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REDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Educating Every Child For Success

REDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Educating Every Child For Success. Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Presentation Fall 2013. Reason for Meeting. About RCSD What is the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)? What does LCFF mean for RCSD? What is the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)

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REDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Educating Every Child For Success

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  1. REDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTEducating Every Child For Success Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Presentation Fall 2013

  2. Reason for Meeting • About RCSD • What is the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)? • What does LCFF mean for RCSD? • What is the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) • What the next steps for RCSD?

  3. About RCSD • Serves about 9,000 students in • Redwood City • Portions of San Carlos • Menlo Park • Atherton • Woodside • 16 schools • 14 elementary • 2 middle schools • About half of students are English language learners • More than half of students qualify for free and reduced lunch First RCSD School, circa 1895

  4. A District that Perseveres • Lowest funded District in area • About $15 million in cuts since 2003-04 • Serving more students with less resources • Increased class sizes, eliminated programs, staff reductions, no raises for staff

  5. And yet . . . . heart, hope, optimism

  6. Award Winning Schools and Staff • 3 California Distinguished schools • National Blue Ribbon School • Golden Bell Award • Kent Awards • Teacher, Principal, Superintendent of the Year • Rising test scores: Academic Performance Index (API) up dramatically in 10 years

  7. What is Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)? • New law signed by Governor Brown in June 2013 • Changes allocation • Greater weight: • High numbers of students in poverty • English Language Learners • Foster students • Requires Districts to align budget with LCFF priorities • Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)

  8. LCFF: Opportunity, but . . . • Chance to reboot, rebuild and redefine RCSD values • But, it is not perfect

  9. Media Headlines Suggest . . . • California has “fixed” public education • Public schools finally have enough money • Districts like ours are getting a lot more money

  10. LCFF Reality • Does not increase overall level of spending • Does not restore schools to 2007-08 spending until at least 2021 • Affected by California economic performance (impacts path to target) • Prop 30 expires before target spending is reached in 2021

  11. LCFF Reality • Does not significantly raise California’s low ranking in per-pupil spending: • On average, Calif. per pupil spending Is $2,475 less than the rest of the nation (Source: California Budget Project, “School Finance Facts”, October 2013. www.cbp.org) • Does not remove regulatory and reporting requirements to county and state • RCSD still does not have actual numbers for 2013-14

  12. What does LCFF mean for RCSD? • Changes how we receive and spend money • Big transition • Opportunity to define values and spending priorities

  13. Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) Priorities CCSS Imple-menta-tion Student Engage-ment Other Student Outcomes Basic Services School Climate Parental Involve-ment Student Achieve-ment Course Access

  14. RCSD Budget Considerations • Enrollment • Rise in costs overall • Special ed costs • Budget timelines • Pent-up demand

  15. LCAP Process

  16. Information Needed? • What do you need to know?

  17. Questions, comments, discussions

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