FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
S
TATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
F. PHILIP HANDY,
Chairman
T. WILLARD FAIR,
Vice Chairman
Members
DONNA G. CALLAWAY
ROBERTO MARTÍNEZ
PHOEBE RAULERSON
KATHLEEN SHANAHAN
LINDA K. TAYLOR
John L. Winn
Commissioner of Education
CHERI PIERSON YECKE, PH.D.
CHANCELLOR, K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CONTACT PERSON
Name: Sandra Dilger
Phone: 850-245-0824
Suncom: 205-0824
Email:
sandra.dilger@fldoe.org
K12: 2006-83
MEMORANDUM
TO:
District Superintendents
FROM:
Cheri Pierson Yecke, Ph.D.
DATE:
June 19, 2006
SUBJECT:
ANNUAL ASSURANCE OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLANS AND
SCHOOL ADVISORY COUNCIL COMPOSITION
Each year, the Department of Education collects, via a Web-based report, assurances on school
improvement requirements. The purpose of this memo is to request your assurance that all
schools in your district have approved school improvement plans and the required school
advisory council composition. In compliance with Section 1008.345(6)(c), Florida Statutes,
“…the Department shall not release funds from the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund to any
district in which a school, including schools operating for the purpose of providing educational
services to youth in Department of Juvenile Justice programs, does not have an approved school
improvement plan, pursuant to S. 1001.42(16) after one full school year of planning and
development, or does not comply with school advisory council membership composition
requirements pursuant to S. 1001.452.”
The 2006 due date for assurance of compliance is
June 30, 2006,
to ensure receiving district
lottery funding in a timely manner. Please forward this information via online reporting.
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District Superintendents
June 12, 2006
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This year we are asking for reports from each district to certify the following information:
•
Whether
ALL
schools in the district have a new, amended, or continuing school
improvement plan in the process of revision approved by the school board as of
June 30,
2006.
It is understood that many plans are being revised due to recently published school
achievement data. It is also understood that some revisions will be required and these
revisions will need to be approved by district school boards at a later date.
•
Whether
ALL
schools in the district have a School Advisory Council with a majority of its
members not employed by the school as of
June 30, 2006.
•
Whether
ALL
schools in the district have a School Advisory Council that is comprised 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.
•
Whether
ALL
schools in the district operating for the purpose of providing educational
services to youth in Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) programs have an approved new,
amended or continuation individual school improvement plan or district plan that covers all
DJJ sites as of
June 30, 2006
.
•
Whether
ALL
schools in the district have a school improvement plan designed to achieve the
state education priorities pursuant to S. 1000.03(5) and student proficiency on the Sunshine
State Standards pursuant to S. 1003.41. Each plan addresses student achievement goals and
strategies based on state and school district proficiency standards and includes an accurate,
data-based analysis of student achievement and other school performance data pursuant to
S. 1001.42(16)(a).
This year reporting is to be done online at the following Web site:
http://www.bsi.fsu.edu/SIPAssurance/login.aspx.
Should any schools NOT be in compliance, you are to check those schools by name as provided
in the online district list. If any school or DJJ site needs to be reported but is not on the list, you
should list them in the fields provided.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Dr. Sandy Dilger, Bureau of School
Improvement, at sandra.dilger@fldoe.org for assistance. In support of Florida’s education goal
for Highest Student Achievement and the implementation of the State Board of Education’s
Strategic Imperative 3: Improve Student Rates of Learning, the Florida Department of Education
thanks you for your continued commitment to enhancing the quality of education of all of
Florida’s students.
District Superintendents
June 12, 2006
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NOTE: Please make sure that persons designated to receive copies of this memo are signed up to
receive correspondence from the Department paperless communication site since hard copies are
not being sent out. The site address is http://www.firn.edu/doe/menu/communications.htm. If
they are not currently signed up, please provide a copy of this memorandum.
CPY/sdh
cc:
District School Improvement Contacts
District
Directors
of Charter Schools
District Juvenile Justice Contacts
District Finance Officers
Linda
Champion
Mary Jane Tappen
