Mathew Barnett

The 2025-26 Local Control and Accountability Plan for Beaumont Unified School District focuses on providing high-quality educational opportunities, ensuring a positive school climate, and implementing systems of support for all students. Key areas of focus include enhancing family engagement, promoting social-emotional wellness, improving academic outcomes, and fostering a safe and secure learning environment. The plan prioritizes the needs of foster youth, English learners, and low-income students, with specific actions and services designed to address their unique challenges and support their academic and personal growth. The plan also emphasizes the recruitment, retention, and cultivation of highly qualified staff, as well as the provision of exemplary materials and equipment to enhance the learning experience for all students.

The Beaumont Unified School District's 2025-26 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) outlines a three-year plan detailing how state LCFF funds will be used to support all students, with a focus on unduplicated students. The plan is structured around five goals, encompassing 51 actions and 55 indicators, with a budget of $34,243,234. Key areas of focus include ensuring a positive school climate, promoting academic and social success, providing exemplary learning conditions, decreasing chronic absenteeism, and increasing college and career readiness. The LCAP was developed through a comprehensive engagement process involving diverse educational partners, addressing concerns such as targeted support for specific student groups, instructional strategies, and student well-being.

The 2025-26 Local Control and Accountability Plan for Beaumont Unified School District focuses on providing high-quality educational opportunities, ensuring a positive school climate, and implementing systems of support for all students. Key areas of focus include enhancing family and community engagement, promoting social-emotional wellness, improving academic outcomes, and fostering a safe and secure learning environment. The plan prioritizes the needs of foster youth, English learners, and low-income students, with targeted interventions and supports to address achievement gaps and promote college and career readiness.

The meeting included a study session on Board Governance, public testimony, and a closed session covering student discipline cases and labor negotiations. The board approved actions on requests for readmission of expelled pupils and student discipline cases. They also adopted resolutions proclaiming California Day of the Teacher and the week of the Classified School Employees. Additionally, the board conducted public hearings and adopted resolutions related to school facilities needs analysis, alternative school facility fees, and the Fairway Canyon and Atwell school projects. Agreements for architectural services for school growth projects were approved, and bids were awarded for the Palm Innovation Academy Kitchen Building Addition. The board also received reports from various stakeholders, including the California School Employees Association and the Beaumont Teachers Association.

The meeting included reports on student activities, facility updates (Anna Hause Elementary School project, clean-up efforts after a sandstorm), personnel matters (expulsion of a student, consultant agreements, personnel assignments, job description approval), and budget and financial items (warrants, donations, budget revision). Discussions also covered inter-district attendance agreements, board policies, and yearbook publishing. Reports from employee groups (CSEA and BTA) highlighted concerns regarding teacher input and discipline policies. The Superintendent's report covered various topics including the wind/sand damage, a visit by an astronaut, and the District's participation in a state program to improve student achievement. The board also addressed a personal property claim and nominations for the CSBA Delegate Assembly.