K-12 Board of Education : Dakota Conference Bismarck ND

The purpose of the Dakota Conference K-12 Board of Education shall be:

To assume general responsibility for long-range planning of the K-12 conference educational system.
To conform to the North American Division Working Policy and the Mid-America Union Education Code.
To administer the educational program of the Conference pursuant to the constitution, bylaws, and working policies of the Board of Education.
To assume, as delegated by the Executive Committee, the responsibility for the employment, assignment, transfer, retirement, termination, or dismissal of personnel in the Dakota Conference schools in K-12.
To develop a plan and formulate procedures designed to evaluate school personnel regularly and routinely.
To arbitrate school-related appeals and grievances.
To receive and consider applications from schools desiring to teach secondary subjects.
To receive and consider applications from churches desiring to open a church school.
To administer an annual budget for schools K-12, as voted by the Executive Committee.
To apply salary rates for all educational personnel within the wage scale policy of the Mid-America Union Conference.
To approve annual school calendars meeting state and Union Conference Board of Education requirements.
To evaluate facility needs in terms of pupil population projections and to develop an overall long-range plan for erecting new facilities, renovating and/or remodeling existing schools.
To evaluate recommendations of the Dakota Conference superintendent(s) of education regarding new schools and/or consolidation of existing schools.
To appoint subcommittees (standing or ad-hoc) as needed. Subcommittees may include, but are not limited to: DAA finance, DAA personnel and policies, DAA building and grounds, and DAA advancement. Dakota Conference officers and educational superintendent(s) shall be members, ex officio to all subcommittees, with full voting privileges.