Who else won a school board race? Copyrighted policies?

[Essentia-Liberty-Guild]

Hello,

I am wondering if there are any other liberty supporters who have won a local school board election, and if there is an online discussion forum specifically for board of education members?

Also, my local school's superintendent handed me a copy of their board policies and bylaws just after I won the election. I find it alarming that this document is copyrighted by a private corporation -- Neola, Inc. Being that this is a public entity its bylaws are in my opinion equal to that of township ordinances and should be in the public domain.

How would you address this concern? I want to make sure that the rules and bylaws by which our public school governs itself are texts that the public can read and debate on their own. If one school takes an approach that leads to failure, it should be able to copy off of a school that implemented a differing policy that achieved success. It seems to me that if we are successful at anything contained in this policy manual, other schools wouldn't be able to implement such policies without also licensing them from this silly company. That seems absurd to me in my view of a free society.

-jeff phillips

 

[realtonygoodwin]

Bring it up at your board meeting! You know have the ability to help make those type of decisions. Good job getting elected!

 

[Matt Collins]

Assuming your school board is indeed a government entity, then anything it produces can't really be copyrighted. Laws and ordinances can't be copyrighted either. Now the layout of the laws in a book published by a company CAN be copyrighted, but not the laws themselves.


For example Lexis-Nexus or Westlaw etc creates books which cite law and list laws etc and they are copyrigthed. The laws themselves are not copyrighted, but the books are. That's probably what's happening.

 

[XNavyNuke]

Congrats on winning your election!

Regarding the document, if it was me I would first starting looking into the history of it. At some point in the past the board probably just decided to go with a pre-packaged product because it was "easy" or "non-controversial". It probably is one size fits all and has crap in it that you don't need and probably some weakness related to your specific district. After finding out who and why, I'd make a motion to set up a subcommittee for a formal review of the existing document and the drafting of one that will be public domain.

Good luck!
XNN

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Legislators, Congressmen, Senators, Governors, and Presidents can only bandage the hemorrhaging any long term solutions to our broken system can only come from the School Boards. Thank you for doing the hard, thankless work that actually counts.