Hiearchy of the Education System

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Education over the past hundreds of years has made many changes and advances in the way it is run, what is included, and who is allowed to attend. The idea of a school board and what it is suppose to represent (serves) to a community has changed and has stuck to its founding principles. The power of the educational system is controlled through a network hierarchy.There are three major levels in which power is transferred through the federal, state and local levels. The local school board is a representative group of members made up of elected citizens from that district. The local school board has the power in “[hiring] personnel to operate the schools, in determining organizational and administrative policy and evaluating the results of the program and the performance of personnel.”(Ryan and Cooper [Page 354]). At the local district level a school board can range in size from nine to twelve members. There are two different ways a member can be added to the local school board by being “elected by citizens living in the school district or [being] appointed by the local government in which the school district is set” (Tozer, Senese, and Violas [Page 313]). An exception to this process is made in “some city school districts where school members are appointed by the city’s mayor.”(“Internal Structure of a School”) People who run for the position of a school board member, are usually people who have a deeply rooted personal connection to that district. They are in most cases a parent of a child who is currently attending, or has attend in the past while their child was still in school. Members chose the position because they want to be a part of the change and policy making. In an official occupation “they are state ... ... middle of paper ... ...e of a School Board.” Nyssba.org. New York State School Boards Association, n.d. Web. 19 May 2014. . SCHOOL DISTRICT OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW FACT AND FICTION “Items of Business and Discussion.” School Board Notes. 12th ed. Vol. 33. Williamsville: Williamsville Central School, 2014. 1-2. Williamsville Central Schools. Web. 20 May 2014. . “Parliamentarian.” Opertec. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 May 2014. . Ryan, Kevin, and James M. Cooper. Those Who Can Teach. 13th ed. Wadsworth: Cengage Learning, 2013. Print. Tozer, Steve, Guy Senese, and Paul C. Violas. School and Society Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Seventh ed. N.p.: McGraw Hill, 2013. Print. School and Society.

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