District Advisory Board

Role and Charge Draft 7/29/09

Board of Education Needs District Administration Needs

Future-Oriented Recommendations Current Operations Recommendations
• Funding. The current system of funding education in Colorado • System-wide topics. What topics are of current interest to DAB
provides resources at a maintenance level only. That is, the representatives relating to district-wide policies, practices or
insufficiency and uncertainty of year-to-year funding makes it procedures?
difficult to achieve the meaningful change necessary to meet • What are best practices of individual schools/groups of schools
21st century education requirements. What is a better way to that are recommended for sharing District wide?
fund education that will enable the BOE to both plan ahead • What matters are arising from individual schools that would
with confidence and create stretch objectives for the District to benefit from District awareness, support or intervention?
meet?
• Legislative. The education system in Colorado is largely driven
by statute, limiting flexibility and nimbleness. What are
specific barriers to the District’s responsiveness to changing
education needs that might be addressed through statute?
• Ends Statements. Board DE Policies specify the outcomes that
the District must achieve. What are recommendations for
changes to these policies?

The above reflects the duality of the District Advisory Board’s role with duties for both the BOE and the District. BOE Policy GP 3.6, Board
Committee or Liaison Principles, would be amended to describe the DAB as follows:

“The District Advisory Board as a group of representative parents and community members from the Poudre School District shall:

1. Provide the Board at least twice yearly with concepts regarding the future of Poudre School District, including concepts regarding
funding, legislative agenda, and the Board’s Ends statements;
2. Advise the Poudre School District regarding topics that impact the District as a whole;
3. Advise the Poudre School District's parent community regarding topics that impact the District as a wholeShare information with
individual sites regarding issues impacting students, parents, community members, sites, and the District.
4. Provide a conduit between the District and individual sites for sharing best practices of individual schools and for sharing other matters
that are arising at individual schools.”