Strategic Objective #3: Management, Budget & Operations

Management, Budget & Operations

Maintain secure, safe, and equitable facilities and resources that support active learning

	Strategies & Action Steps for the School Year 2021-2026
3.1	Maintain up-to-date, secure, safe, and equitable facilities (updating and communicating safety and security plans, continuously updating technology infrastructure, etc.)
3.2	Optimize the budgeting process to ensure equitable use of available resources
3.3	Pursue grant funding that supports educational programming
3.4	Strengthen financial reporting procedures

MANAGEMENT, BUDGET & OPERATIONS

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Maintain up-to-date, secure, safe, and equitable facilities (updating and communicating safety and security plans, continuously updating technology infrastructure, etc.)

Crisis Go trainings and software provided to all members of the Taunton Public Schools community
Raptor Software: Logs in and screens, visitors to our schools
Updated the district and schools’ emergency response planning documents
Incident Command Training for administrators (nationally recognized program)
School vestibules expanded and strengthened to strategically admit visitors
“Panic” buttons installed at each school site for emergency use/notification
Increased the number of THS Security Staff
Purchased the Evolve Weapons Detection Units for THS
Expanded the number of Radios (walkie talkies) at all levels
CPR trainings for any staff member
Safety Care trainings (De-escalation techniques and restraint training for educators)
Emergency Radios placed at every school in addition to the Taunton Police Dispatch and at the Taunton Police Headquarters to provide direct communication between schools and emergency services

Utilize DESE reporting tools, Open Architect and Schoolbrains to determine the allocation of funds and staffing based upon student needs
Require building and district-level administrators to validate through data, their financial and purchasing requests

Barr Foundation: $100,000
Grant 653: Investigating History; $155,148
Grant 185: High-Quality Instructional Materials; $225, 656
Grant 215: Genocide Education; $21,100
Grant 320/324: Mass Grad-Promising Practices; $100,000
Grant 151: Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into Academic Learning; $15,000
Grant 994: BRYT Mental Health; $127,000
Grant 419: Innovation Career Pathways Support Grant; $50,000
Grant 400: Strengthening Career and Technical Education-Secondary; $99,610

Utilize Softright and tools to improve accuracy, and generate financial reports, quarterly to School Committee
Implement internal controls within building/district administration and within the Finance Office to monitor financial activities and ensure compliance with policies.