Sentences with phrase «as state chief»

As state chief of Indiana schools, Tony Bennett implemented an A-F grading system, giving the schools a letter grade, just like students.

A spokesman for the commissioner, who has spent the last 11 of his 36 years in education as state chief, indicated that Mr. Turlington, 64, would announce his plans in the next few weeks.

We understand that school safety sits at the intersection of many complicated issues involving mental health, student privacy, resources and gun laws, but as state chiefs we welcome the difficult conversations that will move us forward in making schools safer for every child.

«As state chiefs, we need to tell the story of what it means to teach today.

We work primarily with state and district assessment and accountability leaders and also with policy makers at all levels such as state chiefs, board members, and legislators.

Where they assign teachers is not our purview as state chiefs.»

Not exact matches

Some experts, such as Marcus Lemon, an attorney at Polsinelli and former chief counsel to Federal Highway Administration from 2007 to 2009, say this proposal could actually help state and local budgets, because it provides more clarity about federal contributions, thereby forcing them to adapt accordingly.

Chief among these is that labour costs in Canada and the United States are becoming relatively more competitive as the Chinese economy soared and wages there gradually caught up to more developed economies.

New leaders for Gold Corp The state government has appointed Donald Mackay - Coghill as chairman of Gold Corporation and Richard Hayes as chief executive, effective from next month.

By contrast, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine, now chief justice of the state Supreme Court, wrote in the Wake Forest Law Review: «Corporate law requires directors, as a matter of their duty of loyalty, to pursue a good faith strategy to maximize profits for the stockholders.»

Paul Everingham has left the state's second largest advertising agency after less than six months at the helm as chief executive.

A former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, the 64 - year - old has no previous experience as a diplomat but nonetheless has had deep exposure to dealing with foreign leaders in countries with interests opposed to or in competition with those of the United States.

But then again, as the president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association — a powerful lobby group that represents more than 2,000 technology companies operating in the United States, including Samsung, Microsoft and Apple — he's supposed to be.

As the front - runner for U.S. secretary of state, Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Rex Tillerson would bring a global business savvy seldom seen in a Cabinet member, let alone the country's top diplomat.

Guy Chalkley will stay on as chief executive of state - owned utility Western Power, with his appointment made official today.

Toyota Motor (tm) will invest $ 10 billion in the United States over the next five years, the same as in the previous five years, North America Chief Executive Jim Lentz said Monday.

Former state treasurer Troy Buswell has been promoted to chief financial officer at civil and construction contractor Brierty, which today annunced that 14 positions have been made redundant as it seeks to shave costs.

Rob Bransby has announced he will no longer leave his post as managing director of the state's largest health insurer to become chief executive of Perth Racing.

«Cohen's directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and «corporate responsibility» work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states,» Assange said, referring to an e-mail leaked by WikiLeaks claiming to discuss Cohen's activities as Google Ideas chief.

Reuters» monthly asset allocation poll of 50 wealth managers and chief investment officers in Europe, the United States, Britain and Japan showed growing caution about equities even as world stock markets surged to fresh highs in January after repeatedly smashing records in 2017.

Babington Falls began her career as a law clerk to a Chief United States District Court Judge.

McClendon cofounded Chesapeake Energy in 1989 and turned it into the second - largest natural gas driller in the United States before he stepped down as chief executive in 2013.

The project stalled under Barack Obama's presidency, but has been revived by current White House incumbent Donald Trump, who appointed ex-ExxonMobil boss Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and is viewed as an oil and gas friendly Commander in Chief.

The arrests follow a purge that has seen more than 80 executives at PDVSA and its suppliers jailed for alleged corruption as the state firm's new chief, Major General Manuel Quevedo, has sought to stamp his authority on the sector - the financial lifeblood of Venezuela's unraveling socialist government.

«There is tremendous energy and excitement within Amarin currently as we approach the results of the REDUCE - IT study and prepare for targeted future growth,» stated John F. Thero, president and chief executive officer.

