Audit

STANDARD 2: A School System Has Established Clear and Valid Objectives for Students. A school system meeting this audit standard has established a clear, valid, and measurable set of pupil standards for learning and has set the objectives into a workable framework for their attainment. Unless objectives are clear and measurable, there cannot be a cohesive effort to improve pupil achievement in the dimensions in which measurement occurs. The lack of clarity and focus denies to a school system’s educators, the ability to concentrate scarce resources on priority targets. Instead, resources may be spread too thin and be ineffective in any direction. Objectives are, therefore, essential to attaining local quality control via the school board. What the Auditors Expected to Find in the Anchorage School District Common indicators the PDK-CMSi auditors expected to find are: • A clearly established, system-wide set of goals and objectives adopted by the board of education that addresses all programs and courses, • Demonstration that the system is contextual and responsive to national, state, and other expectations as evidenced in local initiatives, • Operations set within a framework that carries out the system’s goals and objectives, • Evidence of comprehensive, detailed, short- and long-range curriculum management planning, • Knowledge, local validation, and use of current best practices and emerging curriculum trends, • Written curriculum that addresses ...