Sentences with phrase «different school boards»

The main issue surrounds supplementary municipal funding for different school boards.

Deutermann's group, Long Island Opt Out, endorsed 75 different school board candidates.

One might vote for different school board members or demand that the superintendent be fired or that the state take schools away from the district.

Not exact matches

Property taxes in the U.S. are a complicated patchwork of different policies set by states, cities and counties as well as local school boards, fire departments and utility commissions.

It also means that morality provisions can not prevent employees from supporting a political party or practicing a specific religion, for example (although some employers, such as denominational school boards, have argued successfully that their religious beliefs allow them to hold employees to a different moral standards).

Because of illness I did not go away to boarding school until I was 12, and my life was very different from the standard accounts of many Americans who grew up in the Far East, such as John Hersey.

He argued: «Research suggests that if you take out the different school factors and you compare the achievements of children in the same school it would be as small as 0.02 per cent of the difference, so it's clearly not a geographical thing, it's a wide - spread issue across the board.»

A group of west - side Pasco County parents whose neighborhood might be reassigned to different middle and high schools has asked the School Board to consider different options they suggest would cost less money and angst.The parents, including...

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

Sundance Canyon Academy is different than many other therapeutic boarding schools in our treatment approach.

Abrams declined to address the question of using sugar and flavorings to entice children to drink milk at school, saying «people have different perspectives,» and noting that he sits on a board that advises MilkPEP, the dairy group responsible for the «Got Milk?»

Because our program is different from many other therapeutic boarding schools in Hawaii, we encourage parents to really do their research and see whether we are the right choice for their teenage sons.

Frontier Central School Board members currently are weighing the exemption, and board members feel the different interests tugging at Board members currently are weighing the exemption, and board members feel the different interests tugging at board members feel the different interests tugging at them.

You could argue that public and charter schools are not that different, but that is dependent upon the locality and how rigidly and thoroughly the school board mandates every aspect of the school.

You are no different than the Cheater School interests, the NY City Board of Realtors, the corrupt casino lobby, or the Fantasy Sports industry... we operate under the «Pay to Play» model here in NY.

The state School Boards Association and state United Teachers union, not surprisingly, had different takes.

The department and Board of Regents also are working to create different pathways to graduation for high school students, including a proposal for project - based assessments, something the waiver would help them expand.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

But that's exactly what is happening in this year's School Board races, with different factions warring for control.

Members of the new majority elected to the Buffalo School Board Tuesday do not appear to be looking for a major reset regarding Superintendent Kriner Cash and the agenda he has laid out for the schools, but there are some major issues on which they will likely take a different approach — especially when it comes to the teachers union contract.

«I feel like a lot of women, mostly moms, because it's school, feel like they can come and talk to me about different concerns that they have, and I don't know if that's always happened before,» said Seema Rivera, a first - term Guilderland school board member.

Several state - level groups, including the Board of Regents and the New York State Association of School Business Officials, have recommended a different approach.

The New York School Boards Association released a report Tuesday saying standards the state ultimately adopts likely won't be much different than Common Core.

The board's new members, women with direct administrative experience in New York's public schools, want a new chief who has a different educational philosophy, experience and demeanor than former commissioner John King.

Removing an elected official from office, however, is not an easy task and the rules for ousting a school board member have been subject to different interpretations and precedents.

Every city that has mayoral control has different versions of it but the idea of mayoral control, yes, we do not want to go back to the school boards and the Board of Education.»

Buffalo School Board Member Theresa Harris - Tigg has a different take on what's going wrong, based on her student teachers from SUNY Buffalo State in city schools.

The model of hospital administration in this publication actually has lots of semblance with contemporary models in the US, UK, Republic of Ireland, Australia and Canada where there is a board of directors / governors with a Chairman (does not have to be a Medical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his findings!

The job has for decades also been known for high turnover, often after a new school board is elected that wants to see its own choice in the job or a different direction for the district.

Consultants are a flash point at almost every school board meeting because there are so many for so many different purposes.

Throughout the state, districts are trying to get out there and explain the formula again and again, because each time you might reach a different group of people, said Barbara Bradley, a spokeswoman for the New York State School Boards Association.

I stayed awake at night researching, met with different experts, and ultimately presented a proposal for reform to our school board.

Christian schools run by a board of parents from several different churches tend to differ in important ways from schools subsidized and run by a particular church.

The goal of the Portland, Ore., public schools» multicultural - education programs, in the words of the district's school board, is to «develop in all students a better understanding and appreciation of the history, culture, and contributions to society of different ethnic groups and cultures.»

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.

Others have suggested leaving a government - operated school system intact, but putting different people — mayors, [3] appointed boards, or state officials [4]-- in charge and using performance standards to focus the attention of educators on student learning, not distracting rules.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

Many school board elections are held at a time different from other elections; and very little information is easily available about the candidates in most school board elections.

Thompson: Closing the achievement gaps between students of different racial groups continues to be a challenge, not only for urban schools but for schools across the board.

«If a principal or school board mandates a shift to block scheduling without involving teachers or if many teachers find switching from a 45 - minute to a 90 - minute format difficult and aren't given appropriate training, student outcomes in very similar schools could be different.»

This semester or yearlong project might include, say, writing a biography of someone in the school who is very different in background; creating a video comprising interviews with other students, custodians, school secretaries, and various other school community members about what constitutes a just community; or developing a board or video game that promotes empathy and responsibility.

They interviewed superintendents, school board members, a former mayor, and teachers from three different school districts: Ferguson - Florissant, Riverview Gardens (where the shooting occurred), and Jennings.

The coalition is more than teachers unions and includes school boards, administrators, PTAs, and noncertified employees represented by several different unions, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Yet turnout for school board elections, which are often held at dates different from those of general elections, is notoriously low, often lingering in the single digits.

Money should be spent equally on different types of schools, different types of students, and across the board on all teachers, unless there are convincing reasons to do otherwise.

The city's charter schools are governed by three different agencies: the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), the RSD, and the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB).

S4S has so far worked with more than half a million children, educators and parents in different settings — including public and private schools, Indigenous boarding schools and centres for children with HIV.

Having diversity in the board membership and independent voices from outside the community that set up the school, brings different perspectives to discussions enabling healthy debate and, ultimately, a more balanced approach.

The National Board urges that applied studies be done that look deeply into the effects of these tests in school systems, school districts, and individual schools, among different student populations, and on different curricula.

He said it would eliminate the competition between boards to attract schools since they «won't offer a syllabus or an approach of assessment which may be different from another board».