Implementation of the Education Program

With respect to the education program of the school, the Principal shall not cause or allow deviation from the Board’s Ends Policies.
Accordingly, the Principal shall not:

1. Deviate from the established curriculum implementing the Core Knowledge Sequence ®, the synthetic, systematic phonics program (Open Court) and the incremental math program (Saxon Math).
2. Allow staff to address the Ends Policies in ways that deviate materially from school policies and procedures.
3. Allow the purchasing or utilization of materials that are not aligned with the Ends Policies and the school policies and procedures.
4. 4.Fail to hold staff accountable for assessing, tracking and regularly reporting to parents, the individual capabilities of students and their progress on the school’s benchmarks in accordance with the Academic Skills Ends Policy.
5. Fail to facilitate teacher conferences with individual students on a consistent basis.
6. Fail to ensure academic skill acquisition and passion for learning.
7. Fail to ensure staffings on appropriate students.
8. Fail to ensure quality work from students and staff.
9. Fail to inform and seek approval from the Board for substantive instructional changes.
   • I have not knowingly done any of these things
   • We will be researching writing programs over the next semester for fall 2009 implementation

Financial Condition and Activities

With respect to the actual, ongoing financial conditions and activities, the Principal shall not operate outside of the budget or cause or allow the development of fiscal jeopardy or a material deviation of actual expenditures from the Board’s Ends Policies.
Accordingly, the Principal shall not:

1. Allow purchases that are inconsistent with Ends Policies and school policies and procedures.
2. Expend more than $5000.00 on a non-budgeted item without prior Board approval.
3. Expend more funds than are available and within budget.
4. Indebt the organization in an amount greater than can be repaid by certain otherwise unencumbered revenues within sixty days.
5. Borrow money without prior Board approval.
6. Use any long-term reserves without Board approval.
7. Conduct inter-fund shifting in the expenditure portion of the budget.
8. Fail to settle payroll and debts in a timely manner and according to applicable law.
9. Allow tax payments, or other government ordered payments or filings, to be overdue or inaccurately filed.
10. Acquire, encumber or dispose of real property.
11. Fail to aggressively pursue receivables after a reasonable grace period.
    • I have not knowingly done any of these things
    • At this time, PPR/Capital Construction reduction decisions from the state are not finalized
    • The Federal Stimulus Package for schools will have minimal impact on Lincoln Academy due to restrictions around spending Federal monies