Sentences with phrase «on local school»

The model emphasized a top - and - bottom process in which implementers played a central role in the innovation design, and adaptations were planned, tested, and refined based on local school contexts.

Managed 14 AmeriCorps members that included 4 attorneys, 2 paralegals in charge of the domestic violence caseload for Legal Aid and 8 field members focused on local school system conflict resolution for at - risk populations.

Giving back to the community through volunteer work, or being on the local school or library board tells me more than just following a sports team does.

Most participate in their community and / or sit on boards of directors of charities or on local school boards.

In discussing that dispute as part of her subsequent run for a seat on a local school board, she noted that, in her 17 years of practicing law, she «ha [d]n't shot anybody yet, not even come close.»

He created enough chaos while on our local school board that many folks began calling him «Mister Huff and Puff».

Years before I served in the Nebraska Legislature, I served on my local school board, as president of the Nebraska Association of School Boards, and on the Nebraska School Finance Review Committee.

and I have a choice), how a majority of parents still want to rely on their local school.

Under the change, any charter school that was originally awarded a K - 3 charter, for example, would be able to expand to K - 5 without consultation with the State Board of Education, regardless of the impact the expansion would have on the local school district.

We'll be building on historic themes in reform such as the student walkout 50 years ago and current issues such as a voting student on the local school board.

Two years ago, the state Department of Education (DOE) determined that this scheme would have had a devastating effect on local school districts.

Voters in New York State will get a chance to vote on their local school budgets on Tuesday.

Division - level academic reviews provide information to determine whether a local school board is meeting its responsibilities under the Standards of Quality (SOQ); provide the local school board with essential actions necessary to correct any areas of SOQ noncompliance and for improving educational performance as part of a required corrective action plan; and to monitor, enforce and report on the local school board's development and implementation of the required corrective action plan.

Currently, the power to authorize new or expanding charter schools rests solely with the Commissioner of Education while the responsibility of paying for those charter schools falls entirely on local school districts, which have no say in approving the charter schools.

«Their leadership on the Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act and the ESEA reauthorization amendment are extremely important to public school leaders across the country who deal daily with federal regulations that hinder their abilities to improve student achievement.

She has served on her local school board in Cumberland, RI, advocated for fair school funding at the state level, and worke...

The Act also incorporates student participation in college coursework on local school and state report cards as a component of local school district plans to transition students to postsecondary education, and as a potential indicator in state accountability systems.

Collins said that in his home district of Winston - Salem / Forsyth Schools, where he served on the local school board for years, there are three principals that are all highly performing and extremely valuable to the district.

Even more recently the implementation of the program was delayed a year in order to postpone the excessive local costs that the new evaluation program will have on local school budgets.

Facility Planning Navigating the Zoning; Land Use and Permitting Process; Acquiring Facilities; Facility Master Planning; District Facility Options; Prop 39, Alternative Agreements and Surplus Property; SB 740; Charter School Facilities Financing; Hiring and Working with Brokers and Other Real Estate Professionals; Negotiating Leases; State and Federal Facilities Programs; Charters and School Districts Working Together on Local School Bond Programs

Next month, Attorney General Harris will issue the 2014 In School + On Track report containing updated statewide figures on elementary school truancy and its fiscal impact on local school districts.

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.

We are relying on the local school system to select whom they wish to groom for future leadership and to ask that person to commit to participating actively in the Academy over the next two years.

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.

Data from the California Healthy Kids Survey provides information on local school climates and can be easily searched on Kidsdata.org.

State leaders, Phelps says, must reassess a system that allows North Carolina, like many states in the U.S., to rely almost entirely on local school districts to fund facility costs, despite local districts widely varying assets.

School reformers have spent heavily on local school board races.

The bill would impose new disclosure requirements on local school boards as part of the public approval process before the bonds are issued.

Still, he acknowledges that classrooms bursting at the seams are bad for everyone — students, teachers, administrators, and the district — but he did not shy away from putting at least some of the blame for the unwieldy classes on local school leadership.

This website contains information about these and other issues impacting the distribution of state K - 12 fiscal resources and their impacts on local school districts.

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.

The main goal of the citizens is to bring awareness to the troubling impact of Rocketship has had on their local school district.

on Local school districts submit plans to the General Assembly for differentiated teacher pay pilot

In a unique proposal that builds on the Local School Choice model embraced by UTLA and LAUSD, E4E - LA members recommend a rational middle ground: 20 % of student growth data results based on state - approved tests and 20 % from Local School Choice Assessments that schools would select or develop and the district would approve.

KSBA Director of Governmental Relations Eric Kennedy points out that while Kentucky schools may not see a direct funding impact from the federal tax bill, they will be impacted because the overall financial investment in schools more and more falls on local school districts and local taxes.

Through years of work on their local school boards, each of the members of the board are uniquely positioned to champion equity and continue the association's efforts in support of public education and our country's 50 million public school children.

-- a former U.S. secretary of education — who told his colleagues that adopting it would «put federal handcuffs on local school decisions.»

In return, the teachers union agreed to lift a previously negotiated 30 - school cap on the expansion of «pilot schools» and signed off on the Local School Stabilization and Empowerment Initiative (LSSEI) agreement.

According to a 2012 survey by the National School Board Association provided to SoundOut, states vary widely for whether students are elected or selected to serve on local school boards.

She recently finished serving 12 years on her local school board in Lawrence, New Jersey, where she was president for nine of those years.

She has served on her local school board in Cumberland, Rhode Island, advocated for fair school funding at the state level, and worked on campaigns of candidates she considers to be champions for kids and true supporters of great schools.

Regardless of the relative merits of standardized testing, federally mandated annual testing would continue to have a real effect on local school policy.

We have alumni who work in public policy organizations, serve on local school boards, practice education law, and fight for equity in school finance or, as physicians in low - income communities, provide quality health care for children.

They usually know considerably less about public schools than state legislators, who are at least in touch with their local constituents and who sometimes start their political careers on a local school board.

This week, eight candidates are competing for just three slots on the local school board, a larger field than most residents can remember.

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.

By testing students, releasing the results to the public, and attaching rewards and sometimes a few weak sanctions to those results, accountability reformers have attempted to tighten the screws on local school boards, administrators, and classroom teachers.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

Pregnant with her first child, Dieema Wheaton and her husband were focused more on finding a house for their growing family than on the local school system.

Much of Maisel's civic work in Brooklyn has been done through the international Jewish organization B'nai B'rith, although he has also served on his local school and community boards.