Based on the policies to which the Board has already committed itself, and without adding anything new, the following would appear to be logical conclusions regarding the Board s present ranking of priorities. They are intended as little more than a place to begin the Board s discussion of relative priorities among ends policies and other programs in the allocation of limited resources. NJ, June 14, 2000. Academic ends are the most important.
Literacy is the highest priority of the academic ends.
Additional academic programs for which we establish ends policies but no priority ranking. Next up on our list are ends policies for writing, math and science. Until we do, however, they would have a lower priority than literacy except, of course, to the extent that we include writing as a part of literacy. Academic programs for which we have not, and do not intend to, establish ends policies. As academic programs they would be accorded a higher priority than other programs and expenditures, but not as high as those for which we have established ends policies.