Sentences with phrase «powers of a school board member»

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«You have to reduce the power of the CEO, and one of the very few ways to do that is to separate the chairman - of - the - board position from the CEO position,» Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills said in Corporate Board Member magazine (March / April 2board position from the CEO position,» Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills said in Corporate Board Member magazine (March / April 2Board Member magazine (March / April 2003).

The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

The day after feisty elections upset the balance of power on the Buffalo School Board, its members got back to the business last night of coming up with a budget for the next schoolSchool Board, its members got back to the business last night of coming up with a budget for the next schoolschool year.

«One of the first things they did was re-employ the chancellor — at that time it was Joel Klein — and then vote among themselves to give all the power to the chancellor,» she said of the members of the short - lived school board of 2009.

(WBEN) During a state education department hearing Thursday to decide if Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino should be removed from office, his defense attorney Dennis Vacco spoke of» «a shockingly, power hungry majority not interested in dialog,» only out to «Get Carl» Paladino stands...

(WBEN) During a state education department hearing Thursday to decide if Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino should be removed from office, his defense attorney Dennis Vacco spoke of» «a shockingly, power hungry majority not interested in dialog,» only out to «Get Carl»

Ryan said state law gives Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia the «power to remove» a school board member if the person's actions interfere with the functioning of the board.

But he will also appoint four of seven members of a new oversight body that will have the power to reject contracts and fire school - board employees who impede implementation of the reforms.

Proof that politics makes for strange bedfellows, the pair is set to unveil legislation this week that would strip the 11 - member state school board of its power to hire and fire education department employees.

(However, a number of states have recently authorized the mayors of big cities, such as Cleveland and Detroit, to appoint some or all of the members of their school boards, while New York gave the mayor of New York City the power to appoint a commissioner of education to run the city's schools.)

The 2004 legislature gave Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich new power to appoint and remove members of the state board of education, the panel that sets statewide policy for schools.

School board members, by and large, are not gripped by «strike phobia,» but rather reflect a very rational fear of the political power of teacher unions.

Several members of an American Indian tribe in rural South Dakota are suing the local school district in federal court, claiming its method for electing board members discriminates against Native Americans by weakening their voting power.

The examples of mayors Richard Daley in Chicago and Michael Bloomberg in New York City» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogether.

Covington was recently appointed the head of Michigan's new Education Achievement Authority to run that state's struggling schools, with the power to cancel union contracts and override duly elected school board members.

Members of a board of education for a general powers school district are elected by the voters of a community for terms of either four or six years, as provided by the school district's bylaws.

The power of the board was never clearer than this fall when LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer proposed a moratorium on new charter schboard was never clearer than this fall when LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer proposed a moratorium on new charter schBoard Member Steve Zimmer proposed a moratorium on new charter schools.

The movement also needs to do better in taping the growing Parent Power movement for potential board candidates; as seen in Adelanto, Calif., where the successful effort by families to take control of Desert Trails Elementary School also fueled the defeat of two members of the district's board, there are families more than ready to take on traditionalists who want to keep the status quo quite ante.

Speaking of the power of high expectations, Beard urged school board members and public school leaders to «expect greatness from every child and from each other,» reminding them that, «the children in our schools are counting on us.»

The search for a new Los Angeles schools superintendent is proceeding behind closed doors, but the underlying power politics extend well beyond the room where seven elected Board of Education members are at work.

In at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice — or a vote — in their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeovers.

The Vice Chair of Eva Moskowitz's infamous New York City based Success Academy Charter Schools dropped $ 1,500 on the event, thanks to donations from board members and his wife, while another donation came from a board member of the Newark, New Jersey, Team Charter School chain, which is owned by KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, a «national network» of 125 charter schools around the CSchools dropped $ 1,500 on the event, thanks to donations from board members and his wife, while another donation came from a board member of the Newark, New Jersey, Team Charter School chain, which is owned by KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, a «national network» of 125 charter schools around the Cschools around the Country.

Prior to the 2002 legislation that placed Michael Bloomberg in near complete control of the city schools, New York City schools were run by the central Board of Education whose members were appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents and by elected school boards in each of the city's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their role.

His observations during that campaign of the power and influence of the unions in our state led him to found the Education Alliance, a group dedicated to assisting independent school board candidates as well as authoring, qualifying, and chairing the 1998 Proposition 226, which would have required unions to receive permission to use their members» dues for political purposes.

Dawn, the only real direct power that parents have over school districts is in their ability to vote for the members of the school board.

Clint Smith, acclaimed spoken word poet and award - winning educator, provided inspiration during his keynote, reminding the 400 + school board members and education leaders in the audience of the power of education and its role in helping students push back and guard against the things that are affecting their lives.

The participants in the policy and politics roundtable were: Robert Grady, General Partner, Cheyenne Capital Fund (1989 — 1991: Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy & Science; 1991 — 1993 Executive Associate Director, OMB, and Deputy Assistant to the President); C. Boyden Gray, Principal, Boyden Gray & Associates (1989 — 1993: White House Counsel); Fred Krupp, President (1984 — present), Environmental Defense Fund; Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board (1993 — 1997: Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (1989 — 1993: Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural Resources).

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Companies represented in previous forums included: ABSA Capital / Barclays Accenture (South Africa) ADvTECH AECOM AFGRI Group Altron Anglo American AngloGoldAshanti Ashburton Investments Associated Motor Holdings Baker & McKenzie Baker Hughes BankservAfrica Barclays Africa Group Barloworld Automotive Barloworld Equipment Barloworld Power, a division of Barloworld South Africa BATSA BMW British American Tobacco BT Global Services Business Partners Centriq Insurance City of Johannesburg Development Planning Legal Administration City of Johannesburg Legislature City Property Administration Colgate - Palmolive South Africa CSIR DBT Technologies Deutsche Bank, JHB Development Bank of Southern Africa Eskom Holdings SOC Financial Services Board FirstRand Bank Gauteng Partnership Fund Google GroCapital Financial Services (member of AFGRI Group) Heineken SA HMS Bergbau Africa Huawei Technologies Africa Imperial Logistics Intercape JD FS, a division of Pepkor Trading Kimberly - Clark of South Africa Kumba Iron Ore Leonie Ellis Placements Makro Division of Massmart Masscash Mondelez Munich Reinsurance Company of Africa Mutual & Federal Insurance Company National School of Government Nedbank Netcare Nigerian Bottling Company P&G PepsiCo Inc. / Simba PIC SOC Premier FMCG Procter & Gamble (P&G) Rand Merchant Bank RH Managers Pty Rio Tinto Road Accident Fund SA Bankers Services Company (BankservAfrica) SABC Sage International Samsung Electronics South Africa Sasol Scaw SEFA Shell SA Siemens Healthcare South African Broadcasting Corporation South32 SA Spur Group Standard Bank Standard Chartered Bank Steinmuller Sun International Takeda Telkom Business Connexion Tetra Pak The Pivotal Fund Limited The South African Breweries The Standard Bank of South Africa Tiger Brands Transnet Freight Rail Unilever Vedanta Resources - Zinc International Viacom International Media Networks Virgin Active SA WesBank Willis Towers Watson World Bank