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(1) ESTABLISHMENT.--
(a) The district school board shall establish an advisory
council for each school in the district and shall develop
procedures for the election and appointment of advisory council
members. Each school advisory council shall include in its name
the words “school advisory council.” The school advisory council
shall be the sole body responsible for final decisionmaking at
the school relating to implementation of
ss. 1001.42(18) and
1008.345. A majority of the members of each school advisory
council must be persons who are not employed by the school
district. Each advisory council shall be composed of the
principal and an appropriately balanced number of teachers,
education support employees, students, parents, and other
business and community citizens who are representative of the
ethnic, racial, and economic community served by the school.
Career center and high school advisory councils shall include
students, and middle and junior high school advisory councils
may include students. School advisory councils of career centers
and adult education centers are not required to include parents
as members. Council members representing teachers, education
support employees, students, and parents shall be elected by
their respective peer groups at the school in a fair and
equitable manner as follows:
1. Teachers shall be elected
by teachers.
2. Education support
employees shall be elected by education support employees.
3. Students shall be elected
by students.
4. Parents shall be elected
by parents.
The district school board shall establish procedures to be used
by schools in selecting business and community members that
include means of ensuring wide notice of vacancies and of taking
input on possible members from local business, chambers of
commerce, community and civic organizations and groups, and the
public at large. The district school board shall review the
membership composition of each advisory council. If the district
school board determines that the membership elected by the
school is not representative of the ethnic, racial, and economic
community served by the school, the district school board shall
appoint additional members to achieve proper representation. The
commissioner shall determine if schools have maximized their
efforts to include on their advisory councils minority persons
and persons of lower socioeconomic status. Although schools are
strongly encouraged to establish school advisory councils, the
district school board of any school district that has a student
population of 10,000 or fewer may establish a district advisory
council which includes at least one duly elected teacher from
each school in the district. For the purposes of school advisory
councils and district advisory councils, the term “teacher”
includes classroom teachers, certified student services
personnel, and media specialists. For purposes of this
paragraph, “education support employee” means any person
employed by a school who is not defined as instructional or
administrative personnel pursuant to
s. 1012.01 and whose duties require 20 or more hours in each
normal working week.
(b) The district school board may establish a district
advisory council representative of the district and composed of
teachers, students, parents, and other citizens or a district
advisory council that may be comprised of representatives of
each school advisory council. Recognized schoolwide support
groups that meet all criteria established by law or rule may
function as school advisory councils.
(c) For those schools operating for the purpose of providing
educational services to youth in Department of Juvenile Justice
programs, district school boards may establish a district
advisory council with appropriate representatives for the
purpose of developing and monitoring a district school
improvement plan that encompasses all such schools in the
district, pursuant to
s. 1001.42(18)(a).
(d) Each school advisory council shall adopt bylaws
establishing procedures for:
1. Requiring a quorum to be present before a vote may be taken
by the school advisory council. A majority of the membership of
the council constitutes a quorum.
2. Requiring at least 3 days’ advance notice in writing to all
members of the advisory council of any matter that is scheduled
to come before the council for a vote.
3. Scheduling meetings when parents, students, teachers,
businesspersons, and members of the community can attend.
4. Replacing any member who has two unexcused consecutive
absences from a school advisory council meeting that is noticed
according to the procedures in the bylaws.
5. Recording minutes of meetings.
The district school board may review all proposed bylaws of a
school advisory council and shall maintain a record of minutes
of council meetings.
(2) DUTIES.—Each advisory council shall perform functions
prescribed by regulations of the district school board; however,
no advisory council shall have any of the powers and duties now
reserved by law to the district school board. Each school
advisory council shall assist in the preparation and evaluation
of the school improvement plan required pursuant to
s. 1001.42(18). With technical assistance from the
Department of Education, each school
advisory council shall
assist in the preparation of the school’s annual budget and plan
as required by
s. 1008.385(1). A
portion of funds provided in the annual General Appropriations
Act for use by school advisory councils must be used for
implementing the school improvement plan. History.—s.
1, ch. 2002-49; s. 59, ch. 2002-387; s. 73, ch. 2004-357; s. 10,
ch. 2008-108; s. 5, ch. 2008-235. |
