Sentences with phrase «organizations representing school»

The Board decides controversies and disputes between local boards of education and employee organizations representing school system personnel.

The group includes among its members many of the state's largest school districts as well as statewide organizations representing school boards, administrators, business officers and county superintendents.

He is backed by the Legislature, the State Board of Education (whose members he appoints), as well as other key education constituencies such as the state's leading teachers unions and professional organizations representing school administrators and school board members.

While much of the opposition came from groups to which this new alternative represents a healthy competitive threat, it is instructive to note that significant support for the new rule came from organizations representing school boards and school administrators and personnel directors, who are, after all, the primary customers of SBEC and the teacher preparation system.

«There will not only be a challenge for us, but also ACSA and CSBA» — the Association of California School Administrators and the California School Boards Association, organizations representing school administrators and school boards — «will have to step up and make sure the climate will be one of transparency, inclusiveness and participation.»

American Association of School Administrators (AASA) National organization representing school administrators

NASP joins virtually every other organization representing school and safety professionals in recognizing that arming school staff is wrong.

The New Hampshire School Library Media Association (NHSLMA) is a professional organization representing school library media professionals and paraprofessionals.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

As I mentioned in a tweet last Friday, details have recently emerged regarding yet more internal strife within the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the organization which represents 55,000 school food professiSchool Nutrition Association (SNA), the organization which represents 55,000 school food professischool food professionals.

Brought to you by the School Nutrition Association (SNA), a national, nonprofit professional organization representing 57,000 members who provide high - quality, low - cost meals to students across the country.

The question: Why is the School Nutrition Association (SNA)-- the organization that represents the interests of «lunch ladies» — supporting Republican attempts to derail the nutrition standards?

About School Nutrition Association: The School Nutrition Association (SNA) is a national, non-profit professional organization representing 57,000 school nutrition professionals across the coSchool Nutrition Association: The School Nutrition Association (SNA) is a national, non-profit professional organization representing 57,000 school nutrition professionals across the coSchool Nutrition Association (SNA) is a national, non-profit professional organization representing 57,000 school nutrition professionals across the coschool nutrition professionals across the country.

Eric Stevenson, a first - term state senator representing East Tremont and other neighborhoods in the south Bronx, said he'd planned to give his expected $ 100,000 in member item money to local tutoring and after - school programs and a cash - strapped little league, some of the same organizations that his predecessor, Michael Benjamin, had funded over the years.

PACE is an organization founded by parent volunteers who represent each of New York City's Citywide G&T schools and programs: The Anderson School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Brooklyn School of Inquiry, NEST + m on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, STEM Academy at PS 85Q (grades 2 - 5 in 2015/16) and The 30th Avenue School (Q300)(grades K - 2, 6 & 7 in 2015/16) in Queens, & TAG Young Scholars in East Harlem, Manhattan.

While teacher unions and other organizations representing administrators, policymakers, and school chiefs all claim to be acting on behalf of children, they are all by their very nature really only looking out for their own best interests - that's what they're there for.

An extra, transitional year of high school, taught by teachers especially trained to accelerate the basic skills of teenagers and young adults, is part of a multifaceted dropout - prevention plan proposed this morning (July 3) by Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an organization representing 1 million teachers and school - related personnel.

The Council of the Great City Schools, based in Washington, is a national policy and research organization in urban education that represents 65 urban public school districts.

I know what it's like to be stuck in a school, desperate for options, when organizations supposedly representing my child's interests oppose those very options.

The 16 - member panel, which includes the heads of national organizations representing teachers, principals, school boards, superintendents,...

WASHINGTON — About two dozen organizations from across the nation that represent independent colleges and universities have pledged «to make an institutional commitment to help the nation improve its educational system» and to bolster partnerships between their institutions and elementary and secondary schools.

Five of education's most powerful organizations jointly founded NCATE: the National Education Association and four associations representing education schools, state education officials, and school boards.

