Sentences with phrase «school board decisions»

This program is designed to teach the essentials of school governance, enabling new members to quickly assume an active role in school board decision making.

Higher up the ladder is the practice of having student advisory boards that inform regular school board decision - making.

The New York State School Boards Association said the task force makes several «sensible recommendations» and «represents a much - needed scaling back of federal and state involvement in local school board decision - making.»

For the budget year 2017, the state Division of Administrative Hearings docketed 244 appeals of Florida school board decisions, with the largest number of them being filed in South Florida.

As the recommendations made by these review committees strongly influence school board decisions about charter school approval, this change concentrates charter school decision - making power in the superintendent's office, without increasing transparency, accountability or oversight by the school board.

She pledged that, if elected, she would make sure that school board decisions take into account the voices of teachers, parents and school staffers — or, as she put it, the folks «working in the trenches.»

Establishes procedures for appealing a district school board decision to deny an application for a charter school.

The New York State School Boards Association says the task force makes several «sensible recommendations» and «represents a much - needed scaling back of federal and state involvement in local school board decision - making».

Yet we middle - class citizens, dependent upon shopping malls, mortgages and school board decisions, haven't known how to understand our royalty and wisdom in light of these prophetic proclamations.

A school board decision to buy out New Orleans Superintendent Morris Holmes» contract has become the latest in a series of controversies marring the tail end of his five - year tenure.

The school board decision this month allows Adam Levon, 12, to return to Wentworth Junior High if he wears a white shirt and blue pants.

School board members and Coloradans alike want to see students reach their full potential, and House Bill 1162 will lead to transparency that will ensure appropriate usage of education funding without interfering with the school board decision making authority.

Charter renewal denials can be appealed to the County, which has the authority to overrule a school board decision.

Park City Manger Diane Foster, Economic Development Director Jonathan Weidenhammer and Community Development Director Anne Laurent preview the re-development of the Park Avenue fire station into housing and Paul Sweat, the new Superintendent of Wasatch County School District discusses last week's school board decision to increase taxes.

«Asking the Right Questions About Vermont Schools» follows the evolution of public school funding in Vermont since Act 60, explains the importance of local school board decision - making, looks at both sides of the school budget equation — spending and costs, and offers recommendations to meet some of the challenges our schools face.