32.4. In accordance with the policies and regulations of the school board, and taking into account the functions of the orientation committee, the principal or the person in charge of the school has chiefly the following rights, powers and functions:(1) to ensure that the school has a specific orientation or an educational project;
(2) to implement measures in accordance with the objectives determined for the school;
(3) to ensure the application of the pedagogical system established under subparagraph 7 of the first paragraph of section 16;
(4) to choose the textbooks and teaching materials;
(5) to ensure the verification of pupil’s attendance;
(6) to acquaint the school committee with the services offered by the school;
(7) to see that the parents are regularly informed of their children’s progress and of the educational services offered by the school;
(8) to submit the school’s budget to the school board, administer it and give the board an accounting thereof;
(9) to regulate the use of school premises if there is no orientation committee;
(10) to make by-laws governing the internal management of the school;
(11) to promote the establishment of an orientation committee;
(12) to exercise any other rights, powers and obligations delegated to him under section 187, and any functions assigned to him by the fifth paragraph of section 191;
(13) to see to the implementation and operation of school day care provided to the children in the kindergarten and elementary grades.