Suzette Berhorst

This guide outlines the Escalon Unified School District's Expanded Learning Opportunities Program Plan for 2025, aiming to engage students in expanded academic learning, meaningful social-emotional development, and physical activity to enhance their daily school experience. The plan focuses on delivering effective, equitable, and supportive learning opportunities through eleven key areas: fostering a safe and supportive environment, promoting active and engaged learning, enabling skill building, cultivating youth voice and leadership, encouraging healthy choices and behaviors, ensuring diversity, access, and equity, developing quality staff, defining a clear vision, mission, and purpose, establishing collaborative partnerships, implementing continuous quality improvement, and ensuring robust program management.

The 2025-26 Local Control and Accountability Plan for Escalon Charter Academy outlines the academy's goals, actions, and expenditures aimed at supporting student achievement and addressing the needs of unduplicated students (foster youth, English learners, and low-income students). Key areas of focus include providing necessary support, resources, and staffing for students to be career and college ready, implementing a multi-tiered system of support, and enlisting input from educational partners to create welcoming learning environments. The plan details specific actions related to curriculum, technology, professional development, facility maintenance, and stakeholder outreach, with metrics to monitor effectiveness and progress toward goals.

The Escalon Unified School District's Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) addresses eight key priority areas identified by the state. The plan outlines three goals, specific actions and services, and corresponding budgetary allocations to support these goals. The district reviews these actions and services annually, accounting for how allocated funds were spent. The LCAP is updated yearly through a review process that includes community input and feedback. In addition to the LCAP review, the district is developing an independent study program to support students potentially impacted by a possible vaccine mandate for public school children. This program aims to provide high-quality instruction comparable to classroom-based learning.

The plan outlines the LEA's strategy for using federal funds to enhance local priorities, particularly focusing on increasing low-income and English learner student performance. It details the alignment of federal funds with state and local funds, specifically in reading intervention programs. The plan addresses various ESSA provisions, including monitoring student progress, reducing overuse of discipline practices, and supporting career technical education. It also covers parent and family engagement, services for homeless children, student transitions, and professional growth for educators. Additionally, the plan describes activities and programs under Title IV, Part A, including well-rounded education, safe and healthy students, and effective use of technology.

The 2025-26 Local Control and Accountability Plan for Escalon Unified School District focuses on providing necessary support, resources, and staffing to ensure all students are career and college ready. The plan emphasizes implementing rigorous academic programs, fostering positive learning environments, and engaging educational partners to create welcoming student-centered environments. Key goals include improving student achievement, addressing the needs of English learners and socioeconomically disadvantaged students, and enhancing campus safety and supervision.