Sentences with phrase «black school superintendents»

It was during the Miami meeting, the superintendents formally organized the National Alliance of Black School Superintendents (NABSS)- Dr. Russell Jackson was elected President.

This human characteristic was one of the underlying factors in the formation of the National Alliance of Black School Superintendents.»

The Florida lawmaker who led his state's House education committee has resigned his legislative seat in the wake of allegations that he used a racial slur to describe Miami - Dade County's black school superintendent and then threatened a fellow lawmaker who filed a complaint against him.

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From left to right: Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, Georgia Organics Executive Director Alice Rolls, Cherokee County School District School Nutrition Director Tina Farmer, Georgia Department of Health Commissioner Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal, UGA Associate Dean for Extension Dr. Laura Perry Johnson, and Georgia State Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods.

The latest Web video from the state Democratic Party is a highlight reel of some of GOP / Conservative gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino's more memorable — and controversial — statements, dating all the way back to 2008, when the Buffalo businessman said the local school superintendent had been hired only because he was black.

Black Westchester Magazine presents People Before Politics Radio With your hosts Damon K Jones, AJ Woodson and Cynthia Turnquest - Jones Guests: Mount Vernon City School District Superintendent Dr Kenneth Hamilton, Juanita Lewis of Community Voices Heard and Benyamin Bridges of Parents Against Teen Violence

Since August 2016, Carranza, 51, has been serving as superintendent of the Houston Independent School District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student populSchool District — the largest school district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student populschool district in Texas and the seventh largest district in the United States, with a primarily Hispanic and black student population.

The «factual record» of Boston's school superintendent, Robert R. Spillane, apparently was not enough to satisfy the two black members of the city's five - member school committee, who have raised questions about Mr. Spillane's racial «sensitivity» and his suitability for continuing in the job.

The final plan is based largely on a proposal aired in February by John A. Murphy, the superintendent of schools, but contains several revisions designed to ease the fears of some black parents and activists that the plan would...

In Black Power / White Power in Public Education (Praeger Publishers, June 1998), Drs. Ralph Edwards and Charles V. Willie examine dynamics of the community power structure among racial groups in relation to public education through the lens of two recent Boston events: the selection, appointment, and eventual removal of former Superintendent Laval Wilson and the changes in the Boston School Board before, during, and after Wilson's tenure.

Recently, the Superintendent of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, a Boston suburban school system, proposed terminating a small program enrolling black students from Boston.

Since then, according to Eli Seaborn, superintendent of schools, white families have left the county school system, leaving the approximately 3,000 - student district 98percent black.

Janet KolodzySpecial to Education Week Cleveland — Claiming that «the purpose seems to be lost,» Frederick D. Holliday, the first black superintendent of the Cleveland City School District, killed himself on Jan. 26 in the stairwell of the district's Av

There was some momentary drama when a group of mostly black leaders in Algiers won a temporary restraining order against the plan and Acting Superintendent Watson and board president Torin Sanders, who was one of the votes against the Algiers plan, began to talk about OPSB opening four of its own West Bank schools in November, but the resistance was short - lived.

The line dividing the inner - city schools from the growing suburbs «had been frozen by the county,»» the black former superintendent of schools tells Grant.

Howard Fuller's memoir, written with Lisa Frazier Page, chronicles his journey from political activist to school superintendent and back again, revealing along the way the monumental challenge of ensuring that poor black children have access to a high - quality education.

Perhaps it was Schaefer's public dispute with the city's first black superintendent, which became an intensely racial conflict between community activists and the mostly white school board, that sensitized him to the political costs of becoming too deeply engaged in school affairs.

When I was superintendent of schools in Stamford, Conn., a very diverse system (40 % Hispanic, 22 % black, 8 % Asian, 30 % white, 40 % free and reduced - price lunch, 15 % English learners), I was faced with institutional segregation of students within desegregated schools.

Fuller is a former superintendent of the Milwaukee Public Schools with a previous history as a Black nationalist.

Since most of the students using vouchers are black, it is, as State Education Superintendent John White pointed out to the New Orleans Times - Picayune, «a little ridiculous» to argue that the departure of mostly black students to voucher schools would make their home school systems less white.

There was strong testimony in support of the bill from the charter school community: Kathleen Zimmerman, CEO of NYOS, Michelle Bonton, Superintendent of The Rhodes School, Priscilla Cavazos and Michele McCurdy — public charter school parents, Mike Feinberg and Albert Black — TCSA board members, Lalla Morris with Families Empowered, and Davidschool community: Kathleen Zimmerman, CEO of NYOS, Michelle Bonton, Superintendent of The Rhodes School, Priscilla Cavazos and Michele McCurdy — public charter school parents, Mike Feinberg and Albert Black — TCSA board members, Lalla Morris with Families Empowered, and DavidSchool, Priscilla Cavazos and Michele McCurdy — public charter school parents, Mike Feinberg and Albert Black — TCSA board members, Lalla Morris with Families Empowered, and Davidschool parents, Mike Feinberg and Albert Black — TCSA board members, Lalla Morris with Families Empowered, and David Dunn.

