Sentences with phrase «school board agenda»

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It matters when a group of them are standing up at a school board meeting trying to force their religious agenda into our science classes and threatening legal action!

His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

While appointing an education board with an aligned agenda, Lavine could, as mayor, leverage her authority over the budget to implement an expansion of charter schools.

In part, that's because Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature have been increasingly willing during King's tenure to legislate education policy, even though the State Board of Regents and education department are statutorily tasked with shaping the state's schools agenda.

School Board attorney Frank Miller said they believed Paladino authored articles in Artvoice to advance his own political agenda.

«I want to encourage people to embrace the agenda of Dr. (Kriner) Cash and I hope that whomever sits on the school board after July 1st will listen to him and work with him to help move this district forward,» Sampson said.

In an act of open defiance toward Albany and Cuomo's education reform agenda, the Kenmore - Town of Tonawanda School Board voted unanimously to «seriously consider» boycotting teacher evaluations and standardized testing in the district.

WNY teachers, School Board members and administrators plan to ramp up their voices during the next month to air their displeasure with a decision by Cuomo to tie increases in school aid to his controversial education aSchool Board members and administrators plan to ramp up their voices during the next month to air their displeasure with a decision by Cuomo to tie increases in school aid to his controversial education aschool aid to his controversial education agenda.

Members of the new majority elected to the Buffalo School Board Tuesday do not appear to be looking for a major reset regarding Superintendent Kriner Cash and the agenda he has laid out for the schools, but there are some major issues on which they will likely take a different approach — especially when it comes to the teachers union contract.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

To get state legislators on board with his agenda, Cuomo tied the proposals to a large increase in state school aid.

Recently elected Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino has laid out his agenda for the first official meeting that he will attend.

To: Buffalo Board of Education (BOE) and Donald Ogilvie, Superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools From: Carl P. Paladino Date: March 23, 2015 Cc: Everybody else Re: Agenda for the March 25, 2015 meeting of the Board of Education (BOE) 1.)

The crowd was there to back the school board majority's change agenda and plans to make the schools work better than data shows they are.

The «non-partisan» Buffalo School Board election is turning into a mix of politics, money and power as some of the most influential factions in the city — and beyond — are backing and opposing candidates in a bid to determine the direction of the district.At stake is the reform agenda pushed by the current majority bloc and, while most candidates express at least condition...

In the interests of progress we call upon Mr. Paladino to resign and further suggest that board members that align themselves with his destructive agenda reconsider their support of an individual that jeopardizes the mission of the Buffalo Public Schools and the futures of this city's children.

His guests will include two Michigan residents who will talk about the damage to their state's public schools caused by the DeVos privatization agenda — Detroit parent activist Wytrice Harris and outgoing president of the Michigan State Board of Education John Austin.»

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People flocked to a Massapequa school board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - grschool board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - grSchool with the seventh - and eighth - graders.

Another former school board member, Lupinacci knows the town's schools well but is less informed in other areas and seems incapable of presenting a concrete agenda.

In this week's Press Pass conversation WBFO's Eileen Buckley and Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss how a past reform agenda could end up «off» the table for the Buffalo School Board.

The School Board will hold an agenda review session at 6 p.m. Thursday in the cafeteria of Niagara Falls High School, 4455 Porter Road.

Judge John E. Jones III wrote in the 139 - page decision for Tammy Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, named for one of the parents who brought the suit, that ID was not only unscientific but was also a front used by those on the school board with a religiously motivated, pro-creationist aSchool District, named for one of the parents who brought the suit, that ID was not only unscientific but was also a front used by those on the school board with a religiously motivated, pro-creationist aschool board with a religiously motivated, pro-creationist agenda.

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

But MPS board member Larry Miller blasted MMAC's legislative agenda, saying it removes new reforms that make voucher and charter schools more accountable to parents and taxpayers.

Once considered dispensable, music education is back on the agenda at school board meetings in many communities.

Driscoll was faced with a variety of challenges in advancing his reform agenda, from obstinate teachers unions to mercurial head of the Commonwealth's School Board, John Silber.

So this Republican - backed board decided to push from the bottom up the same agenda the Obama administration was pushing from the top down: higher standards, test - based teacher evaluations, and more school choice.

We'll know that a transformation is truly underway when efficacy and evidence start showing up on the agenda at school board and PTA meetings.

What really matters is who sets the school board's agenda and who can galvanize public opinion against irresponsible board members.

President Clinton again thrust schools to the top of his agenda last week by sparing education from across - the - board spending cuts he is proposing in a 10 - year balanced - budget plan.

It's true that a single school - board member with an agenda or strong political views can jeopardize an entire curriculum, but the teacher - leader network that White and Kockler have constructed in Louisiana seems likely to insulate students from the passions and politics of the moment.

The report, issued that morning at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Boards of Education, set an ambitious agenda for the state education panels, saying they would bear prime responsibility for building coalitions among existing early - childhood programs, community agencies, and local school officials.

Split Decision: Two Incumbents Losing in Denver School Board Elections, Two Supporters of District Policies Prevail (Chalkbeat) Quotes Martin West: «There are signs in the national election results this week that Democrats may make significant headway at the state and local level next year when many more seats are in play, and that typically makes it harder to pursue the traditional reform agenda.

Romer is the ideal person to lead the school district's massive reform agenda, according to Julie Korenstein, a member of the LAUSD Board of Education.

«It is clear that school - board members and superintendents need to better define their respective roles,» said Arlene R. Penfield, the president of the N.S.B.A. «Personal agendas must be left...

We propose to use the convening powers of the Harvard Graduate School of Education to bring together a kind of national board of directors to develop a bold new agenda for action — one aimed at substantially increasing the numbers of young adults who receive the education and training they need to succeed in the 21 st century.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

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We ask our members to work with their local school board to make the resolution a meeting agenda item, and that the board and superintendent work together to adopt their district's «I Love Public Education» resolution this fall.

The call for «community» was manifested not as power sharing, but rather as a campaign to get citizens excited about whatever agenda was being handed down by the CEO, the appointed school board, and the central office.

Steve Sundquist, who served on the Seattle School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the group.

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

With these organizations on board, Lowell has now developed a city school readiness definition and a full - fledged city school readiness agenda that has considerable momentum.

McIntyre now faces a School Board less friendly to his pro-reform agenda and may want to take the opportunity to exit rather than face a combative Board.

And while the overall numbers are somewhat muddled in the data, state officials still reported increasingly white charter schools this year, so much so that the state's Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a GOP champion of school choice, asked to pull a demographics report from the State Board of Education's agenda in January because it was too negative.

The Charter Leaders Advisory Council is made up of a cohort of Association member school leaders and board members who guide the Association's legislative and policy agendas, and Association events tailored specifically for charter teachers, leaders and school personnel.