Sentences with phrase «elect school board officials»

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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.

Has this teacher presented her ideas to the school board, mayor or any other elected official?

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

Both state law and district policy prohibit elected officials from disclosing information discussed in executive sessions, and there has been at least one previous attempt to remove a member of the Buffalo School Board on those grounds.

At 7 p.m., state Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and other elected officials attend a forum on providing diploma options for students, South Side High School Auditorium, 140 Shepherd St., Rockville Centre.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

Recently elected Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino has laid out his agenda for the first official meeting that he will attend.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

She and Mattituck - Cutchogue school board members plan to attend Saturday's annual Longwood Regional Legislative Breakfast, at which educators meet with state elected state officials, Dr. Smith said.

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.

A school board may remove any of its members for «official misconduct,» or misconduct related to duties as an elected official.

Those in support of the plan — including the current principal and PTA from the playground's adjoining school P.S. 166, elected officials, Community Board 7, parents and nearby residents — shared perspectives, bringing the commission up to speed on past debates and public meetings.

The task force, a group of principals, parents, community board members, elected officials and Department of Education representatives, has met regularly over the years, advocating for new schools and educational space in the increasingly family - filled lower Manhattan neighborhoods.

Jesse Hamilton has spent his entire career helping people, including over 15 years as an elected official in Crown Heights, eight years as President of the School Board and the last eight representing our community as District Leader of the 43rd Assembly District.

Upper West Side public school parents, elected officials and Community Board 7 fought for months to keep Upper West Success Academy from moving into an existing public school building.

The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schools safe.

This review process lends the plan transparency as the DOE and School Construction Authority consult with Community Education Councils, Community Boards, City Council borough delegations, and other elected officials.

Students at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsSchool are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsschool gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsschool, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsSchool Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schools safe.

To the best of your knowledge, are members of your local school board elected or appointed by another public official such as a mayor?

«What has traditionally made this country great is that the leaders don't have to be the elected officials,» says Olson, the president of the Parents for Public Schools national board of directors.

It offers parents help in figuring out what language and literacy experiences to look for in preschools and child care; what to look for in initial reading instruction in kindergarten and the early grades; what to ask school boards, principals, elected officials, and other policy makers who make decisions regarding early reading instruction; and whether their child is making progress in related skills and early reading.

A public governing board or official — typically elected — made the most important decisions about the school's operations.

We also help colleagues craft local policies that can be presented to their boards of education; and we frequently host study visits to our New York City community schools for delegations of elected officials from other cities and countries.

Across the nation, urban officials are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the performance of elected school boards.

ARSA provides a unified voice for rural schools and districts to local school boards, legislative bodies, and elected public officials.

During the school year, I would make it a priority to discuss the limitations and flaws of standardized testing with teachers, school and central office leaders, the board, elected officials, parents, students, and the community.

State School Board — An elected group of officials that overseas all schools and ensures the state's adherence to federal rules and regulations.

Young, who served on the school board, noted that it's part of the responsibilities of the elected officials to make sure that new schools proposed in the district meet educational requirements.

Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in state legislatures by making federal funds flow to the Governor and his appointees on workforce development boards.

District School Board — These elected officials get recommendations from the public and the superintendent to deliver their range of decision - making authority.

Different people who can foster the engagement of students as partners include students from the individual school who requested it, elected officials such as the school board or mayor, teachers, school leaders such as superintendents, principals, or other administrators.

Washington State Charter Schools Association lawyers have been preparing a motion that asks justices to reconsider their Sept. 4 ruling that charters can't receive public funds because they answer to appointed officials, not elected school boards.

The «details tucked into dozens of plans being turned in to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos this week were hammered out by a hodgepodge of elected and appointed officials — from governors and legislators to state school board members and local superintendents — during sometimes sparsely attended meetings, caucuses, and task force sessions.»

