Sentences with phrase «local school board official»

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CRYSTAL LAKE — Local school and government officials as well as residents appear ready to join forces to build a community center and swimming pool, Park Board Commissioner Candy Reedy told the Crystal Lake Park Board on Thursday night.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

De Blasio, who formerly served as a City Councilman and a federal housing official, stressed his role as a public school parent and his background volunteering on the local school board.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

The 75 Morton Community Alliance and the Community Board 2 Schools and Education Committee are seeking funds from local officials for a $ 1 million green roof, and Councilman Corey Johnson secured funds for a community - based health center in the basement.

School districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential serSchool districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential serschool boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential services.

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 current «tax freeze» proposal will only exacerbate the problems we face on a daily basis,» local mayors, school board members, sheriffs, town councilors and other officials wrote to the governor and New York State Legislature today.

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.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

Local school - board members and school officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter Moschool - board members and school officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter Monboard members and school officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter Moschool officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter MoSchool Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter MonBoard Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter Mondale.

That was the assessment of the state and local education officials who spoke last week to federal - program coordinators meeting here under the auspices of the National School Boards Association.

Democratic leaders in the New York Assembly have joined New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the City Council, and other state and local officials in calling for the elimination of the city's current school board.

Local school officials, in turn, are admonishing members of the legislature for the shortfall, while lawmakers are blaming the state school board, and school board members are pointing to faulty data.

The National School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.»

To the best of your knowledge, are members of your local school board elected or appointed by another public official such as a mayor?

The report, issued that morning at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Boards of Education, set an ambitious agenda for the state education panels, saying they would bear prime responsibility for building coalitions among existing early - childhood programs, community agencies, and local school officials.

The court also stated in Brown v. Board of Education II in 1955 that the integration would proceed «with all deliberate speed,» affirming its 1954 decision and signaling that state and local education officials needed to work with federal judges to manage integration of public schools.

It was the first independent audit of the district since state education officials replaced Paterson's administrators and school board with their own management team and a local advisory council in 1991.

official resolutions or other approvals to phase out or close the existing school have been adopted by the local board of education (in New York City, the chancellor or chancellor's designee);

We also help colleagues craft local policies that can be presented to their boards of education; and we frequently host study visits to our New York City community schools for delegations of elected officials from other cities and countries.

About 100 protesters and angry parents led by local officials of the NAACP stormed the Minneapolis school board's final meeting of the year last week, prompting board members to leave the meeting with their business unfinished.

Mayor Xavier L. Suarez of Miami joined other Hispanic citizens and black voters last month in suing the Dade County school district and local electoral officials to challenge at - large school - board elections.

Many of the more than 100 local education officials interviewed in an informal Education Week survey — including leaders of school - board associations in 49 states — agree that the...

Charter schools operate under a contract or «charter» with local school boards or state officials.

North Carolina's school officials are going to keep looking for a company to run the first academically low - performing school to be taken away from its local school board.

Though the department released basic demographic information on the reviewers — most, for example, have doctoral degrees and at least a dozen served on a state board of education or as a local or state school superintendent — federal officials have caught criticism for keeping their identities secret.

ARSA provides a unified voice for rural schools and districts to local school boards, legislative bodies, and elected public officials.

Legislatures haven't wanted to pay for high - level staff, and haven't wanted state officials to take actions that annoy their local superintendents, unions, and school board members.

WSBA is the official voice of its member local school boards.

The «details tucked into dozens of plans being turned in to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos this week were hammered out by a hodgepodge of elected and appointed officials — from governors and legislators to state school board members and local superintendents — during sometimes sparsely attended meetings, caucuses, and task force sessions.»

The vitriol got so bad that African American religious leaders and local NAACP officials intervened at school board meetings on the superintendent's behalf — and it has helped.

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

Education advocates, though, say they have noted the concerns about teacher background checks and, for the most part, they believe educators» right to protest will continue unabated, particularly if hiring decisions are left to local school boards and administrators, rather than state officials.

The National School Boards Association is organizing a national call - in day for school board members and other local officials to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary EducatioSchool Boards Association is organizing a national call - in day for school board members and other local officials to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Educatioschool board members and other local officials to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

On the issue of assessments, federal regulations should support the authority granted, through ESSA, to local school board members, as locally elected officials, to participate in the process of determining the type of assessments that are administered at the local level.

The Aurora Public Schools Board of locally elected officials voted to close HOPE Online campuses because of their chronically low performance, and the State Board overruled the local board's deciBoard of locally elected officials voted to close HOPE Online campuses because of their chronically low performance, and the State Board overruled the local board's deciBoard overruled the local board's deciboard's decision.

The Cities Counties Schools (CCS) Partnership, a collaborative effort of the League of California Cities, the California State Association of Counties and the California School Boards Association, has developed an online toolkit for local officials and staff.

Thomas J. Gentzel, executive director, National School Boards Association: «Our nation's 90,000 school board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisSchool Boards Association: «Our nation's 90,000 school board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisschool board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisschool officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisschool business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of this year.

The event highlighted the Task Force's work and featured research and best practices from educational leaders from across the Commonwealth, including school board members, superintendents, central office and building level staff, local and state government officials, and representatives from the organizations listed above.

That legislation would have ordered state officials to fund charters directly like city - school administrative units, or subgroups of public schools governed by local boards.

While local school officials believe the state has been clear regarding the centers, in spite of Mr. Sciarra's complaints, their main concern is that they be involved in the turnaround plans, said Frank Belluscio, a spokesman for the New Jersey School Boards Associschool officials believe the state has been clear regarding the centers, in spite of Mr. Sciarra's complaints, their main concern is that they be involved in the turnaround plans, said Frank Belluscio, a spokesman for the New Jersey School Boards AssociSchool Boards Association.

Under the law, charters can be authorized either by a local school board or by the new charter commission, but local officials must first undergo a review process and obtain permission from the Washington State Board of Educaboard or by the new charter commission, but local officials must first undergo a review process and obtain permission from the Washington State Board of EducaBoard of Education.

I'm never one to doubt that local school boards and public safety officials will find a way to hire even amid bad budget news, but the pressure on state and local budgets is so great and shows so little sign of abating that I couldn't help wondering where the money might come from.

For their efforts, the Los Angeles Youth Advisory Board of PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center voted to give MAPS a «Faces of Change» award and the school gave them their medals and certificates at an assembly attended by the school community and local officials.

With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public» school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.

Union officials objected in particular to granting school boards wider dismissal powers, saying at the time that the bill would «open teachers to dismissal at the whim of local administrators, who have shown themselves woefully ill - equipped to protect students or teachers.»

The Governing Board is a bipartisan group whose members include governors, state legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business representatives, and members of the general public.

To provide a unified voice to all citizenry, local boards of education, elected public officials, and legislative bodies that have an impact on Arizona's rural schools.