Marina Cardenas

This document outlines the monitoring of goals, actions, and resources for the Lowell Joint School District's 2025-26 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). The LCAP establishes strategic goals focusing on ensuring appropriate conditions for student learning, supporting early learning and school readiness, modernizing and maintaining facilities, and expanding a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) to address diverse academic, behavioral, and social-emotional student needs. Additionally, it prioritizes developing enrichment and 21st-century skills through STEAM and GATE programs, and implements strategies to reduce chronic absenteeism. This report reviews the progress of these goals, actions, and resource allocation.

This document provides a mid-year update for the Lowell Joint School District's Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), which outlines the district's goals, actions, and expenditures for student outcomes and state priorities. The plan's six goals focus on ensuring appropriate conditions for learning, early literacy, facilities modernization, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), enrichment and 21st-century skill development, and chronic absenteeism reduction. This update aims to provide transparency, assess progress, and facilitate mid-year adjustments to fulfill commitments to students, staff, and families.

This document outlines the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) for the Lowell Joint School District, a three-year plan updated annually to identify goals and measure progress for student subgroups across eight state priority areas. The LCAP mandates specific actions, services, and expenditures for all students, with additional provisions for 'unduplicated pupils' including low-income students, English learners, and foster youth. It aims to ensure consistency with school plans and district strategic goals, fostering educational accountability and community engagement.

This document outlines the requirements for the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) for California's educational entities, mandated as a three-year, annually updated plan beginning July 1, 2014. The LCAP requires the identification of goals and measurement of progress for student subgroups across eight state priority areas, alongside detailing actions and expenditures for all students, with particular emphasis on support for 'unduplicated pupils'. The plan aims to ensure strategic consistency across school plans and improve student outcomes through a comprehensive accountability framework.

The meeting agenda focused on the Character Education and Patriotic Education themes, highlighting Perseverance and honoring Martin Luther King Jr. & Harriett Tubman. The session included public comments, a closed session addressing pupil personnel matters, legal counsel advice concerning litigation and negotiations, and public employee matters including negotiations with LJEA and CSEA, as well as the Superintendent's evaluation. In the regular session, there were student presentations, public comment periods, and agenda approval. Key action items included the submission of the Williams Litigation Settlement Quarterly Uniform Complaint Report, election of a member to the Whittier Area School Trustees Association, and approval/ratification of the revised schedule for Regular Board Meetings for 2026. Business Services addressed the acceptance of the 2024-25 Annual Financial Audit and a resolution regarding the CEQA exemption for the Rancho Starbuck Intermediate School Performing Arts Center/Gymnasium Building Project, which was followed by a public hearing. The Consent Calendar covered routine items such as purchase orders, personnel reports, and several consultant agreements for sound setup services, student master classes, after-school coaching, and video production, alongside an independent educational evaluation.