Santa Cruz County School Boards Association

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The Santa Cruz County School Boards Association is a taxpayer-funded lobbying association[1] in California.

Santa Cruz County has 30,000 students.

All of the county's 10 districts must agree with the rules of the group before the group fine-tunes the bylaws and begins meeting once every other month. Each district and the county Office of Education will have one trustee on the board.[2] As of September, only 5 districts have joined (see Members below). [3]

The group is modeled after the Santa Clara County School Boards Association. [2]

[edit] Members

Charter schools are not allowed in the association, as the board is only for elected officials. [2] [4] This has become the cause of much debate. [3]

[edit] References

  1. ↑ "School Districts Uniting to Lobby Sacramento", Santa Cruz News, July 20, 2009
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "School board joins new countywide school board association", Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 9, 2009
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Politics at play in county schools association formation", Central Coast, September 21, 2009
  4. ↑ "Santa Cruz trustees join county school board association", Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 11, 2009
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