How to create a school board of trustees. What a board of trustees can do and how to organize it. School fees. Legitimately

Board of Trustees - what is it? The definition of the term is given by the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation and some other normative documents. Parents of schoolchildren, people whose children ended up in educational institutions, as well as employees of such organizations should have an idea of ​​what the council is. This will help you conduct your business in accordance with current laws.

Penal code: definition

Board of Trustees - what is it? The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation proposes to characterize this term as follows: a body that is formed at a certain colony for the maintenance and education of convicts. The main task of the PS is to help with administrative issues related to the activities of the colony, as well as to strengthen the material base. PS can solve problems social protection wards, to engage in employment of those released, their everyday self-realization.

The law on a board of trustees of this kind is Article 142 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Inside create a position. It will regulate the work of the PS.

Who, what and how

In the colony, the composition of the board of trustees is employees of state institutions, activists who have expressed a desire to try themselves in this area, persons from public organizations. Only those whose moral, business features personalities allow to cope with the tasks assigned to the PS.

The creation of a PS is the area of ​​responsibility of a specialized state station. She is also engaged in the approval of the position, chooses the composition. The supreme executive power of the country decides who gets the position of "chairman of the board of trustees." But local authorities will control the work of the PS and its leaders.

Members of the council can regularly visit the wards, get acquainted with the internal "kitchen", talk with the defendants held in the colony and monitor issues of justice. In particular, if there are complaints, it is the board members who can promote them so that the consideration takes place quickly and correctly. If in the course of such work it is possible to find shortcomings in the functioning of the colony, the chairman of the council sends a request to the administration, formulates proposals aimed at improving the situation. At the same time, the search for the PS has no right to interfere with the operational work of the colony.

PS: what else are there

The described type of PS is far from the only one. Such bodies are created in a variety of non-profit organizations and foundations. So, the PS is necessarily functioning in the pension fund. He controls how the organization works, stands up to protect the interests of the participants. The law regulating the activities of the board of trustees in the Pension Fund is called “On Non-State Pension Funds”. PS is considered in the 31st article. It describes how such a council is formed, where the participants are taken from, and who is appointed as the leader.

The PF Board of Trustees is an association of persons representing the interests of participants and contributors. For a decision to be made, at least half of the votes in favor of a specific option are required. At the same time, PS participants do not receive remuneration for their work in this body.

A number of features

In different organizations, the work plan of the board of trustees, as well as the specifics of the work process, are different. So, in one case, the PS is engaged only in supervision, control, but in the other it will have much broader functions. The simplest example is a board of trustees at a school. Here PS is a type of self-government. Back in 1999, the government of the country established an approximate position for the PS of the school. If you examine it, you will notice that the organ:

• helps to attract extra-budgetary funds for the development of the school;
• helps to improve working conditions;
• organizes contests, competitions, other events;
• deals with issues in the area of ​​competence.

First, the regulation on the board of trustees is adopted, and only on its basis, the PS is created directly. In a non-profit organization, for this, it is necessary to organize a meeting of all shareholders, during which (this event must be recorded and recorded according to the rules of document flow), a decision is made on how to create a PS and how it will work.

The PS is a collegial body, which means that it must have five or more members. When submitting a question to the board of trustees, each of the members communicates their recommendations. Usually, the questions are directly related to those relevant to the meeting of shareholders.

What is being considered:

• liquidation, reorganization;
• change of the charter;
• change in the invested, reserved share of the income received.

Who holds the board of trustees meeting? Usually these are people who carry out such activities for free, that is, they do not receive remuneration for their work. As for the composition, in the general case, three quarters of the votes in the PS belong to the insured, participants, investors of the organization. However, these may not be the people themselves, but their official representatives.

PS: terminology

Guardianship allows you to effectively protect the rights, interests, as well as provide guardianship over an unprotected category of citizens.

Trustees are those who are formally elected.

In some institutions, leaders are called trustees.

There is also a special title that can be assigned to a citizen - and then he becomes a trustee. Finally, these are those who lead the COP or take part in it.

The normative regulation of PS in Russia is carried out on the basis of the law adopted in 1999 under number 1134. It follows from it that educational institutions must have boards of trustees without fail. Such bodies will monitor how the organization works, as well as monitor targeted contributions, donations on a voluntary basis. The task of the PS is to ensure that all the money goes to needs directly educational institution, and not for third-party purposes.

Responsibility: to everyone and everyone

Even a first grader knows that school has the most main person- this is the director. Its task is to choose a strategy for the development of an educational institution, to provide funding. But just one person cannot cope with a large organization. Therefore, the idea of ​​board of trustees appeared, providing assistance to the head of an educational institution on a gratuitous basis. As they say, divide and conquer. Here this principle is fully reflected - by sharing power between himself and the activists, the chief executive solves even complex problems with great success.

The regulation on the board of trustees allows introducing self-government into working practice as effective method improving the quality of services provided by the institution. PS receives some management powers, which implements the state practice of public administration. Of course, only a competent director who is able to appreciate all the advantages of this method will resort to this. Based on the example of numerous educational institutions that have organized PS, it is clear that here budget money is spent more efficiently, and the institution itself gains independence more quickly: financial, economic.

Some nuances

Certain difficulties are associated with such a situation when a PS is created in an educational institution, but nothing is registered as a legal entity. This means that any funds coming from different sources go to the school, even if the board has its own account. Income, expenses will be reflected in the school estimate, which will lead to bad consequences. The second option is “black cash”. It looks even worse.

To find a way out of the situation, it is necessary not only to form a PS in an educational institution, but also to open a new legal entity corresponding to it. It will be independent, classified as non-profit organization... The profits received by the PS are not distributed among the participants, but are used to improve the situation of the school for which the PS works.

In the form of a legal entity, the PS accumulates money, without bearing a report for it to anyone from the outside. When extra-budgetary sources are under the control of such a legal entity, officials do not have access to them, which completely destroys the possibility of illegal fraud. And these occur very often if the local government is trying to reduce the costs of a general education institution: it simply enters funds received from sources outside the budget as the school's profit, and announces that the educational institution is provided for everything. Of course, there is no need to dream about grants.

Benefits for parents

Why is the PS at school useful not only for the director, but also for the parents of all children studying in the institution? They receive a guarantee of purposeful spending of the funds they have collected. This means that it is the inhabitants who will control where and how the money is directed. The trustees work with the parents of all students, and the funds raised are sent strictly to educational tasks.

The PS should work closely with the school administration, but he does not obey it, but controls the work of the administrators. This affects not only financial aspects, but also a number of other issues. For the work to be as effective as possible, it is important to establish interaction without conflicts, based on the ideas of partnership. At the same time, parents through the board of trustees can take part in the organization educational process and in solving school problems.

PS: not only for general education!

One of the important tasks of the PS is to support the educational program. If we are talking about an institution where they provide additional education, then the PS monitors that low-income gifted children can get the best. Activists organize circles, sections, hold sports, cultural events aimed, on the one hand, at drawing public attention to problems, on the other, giving children the opportunity to show themselves. The PS also provides legal protection for an educational institution, its students, teachers, and can take part in organizing summer vacations for schoolchildren and teachers.

PS: who to include in the composition

Practice shows that the most effective PS are those that include businessmen. Councils that include local officials working in areas related to the field of activity of the organization show good results. But it is recommended not to include "celebrities" if possible. Such conclusions were made during the study, organized by the firm"Process-Consulting" and the center "Garant".

I must say that a lot has changed in recent years. If 7-8 years ago, the PS quite often included celebrities who had no real benefit to the cause, then in recent years this practice has come to naught. But a lot depends on the characteristics of a particular fund. The most striking example is a foundation chaired by the country's president. This is the organization "Connection" created to help people with disabilities. It was formed with the participation of the state. There are three tips. One is managed and is the supreme body, the other is the PS, the third is the expert, which decides on financing.

