Sentences with phrase «school board election»

In an off - year school board election that will likely turn out few voters, Reckhow said knocking on doors is usually a better strategy.

These issues make the outcome of our April 2nd Madison School Board election even more critical.

The large amounts of outside money flowing into the Los Angeles Unified school board election represent a new front in the reform battles that have shaken up education politics over the last decade.

The Los Angeles school board election attracted enormous amounts of outside money and attention, so it's no surprise that lots of people are claiming victory in the aftermath.

Following the St Paul School Board election, E4E - Minnesota teacher Sarah Knappmiller Hunter asks: If the incoming board chooses to put the brakes on racial...

«It's a local school board election.

Thank you to the Times for thoughtfully weighing in on the critical LA school board election.

Power Shift on L.A. School Board Election results for seats on the board of the Los Angeles Unified School District — the largest district in California and second - largest in the nation — will have far - reaching implications for the future of education reform in the Golden State.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

We saw this take place during our last school board election in Nashville.

But then there are nights — like this year's school board election night — that change everything.

Increasingly, too, school board races have attracted attention and funding from political organizations, such as the prounion and procharter school groups that made the recent Los Angeles school board election the most expensive in history.

I know I'll be happy to see this school board election season done.

Two of the central reform groups, Democrats for Education Reform and Stand for Children, flexed their muscle in a Denver School Board election earlier this month.

For that reason, former Lt. Gov. Gail Schoettler, who lives in Douglas County, called this year's election «the most important school board election in the country.

Four years ago, Antonio Villaraigosa worked against Zimmer, including recruiting New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to put millions into the School Board election cycle, much of it against Zimmer.

The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday on a lawsuit challenging Wake County's school board election maps.

So a corporation buys a school board election.

The same was true in Los Angeles, where the higher - income white neighborhoods went against charter founder Ref Rodriquez in his school board election bid.

... Over half the public, including 57 percent of parents, admits not voting in the most recent school board election — a remarkably high rate given the tendency of respondents to overstate their electoral participation (Farkas et al. 2001, 15).

The Court mandated that a new school board election be held.

It was the first in a series of eight planned debates for the state school board election, sponsored by the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools, Sutherland Institute, Hinckley Institute of Politics, United Way of Salt Lake and KSL.

On Thursday night at Madison West High School, Cap Times education reporter Amber C. Walker and Simpson Street Free Press editor Taylor Kilgore hosted a forum for the upcoming School Board election, asking questions about budgets, charter schools and recruiting teachers of color.

It is widely acknowledged that the last LAUSD board election was the most expensive school board election in history.

Nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated than Douglas County, Colorado, where education politics and an ongoing constitutional fight over educational choice have converged to create perhaps the most consequential school board election in modern American history.

REFERENDUM ON DOUGLAS COUNTY»S REFORMS: A school board election Tuesday in Douglas County, Colo., a wealthy suburb of Denver, has attracted $ 350,000 in spending from Americans for Prosperity.

SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION Reformers sweep LAUSD school board elections laschoolreport.com/reformers-swee… Big night for charter school - backed LAUSD candidates as Melvoin, Gonez win seats scpr.org/news/2017/05/1… Charter backers win their first L.A. school -LSB-...]

Uptown Messenger: District 6 School Board election pits incumbent against neighborhood activist http://bit.ly/2ee5Ywp

Sen. Bernie Sanders has been busy over the last few weeks on a unity tour with DNC chairman Tom Perez, but that hasn't stopped him from wading into a local school board election.

In the newsletter, UTLA President Warren Fletcher notes that the union's ability to achieve its budget goals «will be immeasurably helped or hindered depending on the outcome of the March 5 School Board election.»

Qualifying for the Nov. 8 Orleans Parish School Board election closes at 4:30 pm today.

Qualifying concluded on Friday for the Nov. 8 Orleans Parish School Board election with two incumbents retaining their seats without opposition.

The four candidates supportive of Denver Public Schools» brand of education reform swept the school board election yesterday.

Families That Can is organizing parents to come out to vote in the primary on March 5 and to spread the word to their families and friends about the importance of this school board election.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

Carolyn Murray has more on school board election results.

The California Charter School Association and their allies poured nearly $ 2.3 million into last year's LAUSD election, helping to make them the nation's most expensive school board election.

Three Moms with Fulop's Endorsement Beat Candidates Backed by Union and Healy to Sweep School Board Election 04/18/12

The Democrat vs. Democrat split that played out in the Los Angeles school board election also emerged in several legislative races last year.

POLITICS Chalkbeat: Walton memo recommends charter advocates do more to persuade Democrats Daily Signal: Latest NAEP Scores Show DeVos Was Right About Public Schools Sacramento Bee: Charter school backers spend millions to support Villaraigosa for governor Chalkbeat: Candidates backed by powerful coalition sweep Newark's historic school board election LA Times: The power game behind the search for a new L.A. schools leader Chalkbeat: CO Democrats overwhelmingly reject Democrats for Education Reform at state assembly

Not satisfied with their recent school board election victories, the teachers unions are trying to silence Dr. Perry's voice and get the event cancelled.

In next year's two other board races, District 2 and District 6, no challenger or incumbent has officially declared candidacy, making Melvoin the first to jump into 2017 school board election waters.

In relation to the LAUSD school board election, this is the Los Angeles Times» endorsement of a school board member's re-election — yes, the candidate the Times SUPPORTS: «We consider [Monica] Garcia a poor choice for the school board, and we always have.

However, things have begun to change and the teachers unions now have competition in school board election spending.

The Advocate: Grace Notes: Why Recovery School District changes could significantly up ante on fall's School Board election http://bit.ly/1VUpgqG

This past Denver School Board election was the most contentious ever waged in Denver with the amounts of money, vitriol, and falsehoods.

In a school board election held on Tuesday in Los Angeles, a reform candidate defeated the board president and reformers reached a majority on the school board.

The anti-voucher candidates were victors in the Douglas County School Board election last night,, effectively killing the district's voucher program.

The fall 2011 Denver school board election, again?

Whites and African Americans appear slightly more likely than Hispanics to have voted in their last school board election (Q. 25).