What does a Board have the right to expect from their Superintendent?
What does a Superintendent have a right to expect from their Board?
Have you heard the following before?
"Our Board struggled with minutiae. We have a district plagued with under funding and extraordinary capital needs...Board members were so consumed with leaking roofs, finding the cheapest qualified vendors and making decisions about any and all building improvements that they never spent time on the issues they had run to affect...improved learning opportunities for kids."
Peg Portscheller, Supt of Year, 1997.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 heightens the responsibility of school board members and superintendents. The new federal law raises the bar at a time when many school board members are already struggling with state demands, declining resources, changing demographics
