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Encinitas superintendent says bilingual community liaisons and a $158 million bond are central to facility and equity plans
Summary
Encinitas Union School District Superintendent Andre Gray told the committee hiring four bilingual community liaisons improved family engagement and that a proposed Measure Z bond for $158,000,000 would address aging facilities and enable access to matching state funds.
Encinitas Union School District Superintendent Andre Gray told the Carlsbad–school districts committee that hiring four bilingual community liaisons and a proposed $158 million bond measure are core elements of the district’s plan to boost family engagement and fix aging school facilities.
Gray said the district placed four bilingual community liaisons across nine sites after surveying family engagement patterns; the liaisons’ outreach has led to much higher parent participation at meetings. "One of the things we heard very clearly is the personal invite, the personal phone call," Gray said, pointing to Parkdale Lane’s English Language Advisory Council, which grew from two–to–five attendees to more than 60 after liaison outreach.
Gray described the proposed Measure Z as a $158,000,000 bond, roughly $19 per $100,000 of assessed value, intended to fund major repairs and classroom-size improvements at facilities described in the district’s master plan. He said the measure is needed because state facility funding typically requires local matching funds.
Also appearing before the committee, San Diego Union High School District Superintendent Anne Safieri described progress on a three-year Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) focused on access, belonging and achievement, and outlined the district’s unit-by-unit development and community engagement for state-required ethnic-studies coursework. Safieri said the district will pilot Unit 1 this fall and expects to bring the full course to the board for approval in winter to meet the state requirement.
Board members asked whether the community-liaison program improved attendance; Gray said the district is monitoring attendance and will add attendance as a standing topic in English Language Advisory Committee meetings to collect feedback on barriers such as transportation.
Gray noted the district’s facilities range from 65 to more than 100 years old and said planners held about 100 stakeholder meetings before proposing Measure Z. He framed the bond as an effort to ensure classrooms meet modern size and infrastructure standards rather than as an immediate construction schedule.
The committee did not take any formal vote on Measure Z at this session; trustees and district leaders agreed to continue coordination on outreach and data monitoring.
