Sentences with phrase «council education chair»

This Week's Focus UFT joins City Council to demand paid parental leave now City Council Education Chair Mark Treyger on April 24 called on Mayor Bill de Blasio to negotiate a fair paid parental leave policy for New York City public school educators at a press conference on the steps... Read More

City Council education chair Daniel Dromm is pushing chancellor Carmen Fariña to make Diwali an official public school holiday, but said he hadn't yet heard from the administration about a letter he wrote to Fariña on the topic last week.

City Council education Chair Mark Treyger said it might have been avoided if Hizzoner hadn't selected Carvalho «in isolation.»

Not exact matches

Currently, Elan is chair of the Pedagogical Section Council of North America and the editor of the Research Bulletin for Waldorf Education.

She serves as the Media review chair for the Journal of Perinatal Education, and volunteers as the Lamaze International development member of the Education Council.

Likewise at one of the Federal Executive Council meetings which was chaired by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, a whopping sum of N13billion was approved for various projects across the country which covered power, education, science and technology, transportation and Federal Capital Territory.

As a former teacher and Chair of the City Council's Education Committee, I've never seen this before.

She headed the City Council Standards and Ethics committee, which unanimously recommended Rodriguez be suspended from his position as chair of the Council's Higher Education committee until he completes a 24 - hour employee relation course.

«With all the development in Western Chelsea and Hudson Yards, it seems just crazy to not look at that and take that into consideration,» said Community Board 4 chair Corey Johnson at a rezoning public input session put on by the District 2 Community Education Council.

«Realistically, it's not going to be used, or not all of it,» said Robert Jackson, who chairs the City Council's Education Committee.

A few minutes later, three of those allies — new City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, new Council Finance Committee Chair Danny Dromm and new Council Education Committee Chair Mark Treyger — were introduced to rousing applause.

New City Council Education Committee Chair Mark Tryger addresses the Delegate Assembly at UFT headquarters on Jan. 17.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew (second from right) is joined on stage by (from left) City Council Finance Committee Chair Danny Dromm, Speaker Corey Johnson and Education Committee Chair Mark Treyger.

NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who chairs the Council Education Committee and is an original plaintiff in the CFE case, is going to lead a protest Saturday against record setting education aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlemenEducation Committee and is an original plaintiff in the CFE case, is going to lead a protest Saturday against record setting education aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlemeneducation aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlement payout.

On Friday, Upper Manhattan Councilman Robert Jackson, the chair of the City Council Education Committee, sent a letter to New York State Education Department Commissioner David Steiner urging him not to certify Black for the job.

Rosenthal was elected to the Council in 2013, chairs the Contracts Committee, and serves on the Finance; Housing and Buildings; Education; Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and Intergroup Relations; and Oversight and Investigations Committees.

«Limiting ICE's access to detainees at Riker's Island is a very important step in the right direction toward protecting our immigrant communities,» said City Council Education Committee Chair and Bills Co-Sponsor Daniel Dromm.

Brooklyn Council Member Mark Treyger, a former teacher and UFT delegate at New Utrecht HS, was appointed the new chair of the New York City Council's Education Committee on Jan. 11.

The Council, which will be chaired by Prof. Yaw Twumasi was inaugurated today at the University of Ghana by the Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh.

This follows on from the news in January that Fiona Bruce MP, who took over as chair of the APPG following the 2015 general election, has sacked the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (REC), the highly respected umbrella body for those who teach or have an interest in RE, as the secretariat to the group.

− Stanley S. Litow, Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs & President, IBM International Foundation (Chair) − Senator John Flanagan, Senate Education Committee Chair (Senate appointee) − Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Assembly Education Committee Chair (Assembly appointee) − Linda Darling - Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Graduate School of Education − Todd Hathaway, Teacher, East Aurora High School (Erie County) − Alice Jackson - Jolley, Parent (Westchester County) − Anne Kress, President, Monroe Community College − Nick Lawrence, Teacher, East Bronx Academy for the Future (NYC) − Delia Pompa, Senior Vice President of Programs, National Council of La Raza − Charles Russo, Superintendent, East Moriches UFSD (Long Island) − Dan Weisberg, EVP & General Counsel, The New Teacher Project

The bill was sponsored by Councilman Danny Dromm, chair of the education committee, who said the measure will help the Council learn how long it takes from the time students receives a special education referral to the time they actually receive it.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

Surrounded by supporters on the steps of City Hall Sunday, Jackson, who serves as the chair of the council's education committee, painted himself as a tireless fighter with a long track record of working to improve public schools.

«We have grave concerns about a budget that allows for teacher layoffs, which would be immensely damaging to our education system and children's opportunities for a quality education,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Finance Chair Domenic Recchia, Jr. said in a statement.

Linn put the pricetag on paid parental leave for all union workers at $ 250 million, according to Council Education Committee Hearing chair Mark Treyger — a former teacher advocating for the UFT to get paid parental leave.

