BACKGROUND

Student Outcomes Focused Governance (SOFG) is a framework built upon research-based competencies that describe board behaviors and how they create conditions that improve student outcomes.  The Board of Education (BOE) is partnering with the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) to adopt and implement the Council’s Student Outcome Focused Governance (SOFG) model. This model is being used by school boards in many large urban school districts across the country, including San Francisco, Dallas, San Antonio, Seattle, Des Moines, Atlanta, Long Beach and Austin.