Sentences with phrase «school board voted»

The Berkeley, California, school board voted Wednesday to change the name of a local elementary school named for Joseph LeConte, who was a co-founder of the Sierra Club — and a slave owner who backed the Confederacy.

In an attempt to speed efforts to provide air conditioning to all schools in Baltimore County, the school board voted this week to put an additional $ 10 million in next year's operating budget.

Shortly after a divided Baltimore County school board voted to hire Verletta White as superintendent last month, dissenting members began a lobbying effort to ask the state schools chief to do something none of her predecessors have done in at least a half - century.

Despite arduous efforts by CCSA, the Oakland Unified School Board voted in June to place a $ 475 million bond measure on the November ballot that does not specifically include charter schools.

But two weeks ago, the Adelanto School Board voted, 3 - 1, to reject the parents» request for a charter school, asserting that the parent signatures were no longer current or sufficient (see LA Times here).

The Los Angeles Times reports today that the city's school board voted down an application by charter school operator Green Dot Public Schools to expand its exceptional network of schools into Watts, one of the poorest parts of the city.

The Union County School Board voted unanimously last night to allow 626 students to remain enrolled in the Tennessee Virtual Academy, a joint project between Union County Schools and K12, Inc..

The Baltimore school board voted Tuesday to delay the closing of a struggling Cherry Hill high school and proceeded with district recommendations to eliminate middle grades from three elementary programs.

Opposition culminated in 2010, when a Tea Party — backed majority on the school board voted to end the plan.

The school board voted down the proposal, citing a concern about the loss of funding for the rest of the district's schools.

The Orleans Parish School Board voted to accept the plan Thursday night, for example, but first added an amendment essentially saying that no building could be given to a Type 2 charter unless the Orleans Parish School Board declared it surplus first.

Charters may also face political resistance: In 2012, the Newark school board voted against plans to lease four district buildings to charters — though at that time the board's votes were non-binding.

Monday, the Cherry Creek School Board voted unanimously to change start times for students in the next school year.

Others just shook their heads, after the school board voted 5 to 1, with one abstention, to close Albion High School.

Bricolage Academy will become the next new charter school to open from the ground up in New Orleans next fall, after the full Orleans Parish School Board voted unanimously in favor of the project Tuesday evening.

The Easton Area School District school board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve Easton's first charter school, Easton Arts Academy Elementary Charter School.

The Spokane school board voted 4 - 1 Wednesday to temporarily raise class sizes by up to three students.

The Marshall school board voted last night to open its high school to Albion's students.

The IPS school board voted Monday night to approve a plan that seeks to fix the district's low enrollment and financial problems.

The Spokane school board voted 3 - 2 Wednesday to support the state's application for federal Race to the Top funds.

Suffering from financial woes and academic inconsistencies, the local school board voted to immediately terminate Bush's Liberty City Charter School's contract.

Almost without comment Tuesday, the LA Unified school board voted unanimously to seek help from outside the district to replicate high - achieving schools.

The months - long process of establishing new elementary school attendance zones in Leesburg ended Tuesday night, when the Loudoun County School Board voted to adopt a plan that will relocate 1,058 students to different schools next year.

The LA Unified school board voted, again, to delay its final decision on crafting and approving the $ 113 million Common Core budget for at least another week.

As Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, noted on one of her blog posts today, «one of the crucial elements in the grassroots movement to roll back the tide of high - stakes testing started in Texas, when school board after school board voted to oppose high - stakes testing, and eventually more than 80 % of the state's school boards voted against high - stakes testing.»

The LA Unified school board voted to do that in 2014, but the plan became stalled because of potential costs in training teachers and an estimated $ 72 million for textbooks.

Good Morning Yesterday, the Orleans Parish School Board voted to close Mahalia Jackson Elementary School in Central City at the end of the 2017 - 18 school year.

At the end of March, the Hoboken school board voted to increase taxes by 4 percent to pay for the school budget, which spends $ 23,716 per student, the second highest in the state of New Jersey.

In Florida, the Pinellas County school board voted to tie school zones more strictly to residential patterns, moving thousands of formerly integrated black students into underperforming schools.

On Thursday evening, the Indianapolis school board voted 4 - 3 to sue the state if the takeover is approved, challenging its calculations for the four schools.

In a news release announcing Castrejón's appointment as GPSN's executive director — just 48 hours after the school board voted to oppose the early draft plan for charter expansion — Castrejón said she was looking forward to working with King «as we seek to improve education for all students throughout the district.»

Late Tuesday night the school board voted 5 - 3 against the SAND proposal.

The district has set aside $ 100 million to pay for the additional classrooms, and the school board voted 6 to 0 to begin phasing in the popular classes next semester.

But a week later, the school board voted to delay the decision.

In Douglas County south of Denver, voters who in 2009 and 2013 supported conservative reformers for the school board voted against three of them who had pushed controversial measures, including a voucher program.

But Thursday evening, the school board voted to delay that move.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - One year after Nikolai Vitti left Jacksonville to take over Detroit's public school system, the Duval County School Board voted to offer Dr. Diana Greene, current superintendent of Florida's Manatee County School District, the job as Jacksonville's top educator.

Before the school board voted on the issue, MCSD Superintendent Joe Petrone said he stood behind the lawsuit and supported the concept of Moffat County as a plaintiff.

Orange County Bilingual Academy Executive Director Steven Brownson of Ladera Ranch filed the appeal after the Tustin Unified School Board voted against the proposed charter school last month.

Yes, after parents and educators worked to elect anti-voucher, pro-public education school board members this past fall, the Douglas County school board voted in December to end a private - school voucher program that would have allowed the school board to send tax dollars to private schools.

The Baltimore school board voted this week to revamp the district's funding formula, choosing to provide extra dollars to schools on the basis of student poverty rather than standardized test scores.

In May, the school board voted to name the school after state Sen. Charles J. Colgan, who has represented a swath of Prince William County since 1976.

The Utah State Charter School Board voted on June 20 to terminate its charter.

Amid cries from opponents of «shame on you» and «gutless cowards,» the Township High School District 211 school board voted early Thursday to give a transgender student access to the girls» locker room, settling a case that thrust the district into the national spotlight and caused deep divisions in the community.

Along with other safety measures, the School Board voted unanimously in favor of perimeter fencing for three of Park City's Elementary schools.

Good Morning The Orleans Parish School Board voted unanimously to delay a decision on closing Mahalia Jackson Elementary until the board's next meeting on May 18.

The Orleans Parish School Board voted unanimously to delay a decision on closing Mahalia Jackson Elementary until the board's next meeting on May 18.

The Jefferson County School Board voted unanimously in April to approve a 5 - year contract with South Florida's Somerset Academy, Inc..

After flip - flopping on the school calendar a few times to try to start the school year closer to Labor Day, the LA Unified school board voted Tuesday to solidify their school calendar for at least one more year.

Those fears crescendoed when the school board voted one month before the May 16 election to support State Bill 808, which would have allowed school districts to close or reject charter schools if they could be considered a financial burden to the district, which has yet to decrease its staffing levels despite declining enrollment and is facing billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and projected budget deficits.