Recognizing that to be effective, the Cobb
County Board of Education (Board) must be informed of all issues which may
affect its work, and inasmuch as the Superintendent is the Chief Executive
Officer of the School District (District), the Superintendent shall ensure
that the Board is informed and is provided such staff or other support as
the Board shall require for its work.
Without limiting the above, the Superintendent
shall:
1. Provide the Board timely notice of:
a. Material internal changes;
b. Planned/actual personnel changes
at the local school administrative level and
above;
c. Substantial or publicly visible
programmatic changes;
d. Any legal action threatened or
filed;
e. All press releases and mass
communications originating from the school district
prior to
their release, including "talking points" as appropriate;
f. All Administrative Rule changes
for review and comment at least 10 days prior to
release.
2. Issue emergency communications to the Board as unforeseen circumstances
warrant. In these
cases, all reasonable efforts shall be made to ensure that each
board member is
contacted.
3. Report board member non compliance with its own policies, particularly in
the case
of board member
behavior which is detrimental to the relationship between the
Board and
Superintendent.
4. Ensure that all Executive reports as required by the Board in areas of
performance
of duties
delegated to the Superintendent is provided in a timely, complete,
accurate,
understandable, non defensive and unbiased fashion, directly addressing
Board
policies monitored and justifying his/her interpretation. Such reports, in
final
version,
shall be provided to the Board no less than five business days in advance
of any public
discussion of such data. Two days following the Board's receipt of
such data, it
shall be posted on the public section of board docs.
5. Present to the Board at least twice annually on developing trends.
Examples of such
trends
include academic, growth and demographic, legal, financial, personnel, and
communication.
6. Provide an executive summary for all data presented to the Board.
7. Report, in a timely manner, actual or anticipated non compliance with
Board policy.
Adopted: 5/9/07 |