Reinventing Education Actof 2004
School Community Councils
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School Community CouncilPurpose
• Support the school’s efforts to increase student achievement.
• Help engage the community in understanding and supporting the school.
• Support the principal, teachers, and other school staff.
School Community CouncilComposition
Equal numbers of:
• school personnel (administrators, teachers, other staff) and
• “primary stakeholders” (students, parents, community members)
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School Community CouncilSelection of members
• Principal
• Teachers elected by teachers
• Noncertificated personnel elected by noncertificated personnel
• Parents elected by parents
• Community representatives elected by parents
• Students selected by the student council
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School Community CouncilNumber of members
• There must be at least one teacher, one noncertificated staff member, one parent, one community representative, and one student, plus the principal.
• The total number of school personnel must equal the total number of “primary stakeholders”
• Therefore there will be a even number of SCC members
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School Community CouncilAct 51 mandates
• Review and evaluate the Academic & Financial Plan: recommend revisions to the principal or approval by the complex area superintendent. {Section 25}
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School Community CouncilAct 51 mandates
• Ensure the Academic and Financial Plan is aligned with the educational accountability system. {Section 25}– Includes student, school, individual (teachers, principals, other employees)
accountability, and public accounting to parents, community members, businesses, higher education, media, political leadership.
– Links authority and resources to responsibility.
– Defines clear roles and responsibilities; involves collaboration.
– Assesses, tracks, and reports trend data on measures of academic achievement, safety and well-being, and civic responsibility of individual students and schools.
– Invokes consequences: rewards, assistance, sanctions.
– Requires continuous professional development for teachers and administrators that is linked to professional evaluation.
– Requires school, complex, and system fiscal report cards.
– Includes an evaluation of complex area superintendents and principals.
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School Community CouncilAct 51 mandates
• Participate in the selection and evaluation of the principal [in the manner set forth by the complex area superintendent]; transmit evaluations to the complex area superintendent. {Section 25}
• Provide collaborative opportunities for input and consultation. {Section 25}
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School Community CouncilAct 51 mandates
• Review the principal’s determination of the school’s repair and maintenance needs and recommend to the principal any changes before the principal’s determination is sent to the complex area superintendent. {Section 30}
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School Community CouncilAct 51 mandates
• Request appropriate waivers of policies, rules, procedures, and provisions of collective bargaining units [when such waivers would lead to increased student achievement and are recommended by the principal]. {Section 21}
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School Community CouncilAct 51 mandates
• Review A&F Plan.
• Ensure A&F Plan is aligned with accountability system.
• Participate in selection and evaluation of principal.
• Provide opportunities for input.
• Review repair & maintenance needs.
• Request waivers.
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School Community CouncilIS NOT
• A governing board.
– Does not hire and fire the principal.
– Does not control school finances.
– Does not evaluate teachers or other staff.
• A forum for promoting personal agendas.
• A body whose members “represent” constituencies.
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