Each public school in Utah elects a School Community Council (SCC). Among other things the SCC decides how the school will spend its share of funding provided by the School Lands Trust Fund. For most schools this runs from several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars. The SCC is made up of two types of members, parents and school employees. It was required that parents outnumber school employee members.
When first established, SCCs were often dominated by school district employees because school employees could be elected as school employee members or as parent members. In 2011 the legislature restricted district employees from being elected as parent members of the SCC in the district where they work. That change troubled school employees because they usually could not serve on the SCC of the school where their own children attended.
HB213 Would now revise the law again so that school employees could serve as parent members on the SCC where their child attends as long as that is not also the school that the parent works at. In order to prevent dominance of the SCC by school employees, HB213 also requires that parent members outnumber employee members by at least 2.
Some schools seem to have trouble recruiting enough parents to serve on the SCC. Because parents want their childrens' schools to be excellent, they should, as good and involved citizens, take their turn serving on their local School Community Council.
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