Informational Video: What is SAC?
The School Accountability Committee (SAC) is responsible for advising principals on budget priorities and the development of school improvement plans. Put another way, SACs act as sounding boards for improvement strategies and how schools and districts spend their money. Another equally important role of SACs is to increase parent and community partnerships.
SAC responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Advising the principal concerning the preparation of the school's Unified Improvement Plan (UIP).
Making recommendations to the principal concerning priorities for spending school funds.
Gathering and providing information to the principal on the needs or concerns of the school's community.
Helping school staff increase parent partnerships with teachers, fostering the parents' role in creating students' READ plans as well as habitual truancy.
Helping school staff increase the level of overall parent engagement with the school.
Assisting the district in implementing at the school level the district's Parent Engagement Policy.
Working to recruit people to serve on the SAC.
Additionally, for Priority Improvement or Turnaround schools, the SAC is responsible for:
Publicizing and holding a SAC meeting to discuss strategies to include inn a school Priority Improvement or Turnaround plan, and using this input to make recommendations to the local school board concerning preparation of the school Priority Improvement or Turnaround plan prior to the plan being written.
Publicizing the district's public hearing to review a written school Priority Improvement or Turnaround Plan.