Mike Hutchens

This document outlines the educational goals for the Union City Board of Education across four primary areas: Instruction, Students, Personnel, and Operations. The instructional goals focus on promoting curriculum improvement, offering diverse career and service opportunities, fostering holistic student growth, and recognizing achievement. Student-centric goals aim to structure instructional programs to meet individual needs, develop comprehensive support for disabled students, and cultivate responsible citizenship. Personnel goals prioritize high-quality staff performance, professional development, and effective evaluation systems. Operational goals include securing adequate funding, maintaining sound fiscal management, ensuring efficient facility use, and facilitating clear communication within the board.

This document outlines the Board's comprehensive, long-range planning process, which includes establishing basic beliefs, analyzing factors affecting student learning and school system function, developing goal statements, and approving specific objectives and strategies. Key elements involve implementing a written five-year plan with a mission statement, goals, objectives, and strategies, and basing major budget decisions on these plans. The Board conducts monthly retreats to review progress and major issues, with annual status reports submitted to the Commissioner of Education.

This document outlines the Parent and Family Engagement Plan for Union City Elementary, Middle, and High Schools, developed in compliance with Title I requirements and the Union City Schools Family Engagement Policy. The plan emphasizes a shared responsibility between schools and families to enhance student academic achievement. It is structured around six core standards: welcoming families into the school community, ensuring effective communication, supporting student success, empowering families as advocates, fostering shared decision-making, and collaborating with the community to expand learning opportunities.

The Parent and Family Engagement Plan for Union City School District outlines the district's commitment to fostering strong partnerships between families and schools to enhance student academic achievement, in compliance with Title I, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Key strategic areas include jointly developing engagement plans with parents, providing technical assistance to schools, conducting annual evaluations of engagement effectiveness, involving parents in funding decisions, coordinating services with community partners, and building capacity for both parents (through training on academic standards and technology) and school staff (through training on effective family collaboration). The plan aims to ensure meaningful, two-way communication and active family involvement in children's education and school decision-making.

The 2024-25 Accountability Report for Union City Schools details the district's plan to improve 3rd-grade ELA proficiency, aiming for 70% or more of students to meet or exceed expectations on the TCAP test within three years. The report outlines strategies to achieve this goal, including investments in tutoring, RTI services, summer learning camps, and the Mastery Connect assessment program. Additional goals focus on improving math proficiency in grades 3-5 and 6-8. The report includes budget narratives describing how TISA funds will support these initiatives. Public comment opportunities are also described.