SOUTH COBB — Cobb’s three Democratic school board members voiced concerns that the school district’s proposed strategic plan does not have enough measurable goals at a town hall meeting Thursday night.
The forum, held at South Cobb High School, attracted roughly 30 people. Board members Leroy Tre’ Hutchins, Nichelle Davis and Becky Sayler presented the district’s proposed 2023-2028 strategic plan to the audience. The board is set to vote on the plan at its meeting next Thursday.
“I don’t see the measurable goals in this,” said Sayler, who along with Davis joined the board last month. “So I think it will be hard to make adjustments without having that already identified.”
Hutchins agreed, saying at one point that it’s imperative for the board to have “expectations identified, and measurable goals for accountability as well. And so that is going to be my request.”
Davis followed up on concerns she voiced when the board discussed the plan at its January meeting.
“But what is the broader benchmarks? How are we going to make progress in these areas? … That’s, I think, the broader conversation and the way that we should even be thinking about accountability, which is not happening, even at a very broad level,” she said.
Republican board member Randy Scamihorn told the MDJ Friday that he disagreed with the Democrats’ premise.
“A strategic plan is a starting document, in my training and my experience, where it sets the direction of where you want to go, not necessarily how you want to get there,” he said.
Scamihorn said he had spoken with the Democrats about their concerns, but respectfully disagreed.
“If you try to put everything into one document … it would become a cumbersome document … It’s supposed to be a 100,000-foot kind of plan, and then you work down from there,” he said.
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