Vanessa Carter

This document outlines the San Francisco Unified School District's strategic goals and the budget plan developed to achieve them. It establishes five-year student outcome goals for 2022-2027 in literacy, mathematics, and college/career readiness, supported by five major goals for the 2024-2027 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP): Student Achievement, Whole Child Services, Strategic Partnerships, Anti-Racist Culture and Equitable Support, and Operational Coherence. The 2025-2026 fiscal year budget prioritizes student outcomes, ensuring qualified teachers, providing necessary resources, and promoting student learning and well-being, all while aiming for financial stability by July 2026.

This document outlines strategic guardrails and specific goals for a school district, focusing on enhancing educational outcomes. The guardrails emphasize effective decision-making, holistic student development, excellent and responsive curriculum and instruction, transparent resource allocation, and fostering strategic partnerships. The plan sets clear objectives to increase 3rd-grade literacy proficiency to 70% by October 2027, 8th-grade math proficiency to 65% by October 2027, and college and career readiness for 12th graders to 70% by June 2027.

The School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) for Mission High School is a roadmap designed to improve student academic performance and align with the San Francisco Unified School District's vision, values, goals, and guardrails. The plan outlines key priorities, including enhancing student grades and literacy proficiency, significantly improving attendance rates for African American and Latinx students, and increasing overall parent involvement, particularly among African American and Latinx families. It emphasizes anti-racist teaching practices, fostering a sense of belonging, and addressing the needs of marginalized student populations in literacy, math, and college & career readiness.

The document outlines the agenda for the Board meeting on December 9, 2025, which will focus on the Board of Education's end-of-year self-evaluation. This evaluation comprises two main components: assessing progress toward short-term metrics approved in March 2025, and determining the level of implementation of the student outcomes focused governance (SOFG) framework, which includes six research-informed competencies. For the short-term metrics, the Board will review the status, completed activities, and remaining activities. For the SOFG framework, the Board will determine its level of implementation based on a rubric, similar to the process conducted in March 2025. Commissioners are instructed to self-assess prior to the meeting to ensure efficiency.

This document serves as a progress monitoring report for the strategic goals of the San Francisco Unified School District. It details three primary goals aimed at increasing 3rd-grade literacy proficiency, 8th-grade mathematics proficiency, and 12th-grade college and career readiness, with target achievement years of 2027. The report also highlights five strategic guardrails: effective decision-making, serving the whole child, excellence in curriculum and instruction, equitable resource allocation, and fostering strategic partnerships. It summarizes the district's progress during the 2024-2025 school year and outlines adjusted implementation plans and initiatives to ensure continued advancement toward the stated objectives.