Local Control accountability Plan

(LCAP)

Parent Meeting

2013-2014 School Finance ReformLocal Control Formula (LCFF)

• New funding system that will determine all schools’ general purpose funding rates

• Rather than set funding rates solely based on grade spans, schools will have individually calculated rates that factor in grade levels as well as school demographics

• Schools moving from 2012 -2013 per ADA rate to a target rate (over 8 years)

• Beneficial for charters because we didn’t have access to many categorical programs

Change in how schools are funded

Basic Tenets of LCFF

• Provides significant new funding linked to eligible students’ needs • English Learners

Economically disadvantaged • Foster Youth

• Compatible with long-established charter school models in California

• Establishes Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)

What is the purpose of LCAP?

• Intended to be a vehicle for transparency and engagement

• Emphasis on good planning, communication, and engagement

• Basically a “story” that explains how we plan to act and spend funds to address state and local priorities • Organization• Stakeholder engagement• Goals and Progress Indicators• Actions, Services, and Expenditures

State Priorities in the LCAP

• Conditions of Learning • Basics: Educators appropriately assigned and

fully credentialed, learner access to standards-aligned instructional materials, and school facilities maintained in good repair (Priority 1)

• State Standards: Implementation of state-adopted academic content and performance standards (Priority 3)

• Course Access: Learner enrollment in a broad course of study (Priority 7)

State priorities in the lcap

• Engagement • Parent Involvement: Efforts to seek parent input

in the decision making, promotion of parent participation in programs for unduplicated pupils and special needs subgroups. (Priority 3)

• Pupil Engagement: School attendance rates, chronic absenteeism rates, middle school dropout rates, high school drop out rates. (Priority 5)

• School Climate: Pupil suspension and expulsion rates, other local measures including surveys of pupils, parents, and teachers on the sense of safety and school connectedness. (Priority 6)

Components of the LCAP (3 year plan)

• Section 1: Stake holder engagement• How did we engage community and how did this

inform the LCAP?

• Section 2: Goals and Progress Indicators • Set goals (annual and long term) around state and

local priorities • Describe how progress will be measured

• Section 3: Actions, Services, and Expenditures • Identify actions and services to support the goals

from Section 2 • Identify expenditures to support the actions and

services and describe where these expenditures are included in the charter’s budget

Timeline for LCAP

• LCAP must be adopted by July 1, 2014

• 2014 – 2015 budget adopted concurrently• Reviewed and revised annually

Telling our story

• Much of what is required in the LCAP is found in our Charter document • Element 1&2 is the Educational Program and the

Measureable Pupil Outcomes • Element 3: Methods to Assess Pupil Progress Towards

Meeting Outcomes

• Parent Involvement and Input• Coffee with the Principal• School Site Council

Board meetings

• Parent Survey • Probably not in time to really guide this year’s LCAP

but definitely in the out years

Questions? Comments?