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Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer.He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration.
For decades up to 1971, the mayor appointed school board members, who were then confirmed by voters in the next election. In November 1971, voters approved Proposition S, which made Board of Education members elected directly by voters. The push came as backlash against the school board's efforts to use busing desegregate schools. [7] [8]
As of January 2023, the following were members of the D.C. State Board of Education. [27] The president of the State Board is elected by the members of the board annually. [28] Jacque Patterson (at-large) Ben Williams (Ward 1) Allister Chang (Ward 2) Eric Goulet (Ward 3) Frazier O'Leary (Ward 4) Robert Henderson (Ward 5) Brandon Best (Ward 6)
In her third year on the board, Ehlers was reelected to her seat on the School Committee, running unopposed, in November. She joined the committee after running unopposed in 2021.
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is a nonprofit educational organization operating as a federation of state associations of school boards across the United States. Founded in 1940, NSBA represents state school boards associations and their more than 90,000 local school board members.
Wake County voters will decide this fall on the nine members of the school board who set the policies for North Carolina’s largest school district. The two-week filing period opened on July 1 ...
The Board members were elected by district, but the Alabama Legislature declined to redraw the districts following the 1970 or 1980 censuses. [7] Accordingly, in 1985, Judge Truman McGill Hobbs of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama adopted a redistricting plan that created a Black-majority district. [ 8 ]
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.