Sentences with phrase «board of regents take»

Unlike in other states where governors were intimately involved with Common Core implementation, Cuomo has largely stayed out of the process, letting state education commissioner John King and the state Board of Regents take the heat from parents and teachers over the rocky rollout.

Earlier this week, the Board of Regents took an unprecedented action against charter school growth by denying not one but two charter school applications.

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The Maryland Terrapins will take a huge step in the process of switching conferences from the ACC to the Big Ten Monday, according to multiple reports, when the university's Board of Regents will vote on the move.

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

Peoples - Stokes has maintained her relationship with Heastie and if this recent move with the Board of Regents Seat is any indication she won't be shy about taking advantage of it.

The state Board of Regents is taking steps to make it easier for teachers to become certified in New York.

Conservative columnist Kyle O'Connor takes on a recent measure by the New York State Education Department's Board of Regents that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses, including certification to teach in public schools.

He accuses the education commissioner and state Board of Regents chancellor of not wanting charter schools to succeed, and tweeted that they «should take the blinders off.»

As more residents look to send their kids to public universities, Cuomo and the Board of Regents need to take bold steps to improve quality.

As a result of the input received from those conversations, Commissioner Elia, together with the Board of Regents, took a number of significant actions in her first year, including the following:

«The purpose of the Board of Regents is to take education out of the realm of politics, and this wrong - headed proposal would insert politics directly into the process,» said Silver spokesman Michael Whyland.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo took another shot at the State Board of Regents Thursday, blaming the education policy makers for «massive chaos» that he said has resulted from their implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

David Steiner, dean of the Hunter College School of Education, was appointed New York State education commissioner by the state Board of Regents on July 27, and is expected to take office on Oct. 1.

The election of Betty Rosa, a former bilingual teacher, principal and superintendent of Bronx schools, as the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents further cements the new direction that New York State education policy has taken this year.

The newly elected Chancellor to the Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use of standardized tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board of Regents, she would join the opt out movement and not permit her children to take the tests.

The state's Board of Regents acknowledged that failure rates are running far too high — at 23 percent — on a teacher - licensing exam taken so far by about 22,000 college students and others statewide.

The Senate's statement Tuesday hedged its push for the moratorium as action lawmakers will take «unless the Board of Regents acts to alleviate the concerns of parents, teachers and other educators» — a phrase that's different from the Assembly's otherwise nearly identical position.

A local member of the state Board of Regents says the board will be taking a close look next week at the State Legislature's request to delay Common Core standards for two yBoard of Regents says the board will be taking a close look next week at the State Legislature's request to delay Common Core standards for two yboard will be taking a close look next week at the State Legislature's request to delay Common Core standards for two years.

The Board of Regents voted in April to allow student - teachers who fail the new exam, called the edTPA, to take an old, less rigorous exam instead for two years.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

Elia's appointment came after a nearly five - month search by the Board of Regents to replace former Commissioner John King, who left the department at the end of 2014 to take a job with the U.S. Department of Education.

The newly elected chancellor of the Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use of standardized tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board of Regents, she would join the opt - out movement and not permit her children to take the tests.

Robert Dynes, a physicist who previously served as chancellor of UC San Diego (UCSD) and took over as president 4 years ago, gave notice to California's Board of Regents on Monday that he would leave by June 2008.

Plans to expand Michigan Medicine's Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals, took a step forward today with U-M Board of Regents approval of the project's proposed budget and design plans.

Calling youth unemployment New York's most serious social problem, the state's Board of Regents has outlined a number of steps the public and private sectors can take to better prepare young people for work.

«It will take immense effort and ingenuity on the part of local educators to help all students meet these standards and pass these exams,» Mr. Mills wrote in the proposal submitted last week to the state board of regents.

In a state where public education is overseen by a board of regents and education commissioner independent of the governor, Gov. Spitzer made clear last week that he will take an active role...

Elia says the State Board of Regents will consider the revised Common Core standards in July, but it will take a couple of years to implement them.

While students are taking standardized tests aligned with the standards, the state Board of Regents decided in February to delay some aspects of the plan, including one that tied students» test scores with their ability to graduate.

Under a series of actions taken over the past year and a half by the New York State Board of Regents, the body that oversees P - 12 education, higher education, and teacher certification, the doors have been opened for nonuniversity programs to prepare teachers at the graduate - degree level.

Betty A. Rosa stopped just short of advocating educational disorder, but it doesn't take a high school graduate to understand what she means when she said to reporters: «If I was a parent, and I was not on the Board of Regents, I would opt out at this time, yes.»

Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch said parents and teachers have complained that students have struggled to finish the English exams, which third through eighth graders will begin taking on April 14.

Betty Rosa, the newly elected chancellor of Board of Regents, the state's education policy - making body, said that if she had children who were of an age to take the state - mandated Common Core tests, she would keep them home on testing day.

The city's new take on teacher ratings comes roughly a year after the state Board of Regents moved to suspend the use of standardized test scores in most teacher evaluations.

I would hope that the Board of Regents would take the message and deal with it.»

The New York State Board of Regents also announced on Monday that John King will take over departing State Education Commissioner David Steiner's role.