The Role and Obligations
of Your Bay Village City School Board
School boards set educational goals and establish policy for a school
system based upon state laws and community values. In effect, they
create the vision for the future of a school district.
Board members make decisions on a wide range of issues such as hiring
and evaluating a superintendent and a treasurer, setting district
policy, planning student services, goal setting and long-range planning,
developing curriculum, establishing budgets and community relations
programs. A board member should be a skilled decision maker; however,
decisions are only made by the board as a whole at a public meeting.
Board members do not manage the day-to-day operations of a school
district; they see to it that the system is managed well by
professionals.
The amount of time and study involved in this commitment is great, and
your school board members do this for nominal monetary compensation,
just around $2700 per year.
The schedule of board meetings is decided in January of each year at an
organizational meeting, where it is also decided which board members
will serve as president and vice-president, and where committee
positions are assigned.