Rich Harrison, CEO, led the board, staff, and community members in a land acknowledgement for the Ohlone people.

Rich Harrison, CEO, updated the board on community highlights. Highlights included shoutouts to graduation dates, Declaration Days with seniors, teacher compensation increases, the Addressing Gun Violence unit with 8th graders, Lodestar middle school boys soccer city-wide win, and Youth Alive! updates.

Tunisia Adams asked the board about the school site council and about other opportunities for engagement from families, and how students may receive information about student groupings such as Black Student Union. Tunisia hopes for more opportunities for parent engagement and consistency for opportunities rather than specific moments. 

No additional public comments at this time.

Rich Harrison, CEO, gave updates to the board on LHTK-8 charter renewal, the CAO search, assessment completion dates, chronic absenteeism, suspension, professional development of senior leadership, enrollment, and finance. 

Hung Mai, Senior Director of Finance, updated the Board on financial overviews. 

Anna Martin, Chief Operating Officer, reviewed enrollment and recruitment for the 26-26 school year with projected trends such as a low-ball estimate and a high-ball estimate. Anna spoke about the grades that would be most changed in terms of student enrollment, also with context about the closing of a local school that adds to anticipated increases.

Hung continued the update with an overview of budgets versus actuals from July 2025 to February 2026 in terms of revenue and expenses. 

The board asked when the fiscal policy would be available for review due to the anticipated construction costs coming from cash-on-hand funds. 

Rich Harrison, CEO, responded that LCPS is currently waiting for the legal team to have a draft for the finance committee before the May board meeting, which could then be voted on in June, along with budget approvals.

Megan Bacigalupi, Chief of Staff, gave background on adding a special LCPS board meeting to focus on the LHTK-8 Charter Renewal Petition approval. Additional time would benefit staff in allowing for the release of data to be used in the petition. 

Megan took a quick poll of dates that would work with board members for the special meeting.

Tunisia Adams, parent at Lodestar, advocated for more study hall tutoring time and assistance for students in addition to consistent updates for students to know about their data in a transparent way. Ms. Adams also spoke to feeling excluded from certain spaces and advocated for more inclusive spaces.

Ilse Cruz Cordova, teacher at Lighthouse asked to be emailed the materials. Ilse also advocated for materials to be ready by the first day of school to ease teacher prep.

No further comments at this time.

Adding the next proposed board meeting to Board on Track. 

Moving CEO compensation to next meeting.