Sterling Schools
CUSD #5 2.20
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Board
of Education
Powers and Duties of the Board of Education
The powers and duties of the Board of Education generally include:
1. Formulating and adopting District policies at its sole discretion, subject only to mandatory collective bargaining agreements, and state and federal law.
2. Employing a superintendent and other personnel, making employment decisions, and dismissing personnel.
3.
Directing, through policy, the
Superintendent, in his or her charge of the District’s administration.
4. Approving the annual budget, tax levies, major expenditures, payment of obligations, annual audit, and other aspects of the District's financial operation.
5. Entering contracts using the public bidding procedures when required.
6. Providing, constructing, controlling, supervising, and maintaining adequate physical facilities;
7. Approving the curriculum, textbooks, and educational services.
8.
Evaluating the educational program
and approving School Improvement and District Improvement Plans when they are
required to be developed or revised.
9. Evaluating and supporting student discipline policies designed to maintain an environment conducive to learning, including hearing individual student suspension or expulsion cases brought before it.
10. Establishing attendance units within the District and assigning students to the schools.
11. Establishing the school year.
12. Visiting and inspecting the District's facilities.
13. Providing student transportation services;
14. Entering into joint agreements with other Boards of Education to establish cooperative educational programs or provide educational facilities; and;
15. Complying
with requirements in the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Specifically, each individual School Board
member must, if an allegation is raised to the member during an open or closed
School Board meeting that a student is an abused child as defined in the Act,
direct or cause the School Board to direct the Superintendent or other
equivalent school administrator to comply with the Act’s requirements
concerning the reporting of child abuse.
16. Communicating the schools' activities and operations to the community and representing the needs and desires of the community in educational matters.
LEGAL REF.: 105
ILCS 5/2-3.25d, 5/10-1 et seq., 5/17-1, and 5/27-1.
115ILCS
5/1 et seq.
325 ILCS 5/4.
CROSS REF.:
1.10, 2.10, 2.80, 2.240, 5.90
Adopted:
Revised: January 24, 2007