(a) To enter into contracts in the manner provided by law with each assistant superintendent, principal, and teacher of the public schools under his/her supervision, after such assistant superintendent, principal, and teachers have been selected and approved in the manner provided by law.

(b) To enforce in the public schools of the school district the courses of study provided by law or the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education, and to comply with the law with reference to the use and distribution of free textbooks.

(c) To administer oaths in all cases to persons testifying before him/her relative to disputes relating to the schools submitted to him/her for determination, and to take testimony in such cases as provided by law.

(d) To examine the monthly and annual reports submitted by principals and teachers for the purpose of determining and verifying the accuracy thereof.

(e) To preserve all reports of superintendents, principals, teachers, and other school officers, and to deliver to his/her successor or clerk of the board of supervisors all money, property, books, effects, and papers.

(f) To prepare and keep in his/her office a map or maps showing the territory embraced in the school district, to furnish the county assessor with a copy of such map or maps, and to revise and correct same from time to time as changes in or alterations of school districts may necessitate.

(g) To keep an accurate record of the names of all the members of the school board showing the districts for which each was elected or appointed, the post office address of each, and the date of expiration of his/her term of office. All official correspondence shall be addressed to the school board and notice to such members shall be regarded as notice to the residents of the district and it shall be the duty of the members to notify such residents.

(h) To deliver in proper time to the assistant superintendents, principals, teachers, and board members such forms, records, and other supplies which will be needed during the school year as by law or any applicable rules and regulations, and to give to such individuals such information with regard to their duties as may be required.


(i) To make to the school board reports for each scholastic month in such form as the school board may require. 

(j) To distribute promptly all reports, letters, forms, circulars, and instructions which
he/she may receive for the use of school officials.

(k) To keep on file and preserve in his/her office all appropriate information
concerning the affairs of the school district.

(l) To visit the schools in the district in his/her discretion, and to require the assistant superintendents, principals, and teachers thereof to perform their duties as prescribed by law.

(m) To observe such instructions and regulations as the school board and other public officials may prescribe, and to make special reports to these officers whenever required.

(n) To keep his/her office open for the transaction of business upon the days and during the hours to be designated by the school board.

(o) To make such reports as are required by the State Board of Education.

(p) To make an enumeration of educable children in the school district as prescribed by law.

(q) To keep in his/her office and carefully preserve the public school record provided, to enter therein the proceedings of the school board and its decision upon cases and its other official acts, to record therein the data required from the monthly and term reports of principals and teachers, and from the summaries of records thus kept.

(r) To delegate student disciplinary matters to appropriate school personnel.

(s) To make assignments to the various schools in the district of all noninstructional and nonlicensed employees and all licensed employees, as provided in Sections 37-9-15 and 37-9-17, and to make reassignments of such employees from time to time; however, a reassignment of a licensed employee may only be to an area in which the employee has a valid license issued by the State Department of Education. Upon request from any employee transferred, such assignment shall be subject to review by the school board.

(t) To employ substitutes for licensed employees, regardless of whether or not such substitute holds the proper license, subject to such reasonable rules and
regulations as may be adopted by the State Board of Education and by the Smith County School Board.

(u) To comply in a timely manner with the compulsory education reporting
requirements prescribed in Section 37-13-91

(v) To perform such other duties as may be required of him/her by law.

(w) To notify, in writing, the parent, guardian, or custodian, the youth court, and local law enforcement of any expulsion of a student for criminal activity.

(x) To notify the youth court and local law enforcement agencies, by affidavit, of the occurrence of any crime committed by a student or students upon school property or during any school-related activity, regardless of location and the identity of the student or students committing the crime.

(y) To employ and dismiss noninstructional and nonlicensed employees as provided by law.