Respectfully, Action United Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Alliance for Multilingual Multicultural Education American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education American Association of State Colleges and Universities American Federation of Teachers ASPIRA Association Association of University Centers on Disabilities Autistic Self Advocacy Network Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network California Association for Bilingual Education California Latino School Boards Association Californians for Justice Californians Together Campaign for Fiscal Equity Campaign for Quality Education Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning Center for Teaching Quality Citizens for Effective Schools Coalition for Educational Justice Council for Exceptional Children Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Easter Seals ELC, Education Law Center FairTest, The National Center for Fair & Open Testing Higher Education Consortium for Special Education Justice Matters Latino Elected and Appointed Officials National Taskforce on Education Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Learning Disabilities Association of America Los Angeles Educational Partnership Movement Strategy Center NAACP National Alliance of Black School Educators National Center for Learning Disabilities National Council for Educating Black Children National Council of Teachers of English National Disability Rights Network National Down Syndrome Congress National Down Syndrome Society National Education Association National Latino / a Education Research and Policy Project National League of United Latin American Citizens Parent - U-Turn Parents for Unity Philadelphia Education Fund Public Advocates Inc..

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

On the issue of assessments, federal regulations should support the authority granted, through ESSA, to local school board members, as locally elected officials, to participate in the process of determining the type of assessments that are administered at the local level.

The National Association of School Boards, representing public officials elected to Nevada's school boards, filed a «friend of the court» brief before Judge Wilson supporting the parent who brought the lawsuit against SB302 vouchers, because of the great harm that these vouchers would inflict on public school educSchool Boards, representing public officials elected to Nevada's school boards, filed a «friend of the court» brief before Judge Wilson supporting the parent who brought the lawsuit against SB302 vouchers, because of the great harm that these vouchers would inflict on public school educBoards, representing public officials elected to Nevada's school boards, filed a «friend of the court» brief before Judge Wilson supporting the parent who brought the lawsuit against SB302 vouchers, because of the great harm that these vouchers would inflict on public school educschool boards, filed a «friend of the court» brief before Judge Wilson supporting the parent who brought the lawsuit against SB302 vouchers, because of the great harm that these vouchers would inflict on public school educboards, filed a «friend of the court» brief before Judge Wilson supporting the parent who brought the lawsuit against SB302 vouchers, because of the great harm that these vouchers would inflict on public school educschool education.

The Aurora Public Schools Board of locally elected officials voted to close HOPE Online campuses because of their chronically low performance, and the State Board overruled the local board's deciBoard of locally elected officials voted to close HOPE Online campuses because of their chronically low performance, and the State Board overruled the local board's deciBoard overruled the local board's deciboard's decision.

Elected Official of the Year - Mónica García, Member, Board of Education, Los Angeles Unified School District

«Her passion for education and desire to serve as an elected official at the second largest school district in California is a great opportunity for CCSA and the Board of Education to work together to strengthen public education for students in San Diego.»

With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public» school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.

John Brown Sr., who was appointed to represent the Orleans Parish School Board's 1st District in March, will keep the seat as an elected official.

To provide a unified voice to all citizenry, local boards of education, elected public officials, and legislative bodies that have an impact on Arizona's rural schools.

At the same time, the bill quietly removes the requirement that the state must help train and support local school boards before it can unilaterally un-elect elected officials.

Opposition from superintendents, school boards and teachers» unions is a very powerful thing in what is — with the exception of Gov. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, who are Republicans — a one - party state when it comes to officials who are elected statewide.

It's been supported with documentation for years that the government is trying to dismantle public education to force students into charter schools that have no school boards with elected officials in order to have complete control over education.

Locally elected school boards are entrusted by their communities to advocate to state and federal officials to get the policy mix right.

From 1977 to 1999, the number of black elected officials with influence over public education in cities (mayors, council members, school board members and superintendents) more than doubled, to 5,815 from 2,724

In a ground - breaking effort to marshal the political clout of thousands of locally - elected school officials, the California School Boards Association launched this week a concerted effort to have their members actively support two November tax measures to fund educschool officials, the California School Boards Association launched this week a concerted effort to have their members actively support two November tax measures to fund educSchool Boards Association launched this week a concerted effort to have their members actively support two November tax measures to fund education.

The MASB Government Relations Department represents the view of MASB member districts with federal and state legislative leaders and works to open the lines of communication between locally elected school board members and the elected officials in Lansing and Washington.