Sentences with phrase «board of regents today»

5/18/2007 Regents Approve Plan for New UCSD Inpatient Bed Tower The University of California Board of Regents today voted to approve UC San Diego's request to move forward with planning a new inpatient bed tower on their UC San Diego East Campus medical complex.
The Board of Regents today strongly endorsed the rationale presented by Education Commissioner David M. Steiner to adjust the «cut scores» on the state's grade 3 - 8 math and English assessments based on research that clearly suggests the need to more accurately indicate «proficiency» on those exams.
The State Education Department proposed to the Board of Regents today adding career development and occupational studies pathway.
The state Board of Regents today approved tighter standards for state examinations that include universal test dates and requiring teacher training certifications.
The Board of Regents today adopted regulations to expand the criteria under which students with disabilities may be eligible to graduate high school with a local diploma.
The State Education Department presented the materials to the Board of Regents today at its meeting in Albany.

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The state Education Department today presented to the Board of Regents and released for public review and comment the draft Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced.
Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.
The State Education Department today is expected to present the Board of Regents with regulations to conform with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind, under which the vast majority of NYC's transfer schools would be designated as «in need of improvement» and could be at risk of being closed.
«The rules adopted today by the Board of Regents maintain the rigor of our graduation requirements, while providing a new mechanism for students with disabilities to demonstrate they've met the State's graduation standards.»
Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said at today's news conference she expects to meet the June 30 deadline for developing new regulations for the evaluations.
A Board of Regents rule change allowing undocumented immigrants to receive a number of professional certifications, including teaching, goes into effect today.
Tim Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, is welcoming today's election of Dr. Betty Rosa to head the Board of Regents.
Students in New York need more options to find success, and today's action by the Board of Regents will ensure that students in our state will have a new way to graduate with a Regents diploma and find a successful career.
And today, according to some press accounts, he will get more concrete and tie a promised 4 percent increase in state aid to adoption of the teacher evaluation system put forth by the state Board of Regents last year.
The governor was quick not to answer a question last week about whether he'd like to change the way the state Board of Regents is appointed, fueling speculation he'll use today's speech to call for greater gubernatorial control of schools.
«Today's recommendations are another in a series of missteps by the Board of Regents that suggests the time has come to seriously re-examine its capacity and performance,» he said, adding it was «yet another in a long series of roadblocks to a much - needed evaluation system which the Regents had stalled putting in place for years.»
Earlier today, on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC, Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the State Board of Regents, gave a shout - out to the Bronx's own Monroe College.
ZUG, Switzerland; CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts; BERKELEY, California; DUBLIN, Ireland; July 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP), Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTLA), Caribou Biosciences, Inc. and ERS Genomics, Ltd. announced that The Regents of the University of California, the University of Vienna, and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively «UC»), co-owners of foundational intellectual property relating to CRISPR / Cas9 genome engineering, today submitted an appellate brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the «Federal Circuit») seeking reversal of a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board («PTAB») in an interference proceeding relating to CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing technology.
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.
At a special meeting held today, the University of Hawai`i Board of Regents (BOR) voted to approve the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project on Mauna Kea with the recommended conditions of the Mauna...
U-M President Mark Schlissel today announced that he will be recommending the appointment of Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., to become U-M's executive vice president for medical affairs March 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents in December.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. Jay Inslee today announced the appointment of Brett Blankenship to the Washington State University Board of Regents, effective Oct. 1.
The media, politicians and educators often assume that because today's generation is more technologically plugged in, they want their entire education experience to be mediated by technology, said Jonathan Stein, student regent on the University of California Board of Regents.
report today on the New York State Board of Regents» decision late yesterday to further lower the bar for students with disabilities.
June 12, 2017 (New York, New York)-- Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization, today reacted to the Board of Regents»...
At its meeting earlier today, the South Dakota Board of Education Standards heard about this «proactive admissions» effort from Paul Turman, system vice president for academic affairs for the South Dakota Board of Regents.
«Today's recommendations are another in a series of missteps by the Board of Regents that suggests the time has come to seriously re-examine its capacity and performance,» he said, adding it was «yet another in a long series of roadblocks to a much - needed evaluation system which the Regents had stalled putting in place for years.»
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mar. 31, 2017)-- Today, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Flora Tydings joined Nissan officials to formally open the Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Murfreesboro's Smyrna Campus a...
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