#1A - Academic Performance

Increase student proficiency in ELA / Math by

10% across grades, LEAs, and subgroups

on CAASPP

Current data appears to point to strong performance in the majority of grades levels/content areas this year based on our January/February Interim Assessment round 4.

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• In the CAO Academic Update, we have our Feb interim assessment data: we are finding that over 50% of our tested grades are performing above spring scale score baselines from last year.

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• Student Subgroups: We will have started our ELCAP testing in February, which has significant impact to the current calculations for charter renewal. Schools have completed the reading/writing sections, and will be doing the listening/speaking, which require 1:1 administration.

• CA dashboard scores: We used a spreadsheet that had all Oakland (District and Charter schools) and put a numerical value for each dashboard color and converted the values to a “GPA”. Please look at this spreadsheet to show relative comparison by school and by CMO.

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#1B - Academic - Performance

Maintain College and Career (CCI) performance

at Lighthouse and Lodestar High School

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Our current high school programming is such that the significant majority of our students are College and Career Index ready, which means that they are A-G and either have passing CAASSP exams in 11th grade, have 6+ college course credits, and/or completed a CTE Sequence:

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• Lodestar Charter Renewal: We are on pace to graduate our first class of seniors, and they are trending above state CCI averages, which will be favorable to the charter renewal case in 2025.

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• Successful Dual Credit Semester: We are offering Intercultural Communication, First Aid and Safety, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship across our two high schools.

• College Acceptances are rolling in but the FAFSA process has been challenging: All of our acceptances should be completed by the end of this month for four year universities. CSUs have come in, waiting on UC and private colleges.

#2A - Attendance

Increase Attendance rate to 94%;

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This is an ambitious goal, even though 94% attendance was common pre-pandemic

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• 90.8% attendance overall: No change over the last month.

• Our biggest gaps - High Schools and Lodestar Elementary: Attendance has been most challenging at these sites, and we have increased our student and family follow-up.

• Middle School Attendance is our bright spot with both Lodestar and Lighthouse averaging 92.4% currently

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#2B - Chronic Absenteeism

Decrease Chronic Absenteeism to 24%

(Last year - 33.4%)

We look at two key metrics -

• “Chronic Absence rate” (on track to missing 10% of days)
• “Absence Rate” (percentage of student with 18+ absences).

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Chronic Absence Rate

Absence Rate

LCPS

30.8% (no change)

16.7% (12.8% in Feb)

Lighthouse Elementary

28.5% (29.7% in Feb)

14.6% (11.1% in Feb)

Lighthouse Middle

20.7% (21.9% in Feb)

10.3% (7% in Feb)

Lighthouse High

29.8% (30.6% in Feb

19.4% (14.6% in Feb)

Lodestar Elementary

35.8 (35.4% in Feb)

22.9% (19% in Feb

Lodestar Middle

28.8% (26.7% in Feb)

10.6% (7.8% in Feb)

Lodestar High

41.6 (40.1% in Feb)

20% (15.3% in Feb)

#3 - Financial Health and Sustainablity

Revenue and Expenses Projections;

70 Days Cash at EOY; Board Covenants Met

In January, the Governor’s announcement of a flat .76% COLA increase. However, latest updates put the COLA at 0% and we have adjusted our budget accordingly. While it will be a learn year, we are on pace for the three key items below:

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• Revenue and Expenses: At end of January, we are budget vs. actual were spot on. Please see the latest finance report for more details on our budget to actual report

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• We are at 81 Days Cash today, and projected to be at 79 days at end of year: Note - our daily cash rate is ~98K. Total cash available is $7.95M.

• All Board Covenants Met: We are at a debt coverage ratio of 1.65 (board covenant at 1.1)

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#4 - Staff Retention

85% Staff Retention of staff

LCPS wishes to retain

We have started our Intent to Return Process in three groups and here is the text to my memo to all staff:

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• Group 1 - March 1: Certificated General Education & Special Education Teachers and Other 10-month Certificated Clinical Staff (Counseling, Psych, SLP/A, Behavior Interventionist)

• Group 2 - March 13: Leadership staff and other non-certificated salaried exempt and nonexempt employees that are not grant or one-time fund dependent (other non-certificated instructional staff, operations, administrators, and Shared Services staff)

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• Group 3 - Mid April: Grant-funded and one-time-funded roles (Teachers in Training, In-Building Subs, and other roles that are grant or one-time funding dependent where the grant is not yet secured or is sunsetting)

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We will have updated data to share at our April Board Meeting

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