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Board hears LCAP update: student survey reach, equity multiplier funds and schools exiting differentiated assistance
Summary
Director Jim Pfeffer presented the 2025–26 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) update, reporting extensive community input, student and parent survey counts, and that several student groups and schools exited differentiated assistance; equity multiplier funds were allocated to certain schools for targeted interventions.
The Palm Springs Unified Board of Education received the district’s 2025–26 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) annual update, including summary data on community engagement, student survey participation, and targeted school funding.
Doctor Jim Pfeffer, director of state and federal programs, told the board the LCAP is year two of a three‑year cycle and that the district used a “large number” of input sessions to develop the plan. “We had 23 separate input sessions with parents and staff,” Pfeffer said, and he reported survey participation of approximately 4,211 elementary student respondents and about 10,100 secondary student respondents (roughly 14,300 student surveys in total), about 2,700 parent surveys and about 2,200 staff surveys.
Pfeffer highlighted accountability outcomes: three student groups — English learners, students with disabilities, and African American students — exited the state’s differentiated assistance designation based on recent dashboard results, and five previously‑identified comprehensive support and improvement schools exited that status on the 2024 dashboard. The LCAP continues three districtwide goals (academic improvement; parent and community engagement; healthy and safe schools) and adds goals specific to equity multiplier funds.
Equity multiplier funds will continue for Mount San Jacinto High School and Desert Learning Academy and newly qualify for Julius Corsini Elementary; those funds are intended to supplement school plans for multi‑tiered systems of support (MTSS), professional learning, and interventions targeted at high‑need students, Pfeffer said. He described the plan’s budgeting totals: roughly $92.6 million in supplemental and concentration funds and about $139 million when federal, ELOP and other funds are included in the plan.
Board members asked clarifying questions about metrics, survey duplication, and how the district will measure implementation of items such as the Portrait of a Graduate and MTSS interventions. Pfeffer said local Panorama survey items and other measures will be used to quantify progress.
Board later opened public hearings on the LCAP and the adopted budget; no oral comments were received at the June 10 meeting.
