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43.02 Discussion - Review of Community Relations Operational Expectations
Meeting:11/09/2009 Work Session No. 42-46
Category:43. Governance - 11 a.m.
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8. COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Superintendent will encourage and maintain effective communication, appropriate involvement, and active support of parents and our diverse community members in advocating for and achieving the FCPS mission and goals for student achievement. The Superintendent will:

1. Involve parents and families as partners in the education of their children, providing an open, responsive, and welcoming environment that treats all people with respect, dignity, and courtesy.
2. Establish meaningful, regular, two-way communication between the school and home.
3. Provide opportunities for community involvement with FCPS, including, as needed, the formation of committees that offer community advice and expertise.
4. Establish mutually beneficial partnerships with the business, industry, and nonprofit organizations in the community.
5. Establish honest, effective relationships with the news media.
6. Establish effective working relationships with educational leaders in other local school systems, the Virginia Department of Education, postsecondary institutions, and national groups and officials.
7. Pursue effective and cooperative work with the County Board of Supervisors and county staff; local, state, and federal officials; legislative staffs; and agency officials in all levels of government.
8. Participate in diverse community activities and events as advocates for all students.
9. Implement a strategic communications plan to enable effective communications between the school system and the community it serves.




 

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