San Mateo-Foster City district says four of five pilot schools were recommended for state community-schools grants; district outlines implementation and budget

San Mateo-Foster City School District officials told the board at a May 9 study session that the district's community-schools implementation application was recommended by the California Department of Education (CDE) for four of the five pilot elementary sites and that the district is moving into the five-year implementation phase.

Dr. Cristiano, who introduced himself in the presentation as the district's director of school leadership and community-schools lead, said the district completed two planning years and submitted the implementation application early. "If you total this with the planning grant to date, it's, like, over $5,000,000 that we have received and will receive," he said, describing the aggregate funding for the cohort as an approximate figure the district used in its materials.

The presentation named the five participating elementary schools as Fiesta Gardens International School, Laurel Elementary School, Lee Elementary, Summerdale Park Elementary School and Sunnybrook Elementary School. Dr. Cristiano summarized the CDE rubric and said one scoring path awarded 50% of an applicant's points to schools with an unduplicated pupil percentage (UPC) of about 70% or…