The School Board routinely reviews and evaluates Programs for effectiveness to help us best determine where to spend your hard earned tax dollars.
Below are Programs reviewed to date... and immediately below is a recently approved proposal to move to report card trimesters (rather than quarterly report cards) at the elementary school level, as well as the proposed costs for a list of Academic improvements in the Curriculum/Instruction Budget designed to make MSAD 11 second to none academically...
The School Board established an Athletic Audit Committee to review the District's programs and to come up with recommendations for improvements.
Here you will find information regarding the review of MSAD 11's College Aspirations Program.
This Program was reviewed by Long Range Planning at it's March 5, 2008 meeting. A follow up briefing on progress made toward achieving the improvements targeted in the ELA Program Review Document will be done in 2009.
Click here to see the members of The ELA Committee as well as the members of other content area committees.
Although no formal Review was done, below you will find cost and participation numbers for all extra-curricular activities.
Click to see a report of busing costs that includes athletics..
Here you will find information regarding the review of MSAD 11's Four Year Old Program in April of 2006.
Although the Board has not officially done a Program Review of JMG, information on JMG can be found in the attachment below.
Here you will find information regarding the District's Safety Program
Although a formal program review has not been done, below you will find information about the School Lunch Program.
Below you will find the presentation given to the School Board on March 25, 2008.
Below you will find information regarding the change to the Title I Program for 2008-2009, which was unanimously approved by the School Board on December 6, 2007, as well as a summary of all Federal Title I-VI info for 07-08 and 08-09.
TRANSPORTATION
Click to see a report of busing costs beyond those involved in getting our students back and forth to school. Some of these costs are offset by Transportation Revenue.
Take a look at a detailed breakdown of costs in our 2007-2008 Transportation Budget, and a less detailed look at total costs from 07-08 to 08-09.
Here you will find a history of mileage plus past and future bus lease costs from 2002-2013
The State calculates expected Transportation costs by a population density formula or population density plus odometer miles, whichever is most favorable (adjustments to those formulas are allowed for special ed and CATC transport). They will either fund you that amount or 90% of what you spent two years ago, plus inflation. They then reduce that by another 5%.
Here you will find information regarding the District's Tutorial Program, which strives to provide tutoring services for those children who need extra help. This program was piloted during the 06-07 school year, and fully funded by the Board for the 07-08 school year based on proven results.