When does the PS work effectively?

According to experts, the best efficiency of the PS shows when the composition of the members is balanced. This means that there must be such persons who will represent the organization, institution in society, those who have established connections with business, as well as people through whom it is possible to work with government agencies. You cannot do without an activist who would move the PS and through it the organization itself forward. This person should attract stakeholders, from which you can create a collegial body. As analysts say, if it was possible to select such an active participant successfully, he will definitely form an authoritative PS.

The council must have a core that can actively work, but it also has a passive headroom. These are the members who are in real work take a minimum of participation. The active core takes over the interaction with the media, planning the development strategies of the institution. Activists are required to participate in all activities in their field.

Exchange of experience and new opportunities

Many recommend, whenever possible, to attract foreign citizens to the PS. This is necessary for those institutions that plan to work with foreign legal entities in the future. By engaging such people in advance, you can gain invaluable first-hand experience in a similar field in another country.

By the way, you shouldn't think that this condition only works for large non-profit organizations. Even a PS at the most ordinary school on the periphery of Russia benefits greatly if it engages a foreign citizen in its work. Probably, it will be possible to establish sufficiently strong ties and take schoolchildren on excursions and educational programs to the country where the person came from. You can set up a language exchange program, and declare all the benefits in a special development program, for which you can request a grant from the administration of the settlement.

SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES -

1) a collegial school management body in accordance with paragraph 4 of Art. 26 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2012 No. 273-FZ "On education in Russian Federation: "The educational organization is formed collegial bodies management, which include a general meeting (conference) of employees of an educational organization ..., a pedagogical council ..., as well as a board of trustees, a management council, a supervisory council and other collegial management bodies provided for by the charter ... ". Created in schools of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 1999 and with the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation, which approved the Model Regulation on the Board of Trustees in December 1999, in a situation of serious problems in the resource provision of schools, these bodies in a sense inherited the pre-revolutionary traditions of care about education. At the same time, no clear managerial powers were assigned to the school board of trustees. Therefore, when during modernization Russian education at the beginning of this century, the question arose of a significant expansion of public participation in the management and real implementation of the proclaimed principle of the state-public nature of education management and attempts were made to entrust the school board of trustees with the role of a body school co-management, these attempts were unsuccessful.

This is objectively due to the fact that the board of trustees of the school is more organic as a body of resource support for the school, rather than its management.

There are some differences between the school board of trustees and The governing board schools:

- the governing board has the entire school as the object of management, and the board of trustees of the school

- its activities to attract and use part of funds from extrabudgetary sources

- charitable donations;

- the governing council has a mandatory minimum required list, they are not defined by the school board of trustees and even their absence is allowed; - the management board, in contrast to the board of trustees, has clearly defined formation procedures and the explicit composition and quantitative ratio of various categories of members, representatives of the founder, director of the school must participate in it, school staff, parents, students themselves, which is not in the board of trustees.

Thus, there is reason to believe that from the point of view of the task of ensuring school co-management the board of trustees does not have all the conditions necessary for this.

If the school board of trustees is endowed with management powers, then its name will cease to be accurate.

The activities of the school board of trustees are governed by the school charter, regulations on the school board of trustees, and the school board of trustees regulations.

2) an independent legal entity, a non-profit organization (as a rule - in the form of a charitable foundation), engaged in guardianship of education in one or a number of schools. This format for the creation and operation of the board of trustees seems to be the most appropriate, since in this case the council provides assistance to the school (schools), without being its (their) component, maintaining financial independence and not taking on the role of an intra-school state-public administration body, which more organic and natural to the Governing Body of the school.

L. Degtyareva

Head teacher. 2003.1.S. 20-24.

After reading the article The School Board of Trustees: What is it for and how best to create it? *, I caught myself thinking that I could not immediately answer the question put forward by the author in the title. Although on duty, it seems, should know the answer.

The fact is that in September 2000, at the school where my child is studying, on the initiative of the director and the parent committee, the Board of Trustees was created. The parents of my class chose me as their representative, since the circumstances of my life made me a housewife, despite the higher medical education... In addition, due to my natural energy and indifference, I gladly took part in the affairs and care of the children of our class, and also, in the words of my colleagues-parents, I enjoy their trust. I will not go into a long story about how the process of formation and formation of our Council took place, the important thing is that we have, at the very least, been in school for the third year already.

Not from a good life

Frankly, it was not created from a good life. From communication with the parents of students from other schools, I realized one thing: today, to a greater or lesser extent, the absolute majority of educational institutions are experiencing financial difficulties. Our school is no exception. According to the director, only two items are fully funded: employee salaries and student meals. For everything else (repairs, furniture, teaching aids, household expenses, etc.), funds are allocated extremely irregularly and in very modest amounts, clearly insufficient for normal life. Therefore, despite the presence of an interesting, creative and rather highly qualified team of teachers, our school did not look very attractive. But appearance, as they say, half the trouble. The bad news is that teachers have to work somehow. And it's hard to talk about high level and the quality of education, if, like a hundred years ago, our teacher is standing at the blackboard with chalk and a rag. And even, by the way, sometimes there were problems with chalk, not to mention modern visual aids, video materials, about the possibility of multi-level assignments and various tests to identify gaps in the child's knowledge and, as a result, the inability to help him in a timely manner.

Of course, our administration, headed by the director, pounded the doorsteps of all sorts of higher authorities, wrote many letters with requests to finance one or the other, but most often the answer was the same: Sorry, there are no funds yet. This is how we were faced with the need to create a Board of Trustees.

Rescuing drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves - this principle is perhaps best suited to our patronage movement. It is the salvation, not support, development, improvement of the quality of education that the parents of the students of our school are engaged in today. And if so, then, to the question: What is the Board of Trustees ?, it is quite permissible to answer: this is - Ambulance... Do you know when she's called? That's right, when you cannot cope with the disease yourself and there are no available means to deal with the disease. But after all, everyone knows that the ambulance does not deal with the treatment of chronic, chronic diseases. There are no such powerful tools in her arsenal, she is only designed to relieve pain and take some urgent action. But all these measures are temporary, and for a complete recovery it is necessary to undergo a long course of medical and restorative therapy. It is also known that a sick person calls an ambulance without fear and long thinking, but the headmaster needs to think hard, weigh the pros and cons before deciding to create a Board of Trustees.

You can't survive without each other

I can say one thing about our school director: it became easier and more fun for her to live with us, but she added a headache. Easier and more fun because parents began to make monthly guardianship contributions to the school's off-budget account. The headache is, first of all, the loss of autocracy: you cannot distribute and spend these funds at your own discretion and without the knowledge of the Board of Trustees. And in financial matters, it is not enough just to say: I want it so, you need to defend your opinion, prove the correctness of your position and justification of expenses. And this is patience, flexibility, the ability to compromise, logic and clarity of wording.

Sometimes an overworked, overwhelmed director is infuriated by this state of affairs, but chained by one chain, bound by one goal, together we learn the language of diplomacy and find the necessary solutions.

Why is this happening? Alas, today we cannot survive without each other. The educational process, in my opinion, is a very complex mechanism that has two main components: on the one hand, the director and the teaching staff, and on the other, the children studying at this school and their parents. For the educational process to be carried out efficiently, there are many conditions, but the most important of them, it seems to me, is one thing - so that these two forces do not turn out to be different sides barricades. If their confrontation begins, such a school, in my opinion, will not last long. If they become allies in a common cause - to make the quality of education high - success is quite likely.

