Highlights of 'Action Plan v1.0'

Posted: January 08, 2013

WILLIAM R. HITE'S "Action Plan v1.0" is the product of three months of listening by Philly's newest superintendent.

Here are some highlights of the plan's strategies:

* Balance and sustain operating, capital and grants budgets. The district faces a cumulative $1 billion deficit over the next five years, and Hite's proposal calls for cutting expenses and tracking progress against the district's five-year financial plan. Fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1, is "especially critical," the plan says. "We must implement strict financial controls, be strategic in our resource allocation process and continuously track progress to ensure fiscal stability in 2014."

Hite's plan calls for seeking additional revenues, including encouraging the city to improve tax-collection efforts, a common refrain among officials in city-funded organizations.

* Improve academic results by providing more early-childhood-education programs and sustaining high academic standards and expectations. The plan calls for tracing student progress to graduation and beyond to college and career. It also calls for improving its dual-enrollment, Advanced-Placement and similar programs.

* Identify and develop talent by improving recruitment and hiring practices as well as implementing teacher, principal and specialist evaluations. Hite has made no secret that it will seek concessions from teachers, whose contract expires in August.

* Develop a system of excellent schools by improving school safety and implementing his Facilities Master Plan, which includes closing 37 schools.

- Regina Medina

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