Sentences with phrase «school board group»

National School Board Group Seeks Curbs on U.S. Ed Secretary The National School Boards Association and its 90,000 members are sponsoring legislation aimed at curbing the authority of the U.S. Secretary of Education — an outgrowth likely stemming from the group's chilly relationship with the Obama administration during the president's first term.

The school boards group also urges a statewide freeze on government salaries - which would save billions without laying off a single employee or cutting back a single service - and requiring all workers to pay at least 10 % of their health insurance costs, which is less than most private - sector workers shell out.

«We know something has to give,» says David Albert of the school boards group, which opposes the cap.

The school boards group point out that its members» personnel costs are rising so rapidly - partly for reasons out of their control - that a tax cap would leave them collectively $ 3 billion short over the next four years.

That all changed Wednesday when a group of educators — including teachers» unions, superintendent and school board groups — agreed on how to properly evaluate teachers so those who are struggling are identified and put on a path to improve or be dismissed.

That all changed Wednesday when a group of educators — including teachers» unions, superintendent and school board groups — agreed on how to properly evaluate teachers...

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Former UWA Business School Dean Tracey Horton and former Mitsubishi Motors Australia chief executive Robert McEniry have been appointed to the board of Automotive Holdings Group as non-executive direc

Mr. Kassie is actively involved in community and charitable organizations and is the Chairman of the Board of Baycrest Health Sciences and is on the board of the Richard Ivey School of Business and was formerly on the boards of the Toronto International Film Festival Group and the Hospital for Sick ChilBoard of Baycrest Health Sciences and is on the board of the Richard Ivey School of Business and was formerly on the boards of the Toronto International Film Festival Group and the Hospital for Sick Chilboard of the Richard Ivey School of Business and was formerly on the boards of the Toronto International Film Festival Group and the Hospital for Sick Children.

He serves on the board of the following non-public companies and not - for - profit and other organizations: Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, LinHart Group PTE Ltd. (Chairman / Director), Manulife US Real Estate Management Pte Ltd. (Chair), National University of Singapore Business School (Management Advisory Board), Singapore Institute of Management (Member of Governing Council) and Singapore Institute of Management Pte board of the following non-public companies and not - for - profit and other organizations: Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, LinHart Group PTE Ltd. (Chairman / Director), Manulife US Real Estate Management Pte Ltd. (Chair), National University of Singapore Business School (Management Advisory Board), Singapore Institute of Management (Member of Governing Council) and Singapore Institute of Management Pte Board), Singapore Institute of Management (Member of Governing Council) and Singapore Institute of Management Pte Ltd..

A key note speaker, and angel investor Marnie holds an ICD.D Board certification, teaches Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business and is a Founding Board Member of Maple Leaf Angels investment group

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Through accelerator programs such as NEXT Canada, the University of Toronto Engineering School Hatchery, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) and the DMZ at Ryerson University, Anthony supports young entrepreneurs with financing and mentorship, is active on numerous boards and advisory groups and speaks regularly to students about entrepreneurship.

It matters when a group of them are standing up at a school board meeting trying to force their religious agenda into our science classes and threatening legal action!

The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

Schools are retrofitting classrooms with computers, computer jacks, digital projectors for computer generated images, white boards and scanners that digitize images and notes, and interactive teleconferencing facilities that permit individuals and groups to engage in discussion from distant locations.

When the school board voted to oust the three remaining pregnant students from the cheerleading squad, the controversy became a magnet for activist groups and the national press.

His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

Rebuffed by school officials, his mother sued the city school board in July 1945 with the help of a Unitarian minister and a group of Jewish businesspeople in Chicago.

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

The group covered a wide swath of the food industry: from Dow Agro Sciences and the Soybean, Mushroom, and Peanut Boards; doctors from the Cleveland Clinic and professors from Harvard Business School; to representatives from Butterball, Dunkin Donuts, Chobani Yogurt, Wonderful Brands (the company behind POM), and McDonald's corporate dietician.

The school's Board of Advisors includes chefs and owners from the city's prominent restaurants including Stuart Brioza, chef / owner of State Bird Provisions and The Progress; Brandon Jew, chef / owner of Mister Jiu's; Belinda Leong, pastry chef / owner of B. Patissere; and Lincoln Carson, executive pastry chef of the Michael Mina Group — to name just a few.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

She has also served as Education Chair for the School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and as an elected board member for the Houston Area Dietetic Association in various positions.