It is the principle of mutually beneficial cooperation that we put at the foundation of our existence. Today in our school the headmaster felt not only the bitterness of self-restraint in the decision financial issues but also the sweetness of expanding the administrative resource. Previously, having made a decision on his own, the director had to implement it only with the help of the school staff. Now, having enlisted the support of the Board of Trustees (and therefore, the parental community), she has gained wider opportunities to implement the decision. So, at school, the issue of security, school uniforms, a ban on smoking, etc. was resolved. In addition, the director ceased to act as a constant supplicant, persuading parents to help the school in solving one or another painful problem. She shifted the task of clarifying the need to support her native school onto the shoulders of the Board of Trustees, which, if a general decision is made to finance a particular program, brings all the necessary information to the parents. So, with the support of the parental community, some offices, halls, corridors and recreation were repaired, modern teaching aids, office equipment and much more were purchased, which changed not only the appearance of the school, making it cleaner and more beautiful, but also somewhat changed in better side the learning process itself, made it possible to introduce new, more advanced teaching methods.

Inpatient treatment required

Are Boards of Trustees Needed in All Schools? This question can only be answered by each specific director.

If he independently copes with his difficulties and solves all school problems without outside help, then the answer is negative. Otherwise, it is worth considering. Today, the country has created such economic conditions for the survival of educational institutions that one cannot do without attracting extra-budgetary funds. About this in his last speeches in the media mass media says the Minister of Education. Answering the question about the source of charitable donations, he reveals to us his vision of the mechanism for receiving extra-budgetary aid to schools. It looks, in my opinion, very peculiar: someone who graduated from school a few years ago, for example, in Voronezh or some other city in Russia, and now lives, say, in Moscow, remembers his teachers with gratitude and provides the school with charitable assistance ... To me this situation seems somewhat far-fetched. Why? Yes, because this someone should be a childless bachelor-orphan, only then he may remember about a long-finished school, since he does not need to support his family, teach his children (and in this case, it is more logical to help the school where his own students study) , and also not to provide material support to retired parents (after all, everyone knows that the size of the pension is lower living wage). Well, how many do you know of your graduates with such data, dear directors? No, of course, there are people who remember and love their past and, in particular, their native school. But there are very few of them, and how much can they give and how often? But you know for sure that financial assistance should be regular, and not from case to case.

So to the question: Where to get trustees? - there is only one answer: among those parents who today teach their children in school and realize the value of education and who cannot acquire it for their children privately on an individual basis. It is these parents that need to be kindled with a common idea to solve the problem of getting a good education together, jointly, by joint efforts overcoming difficulties and eliminating problems. The only obstacle on the way to achieving this good goal is the unwillingness of parents to transfer money to the current account of the school. I wonder why? Do not immediately accuse someone of stinginess or shortsightedness. The reluctance to be a trustee can be easily explained: the state levies a unified social tax, and as you know, education is just social sphere... Consequently, the call to help the school today sounds like a desire to make repeated payments for the same type of service. But it would not be scary if the state found ways to return funds allocated for charitable purposes, as is done in other countries where it is beneficial to be a patron. Our state, on the other hand, decided to lower the income tax rate for everyone, without making any distinction between benefactors and those who do not want to have anything to do with it.

Today, many parents are concerned about the position of the state on the issue budget financing education. Will any action be taken to solve these problems, not only at the expense of private investors, which may exist today, but tomorrow, due to some cataclysms (God forbid, of course, but remember the 1998 default), may disappear? What measures are being developed to ease the tax burden on those enterprises and organizations that want to do good to the school, and will it be profitable for the school to earn money on its own? Does the government have a large-scale state program to solve all these painful problems?

A positive answer to this question was sounded after the approval of the Concept for the modernization of Russian education for the period up to 2010. In my understanding, such a document should be a nationwide action program to restore the responsibility of the state for the fate of the educational sphere. But after reading the above article on Boards of Trustees, you begin to realize that things are a little different. It turns out that the Concept states that private funds going to education can increase from 1.3% to 2.5% of GDP. In fact, this means a double increase in charitable aid to the school at the expense of parents' money. So what happens? Will the first aid funds that the Boards of Trustees seek become almost the basis of funding? Where will the state budget funds allocated for education go? Or will it soon be recommended that boards of trustees be established at hospitals, nursing homes, kindergartens, etc.? Following this logic, parents of schoolchildren will donate to educational institutions, and patients and their relatives - to medical institutions? And if they are both at the same time, then who should be helped in the first place, and who - in the second? I am afraid that the situation will be brought to the point of absurdity. Apparently, to prevent this from happening, the norm of state allocation is spelled out in the Law on Education financial resources for the needs of education in the amount of at least 10% of the national income. But the drafters of the Concept kept silent about this. The issue of budgetary financing of education, in my opinion, is the most pressing, since the means and methods used in emergency practice cannot be substituted for inpatient treatment. Any doctor will say that such a replacement can turn out to be deadly for a patient and he will not last long on it.

All these are extremely serious questions, and the answers to them must be given objectively. And this can be done only by carefully studying the aforementioned Concept of Modernization, but, to be honest, like any layman, I do not read printed publications in which such documents are published. But with numerous articles-responses, criticizing the new order of the government, I got acquainted with attention on the pages of the newspaper Izvestia. In them, rectors of large and respected universities, educators-innovators, scientists from various research institutes directly related to pedagogy and education spoke with their comments on some points of this document, most of them efficient and interesting. But, oddly enough, I have not come across a single note in which thoughts on the new Concept signed by the direct conductors of the government's ideas - an ordinary school director or an official of an educational body of any level - were expressed.

I would very much like to know their opinion on the Concept itself and on the progress of its implementation.

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Article 11. Board of Trustees of the Foundation

1. The supreme governing body of the Fund is the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

2. The Board of Trustees of the Fund consists of fifteen members, including the General Director of the Fund, who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fund ex officio.

3. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation are appointed by the President of the Russian Federation for a period not exceeding five years.

4. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation is appointed by the President of the Russian Federation simultaneously with the appointment of members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation.

5. The powers of the chairman and other members of the Board of Trustees of the Fund may be terminated early on the basis of a decision of the President of the Russian Federation.

6. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, with the exception of the General Director of the Fund, carry out their activities on a voluntary basis and cannot be members of labor relations with the Foundation.

7. Members of the Foundation's Board of Trustees cannot simultaneously be members of expert councils Fund.

8. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, with the exception of the General Director of the Fund, have the right to combine their membership in the Board of Trustees of the Fund with the replacement of a public office in the Russian Federation or a public office. civil service Russian Federation.

9. The Board of Trustees of the Foundation exercises the following powers:

1) determines priority directions the activities of the Foundation;

2) approves the program of activities of the Fund for a three-year period, annually makes adjustments to it;

3) approves the procedure and criteria for the competitive selection of programs and projects, as well as the procedure for the examination of programs and projects submitted for the competition;

4) approves the procedure for exercising control over the implementation of the Fund's program of activities for a three-year period and the implementation of programs and projects financed by the Fund;

5) approves the procedure for the Fund's participation in the formation and replenishment of the endowment capital scientific organizations and educational institutions of higher education;

6) approves financial plan income and expenses (budget) of the Fund for a three-year period, annually makes adjustments to such a plan;

7) approve the annual report of the Fund and send it to the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation;

8) submit to the President of the Russian Federation a candidate for appointment to the post of General Director of the Fund;

9) concludes, modifies and terminates labor contract with director general Fund;

10) approves the regulations on the Fund's board, makes decisions on the appointment and dismissal of members of the Fund's board, approves the amount of remuneration for members of the Fund's board and (or) compensation for expenses incurred by them;

11) approves the regulation on audit commission The Fund, makes decisions on the appointment of the Chairman and members of the Audit Commission of the Fund, on the termination of their powers, including the early termination of their powers;

