The annual FASBO Business Meeting will be held Nov. 17, at 2 p.m.

Members should be on the lookout for a Google Meet link coming soon.

The FASBO Annual Conference is expected to return to Orlando in 2021.

The Conference will be held at The DoubleTree Universal in Orlando, FL.

The joint FASBO & FRMA conference scheduled for earlier this month was cancelled due to COVID-19 safety concerns.

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.

More information will be available in the coming months.

Stay tuned!

FASBO is announcing it will extend 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.

While the coronavirus has caused hardships, some K-12 practices born from the virus have the potential to enhance outcomes and school operations. (EDUCATIONDIVE)

While the sense of chaos and and anxiety surrounding the changes in education due to COVID-19 is being experienced by all students, the problems can be magnified for students with disabilities. Here's how one school district in Sarasota is trying to ease those students' transition to the "new normal." (Midland Daily News)

With cases of COVID-19 on the rise again across the nation, providing ways to help slow the spread of infection continues to be a major issue for school administrators. From an administrative standpoint, it’s important to look at the holistic design of the school washroom, including traffic flow, as well as product design and materials. (Spaces4Learning)

More teachers have begun raising concerns about the dangers they and their students face by returning to in-person learning in some areas as COVID-19 safety guidelines and how they are enforced continue to vary widely from one school district to another. (Healthline)

A charter school in the nation's capital went out of its way to make sure it had covered all of its bases before it was scheduled to reopen. But the plan to return to the physical classroom a few days per week in October suddenly went wrong: teachers didn't want to come back. (The Washington Post)