Sentences with phrase «school board races not»

Take, for example, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs» widow and a California resident who has funneled some of her $ 20 billion fortune to school board races not only in Los Angeles, but in Denver and New Orleans as well.

Not exact matches

The lion's share of municipal, school board, township and special district races do not have candidates with party IDs and do not involve partisan primaries.

Well, maybe — but plenty of people not named Barack Obama and not boosted by a vibrant and extensive network of active supporters also won on November 4th, and it strains credulity to think that every race for city council, school board or even Congress will swing on which candidate most effectively mobilizes an internet - driven grassroots army.

WNYALF president Richard Lipsitz told POLITICO New York the union doesn't normally come out for school board races but made an exception because it felt the current board was damaging public education in Buffalo.

He didn't vote in last year's Westchester County executive race or the school board elections or on the school budgets.»

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

Event planners said Magee's appearance five days before the School Board elections was a coincidence, and she did not directly acknowledge the races in her remarks.

Lipsitz said it was the Communications Workers of America that asked the organization to get involved in the Buffalo School Board races — not the Buffalo Teachers Federation.

Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.And that figure doesn't represent the full extent of resources put into the races, since some candidates have neglected to file their final financial reports and others failed to report ca...

Although the ID debate was not an issue in most congressional races, voters may have punished Santorum because the once - vocal ID supporter tried to distance himself from the movement after a federal judge struck down an attempt last year by the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board to insert ID into the curriculum.

♥ ۬ The Tazewell County School Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or religion in its programs and

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This is not just a local school board race, but a national one.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

The 2017 LA Unified school board elections are still more than a year away, but that isn't stopping Nick Melvoin from officially throwing his hat into the ring of the District 4 race.

On a 9 — 0 vote, the Kansas Board of Education decided not to apply for RTTT funding, saying, «The federal criteria required more centralized control of public school education...» 4 Texas Governor Rick Perry explained to Secretary Duncan, «In order to submit an application that is preferred... for Race to the Top, Texas would have to commit... to the adoption of national curriculum standards and tests.»

It used to be, the teachers union leader told the crowd, that it didn't take much to win a school board race: a short statement in the election handbook, a little money for some mail and the shoe - leather to knock on doors and talk to voters.

«At first blush we're encouraged to see the Race to the Top program moving to a 360 - degree accountability system by including evaluations for schools boards and superintendents, not just teachers,» Weingarten said in a statement.

It isn't often that the Koch brothers» political advocacy group gets involved in a local school board race.

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HOWEVER, you should not take your opinions about specific candidates or elections into your classroom — even for non-partisan school board races.

In the county board's race for Trustee Area 6 in East San Jose, Green faces Dolores Marquez, an Alum Rock schools trustee who is not related to Carlos Marquez.

Certainly not in a school board race.»

However, it was not until the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that the doors of every public school in our country were opened to all students, regardless of their race or socio - economic circumstances.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Board members said it didn't make sense to have the state's largest school district, a centerpiece in its reform plan to meet federal requirements for qualifying for federal Race to the Top funding, not get any of the money.

The Buena Vista City School Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, political affiliation, sex, or handicapping conditions.

The Buena Vista City School Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, political affiliation, handicapping conditions, sex, or handicapping conditions.

The session focused on how the Kentucky Education Association (KEA), state Department of Education, school districts and National Board Certified Teachers (NBCT) are reforming education in Kentucky despite not receiving the first round of federal Race to the Top funding.

«Until they are owning and discussing and linking the academic and race - based strategies, we are going to be climbing up this slope and not making any traction along the way,» interim chief academic officer Whitney Oakley said Wednesday during a meeting of the school board's achievement gap committee.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

The WSJ Blog summary opines that the case does not overturn Brown v. Board of Education (which abolished the «separate but equal» justification for school segregation), but rather, amplifies it to stand for the proposition that schools can not look at race at all, no matter the reason for doing so.