Sentences with phrase «among school board candidates»

Sonenshein said there was a time when charter schools were dominating the entire debate among school board candidates.

Prominent issues among school board candidates this year are Common Core standards, teacher evaluations and charter schools

Not exact matches

He will be required to choose from among candidates screened by a new 25 - member School Board Nominating Commission.

Reacting to the rising criticisms directed toward PACT, voters may have grown disenchanted with the state's accountability system and removed test - score performance from among the criteria on which they evaluated school board candidates.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

Terry Moe finds that collective bargaining for teachers has strong support among candidates for school boards.

Former School Board candidate John Fernandez is among a handful of voices urging to teachers to vote against the tentative agreement struck between UTLA and LAUSD regarding teacher evaluations earlier this year.

* UPDATED While UTLA, the Los Angeles teachers union, has endorsed three candidates in next week's District 1 school board race, one has emerged as first among equals.

While UTLA, the Los Angeles teachers union, has endorsed three candidates in next week's District 1 school board race, one has emerged as first among equals.

16) Colorado: The Douglas County school board races could be among the hottest in the country as big right wing money pours in to back pro-voucher candidates.

Among the other school board candidates, Mister Phillips is a union attorney representing school employees in collective bargaining; a laudable profession but one in conflict with serving on a school board.

Over the weekend a quickly - formed school board candidate fund - raiser was put together by the Utah Technology Council, among others, with House Speaker Greg Hughes, R - Draper, and Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R - Sandy, called in to help raise money for some of the remaining school board incumbents feeling the heat from the Utah Education Association — the main teacher union in the state.