Sentences with phrase «school affairs»

Many of these employee unions get engaged in school affairs.

However, the mayor had far less control over school affairs than over the actions of the city council.

But traditional approaches to involve a greater variety of people in school affairs — sending notices home, making phone calls — are not always effective.

In Washington, D.C., Mayor Williams now has some voice in school affairs rooted in his ability to select some of the school board members, but he can not appoint a leader for the school system.

Don't let the mayor or aldermen sink their grubby mitts into school affairs.

Then, if the principal competently manages basic day - to - day school affairs, an overall ethos conducive to the formation of trust will emerge.

Perhaps it was Schaefer's public dispute with the city's first black superintendent, which became an intensely racial conflict between community activists and the mostly white school board, that sensitized him to the political costs of becoming too deeply engaged in school affairs.

As Hirschman himself realized later in his life, «opening up of previously unavailable opportunities of choice or exit may generate feelings of empowerment in parents, who as a result may be more ready than before to participate in school affairs and to speak out.»

For starters, the Sequoia is most definitely an old - school affair, offering classic SUV goodness like a ladder frame, part - time 4WD, and a meaty V - 8 under the hood.

And from the whispers I'm hearing in the playground, those school affairs can get pretty messy.