The Dorset School Board of Directors is five members of the Dorset community who have been voted into office in March for a term of one, two or three years, or who are appointed by the Selectmen to fill a mid-term vacancy.   Their role is to provide leadership to the town in directing Dorset ’s education, while also being accountable to the townspeople.

The school directors, along with the school administration, are responsible for:

• The fiscal operation of the school, including determining the sum of monies needed to operate the school and presenting the budget to the town to be voted on at town meeting.

   

• The hiring/firing and contracts for all school staff, including administration.

• Setting the direction and goals of The Dorset School’s educational programs.

• Determining operating policies, and reporting to the town.

• Answering questions and being accountable to the townspeople.

• In the case of hearing parent concerns or complaints, the Board sits as the final appeals board when a parent has found no satisfaction dealing with the school system itself.

The School Board’s ultimate goal is to work with professional administrators to provide a safe learning environment for Dorset ’s children, hoping to ensure them a more fulfilled self-reliant life, and to provide for them the education that will enable them to live the best lives they can live.

All School Board meetings are open to the public, though confidential issues (pertaining to contract negotiations, students or personnel, possible legal mattes, etc.) are discussed in executive session.   Meeting dates (the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 6:00 p.m. ) and times are warned in the Bennington Banner and usually noted in the Manchester Journal (except for emergency meetings).   Minutes from previous meetings are recorded and posted at the Town Office and posted in the Dorset Post Office.   Any townsperson interested in education and being involved in the management of the school should submit his/her name, by petition, to the Town Office by mid-January.   Please check with the Town Office for the exact date.

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page last updated: September 11, 2003

• The hiring/firing and contracts for all school staff, including administration.

• Setting the direction and goals of The Dorset School’s educational programs.

• Determining operating policies, and reporting to the town.

• Answering questions and being accountable to the townspeople.

• In the case of hearing parent concerns or complaints, the Board sits as the final appeals board when a parent has found no satisfaction dealing with the school system itself.

• The fiscal operation of the school, including determining the sum of monies needed to operate the school and presenting the budget to the town to be voted on at town meeting.

   

• The hiring/firing and contracts for all school staff, including administration.

• Setting the direction and goals of The Dorset School’s educational programs.

• Determining operating policies, and reporting to the town.

• Answering questions and being accountable to the townspeople.

• In the case of hearing parent concerns or complaints, the Board sits as the final appeals board when a parent has found no satisfaction dealing with the school system itself.

The School Board’s ultimate goal is to work with professional administrators to provide a safe learning environment for Dorset ’s children, hoping to ensure them a more fulfilled self-reliant life, and to provide for them the education that will enable them to live the best lives they can live.

All School Board meetings are open to the public, though confidential issues (pertaining to contract negotiations, students or personnel, possible legal mattes, etc.) are discussed in executive session.   Meeting dates (the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 6:00 p.m. ) and times are warned in the Bennington Banner and usually noted in the Manchester Journal (except for emergency meetings).   Minutes from previous meetings are recorded and posted at the Town Office and posted in the Dorset Post Office.   Any townsperson interested in education and being involved in the management of the school should submit his/her name, by petition, to the Town Office by mid-January.   Please check with the Town Office for the exact date.

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page last updated: September 11, 2003

• The hiring/firing and contracts for all school staff, including administration.

• Setting the direction and goals of The Dorset School’s educational programs.

• Determining operating policies, and reporting to the town.

• Answering questions and being accountable to the townspeople.

• In the case of hearing parent concerns or complaints, the Board sits as the final appeals board when a parent has found no satisfaction dealing with the school system itself.

The School Board’s ultimate goal is to work with professional administrators to provide a safe learning environment for Dorset ’s children, hoping to ensure them a more fulfilled self-reliant life, and to provide for them the education that will enable them to live the best lives they can live.

All School Board meetings are open to the public, though confidential issues (pertaining to contract negotiations, students or personnel, possible legal mattes, etc.) are discussed in executive session.   Meeting dates (the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 6:00 p.m. ) and times are warned in the Bennington Banner and usually noted in the Manchester Journal (except for emergency meetings).   Minutes from previous meetings are recorded and posted at the Town Office and posted in the Dorset Post Office.   Any townsperson interested in education and being involved in the management of the school should submit his/her name, by petition, to the Town Office by mid-January.   Please check with the Town Office for the exact date.