Accountability

What is Accountability?

The School-level Accountability Committee (SAC) serves in an advisory role to the school principal. The school’s principal is ultimately responsible for ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and district requirements and meeting the academic performance expectations defined by JeffCo Public Schools.

SAC Chair

  • To preside and facilitate all meetings

  • To set meeting agendas in collaboration with the principal

  • To guide the team in reviewing goals and other elements of the school improvement plan

  • To guide the team in making budgetary recommendations

  • To develop and implement plans to increase membership

  • To serve as a communication link between the SAC and the SPAC’s Articulation Rep

Principal

  • To collaboratively construct the meeting agenda with the Chair

  • To provide the school data and school improvement plan to the SAC for review and input

  • To provide budgetary information to the SAC for review and input

  • To secure approval of school fees for the following school year

  • To oversee elections for SAC membership (if needed), and to recruit likely candidates for SAC and to championing the committee’s plan to increase parent involvement

  • To provide various reports, raw data, and specific information requested by SAC members

  • To provide timely progress monitoring data to assist the team in reviewing implementation of the school improvement plan

  • To act as a liaison between SAC and the school community and Jeffco Schools

Teacher Members

  • At least one teacher who provides instruction in the school

  • To act as a liaison between SAC and the faculty at large

  • To bring faculty concerns to SAC meetings

  • To facilitate communication with parents on SAC matters and to assist in raising parent interest in participating on SAC

  • To help bring parent concerns to SAC meetings

Parent Members

  • At least three parents of students enrolled in the school

  • To bring parent concerns to SAC meetings

  • To provide parents’ perspectives on school issues

  • To help communicate school concerns to the broader community

Community Members

  • At least one member of the community

  • To help raise awareness of neighborhood/community issues

  • To help communicate school concerns to the broader community