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1998 Dunwoody tornado

The current Norcross High School sits on land deforested by the tornado, and then purchased by the Gwinnett school board.

Dewsbury by-election, 1902

It was reported that a number of local worthies were in line for consideration including Mr E Talbot, a member of the local school board, Alderman J Anty of Batley (described as an extreme teetotaler), Mr G Thorpe a director of the Cooperative Wholesale Society, Mr J Brown a chemical manufacturer from Savile Town and Mr W Wilson JP, a card manufacturer from Mirfield.

Guy Bisaillon

The following month, the National Assembly of Quebec approved a bill to restrict the franchise in school board elections, such that only Catholics and Protestants would be able to vote in elections for the Montreal Catholic School Commission and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, respectively.

Jack Bergen

An active Socialist Party of America member (secretary of the local branch), he was elected to the city school board and in 1934 was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives as part of the Socialist sweep of local elections under Mayor Jasper McLevy, while working as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration supervisor.

Janet Oleszek

Janet Oleszek is a former at-large member of the Fairfax County school board in Virginia.

Johnson Central High School

During the early 1960s, the school board began to consider the idea of a consolidated high school in Johnson County.

Max T. Malone

Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City, who was term-limited himself as a state House member, and Montgomery's former House colleague, B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, a retired Shreveport educator and school board member.

Thomas Farrall

He taught for seven years at Wetherall and three at Dovenby before accepting the head position from the newly formed Aspatria and Brayton School Board in 1874.

View Lake, Ontario

Public schooling is provided by the Durham District School Board and Trillium Lakelands District School Board.


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Albert McIntire

Early in 1896, McIntire rejected a last-minute insanity defense appeal of the Park County rancher Benjamin Ratcliff, who murdered three members of his local school board with whom he had quarreled over the education of this three children.

Andrew S. Draper

He then served as a member of the Albany School-board, superintendent of the public instruction at New York City, and superintendent of schools at Cleveland, Ohio before becoming the President and Regent of the University of Illinois in 1894.

Anthony Brindisi

On September 13, 2011 Brindisi, an attorney who served on the Utica School Board was elected during a special election to the New York State Assembly, succeeding long time Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito after her popularity waned for influence peddling and conflicts-of-interest.

Bogalusa School Board

Current Louisiana State Senator Ben Nevers, an electrical contractor from Bogalusa, is a former member of the Bogalusa City School Board.

Boyd Brown

Locally, Brown and State Senator Creighton Coleman took aim at their local school board to fix funding inequities in the school system.

Bruce Gilchrist

Having moved to Chappaqua, New York in 1959, he continued to be active in civic affairs, holding various positions, such as being on the Chappaqua School Board, and the Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services, among others.

Burt Grossman

In November 2012, Grossman lost his bid for a seat on the school board for Sweetwater Union High School District in National City, CA to incumbent Bertha Lopez.

Central City, Louisiana

On January 9, 2007, Governor Kathleen Blanco appointed the interim members of the new Central Community School Board.

Central Dauphin School District

By Pennsylvania School Board regulations, for the graduating classes of 2016, students must demonstrate successful completion of secondary level course work in Algebra I, Biology, English Composition, and Literature for which the Keystone Exams serve as the final course exams.

Chicago Teachers Union

In the coming years, the city and School Board were accused of rampant corruption, particularly in connection with two-time mayor William Hale Thompson.

Clergy Letter Project

He was motivated to create a petition by the actions of the school board in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, which had passed some anti-evolution policies in the summer of 2004.

Cumulative voting

Among them are Peoria, Illinois for half of its city council, Chilton County, Alabama for its county council and school board, and Amarillo, Texas, for its school board and College Board of Regents.

Dan May

In The Jews in America, Arthur Hertzberg wrote,In Nashville, Tennessee, Dan May, a leading industrialist, was chairman of the school board in 1954, and he took the lead in fostering a plan for integrating the public schools, one grade at a time.

Dan R. Tonkovich

Tonkovich served as President of the Bishop Donahue School Board and was a member of the Knights of Columbus Council #1907 of Moundsville and Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Mount Olivet.

Douglas Wiseman

Wiseman was also a public school board chair, and a trustee of St. Paul's United Church in Perth, Ontario.

Drake, North Dakota

The school board ordered books considered obscene including Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Deliverance by James Dickey assigned to the sophomore English class be confiscated and burned in 1973.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Bob's infatuation with Elvira also infuriates his love interest Patty who, with the help of several members of the school board and PTA sabotage Elvira's good name and her attempts to open a late night film fest using Bob's theater, the last straw breaking when in a Flashdance scene, she is covered in tar instead of a bucket of water and feathered by Patty, humiliating her.

Eric Munoz

His widow, Nancy Munoz, defeated two opponents, Long Hill Mayor George Vitureira and Long Hill School Board member Bruce Meringolo.

Ernest Goes to School

Ernest (Jim Varney) works as a janitor at Chickasaw Falls High School, which is facing closure due to the School Board's decision to merge other schools in the area.

Étienne-Alexis Boucher

He was also a municipal councillor for the municipality of Saint-Denis-de-Brompton as well as a school commissionner for the Saint-Hyacinthe School Board.

Francis Norie-Miller

For over 21 years he was Chairman of the School Board of Perth or of Perth County Education Authority and he was for 32 years Director (15 years Chairman) Perth Royal Infirmary.

