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BBAA - School board Powers and Responsibilities

CODE: BBABBBAA

The School Board shall have general charge of all the public schools of this unit and shall exercise such other responsibilities as specifically provided by law.

The Board shall concern itself primarily with broad questions of policy rather than with administrative details.  The application of policies is an administrative task to be performed by the Superintendent and his/her staff, who shall be held responsible for the effective administration and supervision of the entire school system.

The Board, functioning within the framework of laws, court decisions, attorney general's opinions, and similar mandates from the state and national levels of government, and recognizing the authority of the state, fulfills its mission as the governing body of a political subdivision by acting as follows in the execution of its duties:

  1. Enacts policy;
  2. Selects, employs and evaluates the Superintendent;
  3. Provides for the planning, expansion, improvement, financing, construction and maintenance of the physical plant of the school system;
  4. Prescribes the minimum standards needed for the efficient operation and improvement of the school system;
  5. Requires the establishment and maintenance of records, accounts, archive management methods and procedures incidental to the conduct of schoo business;
  6. Approves the budget, financial reports, audits, major expenditures, payment of obligations, and policies whereby the administration may formulate procedures, regulations, and other guides for the orderly accomplishment of business;   
  7. Estimates the funds necessary from taxes for the operation, support, maintenance and improvement of the school system;
  8. Adopts courses of study;
  9. Provides staff and instructional aids;
  10. Evaluates the educational program to determine the effectiveness with which the which the schools are achieving the educational purposes of the school system;
  11. Provides for the dissemination of information relating to the schools necessary for creating a well informed public; and
  12. Approves/disapproves personnel nominations from the Superintendent and determines (where appropriate via collective bargaining) compensation and working conditions of all staff.  

 

STUDENT SCHOOL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE

 

The Cape Elizabeth School Board supports the concept of up to two high school student representatives to the school board each year. These representatives would serve in a nonvoting capacity, although their "vote" by a show of hands would be encouraged and documented in formal minutes on each action item at monthly school board meetings.

 

Student representatives will attend business meetings and be invited to workshop and committee meetings. They will act as liaisons between the school board and the student body. They will be excluded from executive sessions.

 

The terms for these representatives would be for one complete school year, with no more than two consecutive terms to be served.

 

Process and procedures for nomination and election onto the school board is outlined in the attached guidelines.

 

  • 20-A MRSA'MRSA § 1001
  • 20-A MRSA § 1476 (IA)

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Adopted:

 01/08/2019

Cross Reference: BBAB-R - Student School Board Representative Policy Guidelines JIB - Student Involvement in Decision Making

 

ADOPTED: April 10, 2007

Revised: March 12, 2013

 

CAPE ELIZABETH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

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