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SFUSD holds public hearing on Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan as CDE deadline looms
Summary
At a public hearing, SFUSD staff outlined the one-year Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan required for 2020–21, explained stakeholder engagement and budgetary questions awaiting CDE guidance, and set a Sept. 22 update ahead of submission to the California Department of Education.
The San Francisco Unified School District on Tuesday held a public hearing on its Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan — a one-year document the California Department of Education required for 2020–21 to replace the district's usual Local Control and Accountability Plan.
Ann Marie Gordon, the district's director of strategic resource planning, told the Board of Education the plan is intended to memorialize planning already underway around student learning, attendance, and supports during the COVID-19 crisis. "The learning continuity plan is a 1 year plan, that describes how student learning continuity will be addressed during the COVID 19 crisis in the 20 20 21 school year," Gordon said in the presentation.
Why it matters: The plan must be submitted to the CDE by the end of the month and includes action-level descriptions of services, stakeholder engagement and proposed expenditures tied to learning-loss mitigation. Families, advisory councils and the Board will provide written feedback before the Board is scheduled to adopt an updated plan at a Sept. 22 meeting.
Public questions focused on budget detail and transparency. Julie Roberts Fung asked how several large budget line items relate to the district's larger budget: "In the actions related to in personal instruction offerings, the budget has $10,000,000 set aside in reserves ... So I'm curious about why we're setting aside the largest portion in that section for things that are unanticipated," she said. Gordon replied that the district is awaiting CDE clarification on whether the plan should include only learning-loss funds or the entirety of LCFF expenditures; she described the reserve as a planning assumption to cover reopening-related costs and allow rapid deployment if circumstances change.
The draft plan also lists proposals and allocations for English-learner supports and pupil-family engagement; Gordon said some amounts are provisional while staff confirm which funds the CDE expects to be reported in the learning continuity plan. The board will receive written feedback from advisory bodies this week, staff said, and return on Sept. 22 with updates for adoption and submission.
Next steps: The Board paused public comment after the hearing and set a timeline for staff to incorporate written feedback and to consider adoption at the Sept. 22 meeting before filing with the CDE.
