Sentences with phrase «on a charter school board of»

The Georgia Charter Schools Association (GCSA) is offering a free Board Bank training — Saturday, September 19, 2015, 9:00 am to noon, at 211 Perimeter Center Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30346 — for individuals with a heart for education and the desire to serve on a charter school board of directors.

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Zack serves on the non-profit boards of the East Palo Alto Charter School and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

He also sits on the board of the Great Oaks Foundation a lead not for profit charter school organization, sits on the boards of various other not for profit organizations and heads the grant board for a private foundation he founded.

, who won the most expensive House race in the country, supported insertion of «Creationism» and «12 Christian principles» (akin to the Ten Commandments) in the curriculum of a public charter school whose board she served on, we are in danger.

In 1970, one year after the school was kicked out of the Mid-American Conference as punishment for more than 100 NCAA violations, a chartered plane carrying 75 players, coaches, fans, university employees and crew crashed, killing all on board.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Automated External Defibrillator (AED): Education Law 917 requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to provide and maintain on - site in each instructional school facility automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment.

He sits on the board of New York City's Success Academy, which operates several charter schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

Homer School Superintendent Nancy Ruscio released a statement to X101 saying «I appreciate the Board of Regents very thoughtful deliberation on the Truxton Academy Charter School.

Even before charter schools appeared on the scene, the city Board of Education had a policy of squeezing several city schools into underutilized facilities.

As a member of the board of trustees since 2007, he has routinely abstained from voting on charter school matters.

The city's board of ethics accused Mayor Richard Thomas of getting $ 100,000 from a charter school where he was a trustee based on a disclosure form.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

His appointee to a powerless position on the mayor - controlled Board of Education has attracted an outsize amount of attention by doing his best to open up, and slow down, what is ultimately a rubber - stamp process of the administration's charter - school - friendly policies.

Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb, a staunch backer charter schools, gave $ 100,000 to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, according to a filing posted to the state Board of Elections on Wednesday.

The Third Point C.E.O. serves on the board of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter advocacy group whose board members also include former schools chancellor Joel Klein and Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva Mosschools chancellor Joel Klein and Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva MosSchools founder Eva Moskowitz.

In the waiver application, expected to be accepted on Monday, the mayor emphasized Black's managerial background as Chairman of Hearst Magazines, but also noted her membership to several educational boards including that of the Harlem Village Academies Charter School.

His previous community service has included terms on the Board of Directors of Queens Public Television, the Community Advisory Board at Elmhurst Hospital Center and the Renaissance Charter School.

The UFT and NYSUT filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 to prevent the weakening of teacher certification standards after the SUNY Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down staCharter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down staSchools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down stacharter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down staschools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down standards.

He is the founder of Peninsula Preparatory Academy, the first public charter school in the Rockaways, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Merrick Academy - Queens Public Charter School in Jamaica charter school in the Rockaways, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Merrick Academy - Queens Public Charter School in Jamaica Qschool in the Rockaways, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Merrick Academy - Queens Public Charter School in Jamaica Charter School in Jamaica QSchool in Jamaica Queens.

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The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

The process has become a major issue in Community Board 10, where the city has partnered with NYCHA and the Harlem Children's zone to build a $ 100 million charter school on 93,000 square feet of open space at the St. Nicholas Houses.

Students at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsSchool are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsschool gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsschool, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsSchool Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schools safe.

Frustrated by the loss of more students and funding to new charters, the majority of the Buffalo School Board requested that the State University of New York and the state Board of Regents issue a three - year moratorium on charters in the city.

• Buffalo Collegiate Charter School was approved by the SUNY Board of Trustees and is scheduled to open next August on the city's East Side.

• In December 2007, the Special Administrative Board of the St. Louis Public Schools approved terms on the sale of the old Hodgen Elementary School building that included a 100 - year deed restriction prohibiting leasing of the building to medical clinics, taverns, adult entertainment facilities, and... charter sSchools approved terms on the sale of the old Hodgen Elementary School building that included a 100 - year deed restriction prohibiting leasing of the building to medical clinics, taverns, adult entertainment facilities, and... charter schoolsschools.

He has also served on numerous education boards and commissions, including the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission and the board of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School in Washington, D.C.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Board of Education voted to reject petitions for renewal for five charter schools.

Dr. Moss Lee served on the board of the Grace Lutheran School, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universiboard of the Grace Lutheran School, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke UniversSchool, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke UniverCharter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke UniversSchool (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Univercharter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universschool in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke UniversiBoard, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke UniversiBoard of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities.

He has also served on the board of the California Charter Schools Association, the KIPP Foundation and ed tech company DreamBox Learning, according to Education Next.

If employees of charter schools or any outside management companies that run them serve on the schools» boards of directors, they must avoid any «real or apparent conflict of interest» if the school receives money from the Department of Education's charter school program, under new guidelines released late last month.

In Los Angeles, charters enjoyed a growth spurt during the mayoral tenure of Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa, but now that he has left office, the school board is putting the brakes on, closing two successful charters — on the grounds that they did not contract with the district for their special education services.

City development agencies, zoning boards, or fire inspectors can raise a host of regulatory problems, especially on the most difficult issue that charter schools face: finding a facility.

As a result of an election last week, two - thirds of the members of the Buffalo, N.Y., school board will be newcomers with a range of views on the district's plan to sponsor a network of charter schools.

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Evers is a past member of National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board, a past commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission, past trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education, and a past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter ScBoard, a past commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission, past trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education, and a past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter ScBoard of Education, and a past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter Scboard of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter School.

In a dramatic turnaround from its previous strong support for charter schools, the Buffalo, N.Y., school board voted last week to impose a one - year moratorium on allowing more of the independently operated public schools.

In New Orleans, leaders are on the verge of «returning» oversight of independently run charter schools from the Recovery School District to the Orleans Parish School Board.

Ref Rodriguez, the co-founder of a charter school, won a seat on the school board in Los Angeles this week.

On the upside, new charter - school legislation is making its way to the governor's desk; it would enable the state board of education to authorize charter schools rejected by local school districts.

The current wave of innovation in charter schools differs from earlier reforms by focusing on governance, with charter schools freeing educators from oversight by elec ted school boards.

In the spring of 2015, charter founder Ref Rodriguez (top) challenged the union - friendly incumbent Bennett Kayser for a seat on the school board in what was possibly the most expensive school - board race in history.

But while the election clearly shifted the balance of power on the board, the situation changed again after the Broad plan was leaked, with the school board tilting against charters.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.