The Santee School District Board of Education met at 6 p.m. February 18, 2025. Meeting highlights included:
Reports and Presentations
- Spotlight on Education: Hill Creek staff provided an update on student assessment and survey results from the 2023-24 school year as well as site collaboration plans for the 2024-25 school year.
- Dr. Lisa Paisley, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services and Dr. Marcia Hamilton, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, presented the MidYear LCAP Update. The mid-year summary provides outcome data related to progress on metrics for the 2024-2025 school year. The summary also provides implementation data on action steps as well as mid-year expenditures. The LCAP Annual Review Meeting will be held March 27 at 5 p.m. Details can be found at santeesd.net/LCAP.
Public Hearing
- A public hearing was held for Recycling of Obsolete Instructional Materials. Details can be found in the Board Packet.
Discussion and/or Action Items
- The Board approved the following 2025 Legislative Goals to share with local legislators:
- Federal
- Seek/support legislation to fully fund formula based federal programs including title programs and special education
- Seek/support legislation to fully fund our impact aid in support of Military families
- Seek/support legislation to maintain a national school lunch program
- State
- Seek/support legislation to increase the base funding for the Local Control Formula in lieu of creating new categorical programs. Schools cannot simply do more with new programs when they are already stretched thin trying to fund basic day-to-day operations.
- Seek/support legislation to create a specialized educational cost of living index that is more representative of change in operational costs for year to year.
- Additional Priorities
- Seek/support legislation to restructure K-14 energy costs for educational institutions and minimize the barriers for renewable energy sources.
- Seek/support legislation to create and fund Statewide training for a skilled and trained workforce. California lacks localized and State trainings for this workforce to allow contracted firms to complete necessary maintenance and operations projects.
- Seek/support legislation to relieve districts of cost for PERS retirement system
increases separate from Proposition 98 general fund allocations.
Board Policies and Bylaws
Descriptions of policies and approved changes can be found in the Board Packet.
The Board approved the following updated policies:
- BP 5148.2 Before/After School Programs
- BP 5148.3 Preschool/Early Childhood Education
- BP 6170.1 Transitional Kindergarten
The next regular meeting of the Santee School District Board of Education will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, 2024, in the Educational Resource Center, 9619 Cuyamaca, Santee. Meetings can also be live-streamed at santeesd.net/LiveBoardMeeting.
Note: These are not official meeting minutes of the Board of Education but rather a brief recap of the Board’s actions. For meeting recordings and official meeting minutes, click here.