12) approves the regulations on the expert councils of the Foundation;

13) approves the list, composition of expert councils of the Fund and their chairmen;

14) exercises control over the activities of other management bodies of the Fund, their decision-making and ensuring the implementation of these decisions, the use of Money and other property of the Foundation;

15) approves the regulations on the branch of the Fund and on the representative office of the Fund, appoints their heads;

16) makes decisions on the transfer of part of the Fund's property to the state treasury of the Russian Federation;

17) determines the maximum amount of temporarily free funds of the Fund to be invested;

18) approves the audit organization, selected on the competitive basis, to conduct a mandatory audit of the annual accounting (financial) statements of the Fund and the amount of remuneration of this organization for the services it provides;

19) makes decisions:

a) on the entry of the Fund into associations and unions;

b) on the establishment of legal entities by the Fund and (or) on participation in them;

c) on the establishment of branches of the Fund and on the opening of representative offices of the Fund;

20) approves the following approved by the Director General of the Fund:

but) organizational structure and staffing table Fund, as well as the changes made to them;

b) the amount and form of remuneration of the employees of the Fund;

c) the amount of remuneration for experts who are members of the expert councils of the Fund;

d) the amount of remuneration for specialists in the field of science and technology who are not members of the expert councils of the Foundation, but additionally involved in the work of these councils (hereinafter referred to as specialists in the field of science and technology);

21) makes decisions on other issues attributed by the legislation of the Russian Federation to the powers of the supreme governing bodies of non-profit organizations.

10. The powers of the Board of Trustees of the Fund cannot be transferred to other governing bodies of the Fund.

11. Meetings of the Foundation's Board of Trustees are convened by its chairman or another member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, authorized by the Chairman of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, at least once every six months. A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fund can also be convened at the initiative of the Audit Commission of the Fund or at the initiative of an audit organization that conducts a mandatory audit of the annual accounting (financial) statements of the Fund.

12. Meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Fund are held by its chairman, and in his absence by another member of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, authorized by the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

13. The Board of Trustees of the Foundation is authorized to make decisions if at least half of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation are present at its meeting. Decisions of the Foundation's Board of Trustees are made by a simple majority of votes of the total number of members of the Foundation's Board of Trustees present at the meeting. If the number of votes is equal, the vote of the person presiding at the meeting of the Foundation's Board of Trustees is decisive.

14. The minutes of the meeting of the Foundation's Board of Trustees shall be signed by the chairperson of the meeting of the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

Board of Trustees as one of the forms of public administration of an educational institution

The opinions of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, who remained in the minority during the voting, are recorded at their request in the minutes.

15. The Board of Trustees of the Fund has the right to make decisions without convening a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fund by absentee voting in the manner established by the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

16. The secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Fund from among the employees of the Fund, ensures the preparation and holding of meetings, absentee voting, keeping records, organizes the storage of minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Fund.

Alexander ADAMSKY

February 22-23 for the first time in history modern education Russia, on the initiative of the Council for Federal Experimental Sites, a seminar of the chairmen of the boards of trustees of educational institutions will be held.
The degree of importance that the government attaches to the creation of boards of trustees is evidenced by the fact that out of two days on the first day, First Deputy Minister A. Kiselev participates in the seminar, and on the second - Minister V. Filippov. The organization and conduct of the seminar were entrusted to the Eureka Institute for Educational Policy.

Goals and objectives of the Boards of Trustees

Everyone knows how long and painful the “Provisions on the Boards of Trustees” was bureaucratic approval. The presidential decree was almost declared invalid, and from detailed description There are four scanty points left for the activities of the council, but, frankly, it may be a good thing that instead of describing detailed regulations, we received a general blessing to create councils of trustees. The main thing is an indication that its activities are determined by the charter of the educational institution.
Therefore, the urgent now are the answers to two questions: what can the board of trustees do and how to organize it?
Let's start with the first one.
The purpose of creating a board of trustees, in our opinion, is to strengthen public administration of the school and education in general.
In fact, the creation of boards of trustees today is one of the few government-supported institutions of civil society in schools. There are two others - the school council and the children's self-government. But the government has not yet reached their hands on them.
And the board of trustees has become the subject of presidential, government, and, of course, ministerial consideration. Apparently, therefore, he has every chance of becoming a really operating link between the state and society. And the achievement of this goal is of great pedagogical importance. Because it is a vividly operating model of school life in civil society. In a civil sense, in the sense that the management of this life is carried out not by employees hired on behalf of citizens, officials from the state, but by the citizens themselves. In our paramilitary consciousness, the words “civil society” can evoke a completely different association: civil means not military, but peaceful. And in a sense, this is correct, because the institution of civil society is a form of manifestation by citizens of their peaceful, worldly, interests and needs. And the state always fights with someone or for something, punishes someone or wins. Therefore, government departmental organizations are not really institutions of civil society and cannot be.
In this sense, it is funny that the organization operating in Moscow on behalf of the Soros Foundation calls itself the Open Society Institute / Soros Foundation. But it works, for example, on the implementation of the megaproject "Development of Education in Russia" mainly with departmental, government organizations, for example by the Ministry of Education. Incidentally, this is a distinctive feature of many Western, including charitable, organizations operating in Russia. Declaring the principles of an open and civil society in their activities, they prefer to deal with ministries, regional administrations, that is, with decision-makers, and not with citizens. And in this sense, the Open Society Institute is, of course, an institution as an institution. But the institution open society, an institution in which citizens can implement their will and initiative, most likely not. Of course, this does not apply to all Western funds, and I am writing this not at all in order to reproach the Soros Foundation, to which I have great respect. And the fact is that from the very beginning of creating a network of school boards of trustees in Russia, we must understand that Western schemes and models, at least in the form in which they come to us, are not a visual teaching aid.
So, main goal the establishment of school boards of trustees, we will consider the formation of public administration of the school as an institution of civil society.
And the task of the board of trustees, and here you need to be extremely frank, is first of all, of course, to improve financial situation schools.

The higher the level of public administration, the higher the welfare of the school

At the same time, the hypothesis that we have to prove is the following: the higher the level of public administration of the school, the higher the level of school welfare. And it would be a mistake to think that it is a matter of control over the spending of funds. This is wrong. And it would be a mistake to make an association of overseers out of the boards of trustees. Rather, a different metaphor is relevant here: an investment committee looking for money and spending it wisely. Seeking additional funding, as well as mediating between the school and the founder to implement the “give it and do not sin” principle are two of the main working tasks of the board of trustees. If this premise is accepted, then the main qualities of members of boards of trustees become obvious: the ability to get money and the ability to spend it on educational purposes.
The prestige of being a member of the Board of Trustees is precisely this. If a person becomes the chairman of the board of trustees, it means that he is successful, that he has experience and the ability to raise funds for good purposes.
The post of chairman of the board of trustees of an educational institution is like attestation, public attestation of success and recognition of a person's business and moral qualities.
Who should be invited to the school board of trustees?
From the experience of the current councils - in the Volgograd region, the village of Mikhailovka is the Federal experimental site "Pedagogical College", in Ust-Ilimsk there is a FEP school No. 10, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory there is a whole network of FEPs, in Izhevsk there is a FEP-gymnasium No. 56, a number of schools in Moscow, in other regions - it is clear that the most authoritative, most successful, most influential people should become trustees. These can be parents of students, or graduates, or people living in the area where the school is located. Or owners, managers of powerful and successful enterprises located in the school's location.
The hard truth about the board of trustees is that if there are no such very, most authoritative and successful, influential and conscientious people in a given area, there will be no council. And you don't need to create it.
The experience of the network of federal experimental sites shows that the board of trustees today is not a mandatory norm. It is not included in the staffing table of the educational institution. We will try to create them, we will try our best to reinforce the organizational efforts of the schools regulatory documents federal level, organize training for trustees. But all this will work on one condition - if there is in the foreseeable school space the very person who can become a trustee.
Look for him - and the advice will be.

