SBDM Training 2025

Every area of school council authority is established for a reason. What is the school council's most important responsibility?

• Establishing policy

• Determining the schedule of the school day

• Improving student achievement

• Textbook selection

The SBDM statute requires that school councils annually review data on student performance. The test data your school is required to review should include data disaggregated by:

• Race

• Gender

• Participation in the federal free/reduced price meals program

• Students with a disability

• All of the above.

Answer explanation

Disaggregate means to separate.

True or False: The school council is responsible for adopting a policy that determines the use of school space during the school day related to improving classroom teaching and learning.

• True

• False

• Unsure

When is a school council required by statute to have minority representation?

• When it is first established

• When at least eight percent (8%) of the population is minority

• When the school has a minority principal

• When the board of education requires it

True or False: All school councils must have school council committees.

• False

• Sometimes

• True

• Only when there is a minority.

True or False: School councils are subject to The Kentucky Open Records and Open Meetings Acts.

• Yes

• Only when school is in session.

• False

• True

Which one of the following persons cannot serve as a parent representative on the school council?

• Birth parent(s)

• Foster parent(s)

• A teacher who also has a child enrolled as a student at the school

• Stepparent(s)

Answer explanation

Teachers can serve in the teacher role, but not as a parent at the school where they work.

True or False: The school council must meet with the media librarian on the maintenance of the school media center.

• Only if they think they're cool

• True

• Not at the high school level

• False

Consultation can include:

• Meetings

• Timelines

• Review of applications and references

• Interviews

• All of the above

True or False: All schools must adopt a wellness policy.

• Only when more than 50% of students are ill

• True

• If the principal wants to

• False

Answer explanation

Only K-5 must have a wellness policy per KRS 160.345