2) QUARTERLY REPORTING!

Another proposal for making the Lancaster School board more effective -- and more directly engaged with the people who CAN help the schools: the campus improvement committees.

Schedule quarterly status reports by campus committees directly to the board.

State law directs principals and superintendents to work with teachers, parents, and community leaders to form "campus improvement committees". These committes now submit annual "campus improvement plans" to the board -- which are filed and forgotten. A routine, scheduled presentation to the board on the progress of the campus toward specific goals will ensure admin effort and funding are directed toward those goals.

Now, the board should NOT attempt to have all eight campus committees present at the same time. The Annual end-of-year report, on the entire district, counts as one -- but that leaves 3 interim quarterly reports per campus. Three reports for 8 campuses means 24 reports - over 12 months is two such reports per meeting. The natural competition between the campuses to have something good to say -- to outshine the others -- will also drive improvements.

You get what you measure. Let's measure frequent IMPROVEMENTS.