Sentences with phrase «school board meeting over»

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

The letter is a sign controversial issues surrounding education that have roiled Albany and school board meetings over the last several years will continue to be concerns raised in elections this fall.

Not exact matches

Encouraged by the community forums, we presented our ideas formally to the School Board over several meetings.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

However, Park District School Board Member Carl Paladino is threatening to go to court over being shut down when he wanted answers to questions during a board meeBoard Member Carl Paladino is threatening to go to court over being shut down when he wanted answers to questions during a board meeboard meeting.

Yehuda Weissmandl, President of the East Ramapo School Board, says in a statement he welcomes the designation of Szuberla and Sipple as monitors for the district and that over the last 18 months, state education department monitors have been invaluable in helping the district meet difficult challenges and make significant improvements.

As many school districts around the region struggling with the fight over high - stakes testing, Buffalo School Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meschool districts around the region struggling with the fight over high - stakes testing, Buffalo School Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meSchool Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meeting.

When the mayor's press secretary sends out a routine notice that a school construction board will meet, Jewett looks it over first.

The school board was reconvened and met, just once, to reappoint Mr. Bloomberg's schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, and give him full authority over the school system.

More than 15 protesters dressed in black essentially shut down the meeting from the start, each taking turns reading statements or comments in opposition to Paladino — while School Board members debated whether to walk away, call the police or try to talk over them.

When the board met on July 1, however, the Bronx appointee voted with the other members to keep Mr. Klein as chancellor and give him full power over the schools, including allowing him to approve contracts.

The decade - long fight between Buffalo's school system and the Buffalo Teachers Federation over a contract surfaced at Wednesday's Buffalo Board of Education meeting where hundreds of teachers protested.

At Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting, the long struggle over getting more minority and women - owned businesses among the vendors to the district system turned into a discussion about using student labor.

«I understand that people certainly have to shake their heads sometimes at what they see,» said School Board President Barbara Seals Nevergold after yesterday's meeting and the continuing heated battles over establishing a process to pick an interim replacement for at least a year.

The task force, a group of principals, parents, community board members, elected officials and Department of Education representatives, has met regularly over the years, advocating for new schools and educational space in the increasingly family - filled lower Manhattan neighborhoods.

The continuing debate in Buffalo schools over a policy for transgender students drew such a large crowd Wednesday night that the meeting was moved from the usual, cramped board room to the much larger Common Council Chambers.

The Buffalo school board held the second of its two public meetings over the future of East and Lafayette High Schools Wednesday night at Lafayette.

In episode 108, the magicians examine the beliefs behind a Biblical interpretation of the world's creation, including a visit to a vigorous debate over separation of church and state at a Georgia school board meeting.

In this country, debates over textbooks have been known to shake up a few school board meetings and, in extreme cases, even incite violence.

But at an emotional meeting last week, the board rejected turning over the schools and took Mayor Sylvester Turner's advice to challenge the state's decision.

Houston school board members ended their meeting Tuesday night without voting on a plan to cede control over 10 low - performing schools after a skirmish erupted and police escorted members of the public — nearly all of whom opposed the proposal — out of the room.

Fired up over school district administrators» proposed staffing shake - up that would remove teachers from as many as 24 schools, a group of roughly two - dozen parents briefly shut down a Seattle school board committee meeting Wednesday night.

Responding to incidents of iPad misuse at district schools and widespread public criticism over problems with the rollout, the LA Unified board yesterday approved setting a special meeting later this month to «publicly grapple» with iPad issues.

On November 20th, the school board held a meeting to hear public input regarding their proposal to «reconstitute» over 40 low performing schools.

After camping out overnight in frigid rain in front of the Chicago Public Schools central office, people furious about the district's years of failed, top - down school interventions took over the Board of Education meeting.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

For school communities that have experienced budget freezes or mid-year fund re-allocations over the last two years, the information from the April 11th school board meeting indicates that the district is still struggling with financial stability and that there are signs that school budgets could be impacted again for a third straight year.

