Why Did the Board Vote on TFA?
The district's practice is to require Board approval for contracts in excess of $250,000, but the contract with Teach for America didn't have any district money associated with it. At most it would have amounted to about $100,000 (25 x $4,000). The contract did not require Board approval, so why did the Board vote on it?
The decision about whom to hire is a management decision, not a governance decision, and the Board should not be involved. The decision to open teacher hiring to un-certificated Teach for America corps members (they will be un-certificated on the day they apply and un-certificated on the day they are hired; the District must petition the OSPI for their conditional certification AFTER they are hired) did not require Board approval, so why
The decision about whom to hire is a management decision, not a governance decision, and the Board should not be involved. The decision to open teacher hiring to un-certificated Teach for America corps members (they will be un-certificated on the day they apply and un-certificated on the day they are hired; the District must petition the OSPI for their conditional certification AFTER they are hired) did not require Board approval, so why
