LCAP Annual Review - How Did CUSD Do In Meeting Its Goals To Improve Education For Students

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Local Control Accountability Plans

With the passage of the State’s new Local Control Funding Formula Law, accountability and oversight shifted from the State and County Office of Education to the local school district. The State of California is no longer governing what local Districts do. The District is essentially policing itself.

The County Office of Education has also relieved itself of any oversights of the local school district. Oversight is now done through the formation of a Local Control Accountability Plan which is designed to have the Public work in conjunction with the District to set goals and measure progress to meeting these goals. The State and County office of education will not intervene unless a District fails to show improvement across multiple subgroups in three out of four consecutive years. For students, that means there is no intervention from the State or the County until there has been an accumulation of comparable data on the new LCAP for three years. Students currently entering High School this year will have no relief until their senior year. That is to late to make a difference for these students. The new law places an onerous burden on taxpayers and the public to read long LCAP plans (73 pages), to find and identify errors, to attend a Board meeting and speak on the record to notify the District and Trustees of the errors, and then to follow up to see that the errors have been fixed. Even if errors are fixed, the County Office of Education will only take action when there are three years of data that can be used to see if the District is meeting its stated goals to improve education for students.

Source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcffoverview.asp

2015 LCAP Annual Review- How Did The District Do In Meeting Its Stated Goals To Improve Student Achievement?

June 24, 2015 Board of Trustee Meeting Agenda Item #5 2015-16 Local Control and Accountability Plan and Annual Up-date (Exhibit 5 Page 35) Discussion/Action The annual Up-date starts on page 43 of 73

http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1229223560406/1218998864154/1095880305525509113.pdf

Goal 1: Students will demonstrate academic growth and proficiencies needed to ensure they leave TK - 12 system ready for college and career.

CUSD specified 12 annual measurable outcomes that the District would implement to accomplish Goal I.

How Did CUSD DO?

CUSD Met 1 of the 12 goals:

#1 180 day school year

CUSD Partially Met 1 of the 12 goals:

#1 CST Science Advance/Proficient Scores 5th Grade Met

#1 CST Science Advance/Proficient Scores 8 and 11th Grade Not Met

CUSD Did Not Meet 4 of the 12 goals:

#3 Class Size Reduction

#7 Highly Qualified Teachers

#8 Facilities Repair/Maintenance

#9 English Language Learner Reclassification Rates

Not Enough Data to Determine 6 of the 12 goals:

#4 SBAC Test

#5 Development of a Walkthrough Tool

#6 Identification of College and Career Internships and apprenticeships

#10 Long Term English Learners

#11 AMAO 1

#12 AMAO 2

Details

1. Did student proficiency improve CST Science advanced and proficient score by 3% - ?

2013 STAR Test Results

http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2013/ViewReport.aspx?ps=true&lstTestYear=2013&lstTestType=C&lstCounty=30&lstDistrict=66464-000&lstSchool=&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1

*STAR Test has been phased out - reporting is now under CAASPP

2014 CAASPP Test Results
http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/caaspp2014/ViewReport.aspx?ps=true&lstTestYear=2014&lstTestType=C&lstCounty=30&lstDistrict=66464-000&lstSchool=&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1

2013 STAR TEST Science 5th Grade 78%
2014 CAASPP 5th Grade 81%
MET GOAL OF 3% IMPROVEMENT

2013 STAR TEST Science 8th Grade 88%

2014 CAASPP 8th Grade 89%

DID NOT MEET GOAL OF 3% IMPROVEMENT

2013 10th Grade 76%

2014 10th Grade 77%

DID NOT MEET GOAL OF 3% IMPROVEMENT

2. Did students attend 180 days of school? Yes GOAL MET

Cost to increase student days to 180 days:

$2,479,200 Certificated Personnel Salaries Base

$ 619,800 Certificated Personnel Salaries Supplemental

$ 626,000 Classified Personnel Salaries Base

$ 157,000 Classified Personnel Salaries Supplemental

Total Cost: $3,882,000

3. Were Class Sizes Reduced? No GOAL NOT MET

Cost to reduce class sizes:

$3,949,600 Certificated Personnel Salaries Base

$ 987,400 Certificated Personnel Salaries Supplemental

Total Cost: $4,937,000

* Class Sizes were not reduced so where did this money go? The District did hire a lot of new teachers in 2014-15 but they were all designated “Pre-School” Was money that was earmarked for K-12 CSR used to hire Pre-School Teachers?

