Sentences with phrase «previous board majority»

That was the angle drew national attention to this local race, but the key issue was how to help the district schools move beyond failed reforms backed by the previous board majority.

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All four women were named to the board after the majority of the previous directors resigned last month.

These bills will mark the start of a reinvigorated progressive agenda from Latimer and the Board of Legislators, who recently elected a new majority leader, Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat, to replace the previous chair, Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat, in a divisive nomination process.

Even when we estimated the probability that an incumbent won a majority of the votes in each precinct, or accounted for test - score changes and levels as a function of dollars spent on students, or measured the relationship between an incumbent's vote share in one election and the previous election, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.

A strong majority of the panel's members, after winning election in November and taking office Dec. 5, oppose the intelligent - design policy adopted by the previous board.