The Lafayette Parish School Board voted to adopt a district accountability system called the LPSS core values, which rates schools on four areas stakeholders identified as priorities: safety, culture, opportunities and growth. The superintendent said the district will publish each school's baseline rating in September and recheck progress in February.
Superintendent remarks described the system as locally developed over a year with input from seven advisory committees and community stakeholders. "This is what they want in their schools," the superintendent said, adding the district will show where schools stand and give them from September to February to improve.
The system will use a star-style presentation with numeric scores for each of the four values, with higher scores reflecting stronger performance; the superintendent said the ratings will incorporate measures such as teacher attendance, student attendance and disciplinary measures. He emphasized the intent to be transparent and said the approach differs from the state accountability calendar, which returns results later.
The item was on the consent agenda and approved as part of the motion to adopt all consent items not pulled. The board called the vote by district; the motion passed on the record at the meeting.