Sentences with phrase «as school board elections»

Allowing noncitizens to vote in «certain elections» such as school board elections in districts where their children are educated.

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Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

Hartstein, an attorney, former village trustee and Stevenson High School board member, wore an «I Love Buffalo Grove» button as he knocked on thousands of doors to seek support for his election.

It's been back and forth at the Utica City School District's office as two candidates find themselves in a tie following Tuesday's Board of Education election.

In 2014 he won a seat in the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidates.

Newly elected Hempstead school board trustees, Carmen Ayala and Patricia Spleen celebrate their election night victory at Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School as the election results were revschool board trustees, Carmen Ayala and Patricia Spleen celebrate their election night victory at Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School as the election results were revSchool as the election results were revealed.

The election of Betty Rosa, a former bilingual teacher, principal and superintendent of Bronx schools, as the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents further cements the new direction that New York State education policy has taken this year.

Earlier this week, de Blasio warned that those elections could be as contentious as recent school board elections in Los Angeles.

Of the 124 districts holding budget votes across Nassau and Suffolk counties, 59 had contested school board elections as well, and 62 put up special ballot propositions.

Current Board President Theresa DiFalco is running for reelection and three newcomers are running as a team — something not always seen in school board electBoard President Theresa DiFalco is running for reelection and three newcomers are running as a team — something not always seen in school board electboard elections.

Opponents of the measure pointed to the favorable language before voters on the ballot as set by the state Board of Elections, which touted claims the amendment would bring more jobs, added school aid and lower property taxes.

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

March 4: David Gates is appointed as a school board trustee by the Nassau BOCES superintendent to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Cooke, who was the top vote - getter in the May 2014 board election.

Though the approaching School Board elections will likely determine her future as Buffalo Schools Superintendent, Dr. Pamela Brown took a proactive approach Wednesday night during a review of her job performance.

Currently, New Yorkers vote in as many as five elections a year: there are local elections for towns and villages in March, school board in May, federal elections in June, then again in September for state primaries, and finally in November for the general election.

As the statewide vote approached, opponents warned that new casinos would exacerbate addictive gambling, while good - government groups cried foul after the state Board of Elections approved ballot language that included a warm description of the potential benefits of the change («promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes») but none of the possible drawbacks.

The «non-partisan» Buffalo School Board election is turning into a mix of politics, money and power as some of the most influential factions in the city — and beyond — are backing and opposing candidates in a bid to determine the direction of the district.At stake is the reform agenda pushed by the current majority bloc and, while most candidates express at least condition...

It's all too easy to make mistakes when you're emotional about the rigged teachers» contract by an incompetent Board of Education majority who sold out the school district as payback to teacher's union leader Phil Rumore for his election support.

As the Buffalo School Board election draws near we continue to bring you each of the candidates who will appear on next Tuesday's ballot.

The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

Local school board elections increasingly are becoming a national political battleground, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out - of - state donors in the name of education reform, indicates new research led by a Michigan State University scholar.

Education is rarely a deciding issue in elections, aside from specialized offices such as state and local school boards and superintendents.

As a result of an election last week, two - thirds of the members of the Buffalo, N.Y., school board will be newcomers with a range of views on the district's plan to sponsor a network of charter schools.

That upset victory was a watershed in the city's school - board election politics and emboldened AFT Local 420 as it prepared to fight the pending tuition grant bill.

Even when we estimated the probability that an incumbent won a majority of the votes in each precinct, or accounted for test - score changes and levels as a function of dollars spent on students, or measured the relationship between an incumbent's vote share in one election and the previous election, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.

And, as is common practice in other states, nearly 9 out of 10 South Carolina school districts hold board elections during the general election in November.

In the 2002 and 2004 elections, however, media coverage shifted to other issues, such as the closing of schools, the racial composition of schools and boards, disciplinary problems, and sports programs.

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.

These teachers are presumably just as middle class, public spirited, and committed to education as other teachers are; but because they don't work in the district where they live, they do not have an occupational stake in their local school - board elections.

In the off - year school - board elections for which I have data, 1997 and 1999, the median turnout of registered voters is 9 percent, as can be seen in Figure 1a.

For bond elections I focus on those that are not held at the same time as general elections or school - board elections.

• 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.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

Support for school choice in all its forms and for NCLB appears to be somewhat weaker among voters in school board elections than among the population as a whole.

As a result, the precise proportion of Americans who claim to vote in school board elections — 40 percent, in our survey — is less informative than differences in reported turnout across the various subgroups.

But as the example of that city (on Mayor Bill de Blasio's watch) vividly displays, such changes can prove ephemeral if a school leader or philanthropist loses interest — or if the reforms they launched are undone by an election or board upheaval.

Emasculated teachers» unions can still play a major role in negotiating work rules and personnel practices at the local level, as well as influencing local school board elections where voter turnout is often low.

The 2018 Election will be crucial for our organization as all statewide offices are up for election, including Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), as well as state senate, assembly and local school boarElection will be crucial for our organization as all statewide offices are up for election, including Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), as well as state senate, assembly and local school boarelection, including Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), as well as state senate, assembly and local school board seats.

«As a board, we discussed charter schools during the election season, and post election, and decided to hold off putting in an application to become an authorizer this year,» said Ann McMurray, president of the Edmonds school board.

Deasy Wants 30 % of Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that as much as 30 % of a teacher's evaluation will be based on student test scores, setting off more contention in the nation's second - largest school system in the weeks before a critical Board of Education election.

The Bridgeport Board of Education race has garnered national attention and is now seen as proof that parents, teachers and public school advocates can use elections to beat back the corporate education reform industry.

Some educators even question the use of data, as Dallas school trustee Dustin Marshall discovered after his election to Dallas» school board.

The election of three school board members comes at a particularly important time as the district faces critical budgetary decisions, the need to improve student achievement particularly for chronically underserved students and even greater parent demand for high quality educational options including charter public schools.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public educSchool Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public educaBoard Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public educschool board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public educaboard seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

After May's school board elections, those identified as allies of Villaraigosa now make up a majority, and the mayor is expected to have influence as the board sets policies.

From the passage of Governor Brown's Proposition 30, to the monumental win in San Diego with the passage of the Proposition Z facilities bond, to wins in key races for school boards in Oakland and Santa Clara County, to charter supporters being elected to the Assembly, the November 2012 election results are a clear indication of the kind of impact we can have as a movement when we work together.

It's likely the school board elections will fall along lines of strong charter supporters, such as Melvoin and Garcia, and be hugely expensive.

As the school board continues to weigh the options of appointing a replacement or staging a special election — stakeholders around the city are making their positions clear.