Sentences with phrase «school board members tried»

Three school board members tried in vain to allow these schools to succeed under their new principals and the transformation plan that staff was committed to but to no avail.

And, unfortunately, school board members trying to improve their schools must face the harsh reality about change agents.

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Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

The Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization (BPTO) is trying to put pressure on the State Education Commissioner to remove city school board member Carl Paladino.

Other School Board members moved quickly to try and remove him for the comments, then thought better of mounting a challenge to free speech.

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.

The Buffalo School Board showed Wednesday that its members don't share the same view when trying to decide what to do about the impending departure of Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown.

The 18 - year - old Buffalo teen who tried to unseat City School Board member Carl Paladino returned to Buffalo City Court Tuesday, but the case against Austin Harig was adjourned once again.

A current School Board member, Minew worked hard during the campaign and spent money trying to ensure a primary day victory.

Competing to replace him are two Holbrook residents: Doug Smith, a Republican and former aide to Mr. Graf, and Deborah Slinkosky, a Democrat and former school board member who twice tried to unseat Mr. Graf.

«Certainly, in my role, as a member of the Joint Schools Construction Board, worked to try to bring all parties together to resolve concerns and differences and questions, and right now it looks like this might end up in serious litigation,» Brown replied.

Teachers must stay on top of this in case there is ever a school board member or community member who tries to institute the «teach the controversy» rhetoric in their classroom.

One month later, a school district in Pennsylvania tried to abolish it after several board members complained about its costs and its philosophy.

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

School board members who try to work on broader issues often become discouraged by board politics and decide not to run for re-election, Houston added.

Meanwhile, union leaders, city officials, and school board members were trying to pull together a contract and head off a walkout in the 210,000 - student district.

Isis Castro, a former Fairfax County School Board member who is now on the Virginia Board of Education, said: «The programs that we implemented didn't work, and the communities that we were trying to help didn't have a real seat at the table.»

I'd say it's interesting reading for most, but essential reading for school board members, supes, and school leaders trying to close budget shortfalls without compromising educational quality.

Ohio schools must try to help stop violence in dating, under a bill signed by Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, that requires school boards to adopt policies to prevent and address abusive student relationships, train staff members on the subject, and add lessons on the prevention of dating violence to health classes for grades 7 - 12.

With Wake County and Charlotte - Mecklenburg school board members packing the room, Rep. Bill Brawley, the committee co-chairman, said the group isn't targeting any specific school systems but is trying to inform the debate about whether some districts are too large.

«We just keep trying,» said Guilderland school board member Barbara Fraterrigo, who spoke on behalf of the board and has been interested in the issue for a decade.

A school board member told the Daily World the school tried to implement a different plan for every one of those six years.

While Moales was unsuccessful in trying to get approval to turn his private religious school into an all - boys publicly funded charter school last year he has, as noted, returned this year as the founding member of the «Governing Board» that will oversee Steve Perry's new Bridgeport Charter Schools.

Sarah Angel, managing director of advocacy of the California Charter Schools Association, told the board members, «What's especially unfortunate about this whole effort is that it feeds into the «us vs. them» debate that so many of us are trying to move beyond, as Dr. Vladovic wisely noted earlier today.

Kate Anderson, an activist mom and successful attorney with political chops — she worked for Congress members Henry Waxman and Jane Harman — will try to oust Steve Zimmer, the Westside's man on Los Angeles Unified School Board, in March 2013.

In 2016, Dean's group tried but failed to defeat incumbent Nashville School Board members at the polls — less than three months after the board hired an energetic new director of schools who articulated a big viBoard members at the polls — less than three months after the board hired an energetic new director of schools who articulated a big viboard hired an energetic new director of schools who articulated a big vision.

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