School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Policy 7-26

COMMUNITY RELATIONS

Citizens' Advisory Committees: Strategic Planning Committee

The School Board shall activate a Community Ad Hoc Strategic Plan Committee one year prior to the end of the cycle of the long range plan required by the Virginia Department of Education. This committee shall serve for the purpose of gathering input from the community, and reviewing materials related to the schools’ Plans for Continuous Improvement.

1. Definitions and Purpose

   Strategic planning is both a discipline and a process. The process includes: the appointment by the School Board of a coordinating group which represents a cross-section of the community.

2. Members: Appointment/Term of Office

   Committee members shall be appointed by the School Board upon the recommendation of the Superintendent.

3. Facilitator

   The Superintendent shall designate a staff member to function as administrative facilitator for the committee.

4. Reports

   A narrative of the community input will be incorporated into the long range plan.

Legal Reference:

Code of Va., §22.1-253.13:6, as amended, Standard 6. Planning and public involvement.

B. Each local school board shall adopt a divisionwide comprehensive, unified, long-range plan based on data collection, an analysis of the data, and how the data will be utilized to improve classroom instruction and student achievement. The plan shall be developed with staff and community involvement and shall include, or be consistent with, all other divsionwide plans required by state and federal laws and regulations. Each local school board shall review the plan biennially and adopt any necessary revisions. Prior to the adoption of any divisionwide comprehensive plan or revisions thereto, each local school board shall post such plan or revisions on the division’s Internet website if practicable, and, in any case, shall make a hard copy of the plan or revisions available for public inspection and copying and shall conduct at least one public hearing to solicit public comment on the divisionwide plan or revisions.

The divisionwide comprehensive plan shall include, but not be limited to (i) the objectives of the school division including strategies for improving student achievement then maintaining high levels of student achievement; (ii) an assessment of the extent to which these objectives are being achieved; (iii), a forecast of enrollment changes; (iv) a plan for projecting and managing enrollment changes including consideration of the consolidation of schools to provide for a more comprehensive and effective delivery of instructional services to students and economies in school operations; (v) an evaluation of the appropriateness of establishing regional programs and services in cooperation with neighboring school divisions; (vi) a plan for implementing such regional services when appropriate; (vii) a technology plan designed to integrate educational technology into the instructional programs of the school division, including the school division’s career and technical education programs, consistent with, or as a part of, the comprehensive technology plan for Virginia adopted by the Board of Education; (viii) an assessment of the needs of the school division and evidence of community participation, including parental participation, in the development of the plan; (ix) any corrective action plan required pursuant to § 22.1-253.13:3; and (x) a plan for parent and family involvement to include building successful school and parent partnerships that shall be developed with staff and community involvement, including participation by parents.

A report shall be presented by each school board to the public by November 1 of each odd-numbered year on the extent to which the objectives of the divisionwide comprehensive plan have been met during the previous two school years.

C. Each public school shall also prepare a comprehensive, unified, long-range plan, which the relevant school board shall consider in the development of its divisionwide comprehensive plan.

Adopted by School Board: October 20, 1992
Amended by School Board: November 5, 2002
Amended by School Board: May 9, 2006