SB 177 Summary

• Requires school districts receiving federal "No Child Left Behind" school improvement grants to establish student advisory committees at high schools receiving any portion of those grant funds.

• Student advisory committees must make recommendations at least semiannually on teaching and learning strategies, technology use, peer tutoring, bullying reduction, grant progress monitoring, and other requested issues.

• Committee composition and member selection process determined by school principals and teachers' labor organization representatives, with procedures allowing all students to be informed about and involved in member selection.

• School districts must hold joint meetings of all student advisory committees twice yearly (by October 15 and February 15), and the state Department of Education must organize statewide meetings for committees from all school improvement grant recipients.

• Applies to community schools under Chapter 3314 and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics schools under Chapter 3326 receiving school improvement grant funding.