It gave them the opportunity to help make decisions about what students are learning and how the school's money is spent.
Decision making at the school level is a key component of Kentucky's education reform system.
The idea of school-based decision making is to improve student achievement by letting those closest to the students make decisions. Councils make policy decisions about issues such as curriculum, discipline, technology, and budget. A parent involved in decision making becomes involved at the ultimate level. They get down in the trenches with teachers and principals and see first-hand the real needs of the school. The institute, launched in 1997 by the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, has trained almost 700 parents.