Sentences with phrase «decades as a school board»

«For over two decades as a school board member, Kevin has championed public education and as NSBA's president he will continue to work tirelessly to ensure the next generation of high school graduates receive the best education possible.»

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Defunct for decades, Mamou is remembered, in the words of one alumnus, as «the Auschwitz of missionary kid boarding schools.»

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

A longtime vocal critic of the school board, Paladino chose to run in opposition of teachers union head Phil Rumore and superintendent Pamela Brown, whose hiring (as well as every other non-interim superintendent hire in the past two decades) Paladino has speculated was at least partially motivated by race.

For decades, the S.A.T. and the American College Program test have been used by college - admissions officials as a «common yardstick» to determine if students from New England boarding schools, one - room schools, and everywhere in between are ready...

Nearly six decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education court case established racial equality as a core commitment of American schools, the decision still shapes the way we think about the concept of equal opportunity in many diverse arenas.

The recommendation by the Public Schools Accountability Act Advisory Committee would reverse a decade - old practice and could go to the State Board of Education as early as next month.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

Roberts brings decades of managerial, financial, and organizational experience to his roles as the emergency manager of the Detroit Public Schools and the board chairman of the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan.

The famed Michelle Rhee came in as chancellor in 2007 after the district's school board was stripped of powers due to gross mismanagement over the previous four decades, including financial corruption, nepotism, and union heads going to jail for embezzlement.

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

Today, as it was true three decades ago, school boards continue to face challenges regarding their role in the community and in education policymaking.

In a brainstorming session Tuesday that was described in the agenda as discussing «vision elements and core values» rather than specifics of the strategic plan, the school board was led by Jeff Nelsen of Targeted Leadership Consulting who has coached more than 2,000 principals and school leaders over the past decade.

For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.

Before successfully running for an Assembly seat, Ms. Amundson — a former teacher — served for nearly a decade on the Fairfax County, Va., School board, including two years as its chariwoman.

Jaime has led accreditation efforts at her school for the past decade, sat on standards committees for the National Board for Professional Teacher Standards and Educators Rising, and has worked as part of the AZ Teacher Solutions Team since 2011.

Here's where these two school districts have another similarity: Both Scamardo and Looney cite their love of education, love of kids, and love of community as their inspiration for five decades of school board duty.

She helped lead the way in the desegregation of Houston schools in the 1960's and a decade later served as President and Treasurer of the Texas ACLU Foundation Board.