FILE: KA
SCHOOL BOARD PUBLIC RELATIONS
The Plaquemines Parish School Board, in an effort to enhance and ensure high expectations and standards in the education of the children of this Parish, endorses this statement of policy on school and community relations as an outgrowth of its belief that (a) the public schools belong to the people who created them by consent, and support them by taxation; (b) schools are only as strong as the intelligent and informed support of the community, and never any stronger; and (c) the support of the people is a product of their knowledge of the goals and efforts of the public schools.
The Board therefore reaffirms and declares its design and intent:
to keep the citizens of the community regularly and thoroughly informed through all channels of communications on all policies, programs, and plans of the school system, and to enact this policy through its own efforts and the office of the Superintendent of Schools;
to invite the advice and counsel of the people of the school system at all times and especially at all monthly meetings of the Board, excluding executive sessions;
to solicit the sound thinking and reflective counsel of the citizenry in the consideration of those problems which vitally affect the future of our children; and,
to solicit the service of the parents for volunteer work at the schools and active participation in special events.
Adopted: November 1, 2010
Plaquemines Parish School Board