Sentences with phrase «not on our local board»

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Only Coloradans can sign the resolution, either online or in person, but they won't be able to do so until they agree to take action on some level — whether lobbying local officials or getting others on board.

Non-taxable 529 Plan disbursements can be made not only for tuition but room and board expenses at the local school, even if you don't live and eat on campus.

«To ensure public shareholders are not disadvantaged, any takeover bid would need to be put to a shareholder vote and any recommendation by the board would have to be based on an appropriate premium as well as safeguards for future probity given past track records of the businesses controlled by the Murdoch family», said Kieran Quinn, chairman of Britain's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).

Samantha also serves on the Board of Directors for the Next Generation Investing Conference, an event to raise funds for three local not - for - profit educational institutions.

He's a silly muslim wanna - be blogger named Mohammad A. Dar who lives in Pakistan and wastes time trolling US sites whining about hindus (when he's not palling around with his Pakistani buddies on local boards as «Yakobi»).

This way of doing college and university ministry will require rethinking not only by campus ministers and their boards,, but by local congregations and judicatories, all of which need to understand that the church on campus is an extension of — not an annoyance to or a competitor with — the local church.

Enter the love of my life... so understanding of my diet restrictions, so on - board with my local eating convictions, generally willing to try new things as long as they aren't too weird....

The district also is offering a service for local not - for - profit community organizations to publicize registration dates and special activities on PDTV's bulletin boards.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

Why can't there be prisons with a prison board with local employers, councillors, police, probation on the board, advising the governor what works best?

But I don't buy that — activists are activists, and most are looking for an outlet, whether they're trying to keep a smelter out of their neighborhood or put a Christian home - schooler on the local school board.

In part, it's because women already serving on their local school board don't aspire to higher office.

Okay, so based on that last remark, it's a little bit about Baez, who was beat up continually for her lack of presence at not only City Council meetings, but also local community board meetings.

«The Town Board's recommendations, if enacted, will not only put hardworking pilots out of work,» Mr. Riegelhaupt's statement continued,» but will also have a dramatic and harmful impact on all of the local small business that rely on a strong real estate market and summer visitors.»

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

«I feel that I have the ability to relate to the local mayors, the supervisors, the different boards throughout the district in ways that other people can't because I live what they live on a daily basis,» said Milne.

The village board has the options to adopt a new local law or the board can decide to not act on the issue.

But appointing a Democrat would have meant preserving a modicum of ideological balance on the board, not to mention respecting the wishes of the majority of voters who have repeatedly re-elected Krupski to that local office.

Local candidates were not required to file with the state Board of Elections at the time, and the Erie County Board of Elections was not required to hold on to the records after five years.

Speaker Quinn has made me come to the conclusion that she is unfit for any public office including but not limited to sitting on a local community board, let alone to be Mayor of the greatest city in the world.

Legislators rejected this change during the first round of budget negotiations, with the Assembly creating a credit based on income (and not tied to local spending) and the State Senate embracing a simpler but less onerous plan advanced by groups representing cities, towns, counties, school boards and villages to give the «freeze» check back to the local government to invest as it sees fit.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

Ms. Jones said that UpIsland party leadership chose not to endorse Mr. Wilkinson's Republican running mates, Steven Gaines and Richard Haeg, candidates for the town board and instead provided de facto support for the local designees, Bill Mott, an Independence Party member, and Marilyn Behan, a Democrat who received Wilson Pakula authorization from party leaders to run on the Independence Party line.

The board would have broad authority to ensure local development plans don't have a harmful impact on county infrastructure.

With Mayor Bill de Blasio's effort to re-zone the city in pursuit of affordable housing in the news this week, Ms. Mark - Viverito will also address that topic — and the feeling from many at the community board level that Mr. de Blasio did not work with local communities enough on his proposals.

The Bronx, for example, doesn't have a single Republican elected official, and the local party apparatus is mostly relegated to appointing patronage positions at the Board of Election and a vote to let non-Republicans run on their party's line — the sort of vote that is at the heart of the Smith scandal.

A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

SHANGHAI (Reuters)- A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

Taking these pictures meant having to move out of the way a dozen times for passing cars, once for two teen - aged boys on skate boards, and once for a city truck searching for the coyote that was roaming around in the local backyards (not even kidding!).

