As a body created under law by the State of Wisconsin, the Board of Education of the Royall School District has full authority, within the limitations of federal and state laws and interpretations of them, to carry out the will of the people of its district in matters of education. In all cases where laws or the regulations of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction do not provide, permit, or prohibit, the board shall consider itself the agent responsible for establishing and appraising educational activities. Board members have no authority over school affairs as individuals. They have authority only when acting as a body duly called in session.

The board shall concern itself primarily with broad questions of policy rather than with administrative details. The application of policies is an administrative task to be performed by the district administrator and district staff, who shall be held responsible for the effective administration and supervision of the entire school system.

The board, functioning within the framework of laws, court decision, Attorney General’s opinions, County Counsel’s opinions, and similar mandates from the state and national levels of government, and recognizing the authority of the State, fulfills its mission as the governing body of a political subdivision by acting as follows in the execution of its duties:

1. Enacts policy

2. Adopts courses of study and provides instructional aids

3. Employs all staff members and fixes and prescribes their duties

4. Approves the budget, financial reports, audits, major expenditures, payment of obligations, and policies whereby the administration may formulate procedures, regulations, and other guide of the orderly accomplishment of business

5. Estimates and seeks to provide funds for the operation, support, maintenance, improvement, and extension of the school system

6. Provides for the planning, expansion, improvement, financing, construction, maintenance, use, and disposition operation of physical plants of the school system

7. Prescribes the minimum standards needed for the efficient operation and improvement of the school system

8. Evaluates the educational program to determine the effectiveness with which the schools are achieving the educational purpose of the school system

9. Requires the establishment and maintenance of records, accounts, archives, management methods, and procedures considered essential to the efficient conduct of school business

10. Provides for the dissemination of information relating to the schools necessary for creating a well informed public