Angela N. Katzakis

This Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Lincoln Unified School District outlines the strategic direction for fostering student success and well-being. The plan focuses on ensuring all students graduate college and career ready through a broad and challenging curriculum, accelerating learning and achievement for all student groups, cultivating safe and inclusive environments, and providing quality leadership, teaching, and learning. Key priorities include robust family and community engagement and a specific initiative to increase college and career readiness at Village Oaks High School, with a particular emphasis on socioeconomically disadvantaged students in mathematics and English Language Arts.

The Expanded Learning Opportunities Program Plan Guide for Lincoln Unified School District outlines program activities designed to support the whole child, focusing on Social and Emotional Learning and development. Key areas include providing a safe and supportive environment, fostering active and engaged learning, building skills, promoting youth voice and leadership, encouraging healthy choices, ensuring diversity, access, and equity, maintaining quality staff, and establishing clear vision, mission, and purpose. The plan also details collaborative partnerships, continuous quality improvement, and effective program management to offer comprehensive before-school, after-school, and intersession programs.

This Local Control and Accountability Plan for Lincoln Unified School District outlines the district's strategic direction for the 2026-2027 school year. It focuses on ensuring all students achieve college and career readiness through a broad and challenging curriculum, accelerating student learning with high expectations, and cultivating safe, engaging, and inclusive learning environments. Key priorities include providing quality leadership and teaching, fostering family and community engagement, and specifically increasing college and career readiness for graduating students at Village Oaks High School by 2027, with targeted support for socioeconomically disadvantaged students in mathematics and English Language Arts.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan for Lincoln Unified School District details the strategic allocation of resources, particularly Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) grants, to enhance educational outcomes for all students from 2026-2027. The plan focuses on five main goals: ensuring access to a broad and challenging curriculum for college and career readiness, accelerating student learning and achievement across all subgroups, cultivating safe, engaging, and inclusive school environments, providing quality leadership and instruction, and actively involving families and the community. This comprehensive approach aims to reduce disparities and improve opportunities for all students, especially foster youth, English learners, and low-income students.

This ESSER III Expenditure Plan outlines how the Lincoln Unified School District will utilize its funds to address students' academic, social, emotional, and mental health needs, and to mitigate opportunity gaps exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan prioritizes continuous and safe in-person learning through investments in PPE, cleaning, ventilation, and health staffing. It also addresses lost instructional time by expanding summer school and credit recovery programs, and providing integrated mental health supports. Remaining funds are allocated for technology, independent study, and operational costs including food services, all informed by extensive community engagement.