GOAL 3: STRENGTHEN PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIPS FOR EDUCATION
MILESTONE 3: All schools are welcoming to our diverse student and parent communities and provide varied opportunities for engaging parents as partners.
DATA POINT: Volunteer data
OVERVIEW
In compliance with Board of Education Policy ABA, Community Involvement; Policy ABC, Parental Involvement; and MCPS Regulation IRB-RA, Use of Volunteer Services, MCPS is committed to the role of parents as valued partners in their children’s education. This partnership includes supporting and encouraging parental volunteer opportunities, and participation in the development of school improvement plans. Each year, schools are requested to collect and report volunteer data as one measure of parental involvement.
For the first time during the 2003–2004 school year, local school volunteer coordinators collected data electronically using a sampling method. During the 2006–2007 school year, data collection procedures were revised, and data now include only the actual number of volunteers and volunteer hours reported by schools. This resulted in the reporting of significantly fewer hours than in previous years.
Of the 75 percent of schools that reported volunteer hours, about 22,000 volunteers donated approximately 500,000 hours of service in our schools.