Sentences with phrase «california schools chief»

(El Dorado Hills, Calif.) Hayward Unified School District won designation last week from California schools chief Tom Torlakson for outstanding efforts in reducing chronic student absenteeism and improving dropout rates aided by a highly successful 21st Century attendance intervention software developed by School Innovations & Achievement.

Meanwhile, California Schools Chief Tom Torlakson has been vocal about his concerns that the waiver expectations, particularly those requiring interventions for each state's lowest - performing 15 percent of schools, will cost significant money that his state doesn't have.

California Schools Chief Strikes Tone of Optimism in Annual Address in Lawndale In a speech addressing the state of education, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson on Thursday celebrated a recent wave of voter - approved taxes that are expected to stabilize a dire education budget, and touted other initiatives that would bring still more tax dollars to public schools.

California school chief Jack O'Connell also announced Thursday that the new deadline for districts wanting to participate in the program is July 2.

Honig, who now heads up the Consortium on Reading Excellence (CORE), served as California school chief in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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They include Stephanie Bolton, Grower Communications & Sustainable Winegrowing Director, Lodi Winegrape Commission; David Glancy, Master Sommelier, San Francisco Wine School; Lindsey M. Higgins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Agribusiness Department, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Allison Jordan, Executive Director, California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance; Emily Farrant, Sustainability Manager, Sonoma County Winegrowers; Michelle Novi, Industry Relations Manager, Napa Valley Vintners; Cyril Penn, Editor in Chief, Wine Business Monthly; and Beth Vukmanic Lopez, SIP Certification Manager, The Vineyard Team.

Dr. Henri Ford, chief of surgery for the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and associate dean for the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, was named as the dean of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine Monday.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«We know there's a high rate of [problems] but it's not known why,» said Dr. Richard J. Paulson, chief of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

Richard Paulson is professor and vice-chair of obstetrics and gynecology and chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

«Our analysis found that the lowest satisfaction scores were obtained from population - dense regions of Washington, DC; New York State, California, Maryland and New Jersey, and the best scores were from Louisiana, South Dakota, Iowa, Maine and Vermont,» said senior author Randall Holcombe, MD, Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Chief Medical Officer for Cancer for The Mount Sinai Health System.

Brad Spellberg, Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center; Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

The 2014 - 2015 Newcomb Cleveland Prize Selection Committee includes Marcia McNutt, Chair, Editor - in - Chief, Science; Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology; Gary King, Harvard University; Susan Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine; Ali Shilatifard, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago.

This list draws on the expertise of council members William «Red» Whittaker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University; Jennifer Lewis, Hansjörg Wyss Professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Mike Pellini, president and chief executive officer, Foundation Medicine, Inc.; Jeff Carbeck, specialist leader, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Deloitte; Justine Cassell, professor, Human — Computer Interaction at C.M.U.; Jeff Carbeck, specialist leader, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at Deloitte; Henry Markram, professor at EPFL; Paolo Dario, director, The BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant «Anna, Pisa; Mark Lynas, visiting fellow, Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Julia Greer, professor of Materials Science and Mechanics at California Institute of Technology.

The 2015 - 2016 Newcomb Cleveland Prize Selection Committee includes Jeremy Berg, Chair, editor - in - chief, Science; Gyorgy Buzsaki, New York University School of Medicine; Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley; Harinder Singh, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; and Maria Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jaclyn A Biegel, PhD, FACMG is the Division Chief of Genomic Medicine and the Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

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The former editor - in - chief of Psychology Today, Dr. Epstein is currently a contributing editor for Scientific American Mind and an occasional lecturer at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego.

A West Coast branch of the movement has set up operations as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the school of law at the University of California, Berkeley.

«We must strive to help clarify what the federal role in education is and what it is not,» said California State Superintendent Wilson Riles last week in his inaugural address as president of the Council of Chief State School Officers (ccsso).

Assistant Secretary of International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the Department of Homeland Security Alan Bersin, former Secretary of Education for California and former superintendent of San Diego City Schools, met with Ed.L.D.

Articles in this special report explore the evolving roles of chief academic officers and chief technology officers in five school systems in California, Georgia, Iowa, Oregon, and New York.

Gov. Pete Wilson of California last week vetoed a bill aimed at ending a decades - long power struggle between the state schools chief and board of education.

Limited - English - Proficient SCASS: Alabama, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada (lead state), New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virgina, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the American Institutes for Research.

A California judge last week upheld a $ 4 million verdict against the state department of education, but dismissed $ 150,000 in punitive damages against former schools chief Delaine Eastin in a case alleging discrimination against a whistle - blower.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Earlier this month, California's schools chief announced that he would not support any alternatives to that state's exit exam, which students must pass starting in June...

