CUSD is Selling Student Data

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Hobsons California Readiness Block Grants

Capistrano Unified and Capistrano Connections Academy are on the list of recipients of this grant money.

CUSD will begin a new phase of the study by adding a new “Local" Dashboard which will begin social and emotional testing of CUSD students. The data collected under this study will begin in kindergarten with the Kindergarten Readiness Surveys and through personality testing through Naviance Family at different grade levels. The collection of personally identifiable social and emotional data begins to be within the medical area (HIPPA), and the collection and sale of such data is a violation of the privacy rights of every CUSD student and their families.

"California will increase the focus on college and career readiness at select high schools this fall. Beginning in October, the state’s Department of Education will release $200 million through its K–12 College Readiness Block Grant to prepare California disadvantaged high school students to meet admission requirements for California public universities. These grants aim to increase college attendance of underserved California high school students while providing administrators, counselors, and teachers with strategies for improving course completion rates, college readiness, and college-going rates.

High schools are eligible for this grant if they have at least 75 percent of students who are low-income or learning English as a second language. In our one-hour webinar on September 20, a panel of experts and educators will discuss grant details including:

• College readiness indicators and how they will be measured
• The formula for determining grant recipients
• How the grants will dovetail with current accountability plans
• Ways schools and school districts can prepare for the grant application process
• How college readiness fits into the current K-12 framework
• Possible college readiness implications at the national level

NOTE- CUSD is not even qualified to receive these grants - 75% of CUSD students are not low income. Is CUSD a control for this study?

May 10th BOT Meeting agenda Item #34 Board Policy 6146.1 High School Graduation Requirements at page 529: http://capousd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1218998819331/1218998864154/2131855088392147983.pdf

Board Audio starting at 2 hours 30 minutes 02: http://cusd.capousd.org/cusdweb/audio2016-17/CUSD_BoardAudio_May-10-2017.mp3

TRUSTEE COMMENTS

Board Audio at 2:44:50 Trustee McNicholas

We have been discussing this since 2015, we are still in a process of evaluation and even if we wanted to end CCP/Health as a graduation requirement we could not do it for this coming year. Staff needs time to put metrics together, we have made it easier for students to take CCP/Health. We have implemented flexibility for students. We have fabulous teachers doing a fabulous job. I want to make sure that we take full advantage of our Cal Prep Opportunities. There is a NEW REVISION back on the table...

Board Audio at 2:46:20 Superintendent Vital

We made some changes to the Board Policy (Redlined copies are here at the back of the room and have been passed out to everyone) We sent an e-mail and passed them out here. Superintendent Vital then references the potential Brown Act Violation. Kristen Vital should know that revisions cannot be made at a Board Meeting- the agenda must be posted 72 hours PRIOR to the scheduled meeting.

Board Audio at 2:44:50 Trustee McNicholas

What was added at the meeting was a specific paragraph shown below in red underline:

This language offers flexibility for students without opening the flood gates to take any and all courses outside CUSD. We have talked about online platforms like Haiku which put things under CUSD control better than an off-the-shelf platform. I would love to see us develop our own online platform going forward.

Board Audio at 2:48:05 Dr. Susan Holiday

Staff would need direction on that because of time and and staff requirement would be a substantial investment to make a really great interactive online class. We want to make sure it is a wise investment.

Board Audio at 2:48:28 Superintendent Vital

We should land on that. What I heard at the Board Workshop was that a majority of the Board wanted that kind of class- and really take advantage of Cal Prep. We should clarify that and then on the record clarify when we will have the metrics for CCP and deadlines.

Board Audio at 2:48:48 Dr. Susan Holiday

The metrics (a snap shot) will be shared at the May 17, 2017 Board Workshop, and then we will come back in January 2018 with a profile of students with impacted schedules. The 3rd piece would be creating our own online CCP course. We are happy to do that if we make sure it is a wise investment.

Board Audio at 2:49:33 Trustee McNicholas

Yes- we want to take advantage of our expert CCP Teachers.

