School Board in Action
2004-2005 Code of Student Conduct
The Code of Student Conduct provides students and their families with information about the rules that students are expected to follow when participating in activities on school campuses or other sites and on any vehicles authorized for transportation of students. Each year, a committee that includes teachers, parents, students and school and District administrators to review and update the code. Each member is responsible for generating input from the group he or she represents. Recommendations for 2004-2005 are as follows:
• Add honesty to the list of Expected Behaviors: "Treat others with respect and honesty"
• Add bullets and shell casings to the list of items prohibited at school
• Add intentionally providing misinformation to a staff member to the list of Unacceptable Behaviors
• Add hate crimes to the list of Unacceptable Behaviors and define what a hate crime is
• Add a procedural note to parents to report serious
Code violations on bus stops that are not on School Board property
• Add backless shoes to the list of shoes that
elementary students are not allowed to wear to school
• Add garments and footwear that are designed as beachwear to be added to the list of clothing that students are not allowed to wear to school
• Add "revealing" to the list of clothing that students are not allowed to wear at school
• Remove wallet chains from the list of inappropriate clothing

City Teacher Project to Move Forward
The Board approved a continuation agreement with the Council of the Great City Schools for participation in the Great City Teacher Project. Broward is one of four urban school districts invited to work in partnership with an urban university on the project under the auspices of the Council of the Great City Schools. The goal of the project is to recruit, prepare, support and license 125-175 competent special education teachers across the four school districts. Working in cooperation with the Teaching and Leadership Center at Florida Atlantic University, Broward's portion of the goal is 28-30 teachers.

Board Approves Agreement With Kids in Distress
Kids in Distress, Inc. provides services to foster care children who have experienced the trauma of being removed from their homes and whose needs cannot be met in a less restrictive foster care setting. A new agreement approved between the Board and Kids In Distress will establish an onsite classroom at Kids in Distress that will be staffed by a teacher and a paraprofessional. Kids In Distress will enhance the program with the services of a psychiatrist, social worker and other support staff. The organization will also provide a furnished classroom as well as access to a computer lab during school hours.