Mr. Shanker argued that a «protest» vote would be a vote for President Bush and «the status quo,» and that the flat tax proposed by Mr. Clinton's chief rival, former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, would be disastrous for public - school budgets.

Eyebrows were raised recently over the cozy relationship between the state chief and the consulting project, prompting Ms. Honig to volunteer to go before the state school board to give details about her firm's multimillion - dollar business with California schools.

When in 2006 California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a panel of education experts to recommend an overhaul of the state's troubled public schools, observers hoped the celebrity chief executive was about to bring his unique brand of postpartisan politics to an issue that sorely needed it.

The Common Core didn't seem this controversial when the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers got together in 2009 to begin mapping out rigorous academic goals that schools from California to Maine could get behind.

Prior to her most recent position as New Mexico's education Chief, Secretary Skandera's record of service in the education sector includes serving as Florida's Deputy Commissioner of Education for former Governor Jeb Bush, senior policy advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education under former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and Undersecretary for Education for former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to teaching Education Policy courses at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

Senate Bill 1458, which will shift California's chief measure of a high school's performance, from a near exclusive reliance on state test scores to a broader gauge of student accomplishment and preparation for college and the world of work, is now law.

This view is supported by states beyond California, as illustrated by comments submitted by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association.

California parents looking for better public schools for their kids will get to elect a new state schools chief in November, and this week was their first chance to compare the three candidates side by side — something parents can't yet do with schools.

Taking aim at chronic absenteeism in California classrooms, state schools chief Tom Torlakson honored 11 attendance review boards Tuesday for their work in improving attendance and dropout prevention.

«On Shaky Ground» by California Watch is a California «investigation uncovering the systemic failures by the state's chief regulator of construction standards for public schools.»

Headlining the events are SI&A's Jack O'Connell, former state schools chief; and Kevin Gordon, one of California's leading legislative advocates for K - 12 schools.

The test score issue comes as California's school accountability system is undergoing a broad revision, as the Brown administration and state schools chief Tom Torlakson search for more achievement measures than just test scores.

Editorial: Elect reformer Marshall Tuck as next state schools chief California's public schools must be our top priority.

Daniel Assisi is the deputy chief operating officer at the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), a 501c3 membership organization supporting the state's 1,280 charter schools serving more than 600,000 stSchools Association (CCSA), a 501c3 membership organization supporting the state's 1,280 charter schools serving more than 600,000 stschools serving more than 600,000 students.

Editorial: Elect reformer Marshall Tuck state schools chief By The Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards California schools are failing.

California Chief Justice and Chair of the Judicial Council Tani Cantil - Sakaute launched a Keep Kids in School and Out of Court initiative in 2014 and sent a letter to Juvenile Court judges.

Washington, D.C. (August 31, 2017)- The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released the following statement about the draft of California's plan aligned with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

But education groups including the California Association of School Business Officials, the Association of California School Administrators, the California School Boards Association, California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the community college Association of Chief Business Officials lined up to argue that while they support some regulations on capital appreciation bonds, to outlaw them or reduce a district's borrowing options can restrict their ability to maintain or build adequate school facilSchool Business Officials, the Association of California School Administrators, the California School Boards Association, California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the community college Association of Chief Business Officials lined up to argue that while they support some regulations on capital appreciation bonds, to outlaw them or reduce a district's borrowing options can restrict their ability to maintain or build adequate school facilSchool Administrators, the California School Boards Association, California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the community college Association of Chief Business Officials lined up to argue that while they support some regulations on capital appreciation bonds, to outlaw them or reduce a district's borrowing options can restrict their ability to maintain or build adequate school facilSchool Boards Association, California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the community college Association of Chief Business Officials lined up to argue that while they support some regulations on capital appreciation bonds, to outlaw them or reduce a district's borrowing options can restrict their ability to maintain or build adequate school facilSchool Housing and the community college Association of Chief Business Officials lined up to argue that while they support some regulations on capital appreciation bonds, to outlaw them or reduce a district's borrowing options can restrict their ability to maintain or build adequate school facilschool facilities.

Young is president and chief executive officer of the California Charter Schools Association.

After three and half years, much of it mired in controversy over technology missteps like the rollout of a $ 1.3 billion iPad program and a court case that struck down teacher tenure laws in California, the schools chief and the board have agreed to part ways.

Sen. Gloria Romero, who sponsored the parent - trigger law and ran for state schools chief four years ago, said that while she disapproves of Torlakson's allegiance to the California Teachers Association, she has more faith in him at this point than the untested Tuck.

Silicon Valley Education Foundation Chief Executive Officer Muhammed Chaudry agrees with Torlakson that California already has adopted an ambitious agenda for reforming its public schools and said he thinks Tuck's candidacy is premature.