Sentences with phrase «agenda on my school board»

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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.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«I want to encourage people to embrace the agenda of Dr. (Kriner) Cash and I hope that whomever sits on the school board after July 1st will listen to him and work with him to help move this district forward,» Sampson said.

Members of the new majority elected to the Buffalo School Board Tuesday do not appear to be looking for a major reset regarding Superintendent Kriner Cash and the agenda he has laid out for the schools, but there are some major issues on which they will likely take a different approach — especially when it comes to the teachers union contract.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

To get state legislators on board with his agenda, Cuomo tied the proposals to a large increase in state school aid.

People flocked to a Massapequa school board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - grschool board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - grSchool with the seventh - and eighth - graders.

Judge John E. Jones III wrote in the 139 - page decision for Tammy Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, named for one of the parents who brought the suit, that ID was not only unscientific but was also a front used by those on the school board with a religiously motivated, pro-creationist aSchool District, named for one of the parents who brought the suit, that ID was not only unscientific but was also a front used by those on the school board with a religiously motivated, pro-creationist aschool board with a religiously motivated, pro-creationist agenda.

Once considered dispensable, music education is back on the agenda at school board meetings in many communities.

We'll know that a transformation is truly underway when efficacy and evidence start showing up on the agenda at school board and PTA meetings.

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.

Upcoming School Board meeting agendas can be found on BoardDocs.

Steve Sundquist, who served on the Seattle School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the group.

With these organizations on board, Lowell has now developed a city school readiness definition and a full - fledged city school readiness agenda that has considerable momentum.

To learn more about how school districts pass policies, how you can get on a school board meeting agenda to speak, or other information to be a strong advocate before your school district, check out the ACLU's Parents» Guide to School Board Advocacy in California available in English and Spschool districts pass policies, how you can get on a school board meeting agenda to speak, or other information to be a strong advocate before your school district, check out the ACLU's Parents» Guide to School Board Advocacy in California available in English and Spschool board meeting agenda to speak, or other information to be a strong advocate before your school district, check out the ACLU's Parents» Guide to School Board Advocacy in California available in English and Spaboard meeting agenda to speak, or other information to be a strong advocate before your school district, check out the ACLU's Parents» Guide to School Board Advocacy in California available in English and Spschool district, check out the ACLU's Parents» Guide to School Board Advocacy in California available in English and SpSchool Board Advocacy in California available in English and SpaBoard Advocacy in California available in English and Spanish.

In November 2013, citing a a national trend for later high school start times, Garland Independent School District School Board President Larry Glick asked to place the issue of delaying the district's 7:30 a.m. high school start time on the school board's meeting aschool start times, Garland Independent School District School Board President Larry Glick asked to place the issue of delaying the district's 7:30 a.m. high school start time on the school board's meeting aSchool District School Board President Larry Glick asked to place the issue of delaying the district's 7:30 a.m. high school start time on the school board's meeting aSchool Board President Larry Glick asked to place the issue of delaying the district's 7:30 a.m. high school start time on the school board's meeting agBoard President Larry Glick asked to place the issue of delaying the district's 7:30 a.m. high school start time on the school board's meeting aschool start time on the school board's meeting aschool board's meeting agboard's meeting agenda.

On today's program, Host Leslie Thatcher speaks to Park City School Board member, Julie Eihausen and communications manager Molley Miller who have update us on Tuesday's board meeting.Park City Manager Diane Foster and Economic Development Director Jonathan Weidenhammer to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, including the revised drawings for a new affordable housing project Woodside Park and Erin Bragg, Summit County Sustainability Specialist has details on the Home Energy Score assessments that will be made available for 100 eligible homeownerOn today's program, Host Leslie Thatcher speaks to Park City School Board member, Julie Eihausen and communications manager Molley Miller who have update us on Tuesday's board meeting.Park City Manager Diane Foster and Economic Development Director Jonathan Weidenhammer to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, including the revised drawings for a new affordable housing project Woodside Park and Erin Bragg, Summit County Sustainability Specialist has details on the Home Energy Score assessments that will be made available for 100 eligible homeowBoard member, Julie Eihausen and communications manager Molley Miller who have update us on Tuesday's board meeting.Park City Manager Diane Foster and Economic Development Director Jonathan Weidenhammer to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, including the revised drawings for a new affordable housing project Woodside Park and Erin Bragg, Summit County Sustainability Specialist has details on the Home Energy Score assessments that will be made available for 100 eligible homeowneron Tuesday's board meeting.Park City Manager Diane Foster and Economic Development Director Jonathan Weidenhammer to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, including the revised drawings for a new affordable housing project Woodside Park and Erin Bragg, Summit County Sustainability Specialist has details on the Home Energy Score assessments that will be made available for 100 eligible homeowboard meeting.Park City Manager Diane Foster and Economic Development Director Jonathan Weidenhammer to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, including the revised drawings for a new affordable housing project Woodside Park and Erin Bragg, Summit County Sustainability Specialist has details on the Home Energy Score assessments that will be made available for 100 eligible homeowneron the Home Energy Score assessments that will be made available for 100 eligible homeowners.

He also said the boards should have a more «developmental agenda», rather than just focus on targeting schools that were failing.

Boards should have a more developmental agenda rather than just focus on targeting schools that were failing

A decision item to choose which expansion option is on the School Board Agenda for Tuesday at 4 pm.

Dedicated to the charter school industry and the corporate education reform agenda, Trumbull's Stephen P. Wright has been one of Governor Dannel Malloy's staunchest allies on the State Board of Education.

