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The Role of the School Board

The School Board gets noticed whenever a high profile vote or controversy draws public attention.  The drama of democracy is a close vote on an issue that divides the community.  However,  the majority of our work goes on week after week in oversight, policymaking and advocating with other elected officials. For example:

• Budget oversight has been particularly challenging as state revenues plunged and a gap widened in our budget plans for next year requiring cuts in many services.
• We are tackling a rewrite of our entire policy book to clarify, simplfy and update a 700 page behemoth of policies dating back thirty years.  
• The adoption of many key components of Basic Education Task Force reforms vindicated strong Board support for this major legislative reform of education funding and structure.

So how is the School Board doing in these different roles and where should we focus most for improvement?

 04/29/2009  |  comments (23)

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