Sentences with phrase «public schools principal who»

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When Nicole Baker Fulgham met one of her fellow faith - based public school advocates for coffee once, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend who is a long - time elementary school principal in the Bronx.

No CEO in the city would allow an outside force to tell them who to hire or how to keep them,» said Ms. Fariña, herself a former Brooklyn public school teacher and principal.

Boatwright was one of the most highly regarded principals in the Buffalo Public Schools, and believed to be the only one in recent memory who died while in the position.

One of principal Deborah Harbin's biggest frustrations is trying to carry out rules and laws made by people «who don't understand public schools.»

I am a principal in Texas of one of the first grade 3 - 6 TEA approved Public school Virtual Academy - I would like some pointers when discussing accountability with potential parents who are opposed to high stakes testing and love our school this year but would rather their child not participate in the STAAR testing required by TEA.

The impetus behind creating an after - school system in Providence started with the mayor, David N. Cicilline, who jump - started the process by bringing together all middle school principals, directors of city recreation centers, and the heads of the public libraries.

Those same rules punish any teacher or principal who may wish to transfer between a traditional public school and a charter school.

The «man with credentials,» Shael Polakow - Suransky, turns out to be a South African native raised in Michigan, who taught mathematics in New York City public schools before moving up the career ladder, to assistant principal, principal, and, in the Klein regime, to an executive position overseeing the district's pioneering system to track student performance.

Her words in that article got me to reflecting about what school principals can and should do for the people who «take care of them» — their internal and external publics and members of their own immediate families.

Footwear aside, McCartney, Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development at HGSE, managed her honorary role well as one of 100 business, government, and education leaders who participated on November 1 in the third annual «Principal For A Day» event sponsored by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the Boston Plan for Excellence, an organization started by corporations and foundations in 1984 to benefit the city's school system.

04, who has worked as a Boston Public School principal since graduating from the Ed School's School Leadership Program.

And it concluded that private - school tuition cost was the principal deterrent to parents who had considered switching from public to private schools.

Similarly, in Revolution at the Margins, Frederick Hess reports that limited competition had little impact, but the threat of serious competition from charter schools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with coschools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with coSchools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with contempt.

«Those who hold Christian convictions must apply them within the realm of public education,» said Forrest L. Turban, executive director of Christian Educators Association International, whose Aug. 7 annual meeting drew some 300 teachers, principals, school - board members, and parents.

That fact has spurred some principals to take matters into their own hands — like the Arizona principal who took her schools need for supplies public by posting this telling message on her schools marquee... (03/12/2009)

Timo Heikkinen, who began teaching in Finland's public schools in 1980 and is now principal of Kallahti Comprehensive School in eastern Helsinki, remembers when most of his high - school teachers sat at their desks dictating to the open notebooks of compliant chiSchool in eastern Helsinki, remembers when most of his high - school teachers sat at their desks dictating to the open notebooks of compliant chischool teachers sat at their desks dictating to the open notebooks of compliant children.

He has particular ire for his fellow principals and school superintendents, who he blames for paving the «path to public education's meltdown,» and for the NEA and AFT, whose efforts in making teaching a lucrative public - sector profession insulated from even desultory performance management, for helping to perpetuate bureaucracies that «feed the egos of adults while squashing the hopes of children».

Maria Velez - Clarke has for 18 years been principal of the Children's Workshop School in the East Village, Public School 361, one of several small schools started in the 1990s by people who had worked at the widely praised Central Park East School.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

• Who has right ideas for public education: 81 percent of parents said they believe teachers have the right ideas for their public schools; 77 percent said principals have the right ideas; 70 percent gave the nod to parent organizations; 39 percent said their governor has the right ideas; 37 percent had confidence in mayors / local officials; and 33 percent said business owners / corporate executives have the right ideas.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

There was one person affiliated with the public school present, a former assistant principal from Florida who quit in protest of the encroaching Common Core standards.

The money includes $ 30 million for K - 12 schools to provide incentives for teachers and principals who commit to working in New Orleans - area public schools for at least three years.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

The existing language of subdivision (26) of section 10 - 183b of the Connecticut General Statutes outlined who qualified for a teacher pension by defining the word teacher as «any teacher, permanent substitute teacher, principal, assistant principal, supervisor, assistant superintendent or superintendent employed by the public schools in a professional capacity while possessing a certificate or permit issued by the State Board of Education...»

