Sentences with phrase «if school board elections»

What if school board elections turned on classroom results rather than petty power struggles?

Not exact matches

Even some candidates for our upcoming school board election aren't certain if the issue of time for school lunches is an appropriate board matter.

Lavine said the school board can not do consistent work if board members are up for election every two years.

The hearing will decide if Paladino, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor in 2010 and New York State chairman of President Trump's campaign, can remain on the School Board, to which he won elections in 2013 and 2016.

Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.

If school board members toe a teachers union line that is unpopular with voters, those officials can be thrown out in the next election.

But as the example of that city (on Mayor Bill de Blasio's watch) vividly displays, such changes can prove ephemeral if a school leader or philanthropist loses interest — or if the reforms they launched are undone by an election or board upheaval.

Those fears crescendoed when the school board voted one month before the May 16 election to support State Bill 808, which would have allowed school districts to close or reject charter schools if they could be considered a financial burden to the district, which has yet to decrease its staffing levels despite declining enrollment and is facing billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and projected budget deficits.

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