Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)/AdvancED District Accreditation Report

Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) formally achieved Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)/AdvancED district accreditation on June 17, 2010. The exit interview from the Quality Assurance Review (QAR) team and the subsequent report indicated the following:

• HCPS has a healthy district culture that both supports and strengthens our missions and vision.
• HCPS has strong leadership that has the entire district focused on achieving our strategic goals.
• HCPS has ongoing professional development, which employs a “systems” approach and is fully aligned with our strategic goals, particularly those related to improving teacher effectiveness.
• HCPS is to closely monitor early stage initiatives to ensure continued success and is to expand existing support practices to all schools.
• HCPS is to institute an action research initiative to promote creative, yet responsible, teaching and learning practices.

The entire QAR report is available on the district’s SACS Accreditation website, http://accreditation.mysdhc.org. The district and all schools are fully accredited through June 30, 2015.

All Strategic Objectives

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