Sentences with phrase «education policy panel»

An Education Policy panel — featuring Education International's deputy secretary general David Edwards, former teacher and current member of the Arkansas Senate Joyce Elliott, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville, and Finnish educator and scholar Pasi Sahlberg — will address global education policy now and in the future.

There are three new members of New York's Education Policy Panel, the State Board of Regents, but will it lead to any changes in the debate over education?

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Video of «Ready To Be Counted: Incorporating Noncognitive Skills Into Education Policy,» a panel discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 2015.

* 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

At 6 p.m., the NYC Department of Education Panel for Educational Policy holds a meeting, including an update from Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, 100 Hester St., Manhattan.

Wadleigh's truncation had been scheduled for a vote on Wednesday evening, April 25, by the Panel for Education Policy (PEP), the body that votes on Department of Education (DOE) policy and school cloPolicy (PEP), the body that votes on Department of Education (DOE) policy and school clopolicy and school closures.

At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the third installment of their Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series, with panels focusing on the waste sector, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., second floor, Manhattan.

«Prior to granting any significant extension of this authority, the Senate believes public hearings should be held to assess the current structure and identify any possible areas of improvement including but not limited to creating heightened parental involvement in Community Education Councils and the Panel for Education Policy,» the resolution states.

«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.

The Panel for Education Policy has delayed a vote to weaken its own authority (to the degree that it has any).

The existing Panel for Educational Policy, the board that votes on education issues, would be redundant under a board system and would be eliminated.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

«On mayoral control of schools,» Savino continued, «I think we should look at changes to make it better, like doing away with the Panel for Education Policy, which is essentially a staff meeting for the mayor's office.

It wasn't the first time Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, suggested changes to the powerful education policy - making panel, and he's hardly the first governor to seek influence on the independent board.

City Council Education Committee Chairperson Robert Jackson was at first barred from attending the September Panel for Educational Policy board meeting, which is supposed to be open to the public.

BP Diaz appointed Geneal Chacon as the borough's representative to the Panel for Educational Policy, which holds approval power over the actions of the City Department of Education.

Vanessa Leung Chairperson, Panel for Educational Policy New York City Department of Education 52 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007

Electeds Urge «No» on Proposal to Co-Locate High School in Existing I.S. 109 District Middle School QUEENS, NY — In advance of the upcoming Panel for Education Policy (PEP) vote next week, Borough President Melinda Katz, Senator Leroy Comrie, Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman, Councilmembers Daniel Dromm, Barry Garodnick and I. Daneek Miller stated the following about the New York City Department of Education's (DOE's) proposal to open and co-locate a new charter high school at I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School, an existing district middle school in Hollis, Queens:

At 8:30 a.m., Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and Regent Judith Chin will participate in a panel discussion on a new study by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center showing that well - implemented community schools can lift achievement in high - poverty communities, Teachers College, Columbia University, Joyce Berger Cowin Auditorium, Broadway, Manhattan.

Still, after high rates of student opt outs during the most recent round of state examinations in April, Cuomo has recalibrated when it comes to education policy and formed a panel to recommend potential changes to the controversial Common Core standards by January.

At 6 p.m., the NYC Department of Education Panel for Educational Policy meets, NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina is scheduled to attend, Michael J. Petrides Complex, 715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island.

City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin, Assemblymen Dan Quart and Micah Kellner, and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, among other area elected officials, have asked the DOE to reconsider the plan before the Panel for Education Policy votes on the issue June 19.

HARLEM — Despite being given a last - minute reprieve, dozens of parents and teachers from Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts attended the Panel for Education Policy meeting Thursday night where 23 schools were shut down.

The de Blasio administration has approved about 500 contracts for pre-K instruction at C.B.O.s in the last several months through the Department of Education's Panel for Educational Policy.

Updated, 4:21 p.m. Cathleen P. Black, the new schools chancellor, faced an angry crowd of nearly 2,000 people as the Panel for Education Policy voted to close 10 schools.

The inspector would also attend all Panel for Educational Policy meetings, including executive sessions, and can appeal any PEP decision to the State Education Department commissioner, MaryEllen Elia.

