At a work session on June 27, the Stafford school board established some of their priorities for the next year.
The school board had an efficiency study for the school system conducted by Evergreen Solutions, LLC, which led to 16 recommendations that the school board reviewed.
Of the 16, two items in particular were selected as top priorities for the coming school year – one related to strategic planning, and another being a communication plan.
More from a Stafford school board release:
The Board would like Superintendent W. Bruce Benson to develop a plan to review and revise the division’s vision, mission, and goals, and identify measurable outcomes and strategies connected to desired outcomes. The Board requested that a Superintendent’s Strategic Planning Committee be developed. The committee representation shall include School Board members, parents, teachers, administrators, and government and community leaders.
The second area identified was communication. It was noted that the division does not have a formal communication plan and division-level communication often appears reactive.
Additionally, during the work session, school board members voiced their concerns about class size. An analysis of class sizes from 2014 to 2015 showed numbers were higher than school board members felt comfortable with, according to a release.
Members of the school board advised the Superintendent to draft staffing and class recommendations for the next year’s 2016-2017 budget to address the issue, said a school release.
