001president casanas the live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and start the meeting good evening and welcome to the February 21st 2024 regular board meeting of the Capistrano Unified School District the meeting is now in session and the time is 5:04 p.m. Miss wanky please call roll trusty bulus trusty Davis trusty Jones here trusty pitard pres trusty hanich here trusty Parham here trusty ctios here miss W before the board res uses close session are there any speakers we have one speaker okay GE Snapper I think they know me um before we start the timer though I had just heard that they're not able to hear outside is there I'm getting a thumb down from so if you wouldn't mind just being patient I know they really want to hear what
002we have to say thank you so if this were my classroom can we let them into the foyer I mean they could probably hear out there no okay they're good golden okay thank you Gil I really appreciate that President castano superintendent Brown and trustees as the president of CUA I attend almost every board meeting even if I don't speak in fact the last time I stood up here was to share about our district Cape team and the collaborative work that came from the LMI summer training I stand before you today in an honest attempt to to continue to collaborate around the issue of negotiations when I attend a board meeting I sit in my assigned seat which is right over there and I listened to the business before the board January's meeting included the California
003dashboard report which was Stellar overall Educators were thanked for their outstanding efforts December's meeting publicly shared that our district LED not just the county but also the state in our English Language Art scores post pandemic again Educators were thanked for their service based on the dashboard and our Ela scores alone it's fair to say that we have earned a decent salary increase along with Affordable Health Care on our math walks I I witnessed firstand the amazing work our educators are doing each and every day on behalf of students this too would be a reason to justify a decent comprehensive Financial proposal from the district here's the thing we all agree that cusd teachers are the hardest working and most caring in the business I don't need to convince you of that but unfortunately the current
004offer from the district Falls far short of a fair increase that recognizes these efforts and keeps Pace with our surrounding districts we look at the same exact Financial statements and budget numbers we attend the same school Services budget presentations we study the same charts diagrams and interim reports and as a result we are certain cusd has the means and the ways to do better regardless of some potential obstacles it is true that cusd like many districts in the state has faced declining enrollment however in looking at the lcff calculator enrollment has started to stabilize our unfunded liabilities like TK will now be covered by State dollars the promise to fully fund prop 98 the base funding for public education has been made deferrals that were going to cause some bumps in the financial Road have
005been eliminated this is good news we should be celebrating this together instead we are here asking for the district to reconsider their final their Financial offer it would be counterintuitive for us to come to the table with anything unsustainable we certainly don't want to bargain our way out of a job this organization ation Prides itself on being fair reasonable and consistently bargaining in good faith we have always put our best foot forward whether it be negotiations in classroom instruction or in helping students through their emotional struggles to name just a few cua's mission statement says our students deserve the best to us this isn't just a statement it is a reflection of our core values if you believe this as well then it's crucial that we honor the hard work dedication and passion of the
006Educators in cusd thank you okay the board will now recess to close session to address the following agenda items a student readmissions three cases B conference with legal Council anticipated litigation significant exposure litigation five cases conference with labor negotiators CUA CA Teamsters Kuma and unrepresented employees employee discipline dismissal release one case conference with real property negotiators property South transportation and groundskeeping facility 5.51 acre property located at 26126 Victoria Boulevard Dana Point California conference with legal councel anticipated litigation sign ific exposure litigation six cases conference with legal counsel existing litigation two cases liability claims significant exposure litigation one case board will now recess to close session thank you president costano live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and open the meeting good evening and welcome to the February 21st 2024 regular
007board meeting of the capistran Unified School District the meeting is now in session and the time is 7:05 p.m. as a reminder per board policy 9323 meeting conduct request to address the Board of Trustees will be accepted only until 20 minutes after after the start of Open Session please note that we have Spanish interpreters attending this evening's meeting and they are available in the back of the room also we have any who if we have any students registered to speak this evening on an agenda item we will hear them before any adult speaker please note staff has pulled agenda item 12C resolution number 232 24-23 approval of Fourth Amendment and development agreement also the citizen has pulled agenda item 12d citizens request be smart for kids also staff has revised agenda item 16 C page
008two by annual authorization of coaches to provide second semester physical education credit a name has been added to the Toral High School revised copies are available in the back room and on the district website oral Communications does not opportunity for the public to comment on issues that are not on tonight's agenda per board policy the total total time allotted for oral Communications is 20 minutes with a maximum of 3 minutes per speaker the per speaker time may be less if there's a larger number of speakers note under California law board members cannot respond to non-agenda oral communication comments we would also like to note that while we the public has a right to speak the district does not condone speech that is perceived as hateful or discriminatory the purpose of a school district is to
009teach in addition to typical academic subjects we want to teach young people appropriate behavior and respect for other points of view our students are watching and listening thank you we appreciate your support in tonight's modeling respectful and productive public discourse for our students in our community okay M shy please call student board member Pierce here trusty buz here trusty Davis here trusty Jones here trusty Pritchard pres trusty hanich here trusty Haram here casanas here okay the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by oh gosh um Miss Sam tar stand ready begin I to the flag United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation go indivisible withy and justice for all okay may I have a motion to adopt the agenda okay moved by trusty hanek seconded by trusty trusty
010Jones thank you m Mikey please call the role student board member Pierce hi trusty bulus hi trusty Davis Hi trusty Jones hi trusty pitard trusty hanich I trusty Parham I trusty ctios I I motion carries 70 by a roll call vote to adopt the agenda with a preferential vote of I from student board member Pierce M Mikey please read the report out from closed session on agenda item 3A student readmissions trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following cases case number 2023 028 20234 20 23045 on agenda item 3B conference with legal Council anticipated litigation trustees gave direction to staff on agenda item 3C conference with labor negotiators trustees gave direction to staff on agenda item 3D Public Employee discipline dismissal release trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following phase
011resolution number 23248 c on agenda item 3E conference with real property negotiators trustees gave direction to staff on agenda item 3F conference with legal council anticipated litigation trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following cases ADR cases 22411 0 2024 40126 on agenda item 3G conference with legal counsel existing litigation trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following o cases 0729 2023 90334 on agenda item 3H liability claim trustees voted 70 to approve staff recommendation on the following case liability claim number 72 this concludes my report thank you at this time I recognize Dr Chris Brown super good evening everyone so a few weeks ago I was in a elementary school I've been visiting our schools and getting to know the district and a third grade student asked me what does
012a superintendent do um which is a fair question from a third grade student uh and so I thought I'd actually talk a little bit tonight about one of the things that will be taking up um the majority of my working time over the next few years and the majority of most superintendent working time that's to spend a little time talking about our budget um and it'll be something that we talk about repeatedly out in public um as we move through the through the next couple of years um and there's really a few factors that are impacting our budget or will be impacting our budget here in cppo in the next three years and so I wanted to to go over a few of them the first as most people know um Capal unified is a
013declining enrollment District so in 2009 we had just over 50,000 students in the district we currently have just over 40,000 students in the district um this is a pattern that's being mirrored by most districts in the state of California I believe 98% of State districts have declining enrollment as as California is experiencing a wave of immigration away from the state and lower birth rates um and coastal cities are are more prone to having the low birth rate and the the people moving away due to the cost of living um in today's dollars in terms of our revenue from the state that equates to about 120 million less dollars that Capo receives annually to run its programs um and you might ask why haven't we kind of felt that and and the reason is twofold so
014three-fold so one as declining enrollment hit us coming out of the Great Recession in 09 we also had the full implementation of lcff so you had sort of a generalized increase in school funding in that period of time that overcame some of our declining enrollment allowed us to keep similar systems and similar Staffing levels despite um having fewer students um and then as that got fully implemented and we were you know ready to start thinking about declining enrollment we all had the pandemic hit of 2020 um and that came with Co relief funds in fact for cppo it was $150 million in Co relief funds that allowed us to expand programs and and bring in extra support for our students when they needed it most um and then finally during that period of time the
015state also did um what's called hold harmless to the district so they didn't um count negative attendance as harshly nor declining enrollment you were allowed to use previous years's enrollment numbers for your funding well all three of those things are now gone and we are 10,000 fewer students stud in fact just this year we've lost 1,000 students um which is about on Pace and you you'll see some more from that later in in the day when we have a daac presentation um and you combined that with the fact that our state budget right now is is uh meager compared to what it's been in the past and and the governor has done his best to try and protect education from any shortfalls but we'll see what the May Revis says as the the gap between
016projected revenues and um actual revenues for the state seems to be growing by the day um and I say this not to be alarmist and not to be Skies falling but I want to be transparent we have a commitment to being very clear with our community with our teachers with our staff about what's happening with our budget because it makes a big deal we're one of the largest employers in Orange County uh we have a budget that gets close to $ 700 million annually with all of our grants and everything and so um it's a lot of money that we have to talk about being uh declining enrollment dist it will be less and less every year luckily the the district has done a lot of planning with staff to soften the ramp to give
017us the soft Landing moving out there's plans in place that have been in place for multiple years to try and mitigate some of these things um and we'll continue to ramp up some of these changes to make sure that we get to a place of fiscal stability for the long term despite declining enrollment or as our declining enrollment hopefully starts to level out uh in the next couple of years and so my commitment is really to the board and to our community to be transparent about what's happening with our budget um and keep everyone in the loop of the planning that's going on with our budget as we we face face the challenge of living in a time of of fewer students and fewer uh dollars coming into the district with which to to support
018those students so that concludes my comments for the evening thank you trustees any comments this evening trusty vas good evening I wanted to share um something that I didn't get to witness because it happened at Toro High School while being at a workshop on January 31st but many of you who have children in our schools know there's back to school nights there's open house and Toro High School decided to do something different for their open house and um I am just was really excited to hear about it and hear about the success of it because the whole point was to Showcase oftentimes parents just go and visit their students um classroom but it was an invitation for incoming eighth grade students and possibly those considering ing going to a private school well what do they
019do in this public school and I have um samples of what they did each teacher put together to be able to explain to parents a a one sheet and then it was made up as a poster in the room and um so for example for AP art history um it's explained what the student is going to be learning that year and how it is that they're going to be able to pass the class so historical thinking skills Visual and contextual analysis comparison Traditions attribution historical interpretation argumentation um and I just thought it was great um each one of the subjects economics history all had this very explicit and then the the teachers um there was a group of teachers who volunteered there were students who volunteered they were ambassadors for the evening who took actual
020tours and took them around to the various classes while teachers then were in the classroom giving a lesson to students so that the parents could actually see okay so how do they teach what are they doing in the classroom meanwhile the different organizations and the music department had something going on in the gymnasium and all and um it was quite exciting in fact last night being at Toro's area concert instrumental concert I was talking to some Middle School principles and one said I've got this idea of doing my open house differently I said oh did you hear about Toro yes I did so I love that ideas that are wonderful out outside the box um are embraced and it was strongly supported with the teachers and the students being involved um and if anybody would
