School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Policy 2-1

ADMINISTRATION

Management Plan/Goals and Objectives

A.  Management Plan

The School Board of the City of Virginia Beach is responsible for the effective and efficient operation of the school division. Accordingly, it is the board's desire to restructure administrative functions on the site based concept of management. Site based management is an organizational plan that shifts responsibility for school improvement from central administration to the school site and supports shared decision making by persons directly involved in the educational process.

B.  Goals and Objectives

The school board in cooperation with the superintendent shall provide leadership to restructure the public schools of Virginia Beach to improve the quality of schooling in the following ways:

1.  To continue efforts to downsize the school bureaucracy and decentralize the organization to shift more responsibility to the school site;

2.  To encourage school based management and shared decision making;

3.  To provide educational opportunities to overcome factors of socioeconomic background or preschool disadvantage to ensure that all children learn;

4.  To involve parents, churches, business and industry, neighborhood groups, and public and private agencies in defining the goals of education;

5.  To develop a system of accountability, in cooperation with higher education, business, and military leaders, to ensure school improvement;

6.  To establish staff development programs to maintain and improve the professional staff and to train all participants for involvement in shared decision making, effective schooling practices, and characteristics of effective organizational cultures;

7.  To establish and maintain open communications with students, employees, parents, taxpayers, and government leaders;

8.  To establish employee evaluation systems based on student achievement, effective schooling practices, and school improvement initiatives; and reinforce individual and team accomplishments through employee evaluation and reward systems;

9.  To establish personnel selection, retention, and promotion practices to identify and train future leaders; and

10.  To protect and advance the belief that learning is the most important purpose of schooling.

These restructuring activities are to be fused into the Division-wide Strategic Plan. The superintendent shall provide the school board and community with progress reports toward the identified goals and objectives which will be included as part of the Annual School Report.

 

Adopted by School Board:  December 17, 1991
Amended by School Board:  October 20, 1992