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Texas Association of School Boards

About TASB
The Texas Association of School Boards was founded in 1949. It is a voluntary, nonprofit that
serves and represents local school districts all over the state of Texas. TASBs primary
responsibilities include promoting educational excellence for Texas schoolchildren through
advocacy, visionary leadership, and high quality services to school districts (TASB.org). TASB
values the following characteristics and vows to do right by: ethics, responsiveness, trust,
leadership, strategic alliances, innovation, quality of services, fiscal responsibility, and diversity.
Support for Schools
More often than not, the media twists the truth about school related incidents to get a rise out of
the public. Fortunately, TASB offers several ways to help the public speak out for public schools
and what they are doing right. TASB offers different forums such as: The Truth About Schools,
Stand Up For Texas Public Schools, My Texas Public School, and Fund Public School. These
efforts range from dispelling myths and make accurate information about public schools, to
answering questions parents of new Texas schools may have. To help create a positive image for
public schools, TASB also offers ways to help build support for schools. TASB has posted
several articles on school districts in Texas that have been successful in general district
communications, community partnerships and family resource centers, and social media that are
to be used for inspiring others districts in the state.

Legislative
One major goal of TASB is to represent and support school boards when laws are passed
affecting Texas school districts. The Governmental Relations Division takes part in monitoring
legislative developments, keeping members up to date on activities, as well as promoting TASBs
Advocacy Agenda face-to-face with numerous agencies. Further dealing with legalities, the
TASB website offers a resource center that brings together reports, analyses, and articles on
school related topics. Topics include: children at risk, school finance, school transformation, tax
ratification election, religion in public schools, personnel and HR services, students, and school
district business operations.
Services
TASB is well known for the services it offers to school districts and administrators. A list of
some of the services offered by TASB are described below:
Facility Services
Facility services provides information on energy management, environmental services, and can
provide aid in planning and construction.
Field Services
This service is to aid in making tough decisions about personnel, policy, legal liability, or
training, ask the people who've been there and are backed by TASB's school-based line of
services.

Leadership Team Services


This service is probably most beneficial to school administrators. The Leadership Team Services
offers effective district leadership tools through its training, consulting services, conferences and
events, and informational services. The events are the best way to interact with fellow board
members and administrators discussing your specific needs and areas of interest. TASB offers
several opportunities for conferences and workshops year round.
Legal Services
TASB offers legal services to school districts. This includes sound legal information and highquality training to Texas public school officials. In the legal services department of TASB,
members have access to legal trainings and TASB also offers the opportunity to come out and do
an in-service training for trustees, administrators, or staff. Some legal service trainings that
offered on-site include: sexual harassment, student discipline and school safety, religion in
schools, and public information and student records. For administrators TASB offers legal
trainings on religion in schools, community use of school facilities, documentation of employee
performance, hiring and firing , grievances, sexual harassment, dress codes and school uniforms,
drug testing, liability issues, extracurricular activities, public information and student records,
hot legal topics, and investigating misconduct.
School Safety Services
TASB also provides trainings on school safety issues from HR to Risk Management to policy
development that an administrator can share with staff members during in-service trainings.

Conclusion
All in all, the Texas Association of School Boards is a beneficial tool for administrators or any
school leaders. TASB offers a plethora of services ranging from all aspects that can really make
a school leader or leader of the district feel supported and well educated on different school
topics.

Works Cited
Texas Association of School Boards. (n.d.). Retrieved June 11, 2015, from
https://www.tasb.org/ Home.aspx

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