Sentences with phrase «by running for school board»

Now the director of Litchfield Elementary School District # 79, Schwake got his start in school foodservice by running for school board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resistance.

Not exact matches

One way suggested by forum readers was for parents to demand that local school boards run schools more like businesses to eliminate unnecessary expenses:

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

If you are interested in running for a three - year term on the school board, stop by the district office, 1245 Hillside Drive, to pick up a petition.

Mickens appreciates state and federal efforts to protect the community, but he wants to help students avoid being victimized and recruited by gangs, so he will run for a position on Brentwood's school board.

Rumore also elevated the union's political status by providing financial support and other resources to candidates running not only for school board, but for Buffalo Common Council, Erie County Legislature and state offices.

The Chicago school board last month voted to seek reimbursement for $ 300,000 in repairs to a community center run by the mother of the board's president.

In fact, after sitting through an all - day board training session conducted by a representative from our state school board association and listening to the admonition not to micromanage in what must have been ten different languages, I blurted, «This district has followed your micromanagement advice for years and has let the educators run the show.

Florida's virtual school, university - run laboratory schools, schools for juvenile offenders, a school for «high risk» boys including sex offenders, and the state school for the deaf and blind would all count as «parallel» public schools uncontrolled by local boards.

School board members who try to work on broader issues often become discouraged by board politics and decide not to run for re-election, Houston added.

Although exact election filing dates vary by school district, most candidates for seats on South Carolina's school boards must decide whether to run by mid-September for a November election.

Whereas in previous years schools were run by one priest who was ultimately responsible for the success or failure of the school, boards composed of lay professionals are very slowly becoming a necessity.

The Plato Academy charter application is from an out - of - town charter company with an out - of - town school board run by a for - profit management company.

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

The Sarasota school board will vote today on a proposed Pinecrest charter run by the for - profit management company Academica.

The League position is clear; we support free, high quality public schools for all children, and these schools are run by locally elected school boards.

A few high - rated public schools run by the local board also participated for the first time but dropped out after the first round, returning to a selection process controlled by individual principals.

Chair of the board, Chris Kiernan, said: «For the seventh year running, London's co-ordinated admissions system has been very successful in enabling more parents to be allocated a school of their preference by a fairer distribution of available offers.

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrollSchool Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolleBoard member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolleboard majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolleBoard back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrollschool application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.

Both applicants for a legislatively - mandated pilot program, N.C. Connections Academy and N.C. Virtual Academy, will be governed by a non-profit board of directors, but both groups plan on contracting with virtual education companies to actually run the schools.

Mr. Johnson who ran for the Atlanta school board and has had opinion pieces published by the Atlanta Journal - Constitution, shared data from the just released NEAP testing.

And Granite School District elementary teacher Kathleen Riebe has filed to run for the board's District 10 seat, currently held by software engineer and board Chairman David Crandall.

Board members also discussed whether they need to intervene with the five traditional schools that are run by Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (and are not charter schools), as well as the six other charter schools that they oversee in the dischools that are run by Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (and are not charter schools), as well as the six other charter schools that they oversee in the diSchools (and are not charter schools), as well as the six other charter schools that they oversee in the dischools), as well as the six other charter schools that they oversee in the dischools that they oversee in the district.

This could be interpreted as a shot at the current District 6 School Board member, Nury Martinez, who is leaving the School Board after a single term to run for LA City Council, or another swipe at Sanchez, who worked for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for six years and is considered by some to be an up - and - coming figure.

Up to now, they've expressed strong interest in creating a «partnership school» with the district, run by a board of educational experts with some seats for district officials.

In the late 1960s sociologist Kenneth Clark, whose work helped form the basis of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, advocated for alternative public school systems run by institutions ranging from universities to the Department of Defense.

It's strange that such minutiae slipped through the cracks during the Trigger drive, after Executive Director Austin's 2008 run for the LAUSD school board was botched by bad campaign signatures.

For most of her decadelong tenure as Hillsborough County School Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coSchool Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coschool instructors in the country.

Both are run by nonprofit boards that incorporated independently before applying for the charter contracts that gives them the ability to operate public schools.

The appeals court heard arguments Wednesday in litigation filed over the N.C. State Board of Education's 2012 decision to disregard an application for a virtual charter school run by the company because it was submitted outside the time period allotted by the bBoard of Education's 2012 decision to disregard an application for a virtual charter school run by the company because it was submitted outside the time period allotted by the boardboard.

WEAC President Ron Martin sits on the Great Lakes Board of Directors and shares this academic review exposing a so - called study funded by the Walton Family Foundation calling for more privately run charter school funding in New York City.

Richard Linden, a 64 - year - old substitute teacher in Venice and Charlotte County, is running for the Sarasota County School Board District 5 seat currently held by Jane Goodwin, who is running for re-election.

But under the charter takeover, schools may be run by private, for - profit charter boards that do not answer to local voters.

(10) No person shall run as a candidate for more than one seat on a district school board or school authority and any person who does so and is elected to hold one or more seats on the district school board or the school authority is not entitled to act as a member of the district school board or the school authority by reason of the election.

Currently, Mr. Davidson seeks to serve his community by running for Osborn School Board, where he plans to advocate for smaller class sizes, continued arts and music education — areas that have been cut in many districts throughout the state — and more classroom resources for teachers.