Sentences with phrase «school board members in»

It is critically important that we elect qualified school board members in order to ensure the quality of Arizona's public schools.

We need elected officials, School Board members in particular, who are willing to take the fight directly to Tallahassee.

At a Houston conference for legislators and state school board members in November, Griffin rattled off the iZone's strategies, many of them in use in other schools and fairly easy to replicate.

It is worth noting that MASB's instrument is intended for use by school board members in the evaluation of superintendents.

The relationship with FIS has also guided school board members in developing policies that embrace parents as genuine partners in support of student achievement.

Another provision of Accountability for All provides for the expansion of training and mentoring programs for teachers and school administrators and requires all school board members in the state to participate in training.

We have also successfully represented schools and school board members in defamation, negligence, and negligent supervision claims, having successfully defeated such claims on motions to dismiss.

Student & Community Focused FCSBM affirms the importance of local control by accountable elected school board members in service to parents, students and taxpayers.

It is encouraging that the school board members in Douglas county that were pushing a privatization agenda have been losing their offices.

The students also have regular dialogues with the district superintendent and school board members in order to maintain personal proximity to important decision - makers in the district.

This month, Cartner told school board members in his rural district, which serves nearly 6,000 students, that they may have to choose between axing specialty courses, increasing class sizes in grades 4 - 12 or asking for a hefty injection of cash from their local board.

Horn's comments came after a meeting with local school board members in Charlotte this week, who, like many districts across the state, say a looming legislative mandate to slash class sizes in the early grades would have dramatic implications without additional funding or a reprieve from lawmakers.

To those former school board members in the Congress who stepped up to make that happen in this case, we say «thank you» for a job well done.

Throughout the year, state school boards associations and their school systems recognize the work and dedication of school board members in their state.

State school boards associations offer training and other services to help support school board members in their work.

School board members in the Gig Harbor - area Peninsula School District have opted out of becoming a charter school authorizer, just as their counterparts in Tacoma have done...

Mr. Carvalho has joined other superintendents and school board members in the state in calling for a delay in the use of new tests, including the not yet validated Florida Standards Assessment — a Common Core variant, with tougher standards than the last assessment used — to grade the state's schools, teachers and students.

Four school board members in Pr.

School board members in the 28,100 - student Rosemount - Apple Valley - Eagan district said in February that outgoing Superintendent John T. Haro was entitled to severance payments totaling more than $ 350,000.

In spring 2005, two school board members in Minnetonka, Minnesota, called IB un-American and un-Christian, and tried unsuccessfully to dump it.

And it's nice to see the authors of this study using survey data from 900 school board members in 419 unique school districts all across the country to prove that my faith was not in vain.

And this happening at a time when six out of nine School Board members in the Buffalo City School Districts minorities!

Education commissioners have removed four Western New York school board members in the last 24 years.

School board members in favor of seeking his removal have argued that Paladino's latest comments underscore an ongoing pattern of behavior that they said includes harassment and bullying of his colleagues on the board and members of the administration.

Gubernatorial candidate to school board member in Buffalo.

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 website.

The protest comes as Paladino, a real - estate developer and school board member in Buffalo, is considering a run for governor on the Conservative Party line should the state GOP not coalesce around a candidate who doesn't support ousting the Republican leaders in the state Legislature.

He's since taken on the post of school board member in Buffalo and was a co-chair of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in New York.

At 22, he became the youngest school board member in the history of Smithtown schools.

To make sense of the opt - out phenomenon, Education Next spoke with two public school parents: Scott Levy, a local school board member in New York State, and Jonah Edelman, cofounder and CEO of Stand for Children.

«This law moves against the tradition of local control in a fundamental way,» said one midwestern school board member in the autumn of 2001.

She succeeded Judy Farmer, a school board member in the 40,650 - student Minneapolis district.

She was a school board member in Lawrence Township (Mercer County) for 12 years and served nine years as president.

Leah McDonnell, a school board member in Estell Manor and math teacher at Oakcrest High School, said there likely would be more testing than just a midterm and a final, but in a more ongoing and less formal process.

He was co-founder of the Harrisville Children's Center in Harrisville, New Hampshire, and has served as a publicly elected school board member in both Nelson and Harrisville, New Hampshire.

«It just bleeds down the resources for public schools,» says Alan Tuchtenhagen, a school board member in River Falls.

NSBA urges Congress to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of the U.S. Department of Labor recently approved overtime regulations and immediately pass legislation that will provide much needed relief to local school boards members in meeting the new rule requirements.

«Day after day, public school leaders and educators perform acts of heroism,» said Miranda Beard, NSBA President and a school board member in Laurel, Mississippi.

«Tennessee had a strong amount of money behind it and it still wasn't a success,» says Linda Welborn, school board member in Guilford County, which includes three elementaries on the state's list of eligible schools.

The principal worked with the community relations committee to engage the superintendent's staff and a school board member in a daylong retreat in which they all studied the school's assessment process.

As a recent school board member in a racially and economically diverse district, I know there has never been a tougher time for educators.

The general election pits Douglas, a social conservative and a former school board member in the Phoenix area whose campaign focuses on her opposition to the Common Core, against David Garcia, a former state department of education official and current faculty member at Arizona State University who supports the Common Core.

During the discussion, a Benjamin Franklin High School board member in the audience, Susan Weeks, said she thought families were drawn to schools with strong academics — such as A-rated Franklin.

And that can include, you know, politics — not working for the right school board member in the elections.

I have been a public school teacher in Providence, R.I., and Oakland, Calif.; an elected school board member in Berkeley, Calif. (1990 - 1994); a professor and researcher at the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard; and now, New York University.

Jim is an elected school board member in an elementary school district with about 5,600 students (including his two children) in Oak Park, Illinois.

This award is given annually and is open to any current or former school board member in a district in good standing with its state school boards association and CUBE.

As a parent of 3 and a parent elected school board member in Manhattan, I applaud the cause and the courage of the principals and others to stand up to phony» «accountability»» standards and testing mania which is hurting our kids and schools.

Dr. Costanza also served as Vice President of the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS - SDE) and chaired several committees during his tenure as an elected school board member in Robbinsville, NJ.

Vincent also serves as Vice President of the National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS - SDE) and has formerly spent five years as an elected school board member in Robbinsville, New Jersey