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Kern County holds public hearing on LCAP for court and community schools, highlights short enrollment windows and learning gaps
Summary
County staff presented the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for community and court schools, emphasizing short average enrollment periods (79 days for community schools, 28 for court schools), large learning deficits on arrival and reliance on local assessments to measure growth.
Kern County Superintendent of Schools staff presented a 58‑page Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) for county community and court schools during a public hearing, telling the Kern County Board of Education that short student stays and late enrollment make state test data an incomplete measure of program performance.
Desiree Vanflew, who led the presentation, told trustees the county’s LCAP covers community learning centers and court schools across Kern County and is structured around the state priorities defined for county offices. “The local control and accountability plan is a 3 year plan,” Vanflew said, and the county will return to the board for…
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