Board will also swear in new, returning members

The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will hear an update on the district’s progress toward goals listed in the 2016-2017 Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) at Thursday’s meeting. The discussion will be led by Leslie Beatson, assistant superintendent of educational services, and educational coordinator Jan Rogenski.

The LCAP serves as the district strategic plan and outlines goals of the district. It also works to insure increased services and programs for BUSD’s English learning, economically disadvantaged, foster youth and homeless students. According to Beatson and Rogenski, 4,760 students are enrolled in LCAP programs and the plan has been able to fund $8,045 per student in 2016-17. Coordinators are predicting the number to go up to $8,530 in 2020.

The presentation will also review progress toward the LCAP’s goals, which are to support the needs of alls students for college and career readiness, modernizing and improving infrastructure to provide opportunities for 21st century learning, and increasing community and parental involvement through awareness and engagement. Additionally, it will provide information on the new accountability rubrics and tools that have been adopted by the State Board of Education.

In other business, the board will approve the terms of three of its board members: Gary Wing, Stacy Holguin and new trustee Celeste Monnette. The oath of office will be administered by Solano County Superintendent Jay Speck. The meeting will briefly adjourn to host a reception honoring outgoing trustee Andre Stewart and will then reconvene to reappoint Wing and Diane Ferrucci as board president and clerk respectively.

The board will meet at 7 p.m., Thursday, in the Benicia Unified School District Board Room at the district building on 350 East K Street. There will be an earlier closed session at 6 p.m. This will be the last meeting of 2016.

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