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Management Rights Clause

  1. The BOARD on its own behalf hereby retains and reserves unto itself all powers, rights, authority, duties, and responsibilities conferred upon and vested in it by applicable law, rules, and regulations to establish the framework of school policies and projects, including (but without limitation because of enumeration), the right:
    1. To the executive management and administrative control of the school system and its properties, programs, and facilities;
    2. To employ all personnel and, subject to the provisions of law or State Department of Public Instruction regulations, determine their qualifications and conditions of employment, or their dismissal or demotion, their promotion and their work assignment;
    3. To establish and supervise the program of instruction and to establish and provide supervision under agreed-upon rules for such programs of an extra-curricular nature as the BOARD feels are of benefit to students;
    4. To determine means and methods of instruction, selection of textbooks and other teaching materials, the use of teaching aids, class schedules, hours of instruction, length of school year, and terms and conditions of employment.
  2. The exercise of the foregoing powers, right, authority, duties and responsibilities by the BOARD, the adoption of policies, rules, regulations, and practices in furtherance thereof, and the use of judgment and discretion in connection therewith shall be limited by the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreements and the Wisconsin Municipal Employment Relations Act.
  3. The BOARD further recognizes the unique value of the teaching staff and the administrative officers of the BOARD to advise the BOARD on matters of policies relating to pupils, the building construction and maintenance of schools, and especially the instruction of pupils; and instructs the SUPERINTENDENT to seek the advice and counsel of the teaching staff and the administrative staff whenever the SUPERINTENDENT deems the advice and counsel pertinent.

10/04/04