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Strategic Plan: Learning for All

Our learners are engaged in authentic, challenging, and relevant learning experiences, becoming lifelong contributors and leaders in our dynamic and diverse society.

VISION

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high-quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds.

We will know every student.

MISSION

Equity

We will provide every student with the level of support necessary to thrive

Excellence

We will mitigate barriers and provide opportunities for every student to be academically successful

Family and Community

We will engage with and share the responsibility for student success with families and community partners

Wellness

We will support the physical and emotional health of our students and staff

VALUES

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Strategic Plan: Learning for All Goals

Thriving

Students

Equitable, Transformative Resources

Affirming and Empowering Communities

ACPS will facilitate learning experiences grounded in high expectations, networks of care, and student curiosity to ensure academic and social-emotional development for all students while eliminating opportunity, access, and achievement gaps.

ACPS commits to developing a culturally-responsive environment that will respect and champion the diversity of life experiences of all stakeholders and supports the physical and mental health of our students, staff, and families so they are actively empowered to engage in our school community.

ACPS will attract, develop, and retain the highest quality staff; develop sustainable and modern facilities, infrastructure, and equipment; and distribute all resources in an equitable manner to transform learning experiences and opportunities.

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CATEC - what happened? Are acps students at risk of not being able to continue?

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CATEC - what happened? Are acps students at risk of not being able to continue?

Charlottesville City Public Schools is buying out Albemarle County Public Schools half of CATEC, and the CATEC Board will dissolve.
Charlottesville will take ownership of the facility as of July 2024 at the earliest.
ACPS will pay tuition for students to attend, which will be a reduced expenditure annually.
Albemarle County approved funding for a center for ACPS that may open as soon as 2025, but more likely 2026. In addition to that funding, we will have additional funding from selling our half of CATEC.
We do not plan to replicate programs at CATEC, and we will offer technical trades as well as advanced technical programming. Opportunities for students in both localities will expand.

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Audit - what is the status & timeline? For parents who are interested in providing feedback directly to consulting team, how and who to contact?

Our audit partner has been selected: Bellwether Education Partners
The audit will be conducted in March and April with a report of findings to the School Board most likely on May 25th.
For parents who are interested in providing feedback directly to Bellwether, two options:

There will be 15 focus group opportunities (contact Jamie Gellner if you are interested).
If you have specific input you would like to provide in writing, email it to Jamie to load into the Google Drive / data container for Bellwether

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Budget - we look forward to listening to the budget presentations. How can parent leaders most effectively support acps during this next phase of the process?

The draft funding request notebook will be available at the ACPS Budget Development page after the presentation tomorrow night.
I encourage parent council members to attend or listen in via the stream.
We will get started at 6:30. There is are no opening activities.
I do not think you will be surprised by anything in the draft funding request.
The presentation will be followed by the Board’s first worksession to go into more details on revenues and expenditures.
The best way to support ACPS is to use facts from our budget documents. Ask questions about things you want to know more about by emailing Maya at mkumazawa@k12albemarle.org. We keep a running record of questions and answers.

I am grateful to all of you for your participation in the budget process. Some of your children may have participated at the school level. Parent Council gave direct input as an advisory. Many of you participated in the division-wide meeting. You will see a direct connection between what we heard and what we are seeking to fund.

As you listen to the presentation, you will see that all our investments align with our strategic plan Learning for All, which was developed with community input and approved by our School Board in the fall of 2021. Specifically, you will find investments in safety enhancements, directed staffing for reading and intervention specialists at all schools, staffing to keep our class sizes low, and compensation that is highly competitive in our market to recruit and hire outstanding school and departmental staff to augment our already outstanding team, nearly 2,700 strong.

Again, I thank you all. I appreciate your support for ACPS.

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