Sentences with phrase «how local boards»

Either directly through prescriptive laws, such as ones that mandate precisely how local boards of education must evaluate their employees, or indirectly through schemes and mechanisms that place high stakes on invalid and unreliable tests such as the SBAC, we rank and sort kids, schools, and teachers based on test scores.

Demanding evidence is how every local board of education holds their administrators accountable.

Not exact matches

(To learn how much CEOs of similar - size companies pay themselves in your region, do what TRC's board did: consult local city magazines and regional economic - development organizations.)

She research [ed] and verified how a very small number of families created an «interlocking directory» of relationships through owning major businesses, holding significant or controlling interests in multiple forms of media (both print and broadcast), serving on major philanthropical foundations and / or non-profit boards, and involving themselves in the shaping of local politics.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

Contact your local board of health for guidance on how food should be labeled.

There will also be a discussion of how state school board associations can engage with other local stakeholders — advocates, parents, and members of the school community — to bring BIC to more districts in your state.

She was a breastfeeding mom 30 years ago and talked about how fortunate women today when there are so many opportunities for qualified support, whether from an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) or another breastfeeding specialist, La Leche League or another local support group, or the Big Latch On or another awareness - raising activity.

Under the proposed law, local constituencies, such as community boards, council members and borough presidents would have a say in how the plazas are used, but the transportation agency would have ultimate rule - making authority, Garodnick said.

Representatives of the New York Conference of Mayors and New York Association of Counties also praised the proposal, but were noncommittal about how many of their members might want to use the restructuring board, though they predict that many local government leaders will take a look at it.

The state party decided to stick with the local leaders» recommendation there (or at least some of them, exactly how many were on board is unclear) and back GOP challenger Richard Hanna over Democratic Rep. Mike Arcuri.

A «Save the Ditch Witch» Facebook page quickly drew over 1,000 followers by mid-afternoon Thursday and town board members were inundated with hundreds of e-mails calling the Ditch Witch an institution and questioning how a local business owner could be shut out.

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

He said that the board, «vehemently opposes any plan that closes the Phoenicia elementary school and robs our residents and their children of convenient localized education opportunities for their younger children, disregards the needs of the local economy and businessmen and residents that assist with, sponsor and pay for school programs...» The resolution listed how the school acts as a community center including athletic, educational, social programs during the evenings, weekends and summer that are sponsored by the town.

Critics of the patchwork system say the state Legislature has failed to provide guidance on how local municipal ethics boards should operate.

Mitchell didn't know how long the suspension will last, but said the community board has asked for an emergency meeting in the next two weeks with the mayor's office and local elected officials to discuss their concerns.

Davies was on the temporary state commission on local government ethics in the early 1990s, which proposed legislation mandating local ethics boards and dictating how they would operate.

And to make sure the state Gaming Commission's siting board understands just how much local backing the Nevele proposal has in Ulster County, Hein also announced the creation of a county Gaming and Economic Development Alliance to advocate for the project.

There is also often no way for the public to know how to file a complaint with their local ethics board.

This training also seeks to support the FOISECON in order to build their capacity to conduct free and credible elections at the local government levels and how well - implemented electoral process can bring about peaceful change of power and improve their leadership skills and take on board means for preventing or mitigating the escalation of electoral violence and conflict throughout the respective electoral cycle.

The Hempstead school board Monday night voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

The Board of Elections is actually supposed to submit recommendations to lawmakers this month on how to transition local election systems to electronic voting statewide.

The Hempstead school board voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

«An organization that brings over 25,000 people to our neighborhoods should show us respect by sharing its routes with community boards and local elected officials and working together with us well in advance to determine how we can mitigate the negative impacts of this bar crawl on our local communities and small retail businesses, whose annual sales depend heavily on this time of year,» Hoylman added.

BEEKMANTOWN — The developers of a proposed electric transmission line running from Beekmantown to New Haven, Vt attended a Feb. 17 town board meeting here to layout details of the plan and how it might affect local residents.