Fed up with the «constant battle over the co-location issue,» school board member Steve Zimmer responded by drafting a resolution, which will be taken up at the board meeting tomorrow, to persuade state lawmakers to create guidelines for applying the law.

Changed votes by two Board members over the approval of two Aspire charter schools at this week's Board meeting gave the public a glimpse at a much larger debate over whether charter schools based in Los Angeles should be allowed to operate their special education programs through a partnership with a far - off district that costs...

«Strength in numbers» Audubon Charter School's governing board also met Saturday morning over the funding issue, and their arguments were similar to Lusher's.

«This process did start off rough in September,» said Brenda Fairley - Ferebee, the board member who represents the Rowland, at the meeting during which the board voted unanimously to turn the school over.

Einstein Charter School's board of directors met Tuesday night to proceed with plans to take over operation of Intercultural Charter School.

During the December meeting when board members decided to reject the charter school over the superintendent's recommendation, some board members suggested they were likely to be overruled.

With a fight over school funding looming, Richmond City Council and School Board hold their third joint mschool funding looming, Richmond City Council and School Board hold their third joint mSchool Board hold their third joint meeting

Although nothing has been officially announced, it appeared at Einstein's October meeting that the board is preparing to take over Intercultural Charter School.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discuSchool to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discuschool management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discussion.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolutSchool to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolutschool management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution ``

Moales is nothing short of infamous for his role in helping the Malloy administration after they illegally took over the Bridgeport Schools, for his unending support for Corporate Education Reform Industry Kingpin, Paul Vallas, for his ability to acquire a multi-million dollar early education contract from the Malloy administration while serving on the Bridgeport Board of Education, for having illegally put dozens of little children in his daycare centers despite the fact that the building did not meet fire code or have certificates of occupancy and for his long - standing support of charter sSchools, for his unending support for Corporate Education Reform Industry Kingpin, Paul Vallas, for his ability to acquire a multi-million dollar early education contract from the Malloy administration while serving on the Bridgeport Board of Education, for having illegally put dozens of little children in his daycare centers despite the fact that the building did not meet fire code or have certificates of occupancy and for his long - standing support of charter schoolsschools.

At the School Board meeting this past Tuesday, the board had a miniature melt down over the data for under - served subgroups in LBoard meeting this past Tuesday, the board had a miniature melt down over the data for under - served subgroups in Lboard had a miniature melt down over the data for under - served subgroups in LAUSD.

Charters and their growth were a recurrent theme at board meetings, as were responses and reports by the California Charter Schools Association, including one that charter schools in the state are excelling at getting historically disadvantaged students into college over traditional sSchools Association, including one that charter schools in the state are excelling at getting historically disadvantaged students into college over traditional sschools in the state are excelling at getting historically disadvantaged students into college over traditional schoolsschools.

The case addressed whether school boards have any copyright control over video clips of public board meetings that a citizen posts on the Internet.

As school officials decide how to spend a nearly $ 2 billion FEMA settlement around the city, public meetings about plans for each campus are being held in each school board district over the next two weeks, and the District 5 meeting that includes Priestley will be held at 6 p.m. Monday.

Nearly 180 district employees and parents were in attendance at the school board meeting Monday night to express their concern over the possible layoffs that would have occurred if the union had not accepted concessions.

The denials came at highly - charged school board meeting in February when members clashed over how the schools get paid for students needing special services.

The two schools failed to win enough votes to renew their charters at a highly charged board meeting last month (see story here) when members clashed over how the schools get paid for students needing special services.

A number of parents and teachers showed up to today's jam - packed school board meeting to denounce board member Steve Zimmer's proposal to reject Academic Growth Over Time (or AGT) as a measurement of pupil progress in teacher evaluations.

In that controversy, a state - ordered mandate for districts to trim class sizes in early grades stirred a still - brewing pushback over efforts to curtail local school board's flexibility to juggle staff and funding to meet their needs.

Yesterday, over sixty students in solidarity with the eleven clock tower occupiers demonstrated outside at the school's board of trustees meeting, where plans for charging tuition were discussed.