Sentences with phrase «electing school board candidates»

Bramson has, for years, played a direct role in selecting and electing school board candidates, putatively a non-partisan position.

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His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

That's why I devote lots of my personal time to helping elect new school board members and educating candidates on this issue.

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.

This summer, as you'll recall, the state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia removed Paladino from his seat for violating executive session rules, even though voters had twice elected the former Republican gubernatorial candidate to the school board despite his many controversial public statements.

The teachers union in Williamsville on Tuesday maintained its perfect record since 2015 of helping to elect its preferred candidates to the School Board.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

Each of the candidates expressed their appreciation for the endorsement, one at a time, starting with Colin Smith, an attorney based in Peekskill and a member of the Peekskill City School District Board of Education who says he will step down if elected to Common Council

Toni Williams Office: School Board District: Thornton Township District 205 High School County: Cook Election date: 04/05/2011 Elected: Yes Number of Votes: 4,838 Percentage: 17.7 % Place: 2nd (out of 7 candidates)

The parent council previously sought to use the School Board races to elect candidates sympathetic to its agenda to the bBoard races to elect candidates sympathetic to its agenda to the boardboard.

The Democratic Party and California need your efforts as we work to take our country back, elect a Democratic Congress, and support Democratic candidates for City Council and School Board seats.

«The DNC is committed to electing Democratic candidates in every zip code and in every office, from the school board to the Oval Office,» Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement Monday morning.

Voters in Des Moines, Iowa, turned out in record numbers last week to defeat an openly gay school board veteran and elect two candidates backed by local and statewide conservative groups.

As individuals, then, district employees have strong incentives to get involved in school - board politics and to take action in trying to elect candidates who will promote their occupational interests.

The «mystery» candidate elected to the school board in Orange, Calif., made his first appearance at a board meeting last month.

DETROIT — Four years ago, voters here elected a slate of four school board candidates who called themselves the HOPE team and promised to bring equity, diversity, and choice to the city's schools.

The speech comes more than a week after Greuel hired a new campaign manager, Janelle Erickson, who in addition to being a former aide to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (as well as, previously, Greuel herself), was serving as the spokesperson to the Coalition for School Reform, which spent over $ 3 million to elect reform candidates to the School Board in the March 5 primary.

That's Bill DeLoache, the wealthy Nashville investor and charter proponent who has spent heavily in the past to help elect pro-charter candidates to the MNPS School Board.

A switch to elected school boards and appointed superintendents would increase accountability and have a positive impact on the classroom, especially in our more rural areas where the need is greatest and the talent pool of qualified candidates is the smallest.

At Great Public Schools Pittsburgh we have worked hard over the last three years to elect education justice - minded candidates to the City School Board.

Ratliff, a Los Angeles school board candidate who was recently elected to the union's House of Representatives, said she frequently reviews raw test scores for concrete information about specific skills her students are struggling with, such as grammar or reading comprehension.

After months of working hard to elect candidates who value a parent's right to choose the best school for their child, the unofficial results of the March 7 Los Angeles Unified school board elections are in and they show success for CCSA Advocates» endorsed candidates.

Charter schools like Rocketship spend enormous sums of money to help charter - friendly candidates get elected to public school boards — something public schools can't do.

The DeVoses and their foundations have spent millions nationwide to elect pro-school choice candidates to school boards, state legislatures and Congress.

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A recent LA Times piece looks at Amy Wakeland, wife of newly elected Mayor Eric Garcetti, calling her «a powerful player in [Garcetti's] political life» and noting that in the past she has worked for unnamed L.A. Unified School District board candidates.

Without a candidate who had overwhelming support and with three newly elected School Board members being seated this month, the board opted to close that seBoard members being seated this month, the board opted to close that seboard opted to close that search.

Each of these candidates supports an elected, representative school board, fair and adequate funding for public education across the state, and a progressive income tax that will end the financial burdens that have put so many Illinois residents on their heels.

The NEA and the AFT also have extraordinary millions of dollars extracted from their members to lobby for policies they want to have enacted by Congress, state legislatures and school boards and also to elect their favored political candidates.

Just by electing these three candidates to the school board, Riverside went from a county with a reputation of being hostile towards charter schools to one that is viewed as much friendlier.

While PURE can't endorse candidates, we can suggest that you review their education positions as detailed, for example, here on the Teachers for Social Justice web site regarding issues such as elected schools board, support for neighborhood schools, etc..

(5) Despite subsection (4), none of the following persons is ineligible to be a candidate for or to be elected as a member of a district school board or school authority if he or she takes an unpaid leave of absence, beginning no later than the day the person is nominated and ending on voting day:

(10) No person shall run as a candidate for more than one seat on a district school board or school authority and any person who does so and is elected to hold one or more seats on the district school board or the school authority is not entitled to act as a member of the district school board or the school authority by reason of the election.

Electing school board members who understand how important sex education is to students» well - being is a crucial task for the savvy voter, and the parents and students of Phoenix Union are lucky that their district has forward - thinking folks at the helm — folks like Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona's endorsed candidates Ian Danley and Lela Alston.