Pros And Cons Of School Board Approval

4. Coordinate gym, building and athletic field use with the district office and maintain the district building use calendar.

As the sport season began, the business manager, Fred Jones, blatantly disregarded the Athletic Directors requests for purchases for girls’ athletics and requests for securing equal practice times of the varsity gym for boys’ and girls’ teams. Barnhart requested a meeting to address the discrepancies, which ended in an argument. In December, a reporter requested open records for athletic budget broken down by sport. The superintendent and Fred Jones blamed Coach Barnhart for the reporter’s investigation. The superintendent, as a disciplinary action, has called for her removal from the positions of athletic director and high school volleyball coach and wants to demote her to a middle school social studies teaching position. The Riverboat School District Board of Education called a special session to discuss the case and the legality of the superintendent’s decision to adversely change Coach Barnhart’s employment status. Coach Barnhart has claimed this action will violate her First Amendment rights through suffering adverse employment action and will suffer retaliation for

Simple arithmetic is not an easy task. Just like some students have difficulties with basic mathematics skills, so does the Superintendent. This is not to say that the Superintendent cannot do basic math. What this is really comparing is the challenging undertaking involved in counting four out of seven votes in favor of the Superintendent 's recommendations. Swaying back and forth for Board votes is timely and very hard to accomplish, but it is an essential part of the job. Sharp and Walter (2004) explain board members have no authority as individuals. However, together or as a majority they can be extremely powerful in making policy. Longer tenures and more efficient working

Though the altercation may seem recent, standardized testing had been in use for centuries. In imperial China, citizens were required to write poetry and essays about philosophy when applying for a government job. Similarly, Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press drastically increased the usage of written assessments in parts of Europe, in the 1400s. However, standardized testing had only been added to America’s public education curriculum recently. After the Revolutionary War, numerous education reformers pushed for the government to have a greater role in the lives of American students, which sparked the Common School Movement. Horace Mann, the Secretary of Education at the time, believed that education was a fundamental right and that

During the time of 1952, Brown v. Board of Education was argued the Fourteenth Amendment was taken under consideration to allow different things to take place, such as; 1) public education, 2) segregation of children in public schools, 3) the idea of being separate but equal being in the field of public education, and 4) the bias conditions of when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted.

Are run by the school governing body, who decide on the school admission policy with the local education authority. The

There are many differences between interscholastic and recreational sports programs. The first big difference is the affect that school work and grades affect your participation. In a recreational sports program, they are not looking at your grades to see if you are doing well enough to continue to play. Whereas with interscholastic sports you must maintain a certain GPA, you are required to attended class, along with other stipulations that they may have from a program. An athletic director is responsible for making sure that students that are participating in the interscholastic events are maintaining the requirements that they must meet. With the recreational sports program the athletic director most likely hires someone to organize the events and that’s about all the athletic does with recreational sports. Another difference between interscholastic and recreational is that some people who are participating in interscholastic sports are getting scholarships towards their education. Making sure that the students are following those specific guidelines to keep their scholarship is something that and athletic director must keep track of. With recreational sports an athletic director doesn’t have to worry at all about it. Overall an athletic director doesn’t have

Bureau Valley’s school board is comprised of seven members. Each member represents a section of the district. These board members are very prominent figures in our communities; they have much of the communities support. Although popularity, may not be what is best for the students. Looking at the Bureau Valley school board mandates, they are ultimately only required to do 4 hours of training and attend a few meetings when elected (Bureau Valley 2013, 120). Unfortunately, it is 2016 and the board member with the most recent training of any sort happened in March of 2014, almost two years ago. David E. Lee and Daniel W. Eadens, authors of “The Problem: Low-Achieving Districts and Low-Performance Boards,” find that school boards like Bureau Valley’s are not uncommon. Lee and Eadens find that most school board members only receive about “six hours of training per year,” compared to Bureau Valley’s four per election, our board is severely undereducated (Lee and Eadens 2014, 3).

Education is the most powerful tool one can arm themselves with. Education provides people with the power to innovate, invent, and change the world. Recognized on a global basis as the ultimate key to unlocking one’s potential, education is one of, if not the most important aspect of a human being’s life. Despite this recognition of education as a necessary aspect of positive advancement, there has lately been a high amount of controversy surrounding the education system in the United States. A large amount of this controversy surrounds the views of the new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, who strongly believes in the concept of school-choice vouchers, which are essentially subsidies given directly to parents to

I think it is important to point out a little background information on the Englewood School Board. I have attended several of the school board meetings over the past three years and have witnessed a lot of bitterness and dissatisfaction among the board members and attendees. It stems from a history of inequities in the school system and a separation of high school and an Academy program that appears to receive a large operating budget and administrative support on the same campus. With that said there are members on the board who have children in the Academy program who have a vested interest in the success of the program over what is best for all the students who attend the high school or the program.

EDUC 512 Issue 1.5 Should Public Schooling be Redefined? Issue 2.6 Are Local School Boards Obsolete?

Another topic that was extremely important to me was the achievement gap between blacks and whites. Being an educated African American woman it’s astonishing to see how far America has come. From not even allowing African Americans to become educated to now having specific scholarships to help African Americans become educated. It’s amazing to see how each case such as learning about the different cases such as: Plessey vs. Ferguson, brown vs. board of education, and many other cases that have set precedents in order for me to be attending and succeeding at division one University.

Every school district has board meetings throughout the school year. Unfortunately, many parents, community members, & school personnel do not attend such important meetings because they don’t realize or understand the importance of such board meetings or how informative they can be. According to Kankakee School District (2017), the Kankakee School District Board of Education is composed of seven elected members, who were elected by the citizens of Kankakee to serve a four-year term that do not receive no salary for they services, are committed to ensuring a quality of educational excellence that will enhance the opportunities and challenges facing today’s student and additional responsibilities that board members include are selection of the District superintendent, developing general polices according to wishes of the community and requirements of law, hiring school personnel based upon recommendation of the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel, adopts salary schedules, approves funds to finance school operations, must adopt and review the annual operating budget for the District, and setting the property tax levy to produce adequate funds to meet the District’s financial needs ranks among the responsibilities of the Board of Education (Retrieved from https://www.ksd111.org/domain/68). For this paper, the Kankakee School District board meeting will be used, information learned from board meeting, use of

My interest in pursuing a position as a school administrator for an elementary school system is to provide leadership for staff members and quality education for all students, and to become part of the world of education. The Benjamin Franklin School located in the Dallas School District serves as a growing population of approximately 1,070 students. The school offers a well-defined educational system for the students, and it has an overall student-to-teacher ratio of 17:1. In addition to the statewide curriculum standards, the school offers special education programs and classes for the gifted and talented. As a result of the school district rankings in the student’s performance, Benjamin Franklin School has become the worst in the

The No Child Left Behind is highly controversially from my perspective because it has such a high focus on standardized testing. There are quite a few pros and cons. Increased test scores is definitely something positive that we see rise since the NCLB came into play. This includes test scores of all students, with minority test scores increasing the most. But in contrast, this is probably because a greater focus has been placed on what to expect on these tests and much more test prep. This is definitely a con because this assessment is multiple choice and only done annually most of the times so there's just a lot that won't be shown on these tests. I believe many teachers are only teaching what is on the test and will lead to many students