Seminole County Schools: Case Study

For that reason, the principal and school administrators will be visible and visiting classrooms, making rounds, and attending and participating in community events. The school leaders will use their voice to be advocates for the needs of the students, parents, faculty, and staff of HSHS and to showcase everyone’s accomplishments.

Polk county public schools consist of 63 languages spoken, representing 151 countries. Nearly 11,000 students speak Spanish, 720 speak Haitian Creole and 100 speak Arabic language. In this school district 39 percent of students’ ages 0-17 live below the poverty line(“Diversity Management”, 2012). Unfortunately 19.3 percent of all children in Florida also live below the poverty line. 67 percent of the students enrolled in Polk County Public schools met federal guideline to quality for free or reduce lunch. 79 out of 158 schools in Polk County are classified as Title 1 schools. Polk County Population breakdown by racial makeup: White 66.3 percent, Black 15 percent, Hispanic 17.7 percent, Asian 1 percent, Native American less than 1 percent, Pacific Islander less than 1 percent. The district includes 158 principals and about 240 assistant principals (“Diversity Management”, 2012).

Dr. David Bolton has had an interesting spring, to say the least. He has served in the capacity of the Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education in Central Bucks for two years. At the end of Dr. Bolton’s second year, the retiring Superintendent planned to retire officially on May 30, 2016 but in a series of events involving new School Board members, he was asked to clean out his office on Monday, May 9, 2016. The Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education also retired early in March of 2016, leaving Dr. Bolton currently with the title of Substitute Superintendent until a new Superintendent begins on June 6, 2016. Dr. Bolton has been completing tasks since March as Elementary and Secondary Assistant Superintendents and Substitute Superintendent all at once. My original interview was scheduled with the outgoing superintendent during the week of his departure. In light of this complication, Dr. Bolton was gracious enough to answer my questions in an email but I was unable to interview him in person or on the phone due to his busy schedule.

Describe the powers and authority of the state board of education and local school boards and what responsibilities they have for the administration and operation of schools.

Prior to coming to Hoke County, Dr. Williamson had already served in a plethora of diverse roles in his educational career (e.g., teacher, assistant principal, vocational-educational director, principal, director of secondary and middle school education, director of personnel, associate superintendent, and a boys and girls basketball coach), therefore becoming a superintendent was inevitable; the school board knew he could advance the Hoke County’s School System, however the “key” was: he was a willing vessel.

The text states that it is essential that superintendents and school board members communicate effectively to find the best solutions to problems. Effective communication requiring everyone to be heard in an honest and forthright exchange of viewpoints has proven to be best for children. Therefore report on Curriculum by Dr. Byron Haynes and reports on start of the year were given by Principal J. Griffin, Principal B. Cleark and Principal M.

TASK3, Describe roles and responsibilities of: A. school governors. B. senior management team. C. other statutory roles e.g. SENCO. D.

I teach in the Westside Consolidated Number Five School District in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The school district is a consolidation of three small rural town school districts Bono, Egypt, and Cash, Arkansas in 1968. I met with my mentor Mr. Scott Gaunt the school district superintendent on January 18, 2017 between meetings with district leaders and countywide superintendents. We met and discussed the community relations plan and identified the two most important issues for our district as identified in the poll by the Phi Delta Kappan and the Gallop poll. The issues were the lack of financial support for the school district to provide an adequate education for students and the testing and regulations imposed on school districts that lower educational time for students while in school.

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

Last week during our Citrus County School Board’s Workshop we learned that House Education Appropriations Subcommittee released a report during their January 21, 2016 meeting that appears to be positioning themselves to now take a portion of local tax payers 1.5 millage rate for school capital outlay and reassign those funds to charter schools.

Almost every introductory seminar, handbook, and school board policy manual shares a common premise: The school board is responsible for adopting policies and the role of the superintendent is to see that the policies adopted by the school board are followed and employed to guide the work of educators and others in the school community. Yet, when applied in a variety of settings, in the face of complex issues and involving people with varying levels of experience and a wide array of perspectives, this seemingly clear guideline can play out in surprising and, sometimes, conflict-filled ways.

Compass Educational Programs has four campuses in total. Each campus has a Director, Administrative Assistant, Office Assistant, Head Teachers and Assistant Teachers. In addition to creating optimal learning environments and teaching children, the classroom staff is also responsible for mentoring student teachers and students and supporting those who wish to conduct research on site. Our regional director over looks all four campuses and makes weekly visits with director to make sure that all needs are met and program is running is running sufficiently. The person at the top of our organizational chart would be our executive director but we do not get to communicate with him very often, the person under him is who we communicate with the most

The overall purpose of the research is “to determine if there are certain responsibilities and characteristics that define a successful district superintendent” and if the teachers perceive the same responsibilities. The study

This case discussed the events that occurred during a change in DSS Consulting’s organizational structure. Three retired school district administrators established DSS Consulting during the late 1990’s. The company offered administrative support to small school districts located within the mid-west and mountain west region. They specialized in handling the negotiating of labor agreements as well as implementation of permanent system solutions designed to enable those organizations to run efficiently.

In order to truly understand a district or schools budget, one must first understand the schools mission and vision. Why does the school exist? What type of education and values should the student leave the school with? Understanding questions like these will help a principal or superintendent understand a schools operating budget. For the purpose of this paper, it is assumed that a superintendent or principal has been assigned to a district and will analyze the operating budget for the school year.