POLICY TITLE: Encouraging Large Schools to Subdivide into Schools-Within-a-School. POLICY NUMBER: 7.134. SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Encouraging schools that fall within certain statutory size definitions to subdivide into smaller units through an operational program known as "schools-within-a-school." PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To implement § 231.262(1), Fla. Stat., which requires school boards to adopt a policy of encouraging (but not requiring) large schools to subdivide into smaller units for the 2002-03 school year and thereafter, within existing resources; defines "schools-within-a-school;" describes three suggested models for such operational programs; specificies which schools are encouraged to subdivide; explains that establishment of any school-within-a-school will be carried out consistent with collective bargaining agreements if such agreements are deemed applicable. SPECIFIC RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: §§ 230.22(2); 230.23(22), Fla. Stat. LAWS IMPLEMENTED: §§ 230.23(17), (20); 235.2157, Fla. Stat. CONTACT PERSON: Dr. Joseph Orr, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd. C-316, West Palm Beach, FL 33406. THE PRELIMINARY TEXT of the Proposed Policy Development may be promptly obtained without cost from the District’s website at www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/LLP/revisions.asp (or from Office of Public Affairs, 3336 Forest Hill Blvd. Ste. B-102, West Palm Beach, FL 33406). POLICY DEVELOPMENT HEARING: This policy development will begin at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on June 17, 2002 (anticipated to be 3:00 p.m.), in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting is open to the public.