The article leads with this assertion: "local school boards remain mostly overlooked in national discussions of K-12 policy," and as a result, School Boards are "a governance system that is too often ineffective, if not dysfunctional, some scholars and other experts contend." Some even argue that local School Boards need to be done away with entirely.
Others argue that district school boards are a vital piece of the democratic process and help ensure a community voice in important decisions about educating children. The focus, they argue, should be on changing the way boards behave.I recognize from my own experience the "micromanaging tendencies that today plague so many boards:"
“A lot of these boards are doing the wrong thing,” she says. “They spend time on whether Johnny should be suspended or not. So what looks like micromanagement to a superintendent or to those of us outside a district looks to school board members like constituent service or representation.”Here's what it's supposed to look like:
“In highly functioning districts, the board and the superintendent figure out who needs to do what to meet their goals; they look at the budget together to make sure it’s aligned with the goals."Sound familiar?
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