I served on a school board for a term some years back years. My district was one of the few that sent its entire seven-member board to the annual state school boards association convention.My contribution to the journey was to suggest that each one of us come back to the first board meeting after the convention and report on three things we learned there that would help us cut costs or improve education. If nothing else, I thought, the exercise would bolster the decision to have all of us attend, versus just a representative or two. It’s amazing how much
