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UEA and Outside Groups are Battling Over School Board Elections Utah Policy analysis by Bob Bernick, Contributing Editor

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Filings at the state Board of Elections show NYSUT's Fund For Great Public Schools super PAC has invested in both mailers and TV ad production over the last week to knock Republican Chris Jacobs and boost Small's chances in the battleground district.

At 7:30 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, NYC Votes, the New York Immigration Coalition, the Department of Education, and the Board of Elections host «Student Voter Registration Day» at over 60 schools citywide.

The letter is a sign controversial issues surrounding education that have roiled Albany and school board meetings over the last several years will continue to be concerns raised in elections this fall.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

The partnership has thrived for well over a decade, under multiple superintendents and through a number of school board elections.

Finally, the school board (which had experienced significant turnover in the November 2012 elections) agreed to hear a proposal from the parents» chosen charter operator, which hopes to take over the school in the fall.

And in an Ed Next podcast recorded just after the new school board was elected in Wake County last fall, «Voters Choose Neighborhood Schools Over Socioeconomic Diversity,» Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discussed the election and what it would mean for the county's school assignment policies.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.

• After election to the school board, the experience of being on the board — and part of «management» — seems to make members somewhat less pro-union over time; as a result, the unions can not count on gaining complete control of school boards even when they are continually successful in elections.

According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, since 2010 John Bryan has given well over $ 100,000 to candidates who have a record of pushing school privatization efforts, including House Speaker Tim Moore, Rep. Jason Saine, former Guilford Rep. Marcus Brandon, Rep. Paul Stam, and Sen. Ralph Hise.

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Beneath the mudslinging and big money that dominated this week's school board elections, a serious battle is being waged over competing visions of local education: one sees progress and the need for stability; another sees failure and prescribes radical change.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has been busy over the last few weeks on a unity tour with DNC chairman Tom Perez, but that hasn't stopped him from wading into a local school board election.

Nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated than Douglas County, Colorado, where education politics and an ongoing constitutional fight over educational choice have converged to create perhaps the most consequential school board election in modern American history.

... Over half the public, including 57 percent of parents, admits not voting in the most recent school board election — a remarkably high rate given the tendency of respondents to overstate their electoral participation (Farkas et al. 2001, 15).

Let's say that a certain wealthy person (Bill Gates) decided to buy the elections to gain control over the Seattle School Board.

Ongoing community engagement, thoughtful school board governance, a community ecosystem of support and accountability along with great leadership over several election cycles are the necessary ingredients for the improvement of the district.

-LSB-...] the corporate «reformers» attempt to take over the school board in Nashville and the well - deserved defeat they experienced during the recent election in the Music City.

School board elections will be held all over the state this summer.

The large amounts of outside money flowing into the Los Angeles Unified school board election represent a new front in the reform battles that have shaken up education politics over the last decade.