Sentences with phrase «high commissioners who»

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Then - commissioner David Stern, who pushed for the creation of the age minimum in 2005, wanted to extend it to age 20 or two years past high school graduation.

Jones has also retained the services of high - profile lawyer David Boies, who may be best known recently for his work defending Harvey Weinstein, in his quest to stop the commissioner's planned extension.

I am writing on behalf of Baby Milk Action / IBFAN UK regarding our concerns about three of the proposed Commissioners for WHO's Independent Global High - level Commission on NCDs.

Immigrants who arrived from the Commonwealth are «being shut out of the system» with some deported or sent to detention centres, says the high commissioner for Barbados.

The most profound of these came from a high school student who said to the education commissioner, John King: «Failure is not a teaching tool.»

Mr. Banks is the second high - ranking NYPD figure to leave the department in recent months: he was set to replace former first deputy commissioner Rafael Pineiro, the department's top - ranking Hispanic official, who retired in September.

Her comments to the editorial board came two weeks after she joined the state's education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on a visit to Automotive High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where, last year, only 1 percent of the students who graduated on time were ready for college.

The 17 Democrats who voted to override Malloy's education commissioner bill veto included Deputy Speaker Linda Orange of Colchester, Deputy Majority Leader Michelle Cook of Torrington, and Roberta Willis of Salisbury, co-chairwoman of the higher education committee.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that he was disappointed to receive the resignation of NYPD Chief Philip Banks — the police department's highest - ranking uniformed officer, who was about to become first deputy commissioner.

Ryder, a 33 - year police veteran who until six months ago was a detective sergeant and the commanding officer of the department's Asset Forfeiture and Intelligence Unit, declined an interview with Newsday, but said in a statement that becoming commissioner «is the highest honor that anyone can receive.»

Rosa, who has been outspoken on testing and teacher evaluations issues, may clash with state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who was hired under the leadership of Tisch and supports high standards and state testing for data purposes.

That was Philip Banks, the department's highest ranking uniform officer who was considered by de Blasio for the commissioner job.

Few people in Ghana attract media attention these days than H.E. Jon Benjamin who is not only the British high commissioner to Ghana but also to Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso.

Bill Bratton raked in up to $ 1.9 million the year before returning to his post as NYPD commissioner — making him one of several high - flying administrators who took massive pay cuts...

The Queens Democratic Board of Elections commissioner, who in the past has come under fire for conflicts of interest, is quickly becoming one of the highest earning recipients of Queens court patronage, Gotham Gazette has learned.

Skandera was best known as a former deputy education commissioner in Florida under Governor Jeb Bush, who had been pursuing a high - profile, accountability - focused agenda of education reforms.

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).

«The establishment of higher standards is critical to improving Florida's system of public education,» said Frank Brogan, the state education commissioner, who is now appealing to individual districts to approve the standards on their...

students under the age of 21 who complete 150 hours of instruction who receive a high school equivalency diploma if the student upon entering the program is assessed on an instrument approved by the commissioner to have a reading and mathematics level at or above grade nine;

For high school students, participation rate means the percentage of designated students in at least their fourth year of high school, as designated by the commissioner, who received a valid score on the required assessments for high schools, as set forth in subparagraph (v) of this paragraph.

The commissioner said students who are frequently suspended from high school «are prime candidates» to drop out of school and enter the workforce without the skills they need to succeed.

«We can not thrive in a knowledge - based marketplace if 45 percent of our high - school students can not do math and 39 percent can not do science at the very basic level,» said Gist, who is in her first year as commissioner of elementary and secondary education.

The highest paid of the commissioners are Jenny Bexon - Smith, who oversees East Midlands and Humber, and Sir David Carter, who oversee the South West.

«It shows that high schools aren't doing a great job,» said Mark Schneider, the former NCES commissioner who now works as a vice president at the American Institutes for Research.

Sir Martin Ewans, who was high commissioner in Harare at the time, went on camera to say that his instructions from London were «to steer clear of it» when speaking to Mugabe.

Owners of dangerous dogs could face dramatically higher fines and be required to maintain up to $ 1 million in homeowners insurance under proposals the Brevard County Commission will consider today.Spurred by recent dog attacks that nearly killed a woman and injured a child, commissioners asked animal experts to propose new fines and help toughen the county's animal control ordinance.The proposed fee increases target all irresponsible pet owners, from those who fail to vaccinate their pets to owners whose dogs are involved in severe attacks.

Also in the photograph are Khalid Iqbal, who went on to be a celebrated landscape painter in his native Pakistan, and Sam Ntiro, the first east African artist to get a show in New York and Tanzania's former high commissioner to Britain.

He has given back to our community in so many ways, coming back tonight to give back to his high school,» said Parkland commissioner Grace Solomon, who was on hand Thursday.

The C.B. has already lost a big, high profile case initiated by a failed commissioner who was appointed by the current government.