In 1964, the Supreme Court ruled in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County that the County had to reopen its public schools on the grounds that it was still in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.23 By closing its public schools and subsequently subsidizing private academies that only admitted white students, the County, along with the state board of education and state superintendent, continued to deny black students the rights their white peers were provided.

«Syracuse is now number one in the nation in terms of the percentage of black and Hispanic families living in high - poverty neighborhoods,» said Sharon Contreras, outgoing superintendent of Syracuse City School District.

More importantly, given that rates of suspensions can be as high in mostly - black schools run by black principals (and overseen by superintendents), it's hard to argue whether the problem is one of racial bigotry (as implied by Duncan in his announcement), a matter of class bias (just as likely), or haphazard school and district policies.

In addition, this state's largest charter authorizer, Miami - Dade — run by the terrific Assistant Superintendent Tiffanie Pauline, who happens to be a Black woman — oversees a strong portfolio of schools and is leading efforts to focus more heavily on student outcomes and promoting transparency.

In Hazlehurst, a predominantly black, low - income district located about an hour's drive from Jackson, Superintendent John Sullivan has learned how to play the recruiting game, competing aggressively for teachers who might initially be looking for jobs in higher income schools.

The uproar was caused when yet another cop shot yet another young black man, quite outside of any kind of educational setting, but self - proclaimed conservative Holtz feels compelled to go through this kind of contortion to fault the Milwaukee School System under the distant supervision of incumbent State Superintendent Tony Evers.

Roszalyn M. Akins, Founder of Future BMW (Black Males Working) in Lexington, Alvin Garrison, Superintendent, Covington Independent Schools, and Tim Schlosser, Principal, Franklin - Simpson High School, spoke of the ways they promote positive school culture and stressed that community collaboration is essential for suSchool, spoke of the ways they promote positive school culture and stressed that community collaboration is essential for suschool culture and stressed that community collaboration is essential for success.

My assistant principal, Ms. Lockhart, continued her good work and was recently appointed superintendent of Culver City Unified School District, the first Black person to ever hold that position.

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Cami Anderson, former superintendent of Newark public schools, talked about the way that current discipline policies negatively impact students of color, referencing research that shows that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts as early as kindergarten.

Despite Bersin's efforts, and those of superintendents who followed, stark disparities in test scores, school discipline and graduation rates still exist between white, Latino and black students.

Superintendent honored: Pinellas County School Superintendent Mike Grego is named Florida superintendent of the year for his work to close the achievement gap between black and nonbSuperintendent honored: Pinellas County School Superintendent Mike Grego is named Florida superintendent of the year for his work to close the achievement gap between black and nonbSuperintendent Mike Grego is named Florida superintendent of the year for his work to close the achievement gap between black and nonbsuperintendent of the year for his work to close the achievement gap between black and nonblack students.

Bair, having been superintendent in wealthy cities such as Lexington, Massachusetts and Carmel, California, had no experience within cities such as Hartford, where the exodus of white families to the surrounding suburbs contributed to the decrease of white students in Hartford schools and the increase of minority students, in this case black and Puerto Rican students.

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He says his time as a superintendent of Beloit schools, which have a high percentage of low - income students and students of color, will help address the state's longstanding, persistent achievement gap between black and white students — which is the worst in the country by some measures.

They targetted the segregationist policies of CPS superintendent Ben Willis, under which students in black schools were crammed into classrooms and mobile units and taught in split shits, while nearby white schools had empty classrooms.

From 1977 to 1999, the number of black elected officials with influence over public education in cities (mayors, council members, school board members and superintendents) more than doubled, to 5,815 from 2,724

The new year started with the announcement that Michelle King had been chosen by a unanimous vote of the school board to be LA Unified's next superintendent, the first black female ever to lead the district and the first woman since 1929.

com profile of Dr. RaeNell Houston, the first black superintendent of New Orleans Catholic schools.

In a strongly worded letter to Superintendent Beth Schiavino - Narvaez, NAACP branch President Imam Abdul - Shahid Muhammad Ansari wrote that recommendations to close schools named for Martin Luther King, former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, civil rights pioneer Frank T. Simpson and John C. Clark Jr., the first African - American elected to public office in Hartford, represent a «total disregard for Black and Latino culture and heritage» and are part of a larger pattern of neglect toward neighborhood schools.

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Not wanting to stir up tensions created in Boston and other cities over forced busing of white students, then - MPS Superintendent Lee McMurrin developed a plan to integrate schools via «choice,» specialty magnet schools and a busing scheme that once again disrupted black students» lives, but had little effect on white students.

* Howard Fuller is a national leader in education reform and policy, a former Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools and the founder of the Black Alliance for Educational Options.