Sentences with phrase «with elected»

We encourage you to make appointments with your elected officials now to share your concerns over this destructive legislation.

One of the many ways TCSA champions for public charter schools is to work closely with elected officials and influence education public policy.

But in each city disagreements with elected school overseers prompted her to leave before her contract expired.

«I wouldn't necessarily be comfortable with elected leadership positions coming from outside the state,» said Steinburg.

It is up to us to claim a seat at the table by establishing relationships with our elected representatives.

About 150 charter school leaders and parents will attend the California Charter Schools Association's (CCSA) 20th Anniversary Advocacy Day and will meet with elected officials to discuss the impact charter schools are having on students and how current legislative policy will impact future success.

Families That Can partners with charter schools across California to offer free on - site parent trainings, connect schools with their elected representatives and provide advocacy and grassroots organizing support.

After the program is completed, charter school advocates will head across the street to the Georgia Capitol to meet with their elected officials.

I wanted to be able to sit down with our elected officials, parents and other community members and discuss problems related to education — not later, but now.

More than 300 school leaders, supporters, parents, and students met with elected officials yesterday to discuss key legislation impacting charter schools during CCSA's annual Advocacy Day.

Over the past several days, parents have been meeting with elected officials in Albany and across New York City, speaking out in support of Governor Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda to ensure every child has access to a quality education.

Latest in the Legislature It's all transportation, all the time these days in the statehouse, with some elected officials calling for solutions while others are drawing lines in the sand around no new borrowing.

It is my hope that legislators will take the time to find out the actual facts behind the governance structure of public education and the advantages Utah has with an elected and independent State Board of Education before they vote on any of these proposals.

C3S plans to hold parent training workshops, facilitate meetings with elected officials, as well as urge parent advocates to pursue positions on their district Community Education Councils.

This was a rare opportunity for parent leaders to meet one another as well as make connections with Elected Officials and community leaders in CB 3, which covers all of Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn.

A resource to charter leaders to effectively engage Legislators and other local officials in charter school issues: includes useful information on how you can get involved, as well as the life cycle of a bill, the budget process, and the protocols for scheduling a meeting with your elected officials.

In order to be a powerful voice for your magnet programs, you must keep an open channel of communication with your elected officials.

After seven years as superintendent, he has been one of the longest serving superintendents of an urban school district with an elected school board in our country's recent memory.

Working with elected leaders, WakeEd influences and champions critical education policy issues.

Our Toolkit provides school leaders with effective strategies and resources for engaging with elected officials and other local decision - makers.

«Being at HGSE has provided me an amazing platform for my work, and the opportunity to share it with elected officials, school leaders, and community members,» said Gonzales.

Through well - publicized partnerships with elected officials like Chicago mayor Richard Daley and through Bill and Melinda Gates's personal advocacy for their high - school agenda in such forums as the National Governors Association and the National Economic Club, the foundation has signaled its intention to leverage its investments through policy change.

This is the approach I've taken for the last 11 years, working with elected officials from both parties including Presidents Obama and Bush, Governors Cuomo, Patterson, Spitzer, and Pataki, and Mayor Bloomberg.

In our work at Democrats for Education Reform, my colleagues and I regularly interact with elected officials across party lines in efforts to advance positive academic outcomes for students.

Although the mayor appoints directors of city departments, he shares budgetary powers with an elected comptroller and the Board of Aldermen.

Many doubt such a strategy is possible with an elected board, because closing schools and laying off teachers triggers fierce resistance.

For example, support for universal vouchers when family choice is emphasized has increased by 13 percentage points among Republicans (to 54 %) and fallen by 9 percentage points (to 40 %) among Democrats, a shift that brings the views of partisans in the electorate more in line with their elected officials.

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They frequently conduct in - district congressional meetings with their elected officials, and they keep local PD community members informed of the latest policy developments through a newsletter.

She has extensive experience working with elected officials, constituents and stakeholders, as well as researching, drafting and presenting various policy issues.

He's also new to interacting with elected officials, and he'd been apprehensive about scheduled meetings with the Oklahoma congressional delegation, which is all - Republican and strongly conservative.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

Neither decision will sit well with elected representatives who favour a more robust human programme.

Should it ever be used to interfere with elected government it will be taken away immediately.

Banks on Tuesday disputed that criticism, saying city officials had provided ample notice and held several hours of community listening sessions with elected officials and local residents to discuss their concerns about the proposed shelter.

In May 2011, the borough president hosted a press conference with elected officials and community leaders to call for improved access to the Jerome Park Reservoir, and in June 2011 he hosted a public hearing to solicit greater input from Bronxites on the future of public access to Jerome Park Reservoir.

Students at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schools safe.

Nick Clegg will publish a Commons Bill to propose replacing the Lords with an elected second chamber

The Community Unity breakfast linked some of the most informed residents in Rockland County political issues with elected officials; that turned the discussions into a veritable think - tank of ideas and affirmation of resolve to find solutions by working together.

Tony Blair, who expressed unease in early 2005 about a «hybrid» house with elected and appointed members, pledged in the Labour manifesto for that year's general election to remove the remaining hereditary peers and to «allow a free vote on the composition of the house».

The powers on offer to combined authorities with an elected mayor will cover transport, housing, planning, policing and public health.

De Blasio spokesperson Karen Hinton responded to a Gotham Gazette inquiry about the relationship between the mayor and Borough President Diaz Jr., by stating that «Mayor de Blasio works with elected officials from across the City to address urgent issues, as he does with Bronx President Diaz.

In some agreements with a larger party enjoying a higher degree of success at the polls, the smaller party fields candidates under the banner of the larger party, with the elected members of the smaller party sitting with the elected members of the larger party in the cabinet or legislature.

During the banquet Senator Ruben Diaz, together with the elected officials will be presenting proclamations and recognition to (5) distinguish members of the Puerto Rican community.

Other district leaders work with their elected officials on many, many issues.

In one of those recordings he talked about controlling the minor parties with an elected official.....

From public safety to housing to schools, Mayor de Blasio will partner with all elected leaders to move the Bronx, and New York City, forward.»

Lopez suggested that other block associations push for new lampposts with elected officials, as his did.

The late Kalief Browder's family with elected officials at his street renaming ceremony on his 25th birthday.

As community groups talk with neighbors to envision a new playground, they're working with elected officials and the city Parks Department to fund the project, which the Parks Department estimates will cost $ 1.3 million.