In a special meeting last week devoted to self-evaluation, Douglas County school board members agreed to connect all future agenda items to the district's annual strategic plan.The discussion began when board member Tom Moore presented a summary of last year's agenda items. By his own standards, he said that only 96 of 130 agenda items were directly related to education, and therefore gave the board an effectiveness rate of 74 percent. As examples of ineffectiveness, he pointed to the board's repeated consideration of student surveys, its involvement with the district calendar, and, ironically, multiple discussions on the board's own self-evaluation."There …




