About three years ago, the Los Alamos Board of Education took a look at how the Los Alamos Public Schools were doing and saw room for improvement.
At the time, the board said the district’s students and staff should have more opportunities to maximize their potential.
That’s pretty strong stuff when you realize that Los Alamos has a university campus, as well as a national laboratory, that got its start building the world’s first atomic bomb.
So with that in mind, the school board set about the next two years creating a five-year plan called “Advancing Lives, the Los Alamos Excellence Journey.” At a recent board meeting, LAPS Superintendent Eugene Schmidt presented a 24-page rough draft of the plan.
“This is a work in progress and so it’s incomplete,” Schmidt said to the board. “The reason it’s incomplete is because I seek guidance from the board on the direction we are going.”
Schmidt also advised the board to keep giving him feedback and really study the rough draft to see if this is actually the plan they want.
“Eventually, you will own this plan and the importance is that this will set us on a course for the next five, 10 to 20 years,” Schmidt said.