Strengthening School Committee as an Effort to Increase Community Participation

Abstract

Abstrac: This study examines the efforts to increase community participation as an effort to strengthen school committees considering so that the existence of healthy school committees has a significant influence on the presence of superior school services. The approach taken in this study using qualitative methods where data collection through interviews and further documentation carried out induction model analysis by taking the site at Vocational High School 1 Sumenep East Java. The results of the study indicate that school committees of Vocational High School 1 Sumenep strengthen school committees through two activities; first, organizational strengthening of school committees by: 1) executing the establishment of committee members according to democratic rules and principles; 2) Has a Statutes and Bylaws of the organization and the work program of the committee; 3) carry out the role and function of the school committee. Secondly, the school committee's education insights are characterized by: 1) school committees are actively involved in the preparation of budget and expenditure plans (RAPBS) 2) the school committee understands the need for quality learning process; and 3) school committees establish partnerships and cooperation synergistically between schools, families and communities.