Sentences with phrase «move school board elections»

Signed by Gov. Chris Christie last month after drawing bipartisan support, Greenwald's law allowed districts to move school board elections from April to November, with the stated goal of increasing voter turnouts from what are typically only about 15 percent of registered voters.

Not exact matches

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: It was just last year in Albany that school board members decided to move the election date from November to May to coincide with school budget voting.

The move would eliminate elections for the school board and allow Lavine to appoint board members with the help of the Common Council.

Parents and others who opposed the move gained a school board majority in the May 2017 elections and tried to reverse the shift in July.

There are few things more difficult than changing a position from elected to appointed, but we encourage the legislature to continue the education reforms of the past four years, and move forward with proposals this year to switch to a uniform system that includes all elected school board members, whose election coincides with the presidential election, and all appointed superintendents.

Now factor in the school board votes slated for Election Day, the first to be held in November since a law enacted last winter gave districts the option to move to their ballots in return for not needing a public vote on the school budget.

Such electorate neglect and subsequent special - interest control is what led New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to move his state's school board elections from the more obscure April to the general election in November, hoping to inspire greater public involvement.

They would probably never tell him to move out of the county (although I think they upset enough that evening to say so), but I think you can count on them to move him off the school board at the very next election.

Long - time Spokane School Board member Rocky Treppiedi easily topped two challengers in the primary to move to the November election.