Sentences with phrase «who served on the school board»

If and when all the answers come out, I think people will wonder whether the ends justified the means,» said Bruce Davidson, who served on the school board until November and consistently opposed construction of the school.

Young, who served on the school board, noted that it's part of the responsibilities of the elected officials to make sure that new schools proposed in the district meet educational requirements.

Not exact matches

, who won the most expensive House race in the country, supported insertion of «Creationism» and «12 Christian principles» (akin to the Ten Commandments) in the curriculum of a public charter school whose board she served on, we are in danger.

«Development and review of an emergency action plan guarantees that a coordinated approach is in place,» adds Lemak, founder of Lemak Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics in Birmingham, Alabama, who also serves as medical director of Major League Soccer and is on the medical advisory board of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing theschool students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing theSchool who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

In addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Cloud.

Marcia Smith, who has served as president of SNA and has served on the School Nutrition Foundation Board, is retired and lives in Florida.

De Blasio, who formerly served as a City Councilman and a federal housing official, stressed his role as a public school parent and his background volunteering on the local school board.

Two developers who serve on the Buffalo School Board have questioned whether LPCiminelli overcharged the district to manage a massive schools reconstruction program, yet neither the attorney general or comptroller can bring themselves to look into the matter.

In materials distributed to the audience at the debate, Ms. Burke - Gonzalez, who prior to serving on the town board was a nine - year member of the Springs School Board, wrote that she is proud of «how I have worked with my colleagues on the town board to return civility, dignity, and respect to the business of the board.&rboard was a nine - year member of the Springs School Board, wrote that she is proud of «how I have worked with my colleagues on the town board to return civility, dignity, and respect to the business of the board.&rBoard, wrote that she is proud of «how I have worked with my colleagues on the town board to return civility, dignity, and respect to the business of the board.&rboard to return civility, dignity, and respect to the business of the board.&rboard.»

«I don't need this job, but I want this job,» said Haber, who serves on the Roslyn School Board and owns a restaurant in Manhattan.

He finished 139 votes behind Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former Senate aide who serves on a rural school board and had a de minimus public profile in the five - county district before two Super PACs spent $ 500,000 pushing her candidacy.

The second round — for officials of school parents associations only — is the one that determines who gets the dubious honor of serving on the largely powerless board.

Bergtraum, who sits on the Nassau BOCES board, also serves as first vice president of the school boards association.

Egan, 53, is a state Health Department administrator who served six years on the Albany school board, including three as president.

«I believe in the mission at Mount St. Mary's Academy, and being able to help young women who wish to attend the school is a tremendous honor,» said Legislator Hardwick, who currently serves on the school's Board of Trustees.

Kosiur, 59, who has served on the school board and County Legislature, said Rivers Casino will help lower property taxes and create jobs.

We at the Learning First Alliance recently interviewed two representatives of ABC to find out: Richard Saldana a high school teacher and department chair who also serves on the executive board of the ABC Federation of Teachers, and Tanya Golden, a sixth grade teacher who also serves as a teacher leader.

As Giuliani's intervention illustrates, the question of who should run big - city schools is not only who should be the CEO, but also who should serve on the board of directors.

Spray and pray,» said Richard Weissbourd, a lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-founder of ReadBoston, who serves on the board of Strategies for Children.

Georgiana Hardy, who served on the Los Angeles school board longer than any other member in the system's history, is dead at 78.

Leonard Rovins, a lawyer who has served on the school board in Westport, Conn., since 1971 and as a director and the president of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, has been elected president of the National School Boards Associschool board in Westport, Conn., since 1971 and as a director and the president of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, has been elected president of the National School Boards AssociSchool Boards Association.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

Bonnie Reiss, a longtime friend of the governor who served on his staff for two years, advised him on education issues, and was one of his appointees to the state Board of Education, said Schwarzenegger told her and others in his administration why he did not want to get involved in a long, politically difficult effort to overhaul the public schools.

We have alumni who work in public policy organizations, serve on local school boards, practice education law, and fight for equity in school finance or, as physicians in low - income communities, provide quality health care for children.

Meanwhile, Casey, who serves on the board of a New York public charter school, cheered the mayor's decision: «What's happened in NYC now is that [Success Academy] is reaping what they sowed.»

Prior to leading the Ogden City School District, Smith was a practicing attorney who also served on the Ogden City School Board from 2007 to 2011.