021like to know know more about it I'd be happy to send you because students and parents know exactly the expectation what the student is to learn to be passed in this coursework um and there was a lot of time and effort that these teachers put together to make a graphic um to to show and I just thought that that was pretty Innovative and I'm sorry I missed it because I was here but um I did want to share it because I've heard nothing but uh positive feedback about it so uh and last night's um Torro I've been to Torro cappos and Dana Hills instrumental area concerts where the elementary and the Middle School theaters um are performing with the high school students and Dana Hills um was a choir area concert and as I like
022to say go to cappo this is spring play season all of our high school at their spring plays and I don't know all of them yet I know Toros is SpongeBob and I know tapos is Mama Mia you don't need to go to Seager strums you can just buy a $15 ticket and go locally to see plays and support your schools thank you thank you any other trustees trustee Davis yes love what's happening in lots of schools all across all across CD um was able to attend the S colony High School's 8th grade Expo where the Middle School 8th grade students are coming to S commin to find out what's happening and all the good things that are happening at s Clin High School um wonderful to see famili so excited to be there uh
023the S CL High School ele at at San CL High School the middle school and elementary schools um performed the band and Orchestra performed so incredible to see these kids and um and watch what happens from their first lesson to just just a few few lessons and moving on in elementary and then up into Middle School um this did Omar had their 20th anniversary um incredible opportunity to see what's happened over the years and the kids still singing the same song um attended with trusty hanich at that event and great to see um lots of teachers and administrators and former principles come back and be a part of that been amazing amazing day um bam was awarded the model PLC award which is a professional learning learning community incredible um it's only one of six
024schools in all of California that has that distinction and it was great to great to see the work that's been done and the way that they collaborate to help meet the needs of students and do it in a a little different way um the safety briefing at bams uh we offered the briefings at each of the schol couple of different schools and um I appreciate the protocols and the way that we navigate safety and the families that were able to attend that Stoney High School I've been at a lot of basketball games and soccer games and wrestling um the boys soccer moved on to State and the girls basketball was in second round CIF boys basketball second round CIF and just great to see all the things that are happening and um love what's happening
025in our schools and appreciate the efforts of our teachers and staff thank you thank you trusty Jones so tonight we have our um uh the English learner annual valuation and I know that we have uh some people here tonight who are parents of English Learners uh these parents don't come to our meetings enough but I'm glad that there are some here tonight and I I've seen some at uh some of of the superintendent open forums and I think it's wonderful that those parents are involving themselves um trusty bulus stole some of my thunder I'm going to also talk about the high school performances uh earlier this year I invited a couple City Council Members to attend a football game with me and they were so happy they went they don't have kids in school anymore
026one of them is actually a Dana Hills High School graduate um and uh but they said to me words you know for for less than 20 bucks we got uh to see a great game we got uh a hamburger and chips and a drink and we didn't have to drive anywhere and this was wonderful uh one of those City Council Members I subsequently invited to go last year with me to see fidler on the roof at uh Alisa Nigel high school and he was just enthralled and I started thinking you know we need to let our city council members know more about this so I started um a little email uh list just uh personally to our city council members and I make a a list of the performances that the high schools are putting
027on I can't do all the all the schools I can't do middle school and elementary school but I'm doing the high schools last year I went to see um uh Mary Poppins at cappo and um um Chicago at uh San Hillside high school and these are so good these Productions are so good and people that attend a lot of plays have said to me you know this is just as good as something that you would drive to LA to see and spend you know 60 bucks and have to pay $15 to park and plus you know drive on a freeway so I have a list an email list if you want to email me I will put you on my list when I send it out I try to be fair to all the schools
028I'm probably not totally fair it's a little hard to get the information but I give ticket links and all that other stuff my email address it's on the website it's gii Jones you can't forget that uh at cap USD just email me and I will send you the list that I sent out periodically I just sent it to City Council Members a few days ago and a bunch of them are going to be going to plays I think this is a great thing for our community it's a great thing for our schools and for our students and I'm telling you there's no reason to be going up to Seager uh there's we just just had Cinderella this year at Salon Hills uh and SpongeBob at Torro as trusty bulus said so there's it's not just
029plays for adults although I don't I don't think we're taking the little kids to Mama Mia as I recall that is not exactly G-rated and neither was Chicago but it but um uh they're the kids are so good I remember the first time I went to a high school play recently I was talking to one of the teacher I said well some of these are professionals that you guys are just paying and she said no these are all students and now I realize yes they're all students but they are that good it is hard to believe these that none of them are professionals so please do attend and send me your email I'll put you on the list thanks okay any other trustees trusty Parham um so the superintendent started with some maybe sobering comments
030earlier about uh the financial situation that we have as an Outlook and then we had some very positive comments from my fellow trustees about how great things are going within the district um I I want to draw attention to the fact that at the beginning of Clos session uh tonight we had probably 200 or more teachers here um uh and they were all dressed in red to represent uh their concerns and um and I I want to draw attention to the fact that it was a very I thought professionally represent representation by the teachers very thoughtful and um I appreciated them being here and I think um obviously we have a a lot of difficult things to decide financially but I'm encouraged by the fact that we've got such a professional group of teachers that
031that we're working with so you don't see them here now but they were here in force a couple of hours go and um I think it's you know the public needs to know that thank you um student board member peers no comments tonight okay all right thank you yes do one more shout out of course um on February 12th uh we had an award winner on our staff Karen gottier had received the Orange County stem initiative as an outstanding stem educ cater um and this was an initiative at the University of California Irvine um be applied Innovation Center and so she earned a personal plaque we have a plaque here that we display at the district and she earned $2500 for the district to use uh towards furthering stem education and on the stem advisory
032committee right now um we have both Karen gottier and um Christen Rob who is teaching us a little bit more about Ai and how that is impacting our students and all of us and um it's quite interesting so I am so proud of CD once again leading the way uh and wanted to share as a big shout out to karen. thank you thank you all right we are now moving on to oral Communications total time for oral Communications shall be 20 minutes individual presentations are limited to a maximum of 3 minutes but could be less if there is a larger number of speakers complaints regarding District employees should be addressed by completing the district's formal complaint form available through the district's website Miss schwanky how many speakers do we have for all Communications we have
033one student and 29 other speakers okay per board policy 9323 meeting conduct one through seven speakers will be allowed 3 minutes 8 to 10 2 and then 11 to 20 to 1 so those who are requested to speak and we cannot be accommodated within the 20 minutes may be allowed to speak after other board business has been concluded prior for adjournment so um in the back of the room when you checked in there was a QR code on the table if you are not called to speak during um this time because we're going to go past our 20 minutes um you can scan that code and then it goes directly to our emails you can email the board during this time it's it's it's the trustees know we can't we're not going to have a
034conversation about what you're here to talk about but we we want to and so I think the best way for you to have a conversation with us is almost sometimes through email just because I know these trustees and I know that there there will be a response and you will get an answer to your question are i moead m trusty Davis I move to W board policy and allow one minute for the 29 speakers okay it's up to I guess it's up to the board I I mean we can go 20 minutes and then have the rest of them use the email and use the QR code that's in the back and and and communicate with us that way or I'm going to take I'm going to take board consensus on this our policy is
03520 minutes correct [Music] okay any others have comments trusty Jones you want to have a comment go ahead Jesse bulus but did we do away with that once was the process at the end of the meeting that anyone who wanted to stay so they can speak for three minutes you can do that we can do that as well it would be one minute but yes so be willing to do that everybody okay okay so do the 20 the agenda is quite short because two up and pulled correct I think no it's you'll get to be up pretty soon correct this won't be a late late night yeah okay all right that's fine okay we're gonna do that yes correct correct thank you okay Miss schwanky yeah the student first that's after after the meeting yes
036correct can you please tell us what you decided okay I will call the student first and then the 10 adults so please line up in the middle we have student Katherine grea klouse and then Chrissy Humphries John Skipper Nancy Roar Amy Baxter Luca klouse Samantha Brer tar Brenda anai DJ Jones Linda V and Rocky ch just to clarify we will do 20 speakers now for one minute each and then at the end of board business prior to adjournment the remaining nine or 10 speakers if they're still here can speak for one minute each at the end so we will get to all 20 now it's one because there's more than 20 right so you don't give them different time periods at the end so can speak at the end please speak your name before speaking
037right Katherine Claus go ahead hi I'm an eth grade student at amms be proud to be a member of mock trial team in mock trial we take on roles such as attorney Witnesses or bayith immersing ourselves in a real trial procedure and experiencing what it's like to be a lawyer this Saturday we are gearing up for our mock child tournament hosted at J sah where we will engage in a genu genuine trial and compete against other schools team this marks my third year participating in amm's mock child program I'm incredibly great incredibly grateful for the opportunity it provides I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to Dr dwarte for bringing this Pro this program to amms from Lera Ranch is a fantastic program that I believe every school should have thank you hi my name
038is Christy Humphrey I have a daughter in uh kappo District in elementary school um just we don't have a lot of time so basically just to cut to the chase I'm here tonight to speak on school safety and school security um I feel like it's an is issue in our district that um is somewhat talked about but there's a lot of Band-Aids and things to me that I get answers that just don't make any sense and don't really cut to the Chase and talk about hardening the target um there's things like Raptor that they're saying they're going to implement and if you have an open campus even though you're supposed to go show your ID to go on the campus uh bad guys aren't going to do that so to me until we have fencing
039one-way entry points and things like that we're not really taking our kids safety fully into concern we can say that we care but till we see the money put behind that I know we're we're short on funds but until we see that happening we are not serving our children wholeheartedly in my opinion thank you yeah my name name is John Skipper I'm a retired police captain from the city of Redondo Beach I have over 48 years experience in law enforcement a lot of it with threat assessments I conducted the terrorism threat assessment for the city of Redondo Beach I have a granddaughter that attends a school in this District I've been to that school many times it is totally unequivocally not secure I can walk on that campus anytime I want to um I have
040been in city government many years I understand about budgets bonds etc etc but I know that priority projects always find a way to get funded and everybody says the children are the most important priority if that is the case you need to find a way to fund a a third-party threat assessment of these schools is a first step nothing ever gets done unless it starts and I'm telling you that is having experienced many years experience in this good evening my name is Luca tonight I want to express how blessed and thankful I am that my child gets to attend Alis Soo Middle School this is a school that cares about its students and I want to say thank you specifically for our to our English Department at amms for the diverse and realistic books that
041they expose our children to these books not only spark conversation but also cultivate awareness with children children need and that is precisely what our students go to school for also I would like to say uh thank you for the amazing Uno tournament that's been happening at amms it's been on for three weeks and our kids are having a blast thank you good evening Bard and superintendent Brown my name is Samantha Brasher tar and tonight I'm speaking in my capacity as a parent to Twin 8-year-old girls in cusd education like politics is local my locality is Wood Canyon Elementary in Alisa Vio as the mighty comets enter their 30th anniversary year of being an official Schoolhouse I'd like to highlight a few standouts UC see Berkeley grad Casey Setter who sees that one of my girls
