Accountability/Commitment to Accomplishment

 

The CSDB superintendent, with input from the school's Board of Trustees and the program level accountability teams, will adopt and maintain an accountability program to measure the adequacy and efficiency of the educational program.

 

The school's Board of Trustees is designated as the district level accountability committee. The Board will make recommendations to the superintendent relative to the program of accountability. The areas of study by the Board will be determined at least annually. In addition, the Board will make recommendations to the superintendent relative to priorities for expenditures of school funds in order to achieve accountability goals. The superintendent is committed to maintaining a strong accountability program in each school program.  The accountability program will include an annual progress report to the community regarding student performance and the results of the school improvement process.  The program also will include implementation of a school improvement planning process involving students, parents/families, staff, and community members.

 

Program level accountability teams will operate in the School for the Deaf, the School for the Blind, the DEAF Transition Program and the Colorado Home Intervention Program (“CHIP”).  These teams will make recommendations to the principal and the superintendent concerning objectives and plans to improve educational achievement of students.

 

Every effort will be made by the Board, the superintendent, the staff and the accountability teams to fulfill the responsibilities inherent in the concept of accountability as well as the intent of the Educational Accountability Act and the state requirements for accreditation of schools and school districts.

 

Issued:  November 1999

Adopted and revised by Board of Trustees:  March 28, 2005

 

LEGAL REFS.:    C.R.S. 22-7-101 through 107

                              C.R.S. 22-7-205

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, Colorado Springs, Colorado