Sentences with phrase «education commissioners also»

Education commissioners also have upheld some local boards that have thrown off board members charged with misconduct.
Education commissioners also have upheld some local boards that have thrown off board members charged with misconduct, including the Lackawanna School Board when it removed Mark L. Balen from the board in 1999 and the Jamestown School District, which removed Deann Nelson in 2006.

Not exact matches

The law also requires the state commissioner of education to collaborate in creating a model fitness and nutrition policy, which includes components that address Section 204 requirements.
Waronker also noted that Hempstead's middle school may be placed into independent receivership after an evaluation next month by the state education commissioner.
The deal includes providing increased oversight power to not only the team monitoring the district, but also to state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia.
The trustees also authorized the district's lawyers to take legal action against any parties involved in any election fraud and agreed to ask the education commissioner to order a new vote for the two board seats.
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.
State officials also are requiring the city to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case the education commissioner doesn't approve the takeover plan by the U of R.
The state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, has also been named to the panel.
It also asks broader questions about mayoral control, and the selection process for the education commissioner and the Board of Regents.
The delegates also voted to withdraw confidence in King, and for the first time in NYSUT's history, the union didn't invite the education commissioner to the convention.
The State Executive Council, according to the commissioner, also approved the setting up of an education trust fund that would help to mobilise funds for the education sector in the state, in a bid to improve the sector.
Fariña also heralded support from state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia who, the chancellor said, has «highlighted that what New York City is doing with struggling schools is something that should be a model for the state.»
The Commissioners of Agriculture & Markets, Children & Family Services, Education, Temporary & Disability Assistance, and Health, as well as the Director of Farmers Markets at Empire State Development Corporation and the Director of the State Office for the Aging will also serve ex officio.
The commissioner has also largely avoided the drama that often accompanies education policy in New York, instead sticking to SED's script on controversial topics, like Common Core and teacher evaluations.
The state education commissioner has also dismissed an East Ramapo school district challenge of the sale of the former school building, making the once controversial transaction move toward a sale after almost two years of uncertainty.
The June 6, 2011 annulment of the sale of Hillcrest Elementary School by state education commissioner David Steiner was another sign of trouble in the district, which is also the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civieducation commissioner David Steiner was another sign of trouble in the district, which is also the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for CiviEducation's Office for Civil Rights.
His proposals regarding the election and appointment of the Board of Regents and the education commissioner would likely also resonate with liberals who are concerned about education issues.
Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), drily noted that, compared to the international average, «we also have a higher percentage of students who score in the lowest performance levels... and a lower percentage of top math performers.»
Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).
Many additional academies will also put greater pressure on the sector's regulator, The Education Funding Authority and the newly established Regional School Commissioners.
Embezzlement also remains a possibility, although Richard Mills, the state's commissioner of education, said that...
One also wonders what's happened to Teresa Lubbers, now Indiana's higher - education commissioner.
«Since 2014, the three Commissioners have ensured providers are held to the highest quality standards while also assisting in the transition to the updated Higher Education Standards Framework, providing outstanding support for Australia's international education sector and tackling important issues including first year student attritiEducation Standards Framework, providing outstanding support for Australia's international education sector and tackling important issues including first year student attritieducation sector and tackling important issues including first year student attrition rates.
The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.
be formally approved by the board of education (in New York City, approved by the chancellor or chancellor's designee) no later than three months following the designation of the school in the restructuring phase and also shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner; and
Dimino not only wants the Common Core to go away, she's also calling for the resignation of the state's education commissioner, John King.
You can also read my interviews with David Steiner and Joe Williams about New York's Race to the Top bid, as well as an exit interview I conducted with David Steiner just after he announced his resignation as state education commissioner.
We need to STRENGTHEN School Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Network.
It also calls on the state education commissioner to develop a comprehensive, detailed plan suggesting ways to integrate schools.
But in the realm of national politics to which Christie is also playing as a possible 2016 presidential contender, the moves don't move the governor very far from the pro-standards and pro-testing track first started under his former education commissioner, Chris Cerf, and now being carried forward by acting Commissioner David Hespe.
Recommendations also include changing the regions the RSCs operate in — which currently split London schools across three regions, and are not geographically similar to any other education or government organisation — and creating an additional commissioner for London schools.
A spokesman for the union, Steve Wollmer, also questioned how Newark's bonuses could continue after the Facebook money runs out, but Chris Cerf, the state education commissioner, said the rewards would be sustainable through public funds.
Given the presence of the state's new education commissioner, Stefan Pryor, a push for expanding the number of charter schools serving students in the state may also be on the table.
The new state education commissioner, David Steiner, also seems less interested in reform than even his predecessor, the much - lauded (and also, much - bemoaned and often spendthrifty) Richard Mills.
The superintendent's report is also an excellent vehicle for sharing with board members notable superintendent activities, such as meetings with the board of county commissioners, the CEO of the local community foundation, or the director of the state department of education, and attendance at state and national conferences.
«At one time, the district looked at charters as the enemy,» said Bob Wedl, the consultant provided by Education Evolving who also has served as a former state education commEducation Evolving who also has served as a former state education commeducation commissioner.
The former education commissioner of Tennessee, Kevin Huffman, described his experience of the last four years overseeing the virtual charter in his state, also operated by K12, on the education blog The Seventy Four.»
The New York Post is reporting New York's state education commissioner David Steiner could also get the axe soon.
She was also a deputy education commissioner in Florida, a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Education during President George W. Bush's administration, and an education research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Inseducation commissioner in Florida, a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Education during President George W. Bush's administration, and an education research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover InsEducation during President George W. Bush's administration, and an education research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Inseducation research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
The bill also allows the commissioner of education to waive the certification requirement altogether for any person who he or she believes is «exceptionally qualified.»
The commissioner shall also collect data on the number of students enrolled in each charter school who have individual education plans pursuant to chapter 71B and those requiring English language learners programs under chapter 71A.
Education commissioner Robert Hammond will also file an appeal of his own.
In addition to the direct spending on education, the commissioners have also increased support for wrap - around services such as hiring more school nurses, providing universal school breakfast, initiating and expanding the number of food pantries within several schools, and this year will expand its efforts to provide stable, affordable housing.
She also pressed the state education commissioner to grant HISD a waiver on accountability due to Hurricane Harvey and complimented the Los Angeles model that Mayor Sylvester Turner has pitched to turnaround schools.
The law also makes the state education commissioner and the secretaries of the departments of Children and Families, Juvenile Justice and Health Care Administration ex officio, non-voting members of the commission.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) created a children's cabinet by executive order in 2016.10 The cabinet serves as an advisory body on issues that the state's children face — formulating policy solutions and encouraging innovation.11 The cabinet focuses on developing a comprehensive strategy to early learning through a uniform approach to data collection, quality assurance, and outcomes measurement.12 The governor chairs the cabinet, which also includes the state superintendent for education, the commissioner for mental health, and the executive director for youth services.
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