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9 unusual facts about board of education


Frank Nuderscher

His mural, The Apotheosis of St. Louis, that adorned the St. Louis Board of Education assembly room had featured only white children.

Frankfort Square Park District

An agreement was entered into by and between the 3-member districts and the Board of Education of Lincoln-Way High School District 210 in 1994.

Janet Oleszek

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

Runnymede, Toronto

The school, named for trustee James Culnan, was opened in 1970 with the official opening and blessing 6 June 1971.

Same-sex marriage in Utah

Park City School District Board of Education members adopted a policy in 2011 which provides domestic-partner benefits to district employees including those who are part of same-sex relationships.

St Margaret's School Hampstead

In her final year, the Board of Education inspectors described her as “a woman of culture and ideals to whom the School is much indebted for all her educational work”.

Stanley A. Prokop

Following the war, he served on the North Pococno Joint Board of Education for 10 years, and following this was elected to the United States Congress in 1958, defeating incumbent Republican Congressman Joseph L. Carrigg.

Stephen Canessa

Prior to being elected to the house in 2004, he was a member of the Lakeville School Committee from 2001 - 2004.

View Lake, Ontario

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


Administrative divisions of Illinois

Elected boards of education govern these districts, except for the Chicago Public Schools and the City Colleges of Chicago, for which the boards are appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Chicago City Council, and the special charter districts, which may have elected or appointed boards.

Alice Hamlin Hinman

Alice Hamlin Hinman a psychologist who changed the public school education system from backwards to progressive from 1907 to 1919 through her influence and membership on the Lincoln board of education.

Direct grant grammar school

The grant system was restructured when the Board of Education was created in 1901 to fund early secondary schools, and the Education Act 1902 gave counties and county boroughs responsibility for schools, designating them as Local Education Authorities (LEAs).

Don Collins Reed

Between 2003 and 2009, Reed observed and volunteered in public school and preschool classrooms in Springfield, Ohio, and served on the Board of Education of Springfield City Schools.

Shimizu, Hokkaido

ALT's working for the towns board of education are hired from Michigan, and work at the towns elementary and junior high schools.

Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn

In 1968, Ocean Hill and neighboring Brownsville experienced the worst teacher strike in history when the central Board of Education gave the community board neighborhood control.


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1980 in LGBT rights

31 — The Toronto Board of Education (since merged into the Toronto District School Board) votes to consider whether to establish a permanent liaison committee with the gay community.

Ademola Rasaq Seriki

Upon completion of his studies, Demola Seriki became a licensed teacher with the New York City Board of Education under their employment at the JFK Memorial High School, Walton High School, and the Springfield High School.

Aigburth Vale

Hubner sold the agricultural land to the Towson Nurseries who subdivided portions of it for sale to the Baltimore County Board of Education in 1943 and 1946 for use as the site for Towson High School and its surrounding campus.

Bible in the Schools

In 1922, J. P. McCallie, founder of The McCallie School and chair of the Religious Work Committee of the Chattanooga YMCA, approached the Chattanooga City Commission to provide Bible courses adapted to the various ages from 4th grade through high school, taught by teachers selected and paid by the Bible Study Committee, and that were subject to the principals and the Board of Education in scholarship and discipline.

Bill Seitz

After graduating from the University of Cincinnati, Seitz worked as a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education, and as a Green Township Trustee.

Bryan Williams

Bryan C. Williams, member of the Ohio Board of Education, and former member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Cobb County School District

The Board of Education hired New York-based auditing firm Kessler International in July 2005 to investigate the bidding process for the initiative, amidst allegations that the bidding process that selected Apple Computer as supplier for the initiative violated state law.

Comstock Public School District

In 2013, the Comstock Board of Education approved the creation of a STEM Academy.

Conscenti

Opened on May 28, 1998, it is managed by the board of education of the neighboring town of Cogorno, and is dedicated to Hugo Plomteux, the Belgian scholar of Ligurian cultural and linguistic heritage.

Cynthia Dunbar

As a sitting member of the Texas State Board of Education, in March 2010, Dunbar proposed and won ratification of a number of modifications to Texas K-12 social studies curriculum, notably the removal of Thomas Jefferson and mention of the Age of Enlightenment (in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority).

Emma M. Cramer

During her teaching career, she was also involved in many civic organizations, including the Portsmouth City Council, the Republican Women's Society of Scioto County, and the Portsmouth Board of Education.

Evander M. Law

There, and as a trustee of the Summerlin Institute from 1905 to 1912, and as a member of the Polk County Board of Education from 1912 until his death, he played a key role in the foundation of public education in Florida.

Frank A. Mason

Mason was the son of David H. Mason, an attorney and politician who served on the Massachusetts Board of Education, in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and later as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

George Buchanan Foster

In addition to his legal career, he served as president of the Children's Memorial Hospital of Montreal and was a member of the Protestant Board of Education for the province of Quebec.

Gilbert Richard Redgrave

Secretary of the 1881–84 Royal Commission on Technical Instruction, Redgrave became an Inspector of Schools, rising to become chief senior inspector of technical schools under the Board of Education in 1897 and assistant secretary to the Board in 1900.

Green Party of New Jersey

The party experienced its first non-partisan electoral victory in 1999 when (1997-1998 Party Chair) Gary Novosielski was elected by voters in Rutherford to the Board of Education of the Rutherford School District.

