CUSD’s Local Control Accountability Plan
It’s almost spring, when school districts across
the state begin talking about their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP).
How are we doing? Are we making progress towards
meeting the goals that we set for ourselves last spring? What do our students,
parents, and community think about CUSD’s direction and progress? What do we
need to accomplish next year?
The Board is currently developing the timelines,
procedures, and outcomes for our 2015-16 LCAP document. The Board is asking two
key questions--Where do we want to go? (goals) and How do we know whether we
get there? (metrics-what do we measure?).
A key element
of the LCAP is community engagement. It is vitally important that all stakeholders--from students,
employees and parents, to business,
civic leaders, and residents without children in our schools--participate in
the LCAP process, so their perspectives can be heard when the Board considers
and adopts CUSD’s 2015-16 LCAP goals.
Here are some of the
ways that CUSD intends to gather perspectives from stakeholders:
1. Administer an online survey, based on CUSD’s new Vision and Graduate Profile, measuring stakeholder perceptions, to parents, employees, students, community members, and business representatives;
2. Hold a Town Hall Forum for Spanish speaking parents on Wednesday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m;
3. Hold meetings with existing stakeholder groups such as the Parent Superintendent Advisory Council (PSAC), the Teacher Superintendent Advisory Council (TSAC), the Student Superintendent Advisory Council (SSAC), K-12 Administrators, the CUTA consultation committee, and LIUNA, using the Vision and Graduate Profile as the guide;
4. Principals will meet with middle and high school ASB students to broaden the base of student feedback;
5. Principals will engage their PTAs and School Site Councils through regularly scheduled meetings; and
6. The Board will meet in a Special LCAP Board Study Session to review stakeholder input and discuss, identify, and clarify goals and metrics for 2015-16.
Additionally, the Board is currently developing
a one-page mid-year progress update on the 2014-15 LCAP that will be shared
with our key stakeholder groups over the next few weeks.
We hope that you will
share your thoughts and perspectives with us, and look forward to hearing from
you as we develop CUSD’s Local Accountability Plan for 2015-16.
