Sentences with phrase «protest over the school district»
Priore's resignation Wednesday, in protest over the school district's handling of a new nursing contract and what she described as a lack of transparency, sets the stage for the School Board to select a new Park District board member by June 16.
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But she resigned in protest because she didn't like the way the issue was handled by the school district, which had been facing mounting pressure over the past couple of weeks from parents who wanted to retain Kaleida's longtime pediatric nurses.
Eva S. Moskowitz the founder of the Success Academy group of charter schools, wants permission to double its size by 2016, which could reignite protests over sharing classrooms in crowded districts.
Perez rallied with local parents in June to protest State Sen. Marisol Alcantara, after the state failed to fork over $ 55 million owed to District 6 schools.
Mr. Arndt, 46, whose administration was marked by protests in 1999 over the expulsions of several African - American students, has accepted a job as the superintendent of the 17,200 - student Carpentersville school district near Chicago.
Over protests from the public and concerns from one of its members, the School Reform Commission awarded a contract Thursday to prepare 20 new teachers to work in the Philadelphia School District.
In fact, there is even confusion over whether a district can require a charter applicant to provide any information about its parent organization, according to Alice Miller of the California Charter School Association, which is helping MPS protest the closures.
And while most education leaders say North Carolina isn't likely to see the kind of prolonged protests or picketing that forced school districts in Kentucky and Oklahoma to temporarily shut down schools this year, teaching leaders hope the gathering will be enough to galvanize state lawmakers, many of them Republicans who've clashed numerous times with educators over pay and K - 12 funding in recent years.
* UPDATED A second round of protests is scheduled at LA Unified schools today as the district and its teachers union, UTLA, continue to lock horns over teacher pay raises, among other issues.