Board Audio at 2:49:49 Trustee Hatton-Hodson

Lynn stated that she has two kids and she ran Princeton review so she understands what people learn in CCP. Her children also took health online and that was not a great experience. They would have benefited from a real health class. I know many many districts have come here to visit to see what we are doing with CCCP. They come here so that they can capture what we are doing because nothing replaces a great CCP Teacher in the classroom. That is not always the case, and the on-line program is not that great. Because CUSD does not have the metrics; we cannot determine at this time, whether or not CCP should be a graduation requirement or not. We need first to determine if we meet the metrics. It is to early to eliminate CCP as a graduation requirement. We need to make decisions baed on data.

Board Audio at 2:49:37 Trustee McNicholas

Even if we decided today to get rid of CCP we could not get rid of it for this coming year. We can talk about it, but we can't actually do it. Even if we decided today to get rid of CCP as a requirement, not as an elective, because kids really need that class. It would put the advisor in the position of saying a student had to take the class.

Board Audio at 2:51:57 Trustee Hatton-Hodson

I cannot be in support of taking CCP off as a graduation requirement. Voting on this tonight takes this off as a graduation requirement.

Board Audio at 2:52:22 Trustee Reardon

It does not which is why I was wondering why we are tallking about this?

Board Audio at 2:52:27 Superintendent Vital

What we are talking about is the guidance you gave us at the last workshop.

Step 1: Minor language changes in the policy.

Step 2: The Cal Prep Piece - greater flexibility

Step 3: It was voiced that you still wanted to have a conversation about CCP and health because we did not present the metrics. That was the agreement we made. We need to make sure that we close the loop on that. We want to set real explicit deadlines so that we can bring back specific metrics on CCP by specific deadlines so that you can decide if it is a graduation requirement or an elective in time to make a decision for change for the following year. You going to see a snapshot for next week and then in January you will see full data.

Board Audio at 2:53:38 Dr. Susan Holiday

We have 3 criteria that we will be sharing with the Board at the net workshop.

1) Interim Common Assessments

2) Student Survey of current CCP students

3) Senior Survey 2017 Graduates

Board Audio at 2:54:45 Trustee Reardon

The Policy that staff is asking us to adopt tonight does NOT eliminate CCP, it does add flexibility.

Board Audio at 2:54:55 Trustee Jones

This is a first reading anyway.

Board Audio at 2:54:56 Trustee Reardon

It does say Action?

Board Audio at 2:55:01 Superintendent Vital

We often put "Action" on First Readings to give the Board flexibility to take action just in case. You may take action, but we are not expecting you to.

Board Audio at 2:55:10 Trustee Reardon

I think the text of this probably signaled something to the Public that maybe was not intentional. The Item states that there will be a discussion on the reconsideration of CCP and Health as a high school graduation requirement.

Staff was giving Trustees another opportunity to discuss this. Where we have to do better is defining these metrics and then having a timeline where we allows the Board to make a determination for the following year. In January 2018 staff will be making a presentation to the board of the data and then Trustees can decide to keep it as a graduation requirement or not.

Board Audio at 2:56:25 Trustee Hatton-Hodson

The question is did the CCP Teachers help share in what the metrics should be? Were they involved at all?

Board Audio at 2:56:45 Dr Susan Holiday

Dr. Polly Napotmus was the Administrator leading the CCP/Health committee.

Board Audio at 2:57:25 Trustee Hatton-Hodson

Two things- if the Board determines that this should be an elective and not a requirement, it will be the end of the class- just so you understand that. Be careful with that equity piece - there are kids that really need this and how do you call them out - watch equity.

Board Audio at 2:57:34 Superintendent Vital

Dr. Holiday I would like to go back. The last time we met, I thought the meetings with CCP had ended so I want to go back and make sure that CCP teachers have been engaged at all in these metrics? I thought that these CCP meetings were done and now I want to make sure that the CCP teachers were engaged. If teachers were not engaged, we need to go back and see how we plan to do that.

Board Audio at 2:57:59 Mr. Patterson

One of the major discussions of the Principal meetings was to discuss metrics that could be put into place to determine the efficacy of the course itself. The only true way to measure that was to do long term longitudinal study. We knew that was not feasible given direction of the Board. The other metrics we landed on were the CIA which measures the content, bit not the effect. So we decided to embed questions regarding all classes students were taking.

