Colorado § 22-32-103 - Board of education - general powers and duties.
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§ 22-32-103. Board of education - general powers and duties.
(1) Each school district shall be governed by a board of education consisting of the number of school directors prescribed by law. Such board of education shall possess all powers delegated to a board of education or to a school district by law, and shall perform all duties required by law.
(2) Each school director shall have access to all school records at all times.
Source: L. 64: p. 573, § 3. C.R.S. 1963: § 123-30-3.
Cross references: For district liability for tuition and limitations concerning same, see § 22-32-115.
ANNOTATION
No power to make expenditures relating to proposed constitutional amendment. This section does not empower a board of education to make expenditures in support of the opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment. Campbell v. Joint Dist. 28-J, 704 F.2d 501 (10th Cir. 1983).
Effect of collective bargaining agreement on teachers' claims against board. Where senior high school English teachers brought suit claiming that the action of the school district board of education in prohibiting the use of certain books as instructional material constituted an infringement of academic freedom, such claims must be denied where all the teachers of the district, through a bargaining agent, entered a collective bargaining agreement with the school board in which final authority for the choice of instructional material was yielded to the school board. Cary v. Bd. of Educ., 427 F. Supp. 945 (D. Colo. 1977), aff'd, 598 F. 2d 535 (10th Cir. 1979).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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