Sentences with phrase «control of the school board»

Finally, UrbEd works towards regaining and increasing local control of our school board here in the Philadelphia school district.

You generally have a live and let live atti.tude, but will fiercely defend any attempts by theists to thrust their views on you or your children, directly or through control of school boards, the legislature or the executive.

• After election to the school board, the experience of being on the board — and part of «management» — seems to make members somewhat less pro-union over time; as a result, the unions can not count on gaining complete control of school boards even when they are continually successful in elections.

Candidates who supported hotly contested school - privatization ventures in Hartford, Conn., and Wilkinsburg, Pa., retained control of the school boards of both cities in last week's elections.

Remove local control of school boards CRC Member Erika Donalds, a pro choice Collier County School Board member, would remove these local options that districts now have by: 1.

This means unions will have to vie for control of school boards every 12 years instead of maintaining control indefinitely.

Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain local control by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school board at this time.

In order to maintain control of the school board and avoid legal coercion, Shaw (who was also part of Columbus's business elite) wanted to protect the economic and social life of Columbus.

Look at Bridgeport, CT, the mayor illegally conspired with the state to take control of the school board.

Both are charter schools, not directly under the control of the school board.