Sentences with phrase «higher education officials»

Her recent experience includes helping to develop initiatives to improve secondary school literacy, navigating policy issues affecting students in pre-k through college for higher education officials and ensuring that instructional practice in education is driven by high quality research.

But higher education officials say the new system will better prepare students for college and prevent many of them from having to take remedial classes.

Higher education officials are actively working to make sure parents and students know about this opportunity.

Last September, he all but required adoption of the Common Core or similar standards approved by state higher education officials if states want to receive federal waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.

Higher education officials say hiring black college presidents for the first time provides an opportunity to break new ground and set an example.

When asked whose thinking had influenced the plan, the senior campaign official listed former Obama higher education officials (including Rohit Chopra, formerly of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Bob Shireman, who oversaw many of Obama's first - term higher education accomplishments) and college presidents who have long supported the administration's focus on holding colleges accountable, such as SUNY's Nancy Zimpher.

We have talked about our program with higher education officials, chief state school officers, state boards of education, and individual community college and no one has raised a legal objection to the program.

Despite that drama and the nail - biting tension it caused for Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and other state higher education officials, it went down with a whimper, not included in the budget passed by the state Senate this week.

The councils consist of business and higher education officials as well as state lawmakers and have been tasked with developing economic development strategies for a region.

In response to the mayor's most recent attempt to point the finger at the union for the breakdown of evaluation talks, UFT President Michael Mulgrew observed, «Most people would be embarrassed that the state's highest education official has directly contradicted their statements about a new teacher evaluation system, but not the mayor.»

Playing a leading role in this effort is Kasama Varavarn, Ed.D.» 78, who last year became Thailand's second - highest education official and the first woman named to the post of...

On Monday, Betty A. Rosa, the newly elected chancellor of the Board of Regents and the state's highest education official, even said that if she had children of testing age, she would have them sit out the exams.

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CCISD officials say bed bugs were found in Miller High School's Adaptive Education Building last week.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

Official statements notwithstanding, for all practical purposes Asians in higher education today no longer count as «adding to diversity.»

What if you pull back all the layers of goverment to find out that the officials in high authority has a god called Lucifer and they have been brainwashing us through education, music, politics - you name it - to keep us divided and separated and from the truth.

The official organization of higher education, although it achieved the immediate end of the restoration of order, unfortunately led to those characteristics of Islamic education which have come down almost to our time — the addiction to memorization of prescribed texts and study of the same materials in generation after generation.

The discovery of the tainted chicken, which Illinois health officials say showed ammonia contamination levels as high as 133 times the acceptable level, sent state education officials scurrying to gather up 360 cases of chicken tenders sent to 49 public schools, including 11 in the Chicago area.

«Shanghai does not need so - called # 1 schools,» said Yi Hougin, a high level official of Shanghai Education Commission.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

«Today, what Gov. Cuomo is proposing is a revolutionary idea for higher education, and it's going to reverberate not only throughout the state of New York, but throughout this country,» Sanders told a crowd of students and elected officials at LaGuardia Community College.

During the weekend, Cuomo officials retracted his administration's effort to make the city pay for $ 485 million more for the City University of New York higher education system.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Eeducation commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of EducationEducation.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

New York Education Commissioner John King is in the Fayetteville - Manlius High School Auditorium, flanked by Board of Regents Vice Chancellor Tony Bottar and four state officials — Sens. John DeFrancisco and David Valesky and Assemblymen Al Stirpe and Will Barclay.

The meeting will feature a presentation by New York City Department of Education (DOE) officials for parents about how to navigate the high schools admissions process, as well an overview -LSB-...]

Federal officials had the power to sanction schools with high opt our rates by withholding funding, and the state's education commissioner said a few days ago that she was talking to officials and would not rule out the sanctions compete.

Fast forward to the days leading into 2015, when Erie Community College officials can now boast the state's highest enrollment numbers under the Firemen's Association of the State of New York Higher Education Learning Plan.

ALBANY — Growth in school taxes on Long Island and statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses.

Officials from state - run colleges and universities across the nation will gather near Albany this weekend to discuss the issues facing public higher education.

Political activity is far more «professional» at the local government level in urban areas where there are far fewer governments and far fewer elected officials per capita, and a far greater supply of people with higher education and high level managerial and professional work experience.

In relation to internal conversations surrounding the program, he wrote that the Chancellor's office «has been in continuous communication with college presidents and state officials, including at the Higher Education Services Corporation, about details of the Excelsior Scholarship program that will be addressed in the regulations to be issued later this month.»

Growth in school taxes statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses, according to the state comptroller's office.

New York education officials are discussing a plan to allow high school students with disabilities to earn a diploma without passing most or all Regents exams.

A pro-charter advocacy group wants New York education officials to investigate 10 district schools in Brooklyn that it says had «suspiciously high spikes» in scores on state tests.

An administration official said it came as no surprise that higher education for prisoners didn't get traction in a body that previously had nixed the DREAM Act.

The state's highest - ranking education official threw her support behind Mayor de Blasio's quest to remain in control of the city schools Saturday.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Elected officials in Northern Manhattan have launched a series of community events to address the low percentage of black and Latino high school graduates ready for higher education.

State officials also are requiring the District to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case Education Commissioner John King doesn't approve the takeover plan by the University of Rochester.

DISABLED STUDENT GRADUATION: One new measure will make it easier for disabled students to attend their high school graduation by closing a loophole that had allowed local education officials to keep some students out.

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 focus on higher education the first day is a break with tradition, as lawmakers have generally scheduled the first day of the joint legislative hearings on the budget to be «tin cup» day — when mayors and local government officials discuss the impact of the spending proposal on their municipality.

Thanks to community pressure, city officials are backing off of their decision to completely close Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School.

Education groups, dismayed by the federal education secretary's threat to punish schools in New York with high opt - out rates for standardized tests, say he's re-igniting controversy that state education officials have been trying to calm for the pEducation groups, dismayed by the federal education secretary's threat to punish schools in New York with high opt - out rates for standardized tests, say he's re-igniting controversy that state education officials have been trying to calm for the peducation secretary's threat to punish schools in New York with high opt - out rates for standardized tests, say he's re-igniting controversy that state education officials have been trying to calm for the peducation officials have been trying to calm for the past year.

Its June graduation rate — which includes special education students who attended high school in special placements outside the district, according to officials — was 53 percent.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The city has made a final decision not to expand Millennium High School into nearby space at 26 Broadway, Department of Education officials said last week.

I am requesting that the Department of Education send a high ranking official to address the teachers, parents and students and answer any questions regarding the current choice of principal.

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