Run for Local School Board in Cave Creek Unified District, AZ

A School district operates much like a small business. Just as the Superintendent is similar to a CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Governing Board Members (also called School Board Members) are elected officials with specific roles and responsibilities. In the Cave Creek Unified School District we have a five-member Governing Board with staggered terms. According to the National School Boards Association, "School Board Members provide an unequaled example of volunteerism and citizen power in guiding society's most complex challenge - the education of our young people. School Board Members are trustees of the educational welfare of all children in their communities. They are elected by the people and are directly accountable to the community. School Board Members are not educators; they are your neighbors. This is the essence of their uniqueness - School Board Members are the community and are in the best position to bring the community together to shape the destinies of our children."Governing Board Members are unpaid, elected officials who serve as the policy-making body for CCUSD(r). A Board Member must be a qualified elector and have lived in the district for a least one-year. The Board sets policy, approves educational programs, textbook adoptions, the hiring and termination of personnel, set salaries and compensation, and adopts a yearly budget. The responsibility to oversee and administer programs and policies rests with the Superintendent, who is hired by the Board

A person who is a registered voter of this state and has been a resident of the school district for at least one year immediately preceding the day of election is eligible for election to the office of governing board member. No employee of a school district, including a person who directly provides certified or classified services to the school district as an employee of a third-party contractor, or the spouse of such an employee may hold membership on a governing board of a school district by which the employee is employed. A member of one governing board is ineligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to or serve simultaneously as a member of any other governing board, except that a member of a governing board may be a candidate for nomination or election for any other governing board if the member is serving in the last year of a term of office. A member of a governing board shall resign the member's seat on the governing board before becoming a candidate for nomination or election to the governing board of any other school district, unless the member of the governing board is serving in the last year of a term of office. (ARS 15-421)