Number of Teachers and Average Compensation 185 Days of Service:

Contract July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013: Number of teachers: 2155 Average Compensation: $ 95,673
Source: June 27, 2012 Board Meeting Agenda Item #1 Discussion/Action Exhibit 1 Page 7
http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1229223560406/1218998864154/9066401469657812055.pdf

Contract July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014: Number of teachers: 2034 Average Compensation: $105,340
Source: August 14, 2013 Board Meeting Agenda Item #2 at page 8
http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1229223560406/1218998864154/9202076915403207654.pdf

Contract July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015: Number of teachers: 2093 Average Compensation: $108,392
Source: April 22, 2015 Board Meeting Agenda Item #4 Discussion/Action Exhibit 4 Page 24k
http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1229223560406/1218998864154/4316232143675230130.pdf

Sources Class Size:
2011-12: http://www.cuea.org/information_v2/ContractToJun2013.pdf at page 19 and 20

2012-13: http://www.cuea.org/information_v2/ContractToJun2013.pdf at page 93

Of Note: MOU dated 6/12/12 “Article 8.3 The Association proposes to increase class staffing ratios for regular classes by 1.5 students in grades K- 12 for the 2012-13 school year.”

It should be noted that in 2012- 13 Average Teacher Compensation increased from $95,673 per year to $105,340 per year. That compensation increase was paid for with a class size increase of 1.5 students across all grades and 3 instructional furlough days. When the MOU expired class sizes went back to 2011-12 level seen above.

2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16: See letter from the Orange County Department of Education

4. Baseline SBAC will be collected - Test Results For CUSD not in Yet - GOAL ?

5. Classroom instruction will reflect grade level standards including integrated digital literacy standards. Schools focused on standards- based instruction implementation using walkthroughs, common walkthrough tool in development. - Goal ?

Association of California School Administrators a walk through tool:

“gathers data on classroom observations, shapes the data into reports and graphs, and transforms data to insight that can be used to improve instructional practice. By transforming mobile data tools into data collection terminals that aggregate new knowledge about classroom instruction, this device can truly liberate principals and teachers from their desks and overcome the ambiguity of what is happening in the classroom.”

http://www.acsa.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/media/LeadershipMagazine/2010-Archives/JanuaryFebruary-2010/observation-insight.aspx

6. Baseline data on career experiences, internships, apprenticeships will be collected. Data was collected in Spring 2014 and showed that no internships or apprenticeships currently exist. CUSD plans to have internships or apprenticeships by 2017. GOAL - ?

7. Increase the number of highly qualified teachers. Goal Not Met - decrease .1%

HQT for 2013-14 97.6%
HQT for 2014-15 97.5%

8. Maintain the number of sufficient instructional materials for each student. GOAL- NOT MET

No findings on Williams compliance visits- students had sufficient access to instructional materials and school facilities are in good repair.

CUSD is mis-representing facilities issues.

There are Williams Complaints on File:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4fs4uadzsetuarb/AAA1JOd1b5gNzDhTTR8ijmiwa?dl=0

9. Increased reclassification rate by 3% over current baseline. GOAL NOT MET

Reclassification Rate 2013-14 is 9.9%

Reclassification Rate 2014-15 CUSD said data not available until September 2015 - Data is available at the following links. CUSD went from 9.9% to 11.1% and improvement of 1.2%

Data 2013-14 9.9% is correct

http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/cbeds3.asp?cYear=2013-14&Enroll=on&PctEL=on&PctFEP=on&PctRe=on&cSelect=3066464--Capistrano%5EUnified&cChoice=DstProf1

Data 2014-15 11.8%

http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Cbeds3.asp?Enroll=on&PctEL=on&PctFEP=on&PctRe=on&cSelect=3066464--Capistrano+Unified&cChoice=DstProf1&cYear=2014-15

10. Number of LTEL (Long Term English Learners) students will decrease by 2% in grades 5 - 12.

LTEL students grades 5-12 2013-2014 79.4%

LTEL students grades 5-12 2014-2015 ?

11. AMAO 1 increase by 3% Annual Progress on CELDT

AMAO 2013-14 57.2%

http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/t3/t3r.aspx?cds=30664640000000&yr=2013-14&submit1=Submit

AMAO 2014-15 Unofficial 60.2% * Official Data Fall 2015

12. AMAO 2 increase by 3% Proficiency on CELDT

AMAO 2013-14 26.7% (5 years)

AMAO 2014-15 Unofficial 52.4% * Official Data Fall 2015