What is the relationship between the MCPS strategic plan and the Operating Budget?
The MCPS strategic plan, Our Call to Action: Pursuit of Excellence, guides the school system in all its activities to improve student achievement and provides a basis for accountability to the public for the results obtained. The Operating Budget aligns with the goals and strategies of the strategic plan and operationalizes and provides a basis for implementation of the plan. Annual community forums provide one vehicle for citizen involvement in the development of the strategic plan and the operating budget. This alignment is in accord with state requirements and with the quality management principles of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Management Criteria, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 2005, MCPS became the first large school system in the United States to win the state U. S. Senate Productivity Award, granted to organizations and corporations that exemplify Baldrige principles.
