Duarte High spotlight and LCAP midyear update: counselors, community schools and college advising highlighted

At the Feb. 13 board meeting, Duarte Unified highlighted student supports at Duarte High School and reviewed a midyear update on the district’s Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP).

Duarte High spotlight: The board heard from Louie Haro, who outlined what he called the school’s “Falcon family” supports: a four-person counseling team (three academic counselors plus a career/guidance counselor), a community-schools partnership with Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) that places a community schools coordinator (Tracy Hall) and a community schools worker (Gabby) on campus, an on-campus USC college advising coordinator and an on-site mental-health clinician funded through the Joe Torre Foundation’s Margaret’s Place program. Haro described activities including four‑year academic planning meetings…