The balanced scorecard: for a strategy-focused school district, it's a route for driving systemwide performance measurements, as Atlanta's experience suggests.
School Administrator › Vol. 67 Nbr. 2, February 2010
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The balanced scorecard: for a strategy-focused school district, it's a route for driving systemwide performance measurements, as Atlanta's experience suggests.
Ten years ago, the Atlanta Public Schools had low and declining student achievement, demoralized teachers, crumbling buildings, high turnover among superintendents (average tenure of two years) and disaffected parents pulling their children out of the system. More than 60 percent of the city's high school students missed at least two weeks of school per year, and the district had more than 700 teaching vacancies. The system was failing its students and stakeholders.
Fast forward 10 years, and Atlanta has reversed its dismal numbers. Fourth graders' reading and math scores are nearly on a par with their Georgia peers, chronic absences have plummeted, and 91 percent of the district's elementary schools made adequate yearly progress in 2009. Last June, the New Schools at Carver had a 94 percent graduation rate. Superintendent Beverly Hall said of the transformation, "Atlanta Public Schools is becoming a model urban school district." The differen...See the full content of this document
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