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.
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.
A local school board election in Alexandria, Virginia, illustrates the increased prominence of pro-charter school PACs in school board elections.
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.
Underperforming Houston public schools were destined for conversion to charters until educators and community members voiced opposition to state-mandated solutions.
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.
An interesting use of a consent agenda has a board—perhaps unknowingly—rescind a new code of ethics.
Texas’s schoolbook selection process influences what the nation’s schoolchildren read. A Mexican-American studies textbook is the source of the latest controversy.
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.
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.
