SHORT-RANGE
1. Add more indicators of neighborhood distress
in creating categories for "similar schools."
2. Create objective funding formulas for textbooks
and supplies so that every school can have basic per-pupil allocations
to meet these needs.
3. End the reduction of state compensatory funding
to schools when student achievement improves.
4. Review the quality of training programs for
principals in New York City against nationally recognized programs.
5. Reduce early-grade class sizes in all elementary
schools.
LONG-RANGE: RESOURCES
6. Provide sufficient funding to ensure a sound,
basic education for New York City students.
7. Provide more staffing support for administration
in the elementary schools.
LONGER-RANGE: RECRUITMENT
8. Initiate a pilot project of having high-performing
principals serve as mentors to apprentice assistant principals.
9. Initiate additional pilot projects beyond the
one sponsored by the New York City Partnership in order to evaluate
the impact of merit rewards and the creation of "lead" teacher
positions.
10. Evaluate current hiring procedures and practices
to determine whether they support a merit promotion system.
