The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board's investigation into Superintendent Crystal Hill reveals a governance pattern where boards act as both investigator and arbiter of their own superintendent, a structural conflict that erodes accountability and substitutes internal politics for transparent...
Continue reading →Boards turn agenda-setting and employment reviews into weapons of operational interference when policy governance fails to define the board's procedural role. Denver Public Schools illustrates the pattern: the board and Superintendent Alex Marrero spent two weeks in special meetings and closed...
Continue reading →Every year, school district auditors flag material weaknesses, repeat findings, and compliance failures, and every year, boards nod solemnly, accept the report, and move on. What the research actually shows about what…
This week, a superintendent resigned from a mid-sized district citing, in language that was notably direct, the board's increasing involvement in day-to-day operations. Local coverage treated it as a leadership…
When a school board votes on academic standards, it is exercising one of its most consequential legitimate powers, defining what students in the district are expected to learn. When that same board starts debating…