The FASBO 2021 Annual Conference is October 12-15. 
School business professionals will once again convene along with other school business leaders to hone their skills and interact with colleagues.

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

Hotel rates have been reduced. The nightly room rate is now $89.

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

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If you are a sponsor, you can locate your booth number and place orders for the event here.

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!

Regular Full Conference Registration is $200.
Retiree Full Conference Registration is $100.

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.

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