This website provides a summary of each school board meeting as well as school corporation documents and policies in an effort to have a more informed community and reduce regulatory capture.

What is regulatory capture? It is common for elected school boards to favor the priorities of school administrators and teachers union leaders instead of the priorities of teachers, students, parents, and other community members. By limiting public access to information and through heavy involvement in election (often by setting up a PAC), teachers union leaders and school administrators try to get people elected to the school board who are willing to just act as a rubber stamp. This is known as Regulatory Capture and it is pervasive in the United States.

Who does the school board represent?

As a community, do we want our school board to represent school administrators and teachers union leaders or do we want a school board that represents the community? The public interest often coincides with the interest of administrators and union leaders. However, sometimes the best policy for the community is not what school administrators and union leaders desire. If we want our schools to improve, we need the school board to represent the community. That will only happen if we are informed, speak up, and stay involved.

*Note: I am an elected member of the West Lafayette School Board. This website gives my personal views and does not represent the official positions of the school corporation or the school board.