Sentences with phrase «job of a school board member»
The brave group of four, faced with the hardest part of the job of a school board member, voted to forever close the doors to the city's first charter school — led by a nun.
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The letter, which was addressed to both Cuomo and the members of the Gaming Facility Location Board, notes the original, stated intent of the casino expansion amendment approved by voters last year was to increase job growth and aid to schools.
Veteran board members and those who regularly advise school boards agree that while being a school board member can be a rewarding job, it is also one of the most difficult and daunting elected positions that exists for anyone who wants to do the job well.
«The governor's budget proposal would constrain the ability of school board members to do the jobs they were elected to do,» Executive Director Timothy Kremer said in a statement.
If board members do their jobs well, schools should do a better job of educating students.
No chief academic officer ever got fired for choosing an intervention deemed ineffective by the What Works Clearinghouse, but plenty have lost their jobs after a dispute with a school board member or after a committee of department chairs complained.
The board of education or BOCES shall appoint the members of the team, a majority of which shall be teachers, which shall include the superintendent of schools or his or her designee in the case of school districts or the district superintendent or his or her designee in the case of BOCES; school administrators upon designation by the administrators» collective bargaining organization; teachers upon designation by the teachers» collective bargaining organization; at least one parent upon designation by the established parent groups in the district or in their absence, by the superintendent in the case of a school district or district superintendent in the case of a BOCES; and one or more curriculum specialists, meaning a teacher or administrator whose primary job responsibility involves the development or evaluation of curricula, upon designation by the district or teachers» collective bargaining organization or both.
See a more detailed description of the job of a Kentucky school board member and the tasks involved.
... The way I see the investment from [Eli] Broad and other philanthropists is there are people who very unselfishly want to give a lot of money to improve schools in LA, and it would be my job as a board member to get them to give money to the district and ensure that we are going to use it, or use it with partnerships to create high - performing schools, and if I am a board member and they just want to give it to charter schools because the district has just become so intractable to outside investors and partners, then that is on me and that is on us.
Armed with a court order mandating the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy now faces the tough job of selling his achievement - based review system to the district's teachers, union leaders and even its school board members.
Since the members of the illegal Board of Education refused to do their jobs, Bridgeport residents should step in and demand that Vallas explain the following: (1) What factors did he use to decide that the cut in out of district placements should be 20 %, (2) how many Bridgeport students will be impacted by this cut, (3) how many IEPs have been changed to remove the out - of - district placements that had previously been ordered, and (4) how many children have been moved back into the school system to date.
Board member Mónica Ratliff said, «We have some amazing magnet schools, maybe we need to do a better job at publicizing what a great job they are doing and replicate more of them.»
The influence of AFT and NEA locals on the election of school board members also means constant (and often, losing) battles with governance; it's why school superintendents generally last less than three years on the job.
The majority of those schools and their nonprofit board members do an excellent job of providing parents with a public school choice.
That's because members of the State Board of Education are expected to vote on a state official's recommendation to award the job to Achievement for All Children (AAC), a Charlotte - based organization with very limited experience and very deep ties to the North Carolina General Assembly, the state's burgeoning charter school movement and a powerful school choice lobbyist.