School Administration And The School Board

St. Augustine, Florida – May 10, 2020 – During the ABC School Board meeting on May 10, 2020, the board appointed Dr. Jamie Walker-Davidson as the new superintendent of schools. She will be stepping up to replace Dr. David Romano, who will be retiring after 20 years serving the ABC school district. Board President Matthew Barnes stated, “We are excited that we were able to fill this position with such a competent and valuable candidate.” Dr. Walker-Davidson officially takes office on July 1, 2020, however she has already begun working with Dr. David Romano, the staff, and school board for a seamless transition.

Perform a search in the University Library databases and locate four school-related court cases (with outcomes decided), two which involve educators as defendants and two which involve students as defendants. Fill in the table below. When you give your informed opinion, state and discuss whether you agree or disagree with the outcome. Base your opinion on legal and ethical standards as discussed in Ch. 9 of the text. If you do not agree with the outcome, explain what would have been just. Base your explanation upon the rights and responsibilities of those involved. Cite your sources in APA format below the table.

It can be concluded Teachers are held to a higher standard then non-educational occupations, as “The Supreme Court has acknowledged that a “teacher serves as a role model for…students exerting a subtle but important influence over their perceptions and values” (Cambron-McCabe, McCathy & Eckes, 2014, p. 251). Teachers must be conscious to the ideology their actions, words, and mannerism can directly influence their student audience. The 1st amendment freedom of expression offers protection to teachers as it applies to the following clause, “Public employees’ comments on matters of public concern are protected expression if they are made as a citizen and not pursuant to official job duties” (Cambron-McCabe, McCathy & Eckes, 2014, p. 233).

4. How does your view of behavior affect how you might address this consulting assignment?

Due to an ongoing conflict between teachers at the Reynoldsburg City school and the school board, many teachers have decided to strike. When the strikers experienced a lack of support from the board, and even from the community, Emily Dillon, one of the strikers, decided to write an explanation. The primary source that she created was published on educationvotes.nea.org. Her piece is titled ‘“WHY I CHOSE TO STRIKE”: Reynoldsburg, OH, teacher shares her story.’ Throughout this primary source, Emily Dillon, an elementary school teacher and employee of the Reynoldsburg City Schools, goes into a considerable amount of detail about a day in the life of being on strike. In doing so, she explains to readers the main reasons they are striking and expresses her frustrations towards these issues. Dillon makes it very obvious that she does not enjoy striking and in fact misses her job very much, even if some of her arguments about class sizes, are flawed and or poorly written.

4. Do you find any evidence of any of Mark’s students taking responsibility for their choices, decisions and/or actions? If yes, give 3 examples, if no, what 3 steps could the students take to become responsible for their lives?

There were quite a few issues that our administrative team came across that we needed a second opinion on. The majority of the time we were spot on with what should have been done. As new administrators, we wanted to make sure we had all of our t’s crossed and i’s dotted so nothing could come back on us, the school, or the district.

Chapter 10 is important for any administrator. As a principal or superintendent, you will most likely need to evaluate staff and potentially recommend that one of your employees should be non-renewed or discharged. You will also need to be familiar with the teachers' association's negotiated agreement and potentially even advice the school board in the negotiation process. For this discussion, please discuss either: (1) whether you feel teachers and/or administrators should be able to get tenure and whether it should be based on criteria, length of time, or just automatic and why; OR (2) whether you feel teachers should be able to strike and/or be allowed to negotiate their terms of employment with the school district and why. You need not respond to any other's discussion, but you certainly can. I expect this to be based on your own personal opinion

A major accomplishment in administrative law occurred in 1946 when the House and Senate passed the Administrative Protection Act (APA), which outlined the formation of agencies funded by Congress (Gedid, 2013, p. 246, para 2). Through the use of the APA, congress delegated tasks to agencies by establishing the goals and purpose for each agency. The creation of agencies provided a consistency in laws and regulations with legislative power punishable by the judicial system. In the event an agency failed to meet the guidelines and focus set by Congress their funding would be eliminated thus dissolving the agency. Congress provides funding to the public education system throughout various agencies; therefore; it is vital that the rules and regulations set by educational agencies are followed to maintain funding.

Rights protected in the 1st and 14th amendment back up the tenure systems. The first amendment states, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Following, the 14th amendment states No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Long story short, the 1st amendment protection for teachers who speak out on matters of

Everyone in America should be guaranteed the freedom of speech granted by The Constitution. In 1988, the court ruled in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier that schools \could limit freedom of speech in school if they had “educational concerns” (Jacobs). The problem is that “educational concerns” is too vague and school districts are able to use this as a loophole to get away with removing articles that do not need to be removed. Often, the concern is based on perception and image more than anything else. Angela Riley’s article “20 years later: Teachers reflect on Supreme Court’s Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier ruling” quotes Frank LoMonte, executive director of

Therefore, when teachers are taking a stand and going on strike, they are taking advantage of their individual right of freedom of speech. Also, this story was covered all over the news, the press in which classical liberals had the right to do. In this situation, with the point of view from a classical liberalist, there is nothing remotely wrong with teachers standing a stand and using their freedom of speech and the press to get what they believe needs to be done, to be done. However, classical liberalism does not mention any rights or freedom in the aspect of education, therefore, teachers going on strike in the view of a classical liberalist, would not affect others or the

Explain the strategic purpose of: School Governors, Senior Management Team, other statutory role e.g. Senco, Teachers and Support staff roles.

On Monday,October 14, 2013 at 7:00 P.M., I attended the Bradford Area School District school board meeting at Floyd C. Fretz Middle School in the large group instruction room. This meeting was important for the teachers, students, and the schools in the district. It provided information that correlated to the material in class and a perspective on what situations as a future teacher I may experience.

For the second time in almost 4 years, over 350,000 Chicago Public School Students may not be able to go to school because of the CTU Strike that is currently in progress today (The Washington Post). The issue between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools has not been solved yet due to disagreements about the income received. The Chicago Teachers Union has made offers to school administrations; however, the responses were not in their favor. The union has been in progress of agreeing on a contract “since November 2011, [and the strike that occurred at the time] was the first to hit the Windy City in 25 years” (Liebelson). The issue must have erupted due to a misconception or a realization of problems occurring. Chicago Teachers Union choosing to strike does not affect charter schools since they are not a part of Chicago Public Schools. The issue of school strikes can be fixed by increasing the budgets and providing useful resources to teachers in order to improve the level of education.