Sentences with phrase «lots of school board members»

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That's why I devote lots of my personal time to helping elect new school board members and educating candidates on this issue.

«I feel like a lot of women, mostly moms, because it's school, feel like they can come and talk to me about different concerns that they have, and I don't know if that's always happened before,» said Seema Rivera, a first - term Guilderland school board member.

As school board member George Giles was quoted, the initiative «brought in a lot of people who didn't have children, who in some cases felt like they didn't have a stake [in the local schools].»

The bill would place lots of new restrictions on charters, including requiring that they maintain retention rates equal to the local district, and that their boards of trustees include a member of the local district school committee.

And, trust me, a lot of GOP state school board members, education committee members, and state chiefs are aware of what happened to Bennett.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

... 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.

«A lot of my members are concerned that she's never been seen as an advocate for public education,» said Dan Rossmiller, lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.

Does your school, like other charter schools these days, benefit from lots of outside money, influential board members, media coverage, or other advantage?

«I think School Board members will have a big conscience problem, and a lot of hot taxpayers, if they provide funds to a source which is not accountable to them as board members,» Matthews Board members will have a big conscience problem, and a lot of hot taxpayers, if they provide funds to a source which is not accountable to them as board members,» Matthews board members,» Matthews said.

Quoting one of DFER's executive board members (most are hedge fund managers), one states that hedge fund managers «turn a small amount of capital into lots of capital» — and that's what they're looking for from public schools.

CMS board members told about 100 people gathered at Providence High School that the bill presented a lot of uncertainties.