The Greene County School Board recently approved its goals for the 2019-2020 school year.

The Board updated the goals from last school year, due to some of them being accomplished, and set new ones to achieve. One change was altering the evaluation and assessment of facilities to developing a transitional plan for the facilities. School Board President Dr. Mark Peters says they needed to change that goal because plans have been made to build a new high school and career academy and renovating the current high school into a middle school. He points out they need a plan to move all those people around while work is being done, and to recruit students to attend the career academy before it opens next year.

Another slight change was to the District Career Guidance Plan and achieving 100-percent graduation rate. The Board changed from implementing the guidance plan to continuing with the plan, while also striving to achieve 100-percent graduation rate. 

The other goals stayed the same. The Board will continue to increase interaction and communication between the board and students, staff, parents and the public; having $1 million in unspent balance authority in four years; and creating an environment that encourages student enrollment and attracts and retains quality staff. 

Dr. Peters talks about why they set goals prior to the beginning of the school year.

“Well we have to have a direction. I don’t care what organization you are, if you don’t have a direction you don’t know what you’re doing and you don’t know where to go. You just do a hodgepodge of things that don’t make sense. We really like to pick out a few things every year that we want to concentrate on and then maybe it is only something that happens for one year. But we really need to focus and get things taken care of in a timely manner.”

The Board reviews and changes their goals on an annual basis.