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BOARD-SUPERINTENDENT RELATIONSHIPS
The Superintendent shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Vigo County School Corporation Board of School Trustees and shall be responsible for the professional leadership and skill necessary to translate the will of the Board of School Trustees into administrative action.
The Superintendent shall be responsible for all aspects of school operation and for such duties and powers pertaining thereto as the Board of School Trustees may direct or delegate. The Superintendent of Schools may delegate responsibility and the authority necessary to discharge it to other officials and so develop such procedures and regulations as considered necessary to insure efficient operation of the schools.
The Board of School Trustees assumes that the Superintendent is professionally able and possesses qualities of leadership, vision, and administrative skill and that the Superintendent will implement all policies of the Board of School Trustees in good faith.
The Superintendent can assume that the
Board of School Trustees will respect the Superintendent's professional
competence and extend full responsibility for implementation of board policy
decisions. In order that the Superintendent may provide effective leadership,
the Board of School Trustees will delegate to the Superintendent of Schools
those powers which it considers advisable so to do. The Superintendent
can expect the Board to support the Superintendent's decisions and administration
of the school system.
Adoption Date: September 22, 1976
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