Board Audio at 2:60:02 Superintendent Vital

So did we engage the CCP teachers in defining the metrics?

Board Audio at 2:60:03 Mr. Patterson

No

Board Audio at 2:60:07 Superintendent Vital

So we need to go back and engage teachers. I know you are trying to present information around a specific deadline, but we need to go back and engage them. We need to complete this in the first semester.

Board Audio at 2:60:39 Trustee McNicholas

Right now we are basing this information on a lot of ancedotal information like Rajj coming tonight to share his perspective.

Board Audio at 2:60:46 Superintendent Vital

We will have surveys from every 9th grader and every 12th grader about what kids think about this course and still be able to present data by January.

Board Audio at 2:61:12 Trustee Jones

Regarding Transfer students, I would like to exempt migrant students and military students.

There is a lot of stuff we don't teach that we should be adding like debate , micro-soft office etc.

The most common summer school classes are CCP/Health and that is probably not going to change. They will keep doing that. We will not be able to change that. Everything is not the same for all kids. We need to recognize this.

Trustee Jones spoke with the Tesoro WASC team regarding A-G completion rates. Tesoro has the lowest A-G completion rate in the district.

Fact Check Tesoro has the highest A-G Completion Rate in CUSD at 64.8% http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/DistGrad.asp?cSelect=30664640106765--Capistrano+Connections+Academy&cChoice=DstGrdEth2&cYear=2015-16&cLevel=District&cTopic=Graduates&myTimeFrame=S&submit1=Submit

Aliso Niguel: 55%Capo Valley: 62.3%Dana Hills: 62.2%San Clemente: 58%San Juan Hills: 56.5%Tesoro: 64.8%

Trustee Jones stated that almost every student in Tesoro goes to college - a 4-year college because it is a very affluent school in our District. They found that the vast majority of those students that did not complete their A-G were going to a private school, or an out of state school. We also have a lot of LDS students who will go to BYU and they do not require A-G.

Fact Check: Does BYU have A-G requirements? Yes they do. They may make an exception for LDS students but they do list A-G as recommended course requirements. Source: https://admissions.byu.edu/acc...
We need to recognize that some kids are not completing their A-G because they are going to Stanford like RAZ here.
Fact Check: Razz is going to go to Harvard - not Stanford.

A quote from Trustee Jones: "The State wants to make everyone A-G ... well that is their problem."

Stanford has A-G requirements:

Source: http://admission.stanford.edu/basics/selection/prepare.html

Harvard also has A-G Course Requirements:

Trustee Jones stated that one size does not fit all - we need to offer more classes like Micro-soft office, personal finance etc.

Students that want to go to a 4-year college need to complete A-G courses in High School (PERIOD).

TRUSTEES JONES AND MC NICHOLAS BOTH THINK THAT PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND OUT OF STATE SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS THAT CATER TO LDS STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE A-G COURSE REQUIREMENTS.

Why did Superintendent Vital remain silent and not correct this false belief? She works for the Board and should never allow them to assume incorrect information?

Board Audio at 3:07:23 Trustee Hannacek

We have increased our graduation rate. Is there a direct correlation between CCP and the increase in our graduation rate.

NOTE: CUSD's graduation rate increased because they lowered their pass rate from a "C" to a "D". Now more students can graduate.

Cal Poly requires students (Juniors/Seniors) take a CCP like course.

Amazing Article in Course Magazine. A study Hack that lifts "B+" students to "A" students. This would be great for CCP

Finally- I don't think we should work on our own online program until Trustees give the thumbs up.

Board Audio at 3:09:20 Trustee Hattson-Hodson

If you ask most parents what they want expect of our graduating seniors most would say they want their kids to go to college. While a broad curriculum is fun and interesting, kids need to take classes that get them into college.

Board Audio at 3:10:23 Trustee Pritchard

I do not think it is good enough for a District to simply get a kid into college. The National metric is did they graduate college. 40% of students who currently enter Cal State are 3-4 classes under prepared. They do not even take college level work until sophomore year and most of them actually drop out. That is the reality of most of the students in the State of California. College and Career Planning may be nice- but if you need data the Clearing House has data on every class taken anywhere.

