LOS ANGELES (KNX) — Newly installed Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced on Thursday a 100-day action plan for the school district.
The plan was presented in four parts: “Learn,” “Assess,” “Communicate,” and “Act.”
It involves “listening opportunities” for the superintendent to learn from students, parents, and employees about L.A. Unified’s needs (“Learn”), followed by a period of analysis based on information learned, district finances, and staffing conditions (“Assess”).
The “Communicate” step involves discussions with LAUSD community stakeholders on how action items will be executed, or “Acted” upon.
“This plan is rooted in beliefs of equity, in beliefs of empowerment and excellence. … We must unapologetically address persistent opportunity gaps that are disproportionately reflected in the Black and Latinx communities,” Carvalho said Thursday during a virtual event with local educational groups.
“Not to act with urgency is simply not acceptable,” he said.
Specifics of the 100 day plan include a campaign to convince families who have yet to send their children back to school physically following the COVID-19 pandemic to do so; and to offer summer programs at all Title I schools, which serve high numbers of low-income students.
The Carvalho administration also plans to develop a four-year strategic plan for the district, as well as plans for expansion of early education opportunities, class-size reductions, and expansion of technology and internet access for students.
Plans to widen support for students of color, students for whom English is not a first language, and disabled students were also being developed, Carvalho said.
Carvalho also introduced an “earned autonomy” model for L.A. schools, in which campuses that show strong improvement over time will be given more internal control. The model seeks to strike a compromise between the LAUSD board’s “equity-driven agenda” and “recent decentralization efforts” made under former Superintendent Austin Beutner, Carvalho said.
“Do not expect a swift set of decisions that would significantly disrupt what’s happening in schools,” he said Thursday.
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