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LCAP update: trustees keep Castro staffing levels while calling for stronger family engagement
Summary
In the Local Control Accountability Plan hearing trustees accepted staff recommendations to maintain current Castro staffing allocations for another year and directed additional community outreach; parents urged deeper engagement and translation of materials.
At the Local Control Accountability Plan public hearing May 29, Mountain View Whisman trustees reviewed the district’s local indicators and draft LCAP actions and voted to keep Castro School staffing allocations at 2024‑25 levels while the district completes a year of reimagining Castro implementation.
Director Gretchen Bauer (Associate Superintendent in presentation) summarized the local indicators, including parent survey responses and school‑climate data. Trustees and members of the public pressed staff to pursue deeper, culturally responsive family engagement at Castro, noting low parent participation in surveys and concerns that some plans were not translated into Spanish.
Trustees discussed specific LCAP action lines: increasing literacy intervention time, restorative practices, a mental‑health specialist, Playworks at Castro, and extending targeted coaches. Several community speakers asked for a more inclusive planning process, Spanish translation of reimagining documents and family leadership development; one Castro parent urged the district to maintain in‑person special programs (art and music) and voiced concern about shifting specials to afternoons.
Trustees asked staff to: (1) keep the staffing model for Castro as budgeted for 2024‑25 (assistant principal 0.5 FTE at Castro/Crittenden, two at‑risk supervisors, 1.5 school community facilitators), (2) conduct focused outreach and translated material for Castro families, and (3) return with refined proposals and schedules. The board voted to maintain the staffing pattern while staff pursues expanded community engagement.
