Application
For The
Student
Advisory Board
Matanuska-Susitna
Borough School
District
The
Matanuska-Susitna Student Advisory Board is composed of student representatives
from each secondary school in the Mat-Su
School District. Its
purpose is to advise the School Board as to the wants and needs of the
students. Each high school is allowed four representatives and each middle
school will have three representatives. Meetings are held once a month at a
designated site during the school day and are considered authorized absences.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Student Advisory Board
A Student Advisory Board was approved
by the School Board on November 19, 1979.
A Student Advisory Board will consist
of student representatives of each secondary school in the Mat-Su School District.
The purpose of this Board is to advise the School Board as to the wants and
needs of students. The president or designee of this Board shall sit as an
ex-officio member of the School Board at all public sessions of the School
Board.
Purpose
The purpose of this Board is to act
as an Advisory Board to the School Board. Its primary goals will be to allow
for student input into educational decisions and to voice the concerns and
needs of the students.
Membership
Student membership on the Board shall
be as follows:
Each High
School shall have four representatives; it should consist of at least one
senior and one underclassman
Each
Middle School or Junior High School will have three representatives; it should
consist of at least one eighth grader and at least one underclassman
Combined
High Schools and Middle Schools membership shall be the same as if both were
separate schools.
Length of Term
Student
representatives from high school shall be selected for
two-year terms.
Student
representatives from middle/junior high school shall be selected for a two-year
term.
Term of
office shall begin in May, as an observer, with full voting privileges
beginning the following September (August).
Selection
of students shall be made prior to April for the remainder of that year and the
following year.
Unexpired
terms of one semester shall be filled, until the completion of that school year
as determined by the student governments of the respective schools.
Selection of Student Members
Students
will be chosen through an application process. The applications will be
distributed to the advisor contact at each school, and deadlines will be
announced. Students who meet the qualifications are eligible to apply.
Applications
will be reviewed by a district-wide group of teachers/advisors who will then
select the student representatives and notify them of their positions.
The Superintendent or his/her designee (s) shall represent the
central administration as a non-voting member (s).
