Policy:

It is the policy of our city to
support the highest quality
educational and
job-training opportunities
for our citizens on a
life-long basis, to promote
and support our public
schools as a focal point of
neighborhood activity and
pride, and to encourage
our citizens to take
responsibility for using
these opportunities to
educate and prepare
themselves for work,
careers and responsible
citizenship.

Goals:

(A) Our educational system will provide every student
with a safe, supportive and challenging educational
experience and environment.

(B) Create an educational system that offers high
performing neighborhood and magnet schools of
choice for all of our children.

(C) Encourage the emergence of a highly-educated
citizenry that has the necessary knowledge, skills and
aspirations to achieve a high quality of life.

(D) Schools will be the focal point of neighborhood
activity and pride with appropriate community uses and
fife-long learning, training and community outreach
programs.

(E) Promote opportunities for an early start to
education for our children through preschool and other
similar type programs.

(F) Promote a positive perception of our public
educational institutions based on adequate knowledge
and communication about educational issues and
successes.

(G) Create consensus-based community standards for
educational performance and outcomes that equal or
exceed regional averages and that involve students,
teachers, administrators and parents in both
development and accountability.

(H) Citizens, businesses and institutions will take
ownership of and responsibility for our community's
educational system.

(I) Retain students in our community after college
graduation both in terms of residents attending local
and out-of-area colleges and out-of-area students
attending local colleges.