that hole in the first place. So when we talk about vision, that's what we're talking about. Um in terms of the community, you know, we we work and and it's a trust issue. It's always a trust issue. So if we're talking about winning students back and parents and families back, it's about the trust factor. And they're looking at us as can we trust our children's lives with who are in charge of directing their um their educational um u metriculation and career. That's what they're asking. And so we have to win
185trust. We have to compete. And we compete more than just with statistics. We compete with our hearts. We compete by showing that we care for for students as if. And it's not really as if, it's really because they are our children. So that's what we have to communicate. And that comes across by investing in our community in our giving our children opportunities and fighting for those opportunities. Giving um um everyone the the ability to spread their ring wings to the fullest of their potential. That is our charge and we have to meet it. So we want to meet that by being truly collaborative. We when we have integrity and trust then we move forward. So that has to happen. We can't make commitments and then back out of them. We can't not meet deadlines. We
186can't um expect that uh people are going to buy in if we're not holding up our ends. So we have to be true to our agreements, all the other ones, contracts, everything that comes in. We have to have the integrity and when we have that we restore trust and we have trust we build and run. Thank you. Thank you. And our last public comment is from Aba Anisa. Miss Angisa, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Good evening. Thank you again. Aen Giza speaking as an elected member of California Teachers Association. Just so I don't run out of time, I'm asking that Dr. Morris and the board adopt three resolutions. We I'll be sending one is on immigration creating a safe zone
187at in our schools. I know we've talked about that and certain things have been done in the past, but a resolution. Another one is for AB65, the pres um Pregnancy Leave Act and the third one is Prop 55. So, um, really quickly, as educators, we need to start thinking about how our children, whether they're 5 years old or 18 years old, our colleagues whose families and friends are caught up in this madness of the ice raids in the neighborhoods, at stores, they're going to the churches, um, and all, you know, different places of worship. And that's just the beginning. and how we're going to um support everyone and so that they can also focus on education. Everyone right now is experiencing some form of trauma. And I do want to thank the IUSD leadership for
188supporting our students and families since this all started. But what's happening right now is going to have a lifelong impact on everybody. It's it's people are going to remember this for the rest of their life and how they adapt, how they deal with this um in their future. We know this too shall pass is going to depend on how we work with our students and so I'm asking that a resolution be passed and I'm sending that to you. AB65 is a pres um is a pregnancy leave act. CTA sponsored this bill which grants public school employees up to 14 weeks of leave with full pay when an employee is experiencing pregnancy, miscarriage, child birth, termination of pregnancy or recovery from those conditions. in California which is the fifth largest economy worldwide and one of the
189largestly predominantly female edm workforces which is education in the state. Educators are excluded from pregnancy disability leave which is a fundamental standard for reproductive rights in most countries across the globe. This current practice disproportionately discriminates against women as women were required to deplete leave balances to bear children and getting this bill passed will finally end the discriminatory practices of having employees who are pregnant and having no choice but to deplete their sick leave. Proposition 55, this is really crucial for everybody as well and expiration is in 2030. Prop 30 passed in 2012 and it generated 9 billion for the TK12 and community colleges. This is how much we stand to lose. Pushing to we're pushing CTA is pushing to get this on the ballot in 2026. It is not a tax increase rather an extension
190of the taxes on individuals who earn over 300,000 per year or couples earning over 700,000. We need to work together to make this happen. Englewood stands to lose over $10 million if this doesn't pass. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our public comments for tonight. Thank Thank you very much, Miss Sabrano. Now, we're going to move on to action items on the agenda and we'll begin with human resources action item 101 through 10 A13. We have no comments. Thank you. 10A1 through 10 A13 are each approved. Moving on to educational services division 10B1 through 10B18. You agree? 10B1 through 10B18 are each approved. Moving on to business services. 10 C1 through 10 C19. 10 C1 through 10 C19 are each approved. Moving on to measure GGI and facilities 10D1 through 10D12. Okay. 10D1 through 10D12
191are each approved. County Administrators Division 10 C1 through sorry 10 E1 through 10E6 approved. 10E1 through 10E6 are each approved. Moving on to approval of the minutes. Does the board have any questions or comments regarding the minutes of the regular board of education meeting from May 7th, 2025 and the meeting of the board workshop study session retreat held on May 21st, 2025? No comments. Thank you. The minutes of the May 7th and May 21st board meetings are approved. Moving on to board member remarks. I'll turn it over to our president, Mrs. Evans. I'll start with uh Mr. Meyers. Thank you, Madam President. Um I'll keep my comments brief. Um just want to say thank you for the community members coming out tonight. Um so appreciative to the Carpenters Union uh for sharing and continuously sharing
192uh how much um you want to you know support our district and and and uh participate in all the development that we have in our city. So I'm greatly appreciative to your advocacy. Um, I also, um, wanted to wish all of our fathers in the district a belated Father's Day. You know, I'm an advocate for my men. Um, so I'm just so appreciative for you guys. So, thank you so much. Um, and I want to just let my migrant community know that we got your back. Keep your head up. All right, I'll digress right there. Have a good evening, Mr. Castillo. Thank you, board president. Just want to give a thank you again to the cabinet. Um, we made it through the school year. It it it was tough at times. There was a lot
