The School Board endorses the concept that community participation in the affairs of the schools is essential if the school system and the community are to maintain mutual confidence and respect and work together to improve the quality of education for students. Therefore, the Board, directly and through its administrative and instructional staff, intends that positive efforts are to be extended to identify both the desires of the community and the degree of willingness of its members to participate and will be responsive through its actions to both.
While striving to obtain community
involvement in decision making, it is recognized that is the ultimate
responsibility of the elected board to provide lay governance of the schools as
prescribed in law. Further, the Board
recognizes in its staff the professional expertise
inherent in its training, experience and commitment. Thus, the Board and staff shall use their
best judgment in arriving at decisions.
Substantial weight is to be given to the advice, information and desires
expressed by individuals and community groups interested in the schools,
especially from those individuals and groups invited to advise regarding
selected issues, but also from unsolicited comment as well.
Legal Reference: Title 20A
Cross Reference: BDF – Advisory Committees to the Board
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