Sentences with phrase «at school board meetings»

This is the only time members of the public can speak at school board meetings, although they are welcome to listen and contact members of the board outside of meetings.

Another practice is to require regular student attendance at school board meetings.

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!

Perhaps students will share these with their peers or play their videos at a school board meeting.

Print copies of the form are available at school board meetings.

We collected signatures on a petition, rallied support at the school from teachers and parents, and spoke at school board meetings.

«To refuse to challenge the status quo that is failing thousands of African - American students year after year... that's what I call racist,» she said at a school board meeting in early April, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Williamsville School District school board president Toni Vazquez was the first to suggest the change at a school board meeting on Tuesday, the Buffalo News reported.

Still, even an $ 83 per - pupil increase was considered «wholly inadequate» by Kalamazoo Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Gary Start, who said at a school board meeting June 12 that «the reality is that if the increase doesn't match inflation, it's a cut budget,» according to Michigan Live.

Santa Ana Unified shared its preliminary draft LCAP at its school board meeting last week.

Additionally, Carver Middle was recognized for its PASS partnership with the CEO of IT «SUGAR, Jeff Rubin and The Council for Educational Change at the school board meeting in December.

Speak at a school board meeting during public comment and take your friends and family so that they can also urge the school board to adopt all of the Attorney General's model policies.

More than 200 students used the writing and oral - presentation skills they'd developed in class to make impassioned speeches at a school board meeting.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

Merrill read from a statement at the school board meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 21, saying that the school system is in a «good place.»

If you're a reader of this blog you might understandably assume that I've been at this rabble - rousing thing a long time, that I'm the type who regularly shows up at school board meetings with a raised fist and a loud voice.

Two days before he stepped down, PTA members at a school board meeting at the Saunders Trades and Technical High School asked that Superintendent Michael Yazurlo be given a contract extension.

Dozens of parents, students, advocates, and other community members signed up to give comment around Los Angeles Unified School District's proposed budget at the its school board meeting this week.

Graham announced his decision at a school board meeting earlier this month.

I just can't imagine an educator putting that in front of an eight grader ever,» said one parent at the school board meeting where the puzzle was addressed.

The surprise presentations were made in front of audiences of their peers, with Ms. McCarthy recognized at a school improvement leadership meeting; Ms. Phillips recognized at her school's faculty meeting; Ms. Adams recognized at a CCSD Technology department meeting; and Ms. Haygood recognized at a School Board Meeting packed with parents and families.

A proposal for a gender identity policy in Buffalo stirs passions at a school board meeting, though the policy itself was tabled.

The issue came up at Wednesday at the School Board meeting during a conversation on whether the board can seek Paladino's removal for revealing information from an executive session.

Paladino later apologized for the comments and several anti-Paladino protests occurred at school board meetings up until Paladino was removed by State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia last month because of his disclosure of material discussed during an executive session.

On Tuesday evening, September 2nd, the New Rochelle Board of Education will suspend their own rules to pass a resolution without further discussion that will effectively gut the tradition of a public comment period at school board meetings.

On Nov. 8, Mr. Kunz was honored at a school board meeting, receiving six proclamations from officials statewide, including state Senator Carl Marcellino and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, who were present, and the office of Congressman Thomas Suozzi.

The findings, unveiled at a school board meeting this month, show that the prospect of getting as much as $ 100 at the end of the year was enough to motivate 3rd through 6th graders to improve their mathematics scores on state exams.

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

If the ensuing expressions of outrage by parents and demonstrations at school board meetings lead to energetic discussions about active hands - on, minds - on learning in academic subjects, this short - lived campaign will be very worthwhile.

As recounted in the May 2004 issue of Washingtonian magazine commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Brown, a barber named Gardner Bishop appeared at a school board meeting in 1947 to announce that he was launching a boycott of Browne Junior High, a black school attended by his daughters.

Feedback & Strategic Intervention — ACNW provides feedback to schools in its portfolio through performance evaluations, presentations at school board meetings, formal written communication to the school leadership and board, and informal verbal communication.

The major concerns addressed at the school board meeting Monday, June 25, were the performance of all students due to alertness in the morning and sports, the safety of the younger students, and the working hours of older students.

I couldn't find reliable numbers on these, but if pay were higher for «challenging» situations, given our current budget situation, unsatisfactory school quality, and passionate political debates at school board meetings, Superintendent Johnson Trammell would need to be paid way more that we can afford!

The vitriol got so bad that African American religious leaders and local NAACP officials intervened at school board meetings on the superintendent's behalf — and it has helped.

«Their credibility and willingness to advocate at the school board meeting was as powerful as if they had given that testimony.»

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Over the years since Katrina, she has inspired parents and students to form large armies of protesters, showing up at school board meetings as far away as Baton Rouge to demand that Wright be given the resources it needs to rebuild and to continue to thrive.

The opinions of parents should also be given greater weight at school board meetings and PTA meetings regarding policies that affect them and their children.

This follows confirmation at a School Board meeting two weeks ago that Arlington Public Schools does not have any space during planned renovations of the Reed School for the non-profit program, which has served pre-school aged children of APS teachers since 1987, and special needs students in the Integration Station program for more than 20 years.

Frustrations from top IPS leaders vented at a school board meeting Thursday, August 26, aren't necessarily shared by everyone in the individual schools.

Lee meant not only the six hours sitting at the school board meeting to hear his application was approved, but the four years of struggle he was involved in before that, and two more years of false starts before he even got there to turn around the high school in the northeast San Fernando Valley.

Schools CEO Sonja Santelises and her staff are scheduled to present a summary of the budget proposal at a school board meeting tomorrow.

A community group (predominantly made up of Stand for Students, from what I could see at the School Board meeting) met.

Imagine an outraged group of parents showing up at a school board meeting waving their (allegedly equally legitimate) alternative.