042is ready for third grade work and hands it to her over half decade long volunteer Cara mford Hart who has wrote the book on the legend that is the Wood Canyon book fair and can name almost all of the student body by name seasoned art teacher Jenna Grace who has said about one of my girls I think your kid is going to be a writer the story she told me about her her drawing had me in the room veteran PTA volunteers Mina Carson and Veronica ypp who have come alongside me to Mentor encourage me as I navigate being a mom and PTA president the commonality these women share thank you good evening superintendent Dr Brown and trustees currently I serve as the PTA president of donana Villa Elementary a vibrant School teaming with excitement and
043achievement I want to take a moment to highlight some of the positive things happening in our school uh leading the charge is our phenomenal principal Mr Richard frea he has worked hard to build a strong sense of community within our school and has been a valuable partner to our PTA this collaborative spirit is precisely what feels our success speaking of success our recent PTA steam night was a worldwind of excitement and learning thanks to the hard work of our dedicated teachers led by Mrs mayor and our special guest dolphin robots and the momentum doesn't stop there on March six March 6 we're hosting a fundraiser night at Tony Pepperoni where our amazing teachers and principal will be serving our families I invite you all to join us and we will gladly serve you thank you
044to our trusty Christa casianos for attending and supporting our events Dr Brown your vision of building strong and connected communities resonates deeply with our school walls thank you all speaker will you please state your name Nancy Roar parent to a two alumni of San Clin schools the good news is my two kids have reaped the benefit of their experience in dual immersion starting at Las palus my son a former first Cher chist in the orchestra and varsity Surfer at St Clemy High School is using his Spanish a lot at a new managerial position in the food industry my daughter was the recipient of the scholar athlete award for vary surf team has enjoyed traveling to surf in contests around the globe where Spanish helped her a great deal in Mexico Peru and Spain I hope
045the support and investment in s clemon schools will return to the way it was 10 to 12 years ago and without the chaos IND division that's been invited by a few on this board and in this room let's make sure the current crop of students is encouraged to use Open Hearts and open minds to open the doors of their future thank you Diana Jones I'm here today to address security at Los Palmas my husband and I have three kids who attend the school and keeping them safe is our top priority Los palus experienced multiple lockdowns last year and unfortunately just had another one I emailed Lisa Davis last year urging the district to do something to address vulnerabilities of the campus maxburger the school is known for historical violence and crime activity the fencing by
046the preschool playground is so low that anyone could jump in and have access to every single classroom if you walk the perimeter the fencin holds and many weak spots it is absurd that another lockdown happened on February 6th because the perimeter and safety issues have not been addressed no climb fences around the perimeter should be the standard OC sheriff present should be advocated for I feel like the district has forgotten about Los palus I'm here to make sure that this voice is heard what is the timeline for making Necessary changes to the perimeter Lisa in your response to my email last year you stated safety is The District's number one priority for all students and staff please explain the plan because zero Communications with parents and your constituents makes me believe otherwise our next speaker
047is Amy boord I would like to say congratulations to Vista delmare on their 20th anniversary celebration my son attended vdm K through 8 starting in 2006 and graduated froms in 2019 he has since graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering and is now in his first year of graduate school due in large part to the worldclass education and program he received in cistron unified so thank you but I must take a moment to ask are we better off than we were four years ago are we better off with continued manufactured chaos are we better off with the influence from the California policy Center are we better off attempting to malign harass or Stoke fear in our marginalized communities are we better off with performative politics on a Sunday morning in front of one of our
048elementary schools is this who we are let's get back to the CD of four years ago when distract were not the focus good evening my name is Linda raster I'm a constituent uh I'm thrilled that the district and particularly superintendent Brown are using data and sharing it regularly with the public in order to make sure that our students are striving to get are striving to get a worldclass uh education versus a third world education where they learn curated History Literature and science uh I want our kids to thrive in the real world once they leave the south Orange County bubble and take their right righteous place in the world as leaders and I want you to just go ahead and keep up the great work to get that done thank you before you start I'd
049like to call the next speakers we have Cindy Ellen McDermot Michelle plel Campbell Shireen Smith Jessica Guy Ellen Susie Taylor Angela watts and Heidi good evening members of the board and Dr Brown my name is Dr Rocky saphon I'm a parent of a student at Niguel Hills Middle School I'm here tonight to bring to your attention the excellent work of principal Jeff Jones and his staff and faculty in establishing the one school one Ohana philosophy at Niguel Hills Middle School this is our second student at Niguel Hills midd middle school they're six years apart in age and based on our prior experience there we were not going to send our younger student to Niguel Hills however in many discussions with other parents the evidence was clear that since Mr Jones arrival the culture atmosphere and
050professionalism at Niguel Hills had improved dramatically translated from the Hawaiian the word Hawai Ohana means family but the concept of ohana is more than family it's friends it's neighbors it's our entire community and so tonight I want to acknowledge the excellent work of Mr Jones and his staff at Niguel Hills Middle School hello my name is Cindy I am the PTSA president at saman Hills High School I wanted to let you know that I'm seeing increase in parent volunteerism on campus such as collaboration with athletic and Performing Arts boosters in preparation for was accreditation next week on campus I'm also proud of our PTSA effort to collaborate and communicate with our elac families our English learner families and trusty Bolas I'm excited to share with you our spring production is going to be a gers
051and inspired production of crazy for you and my daughter will be performing her standup base with her pit Orchestra you are welcome to join us thank you good evening my name is I murit I'm here again um another night with you guys uh just to remind you that uh God the Creator gave you the Ten Commandments and allowing a satanic Club to meet at the elementary school is totally against him and for the parents I'm here to tell you mother Mariam who has a podcast she told us God didn't give these kids to the school board to the government to to the to the religious organizations he gave you these kids it's your responsibility so I so her mother marryam she said get your kids out of the public schools because they are destroying them
052and so I'm here to say parents please listen and you guys won't forget me when everything goes down you'll remember what I'm telling you God the father he didn't make he made a man and a woman Sexes animals know that hello thank you our next speaker is Michelle fossil pamin we have phenomenal schools in cusd we have phenomenal parents in cusd I am really fortunate to be at two amazing schools where right now Jeff Jones was just awarded the secondary administrator of the Year award so we're super proud of him at Niguel Hills I know he's at the back now he's snuck in um we have so many great things going on in Nel right now we have our book fair happening we've been there for the last week it's great it ends tomorrow at
053our open house where we do a showcase open house at Niguel and we've done it the last several years to welcome our entire Ohana our entire community and our entire city in to see the great things happening at Niguel but also I'm at Dana and we have so many great Productions so I will get you dates for everything trusty Jones that you need from Dana but right now there's a play going on tonight Crimes of the Heart but it's also tomorrow night and Friday night we have our Socia dance concert happening on the 29th and the 1 and then lay Miz is in April speaker is sh SM good evening my name is Ellen I was here last month and spoke briefly about the need to properly vet people who work in the clubs um
054on campus and I also briefly mentioned something regarding the separation of church and state that Mr Pierce had brought up um I'm here to offer you an apology not for what I said to you about those two issues but because the manner in which I said it um as a Christian I am called to speak the truth um in love in a way that edifies encourages and points people to the one true truth right the God above who loves each one of us and wants the best for each one of us so I offer you apology for my comments last week or month where were somewhat maybe sarcastic self-serving and at at the very least glib and um I'm certainly going to examine my motives before I speak in the future and encourage you to
055do so as well thank you speaker may I ask you to state your name yes my name is Ellen Robinson is that what you meant me yeah okay good evening Shireen Smith former principal cppo Valley Alisa Vio middle school and superintendent of lagona beach I would like to commend the district for the prestigious Golden Bell award you recently received for the high quality Career Tech programs offered at our schools it's a testament to your commitment to fostering Innovative impactful and inclusive educational opportunities for all students remarkably cappo is one of the few districts that provides CTE labs in all the elementary schools students received CTE infused core content lessons and subjects like math science social studies and English our high schools have state-of-the-art Labs too as an example Capelli has a stellar engineering and Manufacturing
056Lab at San Clemy High School CTE courses range from the automotive Academy to culinary arts to cyber security to lifeguarding and More in summary since I'm almost out of time I'm just going to say thank you for your commitment investment in these truly important programs for our kids thank you wasn't sure if it was my turn good evening Jessica Guyer c ptsc um advocacy team co-chair um I'm excited to share with you all tonight that CP CU PTSA advocacy team along with a mix of other PTA members like presidents parliamentarians and even a couple students are headed off on our annual uh trip to Sacramento with fourth district PTA next week I'm really excited to share that out of the 79 total attendees from all across Orange County Capistrano accounts for 32 of those so
05740% of the attendees this year and we have two students coming with us which is just we are just over the moon it's extra special to have students join us and share their perspectives as well as to what's happening in their schools with the theme of use your voice we will continue to advocate for Funding Solutions for our district and others like ours fully funding of Ida and the continued focus on Mental Health and Wellness Resources for our students staff and communities thank you hi my name is Angela Watts seven months ago after two back-to-back lockdowns at Los pomas I started a petition and I stood before this very board with the same urgent plea to prioritize safety of our children at Las pomas elementary school in less than nine months our school has faced
058three legitimate legitimate threat to our children's safety three lockdowns and yet for some impliable reason we're told this is not an emergency Lisa please listen this is your school two days after the alarming incident of an intruder jumping the school fence I appreciated that City officials sheriff's department and School District proly met with Me Myself and the Safety Committee to address our concerns however promises were made timelines were set and your children remain vulnerable the school district assured us of timelines of both temporary fencing at the front of Los pment and installation of an 8 foot iron rot fence yet as of tonight our children are still exposed to potential risks and this is unacceptable Dr Brown I I have sent a couple of emails can we make sure and follow up on that timeline
059and the commitment for Los palas I'd appreciate that thank you hi I'm Susie Taylor I have two children in the district one at vistad delmare parade for 20 years um my both kids have gone all the way through there and my youngest is now an eighth grader so I am truly blessed to have met so many great students and teachers as Lisa knows um and administrators very very fortunate I'm here also as a sanan Hills High School parent um and as a cppo uh Unified District cppo coyotes parent um cppo KY coyotes I know several of you have asked about them our high school ice hockey team uh the division 2 placed second place in the presidential tournament this last weekend playoffs start this Saturday at 7:50 pm uh at Great Park ice at uh
0607:50 versus Edison and D3 plays Friday night versus Fairmont prep at 6:30 in Anaheim so hope to see some of you guys there thanks greetings ladies and gentlemen my name is Heidi and I'm a retired public school teacher and a mother and S Clemy resident first of all I want to thank every teacher in this room who works hard to stick to academics the majority of teachers do not support the various radical agendas we've seen in our school district like denying parental rights denying a parental rights notification policy allowing children to dominate the Schoolboard meeting speaking slots that should have gone to the taxpayers in our community especially children who were obviously coached on what to say I saw them uh they were handed papers on what to say and we're pushing the exact same
061agenda good teachers stand with parents they teach children to be humble and respectful to Authority and they would never be a part of pushing a radical agenda in our school thank you speaker that concludes our time all right thank you we are now moving on to discussion action um items so our first item is 12a English learner annual evaluation at this time I'd like to recognize um Dr mwin associate superintendent education and support service to present the item thank you very much president castanos staff presents item 12a English learner and annual evaluation so I'm joined this evening by Dr Rena Mack our director of language acquisition who will present the key components of the evaluation document we'd also like to recognize some other special guests tonight we also have Mr James Daly he's the elel
