{"id":3150,"date":"2019-05-21T00:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T00:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2019-05-21T00:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T00:20:27","slug":"reminder-longwood-school-budget-vote-boe-election-on-tuesday-may-21-7am-9pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Longwood School Budget Vote &#038; BOE Election on Tuesday, May 21, 7am-9pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Remember to vote Tuesday, May 21!\u00a0 All Middle Island residents vote at the West Middle Island Elementary School, 30 Swezey Lane, Middle Island.\u00a0 Polls are open from 7am to 9pm.\u00a0 The link below should take you to the school budget newsletter, with information on the budget as well as the five candidates seeking the two seats available this cycle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a id=\"LPlnk268049\" href=\"http:\/\/www.longwood.k12.ny.us\/UserFiles\/Servers\/Server_2549290\/File\/Documents\/Budget%202019-20\/2019-20%20Budget%20Newsletter%20English%20for%20posting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">http:\/\/www.longwood.k12.ny.us\/UserFiles\/Servers\/Server_2549290\/File\/Documents\/Budget%202019-20\/2019-20%20Budget%20Newsletter%20English%20for%20posting.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A reminder of what the Board of Education actually does:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Responsibilities of the Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Board of Education is the official policy-making body of the school district. It is the board&#8217;s responsibility to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Establish policies for the operation of the district.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Set goals and develop a vision for the district.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Build community support and promote understanding of public education.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Develop academic standards based on high expectations.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Hire a superintendent of schools.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Take action on matters only after consulting with the superintendent.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Attract and retain excellent staff members.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Work to ensure that there are necessary funds for the district, maintaining a balance between needs and resources.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember to vote Tuesday, May 21!\u00a0 All Middle Island residents vote at the West Middle Island Elementary School, 30 Swezey Lane, Middle Island.\u00a0 Polls are open from 7am to 9pm.\u00a0 The link below should take you to the school budget newsletter, with information on the budget as well as the five candidates seeking the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}