FASBO is pleased to announce we will be launching a brand new website in early 2021.

The site will be your go-to destination for the latest on FASBO upcoming events, educational offerings and professional development opportunities.

Stay tuned for more information!

FASBO is always looking for stories to help fill our bi-annual magazine, Florida School Business. You're the experts of your field – and we would like you to share new innovative solutions and ideas with your peers. We are seeking submissions for feature material in the following fields: Auditing; Business Management; Environmental/Energy; Facilities Planning and Operations; Finance, Fixed Assets/Property Control; Food and Nutrition Service; Human Resources; Information Technology; Maintenance; Purchasing; Risk Management; Safety and Transportation. 

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FASBO is extending Professional Development Ceterifictation Credits for one year. 

School business is a very complex and demanding profession requiring a special set of knowledge, skills, and abilities. It is incumbent upon us to ensure that those that follow us have the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities. To that end, the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of School Business Officials (FASBO) has embarked on the creation of a Professional Certification Program.

Although Florida is the fourth largest state in the nation, it is one of nineteen states with no certification or credentialing requirements. The Florida School Finance Council has recognized this emerging issue. It is the feeling of the Council that certification or credentialing will benefit individual school districts and the statewide education system as it will address recruitment and retention issues, cultivate talent internally, encourage best practices, and build a cadre of professional school business leaders and staff members. As technology advances an increased need for training at the clerical and paraprofessional is also becoming more apparent.

Recognizing the importance of attaining professionalism for school business officials, not only with regard to acquired knowledge and experience, but also in terms of the recognition and respect of peers and other professionals, FASBO’s Board of Directors established its Professional Certification Program in 2009.

The Program offers both acknowledgment and recognition for professionals at all levels of school business management. Certification is a way of recognizing those individuals with the background, training, and on-the-job experience to meet recognized standards of professional competence.

Districts face a challenging assessment landscape, with skewed or inaccurate data and sometimes unreachable students. With many districts in hybrid or remote learning modes, having students take assessments from home has been far from ideal, in some cases leading to inflated or deflated scores. (K-12 DIVE)

Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene was named the Florida 2021 Superintendent of the Year by the Florida Association of District School Superintendents (FADSS). Greene is the 33rd superintendent and the second African American woman to receive this honor since inception of the awards program in 1988. (Florida Department of Education)

Renewed debates about public policy education are bound to arise as education officials ponder a new Presidential administration. Education writer Peter Greene believes it will be useful to remember that virtually all of our debates are the outgrowth of four fundamental issues related to education. (Forbes)

The Sunshine State School Public Relations Association has named Debra Pace, superintendent of the Osceola School District, as the 2020 Outstanding Superintendent Communicator. (Osceola News-Gazette)

Maria Eunice, director of Food and Nutrition Services for Alachua County Public Schools, has won the highest national honor bestowed by the School Nutrition Association, sponsored by Basic American Foods. (The Gainesville Sun)