How to proceed?

Here is the letter that came to our editorial office e-mail.
"Hello! So at the school where my children study, they decided to create a board of trustees. They invited me along with other parents. Nobody really knows how to organize the work. I got acquainted with the draft regulations. The main question posed by the school administration is: who will spend the funds? Who will be the account holder and fund manager? The school is opposed to the director or any ITO commanding the funds. Can the board of trustees have its own account on which sponsorship funds will be accumulated? Maybe you have some information on how school boards of trustees work.
Best regards, EA Noskov, Member of the Board of Trustees of OU No. 71, Nizhny Tagil. "
At our request, the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation V. Filippov answered this question:
- On the scale of Russia, there can be no unequivocal answer. Well, for example, rural school, in which 20-30 people study and which still cannot open its own account for its main salary, does not even have a cashier and an accountant, so for her, of course, it is hardly worthwhile in this case to separately create a fund with its own account.

In most cases, especially in large cities, boards of trustees should have their own funds. Moreover, it is desirable with a separate account, which is controlled by this fund. At some stage, in between, these may be funds within the school, but this First stage... You can really influence the life of the school when you have leverage over the financial life of the school.
This was the answer of the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation V. Filippov to the question of E. Noskov, a member of the Board of Trustees of School No. 71 from Nizhny Tagil.
Let's add on our own.
The board of trustees collects money for the school, and this is his, council's, money.
Here is how T. Epanchintseva tells about the experience of training trustees, Executive Director center "Cooperation at the local level", which is engaged in the development of a network of socially active schools:
“The Board of Trustees of the Parabel School of the Tomsk Region has organized paid computer courses for adults - and this is a good tool for replenishing the public school fund. L. Mityuklyaeva, director of gymnasium No. 91 in Zheleznogorsk, talks about how the gymnasium and its charitable foundation discovered new and diverse resources, including intellectual, informational, not only material, when they went beyond the school territory and began to work to involve the local community in partnerships. “We realized,” she says, “that the community of the neighborhood will actively help the gymnasium if we help it. We realized that it is impossible to create an ideal "microcosm" in the gymnasium, it is necessary to improve life in the entire microdistrict, and this is within our power. Therefore, the gymnasium and the foundation proposed to the residents of the microdistrict to create public territorial self-government by electing the councils of houses and the council of the microdistrict. Having carried out such a large-scale work with local community, we found new opportunities for cooperation with the city authorities and involved them in the implementation of our programs as partners. In particular, the city authorities have undertaken a share of the work on the creation of a public sports complex on the basis of our gymnasium. "
... Boards of Trustees are not a magic wand, the school will not get rich overnight after they appear. But it can be said for sure that the school will become poorer and poorer if it cannot attract society to its side. Not an abstract society, but real people - trustees.

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"First of September"

Board of Trustees in preschool- the factor of ensuring the effectiveness of development.

Manager

MADOU city of Nizhnevartovsk

DS No. 34 "Thumbelina"

Shcherbinina I.V.

For a full-fledged organization of work with children in Kindergarten, it is not enough to have only walls, you need a rich subject-development environment, which includes modern modules, constructors, ecological corners, mini laboratories, didactic materials, sensory rooms, sports corners, soft modules, that is everything that gives the child the opportunity to find a place for himself, contributes to the development of creative, intellectual abilities.

Part of the management of a modern kindergarten is to involve various social institutions: parents, the public in solving the problems of the institution, which makes it possible to cope with the number of tasks for organizing the functioning of a modern educational institution.

We understand that the problems kindergarten cannot be resolved instantly and quickly. Analyzing experience, drawing conclusions, we are ready to introduce everything new into the practice of our activities.

Today, create a developmental environment that meets all modern requirements, improving the quality of education, improving the image of the preschool educational institution allows close interaction with parents.

To solve the problems of the kindergarten, the most daring pedagogical dreams can be realized with the help of the board of trustees, on whose constant help and support teachers can count.

The activities of the Board of Trustees at the preschool educational institution allow to legalize sponsorship flows to the non-budgetary account of the preschool educational institution.

At the meetings of the Board of Trustees, the Chairman and the secretary are elected, the Regulation "On the Board of Trustees" is approved, and an estimate of expenses is drawn up. The possibilities of attracting extra-budgetary funds are being considered.

The spending of funds is directly controlled by the Board of Trustees. Bookkeeping is 100% transparent and accessible to any parent.

Today, the administration of the kindergarten and most of the parents have already understood that at the moment the Board of Trustees is the most correct form of communication in material terms of the kindergarten with parents and sponsors - city enterprises that provide assistance.

It is no secret that more than 50% of the city's budget goes to education: major and cosmetic repairs, the purchase of equipment and furniture, food for children in kindergartens, the salaries of educators and teachers. But there is still not enough money for everything.

And the work of the Board of Trustees just helps to strengthen the material base for the development of children.

And at the same time, if we are concerned with the collection of funds from members of the Board of Trustees, or those who wish to help parents, then I am making a reference to the legislation:

In accordance with Federal law of August 11, 1995 No. 135-FZ "On Charitable Activities and Charitable Organizations" charitable activities may be carried out in order to promote activities in the field of education. At the same time, charitable activity, according to the specified law, is understood as the voluntary activity of citizens and legal entities for disinterested (gratuitous or on preferential terms) transfer of property to citizens or legal entities, including funds, disinterested performance of work, provision of services, and other support. Citizens and legal entities have the right to freely exercise charity work, individually or in association, with or without the formation of a charitable organization. All donations must be voluntary.

School fees. Legal?

This is the right of parents (legal representatives), not an obligation. Cash collection in educational institutions prohibited. Funds are transferred to accounts opened with banks. Educational organizations are obliged to inform parents (legal representatives) about the targeted spending of voluntary donations at parent meetings, through the board of trustees, post information on the website of the educational organization, etc. In case of revealing the facts of unreasonable, non-transparent "extortions" in educational organizations, parents (legal representatives) have the right to apply to law enforcement agencies

Accordingly, for the most part, the activities of the Board of Trustees should be aimed at attracting funds from sponsor organizations and formalized by a donation agreement, as well as considered and recorded in the minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees. For the transparency of spending these funds in the preschool educational institution, a Regulation is being developed. Below is its approximate form

Regulation on the expenditure of extrabudgetary funds

The financial resources at the disposal of the Board of Trustees and received by the Charitable Fund for preschool educational institution No. are distributed depending on their purpose as follows:

1. Charitable donations to development of preschool educational institutions:

All funds received are spent on the development of the material and technical base of the preschool educational institution.

2. Charitable assistance to the employees of the preschool educational institution:

62,5 % — for charitable assistance to group personnel;

25 % — for charitable assistance to employees of the preschool educational institution who are not employed in the group;

12,5 % — to pay unforeseen expenses that arise during the month.

3. Charitable assistance to ensure the safety of children of the preschool educational institution:

All funds received are spent on charitable assistance to employees who ensure the safety of children in the preschool educational institution.

4. Charitable assistance for the development of educational and educational processes in preschool educational institutions.

62,5 % — for charitable assistance to specialists who carry out the educational process in addition to the program;

37,5 % - for celebrations, sports competitions, contests and exhibitions.

In addition to the above, a report from the Board of Trustees on the use of funds is required. Sample form the report is presented below.

