Sentences with phrase «for school board races»

We collected precinct - level election returns for all school board races in three election cycles, 2000, 2002, and 2004.

On the other hand, charter advocacy also is on the rise, often resulting in successful campaigns for school board races.

WNYALF president Richard Lipsitz told POLITICO New York the union doesn't normally come out for school board races but made an exception because it felt the current board was damaging public education in Buffalo.

In 2009, Ben Austin, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, failed to gather 500 to 1,000 qualified signatures needed to put his name on the ballot for the school board race.

Not exact matches

Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.

Aptakisic - Tripp School District 102 In the only contested race in Buffalo Grove this April, five candidates have filed for four available seats on the Aptakisic - Tripp School District 102 school School District 102 In the only contested race in Buffalo Grove this April, five candidates have filed for four available seats on the Aptakisic - Tripp School District 102 school School District 102 school school board.

Small campaigns in lower - visibility races (like those for school board or city council) should seriously consider dropping some last - minute cash on geotargeted Facebook ads, BTW.

Additionally, many municipalities allow voters to select multiple candidates in races for school board and city council for example, rather than selecting winners of individual races.

There is a race for Watertown school board.

A candidate for the Eastport - South Manor, Long Island school board who has a manslaughter conviction said last night he planned to stay in the race, according to a text message he sent during a candidate forum and read aloud by the event's moderator.

Most local races, however, for municipal office, special districts, school boards, and township offices are formally non-partisan.

Almost 40 % for Josephine Okot in Portland School Board race Two Green victories in Fairfax, CA, and a Green win in Federal Heights, Colorado!

Well, maybe — but plenty of people not named Barack Obama and not boosted by a vibrant and extensive network of active supporters also won on November 4th, and it strains credulity to think that every race for city council, school board or even Congress will swing on which candidate most effectively mobilizes an internet - driven grassroots army.

He also ran races for Islip Town board and district court judge and won election to the Brentwood school board, where he served for three years.

Three Democrats and a Working Families newcomer were on their way Tuesday night to winning the Hartford Board of Education race at a critical period for the city public schools.

Getting enough valid signatures in a school board race has been a problem for years.

Jeremy Zellner told WBFO Kearns has yet to denounce Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino for his inflammatory remarks about Barack and Michelle Obama in Artvoice last December, and backed Paladino over Andrew Cuomo in their 2010 race for governor.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

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

Carl Paladino is the apparent winner, albeit narrowly, in the race for his Buffalo school board seat, defeating an 18 - year - old challenger.

Without a Republican running against Mayor Stephanie Miner, and with Democrats having with a stranglehold in most common council and school board races, Green Party candidates are emerging as alternatives for voters in a handful of races.

Incumbent Democratic Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former school board member and owner of a sheep farm, is fighting what's turning out to be our region's most expensive state race for the large, oddly - configured 46th state Senate district against Republican George Amedore, a former Assemblyman and owner of a second generation Rotterdam - area homebuilding company, who she defeated by 18 votes in a tense recount two years ago.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

Voters will cast their ballots Tuesday to decide who fills six seats on the Buffalo School Board, but it could be days before some of the races are settled.Elections officials expect a large number of write - in ballots for candidates in two districts who are running write - in campaigns after being disqualified from the ballot, and it could take an extra day or two to hand - co...

Once again, the political winds on the Buffalo School Board are shifting, with Tuesday's election putting an end to the current majority and replacing it with a new one backed by the teachers union.Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up for grabs.

Among the victors in California is Marnie Glickman, a former co-chair of the Green Party of the United States, in her race for Dixie School Board in Marin County (http://www.marnieglickman.org).

The fight to improve the education and lives of city school students continues as a new slate of candidates joins the race for Rochester City School school students continues as a new slate of candidates joins the race for Rochester City School School Board.

Mattituck - Cutchogue school officials released the full results of Tuesday's write - in race for the remaining open seat on the district's Board of Education just before noon Thursday.

He says a better use of the party's resources would be to focus on city races for Common Council and School Board, with an eye towards developing city candidates.

Take, for example, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs» widow and a California resident who has funneled some of her $ 20 billion fortune to school board races not only in Los Angeles, but in Denver and New Orleans as well.

By one accounting, the California Charter Schools Association spent more than $ 12 million on candidates for school board and other races in 2016 and 2017.

A deadlocked race for a seat on a Pekin, Ill., school board was finally determined last week by a game of chance.

In the spring of 2015, charter founder Ref Rodriguez (top) challenged the union - friendly incumbent Bennett Kayser for a seat on the school board in what was possibly the most expensive school - board race in history.

In 2000, 67 incumbents from 37 school boards ran for reelection in contested races in South Carolina.

In an article for Education Next,» The Biggest Little Election You've Never Heard Of,» Max Eden explains why the school board race in Douglas County was so important to the school voucher movement.

Some of the most closely watched races were for seats on the school board in Douglas County, where the winners will decide whether to continue to defend a school voucher program set up by the district that has faced legal challenges.

This fall, the charter school board in Washington, D.C., moved to shut down Imagine Southeast Charter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the applicationschool board in Washington, D.C., moved to shut down Imagine Southeast Charter School for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the applicationSchool for various failings, including inappropriate questions about race and nationality on the application form.

«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inschool integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool in Little Rock, AK in 1957.

Outside of the tech industry, he has over 400 skydives, is a partner and investor in Aston Martin Racing North America and sits on the board for Playworks, a national nonprofit that supports learning and physical health by providing safe and inclusive play to low - income students in urban schools.

Insofar as school boards offer choice, which we would expect to be a popular position for them to take, a race - blind lottery could be a fair, practical, and constitutionally acceptable way to allocate spaces in oversubscribed schools.

While it may be legal for billionaires «to, in effect, buy up local school board races,» Cody argues, it is inconsistent with the spirit of our democracy's principles of public education.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

He acknowledged that the board is frustrated that few schools have applied and that the more affluent schools with heavy parent involvement have raced to ask for independence.

They're willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to improving education, and their participation is critical for leveling the playing field and keeping these school board races competitive.

The race for the three board seats generated nearly $ 17 million in campaign spending, a massive sum that signaled the importance these races represented for both charter school advocates and teachers unions as they battle over the direction of charter school growth in the state.

2017 was a big year for education news in Los Angeles, drawing national attention to the most expensive school board race in U.S. history, the looming fiscal cliff exacerbated by declining enrollment, and a new state accountability system that has sparked sharp criticism from parent groups across the state and education advocates across the nation.

According to news reports, Knopf, in her official capacity, visited with school boards and school administrators across Vermont and reported back that there was little support for some of the Race to the Top policies including the effort to add more and more charter schools.

On a 9 — 0 vote, the Kansas Board of Education decided not to apply for RTTT funding, saying, «The federal criteria required more centralized control of public school education...» 4 Texas Governor Rick Perry explained to Secretary Duncan, «In order to submit an application that is preferred... for Race to the Top, Texas would have to commit... to the adoption of national curriculum standards and tests.»

It used to be, the teachers union leader told the crowd, that it didn't take much to win a school board race: a short statement in the election handbook, a little money for some mail and the shoe - leather to knock on doors and talk to voters.

«At first blush we're encouraged to see the Race to the Top program moving to a 360 - degree accountability system by including evaluations for schools boards and superintendents, not just teachers,» Weingarten said in a statement.