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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.
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).
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.
Superintendent Howard L. Fuller of Milwaukee resigned last week, citing differences
with new school board members backed by the local teachers» union.
She was asked to leave, though, last February, after
some new school board members were elected.
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.
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.
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.