Sentences with phrase «school board election in»

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.

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.

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.

In the most recent election there, charter school supporters and labor unions collectively spent $ 15 million trying to elect their allies, making it the most expensive school board election in United States history, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The list allegedly was used by Johnson's political supporters in the school board election in which Stith defeated Figueroa.

School board elections in City of Buffalo are held in May.

This time around, a new board will vote on whether to keep the city schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, and will make preparations for school board elections in May 2018.

Earlier this week, de Blasio warned that those elections could be as contentious as recent school board elections in Los Angeles.

Allowing noncitizens to vote in «certain elections» such as school board elections in districts where their children are educated.

School board elections in New Rochelle are city wide elections.

But this is changing, the study found, with outside donors playing a large role in the school board elections in all four of the cities examined.

During the 2011 - 12 school board elections in Bridgeport, for example, large national donors gave 66 percent of all contributions.

Voters in New York City's 32 community school districts went to the polls last week to cast ballots in the most closely watched school board elections in recent history.

Roughly half of the state's 85 districts hold school board elections in any two - year election cycle.

The last few school board elections in Nashville have been contentious.

A story in the Oct. 25, 1995, issue of Education Week about school board elections in Wilkinsburg, Pa., misstated the size of a tax increase that a board member said would be needed to offset a pay raise sought by the district's teachers.

Prior to GO being founded in 2010, there were few contested school board elections in Oakland.

Nearly $ 2.3 million from wealthy charter school advocates fueled the nation's most expensive school board elections in Los Angeles last spring, but those donors and their contributions were never disclosed to voters until months after the election, a review of records shows.

Case in point: in the June 2016 school board elections in Riverside County, CCSA Advocates supported Barbara Hale, a former teacher who became a principal at Sycamore Academy, a TK - 8 charter school in Wildomar.

Not exact matches

Ms. Notley's candidacy has received a number of high profile endorsements, including those of fellow NDP MLA Deron Bilous, former NDP MLAs Barrie Chivers, Bob Hawkesworth and Jim Gurnett, former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling (who ran for the PCs in the 1997 federal election), former PC MLA Tom Sindlinger and former Edmonton Public School Board trustee Dave Colburn.

In the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don IvesoIn the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin this election except Don Iveson.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

In school board or city council elections, to which they are giving a great deal more attention, five or six percent, or even fewer, may provide the winning margin.

CarolineSF — I may have to write in Jim Arnold and CarolineSF in our school board election next week.

I too will be voting in the upcoming Iowa City school board elections and will be reading all of the pieces you link to.

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

Former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is now a Buffalo school board member after winning 79 percent of the vote in yesterday's elections.

Voter particpation was literally 10 times higher than it was in the last school board election three years ago.

Both PEF, a union of white - collar state employees, and ESPA contributed $ 10,300 each to Tkaczyk, a school board member in Duanesburg, according to the 24 - hour filings on the Board of Elections webboard member in Duanesburg, according to the 24 - hour filings on the Board of Elections webBoard of Elections website.

It's been back and forth at the Utica City School District's office as two candidates find themselves in a tie following Tuesday's Board of Education election.

In 2014 he won a seat in the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidateIn 2014 he won a seat in the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidatein the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidates.

«We need to think through the election rhetoric about imposing a property tax cap,» School Boards Association Executive Director Timothy Kremer said in a newsletter article outlining the projections.

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Don't forget to vote in your local school board election.

The next school board election will occur in 2019.

An «irate voter» kicked doors and a table before leaving the Eugene Auer Elementary School, the Middle Country Central School District in Centereach wrote Wednesday in a letter to the county Board of Elections.

DeFrancisco, 71, has never lost an election during a 40 - year career in politics that began on the Syracuse City School Board.

KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO Oysterponds school board president Dorothy - Dean Thomas will face Betsy Dzenkowski in a June 25 runoff election.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

Current Board President Theresa DiFalco is running for reelection and three newcomers are running as a team — something not always seen in school board electBoard President Theresa DiFalco is running for reelection and three newcomers are running as a team — something not always seen in school board electboard elections.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: It was just last year in Albany that school board members decided to move the election date from November to May to coincide with school budget voting.

He didn't vote in last year's Westchester County executive race or the school board elections or on the school budgets.»

Two seats on the Watervliet City School District Board of Education will be up for election in May.

After the last round of elections, teachers union - backed candidates form the majority on the school boards of the three biggest districts in Erie County.

Paladino has always been at odds with the Buffalo Teachers Federation and its union leader Phil Rumore and in the school board election of 2016 the BTF backed candidates were successful in knocking off James Sampson and Jay McCarthy, ending the Paladino majority.

Other expenses include a few thousand on school supplies, which he handed out in his district a few weeks ago, $ 14,000 in contributions to other political campaigns, and $ 3,243 to the State Board of Elections for violation fees (Espada has a history of failing to file his campaign disclosure reports.)

Will the 23,000 people who signed a petition to remove Carl Paladino show up to vote in the next school board election or is their interest only momentarily engaged when they're outraged about something?

Filings at the state Board of Elections show NYSUT's Fund For Great Public Schools super PAC has invested in both mailers and TV ad production over the last week to knock Republican Chris Jacobs and boost Small's chances in the battleground district.