The community school boards would also lose the authority to hire principals and other school administrators.

For a variety of reasons, the board has long been considered an impediment to hiring talented principals and teachers.

Beyond that, the local boards should be limited to hiring superintendents, not principals and other staff.

The board members offer policy advice and hire superintendents, principals and other staff.

These groups had sought more power, like the authority to hire principals and set budgets.

The old boards used to have significant powers, like hiring superintendents and principals.

Beyond their power to appoint district superintendents, they can also hire principals and other staff.

The superintendents, in turn, would hire principals and other top administrators for each district.

School boards and superintendents want to hire principals without interference.

With few exceptions, the city's 968 schools must hire teachers and principals from those lists.