How to Use school board in a Sentence

school board

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  • What’s the new vice president of the school board charged with?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The voters on that school board know, the voters in those towns know a lot more.
    — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The school board ousted Parker from his job in a 5-1 vote on Jan. 25.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The school board ran six bond elections in seven years.
    — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For many years, school board members were not paid much.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The county's school board is set to hold a special meeting to push for Dec. 9 to be marked as the make-up day.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This week, the school board had the opportunity to show the students this.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In several school board meetings around the state, the same debate has played out over the past few months.
    — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Now the objectors are heading to the Howard County school board with their lists.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The school board learned of a $3.6 million budget deficit in January.
    — Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The deadline to apply to run for a school board position was June 20.
    — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2024
  • Sometimes, both in poker and in the school board meeting, saying less is more.
    — Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The incumbents’ wins against their challengers would place them in their final terms on the school board.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The school board voted to suspend her at a meeting on Wednesday, March 20.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The school board would evaluate the book and determine whether to remove it from the library.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Some school board lawyers are confused by the rules, and and those arguing for access have few ways to fight back.
    — Elle Reeve, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In the weeks since, several other school boards have voted to join.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Four days later, the Wichita school board votes to close her school and five others.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024
  • The other two school board races have a large margin between the leader and runner-up.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2022
  • It was expected to be discussed by the full school board Thursday.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
  • That same month, Democrats also flipped control of the school board in Central Bucks County.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • At least one business owner has asked the school district to move the bus stop during school board meetings.
    — Claudia Lauer, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Conservative groups made school boards a new front in the culture wars.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Andrea Hogg, the parent of an eighth grader in the district, asked the school board about their new initiatives.
    — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The seat has been vacant since March, when Belinda Queen left the school board to run for county council.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The other five school board members, who hold staggered three-year terms, are not up for election this spring.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In Ohio, progressives, with the help of teachers unions, managed to overcome an effort to flip the state school board.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Last week, ahead of the school board meeting, the district released its new policy.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • More on the charter debate:IPS school board candidates are split on charter schools.
    — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Those percentages include all individuals who cast a ballot that included the school board race — even those who may not have voted for the school board.
    — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024

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