Report of the Board of Trustees of the preschool educational institution No. for the month (year)

The Board of Trustees of the preschool educational institution № brings to the attention of the members of the board of trustees of the preschool educational institution No. information on the receipt and expenditure of funds for charitable purposes of the preschool educational institution for ______.

Received:

1 group -

2 group -

Group 3 -

4 group -

Directed by:

- for charitable assistance to group staff -

- for charitable assistance to the employees of the preschool educational institution -

- for charitable assistance to teachers of additional education -

for the development of preschool educational institutions - including:

Construction Materials -

toys -

stationery -

household expenses -

methodical literature -

The preschool educational institution staff expresses gratitude to the parents who took part in the charitable program _________________________________

Special thanks to parents ___________
Chairman of the Board of Trustees _________ //

Secretary of the Board of Trustees _________ //

Agreed by: head of preschool educational institution No. _________ //

Thus, the implementation of partnerships with the parent community in the form of organizing the activities of the Board of Trustees will contribute to the development of the institution within the framework of the legislation.

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1. General Provisions

Guardianship is seen as a form of support and protection of personal and property rights and educational interests of minor citizens.

Board of Trustees of a state educational institution of secondary comprehensive school"School of Health" №69 named after B.Sh. Okudzhava (hereinafter referred to as the School) is created in order to develop state-public forms of self-government in the field of education, additional attraction of off-budget financial resources to ensure the development of education.

The Board of Trustees builds its activities on the principles of equality of its members, collegial management, transparency of decisions.

The Board of Trustees interacts with other self-governing bodies of the School. Representatives of the Board of Trustees have the right to participate in the work of councils (meetings, collegia) of the management bodies of the School within the competence established by these Regulations.

The "Statute on the School Board of Trustees" is approved at the School Conference. The term of this Regulation is unlimited.

Changes to the "Regulations on the Board of Trustees" are within the competence of the School Conference, unless otherwise specified by the School Charter.

2. Goals and objectives of the Board of Trustees

The Council is created as one of the forms of self-government of the parental community of the School in order to:

Facilitating the organization and improvement of the educational process;

- rendering assistance in improving the working conditions of pedagogical and service personnel Schools;

- assistance in organizing mass sports, cultural and leisure and tourist and excursion events of the School;

Assistance in improving the material and technical base of the School (improvement and equipment of premises, territory ...);

- attracting extra-budgetary funds for the development of the School and ensuring the high efficiency of the educational process;

- organizing receipts and determining the directions, forms, sizes and procedures for using charitable funds for the School, including for the support and encouragement of employees and students of the school;

- rendering assistance to improve the service of students.

3. Rights of the Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees has the right to:

- to make proposals to the school administration to create optimal conditions for training and education of students in an educational institution, including to improve their health and organization of food;

- to make proposals to the founder (founders) of the school to improve its activities and management, to consider other issues referred to the competence of the Board of Trustees by the Charter of the School;

- cooperate with charitable and other organizations in which
charitable donations are received for the development of the school;

- exercise public control over the use earmarked contributions and
voluntary donations from legal entities and individuals for the needs of the school.

4. Composition of the Board of Trustees

The quantitative and personal composition of the Board of Trustees is determined by these Regulations.

The Board of Trustees may include participants in the general educational process, parents (legal representatives) of students and other individuals, as well as representatives of local governments and organizations of various forms of ownership, interested in improving the activities and development of the School and having high public authority in the collectives of educational institutions.

Suggestions for personnel The Board of Trustees may be introduced by the school administration and (or) representatives of the public and others. stakeholders and organizations.

The personal composition of the Board of Trustees is approved annually at a meeting of the School Council by a simple majority of votes in the following composition:

Representatives of the School employees - 3 - 5 people, representatives from

parents (legal representatives of students) - one person from each class, representatives of the public - 1 - 3 people.

The Board of Trustees is headed by a Chairman elected for a term not

less than one year at a meeting of the Board of Trustees. The chairman can

5. Office work of the Board of Trustees

The internal regulations for the work of the Board of Trustees are determined by the board itself.

Meetings of the Board of Trustees are held as needed, but at least once a quarter.

Extraordinary meetings can be called by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees as needed or at the request of the majority of the serving members of the Board.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees conducts meetings, finally determines the agenda, controls the implementation of decisions of the Board of Trustees.

№ 146.

What is a board of trustees and who decides to create it?
The Board of Trustees is a self-governing body of an educational institution and is created to assist in ensuring its activities and development.
The decision to create a board of trustees is made by an initiative group, which may include legal representatives of students, teaching staff, representatives public associations and other organizations, other persons. The decision of the initiative group is coordinated with the head of the educational institution.

Who chairs the board of trustees? Who is on the school board of trustees?
The supreme governing body of the board of trustees is the general meeting. The general meeting of the Board of Trustees is headed by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, who is elected for 3 years. General meetings are held as needed, but at least once every six months.
An extraordinary general meeting may be called upon the initiative of one third of the members of the board of trustees.
To coordinate the activities of the board of trustees in a meeting general meeting the head of the educational institution may participate.
The board of trustees may include legal representatives of students, teaching staff, representatives of public associations and other organizations, and other persons. The members of the Board of Trustees perform their functions exclusively on a gratuitous basis.
The educational institution provides conditions for the activities of the board of trustees, including by providing space for storing the documents of the board of trustees.

What tasks are the activities of the Boards of Trustees aimed at?
The tasks of the Board of Trustees are:
- assistance to the educational institution in the development of the material and technical base, ensuring the quality of education, attracting funds to ensure the activities of the educational institution;
- development and implementation of plans for their activities in the interests of the educational institution;
- assistance in improving the working conditions of pedagogical and other employees of the educational institution;
- determination of the directions, size and procedure for using the funds of the board of trustees in agreement with the head of the educational institution and the parent committee of the educational institution (if any), including for:

• strengthening the material and technical base;
• improving the organization of meals for students;
• carrying out mass sports, physical culture and recreation, socio-cultural, educational events;
• other purposes not prohibited by law;

- assistance in the establishment and development of international cooperation in the field of education;
- targeted use of funds of the Board of Trustees.

Does the head of an educational institution have the right to attract parents' funds to finance the school?
In accordance with the Regulation on the Board of Trustees of an educational institution, funding for general secondary education institutions can be carried out from various sources that are not prohibited by law. To solve the urgent problems of institutions of general secondary education, the head, in cooperation with the board of trustees, has the right to attract additional sources of funding, including sponsorship and parental funds. Parental help can only be provided on a voluntary basis. The transfer of funds is carried out on receipt to the current account of the educational institution.

How are the funds of the Board of Trustees formed?
The financial resources of the board of trustees are formed from voluntary contributions credited to the current (settlement) account for accounting for extra-budgetary funds of an educational institution, and are used for their intended purpose in accordance with the decision of the board of trustees.

Can members of the parent committee initiate the collection (transfer) of funds to the educational institution?
The Ministry of Education in a corresponding letter to the education departments of the regional executive committees, the education committee of the Minsk city executive committee especially drew attention to the inadmissibility of the functions of the board of trustees by members of the parent committee.

How does the Ministry of Education react to the situation with the collection of funds from parents?
Citizens' appeals containing information about alleged facts of fundraising in educational institutions are under the constant control of the Ministry of Education.
The Ministry of Education sent a letter to the education departments of the regional executive committees, the education committee of the Minsk city executive committee, in which special attention was paid to the inadmissibility of the formation of financial resources of the board of trustees in violation of the requirements of paragraph 24 of the Regulations regarding the formation of financial resources of the board of trustees.

