Sentences with phrase «new school board»

By pushing new school board members to pick on a top performing charter school whose focus is to graduate seniors and encourage higher education is ignoring the real issues public schools are facing.

There's also a lot of new school board officials and superintendents who haven't yet had the pleasure of experiencing late state budget headaches.

New school board members across the state should reflect hard on these lessons.

She has presented at the National School Boards Association conferences and served as a mentor for new school board members at the national, state, and local level.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (October 29) about Wake County, North Carolina, where voters earlier this month elected new school board members who have pledged to undo the county's controversial policy of assigning students to schools based on income (to achieve diversity).

David Hills, Principal, said he welcomes new school board members to visit.

Superintendent Howard L. Fuller of Milwaukee resigned last week, citing differences with new school board members backed by the local teachers» union.

One can only speculate on their impact as a background to New School board meetings.

Around Town Briefs: New school board officers, local heroes, utility box program deadline extended

Orange County school employees can not wear campaign pins, lapels, hats or other clothing with political advertising while at work, under new school board rules.

States can help districts in this process by requiring financial training for new school board members.

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

No. 20: New School Board Member Boot Camp Pre-Conference Workshop: Ethics, Board Meetings, and the Role of a School Board Member

Buffalo schools have a new superintendent, a new School Board president and a $ 190 - an - hour consultant.

The Ball State University Board of Trustees Wednesday passed a resolution to accept the responsibility to appoint a new school board to manage the Muncie Community Schools («MCS»).

Nov. 29: Johnson, Gates and Stith — the new school board majority — pledge at an emergency board meeting to take a more inclusionary approach and decide against acting on a variety of district matters until all five members are present.

A new school board majority will take its place on July 1, after two new members, Larry Quinn and Patricia Bowers Pierce, came out on top in this month's school board election.

She was asked to leave, though, last February, after some new school board members were elected.

The job has for decades also been known for high turnover, often after a new school board is elected that wants to see its own choice in the job or a different direction for the district.

Ironically, it was the school communities themselves — parents and kids — who fought hardest to get the three charter petitions approved, and in the end the new school board relented.

And in an Ed Next podcast recorded just after the new school board was elected in Wake County last fall, «Voters Choose Neighborhood Schools Over Socioeconomic Diversity,» Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discussed the election and what it would mean for the county's school assignment policies.

The new school board set out to close down the school but encountered a belligerent principal.

The measure, which calls for the mayor to appoint a new school board, contains provisions designed to allay fears that the voices of parents might be lost or that the mayor would exercise unchecked power.

But one new school board member has not been shy in supporting educational opportunities for families beyond public school, arguing that it should not matter where children are being educated at - as long as they are being educated.

Voters in St. Paul, Minnesota, elected four new school board members to office.

But when it comes to creating Philly's new school board, we...

Many of our supporters have spent months working hard to elect LAUSD's newest school board members.

Election Aftermath On behalf of A + Denver, we offer our warm congratulations to Denver's new school board members - elect: Barbara O'Brien, Landri Taylor, Rosemary Rodriguez, and Mike Johnson.

Last Tuesday ushered in new school board members across our state.

This year we have all but won three new School Board members, who will be seated in December, and re-elected an education justice champion, Dr. Regina Holley, who has stood beside GPS from the beginning.

Upon being elected or appointed, school board members and superintendents receive free copies of the New School Board Member Orientation Handbook, What every new school board members needs to know document, and access to the Finance Manual for Virginia School Boards.

But one new school board member has not been shy in supporting educational opportunities for families beyond public school, arguing that it should not matter where children are being educated - as long as they are being educated.

A new school board member has been named to replace Phil Kaplan who resigned his seat in District 1, earlier in June.

Some of the issues on the agenda include school start times and discussion on the selection criteria for the new school board member who will replace outgoing member Phil Kaplan.

Two of the three schools recommended for denial Tuesday are from the Partnership to Uplift Communities (PUC), which was co-founded by one of the newest school board members, Ref Rodriguez.

We look forward to seeing this new school board work in partnership and as a unified team to take on the challenges in our district and lead the charge in improving outcomes for all of our students in West Contra Costa.

Wake County, NC — Reflections on the election of a new school board, whose members promised to support neighborhood schools and keep kids closer to home, in a community with a longstanding school integration plan.

It is crucial to understand that this new School Board that will be seated in 2017 will be the School Board voting on our full contract and health benefits — when all indications are that key figures in the senior management of the District will be advocating that LAUSD wage a vigorous campaign to cut our benefits.

Hunter, Blouin - Williams and Garton all came straight from Jefferson public schools, which has gone through its own changes since a new School Board and superintendent came in.

We expect the new School Board to make a commitment to keep the public informed, and in a timely manner, when it takes power on July 1.

Last year JeffCo significantly changed its strategy as Superintendent Dan McMinimee and new school board members took the helm.

It's imperative that the new school board act now on these mandates.

Around the same time, the Province enacted legislation creating a new school board governing French - first - language schools throughout N.S..

And the election of a new school board, opposed to intelligent design, meant no appeal of the ruling would be mounted.