Policy & Resources wants more freedom to include one of its political members on a special board that will advise on how far and how fast the local management of schools should go.
The top committee is seeking States approval to have a representative, but not its President, sit on the board known as the Education Devolution Investigation & Advisory Committee.
The original plans had allowed for the member of P&R who leads on corporate services to be a part of the group, but it now wants more freedom to nominate a deputy who has the best political experience and knowledge on the subject.
The group will be tasked with investigating changes to the governance of all States schools through school governance boards which have been set up in the past few months.
It will then recommend to the States how much independence from central government they should be given, such as powers over personnel, IT, finance and scrutiny.
Education, Sport & Culture will lead the nominations for it at next week’s States meeting, and is restricting membership to deputies who have served at least one full political term.
Education President Deputy Paul Montague will sit on the board, with a chair and two other deputies who aren’t members of either P&R or ESC joining.
There’s also space for up to two non-voting members.
P&R said any of its members “could act for the Committee as the conduit to bring the full benefit of its experience to advise on this area of its mandate”.
ESC said new deputies wouldn’t be permitted on the special committee since they “might have limited knowledge of the history of discourse on the subject of education governance” and want the group to be “able to work knowledgeably and at pace to complete this workstream”.
