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Regularly Scheduled Surveys of Community and Employees
Required by the Board Monitoring System, the independent surveys indicate employee and community satisfaction with HISD programs and operations and show opportunities for improvement.
Reach Out to Dropouts
With hundreds of volunteers making summertime visits to dropouts’ homes to urge them to finish their educations, the program has returned hundreds of high-school students to district classrooms.
Board Monitoring System
Created in 2003 to measure the district's progress in achieving goals outlined in the board's 1990 Declaration of Beliefs and Visions, the Board Monitoring System requires regular detailed reporting to the board and community on the district's efforts to increase student achievement and use tax dollars efficiently and effectively.
Upromise
An easy, safe, efficient way for schools to raise money for campus projects, the Upromise Schools Program also helps students save money for college. Participants generate funds for campus projects or individual students’ college funds when making purchases from some 70,000 U.S. stores and businesses.
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40 Developmental Assets
HISD trains adults to be positive influences in the lives of young people by promoting the 40 Developmental Assets, a list of qualities that lessen risky behavior and increase overall well-being.
E-Mentoring
Local business and community partners have begun using e-mail to help struggling students at various campuses by creating e-mentoring programs such as Project CLASS (Children Learning Appropriate Social Skills) at Robert Patterson Elementary School.
Extreme Makeovers of School Facilities
Neighborhood schools not included in HISD’s bond program have been renovated and beautified by volunteers and materials provided by local businesses and organizations from churches to Home Depot and the Houston Astros.
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