Phase Four Engagement Planning

OUSD is embarking on a multi-year effort to fix our district's budget and to keep local control and oversight of our schools. This financial stabilization plan consists of four major phases that run from late 2025 into 2027-28 and beyond. Our goal is to assist with the planning of Phase 4 of by shaping how community engagement and decision-making should look to inform the future of our district.

Background

In January of 2025, the Parent and Student Advisory Committee (PSAC) identified four questions that everyone in OUSD must help answer to address the financial challenges of our district:

1. What resources and services are managed through our central budget and departments? What in our centralized budget is most essential to students, schools, and OUSD as a whole? 

2. What resources and services are managed through school budgets or allocated directly to specific schools? How and why are those resources and services assigned to specific schools? What in our school allocations is most essential to students?

3. How many schools should OUSD operate, of what kind, of what minimum or maximum size, and where? What should be our landscape of schools? What combination of schools would best serve OUSD students? [This conversation also includes the use of vacant facilities.] 

4. How could we generate additional resources for our students?

In Spring of 2026, we will leverage the meetings of PSAC to engage with the first of the 4 questions.