Strategic Objective #3: Management, Budget & Operations
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.