New members of the Missouri State Board of Education discovered their powers to direct schools are more limited than they expected during a retreat last week.
The board spent Wednesday and Thursday talking about the powers it has -- and those it does not -- to impact a public education system they'd like to tweak.
"People around this table are accountable for change. I don't think people want the status quo for education," Brooks Miller, a board member from Sunshine Beach, said Wednesday. "That is why I get nervous when I think about how little authority we have but how much accountability we are subject to."
