Sentences with phrase «on local school councils»

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court's finding that minority parents on a local school council in Chicago engineered the firing of their school's principal because he is white.

Mr. Edward L. Ford (Poe Elementary Classical School: Parent Representative) has served on a local school council since 2013, when he served as a Parent Representative in South Chicago's Ronald Brown Elementary Community Academy.

Ms. Michelle McGruder (Keller Regional Gifted Center: Parent Representative) was elected to the LSCAB in 2016 and has been a parent representative on the Local School Council board at Annie Keller Regional Gifted Center since 2015.

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She is an active volunteer in her local school system, has served on the Board of Directors of the Southwestern Connecticut Girl Scout Council, and in 2010 was the recipient of the William J. Alcorn Leadership Award.

During that time, he served as the Lamont Council's representative on the local school board and on the Health Unit Association of Alberta.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

A nine - year - old blogger has won the right to continue rating her school meals, after her local council in Scotland dropped its ban on her taking photographs of food dished up in her school canteen.

Consisting primarily of local chefs and restaurateurs, the Council remains on a mission to shift MPS towards more wholesome, unprocessed schools meals by engaging students through food education, creating new recipes, and other strategies.

Additionally, 25 percent of proceeds on Feb. 18 will be donated to a local high school, whose school representatives and student council will be present.

Having done this kind of work myself for many years in San Francisco, I can vouch for how frustrating it can be, and yet, as a parent or guardian who really wants to make a difference in nutrition and health for an enormous number of children, there is really no better opportunity than serving on your local school nutrition parent advisory council.

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«Labour has called on the government to allow registration en bloc for certain institutions — such as schools, care homes and Universities — and to allow councils to use local data more extensively,» Twigg added.

The education discussion «focused on David Blunkett's proposals for directors of school standards (DSS), appointed by local authorities and working with councils and the community, to provide a «middle tier» between schools and the secretary of state».

Tristram Hunt led the education session, which focused on David Blunkett's proposals for directors of school standards (DSS), appointed by local authorities and working with councils and the community, to provide a «middle tier» between schools and the secretary of state.

It was accompanied by the infamous «Ripa» (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) laying down rules on data access, and under which dwelt such horrors as a local council snooping on parents to see if they have lied about living in the catchment area of a popular school.

Pointing to more than $ 40 million owed to local schools in the 43rd Council District, including $ 4 million owed to his own alma maters P.S. 185 and J.H.S. 259, Brannan has mounted an online social media campaign calling on parents and educators to see education dollars owed to individual schools using a new database created by advocates.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking pCouncil's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking pcouncil tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

Oral Questions - Assisting families facing homelessness as a result of housing benefit changes due in April - Baroness Turner of Camden; Face - to - face careers guidance for all young people in schools - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch; Effects of local council tax support schemes on poverty - Lord McKenzie of Luton; Representations received from the public on the negotiations for the new EU budget perspective period to 2020 - Lord Dykes

Commenting on the Local Government Association's claim that more than # 160 million has been spent by councils on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects axed by the Coalition Government, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

The Chairman of the Ketu Local Council Development Area of Yewa North, Ogun State, Moses Adegbite, on Wednesday said one school was closed down in the area due to fear of herdsmen attack.

Grant has perhaps the most unique resume in local politics: member of the Legislature, the Common Council and Buffalo School Board, as well as Buffalo mayoral candidate and co-owner of Grant Variety Shoppe on the city's East Side.

Chuck Dedrick, executive director of the Council of School Superintendents, said ending the state and local tax deduction on federal income tax forms could lead to less money for schools and have some unintended consequences.

The local politician has previously served on the Syracuse City School District's Board of Education and the city's Common Council.

As director of an after - school and job - training organization and past president of the local Community Education Council, Hamilton - Johnson says she will bring a strong focus on education to Albany.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

The Council of School Superintendents executive director, Chuck Dedrick, says ending the state and local tax deduction on federal income tax forms could lead to less money for schools and have some unintended consequences.

Amanda also served as the Director for Participatory Budgeting for Council District 30, where she spearheaded the allocation of over one million dollars in capital funds, as voted on by thousands of local residents, to improve public schools, libraries, and parks in the district.

Members of the New York State Assembly and Senate, joined by parents and members of the city's Community Education Councils, on Feb. 28 announced their support for proposed legislation that would give the local councils veto power over proposed school co-locations in their diCouncils, on Feb. 28 announced their support for proposed legislation that would give the local councils veto power over proposed school co-locations in their dicouncils veto power over proposed school co-locations in their districts.

During his time as schools chief, he took on the reform groups, the local school councils, the education schools, the state board of education, and the education research community.

And Chicago's experiment with local school councils suggests the limits of relying on parent input.

Political leaders had seen no upside to taking on a school system that employs thousands of African Americans in a city where African Americans account for a majority of the population, the voter rolls, the city council, local - government posts, and union leadership.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five year education - to - employment initiative.

«I am calling on local politicians, be they mayors, council leaders or cabinet members, to stand up and be counted, to shoulder responsibility for their local schools, to challenge and support them regardless of whether they are academies or not.

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

Those local school councils have been stripped of much of their power, but some charter schools and private schools still put parents on their boards, which is an avenue for parent voice and engagement.

In January, the school council at Boothroyd Primary Academy also hosted its own version of «Question Time» by interviewing MP Paula Sherriff on how her role supports the people of Dewsbury, and by asking what more could be done to save the local and wider environment as well as endangered animals.

In its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, the LGA has called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

Chris Cook, education correspondent for the Financial Times, recently covered the issue, reporting that while conventional schools can call on their local authorities for help, academies do not have access to council funds and, in some cases, maybe denied access to advice and guidance.

With the mayor, the school board president, and a key city council member on the team, voucher supporters had cracked the solid wall of local opposition that had stalled past campaigns.

Commenting on the report, Roy Perry, Chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Councils remain concerned that Regional Schools Commissioners still lack the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of schLocal Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Councils remain concerned that Regional Schools Commissioners still lack the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of sSchools Commissioners still lack the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of schlocal knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of schoolsschools.

Phil Smith is a high school teacher and a consultant on sustainability education, community consultation, program design and evaluation for schools, local councils and state government agencies.

«In our submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, we have called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five - year education - to - employment initiative.

The local councils would call on laypeople to augment the abilities of school - level professionals to make decisions fitting the context of each neighborhood.

It was also revealed at the forum on Thursday that the DfE plans to involve local authorities in its free schools programme, a significant shift from the past five years where councils were generally bypassed.

The fact that councils can no longer open new schools is the subject of a long - running campaign by the Local Government Association, which has warned that there aren't enough «viable» academy chains to take on extra schools.

The Local Government Association said that it would push for councils to be judged solely on the performance of local authority - maintained schools in their Local Government Association said that it would push for councils to be judged solely on the performance of local authority - maintained schools in their local authority - maintained schools in their area.

Schools in Labour - run local authority areas are more likely to face forced academisation under new laws designed to clamp down on coasting councils.