Parents and Guardians of David Lubin students. Your PTG Board Members have drafted a letter to Superintendent Jorge Aguilar requesting that he ensure Title 1 Funding is equitably distributed to the students who qualify the District for those funds. You can read our letter here.

Below are some details about how the current distribution process does not support the District’s core value to “confront and interrupt inequities that exist to level the playing field and provide opportunities for everyone to learn, grow and reach their greatness” and how the current system directly and negatively impacts our students.

  • Of our 530 students (as measured by our 2019-20 CBEDS count), 257, or 48%, were eligible for Free or Reduced (F/R) meals. This means David Lubin was 8 students short of qualifying for Title I funds for the 2020-21 school year. 
  • As a result of our District’s 50% ‘all or nothing’ qualification criteria, David Lubin qualified for zero dollars for the 2020-21 school year, as opposed to $59,622 (per calculations provided by our school staff) if the Title I monies generated by those students had been allocated to our school. 
  • David Lubin students generate Title I funds for the District, but receive none of the services provided by those funds. 
  • The 257 qualifying students at David Lubin is a larger total than the number of qualifying students at 10 schools that did qualify for Title I funds. 
  • During the last five years, Matsuyama Elementary, Sutter Middle, and David Lubin Elementary are the only District schools whose 2019-20 F/R student population has fallen between 40% and 53% and thus, these schools are disproportionately impacted by the application of the district’s 50% qualification criteria

The District decides how to qualify schools for Title I funds. If correcting this inequity is important to you, please consider writing to Superintendent Aguilar (JAguilar@scusd.edu) and copy our Board Member, Leticia Garcia (Leticia-Garcia@scusd.edu). You can use the bullets above or the letter from the PTG Board as a starting point, or you can craft your own message. Let’s remind our Superintendent and the SCUSD Board Members we elect that these funds are critical to the well being of our students and community.

Thank you from your PTG Board:

Jazz Mixon, Gillian Tarkington, Mike Downey, Kit Adsetts, Lisa Ashley, Kate Buehler, Caroline Dunivant, Chris Froh, Leslie Oberst, Elizabeth Augusta-Bettinger, Maryanne Williams