Reflection Paper On School Board Meeting

For this project I had to attend a board meeting and interview a member from the agency. I choose to go to a school board meeting at the Corcoran Unified School District. I specifically choose this agency because I grew up in Corcoran and I’m already familiar with the agency. I also choose this specific agency because I wanted to see what the school boards actually did for the schools and the community. I wanted to see how it was all incorporated to help students and their education. Since I had never attended a board meeting I was very curious to see and experience what goes on during the meetings and what ideas they come up with to make our education better.
I attended the school board meeting Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. The meeting ended at 6:51 p.m. The meeting started out with the pledge of allegiance. The meeting then continued with a short summary of what was discussed in the last meeting. During the meeting the school board discussed the changes that they wanted to make to better the city and secure their students. They also gave reports stating how much money they had and where all the money was being invested. The school board members talked about a bright crosswalk sign with flashing lights, alerting drivers that students were crossing the sidewalk. This cross walk sign would cost the

She got to sit along with the members and talk about how the high school was investing their money in their education. She talked about how the Spanish club had a Day of the Dead event that took place, the FFA field trip that took place and the Academic Decathlon Team field trip. The reason why these topics were being brought up was because the school board needs to know what is going on in the schools and because these activities request van transportation and other expenses to be paid for field trips and the school board takes care of