What is a School Site Council (SSC)?
The SSC decides upon academic instructional programs and all related categorical resource expenditures for a school. All schools that receive federal or state categorical funding are required to have a SSC. The SSC decides how to spend categorical funds.
A SSC is a school-community representative body made up of:
- Principal and Vice Principal
- Teachers
- School Staff
- Parents or Community Members
What does a SSC do?
- Develops and approves the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)
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Sets and/or reviews school goals and selects specific improvements
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Establishes budgets based upon the SPSA
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Recommends and submits site plan to Board of Education (State Administrator) for approval
- Reviews and modifies the SPSA
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Monitors and evaluates implementation of SPSA and resulting student achievement
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Assesses effectiveness of planned strategies, activities and remedies
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Participates in local, state, and federal reviews of the school's program for compliance and quality;
- Collaborates with other Advisory Groups (English Learner Advisory Committee ELAC, Gifted and Talented Education -- GATE, School Advisory Committee -- SAC)
- Obtains recommendations from school site advisory, standing, and special committees regarding the focus of the school's SPSA
- Completes English Learner Advisory Committee (ELAC) tasks ( if the SSC has ELAC authority).
- Encourages parent, family and community involvement
- Encourages broad representation of parents, community members, teachers and students, if appropriate
- Includes all socioeconomic, ethnic, and programmatic groups represented in the school- community.
- Develops and oversees Title I Parent Involvement Policy and Home - School Compact
How do I get involved?
You must be chosen by your peers. Contact your school administrator to express interest
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If you're a parent, guardian or community member, you will need to be elected by the parents and guardians of the students.
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Elections may use ballots or voice vote. election procedures should be outlined in the bylaws of the SSC
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SSC seats are not reserved for any group or individual
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Nondiscrimination policies must be observed (membership is not restricted to any group)
What is a Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)?
The main task of the SSC is to develop a Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) for the school every year. The SPSA covers how the school's discretionary and categorical funding will be spent to achieve the following goals:
- Involvement: That parents, staff, students, and community members participate in developing, implementing, and evaluating core and categorical programs.
- Governance and Administration: That policies, plans, and administration of categorical programs meet statutory requirements.
- Funding: That allocation and use of funds meet statutory requirements for allowable expenditures.
- Standards, Assessment, and Accountability: That categorical programs meet state standards, are based on the assessed needs of program participants, and achieve the intended outcomes of the categorical program.
- Staffing and Professional Development: That staff members are recruited, trained, assigned, and assisted to ensure the effectiveness of the program.
- Opportunity and Equal Educational Access: That participants have equitable access to all programs provided by the local educational agency, as required by law.
- Teaching and Learning: That participants receive core and categorical program services
that meet their assessed needs.
Steps for Developing the SPSA
- Measure effectiveness of improvement strategies at the school
- Seek input from school advisory committees
- Reaffirm or revise school goals
- Revise improvement strategies and expenditures
- Recommend the approved SPSA to the board of education.
- Monitor implementation of the SPSA
RESOURCE LIST
School Site Council Implementation of the Single Plan for Student Achievement. Prepared by Clarence A. Boyd, Jr. Chair, DAC 2007 - 2008
Guide and Template for the Single Plan for Student Achievement: A Handbook for School Site Councils, California Department of Education. http://www.cde.ca.gov/nclb/sr/le/singleplan.asp
California Department of Education Single Plan for Student Achievement Mailing List
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nclb/sr/le/subscribe.asp
Presentation: Schoolsite Councils. Prepared by Family and Community Office
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School Site Council Implementation of the Single Plan for Student Achievement. Prepared by Clarence A. Boyd, Jr. Chair, DAC 2007 - 2008
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School Site Council Implementation of the Single Plan for Student Achievement. Prepared by Clarence A. Boyd, Jr. Chair, DAC 2007 - 2008
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Guide and Template for the Single Plan for Student Achievement: A Handbook for School Site Councils, California Department of Education. http://www.cde.ca.gov/nclb/sr/le/singleplan.asp
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Guide and Template for the Single Plan for Student Achievement: A Handbook for School Site Councils, California Department of Education. http://www.cde.ca.gov/nclb/sr/le/singleplan.asp
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School Site Council Implementation of the Single Plan for Student Achievement. Prepared by Clarence A. Boyd, Jr. Chair, DAC
Source:
http://www.urbanstrategies.org/programs/schools/documents/MicrosoftWord-WhatisaSchoolSiteCouncil_51908ej_001.pdf