June 20, 2018 CUSD BOT Meeting Agenda Item #49 JUNE 30, 2018 DATA COLLECTIONS OF THE CONSOLIDATED APPLICATION AND REPORTING SYSTEM

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June 20, 2018 CUSD BOT Meeting Agenda Item #49 JUNE 30, 2018 DATA COLLECTIONS OF THE CONSOLIDATED APPLICATION AND REPORTING SYSTEM

Board Agenda page 1058 

Board Audio at 4:11:14

CUSD currently has 10 Title I Schools. 

  • Del Obispo Elementary
  • Hidden Hills Elementary
  • Kinoshita Elementary
  • Las Palmas Elementary
  • Marblehead Elementary
  • RH Dana Elementary
  • San Juan Elementary
  • Viejo Elementary
  • Marco Forster Middle School
  • Junipero Serra High School

Carl Hankey and Palisades Elementary may also become Title I Schools based on the number of students receiving free and reduced lunch. The current base is Las Palmas at 45%. If Hankey and Palisades raises above 45% those schools would also be re-designated as Title I schools.

Trustee Bullockus stated that she would not vote to approve a plan to make Carl Hanky K-8 and Palasades Elementary Title I schools. 

Superintendent Vital's recommendation since there were only four Trustees Present and one is voting no: 

Approve the Consolidated Application as written for the 10 current Title I Schools with instructions to set aside dollars for two additional Title I schools (Carl Hanky and Palasides) in the event that the percentage of students at Las Palmas who received "Free and Reduced Lunch" dropped below that of Carl Hanky and Palasades which would require that these two schools also become Title I schools. 

It is a Cut-off based on CBEDS which come out in October and become Certified in December.

Trustee Hanacek Motion to Approve the Consolidated Application as written for the 10 current Title I Schools with instructions to set aside dollars for two additional Title I schools (Carl Hanky and Palasides) in the event that the percentage of students at Las Palmas who received "Free and Reduced Lunch" dropped below that of Carl Hanky and Palasades which would require that these two schools also become Title I schools. 

Second by Trustee Jim Reardon

Passes 4-0-3 (Trustees Pritchard, Jones and Holloway Absent)

CUSDWatch Comment

CUSD currently has 10 Title I Schools and may have 12 in October

PROTECTED PRAYER CERTIFICATION 

Board Audio at 4:26:53

Trustee Reardon asks what this is?

CUSDWatch Comment

California Department of Education: Instructions Protected Prayer

The Protected Prayer Certification meets the annual federal requirements specified in Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Title I, Section 9524(b) regarding constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary and secondary schools. This data entry form is designed to provide the written certification that the local educational agency (LEA) has no policy that prevents or otherwise denies participation in constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary and secondary schools.

20 US Code Section 7904 - School Prayer

(a) Guidance

The Secretary shall provide and revise guidance, not later than September 1, 2002, and of every second year thereafter, to State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and the public on constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools, including making the guidance available on the Internet. The guidance shall be reviewed, prior to distribution, by the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice for verification that the guidance represents the current state of the law concerning constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools.

(b) Certification

As a condition of receiving funds under this chapter, a local educational agency shall certify in writing to the State educational agency involved that no policy of the local educational agency prevents, or otherwise denies participation in, constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools, as detailed in the guidance required under subsection (a) of this section. The certification shall be provided by October 1 of each year. The State educational agency shall report to the Secretary by November 1 of each year a list of those local educational agencies that have not filed the certification or against which complaints have been made to the State educational agency that the local educational agencies are not in compliance with this section.

(c) Enforcement

The Secretary is authorized and directed to effectuate subsection (b) of this section by issuing, and securing compliance with, rules or orders with respect to a local educational agency that fails to certify, or is found to have certified in bad faith, that no policy of the local educational agency prevents, or otherwise denies participation in, constitutionally protected prayer in public elementary schools and secondary schools.

(Pub. L. 89–10, title IX, §9524, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title IX, §901, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1980.)

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7904, Pub. L. 89–10, title IX, §9204, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, §101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3798, established the Native Hawaiian Education Council and island councils, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110. See section 7514 of this title.