Sentences with phrase «school board election spending»

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

Not exact matches

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.

Residents will vote Tuesday on the roughly $ 186.3 million spending plan, the election of three school board members and a $ 64.5 million capital project referendum.

Even when we estimated the probability that an incumbent won a majority of the votes in each precinct, or accounted for test - score changes and levels as a function of dollars spent on students, or measured the relationship between an incumbent's vote share in one election and the previous election, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.

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The American Federation of Teachers has spent almost $ 450,000 on the Jefferson Parish School Board elections, recent campaign finance reports show.

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.

Two years ago, charter backers failed to oust county board incumbent Anna Song, despite spending around $ 200,000 on county schools» elections.

Today, most school board elections get single - digit turnouts, even in multi-million dollar races, making them especially vulnerable to the wrong interests: tax hawks opposed to spending, unionists seeking influence on both sides of the bargaining table, extremists who want to pervert curriculum, racists bent on perpetuating segregation, or reform zealots who seek to disrupt the status quo regardless of results or consequences.

Instead of reflecting on how the millions we spend distorting truths, attacking and bullying one another could help real kids in real classrooms today, the California Charter Schools Association is simply reloading their guns for the Spring School Board elections.