KBA-P0 - Community Involvement in Decision Making

The Board believes that the schools belong to the people whom they are created to serve.  It therefore intends that all reasonable efforts should be made to identify the desires of the community and to be responsive, through its actions, to those desires.  There are two major ways in which the will of the community shall influence the development of Board policies:

1. The people of the Division are responsible for electing Board members to represent their ward.

2. All citizens of the Division are encouraged to express ideas, concerns, and opinions about the school through such means as:

   1. Written suggestions or proposals;

   2. Presentations at hearings or at Board meetings (see also BD and BDA);

   3. Responses to surveys made regarding education;

   4. Attendance at open meetings of the Board; and

   5. Active involvement with the school’s Advisory Council.