Butler Co. Schools Wants Community Input For 5 Year Plan
Butler County Schools new Superintendent, Amy Bryan, says the county has not had a strategic plan since 2011, and after complaints last Fall from parents concerned their voices were not being heard, she is aiming to change that.
Bryan says a survey is now online for parents, students, and community members to weigh in on the strengths of the school system and improvements they want to see in the new five year strategic plan, “We want to have it in place before we begin next school year, and so we’re working hard to pull together the survey information right now, so that we can then form committees and start crafting and writing our goals and our objectives and action steps.”
Bryan says the plan will mimic Alabama’s statewide 20/20 plan to meet the standard set for the school system.
So far, she says only 1,600 surveys have been submitted, but there are trends in what the community wants to see in the future, “One of our strengths that participants have identified would be pre-K, and we do want to expand our pre-K program. One other thing that stands out in my mind is technology. We have a huge amount of interest in digital textbooks,” says Bryan.
Parents, like Jeff Adams, say the community input is a step in the right direction, “Several people have felt like they didn’t have a voice in the school system, and felt like the school system was not going in the direction that their kids needed to be taken as far as being developed to come out and either start college or actually go to work. So, it seems like we have the opportunity now to voice what we’re looking for for our kids.”
Bryan says she would like to have more than 2,000 surveys before it closes on April 30th.
If you want to fill out that survey you can do so at www.butlerco.k12.al.us.