At 6 p.m., the Education Panel for Educational Policy holds a public meeting, with the agenda including an update from NYC Education Chancellor Chancellor Carmen Farina, amendments to the chancellor's home instruction services regulation and approval of contracts, Prospect Heights High School, 883 Classon Ave., Brooklyn.

If most or all of Success» proposed fourteen new locations are co-located, it will be up to the Department of Education's Panel for Educational Policy, which is run by Fariña and largely politically aligned with the de Blasio administration, to approve what are likely to be highly contentious proposals for space - sharing.

Moskowitz wrote that the city's Department of Education promised to find space for eight new Success schools by June 30, a deadline the Panel for Educational Policy will miss.

Overall, nine people serve on the volunteer panel that has a voice on school policy, district leadership and the direction of Hartford's education reform efforts.

After the Department of Education's Panel for Educational Policy made the rare move of rejecting a co-location proposal that would have sited a new Success school with an existing district school, Moskowitz released a statement accusing de Blasio of being unable to influence P.E.P. members.

Teachers, parents and community members crowded into Long Island City HS for the monthly Panel for Educational Policy meeting on May 18 and made it clear they had a lot more on their minds than the Department of Education agenda items.

The DOE's capital plan must still be reviewed by the Community Education Councils, the Panel for Educational Policy and the City Council as part of the regular budget process.

In a joint letter on Friday, June 17, the officials together urged the DOE to withdraw the co-location proposal from the June 22nd Panel for Education Policy meeting agenda and to work on an alternative location to accommodate the new school.

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The education department crosses into energy policy with energy service contracts as well as through a solar initiative to put solar panels in schools.

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The Board is chaired by BP Katz, BP Katz's Panel for Education Policy (PEP) appointee Deborah Dillingham and BP Katz's Education Director, Monica Gutierrez.

In New York City, the mayor chooses the schools chancellor and appoints eight members to the Panel for Education Policy.

Each member of the panel opened with a statement on their party's policy on education, before they faced questions from the presenters.

The chief one of course is the Panel for Educational Policy, which as Patrick Sullivan, a member, wrote on New York Public School Parents, routinely rubber stamps Department of Education contracts — even ones dripping with corruption such as the agreement with Future Technology Associates.

Some of them are concerned about creating more checks and balances on the city Department of Education's spending, while others want to increase parental involvement while weakening the mayor's ability to make appointments to the Panel for Educational Policy.

In 2002, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg convinced the State Legislature to establish a seven - year receivership that enabled him to scrap the troubled Board of Education and replace it with the Panel for Education Policy, to which he appointed eight of 13 members.

The plan is again updated and typically released in February for approval by the Panel for Education Policy.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

Based on input from the Bash working group and on the work of both the education and policy panel and the Panel on Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground, the committee recommends a new paradigm for ground - based astronomy that it believes will lead to the most effective use of ground - based facilities and optimize the science opportunities for the astronomical commupanel and the Panel on Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground, the committee recommends a new paradigm for ground - based astronomy that it believes will lead to the most effective use of ground - based facilities and optimize the science opportunities for the astronomical commuPanel on Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground, the committee recommends a new paradigm for ground - based astronomy that it believes will lead to the most effective use of ground - based facilities and optimize the science opportunities for the astronomical community.

These recommendations were developed through the extensive efforts of the Panel on Astronomy Education and Policy.

Dynarski has served on the board of contributors of Evidence Speaks, a weekly series of reports by a standing panel of researchers under the editorship of Russ Whitehurst, with a commitment to elevating the role of methodologically rigorous research in the formation of education and social policy.

Washington — Members of President Bush's education - policy advisory panel last week endorsed the creation of a national «readiness examination» to determine if children are educationally and medically prepared to enter kindergarten.

This past weekend, I had the privilege of being part of a panel at the Maryland State Education Association's Education Policy Forum with 2014 National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb, Maryland Teacher of the Year Jody Zepp, and educator - turned - influential radio host Marc Steiner.