Sentences with phrase «nation school board»

DSBA is a member of the National School Boards Association which represents approximately 80,000 of the nations school board members, which in turn, represents more than 97 % of all public school children in the United States.

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Our medical advisors come from the finest hospitals and medical schools in the nation, and our board includes internationally recognized experts in corporate finance, as well as leaders in the medical device industry.

In 2012, John was elected to a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education (MD), the nation's 17th largest school district, where he advocated technology modernization across over 200 schools.

The Witch Creek blaze charred nearly 370,000 acres in the county and destroyed or significantly damaged 31 of the 40 residences on the academy's 238 - acre campus, home to one of the nation's first boarding schools for foster teens.

Since its establishment in 1978, IMG Academy has built a reputation as the nation's premier multi-sports boarding school and training facility.

Many of the nation's best high school football players made their college decisions a long time ago, but a few of the top remaining seniors on the board will announce their...

WESTCHESTER & UPSTATE EF Academy International Boarding Schools 582 Columbus Ave., Thornwood, NY 10594 www.ef.edu/academy [phone] EF Academy prepares students not only for academic success, but also for true global citizenship through critical learning and unparalleled intercultural immersion in what amounts to a diverse United Nations - style high school community.

The Board of Education has agreed to move forward on a plan to eliminate sugary beverages and make Florida the first state in the nation to ban chocolate milk in public schools.

Check, I was able to get a medical education in one of the nation's top medical schools, pass the board exams, trained and qualified to be an ophthalmologist.

Even though Foley did not receive the CEA board's endorsement, he «remains committed to real education reform, including addressing the needs of the 100,000 children who are in under - performing schools and closing Connecticut's achievement gap, which remains the worst in the nation,» spokesman Chris Cooper said.

The Buffalo School Board is now in the spotlight, with today's start of an unprecedented hearing to have Carl P. Paladino removed from his seat garnering interest across the state and nation.

We hope the Board of Regents, Governor Cuomo, NYC Schools Chancellor Fariña, Mayor DeBlasio and all policy - makers throughout the city and state and nation listen to this urgent video message.

In October 2017 Joy Bishara recounted to United Nations Security Council members her experience of being one of nearly 300 girls abducted in 2014 from a boarding school in Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

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The Microsoft Corp. will give every school in the nation free software that will allow them to set up computer bulletin boards and electronic - mail systems, Chairman William H. Gates III announced last week.

Virtually no other nation around the world has school boards as we do, yet most of their school systems aren't run in tyrannical ways.

Education Nation was selected as a Top Education Book of 2010 by American School Board Journal.

Most High School Seniors Aren't College or Career Ready, says «Nation's Report Card» NPR Ed, 4/27/16» «In our era of incredibly volatile state and local testing practices, it is our North Star,» says Andrew Ho, a measurement expert at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who sits on NAEP's bipartisan governing board.»

Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the legislature's lower house, announced on Feb. 15 the proposed elimination of the current board structure by 2000 as part of an overall plan to reorganize the governance of the nation's largest school system.

The seven - member panel expected to be named late last week to assist the New York City Board of Education's search for a new chancellor will face a difficult mandate: recruiting a visionary leader who can correct the failures of the country's largest school system and shape it into «a model for the nation.»

Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.

Following up on a pledge to usher «a revolution» into the nation's second - largest school system, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan has begun a campaign to unseat the four school board members who are up for re-election in April.

An interview with Professor Gary Orfield, Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard May 2004 marks 50 years since the landmarkBrown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that declared «separate not equal» and jumpstarted a legally mandated approach to desegregate the nation's schools.

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The Philadelphia Board of Education voted 5 - to - 3 last week not to appeal a court order that opened Central High School, the nation's second - oldest public high school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year hiSchool, the nation's second - oldest public high school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year hischool, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year history.

But school board members from across the country say that's likely to change soon, and they're bracing for leaner times forced by the nation's economic downturn.

The council includes superintendents and board members from 28 of the nation's largest urban school systems.

After an all - night negotiating session, the Chicago Teachers Union and the board of education reached agreement last week on a new contract that narrowly averted a strike in the nation's third - largest school system.

The New York City school board took the first step last week toward overhauling special education in the nation's largest school system.

The nation's most extensive experiment in private management of public schools sputtered to an end last week as the Hartford, Conn., school board said it would end its partnership with Education Alternatives Inc. in a dispute over finances.

In 2011, the Douglas County school board attempted to launch the nation's first district - created universal voucher program, triggering a 6 - year court battle.

Los Angeles — In a speech to Hispanic school - board members here this month, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell criticized the nation's school boards for paying too little attention to instructional issues and called on them to take a leadership role in upgrading educational standards.

The Dade County, Fla., school board is expected to begin dealing this week with its staggering school - building crunch, an issue that in recent years has practically swallowed up the nation's fourth - largest school district.

This year, thousands of educators across the nation are expected to participate, along with the U.S. Department of Education and education organizations, including the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the National Writing Project, and The College Board's Advanced Placement Program.

Education leaders are lagging behind in drafting policies to govern the use of online courses in the nation's schools, according to a report by the National Association of State Boards of Education.

The nation's schools will not improve substantially until local school boards and state legislatures set concrete goals and then get out of the way.

Although the 40 - year - old statute appears to have been the only one of its kind in the nation, officials from nonprofit institutions across the board, including boarding schools and private colleges, had expressed fears that if Maine's approach were upheld, more states might seek to provide greater tax benefits to institutions that mostly serve in - state residents.

It comes at a time when the nation is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which overturned laws enacting racial segregation in public schools.

Superintendent William M. Kendrick's March 23 proposal to the city school board came some 10 years after Seattle became one of the nation's first major cities to undertake a comprehensive desegregation program voluntarily.

He is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences, and his consultancies include state departments, boards of education, state and regional service providers, and school districts in 44 states and 10 nations.

A new Fordham Institute study, Charter School Boards in the Nation's Capital, asks a simple but largely uninvestigated question: Do the characteristics, views, and practices of charter boards have any bearing on charter school quSchool Boards in the Nation's Capital, asks a simple but largely uninvestigated question: Do the characteristics, views, and practices of charter boards have any bearing on charter school quBoards in the Nation's Capital, asks a simple but largely uninvestigated question: Do the characteristics, views, and practices of charter boards have any bearing on charter school quboards have any bearing on charter school quschool quality?

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

I am the executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board, and the story of our sector in the nation's capital is mostly one of continued success, growth, popularity, and quality improvement.

When Congress passed charter school legislation for Washington, D.C., in 1995, our public schools were a national disgrace, characterized by decrepit buildings, a meddling school board, patronage - based employment, sky - high truancy, and some of the nation's lowest graduation rates and test scores.

Alexandria, Va. (March 6, 2014)-- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel issued the following statement on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Public Notice on the Wireline Competition Bureau Seeks Focused Comment on E-rate Modernization to modernize the E-rate program and increase the quality and speed of Internet connectivity in our nation's schools.

Washington, D.C. (February 21, 2018)-- States are pursuing innovative policies and using best practices to improve the nation's schools, and a coalition of organizations representing America's chief state school officers, legislators, state board members and state education policy leaders today announced a campaign to highlight the progress underway in states across the country.

The District of Columbia's public schools, once considered among the worst in the nation, continued its trend of steady, across - the - board gains on the 2015 NAEP.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban ceBoards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban ceboards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban centers.

Significance: Houston developed a legal strategy that would eventually lead to victory over segregation in the nation's schools through the Brown v. Board case.

I sit on the board of the California Charter School Association (CCSA), which is one of most effective charter associations in the nation.