PAVE aims to improve school boards

Alan Borsuk:

I've often said things like this: Show me a good school and I'll show you a good principal. Or this: Show me a good school and I'll show you valued and valuable teachers who row the boat together.

Dan McKinley would add this to the list: Show me a good school and I'll show you a good board of directors.

He makes an important point, and PAVE, the organization he has headed for two decades, is launching a potentially valuable effort to improve a key to a school's quality that has gotten little attention.

In a way that is likely to unfold largely behind the scenes, the new board quality initiative PAVE has launched could improve the success and long-term vitality of the 125 or so schools in Milwaukee that largely govern themselves - often, not particularly well.

The focus in education policy these days is predominantly on the classroom - including teachers and teaching, curriculum, higher standards and whether technology and online resources will bring fundamental changes in the way kids are taught in coming years. This is all important, of course.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 5, 2012 1:47 AM
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