School Site Council (SSC)

The School Site Council's role is to ensure that the school is continually engaged in identifying and implementing curriculum and instructional practices that result in both strengthening the core academic program and ensuring that students have access to and success in that program.
 

The three main responsibilities of SSC are:

1. Develop the school plan/budget and recommend it to the local governing board (EC 62002)

2. Implement plan and monitor program effectiveness (EC 52021, 62002.3)

3. Annually evaluate the goals and objectives of the school plan (EC 52021, 62002.5)

Education Code Section 64001 requires that this plan be reviewed and updated at least annually, including proposed expenditures of funds allocated to the through the Consolidated Application, by the school site council.
SSC must be organized to ensure parity among its members. One-half of a council must be comprised of parents and community members (elementary schools) or students in high schools. Certificated staff must be comprised of classroom teachers, TOAs, or CPSs. Teachers must be in the majority. The other half of the council is comprised of school personnel: the principal, certificated, and classified staff. Representatives of each group--parents, teachers, students, and other staff--must be selected by their peers. Alternates may be selected at the time elections are held.  Parents who work for the district and who are assigned to the school attended by their children are not eligible to serve on that school's School Site Council in the "Parent" category.