Board Member Roles & Responsibilities

As a 20-year experienced school board member, Ed Short, brings exemplary leadership to the table. He takes this responsibility seriously and is the most qualified candidate to represent the district 5 communities and school district as a whole. Ed Short has extensive experience in this role as defined as follows:

The board member’s responsibility is citizen oversight of local government is the cornerstone of democracy in the United States.

School board members are locally elected public officials entrusted with governing a community’s public schools.

The role of the school board is to ensure that school districts are responsive to the values, beliefs and priorities of their communities. Boards fulfill this role by performing five major responsibilities:

• Setting direction…Policy

• Establishing an effective and efficient structure

• Providing support

• Ensuring accountability

• Providing community leadership as advocates for children, the school district and public schools

These five responsibilities represent core functions that are so fundamental to a school system’s accountability to the public that they can only be performed by an elected governing body.

Authority is granted to the board as a whole, not each member individually. Therefore, board members fulfill these responsibilities by working together as a governance team with the superintendent to make decisions that will best serve all the students in the community.