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Littlewood Elementary School

School Advisory Committee

Statement of Purpose

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. The purpose of a SAC is to assist in the preparation and evaluation (developing and evaluating) of the results of the school improvement plan and to assist the principal with the annual school budget. Additionally, SAC receives funds "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 Councils should be allocated directly to the School Advisory Councils, should be clearly earmarked for their use and is not subject to override by the Principal or interim approvals by school district staff. These moneys may be expended only on programs or projects selected by the school advisory council. These moneys may not be used for capital improvements."

Each school in the State of Florida must have a SAC. By law, 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. High schools and vocational technical centers must have students on the SACs. Middle and junior high schools may to include students on their SAC. The majority of SAC members (over 50 percent) must not be employed by the school on whose SAC they serve.

"The whole point of school improvement is 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."

For more information, see the School Improvement Plan posted on our school’s webpage, or visit the State of Florida School Advisory Council Website: FL-SAC

Littlewood SAC Members for 2008-2009

The SAC welcomes suggestions/comments from parents or anyone else.

Katherine Munn	Principal	munnkl@gm.sbac.edu
Jessica Feldman	Teacher	feldmanjs@gm.sbac.edu
Charlie Jenkins	Teacher	jenkinscw@gm.sbac.edu
Beth Siegel	Teacher, SAC Secretary	siegeleh@gm.sbac.edu
Joshua White	Teacher	pittsje@gm.sbac.edu
Theresa Williams	Teacher	williamstr@gm.sbac.edu
Christopher Richardson	Staff
Pam Johnson	SBAC Staff	johnsopj@gm.sbac.edu
Kristina Belvin	Parent	tbelvin@bellsouth.net
Sue Keller	Parent	kellersp@gm.sbac.edu
Patty Locascio	Parent, Chairperson	patti.locascio@sfcc.edu
Maria Ripol	Parent	mripol@stat.ufl.edu
Jon Uman	Parent	uman@umanlaw.com
Madeline Vallery	Other, Vice-Chairperson	mvalleryjones@aol.com
Mary Scarborough	Publix	wave81263@aol.com
Lieba Gouin	O2B Kids	lieba@02bkids.com