Sentences with phrase «school board members pushing»

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Such comments have led to a push by some community members and a few of his colleagues on the Buffalo School Board to have him removed from the elected position.

One city school board member is pushing for Rochester's Freedom School model to be duplicated to help improve student attendance, parental engagement and graduation school board member is pushing for Rochester's Freedom School model to be duplicated to help improve student attendance, parental engagement and graduation School model to be duplicated to help improve student attendance, parental engagement and graduation rates.

Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the state Board of Regents, told about 500 school board members attending a state convention in Manhattan that the toughened law, pushed through the legislature in April by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, is «full of problems.&rBoard of Regents, told about 500 school board members attending a state convention in Manhattan that the toughened law, pushed through the legislature in April by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, is «full of problems.&rboard members attending a state convention in Manhattan that the toughened law, pushed through the legislature in April by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, is «full of problems.»

School Board Member Carl Paladino was among those leading the push for the lawsuit against LPCiminelli.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Several foundations were pushing for reform; African American and Latino leaders were engaged; and a 27 - member Commission on Secondary School Reform, appointed by the school board, had submitted reform recommendaSchool Reform, appointed by the school board, had submitted reform recommendaschool board, had submitted reform recommendations.

And everyday teachers, parents, principals, superintendents, retired educators, school board members and others are also changing the world and pushing us to work harder and smarter.

A credible threat of state intervention may push local superintendents to undertake their own improvement efforts and strengthen their hand in bargaining with school board members, unions, and others.

The «odd duck» Carter referenced is Gill, a member of the board of directors with the Tennessee Federation for Children, an arm of the American Federation for Children that spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on contract lobbyists to push lawmakers to legalize school vouchers in Tennessee.

Earlier this month, members of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization held a rally to push the state senate to pass a bill to take control of Chicago schools out of the mayor's hands and return it to an elected school board.

Now some school board members are pushing to raise the requirement back to a C.

By pushing new school board members to pick on a top performing charter school whose focus is to graduate seniors and encourage higher education is ignoring the real issues public schools are facing.

Starting next year, all Seattle high schools will push their start times later — most of them by almost an hour — and most elementaries will start significantly earlier under an overhaul of the district's bell schedule school board members approved Wednesday night.

But Deasy's plan to push forward with an AGT - based plan may be derailed by school board member Steve Zimmer.

In neighboring South Carolina, David Mathis, superintendent of Saluda County Schools and a member of the ASCD Board of Directors, thinks that the CCSS are «good for students and are doing what they are designed to do: Go deeper in student learning and push students into all the 21st century skills we keep talking about.»

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

Perhaps understanding this, the contrast, helps explain why, during this month's school board meeting, the superintendent bristled at and pushed back on school board member Erika Mitchell's proclamation to work with the Harper - Archer Elementary School community to include in the school's reopening the planetarium the facility once housed when it was Harper - Archer High Sschool board meeting, the superintendent bristled at and pushed back on school board member Erika Mitchell's proclamation to work with the Harper - Archer Elementary School community to include in the school's reopening the planetarium the facility once housed when it was Harper - Archer High Sschool board member Erika Mitchell's proclamation to work with the Harper - Archer Elementary School community to include in the school's reopening the planetarium the facility once housed when it was Harper - Archer High SSchool community to include in the school's reopening the planetarium the facility once housed when it was Harper - Archer High Sschool's reopening the planetarium the facility once housed when it was Harper - Archer High SchoolSchool.

That reflects the growing push by Latino families to improve their children's education without turning to pricey private schools, said Noel Gallo, a school board member representing the Fruitvale district for two decades before being elected to the City Council three years ago.

«This is an opportunity,» said former school board member Marlene Canter, who served on the task force, «for the school district to push forward the idea that every child needs a good teacher.»

In 2013, Richard worked with the LSBA Board of Directors, school board members statewide, superintendents, school administrators, teachers, and businesses in pushing Louisiana legislators to increase funding for its public school systems for the first time in over six yBoard of Directors, school board members statewide, superintendents, school administrators, teachers, and businesses in pushing Louisiana legislators to increase funding for its public school systems for the first time in over six yboard members statewide, superintendents, school administrators, teachers, and businesses in pushing Louisiana legislators to increase funding for its public school systems for the first time in over six years.

What is needed is for governors, legislators, and state school - board members to push for answers to hard, practical questions.

Governors, legislators, and state school - board members should push for answers to hard, practical questions to make the entire enterprise more transparent.

We pushed the Missouri Board of Education to create these conditions for every school in Kansas City, and we continue to challenge our members to identify opportunities to make educator - led, accountable schools the reality, not the exception in their cities.

In response, school board members are pushing for more local funding to hire counselors and other support staff.

The ultimate transformation in a city like this has got to be led not by seven school board members elected by less than 9 percent of the voters, or Eli Broad, but it's got to be a mayor pushing it, and it doesn't necessarily have to be mayoral control.

Clint Smith, acclaimed spoken word poet and award - winning educator, provided inspiration during his keynote, reminding the 400 + school board members and education leaders in the audience of the power of education and its role in helping students push back and guard against the things that are affecting their lives.

Board member Scott Schmerelson's District 3 has the largest number of affiliated charters — 31, and most are elementary schools — because his predecessor, Tamar Galatzan, pushed for district schools there to become affiliated charters.

The first step would be for more school leaders — principals, superintendents, and school board members — to find the courage to join teachers in pushing back forcefully against policies that we know are harming children, teachers, and schools.