Transcript Act 51 Reinventing Education

Reinventing Education Act
of 2004
School Community Councils
School Community Council
Purpose
• 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.
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School Community Council
Composition
Equal numbers of:
• school personnel (administrators,
teachers, other staff) and
• “primary stakeholders” (students,
parents, community members)
School Community Council
Selection 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 Council
Number 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 Council
Act 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 Council
Act 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. 7
School Community Council
Act 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 Council
Act 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 Council
Act 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 Council
Act 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 Council
IS 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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Questions?