FASBO has a new website!  www.fasbo.org 

You should have received an email with your login and password. Log in to renew your membership today.  

Membership is $35 for school business officials.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, FASBO was forced to cancel the 2020 annual conference.

However, as of now, we are planning to convene once again in October to help school business leaders hone their skills and interact with colleagues.

Conference highlights include:

•  44 in-depth professional development sessions presented by state & national experts
•  50+ exhibitors showcasing their products and solutions at Florida's school business expo
•  100+ attendees, including the best and brightest in school leadership
•   Inspiring keynote speakers

The conference will be held at the The DoubleTree Seaworld in Orlando, FL. 

For more than 52 years, FASBO has been uniting school business leaders to help you hone your skills, advance your career and build your network. Meet face to face with your colleagues and friends, connect with their knowledge and expertise, and start sending your own positive shifts throughout school business today!

Conference registration is $200

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.

Assessment and policy experts are divided over the U.S. Department of Education's decision, based on guidance released earlier this week, to keep in place statewide assessments with added flexibilities for the 2020-21 school year. (K-12 DIVE)

Nearly 90,000 students that were expected to attend public school in Florida did not show up this school year. In a letter sent recently to Florida's schools superintendents, the Florida House speaker said if school district's don't find those 'missing' students, they will lose state revenue. (Orlando Sentinel)

Some ed tech experts and environmentalists believe technology could help make universities and public schools more eco-friendly by cutting paper usage, food waste and transportation emissions. (Government Technology)

Remote learning has had a dramatic impact on the number of miles school buses drove in the past year, a reduction of 40% nationwide in 2020. That's a total of two billion fewer school bus miles during the year. (Spaces4Learning)

Edtech is playing a powerful role in hybrid and remote learning as it helps the entire idea of education evolve. Despite the challenges that remote learning has presented for students, educators, and parents across the globe, the learning community has demonstrated great resilience and innovation in the face of disruption. (ESchool News)