History of Site Based Improvement in Saint Paul

March 1985 "School advisory council" policy adopted
	October 1985 Task Force on School-Based Management created
May 1986 Task force recommends pilot
	July 1989 Eight pilot schools approved for "school-based decision making"
August 1989 District hires half-time liaison to support pilot schools
	January 1994 Shared Decisions Saint Paul (SDSP) created
1997 Twenty schools operate with decision-making site councils
	Spring 1997 Site council liaison position cut, then reinstated.
July 1997 State grants some budgeting authority to site councils
	April 1998 Site council liaison position becomes full-time
Spring 1998 Formal agreement created between Board of Education and site councils
	Summer 1998 Alignment for Learning created, partly to enhance site based improvement
August 1998 Thirty-four schools operate with decision-making site councils
	Spring 1999 Board of Education declares all schools will have site councils by fall 2000
Spring 1999 SDSP proposes amendments to clarify what authority site councils have
	June 1999 Thirty-seven schools operate with decision-making site councils
July 1999 Office of Site Based Improvement created
	June 2000 All 70 sites have site councils

Saint Paul is one of many school districts around the country working to implement Site Based Improvement.  Similar efforts are sometime called school-based management, site-based management and shared decision-making.