Whole-child program
Harriet Tubman describes a TK–8 program combining individualized learning, college and career exploration, social-emotional support, athletics, creative opportunities, and expanded learning.
California charter renewal guide · Updated September 18, 2026
Harriet Tubman Village Charter School: 2027 Charter Renewal Guide
A source-based briefing for school leaders, board members, families, and other stakeholders preparing for Harriet Tubman Village Charter School's next charter renewal.
AuthorizerSan Diego Unified School District
Current charter termThrough June 30, 2027
2026 CDE categoryLow Performing
This independent guide organizes public information for renewal preparation. It is not an authorizer finding, legal opinion, rating, or prediction of the school's renewal outcome.
Renewal context
What the public record says now
Publicly posted school materials indicate that Harriet Tubman's current charter expires June 30, 2027 and that the school is preparing for a two-year renewal. The California Department of Education places the school in the Low Performing Category for the 2026 renewal cycle.
The CDE performance-category page states that a low-category school may receive a two-year renewal only when specified statutory conditions are met. Separate CDE renewal guidance notes that the low-performance criteria in Education Code section 47607.2(a)(4) sunset on January 1, 2026. Confirming the standard that will govern Harriet Tubman's 2027 proceeding is therefore an immediate preparation item for leadership and counsel.
The objective is not to characterize the school's outcome in advance. It is to identify the strongest public evidence, the questions San Diego Unified is likely to examine, and the work leadership can complete while there is still time to strengthen the record.
Assets to carry into renewal
Start with the school's strongest evidence.
Leadership-centered identity
The school's vision and Leader in Me program give Harriet Tubman a coherent leadership-development theme that can connect culture, engagement, family partnership, and student outcomes.
Community reach
The school emphasizes close partnership with families and a diverse San Diego community. That history and community role can be important when supported by current participation, retention, satisfaction, and outcome evidence.
Preparation signals
Items leadership should reconcile early.
These are preparation prompts drawn from public records, not conclusions about renewal eligibility or school quality.
Confirm the governing standard
Current CDE pages are not perfectly aligned: the performance-category page describes a conditional two-year pathway, while separate renewal guidance notes that the cited low-performance provisions sunset January 1, 2026. Leadership and counsel should resolve that issue before organizing the renewal case.
Improvement must be measurable
Programs, interventions, and leadership activity matter, but the renewal record must show what changed for students, which groups benefited, the period measured, and why the evidence is credible.
Governance must show its work
Board agendas, minutes, data reviews, fiscal monitoring, policy actions, and leadership evaluation should demonstrate active oversight rather than retrospective approval of a renewal narrative.
Local conditions matter
Declining enrollment and fiscal pressure across San Diego do not determine Harriet Tubman's outcome, but they can intensify scrutiny of enrollment, facilities, organizational viability, and the school's distinct public value.
Leadership and board discussion
Questions to answer before the authorizer asks.
- What is Harriet Tubman's strongest evidence of measurable academic improvement, and does it meet the standard applicable to a low-category renewal?
- Which student groups require separate analysis, and what current evidence demonstrates growth, access, and effective intervention?
- Do attendance, chronic-absence, enrollment, retention, and family-engagement records tell one consistent story?
- Can every major program expenditure be connected to implementation evidence and a measurable student result?
- Do board records demonstrate that directors identified concerns early, monitored progress, and required corrective action?
- What adverse finding could San Diego Unified plausibly draft today, and what contemporaneous evidence would answer it?
Evidence file
What to assemble now
- A governing-standard memorandum, reviewed with counsel, mapping each required showing to dated evidence
- Multiyear academic and growth data, disaggregated by numerically significant student group
- Attendance, chronic-absence, enrollment, retention, discipline, and family-participation trend files
- Implementation records showing who received each intervention, when it occurred, and what changed
- Board minutes, dashboards, and monitoring reports demonstrating sustained oversight and corrective action
- Budgets, audits, cash reports, enrollment assumptions, and multiyear projections reconciled into one fiscal narrative
Public sources reviewed
Trace every material statement.
California Department of Education performance categories
The CDE's 2026 charter-school performance-category file and explanation of the low-category renewal pathway.
Harriet Tubman Village Charter School
School-published description of its TK–8 program, vision, educational options, community, and current materials.
California public schools and districts data
CDE downloadable data and directory records used to verify public school information and status.
California charter-school renewal standards
CDE guidance concerning renewal terms, standards, criteria, performance categories, and the statutory sunset language.
Public records change and may contain errors. School leaders are invited to send a correction or additional source. UCLG will review documented corrections promptly and display the date of material updates.
Confidential Renewal Readiness Review
A public guide can identify the questions. A confidential review tests the answers.
UCLG examines the complete academic, attendance, enrollment, governance, fiscal, compliance, and operational record through the authorizer's lens, then delivers a prioritized corrective action plan and leadership briefing.
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