SPECIAL EDUCATION continued
2019-2020
• Complete Facilitated Self-Assessment
for Compliance Monitoring
• Prepare for Audit
• Identify Areas of program Strength and
Weakness
• Develop plans for Corrective Action for
Compliance Monitoring
• Greater identification and use of special
education supports and services within
each school building in an effort to
reduce the need for more restrictive
educational placements
• Expansion of Mathilda Theiss
Programming
• Review Outside Placements
• Establish curricular teams in grades
7 through grade 12 ELA, Math, and
Science special education courses to
determine adapted curricular materials
2019-2021
• Review Suspension/expulsion data and
develop alternatives.
• Collectively create a reduction goal in
suspension numbers
• Retrain entire staff on de-escalation
techniques
• Increase Work-Based Learning
opportunities for students of transition
age
• Create in-school opportunities for skill
learning in work based activities
• Review Outside Placements
• Ensuring grade 7 through grade 12 ELA,
Math, and Science special education
teachers are teaching the curriculum
with fidelity
2021-2022
• Review progress of Life Skills Curriculum
• Assess defined goals and utilize data to
create new ones
• Create Staff Survey for Special Education
to evaluate goals
• Create Parent Survey for Special
Education to evaluate goals
• Review progress of Emotional Support
Curriculum
• Review Outside Placements
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• Continue to monitor grade 7 through
grade 12 ELA, Math, and Science
curriculums for needed changes
BUSINESS OFFICE
2017-2018
• Work with administration to develop a
strategic plan to re-enroll students lost
to charter/online schools
• Survey and prepare to upgrade business
office/payroll technology. i.e., payroll
distribution
• Identify and plan for allocation of funds
for repairs, such as improvements to
buildings/field house
• Create a manual to establish
reinforcement on budgeting and
purchasing for principals/directors
• Explore possibilities of energy
saving procedures to reduce utility
expenditures
• Research the feasibility of a plan to sell
M.A.S.D. delinquencies
• Seek new avenues of funding to
replenish the capital reserve fund
• Evaluate and establish that the business
office maintains clear communication
while continuing to operate effectively
and efficiently
2018-2019
• Implement a plan to re-enroll students
lost to charter/online schools
• Begin negotiations with our
transportation company and prepare
the information to place this service out
to bid
• Begin negotiations with the teachers’
union for a new contract. The current
contract ends August 31st, 2019
• Work with the McKeesport Area
Education Foundation to raise monies
for the possible upgrading of capital
projects
• Continue to seek new avenues of
funding to replenish the capital reserve
fund
• Continue to explore possibilities of
energy saving procedures
• Reinforce the uniformity in conjunction
with the manual for budgeting and
procedural purposes
• Maintain business office to ensure clear
communication while continuing to
operate effectively and efficiently
2019-2020
• Evaluate plan to re-enroll students lost
to charter/online schools
• Continue to survey and prepare
to upgrade business office/payroll
technology
• Increase efforts to identify all sources of
outside funding/grant possibilities
• Maintain continuity with budgeting and
purchasing procedures
• Continue to identify and plan for
allocation of funds for repairs, such as
improvements to buildings/field house
• Continue to work with M.A.E. to raise
monies for possible projects
• Maintain business office to ensure clear
communication while continuing to
operate effectively and efficiently
2019-2021
• Continue plan to re-enroll students lost
to charter/online schools and ensure
effectiveness
• Maintain continuity with budgeting and
purchasing procedures
• Continue to identify and plan for
allocation of funds for repairs, such as
improvements to buildings/field house
• Continue to survey and prepare
to upgrade business office/payroll
technology
• Increase efforts to identify all sources of
outside funding/grant possibilities
• Continue to work with M.A.E. to raise
monies for possible projects
• Maintain business office to ensure clear
communication while continuing to
operate effectively and efficiently
2021-2022
• Continue plan to re-enroll students lost
to charter/online schools and ensure
effectiveness
• Maintain continuity with budgeting and
purchasing procedures
• Continue to identify and plan for
allocation of fun