193of community involvement, a lot of meetings with parents. Um, but we made it through and and as the school year ended, um, something else started to grow. Deep fear in our region that especially our undocumented families uh, and has reached Englewood, unfortunately. So, there's parents in our communities are keeping their kids at home. Um, not because they don't value school, but because they're too afraid. And that weight is real. Um, but here's the truth. You know, when fear is rising, so is our community. And the last week, I seen the power of community. So, well, um, Oak Street has a beautiful garden that I'm very proud of. And when the parents were not able to come to the school to help out, you know, I put out a flyer to see if we get some
194volunteers to help out. And so far we have about 50 volunteers to help out with the garden to help in their absence. And we're putting new soil, putting new plants, and it's going to be even more better than it was before. So I just wanted to thank all those volunteers, thank all the staff that made it possible. Um, you know, this is Ingwood. Inglewood is the city of immigrants and migrants, whether it's from Waka or whether it's from Mississippi, whether it's from Georgia or whether it's from Aara. Um, we are a city of migrants. We're a city of immigrants. And we're going to be together. We're going to get through this. And just to reiterate, our schools are safe spa spaces. Our our students are always safe in our schools. And I want to thank
195you, Dr. Morris, for leading those efforts to assure our community knows that our students are safe in our schools. Thank you, M. Randall. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I want to thank the parents, um, the community for staying. It's, uh, almost 8:00. You did not go away. Thank you for bringing the information to the table. If you didn't bring the information, we would not know what was going on at the schools and in the community. Um, also for the building projects. Thank you, Carpenters. And absolutely happy Father's Day to all the fathers. Um, I had a great dad. Um, I'm just very grateful of a wonderful husband, nine beautiful uncles, all gone on to glory. Just happy Father's Day. And to my uh illustrious board members, happy Father's Day. I'm very happy about
196the progress that's being made. Um, oh, and the cabinet, too. Happy Father. I was going to look that way in a minute. Um, I'm just absolutely elated with the reports from everybody that got up to give their department reports. I'm happy that no school uh for the um LCAP had no uh standards not met. The implementation of the wellness spaces that Dr. McGee brought to the district is phenomenal and is making this impact at all the schools where it exists. Uh Dr. Eugima Jose who's uh just quiet, classy, quiet. Uh this is a phenomenal um document that you came up with uh six week cycle of continuous improvement and it doesn't stop. It continues. Uh there's no nothing punitive about it. It's just progress and technical assistance for everybody that's involved. It's a brilliant brilliant
197document. Don't let anybody steal it from you. Keep your name on it. Uh I'm very elated that the city a city of honors that all the students were honoral students. That's big and huge. Englewood is in a a renaissance. And if we continue to be transparent about what we're doing at every level, we'll be okay. If we continue to work with each other um and we do get along, we we give some hard questions to each other and we might fight among the group, but when we come out, we have a united front. That's a good feeling. Sometimes I don't want to come out, but it's a but it's a good feeling to sit at the table with the United Front. Um it's just it's just good. But I think that's about all because we
198are at 8:00. Uh oh, we have to show real numbers. We can't show um phantom numbers that might come. So when you give your report, it has to be real numbers, real AVA, or we can't claim the money. They won't send us the money. So keep doing what you're doing. I'm just happy. There's a term called ACES, adverse childhood experiences. our students that are African-American, our students that are the the um um uh low income, they come with these problems and they are not addressed. We could be a model for that because we have been transparent about our numbers. We had a principal who stood there and said every classroom is a college and they change. So they get to see about you get to see all the colleges. So we have principles that are
199operating in excellence that can be the models and our district can be the model that it wants. So I'm like real excited. Thank you for an opportunity to speak and I think I'm going to stop right now. parent engagement. You know, parent engagement is the parent engagement is the the uh lowest on the budget. So, we want parent engagement. We got to do something to get parents engaged. How you get parents engaged? Showcase their kids. So, if you showcase the kids, we'll get the parents. So, let's just continue to showcase the children. We'll get the parents. They'll come back. everybody to be there with their cameras, with their little, you know, phones up taking little Johnny. So, I'm happy. Thank you so much. Thank you, colleagues. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss
200Dr. McGee. Okay. Thank you all of uh my colleagues for your comments. This is the longest board meeting we've had since uh this year. We've never been here till 8 o'clock. Uh thank you for staying. We've had an excellent meeting. We've gotten some excellent reports. Thank you uh for all that you do. Cabinet, as I always say, you guys are working so hard and I commend you for all that you're doing and it's spilling out into our schools, to our students, our parents, everybody. Thank you very much for coming out. I think we've had enough comments for the night. It's 8 o'clock. It's time to go home. Thank you. All right. Thank you. I I just wanted to make two comments in closing just to um just inform you. You know, our summer school enrollment
201is down. We have less students than we anticipated. And part of that is exactly as we discussed tonight. Some parents are hesitant right now to send their children to school. And so our staff has been doing everything they can to embrace families and let them know that our schools are safe places. I also wanted to acknowledge that tomorrow will be a day off because of the Junth holiday um which is a a day to recognize freedom and also recognize freedom delayed for some folks. Um yeah and yeah we will yeah um but we we will our schools and offices will be closed tomorrow and I uh do need to add that our next board meeting is scheduled for one week from today. Thank you for your indulgence. But this is that time of year when
202we're required to have the LCAP and the budget and then we can't approve them until a week later. So, our next meeting will be on June 25th, and we will stand adjourned at 8 o'clock p.m. [Applause]