House Bill 3309e1

                                      HB 3309, First Engrossed/ntc



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; amending s.

  3         229.58, F.S.; revising provisions relating to

  4         membership of school advisory councils;

  5         providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section

10  229.58, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

11         229.58  District and school advisory councils.--

12         (1)  ESTABLISHMENT.--

13         (a)  The school board shall establish an advisory

14  council for each school in the district, and shall develop

15  procedures for the election and appointment of advisory

16  council members. A majority of the members of each school

17  advisory council must be persons who are not employed by the

18  school board at that school. Each advisory council shall be

19  composed of the principal and an appropriately balanced number

20  of teachers, education support employees, students, parents,

21  and other business and community citizens who are

22  representative of the ethnic, racial, and economic community

23  served by the school, provided that vocational-technical

24  center and high school advisory councils shall include

25  students, and middle and junior high school advisory councils

26  may include students.  Council members representing teachers,

27  education support employees, students, and parents shall be

28  elected by their respective peer groups at the school in a

29  fair and equitable manner as follows:

30         1.  Teachers shall be elected by teachers.

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                                      HB 3309, First Engrossed/ntc



  1         2.  Education support employees shall be elected by

  2  education support employees.

  3         3.  Students shall be elected by students.

  4         4.  Parents shall be elected by parents.

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  6  The school board shall establish procedures for use by schools

  7  in selecting business and community members. Such procedures

  8  shall include means of ensuring wide notice of vacancies and

  9  for taking input on possible members from local business,

10  chambers of commerce, community and civic organizations and

11  groups, and the public at large. The school board shall review

12  the membership composition of each advisory council.  Should

13  the school board determine that the membership elected by the

14  school is not representative of the ethnic, racial, and

15  economic community served by the school, the board shall

16  appoint additional members to achieve proper representation.

17  Although schools should be strongly encouraged to establish

18  school advisory councils, any school district that has a

19  student population of 10,000 or fewer may establish a district

20  advisory council which shall include at least one duly elected

21  teacher from each school in the district.  For the purposes of

22  school advisory councils and district advisory councils, the

23  term "teacher" shall include classroom teachers, certified

24  student services personnel, and media specialists.  For

25  purposes of this paragraph, "education support employee" means

26  any person employed by a school who is not defined as

27  instructional or administrative personnel pursuant to s.

28  228.041 and whose duties require 20 or more hours in each

29  normal working week.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

31  year in which enacted.


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