Lou Ann Linehan, who has represented District 39 in the Nebraska state senate for nearly eight years, has championed school choice as a priority issue in the Unicameral.
School boards antagonism to parents reflects the decades of gradual delegation of powers to unelected administrators. They've become conditioned to accept a subsidiary role, a rubber-stamp function, to defer to the experts. Check your statutes, but superintendents generally won't have any statutory or common law powers - only school boards. Take back your authority. Move the super off the dais and back to the staff table. Audit district policies, confirm with statute - did this or that power need to be delegated to a superintendent...or can we do it ourselves? Nothing will change unless you do.
School boards antagonism to parents reflects the decades of gradual delegation of powers to unelected administrators. They've become conditioned to accept a subsidiary role, a rubber-stamp function, to defer to the experts. Check your statutes, but superintendents generally won't have any statutory or common law powers - only school boards. Take back your authority. Move the super off the dais and back to the staff table. Audit district policies, confirm with statute - did this or that power need to be delegated to a superintendent...or can we do it ourselves? Nothing will change unless you do.