Not her bedraggled excuse for a husband Phil (William Fichter) who, while keeping his marriage vows, sneaks off to the local love shack for some illicit playings of the Wheel of Fortune board game with local diner waitress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis); Not her dimbulb, lackadaisical moron of a son Jeff (Marcus Thomas) whose lust for Lite, as in Miller, cost him the use of his right hand (how the residents tell the story is one of the highlights of the flick); Not Jeff's partner Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck) who takes it on the chin from every member of the Dearly family or his fiancé Ellen (Neve Campbell) who giggles hysterically when she hears the news of Mona's demise.

Most High School Seniors Aren't College or Career Ready, says «Nation's Report Card» NPR Ed, 4/27/16» «In our era of incredibly volatile state and local testing practices, it is our North Star,» says Andrew Ho, a measurement expert at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who sits on NAEP's bipartisan governing board.»

Oklahoma's state school board wants to make sure not only that principals around the state report data on school - dropout and college - remediation rates, but also that the data get presented to local school boards for discussion.

Responding to the Government statement that the Education for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «We are pleased that the Secretary of State is acting on the strong concerns from councils about the Government's planned education reforms.

A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.

The decision was unusual in that the court relied not on traditional separation - of - church - and - state concerns, but instead on a provision of the Colorado state constitution that vests control over public education in local school boards.

«The capacity of the authority should necessarily include the ability to invoke a form of receivership on the school district, suspending the authority of the local board and management, if it is concluded that good - faith reform implementation is not occurring,» said a report approved by the board.

If school boards, superintendents, and local teacher unions put top priority on raising standards, narrowing gaps, emphasizing quality in the classroom and running world class schools, America wouldn't be where it is.

This piece reflects the personal views of the author and does not necessarily represent the position of the local school board on which he serves.

Over the last 20 years, England didn't abolish its «local education authorities» — Blighty's version of school districts — but it conferred so much autonomy on individual schools and their boards of governors that it essentially marginalized those authorities.

On the other, local control isn't strong enough to clear the obstacles that state and federal governments place before reform - minded board members and superintendents in the relatively few locales where these can even be observed.

Perhaps the oddest recommendation is that if a teacher or principal is brought up on 3020a dismissal charges, based on an ineffective rating on Common Core assessments, the teacher or principal can blame the local Board of Education for not «providing adequate professional development.»

Greg Magnuson said the intent of the Local Control Funding Formula is local control, and the State Board should err on that side of the law, then fix it in 3 - 5 years if it's not working to the benefits of disadvantaged students Credit: John Fensterwald, EdSLocal Control Funding Formula is local control, and the State Board should err on that side of the law, then fix it in 3 - 5 years if it's not working to the benefits of disadvantaged students Credit: John Fensterwald, EdSlocal control, and the State Board should err on that side of the law, then fix it in 3 - 5 years if it's not working to the benefits of disadvantaged students Credit: John Fensterwald, EdSource

Richard Watts, chair of the Local Government Authority's children and young people's board, said: «While councils are extremely supportive of transport being provided to children most in need, any new provision must be fully funded and not place an additional financial burden on councils.»

That means the teachers unions and local school districts were on board in Delaware and Tennessee; they weren't on board in Florida and Louisiana.

The Tacoma School Board's original objection to charters focused on the loss of control, but Santorno agreed with Redinger that not becoming an authorizer may mean giving up whatever local control the district could maintain.

And in New York, the chancellor of the state board of regents, Merryl Tisch, has said her state won't compete if unions and state lawmakers don't agree on changes to improve the state's charter school sector and teacher - evaluation system, local media reports said.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

For parents, community activists, teachers and school board members involved in determining goals and spending priorities for a district's annual Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP, the dashboard offers detailed information on whether performance on each indicator is progressing — or not.

The real power, however, sits in CCSA's related organization, CCSA Advocates, a not - for - profit 501 (c)(4) whose mission is to increase the political clout of charter schools on local school boards, on county boards, and in the state capital of Sacramento.

Following up on a recent post about «New Mexico UnEnchanted» and a follow - up post about how the state's Public Education Department (PED) is also «Silencing [its] Educators» requiring them to sign contractual documents indicating they will not «diminish the significance or importance of the tests» in the state, it now seems the PED is also attempting to usurp the power and authority of its state's local school boards.