Sentences with phrase «board of education last»

Wilkins - Chavis described herself as «undecided» this week on whether or not the district will close Southside - Ashpole Elementary, a struggling Rowland school tapped by the State Board of Education last month.

Boston K - 8 and Aurora Central High School joined three other Aurora schools in the International Leadership Innovation Zone, approved by the State Board of Education last year.

Created by content experts in 27 states and adopted by the California State Board of Education last fall, the new science standards represent the next step in the Common Core State Standards — a campaign intended to bring consistency throughout the nation for what a student should know and when they should know it.

Johnson, a Republican who did not respond to interview requests this week, told members of the State Board of Education last week that legislators and the public want more urgency and efficiency from the K - 12 bureaucracy and the state board.

As originally proposed to the Hartford Board of Education last week, the «lighthouse» school was targeted to be the SAND Elementary School and was part of a package that would have allowed Capital Preparatory Magnet School Principal Steve Perry to set up his own company and the Board would then have transferred control of both Capital Prep and SAND to that private entity.

Among the many requests granted by the California State Board of Education last month on class size restrictions was one giving a Delta - area district permission to have an average of 35 students in any classroom for grades four through eight.

And this time, the appointment of a charter school insider to the State Board of Education occurred when Malloy appointed three new members to Connecticut's State Board of Education last month.

This time the appointment of a charter school insider to the State Board of Education occurred when Malloy appointed three new members to Connecticut's State Board of Education last month.

(Kan.) The Kansas State Board of Education last week elected to withdraw from the state consortium known as Smarter Balanced, which is developing a student assessment system aligned to new Common Core math and English standards.

The California State Board of Education last November rejected two new history textbooks for K - 8 public school students because they failed to address the plausible speculation that Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and President James Buchanan were gay.

It's been nearly four years since the State Board of Education last approved a new charter.

When Mayor Bill Finch and Fairfield County businessmen got tired of having to deal with elected members of the Bridgeport Board of Education last year, they convinced Governor Malloy to have the state take over the Bridgeport school system.

«The Windham Board of Education last month voted down a proposed partnership between Windham and Parish Hill, citing fears about «brain drain» sending Windham's children elsewhere and about transportation and more.

Phil Kaplan, who just last week unexpectedly resigned as president of the Park City Board of Education last week, will resign from the board completely at the end of this school year.

Posted on November 23, 2016 · Textbook publisher Cynthia Dunbar was defending her company's Mexican - American Heritage book in front of the State Board of Education last week when she made an interesting argument.

(Ore.) The state board of education last week approved a set of temporary rules governing a new program that will provide matching funds to local districts for building and upgrading school facilities.

The Park City Board of Education last night narrowed down the list of projects it will likely ask the community to support in a November bond election totaling 56 million dollars.

«This procedure undoes the streamlined approach to tenure of TEACHNJ,» NJEA president Wendell Steinhauer said before the State Board of Education last week.

Congratulations to Indian Creek eighth grade student Eli Fortier who won third place at the County Spelling Bee held at the Anne Arundel County Board of Education last Saturday, February 24.

The $ 5.16 billion fiscal 2013 budget approved by Chicago Board of Education last month closed a $ 665 million deficit by draining reserves and levying property taxes at a maximum rate, while also slashing administrative and operational spending.

The State Board of Education last week unanimously approved a new accountability system for schools, replacing the Academic Performance Index, which assigned a single number to schools that was largely based on standardized test scores.

«When Gov. Pence asked me to go on the State Board of Education last June, I was under the impression he wanted to replace the Common Core with something more rigorous,» she wrote in a statement.

The Maryland State Board of Education last week conducted hearings on a proposed bylaw to state education statutes that would allow school superintendents to waive college - graduation and teacher - certification requirements for parents who wish to teach their children at home.

The Chicago Board of Education last week unanimously approved the appointment of Manford T.

Georgia schools are no longer allowed to put students in solitary confinement under a ban approved by the state board of education last week.

The California Board of Education last week launched a new stage in its bitter feud with Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig by asking the state supreme court to order Mr. Honig to implement its policies.

And the Washington state board of education last month reversed its own resolution calling for a foreign language mandate, over concerns that it appeared too elitist.

California 8th graders will be required to take Algebra 1 and be tested on it as part of the state's accountability system, under a controversial decision made by the state board of education last week after last - minute pressure from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Chicago board of education last week tightened its residency requirements for teachers and other employees.

The Green Brook Township (N.J.) Board of Education last week formally halted discussions with a for - profit school - management firm after voters turned out several school - board members who had held discussions with the company.

Approved by the state board of education last month, the rule is meant to prompt changes in Maryland universities that train school leaders, said Mary Cary, an assistant superintendent in the state department of education.

Approved by the district's board of education last week, the plan is expected to put millions more dollars into rewards for teachers whose students show better - than - average improvement compared with similar groups of students.

The recommendations sent by the Kansas board of education last week to Gov. John Carlin are similar to those that have been considered in states across the country as they have moved to respond to a public perception of widespread incompetence among the nation's teachers.

In the face of growing debate about how to ensure high - quality tutoring under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the Illinois board of education last week adopted rules that impose tougher oversight on the companies offering the tutoring.

The unusual promise was outlined at a meeting of the state board of education last month, when members agreed to request $ 397.7 million for precollegiate education for the next fiscal year — 11.7 percent more than this year's budget.

In the end, the changes made by the Board of Education last spring were neither as new as many thought nor as substantial as they may have seemed at first glance.

As threatened, Iowa state senators blocked the nomination of Jonathan C. Wilson to the state board of education last week, contending that the lawyer and former Des Moines school board member, who is gay, would be an advocate for «gay issues.»

An overview of their report was released by the city's board of education last week.

Long a proponent of including nonscientific creationism in the biology curriculum, the Texas State Board of Education last week further illustrated its willingness to sacrifice accuracy for ideology by excluding Thomas Jefferson from a list of influential historical figures.

Those are some of the sobering statistics from a nationally known expert on school suspensions who reported on the state of suspensions in the district for the Board of Education last night.

Students and parents urged the Copiague Board of Education last night to reverse its action barring a group of seniors from graduation ceremonies in connection with vandalism of the high school.

Not exact matches

Last week: Linda Brown, the student in the landmark 1954 decision of Brown v. Board of Education passed away this week.

The landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education was rendered less than 30 years ago; discrimination has lasted for over 300.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

Two Illinois State Board of Education employees were indicted last year in the incident at Laraway Elementary School, which sent three dozen pupils to the hospital after they ate ammonia - tainted chicken tenders.

The selection of Carol Burlinski, associate principal for instruction at the high school since 2002, was approved last week by the Board of Education for Arlington Heights - based Township High School District 214.

Arlington Heights - based Township High School District 214's Board of Education named Patrice Sheahen Johannes principal of Buffalo Grove High School last week.

Saldana is a banker with Ramirez & Co., Inc., an invest firm that underwrote more than $ 2 billion in city and Board of Education bond issues last year.

DISTRICT 214 — Arlington Heights - based Township High School District 214's Board of Education named Patrice Sheahen Johannes principal of Buffalo Grove High School last week.

Last week, the district's board of education agreed to adopt the National School Lunch Program, which will replace the current state program offered only to needy pupils.