Based on materials from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus

Alexander ADAMSKY

On February 22-23, for the first time in the history of modern education in Russia, at the initiative of the Council for Federal Experimental Sites, a seminar of the chairmen of the boards of trustees of educational institutions will take place.
The degree of importance that the government attaches to the creation of boards of trustees is evidenced by the fact that out of two days on the first day, First Deputy Minister A. Kiselev participates in the seminar, and on the second - Minister V. Filippov. The organization and conduct of the seminar were entrusted to the Eureka Institute for Educational Policy.

Goals and objectives of the Boards of Trustees

Everyone knows how long and painful the “Regulations on the Boards of Trustees” were bureaucratic approval. The presidential decree was almost declared invalid, and four scanty points remained from the detailed description of the council's activities, but, frankly, it may be good that instead of describing detailed regulations, we received a general blessing to create boards of trustees. The main thing is an indication that its activities are determined by the charter of the educational institution.
Therefore, the urgent now are the answers to two questions: what can the board of trustees do and how to organize it?
Let's start with the first one.
The purpose of creating a board of trustees, in our opinion, is to strengthen public administration of the school and education in general.
In fact, the creation of boards of trustees today is one of the few government-supported institutions of civil society in schools. There are two others - the school council and the children's self-government. But the government has not yet reached their hands on them.
And the board of trustees has become the subject of presidential, government, and, of course, ministerial consideration. Apparently, therefore, he has every chance of becoming a really operating link between the state and society. And the achievement of this goal is of great pedagogical importance. Because it is a vividly operating model of school life in civil society. In the civil sense, in the sense that the management of this life is carried out not by employees hired on behalf of citizens, officials from the state, but by the citizens themselves. In our paramilitary consciousness, the words “civil society” can evoke a completely different association: civil means not military, but peaceful. And in a sense, this is correct, because the institution of civil society is a form of manifestation by citizens of their peaceful, worldly, interests and needs. And the state always fights with someone or for something, punishes someone or wins. Therefore, state departmental organizations are not really institutions of civil society and cannot be.
In this sense, it is funny that the organization operating in Moscow on behalf of the Soros Foundation calls itself the Open Society Institute / Soros Foundation. But it works, for example, on the implementation of the megaproject "Development of Education in Russia" mainly with departmental, state organizations, for example, the Ministry of Education. Incidentally, this is a distinctive feature of many Western, including charitable, organizations operating in Russia. Declaring the principles of an open and civil society in their activities, they prefer to deal with ministries, regional administrations, that is, with decision-makers, and not with citizens. And in this sense, the Open Society Institute is, of course, an institution as an institution. But the institution of an open society, an institution in which citizens can implement their will and initiative, most likely not. Of course, this does not apply to all Western funds, and I am writing this not at all in order to reproach the Soros Foundation, to which I have great respect. And the fact is that from the very beginning of creating a network of school boards of trustees in Russia, we must understand that Western schemes and models, at least in the form in which they come to us, are not a visual teaching aid.
So, the main goal of creating school boards of trustees, we will consider the formation of public administration of the school as an institution of civil society.
And the task of the board of trustees, and here you need to be extremely frank, - first of all, of course, is to improve the financial situation of the school.

The higher the level of public administration, the higher the welfare of the school

At the same time, the hypothesis that we have to prove is the following: the higher the level of public administration of the school, the higher the level of school welfare. And it would be a mistake to think that it is a matter of control over the spending of funds. This is wrong. And it would be a mistake to make an association of overseers out of the boards of trustees. Rather, a different metaphor is relevant here: an investment committee looking for money and spending it wisely. Seeking additional funding, as well as mediating between the school and the founder to implement the “give it and do not sin” principle are two of the main working tasks of the board of trustees. If this premise is accepted, then the main qualities of members of boards of trustees become obvious: the ability to get money and the ability to spend it on educational purposes.
The prestige of being a member of the Board of Trustees is precisely this. If a person becomes the chairman of the board of trustees, this means that he is successful, that he has experience and the ability to raise funds for good purposes.
The post of chairman of the board of trustees of an educational institution is like attestation, public attestation of success and recognition of a person's business and moral qualities.
Who should be invited to the school board of trustees?
From the experience of the current councils - in the Volgograd region, the village of Mikhailovka is the Federal experimental site "Pedagogical College", in Ust-Ilimsk there is a FEP school No. 10, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory there is a whole network of FEPs, in Izhevsk there is a FEP-gymnasium No. 56, a number of schools in Moscow, in other regions - it is clear that the most authoritative, most successful, most influential people should become trustees. These can be parents of students, or graduates, or people living in the area where the school is located. Or owners, managers of powerful and successful enterprises located in the school's location.
The hard truth about the board of trustees is that if there are no such most authoritative and successful, influential and conscientious people in the area, there will be no council. And you don't need to create it.
The experience of the network of federal experimental sites shows that the board of trustees today is not a mandatory norm. It is not included in the staffing table of the educational institution. We will try to create them, we will do our best to reinforce the organizational efforts of schools with federal regulations, organize training for trustees. But all this will work on one condition - if there is in the foreseeable school space the very person who can become a trustee.
Look for him - and the advice will be.

How to proceed?

Here is a letter that came to our editorial office by e-mail.
"Hello! So at the school where my children study, they decided to create a board of trustees. They invited me along with other parents. Nobody really knows how to organize the work. I got acquainted with the draft regulations. The main question posed by the school administration is: who will spend the funds? Who will be the account holder and fund manager? The school is against the director or any ITO commanding the funds. Can the board of trustees have its own account, where sponsorship funds will be accumulated? Maybe you have some information on how school boards of trustees work.
Respectfully yours, EA Noskov, Member of the Board of Trustees of Educational Institution No. 71, Nizhny Tagil.
At our request, the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation V. Filippov answered this question:
- On the scale of Russia, there can be no unequivocal answer. Well, for example, a rural school, in which 20-30 people study and which for its main salary still cannot open its own account, does not even have a cashier and an accountant, so, of course, it is hardly worth creating for it separately in this case fund with its own account.
In most cases, especially in large cities, boards of trustees should have their own funds. Moreover, it is desirable with a separate account, which is controlled by this fund. At some intermediate stage, these may be foundations within the school, but this is the initial stage. You can really influence the life of the school when you have leverage over the financial life of the school.
This was the answer of the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation V. Filippov to the question of E. Noskov, a member of the Board of Trustees of School No. 71 from Nizhny Tagil.
Let's add on our own.
The board of trustees collects money for the school, and this is his, council's, money.
This is how T. Epanchintseva, executive director of the Center for Cooperation at the Local Level, which is engaged in the development of a network of socially active schools, tells about the experience of training trustees:
“The Board of Trustees of the Parabel School of the Tomsk Region has organized paid computer courses for adults - and this is a good tool for replenishing the public school fund. L. Mityuklyaeva, director of gymnasium №91 in Zheleznogorsk, talks about how the gymnasium and its charitable foundation discovered new diverse resources, including intellectual, informational, not only material, when they went beyond the school territory and began to work on involvement of the local community in partnerships. “We realized,” she says, “that the community of the neighborhood will actively help the gymnasium if we help it. We realized that it is impossible to create an ideal "microcosm" in the gymnasium, it is necessary to improve life in the entire microdistrict, and this is within our power. Therefore, the gymnasium and the foundation proposed to the residents of the microdistrict to create public territorial self-government by electing the councils of houses and the council of the microdistrict. Having carried out such a large-scale work with the local community, we found new opportunities for cooperation with the city authorities and involved them in the implementation of our programs as partners. In particular, the city authorities have undertaken a share of the work on the creation of a public sports complex on the basis of our gymnasium. "
... Boards of trustees are not a magic wand, the school does not get rich overnight after they appear. But it can be said for sure that the school will become poorer and poorer if it cannot attract society to its side. Not an abstract society, but real people - trustees.

