GOAL 1 - Taft City School District will fully implement the California Common Core State Standards utilizing district wide aligned curriculum and instructional strategies to support improved academic achievement and mental well-being for all students including Foster youth, English Learners, and low-income students while also mitigating student learning loss. 

GOAL 2 -Taft City School District will implement a multi-tiered system of supports to include the provision of staffing, resources, data analysis, accessibility, health and safety to reduce the rate of student chronic absenteeism while also lowering the ratio of students to teachers for overall improved student achievement.

GOAL 3 - Taft City School District will recruit, hire, train, and retain highly qualified teaching and support staff while also focusing on effective professional learning to continually enhance or extend content knowledge and instructional strategies for a comprehensive understanding of the various needs of all students including Foster youth, English Learners, and low-income students.

GOAL 4 - Taft City School District will plan and implement programs, activities, and procedures that involve parents in the education of their children.

Districts are required to work with families and community members to create a Local Control and Accountability Plan. The plan must layout the district’s goals for improving student outcomes according to eight priorities set by the state, and align spending to meet the goals.

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In June of 2013, a new era of school finance in California was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The new funding model is known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). It reshapes school funding, with the promise of additional funding (trying to recapture the level of 2007-08), and squarely aimed to improve achievement for all students.

LCFF, and its local accountability counterpart, the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), are anchored by the notion that California must do better for its underperforming students, who in fact make up a sizable portion of the state’s school-age population. The LCFF significantly changes the funding formula for school districts — more money is attached to meet the needs of school districts' most at-risk students. The LCFF identifies three categories of students requiring greater resources:

1. Students who qualify for free or reduced priced meals
2. Students who are English Learners
3. Foster youth