What is a School Advisory Council?

The School Advisory Council (SAC) is a team of people representing various segments of the community–parents, teachers, students, administrators, support staff, business/ industry people and other interested community members.

2024-2025 SAC Meeting Dates:

November 21, 2024 at 4:00pm

January 30, 2025 at 4:30pm

2024-2025 SAC Minutes

SAC Meeting Minutes 11-21-2024

2024-2025 - Chairperson:  Mr. Jay Lee leejay@pcsb.org 

2024-2025 - Secretary:  Mrs. Lisa Pier - pierzchalskiL@pcsb.org

Approved Skycrest SAC Bylaws as of November 2023 - Bylaws amended 11-21-2024

Purpose

Our goal at Skycrest is for each student to be given the equal opportunity to learn and succeed.  The purpose of a SAC, is to assist in the preparation and evaluation (developing and evaluating) of the results of the School Improvement Plan (SIP) and to assist the Principal with the annual school budget.

What does SAC do?

It is the responsibility of the School Advisory Council to help increase student success. The SAC focuses on the needs of students, including what they need to know (curriculum content) and what they should be able to do (performance application) to help develop the School Improvement Plan (SIP).

Other key responsibilities of the School Advisory Council include:

• working as a team;
• holding well-publicized, open meetings;
• encouraging innovation; and
• involving other members of the school community in the school improvement process.

Action

Additionally, SAC receives funds ($5.00 per FTE (Full Time Equivalent) student) to be used at the discretion of the School Advisory Committee.  A portion of the money should be used for implementing the School Improvement Plan.   The improvement plan shall include performance indicators which are measurable.   Funding for use by the School Advisory Council should be allocated directly to the School Advisory Council, should be clearly earmarked for their use, and is not subject to override by the Principal or interim approvals by School District Staff. These funds may be expended only on programs or projects selected by the School Advisory Council and may not be used for capital improvements. 

Each school in the State of Florida must have a SAC.  By law (Florida Statue 1000.42), each SAC must be composed of the principal and an “appropriately balanced” number of “stakeholders.”  These individuals must be representative of the ethnic, racial, and economic makeup of the community served by the school. The majority of SAC members (over 50 percent) must not be employed by the SCHOOL DISTRICT on whose SAC they serve.

Process

The sole purpose of School Improvement Plan (SIP) is a data-driven decision making. The process is SUPPOSED to be fairly simple and straight forward: The SAC reviews relevant data (which is much more than test scores), identifies problem areas, develops improvement strategies, monitors their implementation, and then starts the whole process over when the next round of data is available.