While the Mission and Student Achievement Goals are the major drivers of what happens in the school system, the Board also has concerns about how the system operates. These operational expectations express those concerns to the Superintendent and staff. Continuous monitoring by the Board will provide the means for judging whether compliance with the operational expectations has been achieved.
The Superintendent will maintain a system of continuous improvement that tracks, measures, and evaluates FCPS effectiveness in realizing student achievement and business processes, including both benefits and costs, in a timely manner. The Superintendent will:
1. Establish a multi-year plan for program evaluation that identifies evaluation criteria and the relationship to student achievement goals. New program proposals shall include an evaluation plan that assures its evaluation within the first three years. All evaluations should recommend whether a program should be continued, modified, or discontinued based on its effectiveness and cost.
2. Conduct a regular fiscal and performance audit of business functions.
Reasonable Interpretations and Indicators
The Board expects the Superintendent to apply reasonable interpretations to its statements of Student Achievement goals and Operational Expectations, and to present those interpretations to the Board as part of the monitoring process. The Board recognizes that strategic choices will be based upon those interpretations, and therefore the interpretations of the Superintendent must be reasonable. The Board further recognizes that there may be serveral potential interpretations to the Student Achievement Goals and the operational Expectations, all falling within the relam of "reasonable." The Board will accept any interpretation made by the Superintendent, as long as the Board considers it to be reasonable.
January 14, 2008 - Revised Accountability and Audit Reasonable Interpretations and Indicators for OE #1.
December 7, 2006 - Accountability and Audit Reasonable Interpretations and Indicators
The Board has established an annual calendar and work plan for its work, which includes scheduled monitoring throughout the year of each stated student goal, and scheduled monitoring of each operational expectation. The Superintendent will provide thorough and detailed monitoring reports as prescribed in the annual calendar. The Board will respond to each monitoring report indicating one of the following: 1.) acceptance of the report as evidence of satisfactory performance; or 2.) expectation for improvement based on the conclusion of a majority of the Board.
October 19, 2009 - Accountability and Audit Monitoring Report | Executive Summary
October 6, 2008 - Accountability and Audit Monitoring Report | Executive Summary
October 15, 2007 - Accountability and Audit Monitoring Report | Executive Summary
February 12, 2007 - Accountability and Audit Monitoring Report | Executive Summary