Focusing on the Commons,
Phillips states her priority areas to focus on as «gender quality, domestic violence, sexual exploitation and childhood sexual abuse, and human trafficking.»
Tapping into the new opportunities that ESSA provides will allow for a singular focus on
key state priority areas leading to greater levels of student achievement throughout our state.
By way of context for California's comments, in 2013, the state embarked on a significant overhaul of how it provided resources to districts and created a framework for a multiple measures accountability system focused on eight
state priority areas.
Below are tables listing the required data that must be included for each of the eight
state priority areas, organized by SBE template category and priority area.
(Learn more about
the State priority areas.)
Known as the LCAP, the plan describes how districts assess their needs, engage with community members, identify goals in eight
state priority areas (which include student engagement, school climate and achievement), specify programs for achieving the goals, outline spending for each program and coordinate their plan with district budgets.
Parent engagement is one of the eight
State priority areas.
Districts, county offices of education, and charter schools must use this template — adopted by the California State Board of Education (SBE)-- to describe goals within each of eight
state priority areas and their plans to achieve those goals for all pupils and for identified subgroups.