ORANGE : Trustees Hash Out Goals for Schools
Trustees of the Orange Unified School District have set as their top goals for this school year a 5% improvement on achievement test scores and in the number of students going on to college and a 5% decrease in dropouts, suspensions and expulsions.
Those were some of the 10 goals hashed out by the school board and superintendent’s office during three workshops. The final 10-page document of goals and objectives was fashioned by Supt. Robert L. French, who strongly urged the trustees to focus on achievable goals.
Trustees are expected to adopt the list, which has a blank column to record results at various points of the year, at their meeting Wednesday.
Other goals including retaining principals, 20% of whom have left the district during the past school year.
“It isn’t perfect, but we’re a lot further along than we were two months ago,” French said of the board’s objectives.
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