Sentences with phrase «local school boards just»

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The Freedom From Religion Foundation chose just a few locations for the board: Madison, Wisconsin, (where the organization is based), Dayton, Tennessee, (where the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 was held, of course), and Dover, Pennsylvania, (where a local school board sought to integrate the concept of intelligent design into science classes in 2005).

Just wanted to flag another local candidate, Lisa Mansfield, who is running for the Akron School Board.

Think about it: when the presidential campaigns are joined by senatorial, congressional, gubernatorial, state legislative, mayoral, etc etc etc, campaigns, all down to the level of local school board candidates, everybody just step back — this thing's going to get huge.

De Blasio had also just won an election of his own — on his local Brooklyn school board.

Does anyone on the East Ramapo School board read the local newspaper or is that just another goyim rag?

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

These teachers are presumably just as middle class, public spirited, and committed to education as other teachers are; but because they don't work in the district where they live, they do not have an occupational stake in their local school - board elections.

This week, eight candidates are competing for just three slots on the local school board, a larger field than most residents can remember.

A club for gay students and their supporters met for the first time last week at El Modena High School in Orange, Calif., just days after a federal judge ordered the local school board to recognize the controversial student School in Orange, Calif., just days after a federal judge ordered the local school board to recognize the controversial student school board to recognize the controversial student group.

The National School Board Association just published a report on this that left out that many states have stripped local school boards of much of their authority without telling taxpSchool Board Association just published a report on this that left out that many states have stripped local school boards of much of their authority without telling taxpschool boards of much of their authority without telling taxpayers.

In advance of the Court's order, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the Nevada Association of School Boards (NASB) filed an amicus, «friend of the court,» brief, urging the court to do just that, and rule in favor of the best interests of Nevada's public school students and local communSchool Boards Association (NSBA) and the Nevada Association of School Boards (NASB) filed an amicus, «friend of the court,» brief, urging the court to do just that, and rule in favor of the best interests of Nevada's public school students and local communSchool Boards (NASB) filed an amicus, «friend of the court,» brief, urging the court to do just that, and rule in favor of the best interests of Nevada's public school students and local communschool students and local communities.

With this year's budget bill likely to be officially enacted just as late, school boards will again be scrambling over the summer months to revamp their processes, forms, and, in the case of most large districts, updating their local evaluation - system software to keep up with the moving target that is OTES.

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.

Teachers and Rutherford County administrators have also seen some low - performing children sent away from the charter and back to the traditional public school system just before end - of - grade tests, an important measure of how schools stack up against each other, said Dr. John Mark Bennett, the chair of the county school board and a local family physician.

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The second effort, at Desert Trails Elementary, was just last week approved by the local school board after an 18 - month court battle.

In other words, by far the biggest city feeding the Louisiana voucher program is the one in which the state assumed control of almost all schools just after Hurricane Katrina (2005) and systematically converted them from local - board - controlled community - based schools into splinters of who - knows - charter - management - operated schools in the name of charter school superiority.

However, a report on the outcome of the consultation has instead recommended to the council's cabinet that just one school is closed, and that Haydon Bridge, which is currently run by a DfE - appointed interim board, be taken back under local authority oversight and given # 1.54 million to support it until a new sponsor is found.

At the same forum, Ben Kleban, CEO of New Orleans College Prep, said, «I don't think just because the school board isn't going to be directly running the schools as it used to that that means that there can't be appropriate engagement and oversight from our local community.»

As secretary, she will be able to implement the new law fixing No Child Left Behind just as Congress wrote it, reversing the trend to a national school board and restoring to states, governors, school boards, teachers, and parents greater responsibility for improving education in their local communities.

To suggest that a local district school board should have a designated seat on a charter school board is tantamount to suggesting that the South Kingstown School Committee should have a designated seat on the North Kingstown School Committee, which is just nonschool board should have a designated seat on a charter school board is tantamount to suggesting that the South Kingstown School Committee should have a designated seat on the North Kingstown School Committee, which is just nonschool board is tantamount to suggesting that the South Kingstown School Committee should have a designated seat on the North Kingstown School Committee, which is just nonSchool Committee should have a designated seat on the North Kingstown School Committee, which is just nonSchool Committee, which is just nonsense.

Various entities in Michigan can authorize new charter schools, not just a state or local school board, as in Louisiana.

In fact, SF NAACP President Amos Brown told the local school board that it should declare a state of emergency, because just 19 percent of black students are proficient in English, compared to 31 percent of black students statewide.

And we have been working to accomplish this by supporting local school board candidates who we believe will make a difference not just for charter school students, but for all students.

And just last week, the Orange County Board of Education approved on appeal the petitions of two new charter schools that had been rejected by their local districts: Santa Ana College Prep, run by Ednovate Inc., and Unity Middle College High School, run by Oakland - based Unity Sschools that had been rejected by their local districts: Santa Ana College Prep, run by Ednovate Inc., and Unity Middle College High School, run by Oakland - based Unity SchoolsSchools.

Meanwhile, faced with inadequate state resources, and Mayor Finch's need to come up with $ 3.2 million more just to meet the state's minimum local expenditure law, it will be interesting to see if Paul Vallas, the Bridgeport Board of Education and Commissioner Stefan Pryor divert dollars to their colleague Nate Snow and his proposal for a new Montessori charter school.

For example, just two years after signing the compact, then - mayor Karl Dean, who's now running for governor of Tennessee, roamed the halls of the legislature pitching lawmakers on a bill to strip local elected school boards in Memphis and Nashville of our ability to reject charters, which drain resources from existing schools.

«Just because teachers unions block reform efforts in state legislatures and local school boards, reform advocates don't have to sit idly by while children and our education infrastructure suffer.»

The State Department of Education's level of concern is about chronic and excessive absenteeism is so great, that just last month the State Board of Education announced their intention to «rank order» all Connecticut public schools based each school's level of student absenteeism and that poor absentee rates could lead to state takeover of local schools.

When we first meet young James, he's just started boarding school at Eton in the 1930's, and from there, the action moves to the Highlands of Scotland, where Alfie Kelly, a local boy, has gone missing.

One - off classes at local cooking schools are $ 70 to $ 125, while an 11 - week course through your local board of education's continuing education program costs just $ 300.

She was elected president of the D.C. School Board in 2000, just as the federally appointed D.C. financial control board returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school School Board in 2000, just as the federally appointed D.C. financial control board returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school bBoard in 2000, just as the federally appointed D.C. financial control board returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school bboard returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school school system to the local school school boardboard.

Giving back to the community through volunteer work, or being on the local school or library board tells me more than just following a sports team does.