Sentences with phrase «hundreds of school board members»

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Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board mschool food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board mSchool Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

Angry at a proposal to counter expected overcrowding with a three - classroom portable trailer outside Forest Glen Elementary School, hundreds of Glen Ellyn residents flooded District 41 board members with e-mails and calls in opposition the last two weeks.

One hundred African American women who say they represent First Lady Michele Obama and their allies who are members of «Oust Paladino» will call on Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to remove Carl Paladino from the Buffalo School Board, outside City Hall, Buffalo.

With just days left before the Buffalo School Board makes a final call on plans for four low - performing schools, hundreds of community members turned out last night to have their voices heard one last time before the board makes its deciBoard makes a final call on plans for four low - performing schools, hundreds of community members turned out last night to have their voices heard one last time before the board makes its deciboard makes its decision.

That view is countered by the author's observation that local control is, in fact, far greater now that the city's seven - member school board has been augmented by a growing cohort of charter school board members numbering in the hundreds.

Hundreds of charter school board members from throughout California will meet to learn about best practices and strategize about the future of the charter school movement.

The «odd duck» Carter referenced is Gill, a member of the board of directors with the Tennessee Federation for Children, an arm of the American Federation for Children that spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on contract lobbyists to push lawmakers to legalize school vouchers in Tennessee.

Their board members include Dick DeVos, heir to the Amway fortune who has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars of seed money into school choice groups, and his wife Betsy DeVos, who actually runs AFC and is known for her conservative Christian right - wing ideology and for having poured millions into promoting voucher programs across the country.

The Santa Clara County Schools Political Action Committee (created by the California Charter Schools Association) and Parents for Great Schools raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the 2012 election — $ 40,000 from Fisher, $ 50,000 from Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and $ 10,000 from Rocketship board member Timothy Ranzetta, among others.

Speaking to hundreds of administrators and members of the school board, Deasy addressed worries over Common Core State Standards — new curriculum changes set to be phased in as soon as this upcoming school year — by using a morale - boosting World War II - era phrase used by the British government: «Stay calm.

In examining how we assign students to schools, board members and I also had a laser - like focus over 18 months to engage our community in hundreds of conversations, in groups, in people's driveways, at the supermarket, about whether we were ok that more than 70 schools in the district had a high poverty rate.

We can also provide a companion video report with a concise and informative summary overview of the assessment findings for school superintendents, heads of school and cabinet or board members who may not have time to read a detailed fifty to one hundred page report.

The Advocate, July 2015 Dan Domenech Executive Director AASA, The School Superintendents Association Over two hundred superintendents, including members of AASA's Executive Committee and Governing Board, gathered in Washington DC earlier this month to take part in this year's Advocacy Conference.

Some state board members feigned dismay that there was ample funding for charter increases while the state slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from vo - tech, magnets and public schools.

At the conference, hundreds of the state's charter school principals, board members and service providers will explore several areas — academic performance, succession to college, tools for successful schools, and legal issues — surrounding the state's charter schools.

In Los Angeles, charter school supporters and parents from Families That Can presented hundreds of signed petitions at the October 9 board meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District to protest Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the disschool supporters and parents from Families That Can presented hundreds of signed petitions at the October 9 board meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District to protest Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the distboard meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District to protest Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the disSchool District to protest Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the distBoard Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in the district.

Wade Pfau, an Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, wrote a comment to an earlier blog entry this morning that describes a research paper he has written (the paper is still in its first draft) about the New School Safe Withdrawal Rate concept that I developed with John Walter Russell (and with the help of hundreds of our fellow community members in the Retire Early and Indexing discussion - board communities).

Each August the board and its members sponsor a shoe - fitting extravaganza to ensure that hundreds of disadvantaged children have shoes for the new school year.

Each August the Abilene Board of REALTORS ® and its members sponsor a shoe - fitting extravaganza to ensure that hundreds of disadvantaged children have shoes for the new school year.