062side advisor at Dana Hills High School you want to wave foris there James thank you for being here and also principal shess Middle School Josh wellon they're both here to help support the item this evening so with that thank you Dr Mack you can proceed with the presentation good evening I am privileged to present tonight the English learner annual program evaluation um the purpose of this evaluation and this presentation is to showcase the growth that our English Learners are making here in CD and to also the extent to which which we are evaluating the implementation of English language development instruction and support for our English Learners and what improvements and adjustments may be needed to improve the outcomes for our students as we begin I'd like to invite everyone to keep the these key points
063in mind throughout the presentation that in order to be successful Learners English Learners or Els need both language and literacy or academic development in order to thrive that our Els are making steady growth under English language development that they may need more support in their literacy or academic development in other content or subject areas that their uh literacy development point to the focus that we need to have in integrating ELD professional learning in all content areas and in all grade levels that that their growth in their language development showed that they are able to and are ready to participate in learning tasks of high academic language rigor and the importance of having the same learning expectations for them as we do for all of our other students that are not English Learners and that to
064promote their overall success we shall also continue to support them in improving their connectedness to their school their engagement and their overall College and Career Readiness so the bullet points here represent some of the essential elements that will be included in this presentation tonight we'll talk a little bit about eel demographics for for the students that make up our English learner student body um understanding different typologies or language fluency groups of English Learners that when we say English Learners we actually are not talking about the same group of students all the time El progress indicator I'll talk a little bit about that as it is Illustrated on the California school dashboard what do we mean by lpac performance levels and the importance of this assessment in illustrating the growth that our students are making in
065their language development how are Els sparing or achieving in ela in math as these are also important indicators that we need to be watching out for what are other progress measures toward reclassification and some explanation of what reclassification criteria includes entails and what their implications are other measures of el progress such as enrollment in AP courses for example and last I will summarize with some executive summary and some recommendations for future implementation so to best interact with the information that will be presented this evening I invite everyone to refer to the glossery of terms that were distributed that will include an explanation of the different terminologies um and terms that will be presented at tonight's presentation so what better way to begin our presentation than learn more about who the Els are that comprise our
066students here at in C USD we'll see in this slide right here that the majority of our English Learners were born right here in the United States and start their schooling right here in Capistrano over 2,800 of the students over the past year we've seen some slight increase of newcomers coming from countries like Russia Ukraine and Guatemala but we'll see that by and large the majority of our Els are born here in the the United States the languages on the right represent the top 10 home languages spoken by our students that does not include English currently we provide translation and interpretation support in Spanish and farsy at our school sites through our site bilingual Community liance when parents ask for or necessitate interpretation or translation services in other languages listed here or not listed here
067our department certainly has the resources to support them on that so that it's not a barrier for parents to interact with their schools and their child schooling using their home language this is also a breakdown of how many eels are represented in the different grade levels currently we have just a little of uh over 3600 total Els which make up about 9% of the entire cusd student uh population here um we'll see here also from this diagram that the majority of them are at the elementary school level with many of them having been here for zero to two years so that would include newcomers as well as TK or kindergarten students that start here with us the next group that make up the majority of our students are over to the right the secondary school
068students um that have been English learners for more more than 5 years so we'll see that they are just a little over a thousand um and we'll speak a little bit about what ltels or long-term English Learners mean in just a little bit we also have about 18% or nearly one out of five ever Els that are dual identified these are students that are either current English Learners or reclassified students that are also dual identified with disabilities and the bar graph on the right represent this breakdown in the various grade levels so we have about 198 of these students in K2 300 students 307 in grades 3 to 5 and then 382 and 59 respectively in middle school and in high school we'll spend a significant amount of time referencing language development of our students
069so I think it's very important that we first take some time to get to know the lpac elpac stands for the English language proficiency assessment for California this is an annual state exam taken by all English Learners at all grade levels while they are English Learners and it has two parts it has the oral language part which consists of the listening and speaking domain and then the written language which consists of the reading and the writing domain to best understand the learning outcomes and trajectory of Els it's important to understand that not all Els are created equal so this is what this diagram here will aim to help us better understand when we say e or English learner that term generalizes all students at different proficiency levels so from newcomers born outside of the United
070States to those who started with cusd as kindergarteners and remain a CLS even throughout their high school years until English Learners reach reclassification status their academic performance levels will be impacted by their English language development that is an eel is a student who is still progressing toward their Mastery of English when we refer to atrisk ltels which is a subgroup within the E we're talking about students that continue to be classified as eels and have been and have had this status for four to five years something unique about this particular subgroup is that their um score on the lpac has remained um at the intermediate low and that is why they are not progressing towards reclassification yet ltel or long-term English Learners continue to be classified as els for six or more years they have
071had the same level under elpac for two or more years now a question that may come up is that what happens if a student has been an eel for six or more years but they make growth on their lpac does that mean they get out of being reclassified as ltel in the current definition yes yes that may be true but starting next year that definition is changing in that an ltel will be defined as any eel who continues to be an eel for seven or more years without being reclassified an rfap rfap or reclassified fluent English proficient student represents students at the highest levels of their English language proficiency their average achievement typically is higher than e student groups because they have reached very high levels of reclassification criteria that I will review in a
072minute something that's important for us to keep in mind is that as we have the goal of improving the academic outcomes of our e it's just as important for us to have the goal of reclassifying our students as an important goal that's because at the secondary level for instance as long as a student is an e it they are required by law we are required by law to provide them with a designated ELD class at the elementary level that may mean a set aside time during the instructional day of providing that support at the secondary level however that is a separate class that they are taking within their regular schedule so that is one period of the day that is being taken by their designated L class whereas that may have been an opportunity for
073them to take an elective class for instance so we can see that that presents a challenge in giving them some Equitable opportunities to participate in some of those other classes there also might be tend to be a mindset sometimes that a student's English language development is synonymous to their academic development when we'll see in a little bit as data will be presented a little bit more that those two are separate things so what that may mean is that when a student continues to be classified as an e they may not be provided with as many opportunities to participate in higher level courses for instance like AP courses because there might be a tendency to believe that they are not ready for it yet and that we have to wait until they are reclassified before we
074can enroll them in those classes it's also important for us to understand that rfets up until they reclassify are included in the elel student group once they reclassify the El student group is left with students of different proficiency levels that have not yet met the reclass criteria the number of our Els that enter our school district every year and the number of students who Rec classify every year are always changing and therefore this contents cycling results in the achievement level of Els to stay the same over time so when we look at e achievement data this may lead to a false interpretation that our Els are not improving when really to better understand the progress of our eels we should examine the number of students who reclassify every year along with the growth of students
075who remain as El from year to year LP or the English language progress indicator is the indicator that we see presented on the California school dashboard um it represents the progress made by the students on the lpac which is the annual uh state exam taken by all Els so when we see LP levels for a school district what that is measuring is the growth that the students are making under elpac which is their English language proficiency assessment we'll see here that in 2019 just before the pandemic cusd had just a little over 50% of our Els making progress toward their English language proficiency even with covid and anticipated learning loss are eels increase in their LP or in their English language progress indicator in 2022 with 54% 54.6% making progress which then Place C USD
076at the medium LP level last year even more gains were made with an increase of 5% placing CD at the high LP level when compared to 2019 that means that our students have increased over 9% in their LP growth this bar graphs here represent the lpac performance level of students from year to year so it's divided into three different sections with the one on the left being the overall score on the lpac the one in the middle being their oral language and the one on the write being underw written language so what this will show here is that we have about 60 3% of our eels making or earning a score of three or four under overall lpac an increase of about 3% when compared to last year about 75% of them are earning a
077three or four under oral language let's be reminded that that is their speaking and their listening and about 38% earning a three or four on their written language which is their reading and in their writing while the previous slid showed the growth made from year to year it's also important to examine match cohort growth and that's what this slide here represents this represents the same number of students the same students rather that took the lpac for two years and the reason why that's important to see is because that represents a much clearer picture of actual product R made by students from year to year who continue to be Els and are taking the exam we'll see here on the overall again on the left that we had just the year before in 2022 my copy
078here is a little bit smaller we had 77% of our students earning a four on their overall lpac last year however that went up to 29% of students earning a four so that's an increased percentage of 22% of earning a four under overall lpac they also made tremendous growth in their oral language development going from 26% of students earning a four in 2022 to 49% so nearly half of them earning a four under oral language development we'd like to attribute that to our focused professional learning um on academic conversations on the important of student talk and giving English Learners a lot of opportunity to make meaning of their learning through those conversations in class and speaking we'll see that in the writing or the written language level from 3 to 11% while that represents a
079growth it is growth more growth that we need to make in that area so we've already begun to focus our professional learning on reading and writing for Els not just on the elpac but on all other content areas and will'll continue to do so for the next year as mentioned earlier the lpac is is an indicator that helps us understand El language development so when we see uh an increase in performance for students on the elpac that means that they have received or reached adequate language to participate meaningfully in their academic areas in their other subject areas right um these two tables represent the percentage of Els from different subgroups who are meeting or exceeding standards in ela or math that is if their English language development is making gains if they're making growth in
080these areas we should predict that that type of growth should then have a spillover effect in their academic achievement in ela and na these columns though or the information here represent a few important things that fewer than 15% of all Els meet or exceed standards in both Ela and math that Els who been in the country for less than a year nearly doubled their growth in both Ela and math we attribute that to more intensive support that we are providing for newcomers and making sure that as we are developing their English language that they're also able to participate meaningfully at the same time in their literacy development we also see from these data sets that fewer than 10% of atrisk ltels and ltels are meeting standards in both Ela and math despite of being els
