The
authority to establish, equip, furnish, operate and maintain the public
schools of Jim Thorpe Area School District is vested in the Board of
School Directors, which is a body corporate and is constituted and
governed by Title 24 of the Pennsylvania Statutes, the Public School
Code of 1949 as amended, and Article III of the Constitution and
applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
The
Board shall establish such schools as are required for the education of
every person residing in Jim Thorpe Area School District between the
ages of six (6) and twenty-one (21) years who may attend school; shall
equip, furnish, operate, and maintain the schools; shall adopt and
enforce rules and regulations for the management of school affairs and
the conduct and deportment of employees and students; and shall levy and
collect taxes as may be necessary, in addition to the annual state
appropriation, for the exercise of aforesaid powers.
The
Board, in accordance with its statutory mandate, shall adopt Board
procedures for its own operation, and policies for the guidance of the
Superintendent in the operation of the school district. Board procedures
and policies shall be consistent with law, have a rational and
substantial relationship to a legitimate purpose of the Board, and be
directed towards the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient
system of public education in this district.
The
Board shall act as the general agent of the people of this district in
the matter of public education. It shall establish educational goals for
district students and govern a program of education designed to meet
those goals. The Board shall be responsible for enforcing mandatory laws
and regulations. The Board shall be the agent responsible for
establishing, maintaining and evaluating the public education activities
of this school district, in accordance with law.
The
powers of the Board of School Directors are not vested in the
individual Board member. No such individual is authorized to act on
behalf of the Board to carry out any of the Board's statutorily
authorized powers, except for those acts stated in law.