CNMI Public School System Saipan, Tinian Rota

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CNMI Public School System
Saipan, Tinian Rota

• CNMI Public School System Statistical Profile
  SY04-05
• by Rita Hocog Inos, Ed.D.
• Commissioner of Education
• November 17, 2004

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Statistical Profile

• Schools
• Student Enrollment Ethnicity
• Faculty and Staff

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Statistical Profile

• Schools
• Head Start Program - 12 centers
• (Comprehensive Pre-school)
• 3 to 5 age group
• Elementary- 12 schools
• Kindergarten to grade 6
• Junior High School 4 schools
• 7th and 8th grade
• Senior High School 5 schools
• 9th grade through 12th grade

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Schools
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School Accreditation Status
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Student Enrollment by Island Beginning of
School Year 2004-2005
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Student Ethnic EnrollmentBeginning of SY
2004-2005
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Student Enrollment by Grade Level Beginning of
School Year 2004-2005
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Faculty Staff SY 04-05
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CNMI PSS Teacher Credentials 2004-2005
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PSS Budget FY04
37M
26M
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Public School Cost Per Child Comparing CNMI to
US Average
Key
National - total costs are actual expenditures
for 1992-2001 (Source NCES)
National - total costs 2002-2005 are projections
(Source NCES)
CNMI - total costs 1992-2003 are actual
expenditures (Source PSS FBO)
CNMI - total costs 2004-2005 are projections
(Source PSS FBO)
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PSS Operations Cost
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CNMI State Board of Education Goals and
Philosophy Institutional Goals for the PSS
(Policy 103)

• To offer equal educational opportunity for all
  students in preschool through grade twelve by
  providing optimum curriculum, instructional,
  community service, and work experience in
  academic and vocational programs based on the
  different needs of students free from
  preconceived roles or artificial constraints
• To ensure the safety, welfare, and protection of
  children from invasions of personal privacy while
  in the care of the Public School System
• To provide and assure maintenance of adequate
  facilities for achieving the Commonwealth
  instructional and personal goals
• To provide adequate resources and recruitment
  supervision policies for a systematic process of
  personnel selection evaluation (such as clinical
  supervision), and continuous improvement and
  upgrading of all staff
• To establish effective participation and
  communication between parents, administrators,
  teachers, students, and community for meaningful
  and productive relationships
• To provide for administrative flexibility and
  sufficient autonomy to establish programs
  suitable to each school community through
  involvement of representatives of all segments of
  the community in decision-making and sharing of
  responsibility
• To provide prompt, efficient and reliable support
  services necessary to operate the schools and
  instructional programs

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98 and BeyondPSS Strategic Priorities

• High Student Performance
• Quality Teachers, Administrators, Staff
• Safe and Orderly Schools
• Effective and Efficient Operation

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Comprehensive StudentAccountability Plan
Student Self Assessment
Teacher Assessment
Calibration
PSS Statewide Assessments
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Student Academic Achievement

• Student Achievement Goals
• That 80 of our students are reading on or above
  grade level by 2008
• That our students are scoring at the 50th
  percentile or higher, on the SAT9/10 by 2010

• Student Achievement Results
• SAT 10 complete battery tests for SY03-04 show a
  4 percentile increase over SY02-03 as 996
  students, or 22 scored at the 50 percentile or
  higher
• Reading Diagnostic Assessment shows that 1,184
  of our 4,561, or 26, of elementary school
  students taking the reading pre-test in August of
  SY 04-05 are reading on or above grade level.

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CNMI Public School System State Initiatives

• Standards Based Education
• Highly Qualified Teachers
• Student Accountability Plan
• School Accreditation
• Reading First
• ERATE Technology Program
• Funding Public Education
• Special Education Improvement Plan
• Head Start Improvement Plan
• Universal Pre-School
• High School Reform

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Quality Teachers, Administrators Staff

• Recruit, Retention, Renewal of highly qualified
  personnel
• Teacher, Counselor, Administrator Performance
  Assessment
• Teacher, Counselor, Administrator Certification
• Non-certified Performance Assessment
• Professional and Staff Development
• Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge of
  the NCLB Act which requires all teachers by 2006
  to possess at least a BA degree, have attained
  full state certification, and passed a rigorous
  test of subject matter competency

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Closure

• Thank You
• Rita Hocog Inos, Ed.D. Commissioner of Education