081for four or more years and that rfbs if you take a look at their growth have made greater gains in ela and math even when we're comparing them to their English only peers or all student groups this speaks volumes to the important reclassification criteria that we've established and that before we reclassify students we are absolutely certain that they can perform on par and some sometimes even outperform their peers in these academic areas okay so I've alluded a lot about the reclassification criteria and what it takes for students or E to reclassify so I'll spend a little bit of time talking more about reclassification criteria trustees you've received supplemental packet uh about reclassification criteria of neighboring districts that's there for you as a reference we present that here to illustrate that the four Criterion are state
082required so Criterion one of assessment of English language proficiency two teacher evaluation three parent communication and four basic skills relative to English proficient students those are all the same number one and number three are the same all across the board that you'll find to be the case for all school districts number two and number four however how an Lea or a local school district defines that is up to them in their own context as long as it's meeting that criteria so how we've defined teacher evaluation in the at the elementary level that's two or above in all of their Ela standards is what students need to meet at the secondary level they have a couple of different Pathways to reach that they could either be getting a C minus or above in their English class
083or an overall academic GPA of 2.0 or higher Criterion three is parent communication which is a meaningful um interaction with the parents regarding reclassification criteria and Criterion four is basic skills relative to English proficient students we Define that at the elementary level to be meeting or exceeding grade level standards either in the sback ELA if they take the sback ELA or at Benchmark for their dible score at the secondary level they could either be meeting or exceeding grade level standards also in sbac ela if that score is available for them at the time of reclassification or an I ready reading score that we have a different cut scores for different grade levels that it's also at Benchmark or um CIA which which is the common interim assessment at the secondary level so now that we've
084learned a little bit about the reclassification criteria I present you with some information on our reclassification data here at the district it's important to note that the last official reclassification data presented at the state level or data Quest was in for the year 2020 2021 the state has not updated that information since then however we of course Aggregate and present local reclassification data that we obtain through elevation our data management system here for Els as well as Aries our student information system so some of the highlights here that I'd like to talk about here is that you may see that in the year 2122 the reclassification rate was at 19.83% which seems really high in comparison to the 2020 2021 reclassification rate of 10% the explanation for that is that in 20 2020 2021 we
085did not have the opportunity to reclassify as many students because the required data that is needed for reclassification namely lpac and espac were of course not completed by all students therefore those students did not get to reclassify until the following year you'll see then that that number stabilized for the year of 2022 2023 for a reclass rate of 10.73 is about the same as it was in 2021 for this school year of 2324 you'll see that that number has actually increased by 1 and a half% % of 12% but it's also important to note that that number is actually higher and going to be higher by the end of the school year because we just finished our winter reclassification so that number has not been included here and was not ready at the time of
086the publication of this report but we'll see here that while still in progress like I mentioned the 23 24 we class rate is already showing growth and that our eels at High School level are showing the greatest increase in reclassification numbers so a lot of growth being made by the students at the high school level now not all students that reach the Criterion one of lpac overall level get to reclassify because you may be reminded that there are four different criteria that they need to meet so even for some students that reach the most stringent Criterion which the elpac overall of four if they don't meet Criterion four they will not get to reclassify this is the case for the most recent number of students at the elementary level where we have about 40% of
087students that reached an overall level of four so ready in that regard to reclassify cannot reclassify because they did not have the adequate score on their dibles or their sback Ela in order to five similarly about six out of 10 or 60% of students at the secondary level also will not get the chance to reclassify even if they had an lpac overall level of four because they also did not reach either the I ready reading sbac or the CIA sport one of the recommendations that were included in this program evaluation points to the importance of examining sites mtss process and how Els are identified and supported for additional reading interventions for instance at the secondary level it's worthwhile to also examine interventions that are targeted for long-term English Learners so when we're presented with data
088of beginning of the year middle of the year and end of the year in both I ready in dibles it's worthwhile to examine how this information is being used to make sure that adequate time and targeted support is being provided for Els not just for the sake of support but also to support their path in order to reclassify when looking at the number of at risk long-term English Learners and long-term English Learners this table does show an improvement in this regard because we have decreased our number by 67% of number of at risk ltels and ltels when comparing from last year to this year nevertheless we see that the rate is relatively unchange in grades 11 and 12 meaning that we don't see that dramatic dip as we do for the other grade levels so
089that's also Worth to examine as to the extent to which that group of students at those grade levels are being supported in addition to academic outcomes it's also important to review other eel success indicators in the same way we do for all students while the difference is only 2.8% in graduation rate when we compare Els to nonel the achievement Gap is alarmingly high for a through G completion with only 16% for Els compared to 60% for all students staff has already begun to put supports in place to address this Gap including increasing access for futurology events making sure that English learner students in their ELD courses at the secondary are getting adequate information about a through G opportunities and what those are provide expanding access to Spanish-speaking families and understanding what a through G pathway
090means and how they can support their students trajectory for that College and Career Readiness one-on-one appointments with counselors and integrating those lessons as part of their El classroom lessons earlier in the presentation I mentioned that an El's high lpac score is indicative of their Readiness to handle rigorous learning tasks for this reason it's important to examine the barriers that may be hindering our E's access to high level courses such as AP we'll see here that less than 1% or only 22 students in total were enrolled in an AP course at all of our Comprehensive High School in 2223 our FBS although a little bit higher also just represent a sliver of total AP enrollment with only 12% similarly the difference between eels and all student group in chronic absenteeism and suspension rates present us with
091an important challenge to explore some goals that would examine how eel's sense of belonging and their connectedness with school may be related to their engagement with their learning and their school as we close this presentation I present the following Rec recommendations to continue to support sites in providing high quality designated ELD instruction this would mean continuing the professional learning for teachers as well as administrators to support that work to implementation of districtwide training on integrated elds so that means the extent to which our teachers that are non teachers like teachers of math social studies science are understanding how to put in those strategies to support their students in those classes maximizing site-based instructional support through systematic use of our instructional coaches mtss Specialists and PLC coaches focusing our mtss and PLC efforts to improve literacy
092goals at all grade levels examining the mtss plan to support ltels at secondary level and to explore if there might be specific interventions that can be designed to support the specific needs of ltels continuing the expansion of expanded learning programs among eels that provide enrichment opportunities for our eels like our summer steam Academy and identifying some cultural proficiency goals and metrics to improve the other indicators of e success thank you for allowing me to provide this information to you this evening I'd like to welcome any questions or additional questions you may have at this time thank you um any speaker cards on this item we have one speaker okay Linda Mo hello bo uh my name is Linda Moore was gonna have to go down I'm a retire higher teacher I taught English learners for
09330 years and the last 24 of those years were accomplished in capistrana unified so I was delighted to see that tonight's agenda included addressing the needs of the English Learners and the programs in our district uh you know the advantage of being a retired teacher living in the same area that I taught in is that I now run into many of my former students and they're out in the community which I am now too and I'm they're um I'm able to see how they've become fluent in English and very productive members of our community one of my students even became a teacher and ended up teaching in the classroom across from my classroom at the end of my career but she went beyond me she became a principal of an immersion big immersion school up
094in Northern California that makes the teacher proud and I'm proud of our district for supporting these English Learners and the programs that are so vital to their success and achievement so thank you very much that's it thank you okay trustees any discussion trusty B I just want to thank you for that presentation um and it was a lot of information but how you walked us through it I really appreciated that and it is so true when we say all students um but if we focus on those who um need that additional help and can Elevate them it's just great great for everybody um I've got one ticky tacky question because I just want to understand it I noticed um and I think a trustee had asked the question in our little Q&A session um so
095if you are born outside the USA you're exempt from taking the E SBA but yet you do take the math sbac within the first 12 months I kind of wondered why that is correct that there is an option if presented to exempt New Commerce so you have to be born outside of the United States um I think it's un universally taught that math is a universal language and may not be as dense in literacy in the reading skills as it is presented in asbak ela I think more and more research coming is is going to counter the that thinking but yes but we can see from the information presented here that even the students that took the um El the sbac ELA the newcomers that they are making growth and that they can make growth
096so I think it's important for us to make sure that we know that that is a scaffold that's available for them but at the same time it's very important for us to get them ready to participate at all times thank you and trustees trusty parhan um well thank you and I'm glad I had some caffeine before this presentation because there was a lot here and I like data but man um so I have a couple of simple questions one is I should probably know the answer but I don't so um are there any Els in dual emersion programs yes does that in any way slow their ability to succeed later on or help I mean I don't know is there any impact we have some uh past data to show that initially it may not
097seem as if it may seem as if they are not performing as well academically but then later on as they progress in the program they do and in fact actually really outperform their stud their peers who are not in the immersion program however I'd like to if it's okay for you to be presented with more additional data in the future to present very specific information of el outcomes in specialized programs such as those in our dual language immersion schools yeah I would really like to see that um for the the rfps that um are not succeeding with a through G um how does that compare to the non-el students you mentioned there's a gap with AP classes those significant how significant is it compared to the average non-al student you're asking for the students that
098are RFS or non RFS no RBS the ones who are no longer classified as okay so we wanted to examine what is the a3g rate of students who are RFS versus the a through G rate of students who are not RFS but what I'm kind of getting at is they spent a lot of this time going through these extra efforts um to become more proficient they finally succeed they're in they're considered RF but has that already taken them out of out of the running to you know succeed with a through G requirements I think the other thing to add to that though is to think about when they became reclassified right so it's very different from a student who reclassifies in say 10th grade in terms of their ability to complete a3g versus a student
099who entered in kindergarten was born here like most of our heels and is reclassified by say fourth grade right and so um be careful looking at how long they've been reclassified before they entered high school we could disaggregate it that way um it is generally slightly lower than the English only students but the later they reclassify the less likely they are to be a through G completers and I would imagine there's some other kind of socioeconomic factors that may also play in and I I think we want to dive into that to see but the more we can spend trying to understand you know is this helping them or holding them back that's really my fundamental question um and then you gave all this information about these other school districts and what they're doing that
100their the rigorous programs they have to become um to rfet to become part of that how do we compare Are we more rigorous or are we kind of same as everyone else I mean there's a lot here initial initial review of the data presented to you showed that cusd actually has more Pathways and more opportunities for students to reclassify especially in Criterion four um that basic skills relative to other um um nonel students that we provide multiple Pathways for students to reclassify and that are reclass rate tend to be higher than so the goal is really to get them to reclassify as soon as possible yes to be yeah but to be clear to be ready our rigor is not lower we provide more Pathways but the the rigor of meeting standards in either I