The Local Wellness Committee will represent all school levels (elementary and secondary schools) and include (to the extent possible), but not be limited to: parents and caregivers; students; representatives of the school nutrition program (e.g., school nutrition director); physical education teachers; health education teachers; school health professionals (e.g., health education teachers, school health services staff (e.g., nurses, physicians, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel who provide school health services), and mental health and social services staff (e.g., school counselors, psychologists, social workers, or psychiatrists); school administrators (e.g., superintendent, principal, vice principal); school board members; health professionals (e.g., dietitians, doctors, nurses, dentists); and the general public.

«It turns out to be really difficult to translate school models that seem to work into new settings,» said Jason Grissom, an assistant professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, who has studied school reform and principal success.

Every since the 1990s, Clinton has expressed support for charter schools, but in Saturday's remarks, she said something that is likely to irritate her supporters within the Democratic Party who are avid backers of charter schools as a principal means of reforming public education: that most charters don't accept those students who are the most difficult to educate, or, if they do, they «don't keep them.»

M.I.T.C.H. is the creation of Debi Lorence, 39, a former public and private school teacher who serves as the school's director, or principal.

A new, three - year randomized control study of Milwaukee (WI) Public Schools from Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion Universities has found that students in schools led by principals who graduated from the National Institute for School Leadership's (NISL) Executive Development Program (EDP) outperformed their peers in math and literacy on state assesSchools from Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion Universities has found that students in schools led by principals who graduated from the National Institute for School Leadership's (NISL) Executive Development Program (EDP) outperformed their peers in math and literacy on state assesschools led by principals who graduated from the National Institute for School Leadership's (NISL) Executive Development Program (EDP) outperformed their peers in math and literacy on state assessments.

Hillsborough County Public Schools, a large district covering the Tampa, Fla., area, has six full - time coaches who work weekly with some 45 novice principals and provide intensive coaching for veteran principals who need support in specific areas.

John Witte, a UW - Madison professor emeritus who was the principal researcher on a long - term study of Milwaukee's voucher school program, said studies in Milwaukee «found that competition from charter, magnet and voucher schools has had beneficial effects on the public schools.»

The Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards are designed to reward elementary and secondary school teachers, principals and administrators who promote excellence and innovation in public education.

Here's the third of four parts on California charters, written by Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education.

It was written by former award - winning high school principal Carol Burris, who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education advocacy group.

It was written by Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education.

After some intentional work — originally other principals were hesitant about speaking with me — I've started having great meetings with people who work for Camden Public Schools.

His father, John B. King Sr., was a 66 - year - old retired public school teacher and administrator, who had been the first African - American principal in Brooklyn and later, the city's executive deputy superintendent of schools.

«I congratulate the superintendents, principals, teachers and other educators in all of the divisions and schools that earned VIP awards this year,» said Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright, who proposed the awards program in 2007 as a means of rewarding high - achieving schools and divisions.

The public / charter difference is that even as students leave, they are replaced throughout the school year by new entrants, who are welcomed by their principals and teachers.

Case in point: We are currently partnering with the Broward County Public Schools in Florida in training six principal supervisor interns who will be ready to fill vacancies and / or help reduce the future span of control of principal supervisors.

Capital Prep Magnet School Principal Steve Perry, a public speaker and author who has lambasted teachers» unions, is listed in state corporation records as president of Capital Preparatory Schools Inc..

Ms. Phillips - Santos, who is now a dean at a public elementary and middle school in the Bronx, said she recalled asking her Success principal one day if she could leave at 4:55 p.m. — after the students had been dismissed — because her son's day care had called saying that he had a fever and was vomiting, and being told, «It's not 5 o'clock yet.»

It was written by Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education.

In this post, Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, explains why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a miPublic Education, explains why putting the word «public» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mipublic» in front of «charter school» — which are funded with tax dollars — is «an affront» to people for whom public education is a mipublic education is a mission.

This post, written by Carol Burris, a former New York high school principal who is executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, details issues on which many charter school supporters don't want to focus.

But principal / director Naomi Drewitz, who spent 28 years as a teacher and administrator in public schools in nearby East Windsor, can at least understand the animosity.

INDIANAPOLIS - A Pike Township principal who is a national award - winning educator will launch a Spanish - language immersion public charter school in Indianapolis through The Mind Trust's prestigious Education Entrepreneur Fellowship.