A Blueprint for Transforming East Baton Rouge Parish School System
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A
Blueprint
for
Transforming
Achievement
in
East
Baton
Rouge
Parish
School
System
4
Guiding
Principles
1. High
Quality
community
options
for
all
41,000+
children
enrolled
in
the
East
Baton
Rouge
Parish
School
System.
2. Empowering
communities
to
ensure
equity
of
access
to
excellent
schools
in
every
community.
3. Empowering
school
leaders
to
have
site
based
decision-‐making
authority
that
are
critical
to
the
success
of
all
students.
4. Evolving
control
of
functions,
inclusive
of
decentralization,
to
ensure
maximum
resources
at
a
school/student
level.
Objectives
High
Quality
community
options
for
all
41,000+
children
enrolled
in
the
East
Baton
Rouge
Parish
School
System.
• The
district
will
be
subdivided
into
a
minimum
of
5
regions
compromised
of
families
of
schools.
• Create
centers
of
excellence/
academic
service
center
within
school
families
focusing
on
literacy
and
numeracy
within
elementary
grades.*
• A
school
that
is
consistently
failing
will
be
reorganized,
closed,
placed
on
a
management
agreement
or
chartered
(Type
3).*
• The
district
shall
partner
with
external
providers
to
bring
innovative
ideas
into
the
schools.
Empowering
communities
to
ensure
equity
of
access
to
excellent
schools
in
every
community.
• Children
within
a
family
of
schools
will
be
given
first
preference
to
attend
any
school
within
their
region
(with
the
exception
of
magnets).
*
• Magnet
schools
shall
remain
open
to
any
and
all
students
in
the
district.
• Each
region
shall
have
an
advisory
council
comprised
of
X
members
who
will
help
to
inform
decisions
related
to
regional
leadership,
principal
selections,
budgeting,
and
activities.
• Create
a
minimum
of
2
dedicated
ELL
centers
within
the
district
strategically
placed
to
serve
the
needs
of
this
growing
population.
*
Empowering
school
leaders
to
have
site
based
decision-‐making
authority
that
are
critical
to
the
success
of
all
students.
• The
district
will
partner
with
local
universities
and
national
entities
to
design
a
leadership-‐training
program
for
the
district
to
ensure
that
school
leaders
have
all
the
knowledge
and
resources
necessary
to
move
students
forward.
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Leaders
shall
be
allowed
to
make
building
level
decisions
related
to
instruction,
technology,
building
level
professional
development,
school-‐level
budget,
assessment,
extracurricular
activities,
partnerships,
fundraising,
staff
selection,
and
program
offerings.
All
school
leaders
will
be
required
to
design
school
improvement
plans,
innovation
strategies,
or
site
based
administration
plans
to
be
implemented
for
which
they
will
be
held
accountable
and
incentivized.
District
funding
will
be
equitably
distributed,
in
accordance
with
law
and
policy,
among
all
schools
regardless
of
type
(Magnet,
Title
I,
etc.)
The
district
shall
work
with
local
and
national
entities
to
develop
a
talent
strategy
for
developing
teachers
in
the
district
and
identifying/
training
future
teachers.
Evolving
control
of
functions,
inclusive
of
decentralization,
to
ensure
maximum
resources
at
a
school/student
level.
• The
district
will
consult
with
stakeholders
to
determine
how
best
to
decentralize
administrative
oversight
for
each
family
of
school.
• The
District
shall
research
and
pursue
opportunities
to
improve
cost
efficiency
and
develop
supplemental
funding
by
reevaluating
all
central
functions
determine
the
feasibility
of
services.
Items
marked
with
*
may
have
a
budget
impact.
Next
Steps
• Develop
details
and
timeline
• Conduct
Board
Workshop
• Conduct
Community
listening
Workshops
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