| Meeting Today, July 31, 2013 at 6:00 p.m., District Office, 20550 S. Cicero. Matteson, Il. Our Continuous Evaluation Committee have Stressed that School Data be Reported To Community Going forward, our meeting in our Evaluation/Accountability Planning Committee today (July 31, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.) will stress that all school district data is publicly reported in a straight forward, easy-to-understand format. Results of formative assessment will be provided to parents, and posted in the three high schools throughout the school year in strategic locations, and discussed in special superintendent-board-monthly meetings as a regular process in reviewing student achievement performance data to ensure continuous improvement. Parents, school district employees, and community should be able to see how their children's improved performance level compares to district standards. They should also be given information that tells them how their child's performance compares to other students in the three high schools as well as to students at the district, state, and national levels. Most important, parents and community should be made aware of interventions and supports being implemented and how they can help if their child's performance does not meet the standards and the extent to which those interventions are moving the child to proficiency. This, by the way is the continuing iteration of our school board's accountability-democracy-effectiveness-integrity-transparency template, and we have observed great improvement since the April 9, 2013 school board election in a new board majority. With more school board accountability, collaboration, democracy, integrity, transparency, and school effectiveness, our three newly established board committees (evaluation, finance, and policies) will continue to put in place the proper keystones for students to learn and achieve at the highest possible levels, improve student achievement performance levels, productively and democratically engage the school district community to achieve this goal, and strengthen those policies that will increase compliance and school success. Currently, our school board is already headed in the direction to institute board policies aimed at fighting corruption with sharp enough teeth and serious enough penalties that may be criminal and definitely wasteful, fraudulent, unethical, and unacceptable. It is school board 227's statutory level that is above and supports open, accessible and accountable school board governance. Today, on July 31, 2013 the community wants to hear from the residents on the Evaluation/ Accountability/Planning Committee. Today, we can voice our concerns to someone who can and will do something about it. Today, we are taking the reform steps that create a framework for integrity, true community participation, representation, and the importance of school board governance transparency and accountability so that school board 227's policy, academic accountability, and fiscal wellness will strengthen those policies and provide full access to our First Amendment citizenship rights of speech, petition, and respect for full board and community participation in the academic, instructional, and fiscal wellness of our community. Kindest regards, David E. Morgan, Ph.D., Educational Leadership School Board Member Rich Township High School District 227 Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 |
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