Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 81

81 Functions

(1) A school council for a State school has the following functions—

(a) monitoring the school’s strategic direction;

(b) approving—

(i) plans and policies of the school of a strategic nature; or

(ii) other documents affecting strategic matters, including the annual estimate of revenue and expenditure for the school;

(c) monitoring the implementation of the plans, policies and other documents mentioned in paragraph (b) ;

(d) advising the school’s principal about strategic matters.

(2) The council must perform its functions in a way that achieves the best learning outcomes for the school’s students.

(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2) , a school council may not—

(a) interfere with the management by the school’s principal of the day-to-day operations of the school and its curriculum; or

(b) make operational decisions about the use of teaching or learning resources at the school; or

(c) make decisions about the individual teaching style used, or to be used, at the school; or

(d) make a decision that is contrary to law or a written policy of the department.