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Texas
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Texas School Performance Review
Management and Performance Review
Scope :
Conduct a management
and performance audit of four Texas school districts, provide regular
project status reports, and prepare a report identifying the district’s
exemplary programs as well as suggest concrete ways to improve district
business and instructional operations. The reviews will cover all areas
of the district, including: district organization and management;
community involvement; asset and risk management; personnel; food services; purchasing; finance;
transportation; facilities; safety and security; and technology.
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Ensure that
administrative/support resources are available for the educational
process and that these resources
are used
in the most effective and cost efficient manner. |
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Determine whether
the district possesses sufficient and correct financial/information
systems. |
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Identify
opportunities to save money or increase
revenues to maximize financial resources available for improvements. |
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Analyze processes
and develop strategies to streamline and improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of operations. |
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Highlight exemplary programs that can be
replicated. |
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Provide weekly project status reports. |
Tasks / Duties :
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Prepared
work plan, met with Comptroller and school district staff, scheduled
and conducted focus group sessions, public forums, and interviews with
the school board, community members, staff, students and parents and
distributed, conducted, compiled and analyzed results of written
surveys. |
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Distributed, conducted,
compiled and analyzed results of written surveys. |
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Conducted
audits of all areas of the districts, including: district organization
and management; community involvement; asset and risk management; personnel; food services; purchasing; finance;
transportation; facilities; safety and security; and technology. |
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Researched best
practices and industry standards, identified data sources, collected
comparative data, charted and analyzed budget and actual expense data,
and applied standard business controls and staffing allocation
formulas. |
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Prepared report
proposing solutions, developed recommendations with examples and
implementation plans, calculated and documented fiscal impacts and
prepared work papers. |
Results :
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If fully
implemented, the review team’s 114
recommendations could result in net savings of more than
$3,901,533 over the next five years
for Aransas County Independent School District. To view a copy of the
report, go to the
Aransas County ISD Report. |
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During its review,
the team developed 37 recommendations
to improve operations and save taxpayers more than
$626,437 by 2006-07 for the Lasara
Independent School District. To view a copy of the report, go to the
Lasara ISD Report. |
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The review team identified
45 process and cost-saving recommendations
for improvement in the Center Point Independent School District of
$444,605.
To view a copy of the report, go to
Center Point ISD Report. |
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The
review team identified
65
cost
savings recommendation to save Ingram Independent School District
$2,325,476
over
the next five years.
To view a copy of the report, go to the
Ingram ISD Report. |
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"Strange how much
you have to know before you know how little you know."
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"Believe in yourself. You
gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which
you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think
you cannot do."
--
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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