George H. Thompson III: The council is the only national organization exclusively representing the needs of America's urban public schools.

As we work to advance public education nationwide, we recognize the important voice that this organization and those it represents brings to the school improvement conversation.

Kahlenberg and Potter acknowledge the CRP's methodological problems, but dig the ditch deeper by citing one article that appeared in this journal and eviscerated the CRP's study (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natiSchools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natischools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector nationally.

[i] The pay increase given to teachers with a master's degree was originally part of the compromise by which an organization representing predominantly male high school teachers (many of whom had master's degrees) agreed to merge with organizations representing mostly female elementary teachers to form New York City's United Federation of Teachers in 1960.

(One distinction of Green Dot among charter school organizations is that its teachers are unionized, but we are not told anything more about the union except that it is not the one that had represented the Locke teachers.)

· Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public school employers, except that once an employee organization is recognized or certified as the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit... only that employee organization may represent that unit in their employment relations with the public school employer.

Athletes not only represent their teams, but also their schools, sponsoring organizations, and communities.

* The Global Working Group to End School - related Gender - based Violence (SRGBV) represents more than 40 international agencies, civil society organizations and institutions promoting girls» education and gender equality.

LFA is a partnership of national education organizations representing more than 10 million members dedicated to improving student learning in America's public schools.

Washington, D.C. (February 21, 2018)-- States are pursuing innovative policies and using best practices to improve the nation's schools, and a coalition of organizations representing America's chief state school officers, legislators, state board members and state education policy leaders today announced a campaign to highlight the progress underway in states across the country.

The daylong conference attracted 42 participants, representing most of the national organizations dedicated to working on issues of school diversity, including the Equity Assistance Centers, the Civil Rights Project, Magnet Schools of America, and various university - based centers and projects.

The Learning First Alliance is a partnership of leading education organizations representing more than 10 million members dedicated to improving student learning in America's public schools.

In school districts or BOCES in which teachers or administrators are not represented by a collective bargaining organization, teachers or administrators shall be designated by their peers in a manner prescribed by the Board of Education or BOCES.

The cohort represents 19 different schools and organizations mostly based in the East Bay, including Project H, ACOE's Integrated Learning, and the Oakland Public Library.

In 2009, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (the organization that represents state superintendents of education) convened a meeting.

The Secretary specifically invites advice and recommendations from State and local education administrators, parents, teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other school leaders (including charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community, and other organizations involved with the implementation and operation of title I programs.

During the past 50 years, middle schools have come to represent what is now the typical organization of schools for grades...

As the national organization representing public school superintendents, we have long focused on the importance of equity as a driver of and goal for educational opportunity and achievement.

The reform movement received scant support... from the powerful professional organizations that represent the managers of the nation's schools and school systems.

More important in a state where Latinos represent the largest group of minority public school children, outnumbering African - Americans nearly four to one, leading Latino politicians, activist groups, and business organizations came out in favor of vouchers.

Aligned against the «secularize or be shut out» approach is a growing coalition that now numbers more than seventy organizations including the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Christian Coalition, the Association of Christian Schools International, the American Association of Christian Schools, and Agudath Israel of America, which represents the Orthodox Jewish community.

Still, a majority of urban school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long - foundering schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school disschools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school disSchools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school districts.

Coalition to Support Grieving Students The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a unique collaboration of the leading professional organizations representing classroom educators and other school professionals who have come together with a common conviction: grieving students need the support and care of the school community.

Today, Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States, released a position paper opposing HR 2218, the so - called «Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act.»

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS) is an unprecedented alliance of parent, youth, community, and labor organizations that together represent over 7 million people nationwide.

I'm the founder of two independent public charter schools in the breathtakingly diverse borough of Queens and I'm the co-director of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing more than 50 independent public charter schools in the five boschools in the breathtakingly diverse borough of Queens and I'm the co-director of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing more than 50 independent public charter schools in the five boSchools, an organization representing more than 50 independent public charter schools in the five boschools in the five boroughs.