Sentences with phrase «including elected school boards»

The review will look at how Nova Scotia public schools are administered, including elected school boards and their central office administration, along with administration at the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

There are few things more difficult than changing a position from elected to appointed, but we encourage the legislature to continue the education reforms of the past four years, and move forward with proposals this year to switch to a uniform system that includes all elected school board members, whose election coincides with the presidential election, and all appointed superintendents.

Not exact matches

Curran, a former newspaper reporter and Baldwin school board member, touted endorsements from Jacobs and nearly every elected Democrat in the county and has raised more than $ 1 million, including tens of thousands of dollars from developers and county vendors.

«My client feels very strongly that his constitutional rights, including his right to free speech have been violated by the actions of the majority members of the Board, the Board of Education and the school district as a result of a resolution that was passed seeking to remove my client from elected office,» Vacco said.

Those in support of the plan — including the current principal and PTA from the playground's adjoining school P.S. 166, elected officials, Community Board 7, parents and nearby residents — shared perspectives, bringing the commission up to speed on past debates and public meetings.

Jesse Hamilton has spent his entire career helping people, including over 15 years as an elected official in Crown Heights, eight years as President of the School Board and the last eight representing our community as District Leader of the 43rd Assembly District.

It preserves the elected school board but outsources some school operations, including fifty - four largely independent charters and 36 less autonomous «innovation schools.»

I believe only that the Constitution allows democratically elected school boards to make up their own minds as to how best to include people of all races in one America.

The proposal, which is to be discussed in a series of public meetings this month, includes shrinking the size of the school board and electing its members differently, and giving successful schools more freedom in how they operate.

The AFT fought hard for rights of their African American members including equal pay, rights to be elected to a school board, and the right for all African American students to attend school.

Different people who can foster the engagement of students as partners include students from the individual school who requested it, elected officials such as the school board or mayor, teachers, school leaders such as superintendents, principals, or other administrators.

They were the same exact kids, except rather than a state appointee running the school, it was a local nonprofit charter board, including two elected parents.

A half - dozen principals have come and gone since McKenna left in 1986, including his friend Marguerite LaMotte, who went on to be elected to the school board.

Texas school board members selected at the conference to serve on national boards included: • National Black Council Board — Chair Carla Windfont, Crosby ISD; Chair - Elect Don Gant, DeSoto ISD; Secretary Tanya Eagleton, Crosby ISD; Southern Regional Director Rhonda Skillern - Jones, Houston ISD • National Hispanic Council Board — Southern Regional Director Armando Ro - driguez, Canutillo ISD Additionally, TASB Division Director of Legal Services Joy Baskin was named to the NSBA Council of School Attorneys school board members selected at the conference to serve on national boards included: • National Black Council Board — Chair Carla Windfont, Crosby ISD; Chair - Elect Don Gant, DeSoto ISD; Secretary Tanya Eagleton, Crosby ISD; Southern Regional Director Rhonda Skillern - Jones, Houston ISD • National Hispanic Council Board — Southern Regional Director Armando Ro - driguez, Canutillo ISD Additionally, TASB Division Director of Legal Services Joy Baskin was named to the NSBA Council of School Attorneys Bboard members selected at the conference to serve on national boards included: • National Black Council Board — Chair Carla Windfont, Crosby ISD; Chair - Elect Don Gant, DeSoto ISD; Secretary Tanya Eagleton, Crosby ISD; Southern Regional Director Rhonda Skillern - Jones, Houston ISD • National Hispanic Council Board — Southern Regional Director Armando Ro - driguez, Canutillo ISD Additionally, TASB Division Director of Legal Services Joy Baskin was named to the NSBA Council of School Attorneys BBoard — Chair Carla Windfont, Crosby ISD; Chair - Elect Don Gant, DeSoto ISD; Secretary Tanya Eagleton, Crosby ISD; Southern Regional Director Rhonda Skillern - Jones, Houston ISD • National Hispanic Council Board — Southern Regional Director Armando Ro - driguez, Canutillo ISD Additionally, TASB Division Director of Legal Services Joy Baskin was named to the NSBA Council of School Attorneys BBoard — Southern Regional Director Armando Ro - driguez, Canutillo ISD Additionally, TASB Division Director of Legal Services Joy Baskin was named to the NSBA Council of School Attorneys School Attorneys BoardBoard.