Your opinion

We will be grateful if you take the time to express your opinion about this article, your impression of it. Thanks.

"First of September"

Who is in charge of the school is known even to first graders. Of course, the director. He is a strategist and tactician, on his shoulders solving many organizational issues, including the constant search for sources of funding ...

But can one person be responsible for everything and everyone? The issue is controversial. However, even the strongest administrator will not be hindered by volunteer helpers. Especially when it comes to money, material responsibility... The same director has the right to spend only budget funds. But they are not enough for basic things! Helps out sponsorship, charity. But here - a dark forest with registration, taxes, the legality of conducting "transactions" ... This is where assistants come in handy - public organizations, members of the School Board of Trustees.

In the past, the board of trustees of gymnasiums and lyceums included "the mighty of this world" - representatives of the merchant class, nobles, governors and high-ranking officials. They had a real opportunity to influence what was happening in the "sponsored institutions". And they contributed not only financially - they monitored the quality of education, encouraged gifted children, and drew public attention to educational problems.

What now? Alas, the situation is not so cloudless. Large organizations, serious sponsors, well-known figures help ordinary schools "with a scratch", finance secondary education sluggishly. And the reason is not that they do not want to - there are too many bureaucratic obstacles and formalities to overcome on this path! Buying chairs, desks for classrooms is a problem. Entrepreneurs are waiting to be accepted targeted programs assistance - with preferential taxation, thoughtful legal basis... On the other hand, the school principals themselves and the administration are in no hurry to surrender some of their powers to public councils. So it turns out in practice: Boards of Trustees are turning into a bloated parent committee, the main goal of which is to raise money.

We will help you financially

According to the fund " Public opinion", 67% of parents are ready to spend serious funds on the education of their children. At the same time, about 90% of families of pupils regularly spend various amounts on" school needs "!

Unauthorized levies - " headache"most dads and moms. So, in May, several school principals and kindergartens were removed from office for the systematic receipt of bribes. Many lovers of "easy" parental money received warnings and severe reprimands.

But if fees for entering school or transferring from class to class are strictly prohibited, then what to do with the legalized fees - for the services of a security agency, "alarm button", additional classes? The Department of Education is not inclined: cash should not go to school. First, the turnover of cash makes taxation difficult. Secondly, there is a great chance that some of the funds will "settle" along the way in someone's pockets.

There are options for solving the problem - to make all payments through a specially created fund or a board of trustees.

Tatiana, mother of a first grader:
“Before the start of the study, we held a meeting. The main question was fundraising. Previously, it was simple: we settled down“ for a ruble ”, determined what to buy, handed over the amount to the teacher - the problems were solved. But now? Funds can only be transferred by bank transfer to the educational fund Who can guarantee that they will be spent on repairing our 1 "B" class, and not on another matter? "

This question would not have arisen if this school had a Board of Trustees.

A simple example - there are not enough computers at school and teaching aids in mathematics or Russian. Such spending is not provided for by the budgetary funds this year. A decision is made: to collect a certain amount of money for school needs. But there is only enough money for one thing - either for the purchase of benefits, or - computers. When a board of trustees operates in an educational institution, the issue is resolved taking into account its opinion. If this is done by the administration, officials, then the parents are simply presented with a fact.

What gives moms and dads the creation of such an organ? First of all, a guarantee that funds will not be spent uncontrollably. He makes decisions about where to direct the money, how much.

"One of the main tasks of the trustees is to attract and distribute additional funds for educational purposes. The key words here are" to attract and distribute "- says AV Gavrilov, head of the press service of the Moscow Department of Education.

Influencing the educational process

Close cooperation of the board of trustees with the school administration not only on financial, but on many other issues, partnership and complete mutual understanding! .. Sounds tempting, but so far only sounds. That is how it should be. Ideally. In reality, however, teachers do not want to let "outsiders" approach the educational process. They are ready to accept material assistance, but no more: "We know better what and how to teach our students."

Such a position only strengthens the parents' faith: "Well, of course, the school does not care about anything except extortions!" The situation is deadlocked, because both sides are right in their own way ...

But there is a way out of it. It is necessary to clearly and in detail define the powers of the Board of Trustees, and to establish them legally.

First, the Board of Trustees must be registered as an autonomous organization from the school. Even if the representatives of the school are against, it is worth insisting and convincing. If the council is only one of the divisions of the school, it is not independent enough. It actually depends on the administration. Is in a subordinate position.

Secondly, all controversial issues, rights and obligations of the board must be recorded in the charter of the school and the regulation on the creation of the board of trustees. Between educational institution and the Board of Trustees concludes a cooperation agreement.

The charter is developed jointly by the administration and representatives of the parent community. In some especially "advanced" schools, the students themselves are involved in the process.

Parents who are not part of the board of trustees have the right to contact its representatives at any time for clarification, help or support. All incoming proposals are considered. The most interesting ones are introduced to the school principals.

What can a board of trustees with "expanded" powers do?

• Monitor the targeted use of extrabudgetary funds. Example: money was collected from students for landscaping school premises. The Board of Trustees has the right to require the provision of receipts from stores, to recount the number of purchased plants.
• Obtain information from school administration about compliance financial discipline, the implementation of the state program. You can be interested not only in the fate of the money you raised, but also in how the allocated budget funds were spent.
• Make suggestions to the school's work plan. That is, advise the teacher and the director to pay attention to this or that curriculum. But the final decision is not yours.
• Organize explanatory work among the population in order to attract funds for non-budgetary financing of the school. If you can attract a local factory, store or market as a sponsor, the size of contributions from parents will decrease.

Instead of a resume

The patronage movement is just beginning its march across the country. Schools recognize that public organizations are needed. Parents do not mind either. However, both are in no hurry to make the first move. Moms and dads do not fully understand the benefits of the Soviets. School administrators rightly believe that the artificial implantation of the guardianship system can be perceived with hostility as another way of legally extorting money.

State officials are careful in their forecasts: it will take time for the Boards of Trustees to take root in Russia again. Initial five to ten years are trial years. It is not surprising that the first, second and even third pancake can come out lumpy.

Whether your school will be among the innovators or will choose a policy of waiting is up to you.

Decision is made. A group of enthusiasts decided to create a Board of Trustees.

The ideal option is to consult a lawyer who will help you draw up all the necessary papers.

Do you want to be independent in everything? The regulation on the board of trustees should contain the following points:

• General Provisions. (The purpose of this paragraph is to explain the meanings of the concepts used);
• Procedure for creating the Board (Should contain answers to the questions: How often is the Board of Trustees elected? Who and how can join it?)
• Goals of the Board of Trustees (Globally. For example, protecting the rights of schoolchildren, ensuring the representation of the school's interests in public authorities, etc.);
• Tasks of the council (specific cases - raising funds, improving the material and technical base, monitoring financial flows, etc.):
• Rights and responsibilities (What is the council obliged to do? What steps in relation to the administration and the school, and in general, is it entitled?).
• Organizational moments(How often will the Board meet, who is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, how is the paperwork, etc.).

Subtle moment

Do not confuse the two tips - the School Board and the Board of Trustees. The first consists of representatives of the administration, parents and students in equal shares and decides on social and administrative issues.

Parent's notebook

The head of the press service of the Moscow Department of Education A.V. Gavrilov.

I would like to be able to communicate with the class teacher of my children, the teachers of the school, to see in what conditions the children are engaged. But after the strengthening of security measures, no one is allowed into the school, they are forbidden to call the teacher's room. Is there an order restricting parental access to school? Do I have a legal basis to insist on my own?

Of course, the prohibition to call the teacher's room is an extreme, this should not be. The parent has the right to visit the school, having previously made an appointment by phone or through the child. If you are systematically denied, contact the director, then - to the district education department.