Harcourt J. Pratt

He was president of the Board of Education of Highland, New York from 1908 to 1926.

Haywood Early College High School

Haywood Early College High School students are eligible to take additional courses through waivers/exemptions approved by HCC, HCC Board of Trustees, Haywood County Schools and Board of Education, the North Carolina State Board of Education, and the North Carolina Community College System Office.

James Compton

He has also been Board President of the Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Board of Education, and is a Life Trustee of the Field Museum of Natural History.

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.

John Freshwater

John Freshwater (born June 22, 1956) is a former science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School in Mount Vernon, Ohio, who was dismissed by the Board of Education for teaching creationism in a public school, and using a Tesla coil to "mark the shape of the cross into the arms of eighth grade students".

Linda Combs

Prior to government service, and following a successful career of over ten years in instructional and administrative positions in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System, she was elected in 1980 to the Board of Education in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, North Carolina.

Miles O'Brien

Miles M. O'Brien (1852–1910), banker and former president of the New York City Board of Education

Montgomery Township, New Jersey

Ben Bernanke (born 1953), Chairman of the Federal Reserve, former resident and member of the Montgomery Township Board of Education.

Murphy J. Foster

Foster appointed another Tensas Parish legislator, Thomas M. Wade of Newellton to the state board of education; Wade was later the long-term Tensas Parish school superintendent.

Ninfa Segarra

In 1990, then Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer appointed Segarra as the borough's representative to the Board of Education.

Richard Haas

These include Chase Field; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building & Courthouse in Beckley, West Virginia; the main branch of the New York Public Library, the Lakewood Public Library (Ohio), the Sarasota County, Florida Judicial Center and the former Board of Education building in Brooklyn, NY´.

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey

Overpeck Township was formed on March 23, 1897, to be coextensive with Ridgefield Park village, and was created within Ridgefield Township for the purpose of administering a Board of Education.

Rod Paige

As a trustee and an officer of the Board of Education of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) from 1989 to 1994, Paige coauthored the board's 'A Declaration of Beliefs and Visions', a statement of purpose and goals for the school district that called for fundamental reform through decentralization, a focus on instruction, accountability at all levels, and development of a core curriculum.

Roger Ludlowe Middle School

The Board of Education voted that the new Fairfield Ludlowe High School (FLHS) would re-occupy the Roger Ludlowe building, and a brand-new RLMS building would be erected adjacent.

Ruth A. Myers

She asked Governor Rudy Perpich to be appointed to the Minnesota State Board of Education (SBE).

San Francisco general elections, November 2008

Proposition V would make it City policy to urge the San Francisco Board of Education to reverse its elimination of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC).

SEED Alternative School

The students ran the school, often dealing directly with the Board of Education where trustees such as long time trustees Fiona Nelson and Dr. Maurice Lister were supportive.

Septimus J. Hanna

Also, in 1898, Hanna was made vice-president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, when Eddy established a Board of Education to continue the work of the closed institution.

Silicon Valley Education Foundation

, California State Board of Education; Tarkan Maner, chairman & CEO Nexenta; Kay Matthews, managing partner, EY; D. John Miller, founder & CEO DJM Capital Partners, Inc.

Steve Abrams

He was a member of the Board of Education for USD 470 in Arkansas City, Kansas.

Steve Stadelman

Stadelman was endorsed by former Rockford Board of Education President Nancy Kalchbrenner and former Mayors Charles Box and Doug Scott.

Texas Education Agency

In October 2012, The Revisionaries, a documentary film about the re-election of the chairman of the Texas Board of Education Don McLeroy and the curriculum controversy was released.

Three Rivers Athletic Conference

In May 2010, the Toledo Public School board of education voted to cut all junior high (seventh and eighth grade) and freshman sports, as well as the discontinuation of boys tennis, cross country, golf, ice hockey and wrestling.

Tōya, Hokkaido

The locality has yearly Gap Year volunteers from the UK sent by the organization Project Trust, that worked with the local Board of Education to help teach English to the local residents, both old and young.

Trevelyan Middle School

The school was officially opened on 26 March 1930 as the New Windsor Council School by Sir Charles Trevelyan, the President of the Board of Education.

United States Commission on Civil Rights

Abigail Thernstrom, Vice-Chair (R) – Manhattan Institute political scientist and former member of the Massachusetts Board of Education (appointed by Congress, 2001; switched registration to "Independent" when appointed Vice-Chair by President Bush, 2004; switched registration back to Republican and reappointed to USCCR by President Bush in 2007; term will expire in 2013).

University of West Virginia

Following the decision in Brown v. Board of Education State was desegregated, gave up its land grant status and was placed under the Board of Education as well.

Volga rebels

The initiative to remove the picture were made by the Regional Board of Education of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the chief director of the Chuvash Drama Joachim S. Maksimov-KoshkinskyChuvash had in those years was a lot of history, which begged the screen.

WFBE

The station was owned by the Flint Board of Education whose studios were on the campus of Flint Central High School for many years.

Originally located on Flint Board of Education property—first the Oak Grove Campus then Flint Central High School, the station vacated the high school when new transmitting facilities became operational in 2010 at the co-owned transmitting facilities of WTRX.

Wong v. San Francisco Board of Education

Wong v. San Francisco Board of Education was a 2005 California lawsuit that asked the San Francisco Board of Education to void San Francisco public schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman's 2004 contract.