Sentences with phrase «of education election»

Those who are watching the education reform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elections.

2016 is the year of the Education Election, and at the conference, CCSA Advocates will be laying out our vision for strengthening California's public education.

posts, SFER — The $ 7 million + «student run» Corporate Education Reform Industry Front Group and MORE ON SFER — Corporate Money in the 2015 Denver Board of Education Election)

A Board of Education workshop will take place on November 6th — one day after the Board of Education election — to further discuss proposed new school / redesign models.

In today's ENR: The Senate takes a look at the Utah State Board of Education election process.

LA Weekly: Board of Education Election March 7th Pits Pro-Charter Forces Against Unions pllqt.it / zgBDfM

Deasy Wants 30 % of Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that as much as 30 % of a teacher's evaluation will be based on student test scores, setting off more contention in the nation's second - largest school system in the weeks before a critical Board of Education election.

It's been back and forth at the Utica City School District's office as two candidates find themselves in a tie following Tuesday's Board of Education election.

Last year, 4,197 voters cast their ballots in our school district budget vote and board of education elections.

SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Gary R. Herbert announced today that he will not convene a nominating committee for the 2016 Utah State Board of Education elections.

In today's ENR: Will a Special Session of the Legislature address Utah State Board of Education elections?

Former Chairman Burningham discusses the future of Utah State Board of Education elections.

The latest headlines on the Utah State Board of Education elections.

Parents retain control over the standards to the extent that they vote in Utah State Board of Education elections.

A new Utah law that would have made state board of education elections partisan beginning in 2018 was overturned in a court decision that ruled the change violated the state constitution.

SB280 sponsored by Senator Brewbaker seeks to eliminate local control of County Superintendent of Education elections in more than half the state.

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Last year, the Ethics Commissioner found that Jim Prentice's hand - picked and unelected Minister of Education used his office for «blatant political opportunism,» awarding modular classrooms to help his election campaign - and Jim Prentice remained silent.

In an October 2014 by - election, Mr. Clark placed a strong second and came within 800 votes of defeating appointed Progressive Conservative Education Minister Gordon Dirks.

David Hogg, the student turned anti-gun activist following the shooting deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in February, has announced he is putting off his college education to work on the 2018 midterm elections.

And the 2006 and 2008 elections, former Calgary Board of Education trustee Jennifer Pollock carried the Liberal banner against Mr. Anders.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

And free discussion is, for Rorty, «simply [my italics] the sort which goes on when the press, the judiciary, the elections, and the universities are free, social mobility is frequent and rapid, literacy is universal, higher education is common, and peace and wealth have made possible the leisure necessary to listen to lots of different people and think about what they have to say» (CIS 84).

It affects education in science and history; it affects political elections in some countries, and through this it affects international relations; it may affect the question of whether mankind survives into the 21st century.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

With every election cycle, the number of voters who grew up and went to school before there were national standards for public science education is decreasing.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V. Continue Reading >

These are two of the calls that the Institution of Engineering and Technology is making to government across policy areas including energy; education; manufacturing; IT and communications; and transport ahead of the general election.

In a press statement made available to news men in Benin City Thursday, the National Commissioner in charge of voters Education and Publicity, Mr. Soyebi Solomon said the decision to postpone the election was reached at a security meeting held with security agencies.

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

This meeting was held nearly two months after the election, by which time, I am not aware of any attempts by the Religious Education Council to approach me, as vice-chair, to help with these arrangements.»

INEC had recently through its National Commissioner and Chairman Voter Education (IVEC), Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi, announced that the Ekiti governorship election will hold on July 14th, 2018, pointing out that the tenure of the incumbent governor, Ayodele Fayose will expire on October 15th.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

coumo has no conpassion for the peaple pf ny, he cares more about balancing the budget then he does about the peaple, he has huet the elderly bad and he has gone really overboard on the education system, i can't wait till the next election so i can help the opponent get him out of office

They believed that elections were too easily dominated by elites, who used their wealth and education to disproportionately control public offices, and that there were insufficient mechanisms for ensuring that representatives, once elected, would carry out the will of the people who elected them.

Voters being screened at Aguleri, during the Governorship Election on Saturday INEC Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr Oluwole Osaze - Uzzi disclosed this in a telephone interview on Saturday in Abuja.

The Reform Party was created by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's allies during the 2014 election year as a ballot line aimed at capturing voters who disapproved of the Common Core educations standards.

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

Two candidates for the Lewiston - Porter Board of Education on Friday vehemently disavowed a flyer mailed to some district residents that contained that endorsed them as the candidates that will «Keep Lew - Port white» in Tuesday's election.

It is not a single line that brought her down, it is everything she does coming together, for example she doesn't stand for anything, while she was running to become the democratic candidate she run as a center democrat, with promoting things as healthcare, doing more for public education and regulation of markets (Wallstreet in public speaking), but in the election she run a «strong America» line, with heavy militarism and free marked rhetoric.

Democrats are trying to turn the special election for a state Senate seat in Westchester County into a referendum on Trump by criticizing Republican Julie Killian for accepting money from Dick DeVos Jr., husband of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Whereas, sixty - nine years later and three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women in New York won that right on Election Day, November 6, 1917; to commemorate this important heritage, the New York State Women's Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission was established to increase education and awareness through a statewide discussion about the lasting legacy of women's suffrage and how it continues to shape American democracy today; and

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In October 2010, Burnham was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Education and election co-ordinator for the Labour Party.

Pollsters telephoned voters Jan. 12 - 16, days after Cuomo sketched out an election - year agenda that included tax relief and higher education spending in his annual State of the State address.

[4] The organization makes independent expenditures to influence elections based on a candidate's stated education policies and how those policies align with those of the NEA.

Supporters of Stop Common Core, who opposed implementation of Common Core education standards in New York, filed 62,000 signatures with the New York Board of Elections, far surpassing the threshold of 15,000 signatures after only two months of work.

«I appreciate that the criterion for removal is very narrow, however, I believe that to remove an elected school board member, overturning an election, it should be done by the Board of Education, providing for transparent, open hearings and ensuring due process,» said former School Board President James Sampson.

The education secretary offered an almost Shakespearian assessment of his fellow Cabinet minister as the Liberal Democrats continued to consolidate their position in the Eastleigh by - election.