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Board of Education
Committed to Excellence
Gardner Edgerton USD 231 Board of Education received a Magna Award for their support of an innovative district marketing plan to recruit new teachers.
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Your local school board works in close collaboration with district administrative staff, providing patron oversight and ensuring that district decisions reflect community values. Each member of the school board is a local community resident, and all either have children attending district schools or who graduated from Gardner Edgerton schools.
Facts about the School Board
- School board members are elected officials.
- School board members serve four-year terms.
- There are seven school board members: two from each of the three established board member districts, and one at-large member.
- A school board member must live within his or her established board member district. The at-large member may reside anywhere within the school district.
- School board members are not paid for their service to the school district.
- School board positions come up for election on a rotating basis:
Board District 1
Position 4: Elected in 2009; next election in 2013
Position 1: Elected in 2007; next election in 2011
Board District 2
Position 5: Elected in 2009; next election in 2013
Position 2: Elected in 2007; next election in 2011
Board District 3
Position 6: Elected in 2009, next election in 2013
Position 3: Elected in 2007; next election in 2011
Board At-Large
Position 7: Elected in 2007; next election in 2011
LINKS
The Kansas Association of School Boards
National School Boards Association
American School Board Journal