Sentences with phrase «person at a school board»

Or tell them in person at a school board committee meeting on June 9, when the vendor will be on hand to discuss the product, she suggests.

Not exact matches

If so cool... at least in Canada we don't infringe on the personal rights of a person to decide what to do with their bodies... even our Catholic School Boards cover contraception in their medical plans.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Abrams declined to address the question of using sugar and flavorings to entice children to drink milk at school, saying «people have different perspectives,» and noting that he sits on a board that advises MilkPEP, the dairy group responsible for the «Got Milk?»

New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has made the rare decision to hold an in - person, public hearing — scheduled for 9 a.m., June 22 at the State Education Department in Albany — to decide whether Carl Paladino can remain on the Buffalo School Board.

A Facebook page inviting people to voice their outrage at the next School Board meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 18.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Mount Vernon — The Board of Education of the Mount Vernon City School District, voted to have the School Attorney commence a lawsuit against the City of Mount Vernon, its officers, employees and agents, and such other persons or entities as shall be necessary to protect the interests of the Mount Vernon City School District and the educational services available to students of the District, at their Tuesday, October 18th meeting.

At least 100 people in Syracuse care enough about how far kids have to walk to school, and whether or not the superintendent's contract is extended, to show up to a board meeting to talk about it last night.

««My board could be supportive of after - school programs and at least get a committee going — go into schools and organize activities like escort service for old people, cleaning up the parks and all sorts of things,» said the fledgling politician.

East Marion resident Linda Goldsmith, a member of the Oysterponds school board, called the salary increase unnecessary, saying it was possible «to find people to work, and good people to work,» at the lower salary.

«It's true there are some who are critics but I would also say there's a lot of people in the Senate who, you know, are clear, at least privately, that they're not promoting an alternative and it's not like they say they wan na go back to the old school boards which — as I remind people — was a system plagued with chaos and corruption,» de Blasio said.

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

«I'm appalled that one or maybe two people can bring something to this level and waste taxpayer dollars at the school board when there is overwhelming support for her,» stated Dore.

Hundreds of people have also showed up at School Board and Common Council meetings imploring elected representatives on those bodies to take action.

«I understand that people certainly have to shake their heads sometimes at what they see,» said School Board President Barbara Seals Nevergold after yesterday's meeting and the continuing heated battles over establishing a process to pick an interim replacement for at least a year.

The debate about whether transgender students should be allowed to use restrooms that align with their gender identity is now before the Buffalo School Board — and the group is getting fierce pressure from those on both sides of the issue.Nearly 150 people turned out at Wednesday's meeting to have their say on the proposed policy.It was a discussion marked by emotional com...

«If you've been hired because of your connection to a powerful person, you don't have to be working directly for that person to receive special treatment,» said Richard Briffault, a professor of legislation at Columbia Law School who chairs New York City's Conflicts of Interest Board, the city's independent ethics oversight panel.

His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.

She considers how people try to escape from such troubles; from boys at boarding school who turn their attention to games or work, to the Buddhist practice of living in the present moment.

Hey boys!I'm Jessica,, and a senior at Fruitland High in Fruitland, ID.I like to play board games & playstation.I play percussion in the high school band, I love the color pink, I like Art, I like meeting new people, I'm single, I love to have fun, and I love to go to dances and get my groove on!

Bob Slavin, who chairs the board of the Success for All Foundation at Johns Hopkins University, remembered that during the New American Schools effort there were «people who had done this kind of thing before, who were professionals at it, and knew what needed to be done.»

Education Policy and Management student Joshua Lafazan — elected to the Syosset (N.Y.) School Board of Education at age 18 — explains why becoming involved in public service, especially for young people, is so important.

Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board at the Local Government Association, said ranking councils by school results «disguises the fact that over 60 per cent of secondary schools are now academies, leaving councils powerless to intervene early and build an improvement programme».

18 - 19 — Professional development: «The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: The «Principle - Centered» Approach to Quality Schools,» conference, sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators — National Academy for School Executives, for superintendents, central - office administrators, board members, principals, teachers, and parents, to be held at the Mills House Hotel in Charleston, S.C. Contact: A.A.S.A. - N.A.S.E., 1801 North Moore St., Arlington, Va. 22209 - 9988; [phone]; fax: [phone].

David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «It is not fair that some schools are burdened with a deficit while other schools can walk away and leave that debt behind at the detriment of other schools in the community.

provisions regarding conduct, dress and language deemed appropriate and acceptable on school property and at school functions, and conduct, dress and language deemed unacceptable and inappropriate on school property and at school functions and provisions regarding acceptable civil and respectful treatment of teachers, school administrators, other school personnel, students and visitors on school property and at school functions, including the appropriate range of disciplinary measures which may be imposed for violation of such code, and the roles of teachers, administrators, other school personnel, the board of education and parents or persons in parental relation;

Such action shall include, but need not be limited to, direct notification, within 30 days of receipt of the commissioner's warning, in English and translated, when appropriate, into the recipient's native language or mode of communication, to persons in parental relation of children attending the program that it has been placed under high school equivalency program review and is at risk of not receiving an approval for program continuance, and disclosure of such warning by the district, or board of cooperative educational services at its next public meeting.

