School Board Duties

ND Century Code 15.1-09-28

School board president - Duties

The president shall preside at all meetings of the school board, appoint all committees subject to approval by the board, provide authorization for the issuance of negotiable instruments, and perform other acts required by law. A vice president may be elected by the board to serve in the absence of the president at any meeting.

School board - Powers summarize from ND Century Code 15.1-09-33

The board of a school district may:

- Establish a system of free public schools for all children of legal school age residing within the district.

- Organize, establish, operate, and maintain elementary, middle, and high schools.

- Have custody and control of all school district property and to manage and control all school matters.

- Acquire real property and construct school buildings and other facilities.

- Purchase, sell, exchange, and improve real property.

- Purchase, sell, exchange, improve, and lease for up to one year equipment, furniture, supplies, and textbooks.

- Recruit or contract with others to recruit homes and facilities which provide boarding care for special education students.

- Insure school district property.

- Purchase telecommunications equipment or lease a telecommunications system or network.

- Provide for the education of students by another school district.

- Prescribe courses of study in addition to those prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction or by law.

- Adopt rules regarding the instruction of students, including their admission, transfer, organization, grading, and government.

- Join the North Dakota high school activities association and pay membership fees.

- Adopt alternative curricula for high school seniors who require fewer than four academic units.

- Contract with, employ, and compensate school district personnel.

- Suspend school district personnel;

- Delegate to the superintendent of the district the authority to suspend school district personnel, except as provided for in section 15.1-15-10.

- Participate in group insurance plans and pay all or part of the insurance premiums.

- Contract for the services of a district superintendent, provided that the contract, which may be renewed, does not exceed a period of three years.

- Contract for the services of a principal.

- Employ an individual to serve as the school district business manager or contract with any person to perform the duties assigned to a school district business manager by law.

- Defray the necessary and contingent expenses of the board.

- Levy a tax upon property in the district for school purposes, as permitted in accordance with chapter 57-15.

- Amend and certify budgets and tax levies, as provided in title 57.

- Pay dues allowing for the board to hold membership in city, county, state, and national organizations and associations.

- Designate, at its annual meeting, a newspaper of general circulation as the official newspaper of the district.