ABS MISSION STATEMENT

Our Mission: To mobilize and support community stakeholders to ensure that all students in the Beacon City School District are provided with an excellent public education.  

Our Goals: To achieve transparency and collaboration between the Beacon City School District and its community stakeholders; to empower parents, teachers, staff and the Board of Education to realize our mission; to support policies at the state and local level that are constructive and to challenge those that are flawed.

Who we are: Parents, Taxpayers, Residents, Voters - we are YOU!  EVERY Beacon resident is a stakeholder in our public schools and is welcome and encouraged to join us.

What we believe: Beacon Kids Deserve Better!

What we are doing:

• Investigating the latest NYS education policies and how they affect our District, and advocating for effective local, state and national education policies and investments
• Working to improve performance and reverse the state’s designation of Beacon as a troubled, ‘Focus’ district.
• Interpreting data presented by our district leadership in order to be accurately informed and empowered to reach our goals
• Researching the school budgets and how taxpayer money is being spent
• Supporting the investigation of grant monies and other funding sources in our schools
• Reaching out to members of the Beacon community in service of our stated goals of education and empowerment of all stakeholders
• Cultivating a school community which respects teachers, staff and students
• Ensuring that advocated policies and funding reach classrooms and help students
• Working to secure BCSD stakeholders a seat at the table with our District, where ideas and concerns will be heard, answered and addressed
• Working to secure the effective leadership that Beacon’s students deserve - one that will restore a system of checks and balances and accountability to our District, and help to achieve the mission of excellence in our schools

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