PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS

SCHOOL COMMITTEE GOALS

Adopted September 20, 2006

1. The school committee will develop creative ways to prepare students for college, work and citizenship, including: paying for one college application per student; making a college application a graduation requirement; and making service learning a graduation requirement.

2 The school committee will receive and review assessment data three times a year, and make policy and budget decisions accordingly.

3 The school committee will develop and support a plan for communicating vertically and horizontally within and outside the organization about the work of the district and the committee.

4 The school committee will maintain and construct facilities with designs that are beneficial to student learning; environmentally sound; and energy-efficient, and make policy and budget decisions accordingly.