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“Evaluation Of Options To Address Declining Enrollment While Improving and Expanding Services for Students”:

FINAL report by New Solutions K-12 

Summary of Report

Supporting Excel spreadsheets and appendices

What’s NEW in the final report

The MAUSD School Board hired Nate Levenson and his firm, New Solutions K-12, to assist us in evaluating five community proposals, the proposal by Superintendent Reen, and other options that have the potential to address our District’s challenge of declining enrollment and increasing costs — with the goal of helping us to make wise decisions that will best educate our children, support our communities and keep costs affordable moving forward.

This process included the following components:

1. Nate and team (the Review Team) met with authors of all proposals to better understand their thinking and identify any potential “missing pieces”
2. The Review Team developed a common presentation template to ease understanding and simplify comparison
3. A Community Input Committee (CIC) including building principals, community members and staff identified 10 criteria, building upon and expanding those developed by the Board, by which to evaluate each proposal
4. The Review Team worked with the District Business Office to determine the financial impact of each proposal
5. The Review Team prepared a draft report assessing all proposals against each of the criteria, answering the question: “how well does this proposal meet each criterion?”  The report does not recommend a best option.
6. The Review Team shared this draft report with the MAUSD Board, proposal authors, Principals and members of the Community Input Committee.  

Nate Levenson presented a summary of the draft report at a Board meeting on January 25, and Board members had the opportunity to ask questions and offer feedback.  You can view a recording of this meeting on NEAT TV. On February 10, the Board received the final version of the report, linked above, which included feedback from Board, proposal authors and members of the Community Input Committee. If community members have questions about the report, they can submit them to Krista Siringo at [email protected] or Dawn Griswold at [email protected]. In the coming months, the Board will be developing a plan for next steps which will include opportunities for community input and discussion.