Sentences with phrase «voters elect school board»

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This summer, as you'll recall, the state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia removed Paladino from his seat for violating executive session rules, even though voters had twice elected the former Republican gubernatorial candidate to the school board despite his many controversial public statements.

The school board would be appointed by the mayor, rather than elected by voters.

Until then, DeFrancisco said he's having fun meeting voters statewide for the first time since he entered politics almost 40 years ago, when he was elected to the Syracuse School Board in 1978.

Bus purchase approved, Jaquith and Zhao elected to the Board of Education Niskayuna Central School District voters on Tuesday, May 16, approved the 2017 - 18 school budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opSchool District voters on Tuesday, May 16, approved the 2017 - 18 school budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opschool budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opposed.

Or more precisely the elected school board that local voters picked to run the school.

In Erie, Pennsylvania, voters chose Tyler Titus, a transgender man, for the School Board, a post won by trans woman Gerri Cannon in Somersworth, New Hampshire, while Raven Matherne, a transgender woman, was elected to the Stamford, Connecticut Board of Representatives, Stephe Koontz, a trans woman, was elected to Doraville, Georgia's City Council and Lisa Middleton, also transgender, was elected to the Palm Springs City Council in California.

While nearly all school districts are run by school boards whose members are elected by voters, Yonkers» board members are appointed by the mayor.

«Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, you can even throw in Albany — there you have school boards directly elected by voters,» he said.

Lavine's plan would make the school board appointed by the mayor and approved by the common council, rather than elected by voters.

But voters chose to retain the right to go to the polls each year to elect school board members and decide whether to approve 20 mills of property taxes for schools, a flat rate that is...

On election day last week, voters in Douglas County, Colorado elected a slate of school board members who want to undo the reforms embraced by the last board.

For starters, an elected school board is an important stakeholder in education, and the group most accountable to local voters.

And in an Ed Next podcast recorded just after the new school board was elected in Wake County last fall, «Voters Choose Neighborhood Schools Over Socioeconomic Diversity,» Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discussed the election and what it would mean for the county's school assignment policies.

Voters in Des Moines, Iowa, turned out in record numbers last week to defeat an openly gay school board veteran and elect two candidates backed by local and statewide conservative groups.

Meanwhile, voters have responded to the progress by electing a 7 - 0 majority to the school board in support of superintendent Tom Boasberg's package of reforms.

Voters in Hanover County and the independent Salem district joined Danville as the only three localities in the state that have spurned elected school boards.

He is critical of «school boards that are elected with a fraction of the vote in voter turnout» and «special - interest groups» that lack a «unifying vision» to reform the system.

DETROIT — Four years ago, voters here elected a slate of four school board candidates who called themselves the HOPE team and promised to bring equity, diversity, and choice to the city's schools.

Voters in St. Paul, Minnesota, elected four new school board members to office.

Opponents say that the bill could lead to future state takeovers of other schools and would disenfranchise voters who have elected school boards.

Only four intermediate school districts have boards elected by voters.

Members of a board of education for a general powers school district are elected by the voters of a community for terms of either four or six years, as provided by the school district's bylaws.

And incredible 87 percent of the voters who had the opportunity to vote came down on the side of an elected school board for Chicago, rejecting the Mayor's demand that only he have the authority to determine who could be on Chicago's school board.

WHEREAS, the OSPP disenfranchises Milwaukee County voters, particularly in the City of Milwaukee, by removing schools from the oversight of the peoples» elected school boards; and

Wilkinsburg voters elected four new members to the school board in 2013, soon after the financially strapped district had to borrow $ 3 million just to make payroll.

Bus purchase approved, Jaquith and Zhao elected to the Board of Education Niskayuna Central School District voters on Tuesday, May 16, approved the 2017 - 18 school budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opSchool District voters on Tuesday, May 16, approved the 2017 - 18 school budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opschool budget, with 1,713 casting votes in favor of the $ 81.4 million spending plan and 475 opposed.

Jayme Mathias of Austin Independent School District (ISD), Austin, Texas: Mathias was elected to the Austin ISD Board of Trustees to represent District 2, a district of 55,000 voters in Dove Springs, East Austin, East Riverside / Oltorf, Montopolis and Travis Heights.

Unless final firing rests with a district's superintendent and its elected school board representatives accountable to voters, districts will assume that, even when they press a discipline case, they will probably be overruled in the end.

The suit challenging the new law has raised a number of issues, but perhaps the key question is whether charter schools — operating independent of an elected school board and, in turn, the voters — qualify under Washington law for public funding.

The state's new plans for that district, created through House Bill 70 over the summer, has been controversial and the center of a legal challenge — a challenge that failed — over the state taking control of the district from voters and the elected school board.

In Bayonne, voters chose overwhelmingly to change from a mayoral appointed school board — a favored status in reform circles — to an elected school board.

Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain local control by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school board at this time.

After Connecticut's Supreme Court invalidated the scheme, Mayor Finch again attempted to strip voters of their right to an elected school board with a revision to the city charter calling for an appointed board of education.

I believe voters should have elected school board instead of Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointing them.

The new report, «Out of Control: The Systemic Disenfranchisement of African American and Latino Communities Through School Takeovers,» shows how elected school boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public scSchool Takeovers,» shows how elected school boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public scschool boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public schools.

Only four intermediate school districts have boards elected by the voters.

Heins asserted that billionaires just bought two seats on the elected board of the Los Angeles Unified School District (in an election on May 16 — see L.A. Voters Opt for School Choice).

These questions asked voters how important they believed it was for elected school board members to receive formal professional development instruction in the laws and policies affecting public K - 12 school districts and, whether or not they favored legislation that would require a minimum level of such instruction.

It is only when school administrators, elected board of education members, and state legislators hear the anger and frustration of parents (and voters) that there can be meaningful pressure brought to bear on those who promote the continuation of these failed educational policies.

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.

A democratically elected school board wouldn't dare put the district's youngest learners (K - 5) in this kind of an environment because they know the voters would hold them accountable, but for a private third party operator who is to say you can't set up school next to a liquor store?

Electing school board members who understand how important sex education is to students» well - being is a crucial task for the savvy voter, and the parents and students of Phoenix Union are lucky that their district has forward - thinking folks at the helm — folks like Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona's endorsed candidates Ian Danley and Lela Alston.