SCC information and possible violations of the Utah Administrative Code
Greg Clark
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Sent: Sept 13, 2011, ~11:50 pm
Whipsnet moderators,
Please post on whipsnet the following information of public record, which is both appropriate and relevant to all.
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…Subject: SCC information and possible violations of the Utah Administrative Code
13 September 2011
….[Regarding] Utah Administrative Code, Rule R277-491. School Community Councils: <http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-491.htm>.
Providing accurate, timely, and appropriate information is an important component of the professional responsibilities for the Principal of West High School.
As a matter of public record, R277-491-4, School Community Council School/School Administrator Responsibilities, specifies for example the following regarding SCC agendas and minutes:
"B. The school community council chair shall provide the following information to the school community, with assistance from the school administration:…
"(7) Posting the school community council meeting information (time, place and date of meeting; meeting agenda and previous meeting minutes) on the school's website at least one week prior to each meeting."
In apparent violation of the above regulations, SCC information regularly is not being posted on the West High School official website or provided elsewhere in a timely and appropriate manner.
For example, no SCC agenda has been posted on the West High web site <http://west.slcschools.org/ptsa/ptsa_index.html> since October 2010.
Similarly, no SCC minutes have been posted there for any SCC meeting beyond September 13 2010, a full year ago.
Partial information regarding SCC agendas, elections, and minutes is being distributed to a closed, not-fully-public group <http://groups.google.com/group/whipsnet/about> that by self-description is "not affiliated with the Salt Lake School District" and to which only selected persons have access. But even there the information there is late and incomplete….
Gregory A. Clark, Ph.D.