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West Contra Costa Unified board adopts 2026–27 LCAP after presenting equity-focused changes
Summary
The board adopted the district'wide 2026–27 Local Control Accountability Plan, which district staff said incorporated 39 of 43 advisory recommendations and met all local indicators; trustees discussed implementation steps including attention to anti-racism work and yard-supervisor allocations.
The West Contra Costa Unified School District board on June 24 adopted the district'wide 2026–27 Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), a guiding document that spells out goals, actions and expenditures tied to local priorities including equity and school climate.
Katherine Aosta Prasquez, presenting the plan, told the board the district received 43 recommendations through its LCAP engagement process and incorporated 39 of them into the final document. She said staff had worked with the Contra Costa County Office of Education to revise the plan to meet state requirements and had added narrative and metrics in response to county feedback. "We have met all the standards for every local indicator for 2526," she said, noting the district reports 100% of basic conditions are in place.
The presentation outlined the plan''s alignment to the state priorities — basic services, standards, family engagement, school climate and access to a broad course of study — and staff emphasized the LCAP includes executive summaries in English and Spanish and a data appendix. Trustees asked clarifying questions about whether the document changed since the June 3 public hearing and whether site-level allocations (including yard supervisors) were reflected. Prasquez said the plan was essentially the same as the June 3 draft with limited edits answering county feedback and that allocations remain tied to unduplicated pupil counts and school-site plans.
Public commenters on Zoom and in the room pressed for more school-level transparency and equity data. Crystal Banigan of the Contra Costa Black Parallel School Board asked why the district could not publish school-level expenditure data, a disciplinary breakdown by demographic group and civil-rights data collection reports. "Where's the evidence-based restorative justice frameworks that we've been promised?" Banigan asked.
After public comment and trustee discussion, the board moved and adopted the 2026–27 LCAP. Trustees who spoke during the item commended the work while asking staff to return with follow-up reports on specific requests such as yard supervisor allocations and progress on anti-racist work.
The board's adoption requires staff follow-up on implementation: the presentation notes that the plan will be monitored through local indicators and through engagement with advisory groups, and staff said they will continue to align single-site plans and the district's annual reviews to the LCAP goals.
