The goal of the district, working in cooperation with staff, parents and community members, is to provide a district that, through the following characteristics: 1. Provides equal and open access and educational opportunities for all students regardless of their culture geographic location, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, age, or disability; 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 acquiring the knowledge and skills of the student鈥檚 current grade level and instruction in mathematics, science, English, history, geography, economics, civics, physical education, health, the arts and second languages; 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, skills and positive attitude that lead to an active, healthy lifestyle; 10. Provides students with the knowledge and skills to take responsibility for their decisions and choices; 11. Provides opportunities for students to learn through a variety of teaching strategies; 12. Emphasizes the involvement of parents and the community in the total education of students; 13. Transports students safely to and from school; 14. Ensures that the funds allocated to schools reflect the uncontrollable differences in costs facing each district; 15. Ensures that local schools have adequate control of how funds are spent to best meet the needs of students in their communities; 16. Provides for a safe, educational environment; 17. Supports students鈥� academic growth beyond proficiency in academic content standards and encourages their attainment of individual goals; 18. Supports the physical and cognitive growth and development of students; 19. Provides for increased learning time; and 20. Utilizes valid and reliable data for evaluating the success of curriculum, instruction, resource
allocation and school improvement.