Sentences with phrase «city school board when»

Lavine said she ran for a seat on the Syracuse city school board when she was 27, but lost.

Not exact matches

They met in 1985 when they were both campaigning: he for Toronto city council, she for school board trustee.

As for the school board intending to accept money, Johnson said: «We went through a similar situation with the Park District about a year and a half ago when they were looking to sell land to the City of Chicago, and we passed a resolution then [opposing] that action.»

When school boards and whole cities are refusing to even consider putting in gardens, much less aquaponic systems because of LIABILITY issues, do we stand a chance?

Carvalho stunned City Hall on Thursday when he revealed at a meeting of the Miami - Dade school board that he would be rejecting the job.

The city school board learned there is no consistency about what to do when a student refuses to take the tests.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

Three seats were up on the Kingston City School District's Board of Education, and when the clock struck five last

Hernandez, 26, a member of the search committee that picked Leslie Torres - Rodriguez as city schools chief, has served on the board of education since February when he filled a vacancy.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

And this happening at a time when six out of nine School Board members in the Buffalo City School Districts minorities!

During the Feb. 28, 2012 City of Tonawanda School Board Meeting, Legislator Hardwick discussed chargeback fees, the cost that City of Tonawanda residents must pay to other county's community colleges when a resident of the City attends a community college outside of Erie County.

Buffalo School Board member Sharon Belton Cottman says she believes the state is using an iron fist when it comes to providing funding in the city.

Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino claims the city school board violated the state's open meetings law when it hired new schools superintendent Dr. Pamela Brown.

Mayor Luke Bronin said Friday night he was surprised to learn that his nominee for the city school board, Harold Sparrow, once led a Boston - area black clergymens» group at a time when the organization was an outspoken opponent of gay marriage.

Paladino also testified that he decided to run for the Buffalo School Board after his failed gubernatorial bid in 2010, when someone suggested Paladino start his political career on the School Board or city Council and work his way up.

When the meeting was stopped in the Council Chamber, the board members moved to their regular board room and the chanting protestors were kept out of the remainder of the meeting by Buffalo police, City Hall security officers and school security officers.

Protestors seeking to push Carl Paladino off the Buffalo School Board disrupted the Board's meeting as it was being held Wednesday night in Common Council chamber - then disrupted it again when the board returned to its regular meeting room in City Board disrupted the Board's meeting as it was being held Wednesday night in Common Council chamber - then disrupted it again when the board returned to its regular meeting room in City Board's meeting as it was being held Wednesday night in Common Council chamber - then disrupted it again when the board returned to its regular meeting room in City board returned to its regular meeting room in City Hall.

When the only other similar size project that we've had come through the city has been the Joint Schools Construction Board, which we had in writing 10 %, 15 % for people of color, city residents, job training.

Regaining mayoral control of schools was one Michael Bloomberg's greatest legislative achievements as mayor; it marked the first time City Hall gained discretion over education policy since the Lindsay administration, when those powers were decentralized and major decisions were made by an education board.

St. Louis's desegregation case dates from 1972, when Minnie Liddell, a black parent, filed suit against the St. Louis school board contending that her children were receiving an inferior education in a predominantly black city school.

When you look back, you can see everyone from the Board of Regents, to our staff, to the unions, to the legislature, to the Governor, to New York City, to the Mayor, to Joel Klein [then Chancellor of New York City schools], to USDOE itself, to many folks who helped along the way.

After weeks of wrangling over how to structure the District of Columbia's school governance, a series of 11th - hour disapprovals and dashed agreements left frustrated city officials little closer last week to rebuilding their school board than they were when the effort began.

When the United Federation of Teachers first began to bargain collectively in the early 1960s, Albert Shanker was distressed that the New York City school board was willing to discuss only traditional issues like wages and benefits and rejected the idea of bargaining over broader policies that the union proposed, such as the creation of magnet schools.

