Reinventing Education Act of 2004

1. Reinventing Education Actof 2004 School Community Councils

2. 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.

3. School Community CouncilComposition Equal numbers of: school personnel (administrators, teachers, other staff) and “primary stakeholders” (students, parents, community members)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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}

7. 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.

8. 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}

9. 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}

10. 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}

11. 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.

12. 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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