Audit

IV. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PDK-CMSi CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT AUDIT TEAM FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Based on the three streams of data derived from interviews, documents, and site visits, the PDK-CMSi Curriculum Management Audit Team has developed a set of recommendations to address its findings shown under each of the standards of the audit. In the case of the findings, they have been triangulated, i.e., corroborated with one another. In the case of the recommendations, those put forth in this section are representative of the auditors’ best professional judgments regarding how to address the problems that surfaced in the audit. The recommendations are presented in the order of their criticality for initiating system-wide improvements. The recommendations also recognize and differentiate between the policy and monitoring responsibilities of the Board of Education, and the operational and administrative duties of the Superintendent of Schools. Where the PDK-CMSi audit team views a problem as wholly or partly a policy and monitoring matter, the recommendations are formulated for the Board of Education. Where the problem is distinctly an operational or administrative matter, the recommendations are directed to the superintendent of schools as the chief executive officer of the school system. In many cases, the PDK-CMSi audit team directs recommendations to both the Board and the Superintendent, because it is clear that policy ...