Incoming College Board Head Wants SAT to Reflect Common Core Education Week, May 16, 2012 «Catherine Snow, a literacy expert and professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education who served on the validation committee for the common standards, said she is concerned that Mr. Coleman's translation of the common standards into pedagogy often «oversimplifies and misinterprets» good practice.

«People could start wondering who authorized the College Board to set national standards for high schools,» says Johnstone, who served on the College Board's AP commission.

Steve Sundquist, who served on the Seattle School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the group.

«Our goal was to be number one in new teacher pay, to be able to recruit new teachers especially in the math and sciences,» said Eberhart, who is retired from the school system but served until recently on the Maryland State School school system but served until recently on the Maryland State School School Board.

Close ties are also evident in two of Accord's three board members who previously served on the board for MPS and were intimately involved in launching a few of the charter schools.

He is a continual learner who serves on the Board of Directors for the New Jersey School Development Council and the New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, as well as the George Street Playhouse Education Advisory Board.

Leslie Jacobs, a businesswoman who served on the state board of education and helped guide the schools overhaul, said New Orleans has built a foundation for better schools since the hurricane.

«These school leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of Truschool leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of TruSchool District Board of Trustees.

«He brought an animated discussion about our schools, the future of education in the city, and the role of charters,» said Clement Price, a venerated Rutgers University history professor who once served on the school board and led the recent superintendent search.

Also on the board are former Mayor Edward I. Koch; Geoffrey Canada, the founder of the Harlem Children's Zone organization, a network of charter schools; and a number of venture capitalists and hedge fund managers, who have served as the movement's financial backers.

Other CSAB members with ties to the charter industry in North Carolina include Alan Hawkes, who serves on the board of two NHA charters in Guilford County, Eric Sanchez, who founded a charter in Hendersonville, Joe Maimone who leads a Rutherford County charter associated with state - based charter chain Team - CFA, and Tammi Sutton who works for the KIPP charter school chain.

To find out, I contact Alex Quigley who serves on the state's Charter School Advisory Board that recommends to the State Board of Education individual charters for approval and policies for operating all aspects of the schools.

Pinkston, who serves on the Metro Nashville Public School board, tells a compelling narrative about good intentions gone awry and the actors who have rushed into the wreckage to exploit what they could.

I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»

A recent public opinion poll conducted in Bridgeport included questions about Malloy, Mayor Bill Finch, Paul Vallas, members of the Working Family Party who serve as the outspoken minority on the Bridgeport Board of Education and Carmen Lopez, the former Connecticut superior court judge who brought the lawsuit that determined that Paul Vallas lacked the credentials necessary to serve as a superintendent of schools in Connecticut.

In January 2011, McAdams was replaced as president and CEO by Cathy Mincberg, a longtime education reformer who has worked as a high - level administrator in two urban school districts and served alongside McAdams on the HISD board.

Ajamu Webster is a civil engineer who has long served on various advisory committees and chaired the governing board of an African - centered school.

As readers know, Achievement First, Inc. is the large charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor who served on Achievement First's Board of Directors until he resigned to become Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

It is a fact that, on average, students in high - needs schools that disproportionally serve the needs of disadvantaged students have less access to teachers who have certain teacher - quality indicators (e.g., National Board Certification and advanced degrees / expertise in content - areas, although these things are argued not to matter in this brief).

As for Families for Excellent Schools, they make it particularly difficult to identify who their funders are or even who serves on their Board of Directors, but as fellow education blogger Mercedes Schneider discovered, the group is a favorite of the Walton Foundation which is the family foundation of the anti-public education owners of the Wal - Mart Corporation.

Comer, who serves as the Chief Operations Officer of FUSE / Jumoke Inc., the charter school management company that owns the Jumoke Academy and the Jumoke Academy at Milner was nominated by Malloy to fill a spot on the State Board that oversees and approves Connecticut's charter schools, along with setting policy for Connecticut's public education system.

«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.»

The same Andrea Comer who was appointed to the State Board of Education by Governor Malloy in the Spring of 2013, despite the obvious conflict of interest between working as an officer for a charter school management company with state contracts and serving on the board that sets state policies concerning charter schBoard of Education by Governor Malloy in the Spring of 2013, despite the obvious conflict of interest between working as an officer for a charter school management company with state contracts and serving on the board that sets state policies concerning charter schboard that sets state policies concerning charter schools.