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District launches public realignment dashboard and reports vacancies from school consolidations
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Summary
The board received a demonstration of an in-house public dashboard tracking implementation of the district’s realignment plan; staff reported remaining vacancies at several schools created by the realignment and said savings were being redeployed to classroom supports.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on June 12 heard a demonstration of a new public-facing dashboard tracking implementation of the district's realignment plan, including assigned tasks by department, completion status and school-level filters.
“It's our visible way of showing where we are towards implementing the plan,” said Pamela Whitley, who led the presentation of the dashboard. The tool groups tasks by priority: high (required for the first day of school), medium and low, and allows filtering by school and by completion status.
Why it matters: The dashboard is intended to make the board-approved realignment plan more transparent and to coordinate work across departments as the district prepares for the first day of school.
Superintendent Cole said the district consulted with staff and an outside consultant and that the dashboard arose by synthesizing departmental checklists into actionable items. “We started by having each department just provide a checklist of everything they had to do to get to what we call the first day experience,” Whitley said.
Staffing implications: Cole reported vacancies created or revealed by consolidation and reconfiguration: “0 vacancies at Glen Oaks Park Elementary School…3 vacancies at Glen Oaks High School…18 vacancies” after combining Capital Middle and Capital High, “26 vacancies” at Melrose due to a new K–2 model, and “16 vacancies” at Meridale. She said the district was 77% staffed at impacted schools and was working with HR to place affected employees; some staff took options to follow students while others were reassigned through job fairs.
Board members praised the organizational approach and invited themselves to sit in the weekly coordination meetings the district convenes to troubleshoot items on the dashboard. Board member Godet, with a project-management background, said he hoped the dashboard approach would be applied across major district initiatives.
The dashboard is live on the district website at ebrschools.org/realignment and will be updated as work progresses.
