LLCS

Board of Directors Meetings
Learning for Leadership Charter School Board meets at the school (3300 5th Street NE). Board meetings are open to the public and parents and community members are encouraged to attend. Board meetings are thelast Thursday of each month from 5:30-7:00 PM.
Call 612-789-9598 for more information.

Our Authorizer Pillsbury United Communities (PUC) www.puc-mn.org is committed to work actively to develop future leaders. Pillsbury United Communities has observed that many of the youth served by the PUC are not engaged in challenging paths to prepare for a successful career.

The Pillsbury United Communities and the planners of Learning for Leadership Charter School (LLCS) both understand that students need a nurturing and challenging environment to learn more skills and improve work habits. Students of color must be participants in a school providing this type of opportunity.

Ultimately ours is a strategy to build cross cultural experiences in learning through a combination of strategies. Charter schools seeking more diversity eventually may be able to adopt some of our strategies, after we demonstrate success.

(From the Minnesota School Board Association website www.mnmsba.org):
What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of the School Board?

The major function of the school board is to provide leadership, policy development, policy oversignt, and communication. This is usually accomplished by adopting policies which the administrators and staff carry out.

Areas for which the board is responsible for policy include but are not limited to:
*Educational program development and monitoring
*Student assessment
*Student support services
*Employee relations including hiring, inservice, and evaluation
*Instructional materials
*Facility use
*Extracurricular activities
*Board operations

Other Board roles include:
*Budget adoption, revenue management, and expenditure authorization
*Superintendent selections, contract, and evaluation
*Long range planning
*Ratifying collective bargaining agreements
*Care and maintenance of facilities
*Public relations
*Legislative involvement

The qualities of leadership that have been identified are: integrity, perseverance, commitment, ability to plan, vision, initiative, and courage. Effective board members share a number of these characteristics and are also able to work as a team member.