53B-18-801 - Establishment of the center -- Purpose -- Duties and responsibilities.
53B-18-801. Establishment of the center -- Purpose -- Duties and responsibilities.
(1) There is hereby established the Center for the School of the Future at Utah StateUniversity, hereafter referred to as "the center."
(2) (a) The purpose of the center is to promote best practices in the state's publiceducation system and encourage cooperative and research development relationships betweenpublic and higher education.
(b) For purposes of this section "best practices" means the best process or system thateffectively achieves an educational objective.
(3) The center has the following duties and responsibilities:
(a) to direct its efforts to those education issues judged to be of greatest importance bythe State Office of Education, school districts, and their patrons, subject to the availability offunds to sustain its efforts;
(b) to coordinate and collaborate with education stakeholders, such as institutions ofhigher education, the State Office of Education, school districts, parent-teacher organizations, andother public and private educational interests in identifying or developing and then implementingbest practices throughout the state's public education system;
(c) to contribute to the creation and maintenance of a public education system thatcontinually and systematically improves itself by building upon the most effective educationpolicies, programs, and practices and rejecting those that are less effective;
(d) to identify problems and challenges in providing educational and related services toall students in the public schools, including special education students and students at risk;
(e) to identify current public and private resources at both the state and national level thatare available to resolve problems or overcome challenges within the public education system andseek additional resources as necessary; and
(f) to support the implementation of best practices in the public education system throughprofessional development programs and dissemination of information.
(4) The center in collaboration with the State Office of Education shall:
(a) clarify the problems and challenges identified under this section, identify desiredoutcomes, and agree upon measures of outcomes;
(b) prioritize the problems and challenges;
(c) identify readily accessible resources to solve problems and challenges, including bestpractices that could be implemented with little or no adaptation;
(d) determine whether new programs or procedures should be developed, and estimatethe extent of effort required for that development;
(e) determine which existing programs should be eliminated; and
(f) assist in implementing solutions, monitoring accomplishments, disseminating results,and facilitating the extension of successful efforts to new settings.
Enacted by Chapter 333, 1999 General Session