Sentences with phrase «board majority»

The crowd was there to back the school board majority's change agenda and plans to make the schools work better than data shows they are.

He says the outgoing board majority pushed it through.

That was the angle drew national attention to this local race, but the key issue was how to help the district schools move beyond failed reforms backed by the previous board majority.

He emphasized that the GOP still controls the Nassau County Legislature, the Town of Oyster Bay and has a town board majority in Hempstead.

The park district has come under fire since last May, when two new board members — Janet Silosky and Peter Steinys — were seated and created a new board majority with board president Peter Hurtado.

Informed speculation suggests that Beutner has the easiest path to a four - vote majority, and the core of that support would come from the four - member board majority elected with major financial backing from charter school advocates.

Some parties, including the former conservative school board majority in Wake County, even argued that it was even somehow forbidden.

Trouble started brewing at the park district last May when two new board members — Janet Silosky and Peter Steinys — were seated and created a new board majority with board President Peter Hurtado.

In Esopus, Shannon Harris led the Democrats to a town - board majority by defeating county legislator Carl Belfiglio, who had stepped down to run for town office, by 1488 - 1399.

His Republican counterpart, Nicholas A. Langworthy, notes that voters in several key towns will determine town board majorities on Nov. 7.

The current board majority, which took control in July, is more concerned with working effectively with charters and helping them to be successful as part of a menu of educational options for families.

The new park board majority, led by Hurtado, instead asked Bott to leave six weeks early and hired Peck as interim director and then permanently appointed him with a $ 110,000 annual salary.

Lafferty said while he would like to be a consensus builder, he doesn't plan on being a rubber stamp for the so - called six member board majority bloc.

The school board majority voted to remove Paladino from the board, but the decision rests with the commissioner.

On four key questions — Are you in favour of replacing the CEO; Are you in favour of revamping strategy; Are you in favour of a senior management upgrade; and Are you in favour of replacing board majority — more than 80 per cent of shareholders were either very positive or positive.

The new board majority cast five votes in favor of approving Ogilvie's contract.

• All six members of the new Buffalo School Board majority believe lower class sizes should be the top priority.

Lipsitz said the group also has concerns about board majority bloc member Carl P. Paladino, who is running for re-election in the Park District, and his history of making racist comments and circulating offensive material.

Also in 2017, charter advocates celebrated the successful election of two charter - friendly board members to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), leading to a reform - friendly board majority.

In 2010, the Republican - backed board majority hired Elizabeth Celania - Fagen to advance policies near and dear to education reformers: higher standards, test - based teacher evaluation, and pay for performance.

Protesters opposed to the Jefferson County School Board majority marched through Golden, Colo. (Nathaniel Minor / Colorado Public Radio via AP)

Those two, combined with the candidates who ran unopposed (including one candidate we helped recruit through our Education Leadership Institute), will ensure that an aligned, effective board majority will oversee the Recovery School District schools when they return to OPSB oversight in the next two years.

The action, which consisted of the charters essentially writing in their own diluted versions of district rules, was widely seen as a signal of charter - industry impatience to get regulatory relief from the recently elected pro-charter board majority, after that industry had spent $ 9.7 million on the most expensive campaign in LAUSD board history.

He argued that making the switch to councilmatic districts will improve local representation as well as increase his party's chances to cut into the GOP's lopsided Town Board majority.

Dubbed the «Broad plan,» the proposal triggered massive opposition from teachers» unions, as well as resistance from the current board majority.

Some parties, including the former conservative school board majority in...

Pat Flynn, a former park commissioner, and Ray Conway, a former park treasurer, have disagreed with the current Park Board majority — Commissioners Robert McKenna, Dale Larson and Mike O'Neill — about the seriousness of the Park District's financial state.

The parents are asking the state education commissioner to remove the five - member board majority, the five Orthodox Jewish board members.

Mascia and others say the first priority for the new board majority to deal with is the status of Executive Director Dawn Sanders Garrett and her long - expired employment contract and Assistant Executive Director Modesto Candelario.

School Board Majority Members Carl Paladino and Patty Pierce did not attend the interview.

The appointment of five instead would presumably assure Sumner and Shari Redstone a 7 - 4 board majority, eliminating the possibility of a 5 - 5 deadlock if Sumner Redstone was deemed — or became — incapacitated.

Vivendi's chances of securing a board majority are fading, especially after three proxy advisers recommended backing Elliott's candidates ahead of the now scrapped April vote, saying the French group had been damaging for governance and shareholder returns.

Vivendi's chances of securing a board majority are fading, especially after three proxy advisors recommended backing Elliott's candidates ahead of the April vote, saying the French group had been damaging for governance and shareholder returns.

Chris also claims Tory has put the screws to him within the company, and in the suit he calls the board majority «mindlessly loyal.»

I do like that you see value in going after OBJ, unlike the board majority you do value impact talent, we agree on that much.

The board majority wanted to place the question about term limits on the ballot.

The two joined forces with Hurtado to form a board majority that quickly came under fire for several decisions, including the hiring last year of Plainfield Village Trustee Garrett Peck as the district's executive director.

I mean I really think this bill was pushed in response to the board majority's negative interaction with their hand - picked superintendent,» said Panepinto.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

She proposed $ 400,000 in spending cuts rejected by Bruce Leighton and the Town Board majority.

Not only does Kelly deserve a second term, she deserves a Town Board majority to help her reform town government.

Kelly Myers proposed $ 400,000 in spending cuts was rejected by the Town Board majority.

The East Hampton Leadership Council, which raised more than $ 280,000 from out - of - town helicopter companies and their surrogates for the Republicans the last time that the town board majority was in play, has not filed a report this cycle.

In that case, the board majority would be at stake.

The two Republican choices for Town Board, Jim Dinizio and Bob Ghosio, were elected with a combined 58 percent of the total vote — a drop from 2011 when the party secured close to 64 percent of the Town Board election, but more than enough to maintain a 5 - 0 Town Board majority.

Before joining the board Carl Paladino had been railing for years against what he termed a dysfunctional school board, which at the time had a board majority of black women he labeled «the sisterhood.»

Paladino will no longer terrorize the board majority or embarrass the parents, teachers, and community members with his outdated mentality and retrograde positions.»

Instead, the board majority argued that Paladino violated policy when in January he published information, also in Artvoice, about the new teachers» contract discussed privately in executive session.

The board majority first sought his removal for the comments published in Artvoice about the Obamas, but then quickly changed course on the advice of their attorney, who said that would be infringing on Paladino's right to free speech.