What do School Boards Do?
This is the main job of a school board.
What is setting policy and direction for the school district?
School board members are chosen in this way.
What is through local elections?
These meetings are when the board makes decisions.
What are public board meetings?
Name one topic you might see come up at a School Board Meeting.
- Safety
- Funding
- Personnel
- Events
- Policy
- Etc.
This person is the CEO of the school district.
Who is the superintendent?
School boards hire and evaluate this key person.
Who is the superintendent?
This is how long most school board terms last in Colorado.
What is four years?
The public can do this during board meetings to share opinions.
What is public comment?
This type of funding request often appears on the ballot to support schools.
What is a bond or mill levy override?
These leaders support the superintendent and lead things like academics, HR, or operations.
Who are deputy superintendents, chief officers, executive directors, etc.?
School boards approve this to determine how money is spent in schools.
What is the budget?
This is the title of the leader of the school board.
What is the board president?
This set of rules often guides how meetings are run.
What are Robert’s Rules of Order?
These programs help students earn career skills in high school.
What are Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs?
These leaders run individual schools.
Who are principals?
This plan sets long-term goals and priorities for a district.
What is the strategic plan?
School board members must live here to serve.
What is within the school district boundaries?
This is the meeting that happens before or after the public board meeting, and gives Board of Education members an opportunity to dive deep into something without making formal decisions.
What is a study session?
If you care about school issues, this is one thing you can do even if you're not 18.
What is attend meetings, speak during public comment, or join a youth board?
These school leaders act as liaisons between district leadership and students, families, and teachers.
What are assistant principals or deans?
True or False: School boards decide exactly what every teacher teaches.
What is False?
True or False. School Board Elections are partisan.
False - they are nonpartisan.
School boards must follow this state-level body’s rules.
What is the Colorado Department of Education?
Name one way RMP and Civic Influencers have engaged with a local School Board.
- School funding measures
- Share update on RMP's work
- Share about the Civic Influencer fellowship
This is how the superintendent and board of education work together.
What is the board sets the vision and policies, and the superintendent leads day-to-day operations?