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LCAP update: district reports progress on state indicators and $137M targeted to unduplicated students
Summary
Palm Springs Unified presented its 2026–27 Local Control Accountability Plan update, reporting fewer schools identified for supports, maintained three LCAP goals (academics, engagement, safety), and approximately $137 million allocated to increase or improve services for foster youth, English learners and low‑income students.
Mark Arnold, executive director of student learning, presented the district’s 2026–27 annual update to the three‑year Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), noting continued improvement on state dashboard measures and a reduction in the number of schools identified for comprehensive support compared with prior years.
Arnold said two student groups — foster youth and American Indian students — remain on the differentiated assistance list based on the fall 2024 dashboard but that districtwide progress was made in 2025. He reported the district has zero schools identified for comprehensive support and improvement and fewer sites in targeted support now than in earlier dashboards.
The presentation reviewed three primary LCAP goals (academic achievement, parent and community engagement, and physically and emotionally safe learning environments), equity multiplier allocations to qualifying schools, and action tables that align funding to interventions including MTSS academic supports, English learner coordination, dual immersion and arts/enrichment programs.
Arnold outlined fiscal figures included in the LCAP: LCFF supplemental/concentration funding totaling just over $91 million; total LCFF/LCAP expenditures just over $93 million; additional federal funds of about $8 million; and other state funds (including learning recovery and literacy grants) just under $36 million. He said those allocations add to more than $137 million focused on increasing or improving services for unduplicated student populations.
Board members asked questions about enrollment counts and small changes in unduplicated counts; Arnold said some line‑item adjustments were made where one‑time revenues declined and enrollment shifts reduced some revenues. He noted the district uses Panorama and other surveys and stakeholder advisory groups to inform LCAP revisions.
The board opened the required public hearing on the LCAP; no oral public comments were received during the hearing portion of the agenda.
