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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 162.621 (2026)

Powers and duties of board of education

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  162.621.  Powers and duties of board of education — special administrative board. — 1.  The board of education shall have general and supervising control, government and management of the public schools and public school property of the district in the city and shall exercise generally all powers in the administration of the public school system therein.  The board of education has all the powers of other school districts under the laws of this state except as herein provided and shall perform all duties required by general laws of school districts so far as they are applicable to the public school affairs of the city and are consistent with this law.  It shall appoint the officers, agents and employees it deems necessary and proper and fix their compensation.  The board of education may:

  (1)  Make, amend and repeal rules and bylaws for its meetings and proceedings, for the government, regulation and management of the public schools and school property in the city, for the transaction of its business, and the examination, qualification and employment of teachers, which rules and bylaws are binding on the board of education and all parties dealing with it until formally repealed;

  (2)  Fix the time of its meetings;

  (3)  Provide for special and standing committees;

  (4)  Levy taxes authorized by law for school purposes;

  (5)  Invest the funds of the district;

  (6)  Purchase and hold all property, real and personal, deemed by it necessary for the purposes of public education;

  (7)  Build and construct improvements for such purposes, and sell the same;

  (8)  Provide for the gratuitous transportation of pupils to and from schools in cases where by reason of special circumstances pupils are required to attend schools at unusual distances from their residences.

  2.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the powers granted in subsection 1 of this section shall be vested, in the manner provided in section 162.1100, in the special administrative board of the transitional school district containing the city not within a county if the school district loses its accreditation from the state board of education.  Thereafter, such powers shall immediately revert to the board of directors of the school district for any period of time for which no transitional school district containing the city not within a county is in existence.  The board of directors of the school district shall, at all times, retain auditing and public reporting powers.

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(L. 1963 p. 200 § 3-62, A.L. 1998 S.B. 781)

(Source: RSMo 1959 §§ 165.580, 165.640)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases, 1979–2013 · leading case: Bd. of Educ. v. Missouri State Bd. of Educ., 271 S.W.3d 1 (Mo. 2008).
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Bd. of Educ. v. Missouri State Bd. of Educ., 271 S.W.3d 1 (Mo. 2008). · cites it 26× “Louis public school district lost its accreditation on June 15, 2007, and the special administrative board took control pursuant to section 162.621, RSMo 2000, 3 and section 162.”
Breitenfeld v. Sch. Dist. of Clayton, 399 S.W.3d 816 (Mo. 2013). · cites it 3× “1 provides: Any school district which makes provision for transporting pupils as provided in section 162.621, RSMo, and sections 167.231 and 167.”
Brown v. Weir, 675 S.W.2d 135 (Mo. Ct. App. 1984). · cites it 4× “Section 162.621, RSMo 1978 provides: "The board of education may: (1) Make, amend and repeal rules and bylaws for its meetings and proceedings, for the government, regulation and management of the public schools and school property in the city, for the transaction of its…”
Bell v. Bd. of Educ. of City of St. Louis, 711 S.W.2d 950 (Mo. Ct. App. 1986). · cites it 2× “The appellant finds the Board’s decision untenable because it imposed a six month suspension instead of the fifteen day one recommended by the superintendent of schools.”
Streeter v. Hundley, 580 S.W.2d 283 (Mo. 1979). · cites it 3× “Louis Board of Education was promulgated under the specific statutory authority of §§ 162.621, 171.011, RSMo 1969, 1 and that its violation constitutes unauthorized and unreasonable punishment per se.”
Webb v. Reisel, 858 S.W.2d 767 (Mo. Ct. App. 1993). · cites it 2× “§ 162.621, RSMo 1986. The superintendent of a school district is subject to the control of the school board and possesses general supervision powers over the school system, “including its various departments and physical properties, courses of instruction, discipline and conduct…”
Thelma D. v. Bd. of Educ. of City of St. Louis, 737 F. Supp. 541 (E.D. Mo. 1990). · cites it 2× “See, generally, Mo.Rev.Stat. §§ 162.621, 168.211 and 168.”
Liddell v. Bd. of Educ., 469 F. Supp. 1304 (E.D. Mo. 1979). “” § 162.621(8), R.S.Mo.1969. All other districts are subject to statutory mileage criteria.”
Am. Fed'n of Sch. Administrators, AFL-CIO, Local 44 v. St. Louis Pub. Schs. St. Louis, 666 S.W.2d 873 (Mo. Ct. App. 1984). “RSMo § 162.621 provides: The board of education shall have general and supervising control, government and management of the public schools *878 and public school property of the district in the city and shall exercise generally all powers in the administration of the public…”
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 162.621(8): 1 case
Liddell v. Bd. of Educ., 469 F. Supp. 1304 (E.D. Mo. 1979). “” § 162.621(8), R.S.Mo.1969. All other districts are subject to statutory mileage criteria.”
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