Sentences with phrase «school board meetings»

The union still can organize job actions, as when schools had to be closed for four days last year during the Capitol protests, or influence board action by crowding School Board meetings, as when elementary teachers were unhappy with proposed changes to their planning time last spring.

Mostly it is done by asking students to attend school board meetings, then making them speak at the appropriate times.

While these may take the form of articles in the school newspaper or impassioned speeches at school board meetings, Meaningful Student Involvement these do not make.

Attend school board meetings and budget meetings.

60 % of school districts in New Jersey report they include student voice in school board meetings to some effect (see «More Info» below).

Students can present ideas, share concerns, and sit through school board meetings just like adults.

Sal Güereña: Latino parents «Stand and Deliver» at Santa Barbara school board meetings Noozhawk, June 9, 2014

Print copies of the form are available at school board meetings.

Depending on who you ask, DPS school board meetings are either fairly entertaining (in the same way that Jerry Springer might be entertaining) or complete snoozers.

The Park City School board meetings take place monthly, and provide the community a variety of updates on what's going on with Park City Schools.

Here's what's been going on at A +: Board Watching Depending on who you ask, DPS school board meetings...

All school board meetings are video recorded and live streamed on the MMSD website.

The vitriol got so bad that African American religious leaders and local NAACP officials intervened at school board meetings on the superintendent's behalf — and it has helped.

Elsewhere, parents have split into dissenting factions, circulated dueling petitions, filed lawsuits, turned school board meetings into political rallies and publicly called rival parents liars and thugs.

Prince William County Public Schools» school board meetings in Vandrirginia are televised and streamed live, and available via podcast and on - demand, connecting the public digitally without having to attend Board meetings in person.

And those are all decisions that are made in school board meetings and district offices about what's convenient for adults, what adults need, whatever the folks feel like is the way they've always done things.

Angerer has systematically scheduled time to attend school board meetings, build relationships with stakeholders, and get positive information about his school out into the community.

Attend a bunch of school board meetings.

Frequently, messages resisting or disparaging testing, standards, teacher evaluations, and school and district report cards are found in op - eds, sound bites, and school board meetings.

He would stand up at school board meetings and flat out lie to the board — as in the lie that no research supports reducing class size having a positive impact on student achievement.

Feedback & Strategic Intervention — ACNW provides feedback to schools in its portfolio through performance evaluations, presentations at school board meetings, formal written communication to the school leadership and board, and informal verbal communication.

Parents and students arrived at an emergency school board meetings holding homemade signs supporting The Project School.

Parents and students arrived at last week's emergency Project School board meetings chanting, «Save our school!»

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

Start attending school board meetings, run for open seats, and challenge your administrators where you see waste.

This private acknowledgment apparently was forgotten when these same union leaders stood with bullhorns at rallies and school board meetings and in the most crass possible terms accused the district of a privatization scheme.

However, it has succeeded at switching the conversation in school board meetings and in the legislature to issues of student achievement.

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

Perhaps the two most obvious reasons are: 1) public opinion drives political actions in state legislatures, such as repeal efforts and efforts to adopt new assessments outside the Common Core - aligned consortia, and 2) public opinion likely affects schools» implementation, as politically active groups involve themselves in school board meetings, contact teachers directly to express their concerns, and «educate» parents with information or misinformation.

I was taking notes during one of those tedious but important school board meetings rookie reporters are assigned to cover when I realized I had no idea what was going on.

The words «interactive whiteboard» or «smartboard» have been tossed around in school board meetings and classrooms frequently for the better part of a decade, but only in the past few years have these modernized chalkboards really caught on in actual classrooms.

They speak at school board meetings.

People were coming to school board meetings complaining about it, and one prominent board member was adamant about integration.

Through votes, school board meetings, petition drives, and direct advocacy, all citizens, at least in principle, can influence public education.

Minnesota was a natural first location for the project since Jin had experience with the local K — 12 system, having attended workshops and school board meetings while he was in college.

Once considered dispensable, music education is back on the agenda at school board meetings in many communities.

We then reviewed minutes from school board meetings, district web sites, and other district artifacts to verify if, in fact, the practices and policies described in media reports have occurred.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

Using extensive footage from key school board meetings, interviews with the case's various players plus many casual, personal moments with McLeroy, director Scott Thurman presents a largely even - handed recounting, wisely letting folks — and events — speak for themselves.

I was a North Carolina newspaper reporter with an undergraduate degree in physics, writing about waste water treatment plants, school board meetings, and church socials, when the physics department at the University of North Carolina offered me a pay raise to go back to school.

The usual cast of players who take center stage each month at Buffalo School Board meetings will be summoned to Albany to testify at the hearing to remove Carl P. Paladino, including all nine board members.

On Tuesday evening, September 2nd, the New Rochelle Board of Education will suspend their own rules to pass a resolution without further discussion that will effectively gut the tradition of a public comment period at school board meetings.

There have been calculated and deliberate actions taken by Mr. Boucher and the school board to discourage parent and taxpayer participation in school board meetings.

Paladino later apologized for the comments and several anti-Paladino protests occurred at school board meetings up until Paladino was removed by State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia last month because of his disclosure of material discussed during an executive session.

The Connecticut Working Families Party announced Thursday it had endorsed one candidate for the election: Shonta» Browdy, 41, a Hartford parent advocate who has been a fixture at city school board meetings for years and spoke out against the prospect of school closures in the North End.

Even by the often - chaotic standards of Buffalo school board meetings, last night's was unusually hectic.

The tax cap limit for 2016 - 17 has been welcome news for some homeowners, including Southold resident Dan Wagner, who attends local school board meetings regularly.

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.

Unless there's a big controversy going on, very few citizens attend school board meetings.

I don't want school board meetings to start looking like town board meetings.