Taxpayers, parents and employers want to maximize education results for each public tax dollar. The Comptroller's School Performance Reviews help, in part, to locate areas where school districts can and should cut costs to become more efficient. Representative Scott Hochberg has also been instrumental in increasing the number and availability of these reviews. Quality management practices, however, require an information infrastructure that will support continuous improvement. The heart of the Baldrige approach to performance excellence is the selection, management, and use of data and information for performance measurement, in support of organizational planning and performance improvement.
Most school districts operate with inadequate and outdated performance management systems.
Current systems do not provide educational decision-makers with timely, accurate, and actionable information needed to achieve performance excellence. Data that are reported for compliance purposes and not used in the decision-making process are often of poor quality. TBEC supports legislative action to establish an interim commission of school officials, education service center personnel, state agency officials, and private sector companies to establish the requirements and technical specifications for developing an information infrastructure and appropriate types of technologies to support systems of continuous improvement. The system goals should automate the compliance and management reporting functions in school districts, improve data quality, and streamline data entry, analysis, and reporting processes and activities.