Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) A public school
receiving School LAND Trust program funds shall have:
(a) a school community council as required by
Section 53G-7-1202 and Rule
R277-491;
(b) a charter school
trust land council as required by Section
53G-7-1205; or
(c) an approved exemption under this
rule.
(2) Notwithstanding
Subsection (1)(a), the USDB Advisory Council may fill the responsibilities of a
school community council for USDB.
(3) A public school receiving School LAND
Trust program funds shall submit a membership form demonstrating compliance
with the required membership in Subsection (1) that includes a principal
assurance consistent with Subsection
53G-7-1206(3)(c)
by October 20 annually.
(4) A
charter school that elects to receive School LAND Trust funds shall:
(a) have a charter trust land council
consistent with Section
53G-7-1205; and
(b) receive training about Section
53G-7-1206.
(5) A charter trust land council that is not
a charter governing board shall:
(a) be
subject to Section
53G-7-1203;
(b) have parent or grandparent members
elected by parents of students attending the charter school; and
(c) post the following items on the school's
website by October 20 annually:
(i) an
invitation to parents to serve on the Charter Trust Land Council;
(ii) the dollar amount the school receives
each year from the School LAND Trust program;
(iii) a copy or link to the current Teacher
and Student Success Plan;
(iv)
approved minutes of Charter Trust Land Council meetings for at least a
year;
(v) the proposed council
meeting scheduled for the school year;
(vi) a means to contact the members of the
school's Charter Trust Land Council directly;
(vii) a link or copy of the final reports of
the school for the last two years, as required by Subsection
53G-7-1206(5);
(viii) a link or copy of the school plan for
the current year.
(6) A charter school that is a small or
special school may receive an exemption from the charter land trust council
composition requirements contained in Section
53G-7-1205 upon application to
the school's authorizer if the small or special school demonstrates and
documents a good faith effort to recruit members to the charter trust land
council.
(7) The principal of a
charter school that elects to receive School LAND Trust funds shall submit a
plan, approved by the school's governing board, to the approving entity on the
School LAND Trust website:
(a) no later than
April 1 for schools authorized by the State Charter School Board; or
(b) for a newly opening charter school, no
later than November 1 in the school's first year to receive funding in the year
the newly opening charter school opens.
(8)
(a) An
approving entity:
(i) shall consider a plan
annually; and
(ii) may approve or
disapprove a school plan.
(b) If an approving entity does not approve a
plan, the approving entity shall:
(i) provide
a written explanation why the approving entity did not approve the plan;
and
(ii) request that the school
revise the plan, consistent with Subsection
53G-7-1206(4)(d).
(9)
(a) To receive funds, the principal of a
public school shall submit a School LAND Trust plan to the approving entity
annually through the School LAND Trust website using the form
provided.
(b) The Board may grant
an exemption to a school using the Superintendent-provided form, described in
Subsection (8)(a), on a case-by-case basis.
(10) In addition to the requirements of
Subsection (7), the School LAND Trust plan described in Subsections (6) and
(8)(a) shall include the date the council voted to approve the plan.
(11)
(a)
The principal of a school shall ensure that a council member has an opportunity
to provide a signature indicating the member's involvement in implementing the
current School LAND Trust plan and developing the school plan for the upcoming
year.
(b) The principal shall
collect a council member's signature at the Council plan approval meeting or at
a later time consistent with LEA policies.
(c) A school shall retain signatures
collected under Subsection (11)(b) for no less than three years.
(d) A school shall provide copies of
signatures collected under Subsection (11)(b) to the LEA governing board prior
to the Board plan approval meeting.
(e) An approving entity may design the
approving entity's own form to collect the information required by this
Subsection (11).
(12)
(a) An approving entity for a district school
or a charter school authorized by an authorizer other than the State Charter
School Board shall establish a timeline, including a deadline, for a school to
submit a school's School LAND Trust plan.
(b) A timeline described in Subsection
(10)(a) shall:
(i) require a school's School
LAND Trust plan to be submitted to the approving entity with sufficient time so
that the approving entity may approve the school's School LAND Trust plan no
later than May 15 of each year; and
(ii) allow sufficient time for a council to
reconsider and amend the council's School LAND Trust plan if the approving
entity rejects the school's plan and still allow the school to meet the May 15
approving entity's approval deadline.
(c) After an approving entity has completed
the approving entity's review, the approving entity shall notify the
Superintendent that the review is complete.
(d) For an LEA to receive its full
distribution in July, the LEA shall submit plans with all required approvals
online no later than May 15.
(13)
(a)
Prior to approving a plan, an approving entity shall review a School LAND Trust
plan under the approving entity's purview to confirm that a School LAND Trust
plan contains:
(i) academic goals;
(ii) specific steps to meet the academic
goals described in Subsection (11)(a)(i);
(iii) measurements to assess improvement;
and
(iv) specific expenditures
focused on student academic improvement needed to implement plan
goals.
(b) The approving
entity shall determine whether a School LAND Trust plan is evidence-based and
consistent with the approving entity's pedagogy, programs, and
curriculum.
(c) The president or
chair of the approving entity shall provide training annually on the
requirements of Section 53G-7-1206 to the members of the approving
entity.
(14)
(a) After receiving the notice described in
Subsection (10)(c), the Superintendent shall review each School LAND Trust plan
for compliance with the law governing School LAND Trust plans.
(b) The Superintendent shall report back to
the approving entity concerning which School LAND Trust plans were found to be
out of compliance with the law.
(c)
An approving entity shall ensure that a School LAND Trust plan that is found to
be out of compliance with the law by the Superintendent is amended or revised
by the council to bring the school's School LAND Trust plan into compliance
with the law.
(15) If an
approving entity fails to comply with Subsection (12)(c), Superintendent may
report the failure to the Audit Committee of the Board as described in Section
R277-477-8.
