Word: school-board
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...recent brouhaha involved the dubious residency status of a candidate for a Miami-Dade school-board seat, who claimed to be living in a toolshed on a farm. "Sometimes you make sacrifices for public office," he testified, and was promptly heaved off the ballot...
...Party balance in Congress is on the line, there is dissent among the White House staff...and what does the President spend the week obsessing about? The school-board election in his hometown...
...party balance in congress is on the line, there is dissent among the White House staff... and what does the President spend the week obsessing about? The school-board election in his hometown...
...Dallas high school jazz combo desperately improvises to kill time in an auditorium packed with local school-board members, education bureaucrats and fidgety students. The guest of honor, Lawrence Ellison, 55, is running a little late. Ellison is CEO and founder of the Oracle software company. And today at least, with his stock holdings outrunning those of Microsoft's Bill Gates, Ellison is the richest man in the world. His jet has just touched down at Love Field. So the combo plods on, trying to fill another 20 minutes...
...most powerful star in many city school districts these days is not the superintendent but the mayor. Since 1991, mayors have taken over districts in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, and now make school-board and superintendent appointments. In the best cases, like Chicago, where the mayor and superintendent present a unified front, the power-sharing arrangement has boosted school performance. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley in 1995 appointed Paul Vallas, a city budget director, to serve as CEO of Chicago schools. Under their leadership, the percentage of elementary school students reading at or above the national average has risen from...