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District reports midyear LCAP progress, highlights major literacy gains and funding priorities
Summary
Superintendent presenters reviewed the Local Control and Accountability Plan midyear update, noting large phonics and phonemic-awareness gains across K–2 cohorts, $1.6M allocated for professional development and $2M for reading intervention teachers; the district reaffirmed a goal to reach 95% third-grade readers.
Dr. David Moore and Tim Smith presented the Santa Paula Unified School District's Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) midyear review, explaining that the LCAP guides spending and actions targeted to English learners, foster youth and homeless students and that the district is monitoring both metrics and expenditures through a three-year LCAP cycle.
The presentation called out $1.6 million allocated to professional development (about half expended so far) and roughly $2 million used for reading-intervention teacher salaries. The presenters said some programs originally listed for LCAP funding (for example, a footstep-style early…
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