Strategic Objective #3: Management, Budget & Operations

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Management, Budget & Operations
 
Maintain secure, safe, and equitable facilities and resources that support active learning
  Strategies & Action Steps for the School Year 2021-2026
3.1 Maintain up-to-date, secure, safe, and equitable facilities (updating and communicating safety and security plans, continuously updating technology infrastructure, etc.)
3.2 Optimize the budgeting process to ensure equitable use of available resources
3.3 Pursue grant funding that supports educational programming
3.4 Strengthen financial reporting procedures

MANAGEMENT, BUDGET & OPERATIONS

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

 

  • Maintain up-to-date, secure, safe, and equitable facilities (updating and communicating safety and security plans, continuously updating technology infrastructure, etc.)
    • Crisis Go trainings and software provided to all members of the Taunton Public Schools community
    • Raptor Software: Logs in and screens, visitors to our schools
    • Updated the district and schools’ emergency response planning documents
    • Incident Command Training for administrators (nationally recognized program)
    • School vestibules expanded and strengthened to strategically admit visitors 
    • “Panic” buttons installed at each school site for emergency use/notification
    • Increased the number of THS Security Staff
    • Purchased the Evolve Weapons Detection Units for THS
    • Expanded the number of Radios (walkie talkies) at all levels 
    • CPR trainings for any staff member
    • Safety Care trainings (De-escalation techniques and restraint training for educators)
    • Emergency Radios placed at every school in addition to the Taunton Police Dispatch and at the Taunton Police Headquarters to provide direct communication between schools and emergency services

  • Optimize budgeting process to ensure equitable use of available resources
    • Utilize DESE reporting tools, Open Architect and Schoolbrains to determine the allocation of funds and staffing based upon student needs
    • Require building and district-level administrators to validate through data, their financial and purchasing requests

  • Pursue grant funding that supports educational programming
    • Barr Foundation: $100,000
    • Grant 653: Investigating History; $155,148
    • Grant 185: High-Quality Instructional Materials; $225, 656
    • Grant 215: Genocide Education; $21,100
    • Grant 320/324: Mass Grad-Promising Practices; $100,000
    • Grant 151: Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into Academic Learning; $15,000
    • Grant 994: BRYT Mental Health; $127,000
    • Grant 419: Innovation Career Pathways Support Grant; $50,000
    • Grant 400: Strengthening Career and Technical Education-Secondary; $99,610

  • Strengthen financial reporting procedures
    • Utilize Softright and tools to improve accuracy, and generate financial reports, quarterly to School Committee
    • Implement internal controls within building/district administration and within the Finance Office to monitor financial activities and ensure compliance with policies.