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GCE Local School Council

Anyone in our community is Welcome to attend our Local School Council Meetings

The A+ Education Reform Act of 2000 established school councils in Georgia to “bring communities and schools closer together in a spirit of cooperation to achieve the following:

  • solve difficult education problems
  • improve academic achievement
  • provide support for teachers and administrators
  • bring parents into the school-based decision-making process

School councils provide advice, recommendations, and assistance to principals and local boards of education. The law details the composition of the council, its responsibilities, and procedures for conducting business.

The 2004 General Assembly in HB 1190 provided flexibility in membership, chairmanship, meetings, elections and trainings for school councils. The changes also provided clarity that school councils are to focus on student achievement and school improvement.

The 2007 General Assembly changed the composition of school councils, requiring that a majority of members be parents (or guardians) and that at least two parents be businesspersons. At a minimum, a School Council is composed of seven members, indcluding the following:

  • The Principal
  • Two certificated teachers elected by the teachers
  • Four parents (or guardians) elected by the parents (please list as “Parent”); two of the parents must be businesspersons
  • The school council may, within its bylaws, increase the number of members, as long as the parents remain the majority.

 

Future Meetings

The 2024-2025 GIVE Center East School Council meetings dates are as follows:

  • Monday September 23, 2024 In person at 10:30 am
  • Monday November 18, 2024 via Zoom at 6 pm
  • Monday January 27, 2024 via Zoom at 6 pm
  • Monday April 28, 2024 via Zoom at 6 pm

Minutes from the meetings will be available in the front office within 20 days following the meeting. All parents are welcome to attend the monthly meetings.