Carla L Zermeno

The Calaveras Unified School District's Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) is a three-year strategic roadmap designed for the 2021-22 through 2023-24 school years. It outlines goals to provide essential supports, improve learning environments, and ensure efficient district operations. A primary focus is enhancing student academic achievement through specific metrics and interventions. Additionally, the plan aims to increase parental and student engagement and foster a positive school and district climate. A core principle involves prioritizing and augmenting services for unduplicated students, including foster youth, English learners, and low-income students.

This Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) Annual Update for the Calaveras Unified School District details the district's ongoing strategic efforts and performance for the 2023-24 school year. The plan focuses on four primary goals: providing essential supports and services, improving learning conditions, maintaining efficient district operations, enhancing student academic achievement, increasing parental and student engagement, improving school climate, and specifically addressing the academic performance and attendance of foster youth. The update reviews progress, identifies areas of effectiveness and ineffectiveness based on data, and outlines desired outcomes for the current strategic cycle, incorporating feedback from educational partners.

This document is the Calaveras Unified School District's Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for the 2024-25 school year, incorporating an annual update for 2023-24. It details how the district utilizes state funds, specifically Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) allocations, to serve all students, with an emphasis on high-needs student groups including foster youth, English learners, and low-income students. The plan is structured around four primary goals: ensuring all students achieve grade-level mastery through improved operational needs, facilities, student wellness, and safety; enhancing overall student academic achievement as measured by standardized and local outcomes; fostering increased parental and student engagement while improving the school and district climate; and specifically targeting improved academic performance and attendance for foster youth. The LCAP outlines metrics and actions designed to achieve these objectives and address identified performance gaps.

This Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Calaveras Unified School District outlines a strategic roadmap focused on improving student outcomes and district operations. Key priorities include providing basic supports and services to enhance learning conditions and maintain effective district operations, improving student academic achievement through various measures, and increasing parental and student engagement alongside improving the overall school and district climate. Additionally, a specific focus is placed on increasing academic performance and attendance for foster youth.

This School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) for Calaveras Unified Alternative-Sierra Hills Education Center outlines strategies to prepare students for career and college readiness and to improve student emotional health and social-emotional skills. Key focus areas include implementing a rigorous independent study curriculum, enhancing career technical opportunities and college connections, and providing comprehensive social-emotional support. Strategies involve utilizing assessments for targeted instruction, fostering student self-reflection, offering learning center support, investing in professional development, facilitating career awareness events, and advocating for increased mental health and special education staffing.