San Clemente Residents Learn Lessons In School District Governance - Part Two

May 27, 2015 Board Meetinghttp://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/file/1229223560406/1262503101751/3953279604818241420.pdf

• Agenda Item #4 Tentative Agreement with CUEA for July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
• Agenda Item #6 CUEA Contract Re-opener Proposal 2015-16
• Agenda Item#7 District Contract Re-Opener Proposal to CUEA 2015-16

Regarding Agenda Item #4 - Contract for the current year 2014-15

* Note: CUSD Adopted a 2014-15 Budget that changed Class Sizes, Restored the School Year to 180 days and Increased Employee Compensation. How does a school district do that without negotiating employment contracts first? Employee compensation is 92% of CUSD’s budget. Agenda Item #4 is a contract for 2014-15 (executed 10 months into the school year) This Contract will expire June 30, 2015. Article 12- Negotiation Procedures requires the parties to complete an new agreement by the end of the term (that would have been June 30, 2014) or file an impasse. No impasse was filed. The District adopted a budget that materially changed the terms of the existing contract and ten months later a new contract was executed that matched the budget passed 10 months prior.
See: http://www.cuea.org/information_v2/ContractToJun2013.pdf at page 47 and 48

Capistrano Unified School District Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) Implementation Update May 27, 2015

Slide on page 14C

The LCFF wants Districts to reduce class sizes in grades K-3 to 24:1. While CUSD states that one of its major goals in the LCAP is to reduce class sizes, it is really not making progress towards that goal. And more importantly, if the District is really interested in “Community Engagement” then the LCAP should state clearly what class sizes currently are and what the goal for reduction is each year rather than use the generic phrase “Decrease Class Size Per Negotiated Contract”. Despite stating an intent to reduce class sizes, as the District states every year, the contracts (once executed) show that class sizes actually increased or stayed the same. The actual class sizes in the contract do not illustrate a real effort on the part of the District to Reach LCFF stated goal of 24:1 in K - 3.

Source K-3 Grade Span Adjustment LCFF:http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcfffaq.asp#K3GSA