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Delaware County Christian
School is a parent-owned independent Christian school.
At DC, the board provides the link between the owners of
the school
and the administration. The board aims to maintain a size
of 15 elected members. The board’s Trustee Committee
screens and nominates, for board consideration, individuals
to fill
vacancies on the board each year. The board members are
elected at the annual Society Recommitment Night and will
serve no
more than 2 consecutive 3-year terms. A former member of
the board may be nominated for board membership again after
spending
a minimum of one (1) year off the board. God has blessed
DC for over 50 years with many godly men and women who
have been
willing to serve on the board and provide direction for
the school.
In 2003, the board adopted the Carver Policy Governance
model to govern the school.
What is the Policy Governance® model?
Policy Governance is a framework of principles designed
by Dr. John Carver that:
- provides exceptional clarity to the role and functions
of the board vs. the administration and staff;
- organizes and aids development of board policies
in a useful, clear, and consistent way;
- facilitates the board’s complete accountability
for their organization, while simultaneously enabling
maximum freedom for the staff to do its job.
This framework can be used effectively in its entirety by
any type of board -- profit or non-profit, with paid staff
or without, and with committees or without. It does not tell
boards what its policies should be, or what results the organization
should produce, but rather how to govern an organization
effectively on behalf of an ownership.
What are the Policy Governance principles?
The principles at the core of the Policy Governance system
are:
- Governance is a function of ownership, not management;
- Boards are the highest authority under owners;
- Boards are the initial authority within the organization;
- Board authority is group authority;
- Boards are accountable to owners for everything within
the organization;
- Boards need to empower those to whom they delegate
authority while
remaining fully accountable for the use of
their authority.
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