Credit: John C. Osborn/EdSource Today

Credit: John C. Osborn/EdSource Today

There is  now an Internet site that lets you wait up hundreds of districts' Local Command and Accountability Plans – and to add together your district'southward LCAP to the mix.

"The land embarked on the LCAP attempt and asked everyone to have religion that information technology would meet the goals of the new funding arrangement," said Valerie Cuevas, Teaching Trust-West's interim executive director. "LCAP Watch is an opportunity to make early observations of whether we are hitting the marking."

The LCAP is a three-year plan, updated annually, that lays out how a district will meet the weather for schoolhouse comeback and goals for student success that the Legislature set out in creating the new school funding formula. It also lays out a process of community engagement that is integral to the shift from state to local control.
LCAP Watch is the creation of Teaching Trust-West, a nonprofit grouping that advocates for low-income, minority students, forth with 3-dozen organizations and groups that have agreed to share information on districts' newly passed accountability plans and to spread the word nigh the new repository.
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LCAP Picket currently has LCAPs from about 250 districts and charter schools and plans to add hundreds more. Information technology is collecting each commune'due south LCAP drafts, the version that schoolhouse boards approved and eventually the terminal LCAPs that county offices of education have signed off on. In that location is also a demographic profile of each district. Land law also requires that the land Section of Education provide links to districts' and county offices' LCAPs on its web site.

Pedagogy Trust-Westward plans to do a first-year LCAP evaluation to see what districts are planning for student improvements. It will include an in-depth analysis of a dozen districts' LCAPs, said Carrie Hahnel, the organization's managing director of research and policy assay.

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