• File:  HE

    SCHOOL COMMITTEE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

     
    1. Under the Laws of Massachusetts, the Greater Fall River Vocational School District Committee has final responsibility for establishing the educational policies of the public schools; for the management of said schools; and for directing their operation.
    2. As to every matter expressly not covered by any agreement with an employee group and except as expressly or directly modified by clear language in a specific provision of any agreement, the Regional School Committee retains exclusively to itself all rights and powers that it has or may hereafter be granted by law and shall exercise the same without such exercise being made the subject of the grievance and arbitration provisions of any agreement.
    3. The Regional School Committee has the sole and exclusive right and responsibility to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations pertaining to the employees covered by the negotiated agreement.