Sentences with phrase «boards association»

Other recommended and / or mandatory policies are developed by the Vermont School Boards Association, often in conjunction with agency staff.

Few, if any, school board members would dispute that nurses are valuable assets to schools, said Brenda Z. Greene, director of school health programs for the National School Boards Association.

Rural legislators pay particularly close attention to the interests of these officials and to groups that lobby on their behalf, such as the Louisiana School Boards Association.

But elsewhere, the Pennsylvania School Boards Association counts 33 states where at least some school districts charge athletes anywhere from $ 25 to $ 1,500.

«Cell phones still are an issue, but not the same issue,» said Dr. William Scharffe, president of the American Association of Policy Services, a work - a-like group with the National School Boards Association (NSBA), and director of bylaw and policy services for the Michigan Association of School Boards.

Our finding that charter school sectors in all 28 states that we study demonstrate higher productivity and / or return on investment than their traditional public school sectors has ruffled some feathers at the National School Boards Association.

Leonard Rovins, a lawyer who has served on the school board in Westport, Conn., since 1971 and as a director and the president of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, has been elected president of the National School Boards Association.

«If a school district has to sustain a major [budget] reduction, they have little alternative than to reduce staff,» said Reginald Felton, the director of federal relations for the Alexandria, Va. - based National School Boards Association.

The National School Boards Association last week selected William B. Ingram as its president.

I think the message is getting out how important physical activity is,» said Brenda Z. Greene, director of school health programs for the National School Boards Association (NSBA), which has been concerned about reports that many schools were dropping recess.

Washington — Although the official position of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is one of strong support for retaining the cabinet - level Department of Education, an informal poll conducted by the association's monthly journal says that the publication's readers are — by a 2 - to - 1 margin — in favor of dismantling the department.

«It's certainly going to be closely watched by all observers,» said Tom Hutton, a staff attorney for the National School Boards Association.

While the United Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National School Boards Association all have active blogs, none makes the top 10 lists.

Amicus briefs were filed on Reading's behalf by the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the state's largest teacher union; the Pennsylvania School Boards Association; and the Education Law Center - Pennsylvania.

Such a plan will be difficult, said Keith Ballard, the executive director of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association.

A lobbyist for the California School Boards Association said, «The money would be nice because of our budget situation.»

«One of the unintended consequences of the No Child Left Behind Act is that our schools have less time to focus on other subjects,» Justice O'Connor told several thousand attendees here at the annual convention of the National School Boards Association.

As David Ernst, a spokesman for the New York State School Boards Association, put it: «There will be CFE clone suits on behalf of the other high - needs districts in the state.»

Julie K. Underwood, a prominent expert on school law at the National School Boards Association, will become the dean of the University of Wisconsin - Madison's school of education in August.

A new manual, Telling Your Story: A Toolkit for Marketing Urban Education, published by the National School Boards Association Council of Urban Boards of Education, outlines ways administrators can improve their communication and marketing strategies.

Two publications put out by Harvard Education Press were named among the top education books of 2011 by the American School Board Journal, an award - winning, education magazine published monthly by the National School Boards Association.

Interest groups ranging from the National School Boards Association to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, from the National Governors Association to the major civil rights groups, all issued statements of approval.

«It was a disastrous session,» said Wayne Blanton, the executive director of the Florida School Boards Association.

Among others, members include the National School Boards Association, the...

(See Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal, Sharon Otterman in the New York Times, Rachel Monahan in the Daily News, Geoff Decker at Gotham Schools, Yoav Gonen in the NY Post, Robert Lowry at the New York Council of School Superintendents, and the National School Boards Association.)

The National School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.»

Mark was recognized as a 2015 Education Week Leaders to Learn From and in 2016 the Meriden Public Schools was a recipient of a National School Boards Association Magna Award, as well as recognition as a District of Distinction from District Administration.

E. Harold Fisher, a member of the South Tippah school board in Ripley, Miss., is the new president of the National School Boards Association.

Current practice often strays from the state constitution's requirement that property be assessed at its full market value, said Wayne Blanton, executive director of the Florida School Boards Association, which filed the suit last month in a Tallahassee circuit court along with the Palm Beach and Sarasota school districts.

Similarly, the Utah Supreme Court rejected the claim brought by the state school boards association that the statute authorizing the state board of education to approve and supervise charter schools represented an unconstitutional expansion of the state board's authority into the area of local schools.

So says a new National School Boards Association survey.

Despite the school's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocation.

Plaintiffs included the state's teachers unions, the Arizona School Boards Association, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, and the People for the American Way.

By coincidence, a few days after the front - page story with my public dissent, I participated in a «webinar» conducted by the New York State School Boards Association on the subject of — you guessed it — «recruiting and hiring.»

The report also supports efforts by the National School Boards Association to spell out school board responsibilities, said NSBA executive director Dr. Anne L. Bryant.

While citizens polled by the Gallup organization continued in 1984 to rank discipline, drugs, and standards as their top worries about schools, school - board members across the country have worries that reflect their managerial responsibilities for school systems, a survey by the journal of the National School Boards Association has found.

The ruling «could result in some substantial damage awards,» said Gwendolyn H. Gregory, the deputy general counsel of the National School Boards Association.

This article misidentified David Kysilko as a spokesman for the National School Boards Association.

An analysis by the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly small.

That was the assessment of the state and local education officials who spoke last week to federal - program coordinators meeting here under the auspices of the National School Boards Association.

For the first time since 1972, districts with growing enrollments did not get even partial payment of what is known as a «midterm adjustment» according to the Oklahoma State School Boards Association.

Helpfully, using National School Boards Association data, the authors are able to assess actual district conditions with respect to school finance, teacher pay, collective bargaining, class size, and academic standards, and they then matched that data with board - member survey results.

Washington — Life changed this year for August W. Steinhilber, associate executive director and general counsel for the National School Boards Association.

A 2001 National School Boards Association survey found that most school - board members are unpaid, devote fewer than ten hours a week to board - related business, and have served on the board for five years or less.

«The sexy issues for the media are going to be the abortion issue, not really the education piece,» said Francisco Negrón, the general counsel of the National School Boards Association, in Alexandria, Va..

By that time, according to a survey by the National School Boards Association, 45 percent of school districts said they had instituted character education programs, while another 38 percent said they planned to do so.

A statement just released by the Oklahoma State School Boards Association encourages teachers to return to class.

Both Timbs and Charles Borgognoni, executive director of the School Boards Association, urged audience members to meet with their state legislators and explain to them the need for more funding for the district.

Because schools are allowed to go above that number for certain capital expenses, the average increase requested for school budgets this year is about 1.5 percent, according to the School Boards Association.

«Instead of knowing exactly what their state aid will be, they will have to guess,» said David Albert, a spokesman for the New York State School Boards Association.