Rich Harrison, CEO, led the board and public in a land acknowledgement of the Ohlone people.

Rich Harrison, CEO, led the board and staff in a community highlights. Rich began with an introduction of Dr. Shajaira Lopez, who will be beginning as the Chief Academic Officer in the upcoming year.

Rich then spoke about the World Savvy Changemakers Hub which was a miniature summit for students and families to discuss the impacts and changes of AI. 

Rich gave updates about the high school Declaration Days, where 12th graders announce their college or career of choice. During that time, a former LCPS student attended Lighthouse Declaration Day and provided scholarships for graduating Lighthouse students. At Lodestar, Dr. Latora Baldridge shared that Declaration Day was an event for all of TK-11th graders to share in the joy. 

Afterwards, a highlight of Lighthouse's 8th grade graduation ceremony.

No questions from the board.

Seeing none and hearing none, public comment was closed.

Rich Harrison, CEO, gave an overview of CEO Goals, including reviewing the expectations for the upcoming Lighthouse TK-8 Charter Renewal. Rich then overviewed academics that LCPS data is moving in the right direction, but preliminary data is still being released for CAASPP. For community schools, work there will be continued partnerships to help with chronic absenteeism and suspensions, which largely stayed flat from the previous year. In terms of professional development, site and district academic leaders recently attended an ACOE training that was well-received, and there will be additional PD in the upcoming leadership retreat. Enrollment and attrition is on track for the upcoming school year, and there will be additional discussion of the finance budget.

The board hopes for an additional root cause analysis around chronic absenteeism in the future. 

The board asked for adjustments and reanalysis of fall enrollment impacts on financial budgeting. Rich responded the finance team has taken a conservative budgetary approach to fall enrollment.  

Rich Harrison, CEO, gave an overview of what assessment data rollups will be reviewed in the current meeting and which shall be presented in the future on the June 25th special meeting or July 9th meeting. Afterwards, Rich gave high-level overviews of academic strengths, challenges, and general trends.

Dr. B, Head of School for Lodestar, commented that generally, students showed good growth to be replicated, but there are identified pockets that need support. Dr. B believes for the upcoming year there needs to be attention on mastery of standards and more professional development time attributed to collaboration across content teams.

Shaina Hurley, Lead Principal for Lighthouse K-5, mentioned wins on ELPI for Lighthouse and doing a deeper dive on where those gains came from. Shaina responds that in-class assessments provide similar results to standardized assessments and that those can become more actionable at the teacher level.

Hung Mai, Senior Director of Finance, gave a financial overview on enrollment, average daily attendance, cash flow versus bond covenants, and budgets versus actuals for July 2025 to April 2026. Hung included the list of vendors that LCPS paid over $50K, April 2026 bill payments, and updated fiscal policy changes.

No questions from the board.

Dr. Shajaira Lopez introduced herself to the LCPS board and staff members as the oncoming LCPS Chief Academic Officer.

Seeing none and hearing no further public comments, public comment was closed.