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School Board Urged to Consider Trojan Horse Aspects of Philanthropic Aid

By Ruth McCambridge | February 7, 2019

Once again, in Memphis, we see that sometimes the job of a board of directors is to maintain integrity, even in the face of offers of philanthropic largesse. In this case, community members and teachers have come together to urge the board to reject a philanthropic offer to pay for its new superintendent search.

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Louisiana School Board Rejects ExxonMobil Tax Abatement Request

By Steve Dubb | January 22, 2019

In East Baton Rouge, a local school board facing a shortage of funds to pay teachers opts out of a tax-abatement deal for ExxonMobil that would have cost local school coffers $2.9 million over 10 years.

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As Local Elections Become National, Nonprofits Must Be Wary

By Martin Levine | November 28, 2018

A local school board election in Alexandria, Virginia, illustrates the increased prominence of pro-charter school PACs in school board elections.

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School Board Accepts Then Rejects the Perfect Plan for a Community School

By Carole Levine | November 5, 2018

The approval process of changing a school’s operation and structure is often complicated and fraught with politics and unanticipated roadblocks. In Rochester, NY, community members are left wondering what forces were at work in the rejection of a community school plan.

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Houston School District Listens to Its Community

By Martin Levine | April 26, 2018

Underperforming Houston public schools were destined for conversion to charters until educators and community members voiced opposition to state-mandated solutions.

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Money and Politics Creep into a Nonpartisan School Board Election

By Carole Levine | April 2, 2018

On April 3, 2018, the voters in the Parkway, Missouri school district may show us just how much influence money and politics can have in a nonpartisan election and on the future of the functioning of this school board.

Texas

Make Sure to Read the Consent Agenda: The Case of the Murdered Ethics Policy

By Rob Meiksins | November 7, 2017

An interesting use of a consent agenda has a board—perhaps unknowingly—rescind a new code of ethics.

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Texas Teachers Question Controversial Mexican-American Studies Textbook

By Patricia Schaefer | June 24, 2016

Texas’s schoolbook selection process influences what the nation’s schoolchildren read. A Mexican-American studies textbook is the source of the latest controversy.

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What Is and Isn’t Board Micromanagement: A Charter School Story

By Michael Wyland | June 13, 2016

A board that did not make finances its business ends up with a CEO who eventually made the finances his own. It’s a story we wish we could stop reporting.

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Milwaukee School District Earmarks Funds For Black Lives Matter Initiative

By Alexis Buchanan | May 27, 2016

School board officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, recently held a meeting to hear opinions about a proposed resolution that would allocate almost a half a million in dollars in funding for a “Black Lives Matter” program that would specifically address issues affecting children of color in the school district.

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