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Meeting Date:
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9/21/2018 - 7:00 PM
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Category:
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Accountability
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Type:
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Info
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Subject:
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Students with Disabilities Evaluation Update
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Objective 1.1
Educational Excellence ACPS will regularly assess and respond to the needs, interests, and abilities of individual students. Objective 1.2
Achievement Gaps ACPS will target academic achievement gaps and increase positive educational outcomes across race/ ethnicity, income, disability, and language subgroups. Objective 6.2 Continuous Improvement ACPS will engage in cycles of continuous improvement at every level of the school division, and it will employ evidence-based decision-making in its consideration of process improvements, policy making, and budgeting and accountability.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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File Attachment:
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Agenda Item Summary:
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The purpose of this update is to provide the Board with details on how the Division plans to engage the community in the action planning including specific timelines for the upcoming rollout. The goals of this process are to ensure clear communication, transparency, and opportunities for comment across stakeholder groups to yield the highest quality action plan for the Division and to begin to engender the necessary support drive sustainable change.
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Background:
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As the Board is aware, external evaluators from the Public Consulting Group (PCG), hired by ACPS to evaluate services to students with disabilities, are preparing to present the final report to the Board from their review over the 2017-2018 school year. At the end of August, the division provided an update to the Board on the progress made over the summer months as a group of 36 stakeholders met to move toward a purposeful implementation of the evaluation’s recommendations.
Since the last update to the Board on August 31, the Steering Committee has convened to discuss and refine planning guidance documents based upon feedback from fellow Steering Committee members and the products of their respective Subcommittees. The goal of the Steering Committee has been create a draft plan that aspires to go beyond striving for outcomes on summative statewide assessments and aims to address systemic issues surrounding culture and climate, accountability, and fidelity of implementation. These areas must first be strategically targeted in order for ACPS to realize sustained progress and positive outcomes for students with disabilities.
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Recommendation:
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The Superintendent recommends that the School Board review the attached materials for possible planning, procedural, programmatic, and/or budgetary changes.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Superintendent
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