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El Monte board frames fall progress around strategic plan; literacy funds, green schoolyard and classroom modernizations highlighted
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Mariel Garcia opened a newly named "Strategic Plan Update," reporting targeted one‑time literacy grants to Wilkerson and Sherpter schools, summer professional development, green schoolyard projects and completed classroom modernizations at Cortala; staff also warned of a structural budget deficit and enrollment declines.
Superintendent Dr. Mariel Garcia told the El Monte City School District Board on Sept. 15 that the cabinet would rebrand its regular updates as a "Strategic Plan Update" to better align department work with the district's adopted strategic plan.
Dr. Garcia and staff said two district schools qualified for one‑time state literacy coaching funds: $450,000 for Wilkerson School and "a little over half a million dollars" for Sherpter School, to be targeted toward early‑grade literacy instruction. "We just received the news from the CDE," said Mr. Era, who led the presentation on academic priorities,…
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