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Fairfield-Suisun board hears year-one progress and metric changes in LCAP update
Summary
Superintendent and staff presented a lengthy Local Control and Accountability Plan update that keeps six district goals, proposes modest changes to two academic targets and adds actions tied to state learning recovery funding; board scheduled final public hearing and approval for June.
The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District presented a year‑one update to its 2024–27 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) at the May 15 board meeting, showing incremental improvements in social‑emotional and attendance measures while recommending modest target adjustments for A–G completion and Early Assessment Program preparedness.
The update matters because the LCAP guides how the district allocates supplemental funding, measures progress for key student groups and ties district actions to state accountability metrics.
District staff said they are keeping the same six goals adopted last year and are proposing limited metric adjustments rather than wholesale changes because most indicators remain “somewhat static” after one year of implementation. Dr. Sheila McCabe, assistant superintendent for educational services, said the district will lower two academic targets to make the goals “more realistic” to achieve within the next two years and will add actions supported by the learning recovery emergency block grant.
Officials reported gains in several areas: districtwide suspension rates decreased (staff cited a 0.86 percentage‑point decline), student perceptions of school safety rose about 2 percent on the California Healthy Kids Survey and some subgroup attendance and graduation measures improved. Staff also said teacher retention rose and teacher misassignments fell substantially after site‑level interventions.
The LCAP update includes expanded professional development, deeper social‑emotional learning training, restorative practices, targeted math interventions, and family‑engagement actions such as multilingual outreach. Staff noted the state template for the LCAP is lengthy; McCabe said, “this document is about 200 pages” and will be posted on the district website the next day for public comment ahead of the June public hearing.
Board members praised staff for the breadth of community engagement informing the LCAP and asked clarifying questions about links between the LCAP metrics and the state dashboard, exit interviews for departing staff, and use of MAP testing data. Superintendent Sachs and staff said comments submitted through June will be compiled and presented at the June meeting before final adoption and county review.
The board did not take final action on the LCAP at the May meeting; the district will post the draft and collect public comment before the June hearing and approval process.
