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13 Appendix C Public Values Framework "What is public about public schools? What is public about public education other than its funding? ...Every society educates its children. But why, how and towards what ends? Why, in educating children, do public schools give rise to so many controversial issues? What is it that drives our common purposes in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them ?" Preserving the Public in Public Schools: Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices By Phil Boyle and Del Burns (2012) The process, as highlighted below, through which a representative group of Orange County Schools stakeholders was called together to engage one another in creating a community vision for public education in Orange County was designed using the public values framework laid out in the Boyle and Burns 2012 book. As individuals, each citizen has answers to the above questions. The charge of this initiative was to explore our answers to those questions and create a community vision and build community support for public education in the Orange County Schools. What is it in this time and this place that unites the citizens of the Orange County Schools community in regard to public education and its public school system? Overview of the Community Engagement Process The Orange County Schools Board of Education, at its February 24, 2014 meeting agreed to undertake a community engagement and strategic planning process in lead up to its 2015 accreditation review. At that meeting, the BOE decided to secure a consultant facilitator to guide community leaders in the engagement and visioning effort and the school system in the development of its strategic plan. Scottie Seawell, principal consultant with Leading and Governing Associates, was selected by the Board to serve in this role. As a first order of business, a Steering Committee was formed by the Board to assist in the recruitment of stakeholders from across the county and to guide the overall process. The Steering Committee consisted of the Superintendent, the Chair of the Board of Education, two community leaders who served as Co- Chairs of both the Steering Committee and Stakeholders Group and the consultant with staff support from the OCS Office of Communications. The two Co- chairs were the Reverend Gwen Jordan, President of the Northern Orange NAACP and Realtor Susan Waldrop of Coldwell Banker, HPW. Together this group along with all members of the Board of Education contacted almost 100 people to participate as stakeholders in the Community Engagement and Visioning initiative. Forty -eight community members including five high school students from each of the three high schools agreed to participate. 12