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- Two Philly students now have seats on the school board
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Sep 23, 7:40 AM:
Student representatives do not have voting power, but they take part in all board discussions and gather information from peers across the city; last year’s board representatives helped select a new superintendent.
- Orange County Board of Ed to hold special forum on charter schools
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Sep 20, 9:23 AM:
The Orange County Board of Education, tasked with supporting public schools, is hosting a forum on a specific type of institution: charters.
- Examining Tennessee’s Landscape of Charter Schools
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Aug 2, 10:29 AM:
The Tennessee Nature Academy’s supporters gathered for a party following the July 25 meeting of the Metro Nashville Public Schools board. Sure, their charter application had been rejected by a board vote of 5-4, but this was just >
- Supporting teachers, new charter school on Metro school board agenda
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Jul 26, 8:54 AM:
Metro Nashville’s school board will join others in standing up for public school teachers. Board members will vote on a resolution during a special-called meeting Monday to let teachers know they’re supported.
- School board reviews district progress survey
- Jul 19, 8:08 AM: One of the most important indicators of the district’s progress is this survey, an annual questionnaire that measures student, parent and employee satisfaction towards the educational environment at the city’s schools. >
- Schools have spent little to address COVID learning loss
- Jul 18, 8:02 AM: This despite data that indicates that learning slowed, especially among the youngest students, and gaps in achievement between Black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian peers widened during distance learning in >
- The Parental School-Board Revolt Continues (Opinion)
- Jun 8, 10:16 AM: The political fallout from school closings and curriculum battles continues, as school board incumbents are losing at an unusual rate. That’s the news from Ballotpedia, which analyzed recent school board elections in three >
- Minneapolis school board members under intense pressure; board member resigns citing ‘broken trust’
- Mar 17, 8:57 AM: Minneapolis school board members' phones are buzzing nonstop, their e-mail inboxes filling with hundreds of messages daily. Union members are picketing in front of their houses. And on Wednesday, one board member resigned, citing >
- Opinion:Collins, López and Moliga are out. Here’s how parents can keep the new S.F. schoo
- Feb 16, 9:45 AM: It’s finally over. San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga have been voted out in a recall — voters made it clear that the school board failed its 50,000 students when kids needed >
- In Landslide, San Francisco Forces Out 3 Board of Education Members
- Feb 16, 9:31 AM: The recall, which galvanized Asian Americans, was a victory for parents angered by the district’s priorities during the pandemic.
- San Francisco Votes on School Board Recall That Started With a Year-Plus of Virtual Learning
- Feb 15, 10:01 AM: San Francisco voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to recall three school board members after a monthslong campaign that became a flashpoint in the national debate over pandemic-related school closures.
- The San Francisco school board recall is a test run for mayoral control
- Feb 4, 10:26 AM: Whether or not you agree with the job that Gabriela López, Faauuga Moliga and Alison Collins have done while serving on San Francisco’s school board, they and their colleagues were democratically elected by the public. Voters had >
- Pennsylvania school board member to parents: ‘I don’t work for you’
- Jan 25, 7:41 AM: School board member Richard Robinson wrote a column for the York Dispatch, taking aim at parents who come to school board meetings to raise concerns and explaining why he believes board members are not beholden to taxpayers.
- OpEd: B1 gives control over schools to taxpayers, rather than parents and teachers
- Jan 21, 7:20 AM: That schools should be under the control of parents of children in the district and the taxpayers who fund them is not a controversial position. If you asked most people, they would say that that’s exactly what they want. But for >
- Parent-activists, seeking control over education, are taking over school boards
- Jan 20, 10:02 AM: This crop of activists is campaigning to restructure American public education so that parents, whether they come from an educational background or not, serve as final arbiters for a wide range of issues, from whether masks should >
- National School Boards Association stumbles into politics and is blasted apart
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Jan 14, 10:07 AM:
Its leaders compared aggressive school protests to ‘domestic terrorism.’ The backlash was fast and severe.
- Breed tries to rein in S.F. school board with unprecedented charter amendment
- Dec 14, 9:00 AM: Mayor London Breed is pushing an ambitious school board oversight plan that threatens to withhold city funding from classrooms if board of education members don’t change their behavior. She announced the new ballot initiative >
- National school board bleeding members, cash may now face challenge from rival group
- Dec 13, 9:26 AM: The National School Board Association has hemorrhaged members and funds following the revelation of a letter that compared parents to domestic terrorists.
- Parents, teachers push for prompt transition to elected Boston school committee
- Dec 7, 9:25 AM: The Boston School Committee is responsible for managing Boston Pubic Schools’ annual operating budget, hiring and overseeing the superintendent, and regulating policies and practices within city schools. Members of the 13-person >
- Opinion: Progressives can no longer cede school boards to the GOP
- Nov 16, 10:16 AM: As today’s school board meetings devolve into screaming matchesand fistfights over mask requirements, vaccine mandates and anti-racist curriculums, conservatives are once again growing their influence within one of the most >
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