The Role of School Boards

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This paper analyzes the group dynamics of school boards through a general understanding of the group dynamics of a school board and a case study example of a particular school board. The writer states that this work is especially important given the current climate of public and institutional demands for sweeping change within the whole public school system.

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"It is clear through the evaluation of current local political issues in almost any community that the tasks facing school boards are varied and often extremely challenging. The tasks assigned the group include issues associated with curriculum, safety, infrastructure and last but certainly not least both long and short-term fiduciary concerns. (Hamilton & Reutter, 1958, p. 117) One example is noted in the 1994 Kirst analysis on school board reformation, "School boards play an executive role when they implement policy. Many school boards approve not only the budget, but also almost every expenditure and contract for services?.Many boards approve the appointments of principals, vice principals, categorical program administrators, and even teachers." (Kirst, 1994) This example represents an idea of just one of the seemingly all encompassing functions of the local school board."

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