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a26uuvk ♦.VUAA%ala' �Nb�UUUP4aLtuC'1113w�+aa _ Alrx"ML1'+11LA4 4 saJt.t/G1U1$%0— Ut1}I.fl www.nuc.tulmb.suwitttWaicgwnuvnfuhyfai:iltiutiitun%h li7rpbriiil.11ttlU <br />�IdSd n c, state ofiicas - State A-E ToptCx <br />�[+s,yrhrr►clls t]rpccrtniant �f -Select <br />Program Ares-- <br />ta 01nellfary & secorrth" E"Iflultion <br />flaws s .hoot/01 rlet Profiles 5ehoul jtrlatrict Administration Educator services Assensmeot/Accountabinty Pamliy a Gomncualty <br />L.01JAdministratlofl Finance/Grents PK -16 Program 5upPart In#onnstIOn Services <br />r Laws $ fluEutstlares Flom■ School Councils <br />) state Raguiltdons <br />) state Laws Questions & Answers on School Goundis <br />3, Pedaral Laws <br />) Level Advisories Part two: Legal Responsibilities <br />) Arbitration Awards D. Councils' Responsibilities: deneral <br />> Litigation Reports <br />What are the main arena of responsibility for school councils? <br />The law outlines four major areas of responsibility for councils. School coumeb are to assist Privaipah <br />in: <br />1. Adopting educational gosh for the school that am consistent with load educadonalpolidea and <br />statewide student performance standards <br />z. Identifying the educational needs of students attending the school <br />3. previewing the annual school building budget <br />4. %arnhuladug a school improvemcnt plan <br />For any school that contains grades nine to twelve;, Inclusive, the catncll shall review the shdeut <br />handbook each spring to consider changes In disciplinarypoiicy to talm effect for the fdlowiug school <br />year. (See Appendix 1l) <br />In aMdoa, the law states that "nothing contained in this section shall prevent the school committee <br />from granting a school council additional authority In the area of educational policy; prodded, however, <br />that school council shall ave no authority over matters which are stirject to chapter one hundred and <br />MV E of the General Iawa" (Question, 34, below, addresses Chapter tgol? ) <br />What is the council's role in the school budget? <br />The law spea6es that theschod council "Shall assist (the prindpalj ... in the review of the annudschool <br />budget,"This language refers to the school building budget, not to the district budget. "Review" mesas <br />that theeouncll and the principal readthrough documents that describe the budget in orderto . <br />understand the implications for items in the school improvement pian that willbe developed by the <br />council. In many communities, the school budget is prepared by mid year in order to allow for <br />negotiation with other municipal agencies, i.e., finance committm cityocowuAl, town senting. A <br />cauncai's review of the budget, therefore, enables it to predict better which impumment projects that <br />funding oauld be itnplemenied In the mesh Schaal yt sr under a budget lhetwas cfrustl Lxetecl iz► <br />the 'Gus fall. Also, in achooi distrlcta that encourage build' gr-basadbudge planning, a school's <br />imprrrvement plan objectives dmeloped in any given year guide the development of then s IWI'S <br />budget in the next year. In these the colulcWs review of the budget helps' the implementation of <br />the previouayear'a school improvement plan. <br />May eountils make remm rlendationg Wit pertain todistrictwide policies or to other schools <br />in the distxict? <br />Yes. School councils maymake recommendations, which would be nowt binding, to school c unumitices on <br />imucs that areof keen interest to the school and that have district- wide or mull -school imp>licaft& lin <br />addition, school committees hn%e discretion in the responsibilities they give to coundis through the <br />provision of the law that reads: "Nothing contained in this section shall prmat the school committee <br />from granting a school council additional authority inthe area ofeducai W palicy." <br />What aresome arena in which councils carrot be involved? <br />The law enables school committees to grant school councils additional authority in the area of <br />educational policy except for matterscovered by Chapter t5GB of the General Lawn Chapter x SOB <br />govems labor relations and collective bargaining for public employees including teacher ceatraels, This <br />provision leaves such issues as cmapensation, workload, conditions of work and worker evaluatica <br />praceiures subject to collectivebargaining. <br />Goad practice suggests that a council should not become involved as an ombudsman or a grievance <br />comatittee in individual cases that involve students, pamM, teachers and other schcol Stith: <br />1 ai 2 9/2912015 1138 AM <br />