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Levittown Board reviews year-end strategic plan, proposes streamlined measures
Summary
District staff presented a year-end update on the strategic plan through 2026, highlighting progress across postsecondary readiness, student well-being, staff retention and sustainability and proposing to streamline action items in favor of operational objectives and new performance measures.
Mr. Winch presented an end-of-year progress report on the strategic plan adopted last year and outlined steps the district will take for 2024–25.
He told the board the plan’s four core focus areas — postsecondary readiness, student well-being, staff recruitment and retention, and long-term success and sustainability — remain the foundation for district goals. He said many action items show as complete or in progress, but some work (for example, a feasibility review of on-site mental-health supports at Levittown Memorial) remains undone due to legal and contractual issues with prospective partners.
Winch said the district will recommend removing specific multi-year action items from the plan and instead retain operational objectives that will be supported by midyear and year-end reporting to preserve flexibility. “We’re gonna end up recommending to the board when we come back in September to take out those action items,” he said, explaining the change is intended to prevent the plan from becoming “handcuffing” when new opportunities arise.
Board members praised newly added electives and partnerships with higher-education institutions that have helped increase staffing pipelines and teacher certification. A longtime board member noted recent course additions had broadened options for students; another asked whether the district could adopt some alternative-high-school elements without the full cost of a standalone program.
Mr. Winch said a full-day alternative high school provides lower student-to-teacher ratios and more wraparound services but also carries a much higher price tag than the district’s existing twilight credit-recovery option. He told the board the programs the team visited cost “anywhere from $3 to $4 million a year,” compared with roughly $50,000 for the district’s credit-recovery program.
The board discussed staffing and bilingual-counselor needs; district staff said a bilingual counselor was recently hired at Wisdom after a vacancy and that adding dedicated college advisers at each high school would require new budget commitments. Winch asked the board to consider a strategic-planning committee with rotating board representation to review measures and recommend any proposed revisions in September.
The board is expected to revisit recommended measurement changes and a revised plan at its September meeting.