Our goal should not be to get kids into college, we should prepare them to finish college. If students are so underprepared that they get into college and drop out then we haven't done our job. Our promise to parents is that education will get their kids to a better financial place than they currently are. They will be socioeconomically better off.

Board Audio at 3:12:37 Trustee McNicholas

A couple of items not related to CCP:

The section about secondary high school credits page 5 of 9 does this include Cal Prep and we answered that by adding the new paragraph.

and

on page 6 why did we add "district does not offer the course". I am thinking about all the classes students currently take at Halstrom or University of Michigan and any place else.

Board Audio at 3:13:59 Dr Susan Holiday

The goal is to provide students with flexibility, but to ensure that the flexibility is through our online courses rather than a Halstrom or a Michigan. This is a bit of a grey area.

Board Audio at 3:14:26 Trustee McNicholas

The wording doesn't say Cal Prep first. It just says added flexibility. How will this effect all these other kids.

Board Audio at 3:15:07 Superintendent Vital

That is a good question. Say a parents wants to take Spanish I at Halstrom - can they or not under this policy?

Board Audio at 3:15:08 Dr Susan Holiday

No because CUSD offers that.

Board Audio at 3:15:09 Superintendent Vital

So either we allow this in out policy or we don't. We need to clarify the policy. We give the diploma so we want them to take the course from us. But we also want to add flexibility for students with impacted schedules.

Board Audio at 3:16:28 Trustee McNicholas

I don't think we ever gave direction to to staff regarding online classes at other institutions.

Board Audio at 3:16:28 Trustee Hanacek

I do not want to create any policy that encourages parents or students to cut corners. For example- senior year taking 5 classes. My neighbors son said he was taking classes at Saddleback - but he was coming home everyday after 3rd period. When we checked up he was not taking classes at Saddleback.

Board Audio at 3:17:17 Trustee Reardon

We were talking about maximum flexibility so students can get the classes they need. We have hundreds of students that are co-enrolled in Junior Colleges- We need to figure out how to accept that credit.

Board Audio at 3:18:23 Trustee McNicholas

That is actually on here under number "C"

Board Audio at 3:18:26 Superintendent Vital

So we will figure out how to word the policy so that we encourage students to take the class with us; and then if you can't, we don't want to stand in their way.

Board Audio at 3:18:44 Dr. Susan Holiday

Summarize to make sure I am clear:

Add an option to address Military and Migrant - transfers

Include CCP Teachers in Metrics going forward for first semester to present that data in January 2018

Include Clearing House Data to see if our students are graduating from college and related to CCP

Do not build online program yet - wait for the data

Build the language for classes the district does not offer.

Board Audio at 3:20:26 Superintendent Vital

Current metrics for CCP are coming back next meeting and in June.

CONCLUSION

It should be very troubling to everyone that the Federal Government under O'Bama and the current California Government made a unilateral decision to use our Public Education System to collect and compile the personally identifiable information of every student enrolled in public school.

Our Government should not be using the Public Education system to collect personally identifiable information on students WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.

The basic lack of knowledge on the part of Trustees regarding a-g course requirements and who are making curriculum decisions is troubling. Superintendent made no effort to correct these mis-statements which is also troubling.

The mis-use of student data for profit is grounds for firing both Superintendent Kristan Vital and Dr. Susan Holiday who is in the position of Associate Superintendent of Education Services for cause.

Trustees, who are elected to represent the interests of students and taxpayers have breached their fiduciary duty to students and taxpayers and every sitting member on this Board should be recalled for allowing CUSD to data mine students for profit.

I hope that our local elected leaders will call for an audit of CUSD; the firing of Superintendent Vital and Dr. Susan Holiday for cause, and the recall of all sitting Board of Trustee members.

It is not OK to build a dossier on every public school student in CUSD so that staff can personally profit.

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It is time for our locally elected leaders to put a stop to this CRIMINAL PRACTICE both at the Federal level and the State level.

Federal Data Mining working with States under Obama

California -Rackeetering - Pay to Play - use of one time grants to promote political agendas.

One Example of Pay to Play

Having Unions who benefitted greatly from Professional Development elect our Board of Trustees

Our Students Deserve Better

They are NOT the Property of CUSD