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Calexico Unified board adopts certificated community‑schools facilitator role tied to $5.7M grant
Summary
The board adopted a certificated community‑schools facilitator job description for four grant sites and approved hiring plans funded by a $5.7 million implementation grant; trustees debated credential requirements and recruitment plans before a 5–0 vote.
The Calexico Unified School District board on a unanimous vote adopted a new job description for a community‑schools facilitator, a certificated position the district says is built into an implementation grant for four campuses.
District staff told the board the position will be assigned to the four schools that received the community schools grant — Rockwood, Duo, Willie Moreno and Maines — and will act as the site point person to coordinate wraparound services, academic supports and referrals. “This is for our new community schools grant schools,” a district director explained, and the district “received the 5,700,000 for those 4 schools.”
Board members pressed staff on why the job was written as a certificated position when similar roles in other districts are classified. “I was a little surprised towards the end that it requires a teacher’s credential when…in the places that I know…this position is a classified position,” one trustee said. A staff presenter replied that the district decided a certificated candidate — for example a counselor with a PPS credential or an experienced teacher — would be better positioned to combine academic interventions with social‑emotional and family supports.
Staff said the positions are fully grant funded and that the district plans to prioritize internal candidates who understand Calexico and its students. The director described the community schools model as a wraparound system that can respond to crises such as suicidality, teen pregnancy and severe family trauma, and said the district had already used a planning grant and then secured the larger implementation funding to move forward.
The board approved the job description and direction to recruit the positions; the motion carried 5–0. According to staff remarks, the district plans to expand community schools applications to cover seven schools if subsequent funding is awarded, which would include Calexico High School and Aurora High School.
What happens next: staff said they will begin recruitment under the grant funding and return to the board with hiring details as candidates are identified.
