Sentences with phrase «more school board members»

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Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

We welcome teachers, school nurses, counselors, school administrators and staff, school board members, school nutrition staff, and others who work with schools interested in learning to cultivate healthier and more successful students.

There will also be a discussion of how state school board associations can engage with other local stakeholders — advocates, parents, and members of the school community — to bring BIC to more districts in your state.

«Our future lies in forming more cooperative ventures with the schools and the city,» added Park Board member Chip Collis.

Since then, members of the school's parent - teacher association have been heavily lobbying the Board of Commissioners to build the playground more quickly.

ELMHURST — A new intergovernmental agreement between the Elmhurst Park District and Elmhurst Community School District 205 could make park programs more accessible to residents, members of both groups» boards agreed this week.

Because school board members believe older children need more recreational activitiesthan those in the playground, they have agreed to spend up to $ 15,000 to install basketball backboards, volleyball courts and facilities for other group sports.

Cherokee County School Board members recently toured the new / replacement Dean Rusk Middle School, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, AugSchool Board members recently toured the new / replacement Dean Rusk Middle School, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, AugSchool, getting a glimpse of the state - of - the - art facility that will serve more than 1,450 students when the school year begins on Monday, Augschool year begins on Monday, August 1.

These February workshops are targeted to reach spring coaches, youth coaches, sports officials, athletes, parents, school nurses, school counselors, athletic directors, upper administrators, including school board members, and anyone who wants to learn more about concussions.

School Board members delayed a vote on a proposed budget that would bring the number of staff positions to 5,476, which would be 432 more than five years ago.

School board members are eager to work with the Governor and the Legislature to give school boards the tools they need to operate more efficiSchool board members are eager to work with the Governor and the Legislature to give school boards the tools they need to operate more efficischool boards the tools they need to operate more efficiently.

Curran, a former newspaper reporter and Baldwin school board member, touted endorsements from Jacobs and nearly every elected Democrat in the county and has raised more than $ 1 million, including tens of thousands of dollars from developers and county vendors.

More legal bills await the Buffalo School Board in the continuing saga of Carl Paladino's role as a member of the bBoard in the continuing saga of Carl Paladino's role as a member of the boardboard.

Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

«The role of elected school board members has never been more meaningful.

Community Board member Helen Rosenthal gathered more than 1,300 signatures asking Extell to build a six section K - 8 school on the site.

More than 15 protesters dressed in black essentially shut down the meeting from the start, each taking turns reading statements or comments in opposition to Paladino — while School Board members debated whether to walk away, call the police or try to talk over them.

Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, a Democrat from Albany and a former school board member who was openly critical that more regents weren't replaced last year, said Tuesday's elections were «exceptionally gratifying.»

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

There are more planned protests this week calling on Buffalo School board member Carl Paladino to resign.

Board Member Patty Pierce says one area where the schools might help is by offering more vocational training

The board is divided on whether Ciminelli should be held more accountable for how it spent $ 1.4 billion in taxpayer money, but all members Monday agreed that the supplemental information requested in previous months by school board members Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino was not provided to the board early enough for a careful review.

However, board member Luis Reyes, a researcher at Hunter College in Manhattan, said the graduation goal would prove «delusional» unless the state provides more equitable funding for schools in poor neighborhoods.

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatiMore than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatimore public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

The plans were discussed Wednesday as board members battled over what's more important, another City Honors or more attention to struggling elementary schools.

More than half of school districts on Long Island now have at least some board members emphatically against Common Core - aligned standardized tests and how they are weighted in teacher evaluations.

School board members Carl Paladino and Larry Quinn say the company made too much a profit while managing the more than $ 1 - billion in taxpayer dollars for the project.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

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«So we can go back to local communities, elect more village mayors, town mayors, town council members, school board members, and build from there.»

Both Timbs and Charles Borgognoni, executive director of the School Boards Association, urged audience members to meet with their state legislators and explain to them the need for more funding for the district.

But MPS board member Larry Miller blasted MMAC's legislative agenda, saying it removes new reforms that make voucher and charter schools more accountable to parents and taxpayers.

The project, which they produced with an outdated version of Flash on an old computer, so impressed school board members that they gave him funding for more computers and improved software.

School boards «that elect a larger percentage of members at - large and in on - cycle elections,» the authors find, «are substantially more likely to oversee districts that beat the odds.»

School board members in the 28,100 - student Rosemount - Apple Valley - Eagan district said in February that outgoing Superintendent John T. Haro was entitled to severance payments totaling more than $ 350,000.

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

«No one is going to think it's a wonderful idea, but nothing would illustrate to the public the fiscal crisis more than shortening the school year,» Roberta Weintraub, a school - board member, recently told the Los Angeles Times

That means lobbying efforts on behalf of the precollegiate community — teachers» unions, principals, school board members, superintendents, state officials, and others — are about to enter a new and more dynamic phase.

Three pivotal school board members, who were elected less than three months ago on a platform of keeping the Minneapolis - based company in Hartford, said last week that their support for the experiment had withered during more than two months of negotiations over how much money EAI should receive from the district.

A former Dallas school board member faces arraignment in federal court this week on charges that he took more than $ 450,000 in bribes to help a business associate win contracts with the district.

Given that they have the same powers and organizational interests, the only difference I can see between PM and School District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quSchool District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quschool operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quSchool District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quschool quality.

Every child has the capacity to learn and succeed, I told board members, but the school system needed to do more to prepare them.

Perhaps one can expect nothing more from a commission composed mainly of academics and former members of the public school establishment — folks that once were school superintendents, state education officers, school board members, teachers union officials, or school teachers.

The union's 136 - member board of directors opposes the national board's decision to offer the opportunity to become certified to any teacher with a bachelor's degree and three years of successful teaching experience at one or more primary or secondary schools.

Furthermore, our research shows that board members of higher - performing D.C. charter schools, when compared to those at lower - performing ones, are more knowledgeable about their schools (particularly relative to its performance rating, demographics, and financial outlook), and more apt to evaluate their leaders using staff satisfaction as a factor in doing so.

The more carefully governing boards, and educational leaders, work to make staff members and students aware of their policies, the more likely they will be able to both have safe schools in which children are free to learn without distraction and avoid potentially costly injuries.

An interest in education resulted in her spending more than 10 years leading education communications at Ofsted, Partnerships for Schools and, as Director of Communications and executive board member at the Department for Education.