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Chico Unified previews 2024–25 LCAP; public comment period opens June 13–25
Summary
District staff presented the draft 2024–25 Local Control and Accountability Plan, describing four goals tied to academic supports, social-emotional learning, behavior interventions and a new equity multiplier requirement; the public comment period runs June 13–25 and the board will consider approval June 26.
District staff presented the draft 2024–25 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) at the Chico Unified School District board meeting on June 12, and opened the statutorily required public-comment window that begins June 13 and runs through June 25.
Tim Carris and Tina Keane, the staff presenters, described the LCAP as the district's strategic plan for how it will use Local Control Funding Formula dollars to improve outcomes for students. Carris said the document is the first year of a three-year cycle under the state's new template and that the current draft primarily establishes baseline data against which progress will be measured.
Keane outlined the LCAP's four broad goals: improved academic instruction and tiered academic interventions; social-emotional learning supports and targeted counseling; behavior supports and alternative-education interventions; and a required equity multiplier goal tied to sites with high student mobility. She noted four sites would receive equity-multiplier funds: Fairview, the Center for Alternative Learning, Academy for Change, and Oakdale.
The presentation included a simplified budget overview for parents: the district's total budget was presented as about $216 million and the LCAP portion of that budget as roughly $19 million. Staff emphasized that every expenditure charged to the LCAP must be accounted for in the plan and explained that many supplemental services are funded with grants outside the LCAP. Carris and Keane said the draft LCAP will be posted on the district website the morning after the meeting and that staff will return to the board on June 26 to seek final approval.
No members of the public signed up to speak during the LCAP public hearing portion of the meeting. The board closed the hearing and reiterated that the draft will be available online and that staff welcome comments during the June 13–25 window.
The next step is formal board consideration and an anticipated vote at the June 26 board meeting. Until then, staff said they will analyze incoming public comments and the district's Smarter Balanced and local assessment data to refine metrics and actions tied to the LCAP goals.
