FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
BETTY COXE
CHARLIE CRIST
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
Commissioner
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
CONTACT PERSONS
NAME:
Julie Collins
Lorraine Allen
PHONE:
(850) 410-1667
SUNCOM:
210-1667
E-MAIL:
Julie.Collins@FLDOE.ORG
Lorraine.Allen@FLDOE.ORG
DPS:
03-011
M E M O R A N D U M
To:
District School Superintendents
From:
Betty Coxe
Date:
August 8, 2002
Subject:
Update of Office of Program Policy and Government Accountability
(OPPAGA) Best Practices for Safety and Security
Section 229.8348(1), Florida Statutes, requires that the Safety and Security Best
Practices and Indicators from the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government
Accountability (OPPAGA) be updated annually; therefore, the updated best practices
should be finalized by October 1, 2002. Since your district has recently completed the
safety and security self-assessment using these best practices, we would like your input
as we update the best practices for School Year 2002-2003.
Please review the attached document, which is the October 2001, version of the Best
Practices and Indicators, and submit any comments via e-mail to Julie Collins, at
Julie.Collins@fldoe.org, by
September 6, 2002.
Comments may include ideas for new
best practices, revisions to current practices, or the deletion of practices that do not rise
to the level of “best.” The Office of Safe Schools will compile your comments and
submit them to OPPAGA and to the Partnership for School Safety, prior to the
partnership’s meeting on September 12-13, 2002, in Ocala, Florida.
District School Superintendents
August 8, 2002
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We also welcome any comments on the Safe Passage process. If you have any
suggestions or comments on technical assistance, the submission of reports, any
general comment on the process, or the Safe Passage web site (see link below), please
let us know by e-mailing Julie Collins.
http://www.firn.edu/doe/besss/safe_passage/safe_passage.htm,
Thank you in advance for your interest in improving this process.
BC/lha
Attachment
cc:
District Safe Passage Contacts
District Safe and Drug-Free Schools Coordinators
District Student Service Contacts
District Transportation Directors
District Educational Facilities Contacts
Bernardo A. Garcia
Shan Goff
Mary Jo Butler, Student Services
Charlie Hood, School Transportation
Jon Hamrick, Educational Facilities
Dan Woodring, General Counsel
Andrea Willett, School Improvement
Partnership for School Safety and Security Members
School Emergency Management Plans Interagency Advisory Committee
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