101or ASAC or CIA is still about the same as the other districts right the general is you have to be meeting the standard in English to be reclassified so we provide more opportunities to prove that you meet the standard you still have to meet the standard we haven't lowered the bar we just offered you more ways to get to the bar okay that that's really helpful and then the last question is are there non-els um that could benefit by being considered an elel and have that extra effort yeah to go the other direction if there is an opportunity for a student who was not classified as an English learner a teacher can certainly bring that to our attention and we definitely have a protocol in place to examine data home language survey and to if
102with additional evidence and information and data from the classroom would show that they may benefit from that then we definitely have a protocol in place to identify them if that support is needed well I don't want them to miss out on a great opportunity only because they didn't classify as huge so that's one of the reasons that that Rana talked about training for teachers who are Nona teachers right your science teachers your Math teachers um when you train in in what's called integrated ELD strategies the idea is that you're bringing these these language literacy strategies into your content area courses um so they're going to definitely benefit your El students who are sitting there they're also going to benefit any student who's struggling with literacy struggling with vocabulary struggling with English English um in that
103in that content that social science content that math content so that was one of the the recommendations to push forward right is to continue our integrated ELD training so that all of our teachers end up with these strategies that they can use that that help all in literacy but also are very very beneficial for our e students great thank you very much thank you I also thought the presentation was amazing so thank you and as you were going I was writing down questions but then you would go to the next slide and my question was answered so I appreciate that just a couple of questions um regarding the process through which a child goes in in cppo how informed are the parents so when we do reporting periods and we're progress monitoring right their ELD
104levels are parents then informed on the report card on on how they're doing an ELD or how is that communicated to families our current elementary report card does report on ELD uh we are currently working on uh refining that even more to make sure that is aligned to the ELD standard so that's definitely there and at the secondary level that would be represented with the grade that they're earning and designated ELD class and of course in all of their other content areas okay thank you I just that was my question and then I have one more when it I I'm looking on um the page where it talks about 12% of um rfps are enrolled in AP courses what do you because they perform very well right um what do you think the disconnect is
105why is that happening for those students that and maybe it is to the point that Dr Brown just made that it depends on the student and when they reclassify ify so maybe if you have an a student who are FEPS like you just said in 10th Grade they're not really going to access an AP an AP class or get into those upper level you know classes in high school whereas versus the student who's are feing in fourth and fifth grade then they can follow that pathway and get into those classes do you think that's the biggest disconnect for for students getting into those classes or there maybe other issues as well one area that we're really examining is the course pathway and the course selection for students at the secondary level and the critical role
106that the aps of guidance as well as school counselors play in that process and the education that will be needed and that we're starting to put in place to make sure that there is a solid understanding of the different outcomes of students and what data tells us of their level of Readiness to participate in those so that we may not think that hey maybe they're not ready but in fact they data suggest to us they are ready to be challenged in those places so that is an area that we are exploring more in depth okay thank you J Andrew thank you um this is an ex an amazing presentation I can't really speak to Dr Pritcher but I know the two of us have been here a long time and we've never had the depth
107of this type of presentation I can kind of speak that oh we need to support students better but now I still won't be able to speak coherently to it but I will carry this around with me just in case someone ask me um about the AP I'm kind of looking over here at the amazing Jen SMY who was ahead of her time of really promoting AP for all and trying to get that uh ingrained with her school culture and so I think that's probably what you're you're thinking as well certain classes and I and I so appreciate you when you were my kids weren't at your school but when you were doing that and that's really hady time identifying where we're missing there um so I really appreciate that and um and I know I
108I won't put him on the spot but I know that principal willix could walk us through what it looks like um when a student comes to him how they support um and I'll just do that on a side conversation but I want to thank you all so much for this and I'll look forward to additional information and and see our improvements thank you m jnes thank you so I have a whole lot of questions um if a parent does not want their student to be in an LD class and maybe they know that they almost reclassified last year and that they they just you know they're kind of over it can the I know the law requires it but can the parent opt out a parent can opt out of ELD services but it does
109not change a student's English language status and they will continue to be required to take the lpac until they reclassify right I that I understand but they don't have they a parent can opt out of the the ELD class okay they can with a lot of conversation and communication with the site that that is the best pathway for the student okay um all right but you're not going to bully them about it right we are here to support okay um uh and this is kind of in no particular order you were talking about the um the you there's always new English Learners coming in just as there's always English learners reclassifying and if if we if the size of the kindergarten class was the SI same size more or less as the 12th grade class
110we could say well you know we could measure that but um is is the rate of we'll call them ins and outs pretty steady that we are reclassifying at at least about the same rate uh for as as far as number coming in or or is it it are we doing better worse do you have an idea of that that's certainly additional data that we can collect and and and to a certain extent I don't necessarily need to know I'm just wondering if we're looking at it I um I I I don't expect you to get back to me I'm just wondering if we are considering that um can I answer that to I mean mathematically the answer is unfortunately no because if we were doing the exact same rate then every El would reclassify
111right by the time they left us would all be reclassified that means everybody who came in reclassified before they left um and they do not so I understand that yeah so it's not the same it's it's it's a steady rate although it's actually improving from the slid so we are getting better we're getting closer to getting all of them and that's really the goal right is to increase that rate to so close that gap between how many stay in the system as ltels and graduate as ltels versus how many um graduated as RFB students so we're get we we are increasing our ability to close that Gap but but it is not the same rate they we get more than we reclassify so then some issues about the students taking honors in AP I'm wondering
112if again I don't necessarily need need to see the the datea on it but I'm wondering if we have as a district looked at the statistics the demographics of who are the the students taking AP and honors classes versus not male versus female Special Ed versus not uh you know all those kinds of different things I just think that that is worth looking we are all right um and then I would like to just talk a little bit about eel's and rfbs taking Advanced courses I was speaking to a staff member recently about a student who uh is not even reclassified but a high school student who's apparently um very motivated very bright and has had trouble getting permission to take the AP classes when um I'll just say they and their parents and and
113even some of their teachers are convinced they can but apparently some teachers are not convinced and you know I there's plenty of students that are not ready to do that uh but and I don't necessarily believe that elel status is part of it again when we're talking about math classes uh which are don't tend to be as as heavily into reading and certainly not heavily into writing um I just feel like this is really a big gap we've got and and I don't think it has to do with did you not reclassify until 7th 8th 9th 10th grades it's um it's to a certain extent an attitude of the school and the teachers and uh and one's family uh I think there's lots of capable students who are uh are probably only um verbally fluent
114um I know I I can speak a language that I cannot read or write so I'm very well aware of how this works in with students that are they're just they can't read or write particularly writing very well that ought to keep them from taking Advanced courses particularly in math and science so I'll direct you to the last page that ran presented which was one of those things that we're working on right and this idea that we're going to identify other metrics of success we're going to increase futurology appointments for the students right doing things to make them aware of where I mean we're definitely not going to push a student who can't write in English into AP English um but AP math if that's where they're showing Proficiency in is definitely an opportunity right
115so part of it is is getting our staff on board with that that that's that cultural proficiency work like understand the El is not an indicator of proficiency across the board it's an indicator of comfort with the English language right so um it is something we're working on it's an area of growth that we're want to point it out and we'll continue work on that so um I'd also like to find out if the staff is looking at a through G completion across all different demographics yeah because again I'm not convinced that that's as much about eel's as it is about some other things um and I will say that generally the biggest barrier for a through G is English because it requires four years of English so when we talk about language being the
116barrier and English is the a through G gatekeeper that is a challenge we have to get over because it's the one class you require four years of successful completion to get for anther gen okay but we require four years to graduate oh I see okay all right so okay so I guess guess and that was my next question is like where what what's missing in our athg completion rate I was going to say it's the last year of science um uh that was going to be my guess but if it is in the the English with a C or better um I'd be interested in knowing that um but again I for the staff a future board me there is a full a through G report coming so we will definitely get to that point
117you know what I'll be back here you'll s okay yeah love of caffeine for everybody it'll be dense with data yeah make sure there's a res Reserve seat for me um the last question is about the norming of the elpac and I think this is Dr Ma I don't think you know the answer this one Dr Brown um I I am not I'm still I know the S was not normed prop properly I know it wasn't um I'm not convinced that elpac is how is elpac normed do do they uh is it normed against um lowincome English englishon speakers um I mean I would just like to know how it's being normed because I'm not convinced that it doesn't have a bias inherent in it I can get back to you about all the specific
118ways that it's Norm but I do know that one of the ways that it's Norm is that against other students that are non English Learners against English so the field test will need to be taken as well as they Norm the score by other students who are non-english Learners to see the performance of students who are not identified as English Learners and how they perform on the lpac okay so you think that they are norming it against English only students in various different demographics yes but I'm happy to get back to you the specific great all right thank you okay trusty Davis Marina thank you for the great presentation I love I love the data I actually love that um what additional data does cusd add for reclassification what what do you mean that what
119do we add so there's certain requirements by the state but then there's some other kind of pick the requirements but so the Criterion two if we can go back to that this one right here so let's be careful we don't add anything yeah there are four required Criterion as a district we get control to an extent over Criterion two and Criterion four right so the lpac is required for everybody Statewide as is the opportunity for meeting consultation with parents right the teacher valuation and the basic skills relative are able to be tweaked by the district right so that's why in your packet we gave you the other districts so you can see um a lot of districts for Criterion 4 for example just use esac metc SE that's their only Criterion 4 we use that
120or Benchmark I already scores or C and other districts also use variations right so you can see what those are but you can't eliminate or add criteria you can just Define Criterion two and four so the teacher evaluation and the esack or the benchmarks for is the two that we thank you okay thank you thank you so much all right um this was informational only so that is we are now moving on to 12b demographic analysis and Elementary enrollment projections at this time I'd like to recognize Clark Hampton Deputy SE superintendent business and support services this item is also informational thank you president cados trustees get ready for more data so here we go so uh this item is to share a presentation that the district advisory committee had presented to them by the Consultants
121on the meeting they held January 23rd 2024 for the benefit of those here tonight the district advisory committee is a is comprised of members appointed by each trustee the committee is purpose is to assist the district with evaluating student enrollment projections and Associated school capacity needs in the future the committee's meetings are subject to the brown act and the public May attend all meetings held by the committee okay all right trustees may remember the DAC or District advisory committee held meetings last year but paused while the district engaged with a new consultant the new consultant is King Consulting and also assists the district with State funding applications and other needs related to school facility funding this presentation to the DA AC also provided information as a result of questions from the DAC at their first