The County Planning Board, local educators, County, and local officials will gather together to hear Katie Geise, Executive Director of Chautauqua Works and John Slenker, Labor Analyst with the New York State Department of Labor, present on the generational shifts in employment that are taking place and how it is affecting Chautauqua County.

How will the new state Board of Regents member representing Western New York effect local schools?

In a sign of how much has changed since 1969, the three officials who represent the area — City Council member Corey Johnson, state assembly member Deborah Glick and state senator Brad Hoylman — are all openly gay and endorse the idea of making it a monument, as does the local community advisory board.

Phelan describes how after speaking with local businesses about his technology, he invited an industry representative to serve on a department board, which helped bolster the department's profile for fundraising and public relations purposes, and generally paved the way for more interactions between university and industrial scientists.

GPs will have the power to choose how to spend resources in order to achieve the best health outcomes, and we will ensure that PCT boards include directly elected individuals who can speak for patients at board level so that local people have a voice when decisions are made about local health provision.

This applies across the board: when you are barely learning how to type, the reason you get quickly tired and have to stop is because the body has never had to develop many mitochondria in the local muscles (and endurance motoneurons, etc. etc.).

Check out the message boards and erotic stories to see just how sexy imagination can be on Sex Search, and get some inspiration for your own local sexting.

Once I saw how many hot local boys there were, I was on board!

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

Not her bedraggled excuse for a husband Phil (William Fichter) who, while keeping his marriage vows, sneaks off to the local love shack for some illicit playings of the Wheel of Fortune board game with local diner waitress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis); Not her dimbulb, lackadaisical moron of a son Jeff (Marcus Thomas) whose lust for Lite, as in Miller, cost him the use of his right hand (how the residents tell the story is one of the highlights of the flick); Not Jeff's partner Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck) who takes it on the chin from every member of the Dearly family or his fiancé Ellen (Neve Campbell) who giggles hysterically when she hears the news of Mona's demise.

That was the angle drew national attention to this local race, but the key issue was how to help the district schools move beyond failed reforms backed by the previous board majority.

We encourage educators to work with their administrative teams, parent and community organizations, and their local school board to think differently about how, when, and where design materials come from.

A teacher in our local school district recently posted a question on one of our discussion boards: «I'm having a difficult time coming up with ideas on how to give my students more responsibility and freedom in my classroom.

The association's board believes, Herndon wrote, that «local parents, staff and governing boards, and not the federal government, are in the best position to determine how to improve the operation of their program.»

How does a local school board decide to hire a superintendent?

A certain amount of its cash and the responsibility for how it is spent nationally will be retained by Whitehall but the bulk of the money — and financial incentives for those who show how it improves local health — will pass to the local Clinical Commissioning Groups [CCGs] and Health & Wellbeing Boards.

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

In this context, the question for districts and schools becomes: How do we balance the need to meet state standards at a given school with the mandates from the local school board?

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

Committee member and board vice president Judy Conlin said she favors a Wisconsin Association of School Board proposal that would require property tax bills to include how much of their local dollars are going to voucher schboard vice president Judy Conlin said she favors a Wisconsin Association of School Board proposal that would require property tax bills to include how much of their local dollars are going to voucher schBoard proposal that would require property tax bills to include how much of their local dollars are going to voucher schools.

If you would like to see the local school board retain the ability to decide how to spend local tax dollars, and what schools should operate in Nashville, you must speak up NOW.

This document contains a brief, tailored overview of The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- the 114th Congress's effort to update the antiquated NCLB — for school board members with key information (e.g., effective date of existing waiver terminations) about how Congress has overhauled the law in favor of restoring local governance and community leadership in public education.

The local school board fought them tooth and nail because the charters, of course, would receive school tax money based on how many students they «siphoned off» from the public school system.

After soliciting input for over a year from education groups, research and advocacy organizations, students and parents, the State Board of Education on Friday approved final regulations governing how districts spend funds they receive through the Local Control Funding Formula, the state's new school financing law.