BRIEFLY EDUCATION

District staff and the Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of

Education will meet today for an all-day goal-setting session.

The session will help district officials determine how to accomplish

everything from ensuring students’ basic skills of reading, writing,

mathematics and science, to how to reduce the number of school bus

accidents.

Historically, the district has its goal-setting sessions in the fall,

after the budget has been finished.

By setting goals and refining them first, each department can plan its

budget according to the goals that are to be accomplished during that

year. The final district budget should then be more comprehensive,

officials said.

A tentative budget is due at the end of June, with the final budget

due at the beginning of the school year.The meeting will begin at 10 a.m.

in the District Education Center Board Room, 2985-A Bear St., Costa Mesa.