Ensuring stakeholders, including locally elected school board members, have an opportunity to participate in the process preserves the integrity of ESSA.

On behalf of all 422 locally elected school boards in Wisconsin, I want to thank the governor and members of the Legislature for their public service and for the positive items included for public schools.

The CCSSO board of directors includes Evers; South Dakota Secretary of Education Melody Schopp as president - elect; North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson as past president; New Hampshire Commissioner of Education Virginia Barry; Alabama Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice; Minnesota Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius; Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn; West Virginia Superintendent of Schools Mike Martirano; and New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera.

Not only have more than half of the city's public schools been taken over by the state, but almost all of the schools — including those still under the jurisdiction of the locally elected Orleans Parish School Board — have been handed over to charter operators.

Some of those principles include: increased need for teacher voice in the way our students are educated, transparency and accountability in school budgets and decision - making, the need for an elected school board, and that teaching must be recognized as a true profession.

Of course, that overlooks the problem of how does a publicly elected municipal board of education legally allow a charter school to be set up that does not, itself, include an elected board.

Regardless of that success, the public elected a local school board in November 2011 that included primarily pro-school choice members who hoped to offer some educational options to the families in Loudoun County.

As a result of Superintendent Scarice's leadership, the democratically elected members of the Madison School board, with the participation of teachers, parents and the community, developed a model teacher evaluation system that did not include the use of standardized tests scores.

Last year, the legislature passed a law to address those issues, including expanding the Washington State Charter School Commission, an independent state agency, to include two elected officials: the state superintendent of public instruction and the chair of the state board of education.

There are also reasonable concerns about how an elected school board might work, including the influence of money and political deals.

He could also campaign for Amendment 8, which would allow an alternative process for approving public schools, including charter schools, rather than by local school boards, and Amendment 12, which would impose a six - year lobbying ban on former state elected officials, state agencies heads and local elected officials.

This success builds on our fall 2015 wins at the local level, when we endorsed and successfully helped elect three Denver Public Schools Board members, including playing a key role in the reelection of the former board president in her at - large Board members, including playing a key role in the reelection of the former board president in her at - large board president in her at - large race.

The group made 5 policy recommendations, including asking the MNPS School Board to wait until after the new Mayor is elected in August of 2015 before finalizing a Director of Schools.

Superintendent search: The Jacksonville Civic Council is asking the Duval County School Board to be included in the search for a new school superintendent, and to delay any hiring until after the elections next November so newly elected board members can have School Board to be included in the search for a new school superintendent, and to delay any hiring until after the elections next November so newly elected board members can have iBoard to be included in the search for a new school superintendent, and to delay any hiring until after the elections next November so newly elected board members can have school superintendent, and to delay any hiring until after the elections next November so newly elected board members can have iboard members can have input.

Jim is an elected school board member in an elementary school district with about 5,600 students (including his two children) in Oak Park, Illinois.

Like Cervantes» fictional hero Don Quixote — an appropriate analogy since their narratives are also the stuff of fiction — they charge at windmills, dragons of their own making, including teacher unions, underperforming district administrators and, in some cases, such as in Bridgeport, democratically elected school boards, all in the name of the fixing the «crisis» in American education.

(11) The numbers referred to in subsections (10) to (10.3) do not include any person elected or appointed to a district school board under section 188.

(d) an elected member of a local board, as defined in the Municipal Affairs Act, of a municipality or an upper - tier municipality, all or part of which is included in the area of jurisdiction of the district school board,