By June 30th of each school year during which a program remains under high school equivalency program review, or at the time of a student's initial application or admission to the program, whichever is earliest, the district or board of cooperative educational services shall provide direct notification to parents or other persons in parental relation to children attending the high school equivalency program that the program remains under high school equivalency program review and is at risk of not receiving continuance approval.

If city residents could not elect their school board members, at least they could have people like them in positions of authority.

NR: [The Board's] charge really has been to give the Alliance a more prominent place in terms of advocacy at the federal level, to have a seat at the table when people are talking about legislation and regulations that impact charter schools, and to also be present when the media is talking about the topic... If the past twenty years have been about growth, the next twenty need to be about taking some of the lessons of the past twenty, so that we continue growing but that we're not making the same mistakes we have in the past.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction & local school boards o April 5: Attend the JFC hearings and «People's Tailgate» at State Fair Park (right now plans are shaping up to hold a Press Conference at 7 am and have an afternoon celebration from 4 — 6 pm that will include students, brats, hotdogs, 20 ft diameter parachutes, etc..

Any person so employed on the basis of a written offer of a specific position by a duly authorized agent of the district school board for a stated term of service at a specified salary, and who accepted such offer by telegram or letter or by signing the regular contract form, who violates the terms of such contract or agreement by leaving his or her position without first being released from his or her contract or agreement by the district school board of the district in which the person is employed shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Education Practices Commission.

SpringBoard was established in 2012 with the aim of transforming the lives of disadvantaged young people through the provision of full bursaries at state and independent boarding schools.

The idea was unusual, maybe even unwise: Bring together people and organizations sometimes at odds with each other — the teachers union, the School Board, reporters, business leaders — and wrangle them into consensus and cooperation on challenges facing Madison public schools.

In The Problem Solvers, Leadbeater's latest report for exam board Pearson, the innovation specialist examined different approaches to teaching at schools across England, and warned that schooling had become a way to train young people to simply follow instructions, which would not be enough in a «more volatile world».

«Often we turn away good people who have the potential to be really good teachers,» said Weber, a retired professor at San Diego State and former San Diego Unified school board member, in remarks before the Assembly vote June 1.

[October 15, 2016 Press Release from NAACP.org] «Statement Regarding The NAACP's Resolution on a Moratorium on Charter Schools CINCINNATI — Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Board of Directors ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion and...

«All across the country people are paying attention to what California is doing,» Linda Darling - Hammond, the president of the Learning Policy Institute, said at a recent California School Boards Association conference.

Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board at the Local Government Association, said ranking councils by school results «disguises the fact that over 60 % of secondary schools are now academies, leaving councils powerless to intervene early and build an improvement programme».

On the evening of April 26 a public hearing was held at the Granite School District Board Room with more than 200 people in attendance.

To summarize, the written regulations (R - 3600 (c)-RRB- require the Board to notify parents of a potential school closure, prepare a closing study using multiple criteria that is conducted by a committee (the selection process and requirement for a committee are vague), allow people close to the decisions (e.g. parents at the school) to have input in deliberations about closing a school before the final decision is made, and arrange public hearings on the topic.

A largely supportive crowd of about 75 people, including several school board directors and district administrators, showed up on a snowy evening at the Minneapolis Park Board Headquarters in North Minneapboard directors and district administrators, showed up on a snowy evening at the Minneapolis Park Board Headquarters in North MinneapBoard Headquarters in North Minneapolis.

In examining how we assign students to schools, board members and I also had a laser - like focus over 18 months to engage our community in hundreds of conversations, in groups, in people's driveways, at the supermarket, about whether we were ok that more than 70 schools in the district had a high poverty rate.

From the parents at spoke at the board meeting it is clear progress is not being me there we should not simplify problems by thinking the solution is more people who are administrators in the same school!

According to a flier handed out by anti-mascot activists at a Thursday, November 2 meeting of the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees, the predominantly white students in the class of 1967 who chose to be represented by Johnny Rebel — a term for a Confederate soldier, and the stage name of a prominent white supremacist musician — did so to send «a clear message that people of color were not welcome at Savanna High School or in Anaheim.»

«I think it's interesting... that the people on the board who have run [charter] schools successfully, that changed the trajectory of kids» lives in low - income communities --[they] are saying this [charter application] is not at the level that our kids deserve,» said Quigley, who identifies as one of the people he describes.

At the National Charter Schools Institute, we know that people choose to serve on charter school boards for many reasons.

CMS board members told about 100 people gathered at Providence High School that the bill presented a lot of uncertainties.

We need to force these potential district leaders to demonstrate whether or not they know what's at stake, and we need to find out for ourselves if any of the three people the Seattle School Board introduces us to will be willing and able to take the kind of radical, bold action that could lead to unprecedented educational equity.