Sentences with phrase «school board meetings just»

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

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I just can't imagine an educator putting that in front of an eight grader ever,» said one parent at the school board meeting where the puzzle was addressed.

«I just don't know how to break a promise to a child, how to break a promise to a community,» said Carvalho, speaking at an emergency School Board meeting in Florida that had been called to discuss the NYC job offer.

Just hours before the meeting began, the board decided to table a vote on a gender policy aimed at making district school's more accommodating to transgender students.

In that instance, however, little of substance changed: The school board, which had been faulted for its oversight of the system, was reconvened and met just once, for nine minutes.

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.

While those questions deal with specifics of how the school system is doing and where the money is going, the school board's situation became more complicated just before the meeting started.

In a news conference just before the board meeting in Performing Arts School, an alliance of Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education says the new system still suspends minority students out of their proportion in the schools.

As we meet John, he has just returned to active duty with the Mindscape agency, following the death of his infant son and suicide of his beloved wife, and is dispatched by Mindscape boss Sebastian (Cox) with helping to unlock the memories of 16 - year - old heiress Anna (Farmiga), who has gone on hunger strike after being confined to her room following her expulsion from an expensive boarding school.

With Taktse, she says, «I have visited the U.S. and experienced the neverending choices of food [and] the bright lights in Times Square, but I have also stood outside the board room in my school, waiting patiently in the silence of respect, just to meet and be blessed by the Rinpoche, one of the most respected monks.»

«We're sticking with our school, and use our time and resources to help improve it — not just for our own kids, but for all the students there,» said Hewson, who regularly attends board meetings to fight to keep the school open.

A club for gay students and their supporters met for the first time last week at El Modena High School in Orange, Calif., just days after a federal judge ordered the local school board to recognize the controversial student School in Orange, Calif., just days after a federal judge ordered the local school board to recognize the controversial student school board to recognize the controversial student group.

As she told the school board at one meeting when the policy was first being discussed, «In closing, I just want to say that I had more free time at Harvard Law School than my son has in middle school, and that is not in the best interests of our children.&school board at one meeting when the policy was first being discussed, «In closing, I just want to say that I had more free time at Harvard Law School than my son has in middle school, and that is not in the best interests of our children.&School than my son has in middle school, and that is not in the best interests of our children.&school, and that is not in the best interests of our children.»

While I've met many great teachers in my county school system, most weren't able to do their jobs properly due to problems with administrative bloat, a volatile school board and the dysfunction of a school system that is just too big.

The pro-privatization LA School Report (LASR) spun a school board committee meeting last month to say that just about everybody in LAUSD wants charter schools to be included in a universal enrollment sSchool Report (LASR) spun a school board committee meeting last month to say that just about everybody in LAUSD wants charter schools to be included in a universal enrollment sschool board committee meeting last month to say that just about everybody in LAUSD wants charter schools to be included in a universal enrollment system.

LAUSD board member Steve Zimmer's proposal to overhaul charter school oversight and, more controversially, to place a moratorium on new charter schools, has been postponed until the November 13 board meeting, according to the just - posted agenda for the meeting this Tuesday, October 9.

These were just a few of the questions raised at a recent school board meeting in Prince George's County, MD..

Chicago school board President David Vitale said during Wednesday's board meeting that the district's effort to administer the exam to just 66 of its more than 600 schools has been «clear and consistent.»

The school's announcement of the switch comes just two weeks after Crescent City's Nov. 20 board meeting, in which the board went into executive session to discuss the character or competence of one of its employees.

That amendment, explained board member Woody Koppel after the meeting, ensures that the district has ample room for schools like Benjamin Franklin Elementary that are «bursting at the seams» before any buildings are given away to new programs starting from scratch with just a few classes.

Meanwhile, faced with inadequate state resources, and Mayor Finch's need to come up with $ 3.2 million more just to meet the state's minimum local expenditure law, it will be interesting to see if Paul Vallas, the Bridgeport Board of Education and Commissioner Stefan Pryor divert dollars to their colleague Nate Snow and his proposal for a new Montessori charter school.

When we first meet young James, he's just started boarding school at Eton in the 1930's, and from there, the action moves to the Highlands of Scotland, where Alfie Kelly, a local boy, has gone missing.

Attending school board meetings, writing letters of support and talking to other parents are just some of the ways to get started.

On Wednesday morning, a group of about 30 students gathered just outside of the school's Board of Trustees» meeting to protest tuition implementation, and a few were able to enter the room.

So the Center kicked off in September 2016 and the Center for Innovation is one of the recommendations that came out of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services report and that recommendation was adopted by the ABA Board of Governors and we kicked off this fall and that's as Ed had mentioned that we're both involved with that, that's another group where when we attend those meetings I feel like a child sitting at the grown - ups table with the individuals who are involved with — general counsel from some of the largest companies in the world, law school dean, just amazing group of people.

And was just recently invited to join a board on a group called Voices for Innovation, came back from Washington DC last week for my first meeting there and I'm kind of driving the Women in Technology initiative and advocacy for that group and very excited about being part of that and really trying to raise awareness, getting more educational opportunities for our younger, especially the elementary school age group to get involved in technology early.