Exhibit

E 9300

Board Bylaws

Governance

GOVERNANCE, WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AND OPERATING PRINCIPLES

The Board of Education of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District recognizes its responsibilities as Board Members of the District and as officials elected by the public that it is responsible to the public for the governance and management of the District to produce quality teaching and learning.

The Board recognizes that it is not expected to be expert on how to organize, manage, and operate the schools and as an individual Board member has neither the right nor the power to exercise such control or give direction to the Superintendent or any staff member regarding specific solution to any problem.

The Board also recognizes that it is made up of five individuals with diverse ideas, opinions, and values. The Board considers this diversity to be healthy and expects its decisions to be strengthened by the consideration of different points of view. The ideas and opinions of individual Board Members will be respected and encouraged.

The Board as a collective body of individuals understands that it must give clear collective signals, through the Superintendent, to its professional staff, and that no Superintendent can serve five masters, each with different agendas. Each Board Member recognizes that his/her power as a Board Member is derived from the collective deliberation and action of the Board as a whole in regular constituted meetings. Each Board Member recognizes his/her responsibility and obligation to support the Board's decision after the vote is taken.

The Board, however, clearly recognizes that it is the Governing Body and is responsible for planning, overseeing, and evaluating the District's functions. Thus, the Board considers its primary responsibility to be the clear determination of what the schools should accomplish for and with its students. It is the Board's primary responsibility, as officials elected by the public, to determine and communicate its expectations for the District in terms of desired results and hold the Superintendent, with his/her staff, responsible and accountable for designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating programs and services to achieve the results designated by the Board.

The Board recognizes and appreciates the particular expertise of individual Board members in certain areas. However, the Board also recognizes that it does not have the time, nor expertise, to manage and operate the District, and it intends to govern and control the District by establishing, with and through the Superintendent, staff, and community, its essential purpose and/or desired "ends," including the results that it expects the organization to produce.

The Board shall hold the Superintendent and his/her staff responsible and accountable for administering/managing the District; i.e., the organization and development of ways and means to achieve the Board's stated expectations.

The key element to the Board's responsibility is the determination and communication of what is expected throughout the total organization in terms of results. To the degree that expected results are clearly established and communicated, the Board can effectively fulfill its governing function, while allowing and encouraging the Superintendent and his/her staff the freedom and latitude necessary to direct the overall operation of the District.

Thus, the Board, by exercising its governance role, can be assured that it has determined what it is that the District should accomplish and whether, in fact, the District is accomplishing it.

To this end, and to ensure productive Board working relationships, the Board intends to develop additional pronouncements or documents that will:

• Clearly communicate what the Board expects the District to accomplish in terms of overall institutional purposes and what the Board will accept as evidence/indicators of satisfactory achievement of these expectations

• Identify short- and long-range priorities as a result of the assessment of the District's achievement of its overall institutional purpose

• Establish guidelines to facilitate effective working relationships and communication between and among Board members, Superintendent, Management Team, and Staff

• Establish guidelines and/or protocol for public and staff involvement in Board decisions which affect them.

Bylaw PALOS VERDES PENINSULA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

adopted: June 15, 1998 Palos Verdes Estates, California