The goal of the district, working in cooperation with staff, parents/caregivers and community members, is to provide a school district that has the following characteristics: 1. Provides equal and open access and educational opportunities for all students regardless of their linguistic background, culture, race, sex, capability or geographic location; 2. Assumes that all students can learn and establishes high, specific skill and knowledge expectations and recognizes individual differences at all instructional levels; 3. Provides special education, compensatory education, linguistically and culturally appropriate education and other specialized programs to all students who need those services; 4. Provides students with a solid foundation in the skills of reading, writing, problem solving and
communication; 5. Provides opportunities for students to learn, think, reason, retrieve information, use technology and work effectively alone and in groups; 6. Provides for rigorous academic content standards and instruction in mathematics, science, history, geography, economics, civics, English, health, physical education, second languages and the arts; 7. Provides students an educational background to the end that they will function successfully in a
constitutional republic, a participatory democracy and a multicultural nation and world; 8. Provides students with the knowledge and skills that will provide the opportunities to succeed in the world of work, as members of families and as citizens; 9. Provides students with the knowledge and skills to take responsibility for their decisions and choices; 10. Provides opportunities for students to learn through a variety of teaching strategies; 11. Emphasizes the involvement of parents or caregiver and the community in the total education of students; 12. Transports students safely to and from school;13. Provides for a safe, educational environment