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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain / Author
Education
God
Idiot
Practice
Sarcastic
School
School Board
Board
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I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate.
Tom Perez /
School Board
Senate
Board
Democrats
Elect
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We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.
Archie Manning / Football Player
Little League
School Board
Board
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I'd be very happy serving on a local school board. I just know that I have a responsibility to give back.
Andrew Zimmern / Television Personality
School Board
Serving
Board
Local School
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We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.
Lori Lightfoot /
Able
Function
Parent
Representatives
School
School Board
Actually
Board
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You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.
Dan Crenshaw /
Involved
School Board
Absolutely
Board
Local
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I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It's an avocation that's become a full-time job.
Phil Gingrey / Former U.s. Representative
Ran
School Board
Board
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
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If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.
Tim Walberg / U.s. Representative
Acceptable
Boards
Congress
Halls
Ought
School
School Board
United States
Pray
Board
Hall
Meeting
Town Hall
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The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
James S. Coleman /
Achievement
Children
Educational
Resources
School
School Board
Board
Fellow
Fellow Students
Provided
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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Children
Critical
Extraordinary
Meals
Poverty
Responsibility
School
School Board
Board
Member
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I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
Bob Filner / Former U.s. Representative
Children
Head Start
San Diego
School
School Board
Years
Board
Watched
Diego
Elementary
Programs
San
Successfully
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Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
Richard Lagravenese / Screenwriter
Teacher
Dedicated
School
School Board
Writer
Teachers
Board
Chose
Her
Serve
She
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It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the required taking of the Advanced Placement Examination.
Ken Cuccinelli / Former Attorney General Of Virginia
Courses
Examination
Placement
School Board
Advanced
Board
Fee
Impose
Local School
Mandatory
Required
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I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.
Phil Gingrey / Former U.s. Representative
Assembly
Blessed
House Of Representatives
Representatives
School Board
Senate
Board
Local Level
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The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.
Nikki Haley / American Politician
Clinton
Ran
School Board
Board
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Small Children
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Both my brothers played football. My mother had season tickets as a school board member. I was in the band, my sister was in the band. The thing was, the unifying civic activity was obsession over high school football.
Lori Lightfoot /
Obsession
School Board
Tickets
Unifying
Board
Civic
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Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.
Jello Biafra / Singer
Attention
Cities
City Council
Council
Important
School
School Board
Board
District
Elections
District Attorney
Hardly
Local
Mayor
Pays
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But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
Mark Kennedy / Former United States Representative
Teacher
Members
Names
School
School Board
Decisions
Teachers
Board
Washington
Limited
Promises
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But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
Birch Bayh / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Running
Airplane
Making A Difference
Ought
Reasonable
School Board
Time Family Home
Board
Family Time Home
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In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Richard Lagravenese / Screenwriter
Character
Danger
Female
Hampshire
Instruction
Lifestyle
New Hampshire
Night
Prohibition
School
School Board
Young
Alternative
Act
After
Boy
Apparently
Board
Classrooms
Disguised
Female Character
Passed
Shakespeare
Twelfth
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When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life.
Kevin De Leon /
Community College
First Time
School Board
Senior
Life Time Water
Board
District
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We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
Willard Boyle /
Interesting
Miles
Quebec
School Board
Thirty
Home Mother Me
Home Me School
Useful
Books
Board
Home Schooling
Instructions
Nearest
Northern
Perhaps
Provincial
Received
Spoke
Task
Took
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