Julie Linville Blackmar

This document outlines Bulloch County Schools' Foster Care Transportation Plan for Fiscal Year 2025, detailing procedures to ensure educational stability for children in foster care. Key areas include coordinating transportation with the local child welfare agency, managing additional transportation costs through shared responsibilities and dispute resolution, and defining the roles of the Foster Care Point of Contact. The plan prioritizes providing immediate and appropriate transportation to maintain students in their school of origin, even during cost disputes, and extends support to children who have exited foster care, ensuring compliance with federal mandates.

The Bulloch County Schools' strategic direction focuses on preparing students for future success and enhancing community value. Key strategic pillars include fostering work and career readiness by equipping students for higher education, military service, or skilled careers through academic and career programs. The plan emphasizes robust workforce development with expanded career pathways and work-based learning opportunities. Additionally, it highlights community resourcefulness through initiatives like fine arts education, strategic partnerships for nutrition and literacy, and scholarship programs. The overall aim is to empower students to become contributing members of society.

The Bulloch County Schools Strategic Plan (2015-2020) is designed to prepare students for success and enhance community value. It focuses on three strategic pillars: College & Career Readiness, Stakeholder & Community Support, and Resource Optimization. The plan's vision is to develop a school system by 2020 that equips students to be contributing members of society, capable of pursuing their chosen college and career paths.

Bulloch County Schools' mission is to prepare students for success and enhance community value. By 2020, the school system aims to equip students to be contributing members of society based on their interests and abilities, enabling them to pursue colleges and careers of their choice. Core values emphasize relational building through integrity, passion, and respect; pursuing accomplishments through appropriate effort; evaluating efforts reflectively; implementing resourceful solutions through innovation and collaboration; exemplifying commitment, determination, and grit; and holding ourselves accountable for decisions and actions.

The Bulloch County Schools Strategic Plan (2022-2027) focuses on preparing students to be contributing members of society and enhancing community value. The plan outlines strategic goals centered around work and career readiness and community resourcefulness. These goals are supported by nine strategic objectives encompassing initiatives to attract and retain high-quality staff, utilize data effectively for continuous improvement, enhance the learning environment and culture, provide work and career readiness pathways, offer student support and guidance, provide differentiated learning opportunities, develop foundational skills, allocate resources effectively, and ensure legal and regulatory compliance. The plan emphasizes a continuous improvement culture based on core values of being relational, purposeful, reflective, resourceful, courageous, and accountable.