The purpose of the Standards Review Committee is to determine if the school is in compliance with the standards of the Florida Catholic Conference Accreditation Program.

In December of 2006 and in January of 2007 the committee met and reviewed the current ARCA Pre-K through 8 Survey report as well as the previous two year’s ARCA Survey reports. The committee then reviewed the FCC manual Florida Catholic Conference Principles and Standards Elementary Schools (Prek-8).

The committee also used the FCC Standards Checklist to determine compliance with all standards at Saint Anastasia Catholic School. Listed below are the findings of the Standards Review committee.

The Prekindergarten teacher shall:

(1) have a Bachelor’s Degree with the equivalent of six college credits in early childhood education; OR (2) have an Associate’s Degree with an emphasis in child development or early childhood education ; and

maintain recency- of- credit (six college credits or its equivalent) every five years.

(Two of our present prekindergarten teachers will take the April 21, 2007 subject area test in

The Physical Education Teacher (one or more periods) shall:

(1) have a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical education and within three years of appointment of teacher, have current and valid state or national certificate in physical education; OR (2) has a Bachelor’s Degree in a field allied to Physical Education and within three years of appointment the teacher will have at least 12 college credits in health and methodology in Physical Education; and

maintain recency-of-credit (six college credits or its equivalent) every 5 years.

(The Physical Education Teacher has a Grandfather Letter on file).

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Additional Staff

B.Personnel who teach foreign language, music, art and technology shall: (1) have documented qualifications validated in writing by their superintendent and (2) maintain recency-of-credit (six college credits or its equivalent) every 5 years.

(Personnel who teach foreign language, music, art, and technology all have Letters of Qualification in their files for these credentials).

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