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HAGERMAN JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 233


<span style="color:#000000;"><u>School Board Powers and Duties </u></span>

<span style="color:#000000;">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 district staff and who shall be held responsible for the effective administration and supervision of the entire school system. </span>


<span style="color:#000000;">The board, functioning within the framework of laws, court decisions, attorney general's opinions, State Department of Education regulations 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: </span>


<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">1.Enacts policy </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">2.Adopts courses of study and provides instructional aides </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">3.Employs all staff members and fixes and prescribes their duties. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">4.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. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">5.Estimates and seeks to provide funds for the operation, support, maintenance, improvement and extension of the school system. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">6.Provides for the planning, expansion, improvement, financing, construction, maintenance, use and disposition of physical plants of the school system. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">7.Prescribes the minimum standards needed for the efficient operation and improvements of the school system. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">8.Evaluates the educational program to determine the effectiveness with which the schools are achieving the educational purpose of the school system. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">9.Requires the establishment and maintenance of records, accounts, archives, management methods and procedures considered essential to the efficient conduct of school business. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">10.Provides for the dissemination of information relating to the schools necessary for creating a well-informed public. </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:0.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">11.A board member may bring any matter for review to the attention of any member of the administration and/or to the attention of the board sitting as a whole.</span></div>


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<div style="margin-left:0.5398in;"><span style="color:#000000;">Legal Reference: I.C. § 33-313 Trustee Zones </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:2.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">I.C. § 33-501 Board of Trustees </span></div>

<div style="margin-left:2.5in;"><span style="color:#000000;">I.C. § 67-2341 Open Public Meetings – Definitions </span></div>


<span style="color:#000000;"><u>Policy History: </u></span>

<span style="color:#000000;">Adopted on: 10/8/2012</span>

<span style="color:#000000;">Revised on:</span>