Senate Bill sb0798

    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                       SR 798

    By Senator Miller





    18-476-06

  1                        Senate Resolution

  2         A resolution commending the School District of

  3         Hillsborough County on winning the 2005 Urban

  4         School Board Excellence Award of the National

  5         School Boards Association.

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  7         WHEREAS, the National School Boards Association is a

  8  national federation of state school boards associations

  9  representing more than 95,000 school board members who govern

10  the nation's public schools, and

11         WHEREAS, the association's Council of Urban Boards of

12  Education (CUBE) seeks to foster excellence and equity in

13  public elementary and secondary education in urban areas and

14  annually names a school district that best demonstrates

15  excellence in four core areas: board governance, closing the

16  achievement gap, academic achievement, and community

17  engagement, and

18         WHEREAS, the 2005 award has been won by the

19  Hillsborough County School District, the ninth-largest school

20  district in the United States, encompassing Tampa as well as

21  suburban and rural areas and serving 192,000 students among

22  whom more than 70 languages are spoken, and

23         WHEREAS, in making the award, Anne L. Bryant, executive

24  director of the National School Boards Association, said:

25  "Hillsborough County School District has shown terrific

26  leadership by defining its priorities and committing itself to

27  public engagement and, in doing so, finding a winning formula

28  for creating high-performing students at all levels," and

29         WHEREAS, the Hillsborough County School District

30  achieved its success through energetic board leadership,

31  innovative thinking, skillful teacher recruitment, and

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    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                       SR 798
    18-476-06




 1  vigorous outreach programs that involved community members and

 2  assisted parents in helping their children to succeed in

 3  school, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 5  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 7         That the Hillsborough County School District is

 8  commended for its exemplary efforts and success in improving

 9  educational opportunity and success for the children of

10  Hillsborough County schools.

11         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

12  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to the

13  Hillsborough County School District as a token of the

14  sentiments of the Florida Senate.

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