Operational and Managerial Responsibilities. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing (paragraph one), it is expressly recognized that the Board's operational and managerial responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • The right to determine the location and the number of schools and other facilities of the school system. • The determination of the financial policies and practices of the District, including the general accounting procedures, methods of inventory of supplies and equipment, management of bids and purchasing of materials and services and other spending. • The determination of management, supervisory or administrative organization and staffing of each school or facility in the system and the selection or promotion of employees to supervisory, confidential, management, or administrative positions. • The maintenance, control, and use of the school system properties and facilities. • The determination of safety, health, and property protection policies and practices. • The right to enforce policies, rules, and regulations now in effect and to establish new policies, rules, and regulations. • The management, direction, arrangement, and evaluation of the work force in the school system, including the right to hire, transfer, promote, demote, evaluate, suspend, discharge, or discipline employees. • The creation, combination, modification, or elimination of any teaching or other positions. • The determination of the size of the work force, the allocation and assignment of work and positions to employees, the determination of policies and practices affecting the selections of employees, the establishment of selection standards and criteria, work performance standards, training requirements and the right to judge employee performance and conduct. • The approval and authorization of the processes, content, techniques, methods, and means of teaching and the subjects and curriculum to be taught. • The right to schedule and assign all work and to approve and authorize textbooks, teaching aids, and other materials.
