FILE: LE
SCHOOL - COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS RELATIONS
Parent-Teacher Associations
The Board considers parent-teacher associations as auxiliaries to the public schools, and not as “outside” groups. Whenever a local parent-teacher association is formed, it shall be permitted to hold its regular meetings in the school building, and it shall be the duty of the principal and teachers of the school to further the work of the association in every way practicable. Meetings of these associations may be held in the school building with permission of the school principal without the necessity of the lease required of “outside” groups.
All funds shall be accounted for in compliance with the “Guidelines for Financial Operations of School-Related Organizations” issued by the Alabama State Department of Education.
Booster Clubs
It shall be the policy of the Board to work with, and encourage the support of, academic, band and athletic booster clubs.
All booster club activities shall be authorized by, and coordinated with, the school principal.
All funds shall be accounted for in compliance with the “Guidelines for Financial Operations of School-Related Organizations” issued by the Alabama State Department of Education.
Booster clubs shall not directly or indirectly supplement pay of coaches, band directors, advisors or any other school employee.
All decisions concerning personnel employed by the Board shall be reserved strictly as a Board matter and shall not be the prerogative of booster clubs.
ADOPTED: August 13, 2002
REVISED: July 8, 2008
LEGAL REF: Code of Alabama 16-1-30