As City Council Finance Committee Chair Domenic Recchia (front, left) and Education Committee Chair Robert Jackson listen, UFT President Michael Mulgrew (right, at table facing councilmen) delivers his testimony.

Council members and Education Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last tEducation Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last teducation services over the last two years.

He was first elected to the Council in 1973, and became the youngest Chair of Education in the history of Liverpool from 1980 — 1983, during which time he was also Deputy Leader of the Council under Sir Trevor Jones.

The Board is comprised of Parent Teacher Association (PTA) members, Parent Coordinators, the Community Education Councils (CECs) in school Districts 24 - 30 and the Education Committee Chairs of each Queens Community Board.

The Board is comprised of Parent Teacher Association (PTA) members, Parent Coordinators, Community Education Councils (CECs) in school Districts 24 - 30, Education Committee Chairs of each Community Board and BP Katz's appointees to the PEP and CECs.

«I have also been working closely with the School Construction Authority (SCA) to remove trailers citywide,» added City Council Education Committee Chair DANIEL DROMM in a statement.

City Council Finance Chair Carolee Conklin spoke with WXXI's Bob Smith about the city budget in including the impact of Albany's budgeting and policies, and the obligations the city has to help funding public education.

That was the message of a September 17 panel hosted by the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City that included educators, the City Council's Education Committee chair, and advocates.

If elected, Graziano said he was interested in chairing various committees in the Council, including Land Use, Education, Parks and Finance.

In conversations with Gotham Gazette, City Council members Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, chair of the finance committee, and Daniel Dromm, education committee chair, said that one of their top priorities during budget season will be addressing school overcrowding through the Department of Education's capital spendeducation committee chair, said that one of their top priorities during budget season will be addressing school overcrowding through the Department of Education's capital spendEducation's capital spending plan.

Durrant was one of the first beneficiaries of the Welsh Government's Sêr Cymru initiative, which was announced in 2012 as part of the government's science strategy to identify areas of research where Wales «has a fighting chance to be the best in the world,» says David Allen, chair of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.

Even with an increase in unaffiliated adults, most Americans are religious, said Eugenie Scott, chair of the National Center for Science Education advisory council.

Organizers hope that government logistical and possibly financial support will dramatically bolster this trend, says Yuichiro Anzai, chair of the University Council, an advisory body to Japan's education ministry.

And for several years he has chaired the Board on Science Education at the National Academies» National Research Council, which reviewed NASA's education programs and found themEducation at the National Academies» National Research Council, which reviewed NASA's education programs and found themeducation programs and found them wanting.

Last year, the UAB postdoc office established a Council for Postdoctoral Education — which includes department chairs, six or seven faculty members, seven or eight postdocs, and the associate dean of biomedical research.

Gill Clarke, vice chair of the UK Council for Graduate Education, presented the results of another HEFCE - funded report, «International comparisons in postgraduate education: quality, access and employment outcomeEducation, presented the results of another HEFCE - funded report, «International comparisons in postgraduate education: quality, access and employment outcomeeducation: quality, access and employment outcomes.»

H.E. Andan Badran, Jordan's Former Prime Minister & Former Minister of Defense, President of Petra University Hossam Badrawi, physician, President of the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development, and the founder and the honorary chairman of the Egyptian Council of Competitiveness (ENCC) Yee Cheong Lee, Chairman of Governing Board, International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South - South Cooperation under the auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC) Helene de Rode, Professor at the UCL - Mons Dr. Ghaith H. Fariz, Director of UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States; Cluster Office for Egypt, Sudan, and Libya; and UNESCO Representative to Egypt Omar Fassi - Fehri, Permanent Secretary of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco Nazar M. Hassan, UNESCO Senior Specialist for Science and Technology for the Arab States; Director of UNESCONECTAR Network H.E. Prof. Jo Ritzen, Honorary Professor of Maastrich University Chair and Founder of Empower European Universities and Initiator of the Vibrant Europe Forum Mahmoud M. Sakr, President of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) Professor Peter Tindemans, Secretary General, EuroScience

She serves as chairperson of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and is vice chair of both the Supreme Council of Health and the Supreme Education Council and is chair of the Sidra Medical and Research Centre.

My views on how to solve some of these seemingly intractable education problems have been informed by two experiences: my four years as chair of the New York City Council's education committee and, more recently, my role as founder and executive director of a new charter school.

Eva Moskowitz, former member of the New York City Council and chair of its education committee, is executive director of the Harlem Success Charter School.

In this edition of the EdCast, Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard and chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child — a multi-university collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, psychology, pediatrics, and economics, whose mission is to bring credible science to bear on public policy affecting young children — discusses President Obama's plan for early childhood education.

Governor Deval Patrick recently named Lecturer Judith McLaughlin chair of the Public Education Nominating Council.

He currently serves as the Teacher Advisory Chair for the Council for Economic Education and President of Ohio Jump $ tart.

As chair, McLaughlin will oversee a 12 — 15 member council responsible for selecting members for college boards of trustees in the state and making recommendations for the state board of higher education...