Code:AE
The district shall maintain a coordinated K-12 program designed to improve student achievement and successfully to prepare students to function effectively in a rapidly changing world and for the futures they choose to pursue.
The district shall work with staff, parents, and community members through 21st Century Schools Council, local school committees, and advisory committees to develop district goals. Goals shall be adopted by the board consistent with the goals adopted by the State Board of Education, and shall be reviewed annually and revised as needed.
The district is committed to a continual process of collaborative decision making and goal setting that is framed around the following characteristics:
1. Provides equal and open access and educational opportunities for all students regardless of their linguistic background, culture, race, sex, capability or geographic location;
2. Assumes that all students can learn and establishes high, specific skill and knowledge expectations and recognizes individual differences at all instructional levels;
3. Provides special education, compensatory education, linguistically and culturally appropriate education and other specialized programs to all students who need those services;
4. Provides students with a solid foundation in the skills of reading, writing, problem solving and communication;
5. Provides opportunities for students to learn, think, reason, retrieve information, use technology and work effectively alone and in groups;
6. Provides for rigorous academic content standards and instruction in mathematics, science, English, history, geography, economics, civics, physical education, health, the arts and second languages;
7. Provides students an educational background to the end that they will function successfully in a constitutional republic, a participatory democracy and a multicultural nation and world;
8. Provides students with the knowledge and skills that will provide the opportunities to succeed in the world of work, as members of families and as citizens;
9. Provides students with the knowledge, skills and positive attitude that lead to an active, healthy lifestyle;
10. Provides students with the knowledge and skills to take responsibility for their decisions and choices;
11. Provides opportunities for students to learn through a variety of teaching strategies;
12. Emphasizes the involvement of parents and the community in the total education of students;
13. Transports students safely to and from school;
14. Ensures that the funds allocated to schools reflect the uncontrollable differences in costs facing each district;
15. Ensures that local schools have adequate control of how funds are spent to best meet the needs of students in their communities; and
16. Provides for a safe, educational environment.
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