(a) The Commissioner of Education shall develop policies and guidelines for the implementation of site-based management and control of the acquisition process for all public high schools in the Virgin Islands which will allow individual public high schools maximum operational and budgetary flexibility and ability to plan comprehensively. The Commissioner in effectuating the provisions of this section may utilize the Dolan Model of School Management. The Commissioner shall submit a progress report by June 30, 2002, to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands noting the status of the development of policies and guidelines for the implementation of the site-based management.
(b) Not later than 30 working days following the effective date of the annual budget for the operation of the Government of the Virgin Islands, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall make available the annual allotments to each of the public high schools in the Territory necessary to carry out the provisions of school site-based management to allow individual public high schools maximum operational and budgetary flexibility. The Commissioner shall submit a progress report by June 30, 2002, to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands noting the status of the development of policies for the implementation of a reliable substitute teacher pool.
(c) The principals and administrators of the public high schools in the Virgin Islands in collaboration with the Commissioner and Board of Education and the University of the Virgin Islands, are authorized to assist in the development and implementation of policies for the establishment of a reliable substitute teacher pool, and student awards and attendance incentive program in the public high schools of the Virgin Islands.
(1) Each principal of an elementary school, a junior high or a senior high school in the Virgin Islands may issue payroll checks to substitute teachers from the Substitute Teachers Pool, established in this subsection.
(2) Two weeks before the commencement of the school year, the Commissioner of Finance shall fund a school's substitute teacher's pool fund the cost of any necessary school repairs and improvements for school accreditation and compliance as follows:
(A) $150,000 for a senior high school;
(B) $100,000 for a junior high school; and
(C) The sums in subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall remain available to the particular school until expended.
(3) The Department of Education shall establish rules and regulations for the operation and management of the substitute teacher's pool.