Sentences with phrase «local school election»

We are continuing to track local school election results tonight.

UTICA, N.Y. - We are continuing to track local school election results tonight.

To combat this and the wealthy outsiders working day and night to defund, overtest, and demean our schools, Pastors for Oklahoma Kids advocates for kids, encourages our teachers, supports our school support staff & school boards, and educates our communities on what issues face their local schools each election.

Not exact matches

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

When Wilmette voters cast ballots in the November election, they may be determining the fate of two revered local institutions - New Trier High School and the village's lakefront.

When Wilmette voters cast ballots in the November election, they may be weighing in on providing money to two revered local institutions — New Trier High School and the village's lakefront.

Election officials contend that local governmental bodies, such as school districts, townships, park districts and municipalities, can only hold binding referendums.

When Wilmette voters cast ballots in the November election, they may be weighing in on providing money to two revered local institutions - New Trier High School and the village's lakefront.

A year later, the election of another Albanian girl — the best pupil in her school in Crete — was also met with public outrage, to which the local teachers» union president reportedly responded: «This excellent student may be of Albanian origin but she has a Greek citizenship».

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We're tracking the school results as your local election headquarters.

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

Elections for municipal or other local offices (city councils, governing boards of schools, hospitals, etc) are nonpartisan by law, with the exception that home - rule cities may legislate partisan elections for thElections for municipal or other local offices (city councils, governing boards of schools, hospitals, etc) are nonpartisan by law, with the exception that home - rule cities may legislate partisan elections for thelections for themselves.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britainover the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

«There's little doubt recent events and the local elections have put a huge amount of pressure on the coalition - particularly the Liberal Democrats,» says Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.

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Don't forget to vote in your local school board election.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britain over the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

Eighty high school students from all across the state gathered in Albany on Tuesday to lobby in support of the Young Voter Act, a bill that would lower the legal voting age to 17 for state and local elections.

by David Greene On the eve of the Primary election, local officials Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda and Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., announced they have secured $ 4 million in funding to local schools.

On the eve of the Primary election, local officials Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda and Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., announced they have secured $ 4 million in funding to local schools.

The most likely date for a special Assembly election seemed to be May 21, when local school board and budget elections take place statewide, but with those votes little more than a month away, that's no longer possible.

More effective regulation of academies and free schools and better local coordination of education must be at the heart of political parties» manifesto commitments ahead of the General Election.

After its election the Government put this requirement on a statutory footing: Clause 1 of the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from SeptembeSchools Standards and Framework Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from Septembeschools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from September 2002.

What this could mean: Lawmakers in an election year will almost certainly be spurred to push for more money in the state budget that would flow to schools and their local municipalities.

According to a 2006 study by the Local Government Education Committee, a municipal training organization, roughly 14 percent of voters statewide participated in school elections in May of 2006.

He is calling for proportional representation in all elections, an elected House of Lords and control of the running of schools, hospitals and transport to be handed to local government.

Mr. Feerick, who is dean of the Fordham Law School, also lobbied for an ethics law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election law.

Cuomo is calculating that Republican senators — trying to protect a razor - thin 32 - 30 majority in an election year — are facing enormous pressure to back a «millionaires tax» that would fund a middle - class tax cut as well as enough school aid and Medicaid funding to hold the line on local property taxes.

There are also a great many local governments (especially municipalities, New England towns, school boards, and «special districts») that have elections that are formally organized on a non-partisan basis.

At 12:30 p.m., Syracuse Democratic mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams will be joined by local elected officials to talk about moving the city forward and what is at stake in this election, Delaware Elementary School, 900 S. Geddes St., Syracuse.

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Before the 2010 general election, most of Gove's questions in Commons debates concerned children, schools and families, education, local government, council tax, foreign affairs, and the environment.

Currently, New Yorkers vote in as many as five elections a year: there are local elections for towns and villages in March, school board in May, federal elections in June, then again in September for state primaries, and finally in November for the general election.

As the statewide vote approached, opponents warned that new casinos would exacerbate addictive gambling, while good - government groups cried foul after the state Board of Elections approved ballot language that included a warm description of the potential benefits of the change («promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes») but none of the possible drawbacks.

Harig enjoyed support not only from the teachers unions, but the local affiliate of the AFL - CIO, which got involved for the first time in School Board elections.

Declaring his intention at the Obohia Community Primary School, in Ukwa East local government area of the state, on Thursday, Stanley said his intention to run for the Senatorial seat was born out of his love for the good people of Abia South Senatorial Zone, and the already existing equity in Abia South, which empowered an Ukwa man to run for the senatorial position in 2019 election.

In a speech that was equal parts wish list, progressive victory lap and ominous critique of the federal landscape, the governor issued an ambitious list of 30 - or - so proposals, including implementing a uniform sexual harassment policy for state and local officials, tightening up efforts to combat election meddling, ending homelessness and expanding access to food at school to combat child hunger.

Speaking for myself as a voter, this election revolves around two issues for me; amnesty and the East Ramapo School District, one at the national level and one at the local level; neither one good, one worse than the other.

The only statement we have seen from you on education was a mailer which said that Rob Astorino wanted to teach the children of East Ramapo how to shoot guns and that an Astorino victory in the last election would put a gun down every hallway in our local schools.

Local school board elections increasingly are becoming a national political battleground, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out - of - state donors in the name of education reform, indicates new research led by a Michigan State University scholar.

When public schools receive failing grades, turnout increases in local school board elections, according to research from Duke University's Sanford School of Public Pschool board elections, according to research from Duke University's Sanford School of Public PSchool of Public Policy.

Education is rarely a deciding issue in elections, aside from specialized offices such as state and local school boards and superintendents.

The romantic notion that local school boards are elected by local citizens has been replaced with the reality that these elections are essentially rigged.

After Tom Boasberg replaced Bennet in 2009, the local teachers union mobilized and the next election limited the reformers» majority on the school board to 4 - 3.

Mr. Runkel took over as state schools chief during a statewide recession and became a tireless campaigner for local school tax elections.

We asked Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty to share thoughts and reactions to the election, during which Republicans maintained control of the House and Senate and — in an important local contest — a ballot question to expand the cap on charter schools was rejected by voters.

Even with the financing and support of major reform foundations, the unions and their allies could hijack Portfolio Management in New Orleans, returning control to the local school board whose elections they dominate.

That upset victory was a watershed in the city's school - board election politics and emboldened AFT Local 420 as it prepared to fight the pending tuition grant bill.

Local school board elections tend to be sleepy, sedate affairs with little more at stake than ego.