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Visalia Unified details five-year strategic plan, sets progress indicators and student outcome targets
Summary
Superintendent Kirk Schrum reported a phased, five‑year implementation plan that pairs action-based progress indicators with district-set priority student outcomes and a twice-yearly board reporting cadence; a district reorganization to align staffing with the plan and sustain work after one-time funds end was also announced.
Superintendent Kirk Schrum told the Visalia Unified School District Board of Education that the district will measure its newly adopted strategic plan through two linked systems: progress‑indicator metrics that track work on specific actions, and five‑year priority student outcomes the board has set as targets.
“If we’re not accountable to student outcomes and doing the work, then we’re basically saying to our students, we’re only paying lip service to the important work that we do,” Superintendent Kirk Schrum said. He said the district’s accountability approach is intended to be developmental rather than punitive.
Why it matters: the board has set five‑year performance goals it expects the district to reach, and the strategic plan lays out actions across three…
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