122two meetings last year so the DAC was provided a high level snapshot of factors influencing District enrollment the normal decline due to students aging out is one birth rates and new the new Universal TK program along with our total capacity utilization and note in the slide that we're utilizing about 69% of our ident IFI capacity now however 26% of that is represented by ptical classrooms so enrollment is down 30% in the last decade and Dr Brown mentioned that in his opening comments about our decline enrollment and this was a a projected decline as neighborhoods are built build with children and eventually those children graduating that the home now no longer has school aged children the implement mentation of universal TK funding has helped minimize the decline you've seen in this chart that we're seeing increase
123in K uh is level and increasing enrollment with TK is assisting with our help mitigate some of the declining involment so one question that DAC had was if students were leaving to attend private schools and there was a slight increase due to the pandemic but overall is relatively flat uh this trend continued this year with a net incoming students from private schools returning to cap UniFi and then cusd sees a a decline in students transferring out to the district prior to the 12th grade this year we saw a net 2,838 incoming students versus students leaving the district so that's a net incoming students of 2,838 however we had 3,957 graduating seniors so that results in a net decline of just over a thousand students so we discussed with the committee the overall population is increasing
124however school age population is declining so the top chart is the increasing in total population while school age children is declining and then uh as you know we're growing in some areas so as example with ranchill Mission beo area where the asencia school was built 2018 as a result of a new development and we're also in the process of uh building or getting ready to build a new ka8 school and Randa development but it's the growth isn't enough to counteract the overall aging out that we're seeing across this the entire School District so this is a chart that's unreadable so but what what it was it was readable by the committee but what that shows is all the elementary schools and their uh the Open Enrollment aspects of the school so you'll see the line
125the diagonal line going down those represent the students going to the schools in the area their boundary and then you can see where students are coming from and where they're leaving to for all the elementary schools so this is was part of the Open Enrollment discussion school choice discussion with the committee what PR you want on tabloid for the next time you meet with me so it'll be nice and big for you they refer to a spatial analysis Matrix we call the Open Enrollment report so here you can see the uh the net migration light pink it's a a mild reduction in students leaving that area to go somewhere else and you might ask well if we're seeing an increase in enrollment in the essencia ranch machine behavi area why is there that decline there
126and it's because they're these are the students that are leaving to go to specialized programs like the immersion programs things like that so we have some students who live in aseni but they go to the immersion programs elsewhere but so that's the the movement from in the dark red is a significant amount of students leaving the area of their home school to go to another school and then green is in that increase of students who are coming migrating into that school area so then we we we talked about enrollment projections uh one of the aspects is local births so you look at the birth rate in an area then you calculate forward forward to five years when you would expect to see them enter in your school system and there was a uh a pandemic
127baby uh boom somewhat so the birth rates actually increased slightly in the last several years but not meeting anywhere near the birth rates we had uh early in the early 2000s is represented earlier in the chart so and this is the birth rate trends by region in the district comparing the uh 2010 to 2022 by ZIP code where the babies are being born versus not being born and then the another Trend we've seen is uh significant decrease in people under 30 the birth rate of of people under 30 versus um over 30 has changed significantly stay it stayed about the same for people over 30 and then grade to grade migration this is so this is most about retention so if you take a cade through four and then look at your one through five
128grade levels we have a net increase most years except for the pandemic so there's you look at grades so you capture you keep the k4s and they move forward and you actually gain some more students over time and other than the pandemic we've always had a net gain from from that cohort and then this is our elementary school projection you see uh we're leveling off uh the dark line represents where we've bin and then the light line is the projections and uh what will happen is that there'll be just an uh we I refer to as equilibrium enrollment once everything's the neighborhoods have all aged out then you just see kind of a wave pattern over time of increasing and declining enrollments over time so this is the previous chart by grade level just for
129and then we looked at now once we went through the things that impact enrollment we now talked about the utilization of the capacity we have in the school district so we ranked uh from lowest utilization to highest uh and so that as referenced earlier the bottom line is the horizontal line is the 69% utilization of all capacity and then 100% is the Top Line you can see at where each school is in meeting filling their total capacity the far left school is Marblehead the far right school is L promas see so Los promas is at 100% plus utilization and this is what's expected by 2030 so this would be in 2030 31 based on moderate projections the utilization break so you see we're kind of leveling off so you see the chart doesn't change much
130if I go back to the previous chart it's just a mile mild change and then the following chart is also difficult to read but it's basically the estimated capacity uh and the number of Portables at each School site and this will factor in the following chart it'll have a lot more meaning in the following chart so this is the projected enrollment uh from on the left side 2023 24 our current rment out to 2030 31 and the bars represent a low low than moderate than high projection for so like low we would expect to the enrollment not to go up as fast medium and then High enrollment so the recommendation is to use the middle chart and you can see not factoring in Portables that were just about utilizing that aren all of our school
131sites for the most part if you look at the moderate projections the middle bar we just under the permanent capacity of both School sides so next steps uh these are the items that the the district advisory committee is going to be learning more about at the next meeting on March 12th again it's a public meeting open to anybody who'd like to come and see it uh so far we haven't had any people coming and speaking but uh the meetings are very very dat rich and I think the committee is enjoying their time on it on this because they're learning a lot about the school district we have to answer today questions okay thank you do we have any speaker cards on the side there are none okay trustees uh trusty Parham uh yeah thank you
132for that also um my understanding is that that we're kind of at the um whim of the developer on on when Renda gets built is that is that something that we can push sooner rather than later the Rand of development yeah so we have a mitigation agreement with the with the ranch and where the the mitigation agreement calls for the opening of Miranda Miranda based on a certain Target number of students that are over enrolled in a and so that's driven by the number of houses that are being built and occupied so it's all based on the um whether the ranch slows down with this with the inflation bump and increasing uh interest rates on home mortgages it kind of slowed down your development a little bit but we think they're kind of we they're
133on track things seems to be moving pretty quickly well it it seems like we are over enrolled at asencia and I think uh I mean I don't know what what's that number that were there were what over overed the impacts on asencia are predominantly the um class size reduction so that the school wasn't built or designed for the the lower class size that we're at now so it is going to appear to be more full but as we as we bring class sizes back to where they were before that'll be more space at in there's also a a call for placing there's Portables that are part of agreement that we place there to a house where students yeah I think we've maxed out on that or at least we will next year I can ask
134yeah so we're we're going to be this suming seven more relocat out there to house um you know for reanda students um one of the things that that Mr Hampton noted is the lower class size has made it more difficult for classroom spaces and adding special specialized programs so we'll have to take a closer look at some of those specialized programs uh in the next couple years we have a meeting with R&V um early next week to get an update on where they're at the earliest that they probably could give us the site would be probably early 25 um and then we need a couple years to build the school so the school couldn't open prior to 2720 um would be the earliest right and that's about when we would expect not other factors that
135are class sized and all that that we would expect the amount of students generated out of random with over enroll sensate by 400 4 that's the trigger point Miranda students 400 in a week well regardless of what the class sizes are there's still the same impact on traffic so and it's there's still only really a couple of ways in so that's getting you know exponentially worse with with the additional people so and I understand we can put more kids in a classroom but we they still got to be dropped off and that issue has not been resolved and it's getting worse and it's only going to get worse so I would encourage you to I mean I'm going to start rattling the cages with with um the ranch and I think 2728 is probably not
136good enough um so let's we'll talk more about that specifically and I think we also have to spend some time now figuring out our vision for the you know the CD school that we want to have we talked about that a few months ago just you know when you design a school for so many kids and then all of a sudden you know something else happens and you have to add but 10 Portables um that's not that's not the right way to do things and and I know that we had a lot of challenges so I get that but um we need to um we need to be very mindful about what kind of physical plant we have especially as we're requiring the public to to support us down the low with some you know
137some needs I know that the State School of construction they expect schools to have Portables I understand that and I'm I'm I get I get that but to max out on Portables within two or three years uh is not good planning and I don't blame you I blame the Branch I don't blame interest rates even you know you could have seen that coming so in this area you know where we are blessed with having more and more kids we still have exponentially more problems on the horizon with traffic and and and over capacity um and so I think we we do need to reconsider issues like open enrollment and things like that um because it's you know you see some schools that are way below that line of capacity um yet some schools Las palas
138is at capacity yet that's in one of those areas where a lot of those kids won't be there 10 years from now right so we need to be looking at that yeah that's part of our goal with this the committee okay trusty hanich thank you um thank you and my Committee Member has has really enjoyed this I think they've had what you've had one meeting or or two um so when in future discussions will you be considering at all when you look at capacity in schools our schools we have several many schools that were built during phases right open uh open classroom concept I deab bispo comes to mind and then we had to go back and chop it back up and make classrooms and then we have I think kosha was designed 20 to1
139um so the classrooms are like this big so it will that be part of your discussion when you look um at that because every school represents a phase a Concordia a Palisades have the big windows and the awnings you know so physical plants one of physical physical plant okay um and um let's see what else oh will you also be looking at or not for this committee uh will be doing uh information about what is kind of the optimum size for schools um what's The Sweet Spot uh for an elementary middle and high school we be factoring back sort of discussion in yes okay so we'll have that as well um okay and then I just just a comment I so appreciate um trusty parham's frustration and those of us have been around for a
140really really long time every time we have a new development the new flavor we under under whatever report or think how many children we're going to have too was exploded Lera exploded and so then it then it went you know then we spent our our time a lot of time trying to adjust and and figure that out so I totally hear it it's just seems to be that you're the new flavor you attract the new families and I we never count it right what is it 2.1 kids per household it should be like 7even for household so I just just always happens and I understand what you're saying um but then it then it does adjust um over time so thank you for this committee work I think you're really doing it with Fidelity and
141I'm glad that we stepped back in order to go forward so thank you okay trusty balkus yes um Clark on page 17 the detailed local birth rates or Trends is it possible to get numbers the reason why I ask is because percentages can be deceiving and I just drew a line across here because it looks like North we've got more births but there's definitely a slow down south there's something going on um and I would really like to take this to the city of mission bejo because where we've grown our senior citizen rate of population from 25 representing now 27% and we you know keep talking about aging out aging out I in this 12E Trend and this two-year Trend I I've got a 35 Point swing saying we're having more babies yeah so i'
142kind of like to understand percentages versus um because there's definitely growth in ranchel Santa Margarita Cotto trbo um emission bejo whereas but I mean there are big Point swings because even in s Clemente and sanan capestrano in that 12 years they were Nega 40 and now they're flat well that that's actually an increase but maybe the numbers would give a different story so is it possible to get the actual numbers we can we can dig into the numbers that represent those the colored charts because when we think we're decreasing it's like not my area it's interesting the largest growing demographic group is people aged over 60 that's the largest grow larg like I said our seniors age 65 and over now represents larger so um we get the numbers behind on this chart here right
