British Columbia Order in Council — Order under School B (O.C. 990/2000)

O.C. 990/2000

British Columbia — Orders in Council

PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ORDER OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL Order in Council No. - 990 , Approved and Ordered Lieutenant Governor Executive Council Chambers, Victoria On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that B.C. Reg. 256/94, the School Accreditation Regulation, is amended as set out in the

schedule to this order. Presiding Member of the Executive Council rMinister of Ed cation (This

part is for administrative purposes only and is not part of the Order.) Authority under which Order is made: Act and section: School Act, R.S.B.C. 1999, c. 412,

section Other (specify):-Order in council 958/94 June 22, 2000 QQ3t....i) 1122/2000/13

SCHEDULE The School Accreditation Regulation, B.C. Reg. 256/94, is amended in

section 2 (

d) by striking out "provides" and substituting "on or before May of the school year, or a date specified by the minister, provides". 2

Section is amended (

a) in subsection (1), by striking out "consisting of at least individuals", (

b) in subsection (2), by repealing paragraphs (

c) and (

d) and substituting the following: (

c) prepare a report on the school stating whether or not the school meets the accreditation requirements specified by the minister, and (

d) on or before June of the school year, or a date specified by the minister, send its report to the minister and to the superintendent. , and (

c) by repealing subsections (3) to (6) and substituting the following: (3) Subsection (1) applies if the minister receives a strategy described in

section 7 (3). 3

Section is repealed and the following substituted: Board approval and requests for accreditation status On or before June of the school year, a board may submit to the minister a request for a certificate of accreditation for a designated school, if: (

a) the board has approved the school growth plan for that school, and (

b) the report prepared under

section 4 (2) (

c) states that the school meets the accreditation requirements specified by the minister. 4

Section is repealed and the following substituted: Duties of superintendent 7

(1) The superintendent must, for each designated school, review (

a) the school growth plan and the internal report provided to the superintendent under

section 2 (d) (ii) and provide a copy of the school growth plan and the internal report to the board, with the superintendent's evaluation of whether or not the school growth plan meets the educational needs of the students of the school district, and (

b) the external team's report provided to the superintendent under

section 4 (2) (d), and provide a copy of the report to the board.

(2) On providing the board with documents under subsection (1), the superintendent must recommend to the board what action it should take for the purposes of

section 5.

(3) If the superintendent receives an external team report prepared under

section 4 (2) (

c) indicating that a school does not meet the accreditation requirements specified by the minister, the superintendent must prepare a strategy to deal with the issues identified in the report, and must, by June of the school year in which that external team visited the school, report that strategy to the minister and to the board.

(4) If the superintendent is informed that the board has failed to approve a school growth plan provided to the board under subsection (1) (a), the superintendent must prepare a strategy to ensure that appropriate changes are made to the school growth plan, and must, by June of the school year in which the growth plan failed to receive approval, report that strategy to the minister and to the board. 5

Section is repealed and the following substituted: Accreditation On receipt of a request under

section 5, the minister may give a certificate of accreditation for the designated school. 6

Section is amended by adding the following paragraph: (

c) contains student performance information. 7

Section is amended in paragraphs (

c) and (

d) by striking out "December 31" and substituting "June 30".

Document details

Collection	British Columbia — Orders in Council
Citation	O.C. 990/2000
Type	order_in_council
Volume / chapter	arc oic 0990 2000
Language	en
Format	pdf
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	80f6886cfa6e9c44aaadf855bd22c1264282989d

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