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MCPS staff propose academic return‑on‑investment framework to tie program evaluations to budget decisions
Summary
Keisha Addison of the Office of Shared Accountability proposed that the board use 'academic return on investment' — comparing student outcomes to program cost and staff time — to prioritize programs in budgeting and policy, starting with completed program evaluations and moving to in‑progress studies linked to the FY27 process.
Keisha Addison, director of shared accountability, told the Fiscal Management Committee on Sept. 17 that Montgomery County Public Schools should adopt an "academic return on investment" (ROI) framework to evaluate whether programs, services and initiatives produce meaningful student outcomes relative to their cost. "Academic return on investment allows us to ask: for every dollar we invest in a program, service, or initiative, what improvement in student learning are we seeing?" she said.
Framework and rationale: Addison described academic ROI as a way to reframe decisions from inputs (what is…
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