Sentences with phrase «local school board races»

They have the resources to help finance local school board races, they can invest heavily in candidates for the state legislature, and they heavily fund statewide school superintendent and gubernatorial campaigns.

Holbein looked at local school board races from 2004 - 2012 in North Carolina communities where schools failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) as defined by the 2001 federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

School reformers have spent heavily on local school board races.

Also, the outsized influence of the teachers» union in many local school board races requires a candidate to be a known and acceptable quantity to a powerful and trusted voting block.

«Another thing that's a distraction from our students,» she said,» is the big dark money that is a part of our local school board race,» Nelson, in turn, raised both the AFT mailer and his eyebrows at Holtzmann and then at the audience.

This is not just a local school board race, but a national one.

ALS officials have donated to local school board races, too.

While it may be legal for billionaires «to, in effect, buy up local school board races,» Cody argues, it is inconsistent with the spirit of our democracy's principles of public education.

Last week's General Election provided California voters with numerous opportunities to impact education policy, from the Presidential contest to local school board races and everything in between.

It isn't often that the Koch brothers» political advocacy group gets involved in a local school board race.