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SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES SUPERINTENDENT'S JOB TARGETS
August 26, 2004
More Miami-Dade County children will be promoted into 4th
grade and graduate from high school, at least 16 struggling
schools will raise their state accountability grades, and
more schools will be built and repaired more quickly under
performance targets approved by the School Board Thursday
for Supt. Rudolph F. "Rudy" Crew's annual job
evaluation.
Dr. Crew, who took the helm of the nation's
fourth-largest school system on July 1, had proposed the
list of 22 measurable objectives that involve eliminating
low-performing schools, raising academic achievement in all
schools, and improving business, construction and
maintenance practices.
The School Board will use the targets next year to
determine the amount of the superintendent's incentive
pay.
"This is a new process. It's a process that bodes well
for the health of this district," Dr. Crew told board
members. "Counting what happens to children…matters
deeply to the performance of the system as a whole."
Among the performance targets are:
Raising
academic performance in all 39 schools now reporting to
Dr. Crew through his School Improvement Zone, with at
least 10 schools raising their state school performance
grade;
Raising
the four-year graduation rate and lowering the four-year
dropout rate so that nearly 900 more students earn
diplomas and more than 500 additional students stay in
school;
Boosting
the number of 3rd graders promoted so that nearly 1,000
more students go to 4th grade;
Reducing
the achievement gaps between white students and black and
Hispanic students by 5 percent;
Improving
the district's bond rating; and
Cutting
the time required to build new schools and cost overruns
on all construction and maintenance
projects.
Dr. Crew
called the link between performance and compensation "a very
new dynamic that I welcome."
"That linkage should be made throughout the entire
management structure," he told the Board.
A copy of the Superintendent's goals and objectives can
be viewed at the school district's Citizen Information
Center, Room 158 of the School Board Administration
Building, 1450 NE Second Ave. For more information, call the
district's Office of Public Relations at 305-995-1126.
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