The Board of Trustees is one of the groups that provide leadership at Corvallis Waldorf School.

She served as the first administrator and as a board member at a Waldorf school she co-founded in Everswinkel, Germany; is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development, an international consulting group; and sits on the Board of the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridgeboard member at a Waldorf school she co-founded in Everswinkel, Germany; is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development, an international consulting group; and sits on the Board of the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridgschool she co-founded in Everswinkel, Germany; is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development, an international consulting group; and sits on the Board of the Otto Specht School in Chestnut RidgeBoard of the Otto Specht School in Chestnut RidgSchool in Chestnut Ridge, NY.

At a recent Library Board meeting that drew City Council members, homeowners groups and other city leaders, library and park officials agreed to form a committee to explore using land south of 95th Street, near Neuqua Valley High School, for the proposed facility.

School Board member Tom Tonniges, chairman of the district's curriculum committee, said the group hopes to get feedback from parents before it meets again next month and recommends the curricula to the school School Board member Tom Tonniges, chairman of the district's curriculum committee, said the group hopes to get feedback from parents before it meets again next month and recommends the curricula to the school bBoard member Tom Tonniges, chairman of the district's curriculum committee, said the group hopes to get feedback from parents before it meets again next month and recommends the curricula to the school school boardboard.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

It could be that representatives of the decision - making bodies are already a part of your group (e.g., representatives from the school administration or board), and can act as ambassadors.

«Sometimes, what looks good on paper doesn't work on the ground,» said Katherine Shek, a legislative analyst for the National School Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislSchool Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislschool nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislSchool Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislation.

He was a co-founder of the group D.C. Urban Gardeners, sits on the advisory board of the D.C. Farm to School Network and contributes to food policy blogs such as Grist and La Vida Locavore, as well as the gardening blog Garden Rant.

ELMHURST — A new intergovernmental agreement between the Elmhurst Park District and Elmhurst Community School District 205 could make park programs more accessible to residents, members of both groups» boards agreed this week.

A group of west - side Pasco County parents whose neighborhood might be reassigned to different middle and high schools has asked the School Board to consider different options they suggest would cost less money and angst.The parents, including...

This will be the first time the SHAC will be addressing the board face - to - face about an issue of concern: the often nutritionally sub-par items sold on our campuses, by outside groups and HISD itself, that compete with the federal school meal.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

CWS» Board of Trustees are a diverse group of people from inside and outside of the school community.

Because school board members believe older children need more recreational activitiesthan those in the playground, they have agreed to spend up to $ 15,000 to install basketball backboards, volleyball courts and facilities for other group sports.

As the strike entered its 14th school day Friday the board came under pressure from at least one community group to begin using nonstriking teachers to conduct classes.

Abrams declined to address the question of using sugar and flavorings to entice children to drink milk at school, saying «people have different perspectives,» and noting that he sits on a board that advises MilkPEP, the dairy group responsible for the «Got Milk?»

Kate — how do parent groups, or student health advisory councils approach the school board with such a recommendation and succeed in getting a school food program change (scratch cooking) approved?

School districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of educaSchool districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of educaschool day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of education).

«I've given schools the opportunity to do a group board on my [account] so they can post to it, and gain the advantage of sharing their pictures with my followers.

After the meeting, have everyone in your group write to the school board target and thank him / her for meeting with you, and express support for whatever it was you requested.

She was also co-founder, administrator, and Board member of a Waldorf school in Everswinkel, Germany, and is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development, an international consulting group.

He was a board member of Consolidated School District 155 in Crystal Lake, and he was vice president of and a partner in the Residential Development Group, a Crystal Lake firm.

A group of activists protested outside SED today, calling for the June 22 hearing on Buffalo School Board Carl Paladino's fate to be held in the Queen City, not Albany.

She is a frequent Republican campaign donor, and has founded and served on several school choice groups» boards, according to a report by mlive.com.

And the District Parent Coordinating Council, a Buffalo schools parent group, called on Paladino to resign from the school board and for the state education commissioner «to intervene.»

Oust Paladino, a multicultural women's group dedicated to removing Carl Paladino from the Buffalo School Board, will gather on the steps of City Hall at noon Tuesday.

A rally to call for the ouster of Carl P. Paladino from the Buffalo School Board drew support from a wide variety of community groups, from teachers and parents to labor groups and the local affiliate of Black Lives Matter.