143because I think if I shared this with my city they would be really interested in that number I think that's you're you're right percentages are misleading too because when you look at a trend over 10 years versus a trend over two years it doesn't mean you're having more you're still having way less than you were 10 years ago you're just having more than you were last year right so I think the numbers would be good to put in there yeah thank you yeah that's the co well yeah that's why the the chart before shows the actual numbers where birth rate was higher in the past but now yeah okay trusty Jones uh yeah I just had one question about the capacities um when we're talking about classrooms and Portables are we also including Portables that
144are not owned by us they're mostly the why um they just our Portables okay so we're only including our our Portables in that okay all right and then I don't know if we have any Portables on CL on on school properties that are uh not can't be used for classrooms they're either too small or they're maybe just not in good condition and they're being used for storage or something along most I think most of the Portables are 960 square feet that's standard for yeah there we use the standard 960 foot and are are you also asking are there any that are uninhabitable or just not useful because a lot of the Portables are used for other specialized programs yeah or the the PTA has a room where they keep stuff uh you know in just
145in a school where not all the portable yeah there's I think two pieces that so if it's a portable that could be used as a classroom but the school has designated as something else because they have space that would count towards our capacity understand if on a few schools there are the half Portables that are not big enough to be classrooms I saw to a school the other day um those are not considered the capacity study because they could not have students the portable question so I don't want a school to be dinged because we've done an amazing job at our older schools like I'll use Palisades as an example of removing the uninhabitable Portables that is a cleaned up campus but they don't show any Portables right they could the capacity for them to
146drop you could drop endless Portables up there same with rhd and when they used to have a thousand kids um at that school so I don't know if that's a fault or that that factors into anything but again we've done a great job removing Portables they were when my children's there these schools were Seas of of Portables right so does that Ding them you know in some way it's just it's just part that's the normal life cycle of school should you have Portables to account for bubbles of enrollment right and then you and then we and we've really done an excellent job of of getting rid of because when they go bad they're they're they're bad okay um we are now going to 12C and 12 12 D were pulled so we are now moving
147on to consent calendar uh please note her board policy 9323 and in accordance with the law the public has the right to comment on any consent item at the request of any member of the board any item on the consent agenda shall be removed or given individual consideration for Action as a regular agenda item each speaker is allotted between one and three minutes per item depending on the number of individuals um who want who wish to speak uh M do we have have any speakers for consent calendar we do have two speaker cards Michelle posel Cy okay good evening I get a full three minutes it's amazing how long three minutes can be so in the last month $22,995 cents were're donated by our ptas and ptsas across capist unified to cover the cost such
148as science camp Ed puzzle subscriptions non-instructional supplies projectors projectors and installation at Castile Canyon Vista and Molton Reading Counts I ready programs assemblies field trips their first second third and fourth grades I'm assuming the fifth graders are all at science camp and not doing other field trips at least this bu month stem lab assem and assemblies General School use classroom supplies school fencing Scholastic News Epson projectors at another site student Furniture to make sure they all have comfy seats this is my favorite one though the Prismatic magic assembly I wanted to be there and missed it teacher supplies I Canan lab trainings school safety projects and in addition our ptas have planned so many fun and amazing Hospitality events at their sites to show their appreciation for our amazing School staffs we really appreciate all
149they do every day working tirelessly for our students to make sure our students have safe places to grow their minds and to be feel safe and connected to their schools so if you have yet to join a PTA this is my monthly plug unless I get somebody else to do it for me so please do so tonight you can join at join . totem and find your Lo local PTA and so thank you so much for letting us do all the hard work we as ptas do to support our schools while you do everything you do to support our kids and my second item is yay make Niguel a title one school please tonight we are so looking forward to it we have been planning so much we're working at getting our schools like Council
150up and running we're doing all this and we're excited for this so please please please just vote Yes on all the consent items thank you okay sorry about that um any trustees have any consent items to pull just no okay can I have a motion to approve the consent calendar items 14a through 17b okay uh moved by trusty Davis and seconded by trusty buus thank you okay you please call the r student board member Pierce trusty bullus hi trusty Davis trusty Jones hi trusty pitchard hi trusty Hanah hi trusty Parham hi trusty ctios hi okay motion carry 7-0 by a roll call vote to approve the consent calendar we are now moving on to oral communication oral Communications and we are finishing our speakers so M you can start call yeah thank you I will
151call the speakers so we have Linda row Michelle Morgan Lisa Mary Linda Eva Harrison Sean Michelle mcnut Jean and Ian or I'm please line up in the middle and state your name when you speak first one is Linda R is it Linda r r okay please I'm Linda Ray I'm here to ask that this parental notification act be put on the next agenda that Lisa Davis proposed parents know their children best and their Authority should not be superseded by teachers and school administrators schools should not make potentially life at altering decisions for a child behind parents backs the district is allowing young students to assume gender different gender different from their biological sex without consulting or informing parents parents should be informed at once if a school is pushing ideology on children that is not
152in line with the child's family's values or core beliefs we have a petition going it's called protect kids of California Act of 2024 that will be on the November ballot this law will require schools to notify parents regarding Children's Mental Health concerns identified in school settings including gender identification issues protect girls competitive Sports and school spaces to be for biological girls only prevents the sterilization of children by prohibiting the use of public puberty blockers cross- sex hormones momies and genital surgeries for minors thank you I have the petitions with me our next speaker is Michelle Morgan um good evening trustees I'm here to express my objection to the fact that you as a board are deferring time in these meetings to students minors in fact in preference to hearing from parents and adults who have
153the responsibility in charge to care for them I'm especially offended by the fact that you have limited oral Communications to a total of 20 minutes while you might patch yourselves on the back for being interested in what students think perhaps as part of your inclusive ideology I see it as a way to limit the outcry of adults in the room who are not concerned about the who are concerned about the craziness being perpetrated in your schools but and there are taxpayers who actually votee and pay for your salaries I'm also well aware of the evidence that has been shared with this board which clearly shows the collusion and orchestration to flood meetings with students and staff for the express purpose of silencing parents with a common sense point of view shame on you of those
154of this board who have supported this effort I suggest you have students submit comments as you had suggested earlier via email for your information and get back to listening to the adult in the room I would like to read into the public record that on 1018 2023 C USB board trustees castios Hanah Jones parm and brard did deny without public discussion or review the students of cusd Parental notification policy simultaneously endangering these children's lives by overstepping civil law and more importantly God's law as the parents alone are responsible for their children under the age of accountability and this was a violation without recourse it is my opinion that these five not Lisa Davis who introduced the parental notification policy nor Judy bolus who voted in favor of of it of it be alone held criminally
155responsible for the damages to these cusd students since pin 18 23 most transgender course students will regret this decision by the time their prefrontal cortexes are formed thanks thank you our next speaker is Mary thank you my name is Mary I'd like to read the public record also 10823 same board trustees castalanos hanich Jones Parham and Pritchard all voted to deny students their parent parental rights policy we're asking that the parental notice policy be introduced by leaveit Le Davis be reinstated on the agenda and re reintroduced so it can be properly evaluated why because we have already given the board secretary copies of corresponding showing the collusion of some of the five board members with the gsas and local GB LGBT organizations in coordinations to distract with 49 students who were given preference speaking while
156denying parents and experts from across the state a respectable or at least AAL time to give their own testimony this is an official request that you Lisa Davis notification back on the agenda we talked earlier about declining enrollment you have to be kidding you know why we have declining enrollment it's because of the Marxist CRT and the the sex ad don't for yourselves okay we know lots of parents is Linda you five have voted to deny students and their parents a parental rights policy know who you are praise God in the US we have the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances we have the protect kids California Act of 2024 petitions are here with us tonight hundreds have already been signed the Rasmus and poll show that you five are in
157the minority across the country in your position of denial this act will make these changes into law no boys and girls sports or bathrooms locker rooms this law will require schools to notify parents regarding children's mental health concerns including gender confusion issues prevent sterilization of children prohibiting use of puberty puberty blockers cross- seex hormones mastectomies and general surgeries for minors we ask that you put Lisa Davis parental notification policy back on the agenda so we may have protect the kids that may be harmed in the interim thank you hi where am I going hi a basketball coach who coaches female students of all grades at Toro high school was publicly publicly following Instagram porn stars this was found out by his female students who were shocked when this was brought to the principal's attention the
158coach was told to set his Pro profile to private was this coach told that looking at young naked women on Instagram may be a problem given his profession I checked one of the profiles he followed a very young woman who used a baby doll to pretend to breastfeed exposing her large breast completely and acting sexually Judy your response was that uh as a new one-year coach he requires further guidance and he has received appropriate feedback with specific Direction what exactly was this appropriate feedback call me approv but if that was my daughter's coach I would be very concerned with this coach's porn addiction porn has been normalized it doesn't make it normal it's very concerning and at the very least parents should be notified we should have a social media y Shan students have access
159to the private lives of some teachers and coaches um these teachers and coaches have the legal um right to their their adult lives however um we're aware that a team of female students not just one student are in distress over what they found on that social media um web social media website uh the content is not illegal however it's sexually explicit nature and inappropriate knowledge for these girls one parent who's afraid to speak up has expressed that they are now faced with pulling their child off the team and considering pull pulling her from Capo District this isn't the first instance our district has had that has caused the need to adopt a District staff social media policy similarly to the campus safety issue I'm not sure why this hasn't happened yet but if someone could
160please email me about this I'd appreciate it thank you hello board um as others have said I as a grandparent advising my children why should we send our children to public school cusd um we've seen a lot over the year we've seen um condoms in boys bathrooms we've seen sexual material um in libraries and classrooms and um we've seen curriculum that Grooms young children with very soft transgender messages um I just wonder if you guys are um concerned um are you for parents we've been pushing for this but I think your actions are speaking louder than maybe your testimony because of not listening to parents during the October meeting you had all the students in front parents weren't given an accommodation I would also look for your declining enrollment look at homeschooling we're recommending that
161people pull their kids thank you hi my name is Michelle mcnut and I am the I'm the proud mother of two wonderful girls in two of our schools um I'm am also a highly notified parent and I exercise my parental rights daily weekly through uh looking at curriculum through having meetings at school with my kids teachers I actually just got a text message today a personal text message from my daughter's um chemistry teacher he was concerned because her grade kind of dropped a little bit and he's like hey what's going on is something going on so there's no secrets here we are I'm notified I have rights I meet I had a round table with all of my daughter's teachers and the principal and a counselor because she was in the hospital for a few
162days they listened to her like she knew what she was talking about like she knew what she wanted and they respected her and I appreciate that and I would just like to say for all the protesting about this parental notification not being about trans kids thank you to every single person tonight who just said it actually was now cat's out of the bag we can move on is Ian our next speaker is Ian okay we are now moving on to adjournment so may I have a motion to adjourn move okay moved by trusty Davis second second okay seconded by trusty bolus all those in favor I okay motion carries 70 we are now adjourning thank you