ANALYSIS: LCAPs Show Districts Focusing on School Climate in California Schools, But Still Much Work to Be Done [FightCrime.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/2/154:00 AM

California school districts are making strides to improve school climate yet there is still “significant room for improvement” according to an analysis by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, an anti-crime advocacy organization comprised of nearly 5,000 member sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and crime victims nationwide, including 400 in California.

With the adoption of Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013, school districts were encouraged to reform school discipline practices and improve school climate in their Local Control and Accountability Plans, or LCAPs. The LCFF statute requires school districts to address eight state priorities, including school climate. Under this category, districts must provide specific goals, actions and expenditures to address suspension and expulsion rates, as well as on safety and school connectedness as measured by surveys of students, teachers and parents.

[For more of this story, go to http://www.fightcrime.org/lcapanalysis2015/]

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Steven DahlMember

This is good news for "upstreamists" who are intent on designing learning conditions at every state of the public school learning continuum (PreK-12 and beyond) aligned with what research suggests are brain-hospitable learning conditions. Punishment, external control methods, behaviorism and black box approaches.....have in many ways dug a hole so large that it will take the better part of the 21st century (2 to 3 generations) to alter our trajectory. But alter the trajectory, we must. Investing in brains early and often and the types of learning conditions that are brain-hospitable makes great fiscal, social, psychological and governmental sense. It's hard to even imagine a sound argument against this.

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