George E. Mahoney

He had previously been a justice of the peace and a member of the Kenosha County, Wisconsin School Board.

Gospel According to Vic

Meanwhile, the Headmaster (Dave Anderson) complains to the teacher's union representative, Jeff Jeffries (David Hayman), about Vic writing letters to the school board to keep a failed student, Stevie Deans (Ewen Bremner), from being sent to a special school.

Hakubun Shimomura

He refused to intercede in a debate over the censorship of the manga Barefoot Gen, which depicts the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's culpability in World War II, by a school board in Matsue, stating that young students may not be able to understand its depictions properly.

Hans Henry Petersen

In Hyrum, Petersen served as city recorder, a Justice of the Peace, city marshall and a member of the school board.

James Andrew Darling

Darling served as a member of the municipal council, the school board and the local telephone board, as well as being involved with the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.

James J. Kilpatrick

After a school board in suburban Richmond ordered school libraries to dispose of all copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, because the board found the book immoral, Kilpatrick wrote, "A more moral novel scarcely could be imagined."

Jim Cook Jr.

Around 10 p.m. the night before the general 2012 election, Cook launched a last minute bid with no money and less than 24 hours to win a seat on the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District school board of education.

Joe Denning

While serving as a Kentucky State Police trooper, he became the first black ever elected to public office in Bowling Green and Warren County as member of the Bowling Green School Board in 1975.

Joel E. Ferris High School

The school is also the location of the studios of KSPS-TV, a PBS member station owned by the school board, which serves eastern Washington and surrounding states, as well as enjoying significant viewership in the province of Alberta, Canada.

Lincoln Alexander Public School

Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, part of the Peel District School Board

Lorenz Kellner

In 1848 von Eichhorn, the Prussian minister of worship and education, called Lorenz to Marienwerder in West Prussia as member of the government district council and of the school-board.

Magne Valen-Sendstad

In 1965 he became vicar in Randaberg, where he was a school board member from 1966 to 1968.

Mahlon Morris Garland

He served as vice president of the American Federation of Labor, as member of the Pittsburgh School Board, and as a member of the borough council of Edgewood, Pennsylvania.

Monkey Town

However, things bounce out of normal range when her father, the school board chairman, arrests local teacher (and Frances' friend and love interest) John Scopes for teaching Charles Darwin's evolution theory in class, in an effort to attract publicity to the town.

Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle

In his native Virginia, Justice Lewis Powell noted, school board members were "constitutional officers."

Negreet, Louisiana

In January of 2014, the ACLU filed suit against the Sabine Parish School Board, Superintendent Sara Erarb, Principal Gene Wright and teacher Rita Roark of Negreet High School, alleging officials at one of its schools harassed a sixth-grader because of his Buddhist faith and that the district routinely pushes Christian beliefs upon their students.

Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League

Only one team, Osbourn High School, has been officially recognized by its local school board, Manassas City Public Schools.

Operation Save America

At South Rowan High School, near Charlotte, North Carolina, when a Gay-Straight Alliance was forming at that school, Operation Save America arranged to have some 700 people to show up at the school board meeting and get the board to ban the club from the school.

Peter Lauterborn

Lauterborn was joined by the School Board's past-president Eric Mar and Community College Board candidate Chris Jackson.

Quitman County, Mississippi

On July 24, 1969, federal judge William Keady found that Quitman County school officials were maintaining an unconstitutional de jure racially segregated school system, placing the school board under the supervision of United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.

San Geronimo Valley

It is part of the Lagunitas School District, unique in that it operates three alternative elementary programs and a traditional middle school program on two connected campuses with one superintendent (Larry Enos), one principal (Christian Francis), and one school board (Denise Santa Cruz-Bohmani, Stephanie O'Brien, Steve Rebscher, Christopher Sabec, and Richard Sloan).

School District 36 Surrey

In May 2007, the Surrey School Board made national news when it voted to instruct teachers not to show Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary on Climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, until trustees are able to review the film.

Spring Street School

Six years later, the school board appointed a committee of two medical doctors, R.W. Ellis and Walter Lindley, to examine the school.

Stephanie Venn Petersen

Stephanie Venn Petersen was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Orville Seward Petersen, an insurance salesman, small business owner and former chair of the Proctor School Board and Ruth Alma (Borg) Petersen, an administrative assistant for the 148th Fighter Wing, a unit of the Minnesota National Guard in Duluth, Minnesota.

Tensas Parish School Board

School board members from the early years included George Henry Clinton, John Newell, J. H. Netterville, and Thomas M. Wade.

Vancouver municipal election, 2008

NPA candidates for the School Board were Ken Denike (incumbent) (re-elected with 46,777 votes), Eileen Le Gallais (37,598 votes), Carol Gibson (incumbent vice-chair) (re-elected with 46,048 votes), Clarence Hansen (incumbent) (40,953 votes), Heather Holden (Park Board incumbent) (45,921 votes), Margit Nance (35,014 votes), Lakhbir Singh (33,659 votes), and Sophia Woo (43,538 votes).

William Romaine Callender

He was elected as a member of the first Manchester School Board in 1870, and in 1874 as one of three members of parliament for the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, defeating the Liberal MP, Jacob Bright.

Wong v. San Francisco Board of Education

The contract that the lawsuit attempted to void gave Superintendent Ackerman $375,000 in severance should she leave early or fail to get along with incoming school board members.