The ongoing struggle over control of the New York City schools flared up again last week when Chancellor Rudy F. Crew blocked several ousted members of one of the district's community school boards from returning to work.

Playing by the Rules When the System Doesn't: Immigrant Families and Summer School in New York This report discusses findings from surveys conducted during the summer of 2000 to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the Year 2000 Summer program, an integral part of the New York City Board of Education's updated promotion policy.

APS's plans sparked an interest among residents and at least one city school board members when representatives spoke at the Danzante Community Art Center earlier this month.

The District's old school board had chartering power until 2007, when Mayor Adrian M. Fenty took control of the city's traditional school system.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is backing Superintendent Hite, and the city's School Reform Commission, which succeeded the school board when the state took over the city's schools in 2000, is expected to vote on the proposal in School Reform Commission, which succeeded the school board when the state took over the city's schools in 2000, is expected to vote on the proposal in school board when the state took over the city's schools in 2000, is expected to vote on the proposal in March.

The process of selecting charter operators became even more important this year when the RSD became the first all - charter - school district in the country, though traditional schools still operate in the city under the Orleans Parish School school district in the country, though traditional schools still operate in the city under the Orleans Parish School School Board.

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Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson violated the city's ethics rules when she solicited a donation from a major food service contractor shortly after a whistleblower lawsuit accused the company of swindling millions of dollars from the school system, according to a ruling from the D.C.'s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

BY WILL SENTELL [email protected] A plan for new management at an otherwise doomed Baton Rouge charter school won easy approval Tuesday from the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.The school in jeopardy, Baton Rouge Charter Academy at Mid City, appeared done in December when BESE voted to close the school amid dismal student -LSB-...]

It was no small sacrifice for residents when city leaders voted to dissolve the school board in 2007 — dismantling one of the city's only elected bodies.

A plan for new management at an otherwise doomed Baton Rouge charter school won easy approval Tuesday from the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.The school that was in jeopardy, Baton Rouge Charter Academy at Mid City, appeared done in December when BESE voted to close the school amid dismal student performance.The school, which -LSB-...]

I am a governing board member of the Gilbert Public Schools District and wish to share constituent input I recently received when a vote of a letter of no objection was before me for a foreign trade zone approval in the City of Mesa.

When it comes to their secret search for a new city schools CEO, the school board wasn't even transparent in explaining its lack of transparency.

When the notion of simply moving control of Bridgeport's school system to the City's mayor failed, the focus shifted to utilizing a provision in the state statutes that would allow the Commissioner of Education to throw out a community's elected board of education and install a panel appointed by the state.

When the Baltimore school board revealed this month that it had secretly hired a new CEO, city and state officials were incensed that the panel had circumvented a process that would have given them and the public a say.

Baltimore school board President Marnell Cooper has said the panel did not want its search to become a distraction for city teachers and administrators, and that the board relies on its attorney when it wants matters to be kept confidential.

When the person who wants to be mayor, and who would appoint the members of the Hartford Board of Education, decides to enroll his child or children in a prestigious private school, rather than the city's public schools, it sends out a powerful message about privilege and entitlement.

When U.S. Secretary of Education John King visited Walter Cohen College Prep High School on Friday afternoon in recognition of its dramatic increase in test scores, former board member Kenneth Polite asked him one of the most difficult questions facing the New Orleans education landscape: Why are the city's public schools so segregated, and what can make them more diverse?

«The thing that people wanted to talk to me about when I was running for city council was education,» said councilman Bates Mattison, who will serve on the governing board of the school.

«When it came to my compensation, it was the board who took the initiative,» said Lam, who previously worked as a deputy school chancellor for New York City and as superintendent in Chelsea, Providence, and San Antonio.

The vote signifies the progress made in the 11 years since Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches, when the Legislature took the vast majority of city schools away from the School Board to be run by the state.

Depending on the owner of the bus, cities, municipalities, school boards, or bus companies may be indirectly responsible for bus accidents when they employ drivers who are experienced or who have a history of causing accidents or engaging in reckless driving.