BlackBerry has waded into the net neutrality debate currently raging in the United States with a blog post by chief executive John Chen that can only be described as jaw - dropping.

Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors, reckons that new legislation that drops the rate all the way to 20 %, and contains other levy - lowering provisions such as immediate expensing of capital expenditure, could raise EPS for the S&P 500 by 8 % in the first year.

Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, the country — and the world — has witnessed a stormy, outrageous, and absolutely mesmerizing presidential term that reflects the volatility and fierceness of the man elected Commander - in - Chief.

The budget office provides fiscal information and analysis in support of the Governor's statutory role as the state's Chief Budget Officer.

But at the bottom of a company announcement about new privacy features, Facebook's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, issued a new estimate for the number of users who were affected: as many as 87 million, most of them in the United States.

The Bank of Montreal is reaping the benefits of increasing consumer confidence and tax cuts in the United States, but the lender's chief executive says there are signs Canada as a whole may not be so lucky.

Chen, an energetic 58 - year - old Hong Kong native, who immigrated to the United States in 1973, was named executive chairman and interim chief executive of Blackberry on Monday as the company unexpectedly abandoned a plan to sell itself.

And in the United States the New England grocery chain Market Basket faced employee protests and lost $ 583 million in sales as two cousins — one a board member, the other the chief executive, both grandsons of the founder — publicly vied for control of the company.

«We are convinced that yesterday's decision by the United States to leave the Paris agreement is a big mistake,» Tusk, who chairs EU summits as the head of the European Council, told a news conference with Li and the EU's chief executive Jean - Claude Juncker.

PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kraft Heinz today announced certain management changes, all to be effective October 1, 2017, including the appointment of (a) Paulo Basilio, 42, currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, as Zone President of the United States business, and (b) David Knopf, 29, currently Vice President and Category Head of the Planters business, as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

WASHINGTON — Makan Delrahim, the nominee for chief antitrust cop at the Justice Department, was 10 when his family immigrated to the United States from Iran as Jewish political refugees.

From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Kandel was the Chief of the Investor Protection & Securities Bureau at the New York State Attorney General's Office, where he also served as Assistant Deputy Attorney General.

As the state's chief legal officer, the attorney general's office is taking this step to protect the health and safety of Oklahomans,» Pruitt said in a statement.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the UBIC, stated in a press release, «The UBCIC is opposed to the Enbridge Pipeline Project and stands with the many First Nations who are standing as a unified block in their opposition to this proposed Tar Sands pipeline.»

And some who have recently seen Tillerson say the former ExxonMobil chief executive — unaccustomed to taking orders from a superior, let alone one as capricious as Trump — also seems to be ready to end his State Department tenure.

More recently, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), or «fear gauge,» has surged on the departures of Gary Cohn as chief economic advisor and Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, as well as the application of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Scalia, who previously served as DOL's chief legal officer and is the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, agreed, stating that the DOL rule's impact «is nationwide, but it's very great in Texas.

Chief Executive Magazine today announced Texas as the «Best State For Business» for 2018.

The district partnered with the offices of the sheriff, state attorney, public defender, and chief judge, as well as the NAACP, to rethink its disciplinary policies.

Binance's chief executive officer has described the report as «irresponsible,» stating that the exchange is engaging in «constructive» dialogue» with the FSA.

Speaking on Day 2 of the conference, Dr Lawrence Yun, (pictured), Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors, predicted that United States housing demand would continue to boom over next five years, as long as job growth continued.

Former Exxon Mobil Corp. chief executive Rex Tillerson has been tapped as secretary of state and is awaiting confirmation by the Senate.

Back in 2009, as chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he successfully pioneered India's first solar incentives.

Significantly, the United States and Britain have denied Modi a visaModi came to prominence as the hugely successful Chief Minister of Gujarat, a state of 63 million northwest of Mumbai on the Arabian Sea and the source of many immigrants to Canada.

Short - term high grade corporates have become relatively more attractive lately due to a number of technical factors, chief among them a one - time shift out of short - maturity corporate bonds as companies bring home cash held outside of the United States as a result of the recent tax act.