Board member Monica Garcia suggested that the district's Charter School Office also help notify the schools on the agenda.

The Park City Board of Education met Tuesday with an agenda that included updates on student enrollment and the impacts on state funding and closing schools to out of district admissions.

STEP THREE: On Friday, the Christina Kishimoto, Hartford's Superintendent of Schools releases the Board of Education Agenda for Tuesday afternoon's Board meeting.

On today's program, Leslie Thatcher speaks to Park City School Board Members Anne Peters and Andrew Caplan who preview tomorrow's School Board meeting agenda which includes a single topic — an update on the Strategic PlaOn today's program, Leslie Thatcher speaks to Park City School Board Members Anne Peters and Andrew Caplan who preview tomorrow's School Board meeting agenda which includes a single topic — an update on the Strategic Plaon the Strategic Plan.

LAUSD board member Steve Zimmer's proposal to overhaul charter school oversight and, more controversially, to place a moratorium on new charter schools, has been postponed until the November 13 board meeting, according to the just - posted agenda for the meeting this Tuesday, October 9.

Then in June, at a Los Angeles school board meeting at which the parent trigger was on the agenda, board member Steve Zimmer offered a resolution calling for a change in the state law that would bring «more transparency to the signature - gathering process.»

Vladovic and the other board members agreed to renew eight of the schools on a consent agenda if they would each send a report to the district by the end of December detailing their plans for reducing the number of students who have been designated English learners for more than six years.

«We are confident Desert Trails Elementary School can - and will - become an outstanding model of what can be achieved when parents, teachers, school administrators, school board members and local communities are focused on a kids - first agenda in all their decision - making.&School can - and will - become an outstanding model of what can be achieved when parents, teachers, school administrators, school board members and local communities are focused on a kids - first agenda in all their decision - making.&school administrators, school board members and local communities are focused on a kids - first agenda in all their decision - making.&school board members and local communities are focused on a kids - first agenda in all their decision - making.»

The International High School governing board deferred plans to meet behind closed doors after a reporter objected to the executive session listed on the board's Nov. 28 meeting agenda.

The board granted one petition of the nine schools on the special agenda that had been recommended for denial.

For these groups to remain relevant, they must adapt the school reform agenda, as the United Negro College Fund has done under Michael Lomax (who sits on the board of the Education Equality Project); the 100 Black Men is another example;, it cofounded the Eagle Academy Foundation, which operates two boys - only charters in New York City.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

Rather than spending their time and lobbying funds cheering on Governor Malloy and his corporate education reform industry agenda, perhaps the publicly funded Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the publicly funded Connecticut Association of School Superintendents (CAPSS) should stop taking positions that directly undermine their own members — Connecticut's local school boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is proBoards of Education (CABE) and the publicly funded Connecticut Association of School Superintendents (CAPSS) should stop taking positions that directly undermine their own members — Connecticut's local school boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is proSchool Superintendents (CAPSS) should stop taking positions that directly undermine their own members — Connecticut's local school boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is proschool boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is proboards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is provided.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

According to the State Board of Education's agenda, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees will hold an executive session, on Wednesday, and then immediately re-convene to adopt a motion that would allow the charter school industry's Relay Graduate School of Education to operate in Connecschool industry's Relay Graduate School of Education to operate in ConnecSchool of Education to operate in Connecticut.

The State Education Commissioner (Dr. Dianna Wentzell), RÈSC (Regional Educational Service Center) administrator, and an attorney from CABE (CT Association of Boards of Education)-- all steadfast promoters of the education reform agenda in CT — were joined on a panel by two district administrators and a classroom teacher, moderated by the district school Superintendent.

We've already collaborated with our partner states — Kentucky, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Texas — on our research agenda, and the chief state school officer from each state, plus a designee of their choice, sits on our advisory board.

The agenda for the Monday November 30th Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education meeting lists a «Discussion with State Joint Finance Committee Co-Chairs regarding K - 12 Funding in Wisconsin and the Impact of the State Budget on School District Finances.»

Audience listen to comments made at South San ISD board meeting where on the agenda is the controversial proposed closing of three elementary schools on Thursday, April 19, 2017.

On the agenda: Governor Herbert's budget proposal, school grading and a presentation of the Common Core and assessment by members of the Utah State Board of Education, Superintendent Larry Shumway and Associate Superintendent Brenda Hales.

As a PS on my comment above about the CA - specific 3 - week test administration window for each school, for interested readers you can find more on this change on the State Board of Education agenda material for their Nov 7 meeting, Item # 9, Attachment 1, pg 10 of the scope - of work (or pg 16 of 76 for the overall attachment).

We have a full agenda with the elections of two new board members and discussion on the charter agreement, charter school funding, and SAGE opt out.

Also, while the Smarter Balanced field test plan allows for a 12 - week test administration window, I suspect it is not widely known that CA - specific plans for the 2014 field test require shorter test administration windows for each school — 3 - week windows as assigned by the CA - specific «Field Test Participation Plan» that was first made public as part of state board agenda materials on Nov 6.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

On today's program, host Leslie Thatcher gets a legislative update from Park City Chamber Bureau CEO Bill Malone, Park City Manager Diane Foster and Budget Manager Nate Rockwood preview Thursday's City Council agenda and Park City School Board Member Tania Knauer and Community Relations Specialist Molly Miller review Tuesday's School Board meeting.

Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.