Updated Curriculum Management Audit Resource Center Goes Live
Regular Reports to Follow
February 26, 2008 - The Wake County Public School System has unveiled an updated website that will document its progress in implementing an independent audit team's recommendations for our academic programs.
The Curriculum Management Audit Resource Center has been substantially expanded. It will be updated on an ongoing basis with status reports from teams of administrators on the eight major recommendations and 117 action steps needed to support the school system's vision of having every child graduate on time, prepared for the future.
Superintendent Del Burns called for the audit during his first Midterm Report to the Wake County Board of Education in January 2007. The school board agreed, contracting with Phi Delta Kappa International to conduct the audit using business auditing practices developed by Peat Marwick and Mitchell. Auditors reviewed more than 50,000 pages of documents and visited almost every classroom in the county before reviewing WCPSS's academic programs against five key standards:
- governance and control (policy),
- direction and learner expectation,
- connectivity and consistency (alignment of programs),
- assessment and feedback (use of data to drive decisions), and
- productivity and efficiency.
Through embedded video, visitors to the resource center will hear directly from the members of the Superintendent's Leadership Team acting as Recommendation Managers to follow through on the audit. Visitors will find explanations of each recommendation and their impact on our community, and a list of the action steps showing stages of completion. Supplementary information -- including the 400-page audit itself -- is also available.
"As Dr. Burns has said, this audit will not be a shelf document," said Chief Communications Officer Michael Evans. "We want parents and citizens to participate in the process of helping our schools become even more effective in serving all of our students. We are committed to using this resource center to share information with them and tracking our progress toward meeting the audit's objectives in the months and years ahead."