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Committee pushes dashboard away from budget totals toward engagement and school visits
Summary
The College, Career and Life Readiness committee asked staff to drop a ‘budget spent’ metric from the strategic-priorities dashboard and instead display engagement-focused measures — task-force meetings, schools visited, survey responses and people reached — paired with a short priority description on the website.
Director Butler presented a draft of the committee’s strategic-priorities dashboard and asked members for feedback on what the public needs to know about the priority titled “Promote excellence and opportunity for all students.”
Members broadly agreed that showing dollars spent is not helpful for this committee’s work. “I don't think the budget spent is especially helpful because of the nature of the work that we've been doing,” a committee member said, urging staff to replace that metric with counts of task-force meetings and schools visited.
Committee members proposed several engagement-oriented alternatives: number of task-force meetings, number of schools visited, counts of attendees at engagement sessions, and survey response totals. They also recommended distinguishing outreach (materials and awareness) from engagement (surveys, panels, in-person sessions) so the public can see both breadth and depth of input. Director Butler said the dashboard will sit on the committee’s page of the website and be paired with a short descriptive blurb so readers understand the priority’s aim and context.
Members also suggested highlighting particular initiatives on the dashboard, including the physical-education standards work, and showing the variety of expert and community input that informed recommendations. Staff said they will prepare multiple iterations and “slices” of the graphic for the board to review, with the goal of updating the public-facing dashboard toward the end of the summer.
Next steps: Director Butler will meet with each committee to gather in-depth feedback, revise the graphic (removing the budget line as agreed), and propose an update cadence for publication. The committee will review the revised iterations at future meetings before posting the dashboard on the website.
