Those attending the ceremony included: Director of Charter Schools, School Governance and District Flexibility for DeKalb County Schools Laura Stowell, DeKalb County School District Region 1 Interim Superintendent Sherry L. Johnson, Doraville Mayor Donna Pitman, Doraville City Councilman Robert Patrick, Georgia Charter
Schools Association President and CEO Tony Roberts, Georgia Charter Schools Association Vice President of School Services Elisa Falco and Georgia Charter Schools Association Director of Education and Training Jeff Homan.
«Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO Eileen Sigmund said her organization is focusing on two goals — one broad and one specific.
«As public schools serving public students, charter schools are focused on improving the number of quality seats for Arizona's students,» said Eileen Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President.
This index shows that Arizona students are improving, and charter schools are leading that charge,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO.
Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO, released the following statement today on the Fiscal Year 2018 state budget: «On behalf of public charter schools across Arizona, we commend Governor Ducey for signing into law a pro-education spending plan that makes critical investments in K - 12 students, teachers and schools.
«We are excited to have Hannah as Vice Chair of our Board,» said Georgia Charter
Schools Association President and CEO Tony Roberts.
Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO, released a statement today in response to the Senate's confirmation of Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education:
The Arizona Republic recently «Fact Checked» a statement from Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO Eileen Sigmund and found that it's true: Arizona's public charter school students from all racial and ethnic groups outperformed the state average for their subgroup on 2017 AzMERIT.
Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO Eileen B. Sigmund issued the following statement in response to the mid-year closure of Discovery Creemos Academy, formerly Bradley Academy of Excellence:
«Arizona's charter model continues to set a national example of excellence,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO.
Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO, released the following statement:
«These results reinforce what thousands of Arizona parents, families, educators and school choice champions have known for years: when it comes to academic performance, Arizona's public charter school students are setting the pace,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO.
«Concurrent coursework provides students an opportunity to graduate high school with not only their high school diploma, but also with an associate degree or credits toward a degree,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter
Schools Association President and CEO.
Indiana Public Charter
Schools Association president Russ Simnick said charter school sponsors are generally given broad authority under state law to hold schools accountable to high academic standards.
Not exact matches
The National Rifle
Association has championed the idea of «a good guy with a gun,» but no firearms will be allowed when Vice
President Pence speaks at its annual meeting — sparking criticism from Parkland students, who say
schools should be afforded the same protection.
By Professor Owen Skae,
President of the South African Business
Schools Association (SABSA), Director of Rhodes Business
School & Global Opportunity Panelist in Johannesburg 2015.
Blandin also served as: special assistant to the assistant secretary of administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, from 1977 to 1981; executive director of the National
Association of
Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, from 1972 to 1977; executive staff assistant in the Office of the Governor, California Council on Intergovernmental Relations, from 1970 to 1971; and just prior to joining ASEC, Blandin served nine months as executive vice
president of the Council for Excellence in Government.
Despite support and encouragement for such laws from
President Trump and the National Rifle
Association in the wake of a Florida
school shooting that left 17 dead, just one of those efforts has succeeded.
A demonstrator from the group CodePink holds up a banner as National Rifle
Association Executive Vice
President Wayne LaPierre delivers remarks during a news conference at the Willard Hotel on December 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C. — one week after Adam Lanza used an assault - style rifle to slaughter 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Connecticut.
A letter released today by the
president of the B.C.
School Trustee's Association, Michael McEvoy, confirms that school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for class
School Trustee's
Association, Michael McEvoy, confirms that
school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for class
school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for classrooms.
President Donald Trump is set to give an address to the National Rifle
Association just two months after he declared that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby following a deadly
school shooting in Parkland,...
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Back for a return engagement,
President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle
Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the
school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to...
She's a board member of the Leadership Santa Rosa Alumni
Association, former
president of
Schools Plus and an active participant in the Sonoma County Alliance.
Back for a return engagement,
President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle
Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the
school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to the fold.
«We will return to our
schools, classrooms, and students knowing that we have achieved something truly historic,» said a joint statement issued by Arizona Education
Association President Joe Thomas and National Education
Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia.
Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker,
president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson,
president of the National
Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Grocery Manufacturers
Association (GMA) today issued the following statement by GMA Vice
President of Federal Affairs Scott Faber regarding standards for
school foods:
In December last year, Chevallum State
School Parents & Citizens Association president, Ben Calder, put in motion the next stage of the evolution of the school's tuckshop, C
School Parents & Citizens
Association president, Ben Calder, put in motion the next stage of the evolution of the
school's tuckshop, C
school's tuckshop, Café C.
«The Bill of Rights was created by the Alliance to address the important rights of young athletes when participating in secondary
school sports programs,» says Jim Thornton,
president of the National Athletic Trainers»
Association.
,» which examined the background of newly elected
School Nutrition
Association President Jean Ronnei.
As a trustee of her daughter's
school and
President of its parent
association, she found herself answering many questions at
school Open Houses and education events.
She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Northern Virginia Dietetic
Association where she serves is the current Social Media Chair and past Council on Practice chair, Virginia Dietetic
Association,
School Nutrition
Association where she serves on the Young Professionals Taskforce,
School Nutrition
Association of Loudoun County where she serves as
President, Nutrition Entrepreneurs Dietetics Practice Group, Sports and Cardiovascular Nutrition Dietetics Practice Group, Dietitians in Business and Communications Dietetics Practice Group, and is an active member of the Young Professionals Committee for the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce where she serves as Social Media Chair.
«With more working couples and one - parent homes, we «re being asked to provide lunches, «said Julie Boettger,
president of the Illinois
School Food Service
Association.
She is a past
president of the
Association for Early Jewish Education (AEJE), the former organization of Jewish Nursery
School professionals in the Greater Los Angeles area.
That bizarre scenario was all I could think of when I received an email yesterday from the
School Nutrition Association (SNA), relaying SNA president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood Obesity finding that kids actually like the healthier school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (H
School Nutrition
Association (SNA), relaying SNA
president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood Obesity finding that kids actually like the healthier
school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (H
school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).
Neal Barnard is an American physician, an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences, serves as
president of The Cancer Project a life member of the American Medical
Association.
Nineteen past SNA
presidents took the extraordinary step in May of breaking with the
association's leadership by writing their own open letter to Congress urging it to stay the course on healthier
school food.
According to the
president of the
School Nutrition
Association,
«Before, we just slapped food on the plates,» said Betsy Kelly,
president of the Illinois
School Food Service
Association, a trade organization.
Our long time
school board member (and now President - Elect of the California School Board Association) Jill Wynns was the genius behind this p
school board member (and now
President - Elect of the California
School Board Association) Jill Wynns was the genius behind this p
School Board
Association) Jill Wynns was the genius behind this policy.
I recently interviewed Norma Zeller,
president of the New York
School Nutrition
Association (NYSNA), about the budget proposal.
She served as a trustee and treasurer of the NAIS Board, and as past
president of the California
Association of Independent
Schools.
* 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
Just two years after
President Obama signed the HHFKA, the
School Nutrition
Association, once a supporter of the law's strong nutrition standards, reversed course and started a concerted campaign to roll them back.
Leah Schmidt, SNS
School Nutrition
Association President Director of Food and Nutrition Services for Hickman Mills C - 1
School District (Missouri)
In a New York Times Magazine investigation into the politics behind the current
school lunch battle, it is reported that SNA's CEO Patricia Montague, invited Pat McCoy, vice
president for sales at the $ 3 billion Schwan Food Company, to address the SNA members drafting the
association's legislative positions, along with the executive board.
If it does, Ann Pennington,
president of the Alaska
School Nutrition
Association, hopes that
schools, growers and seafood processors know what's coming.
Julia Bauscher, who is
president of a national advocacy group called the
School Nutrition
Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.
Speakers for The May 7 Concussion Conference include nationally known experts and panels of local concussion professionals comprised of pediatricians, physical therapists, neuropsychologists, and advocates of brain injury prevention and athletic training education: Dr. Tricia McDonough - Ryan, Dr. Thomas Trojian, Katherine Snedaker MSW, Dr. David Wang, Dr. Mike Lee and the team of experts from Gaylord Center for Concussion Care, Representative from CATA; Deb Shulansky from Brain Injury Alliance of CT (BIAC); Brain Injury attorney and BIAC Board member Paul A. Slager; Charlie Wund, Founder &
President Agency for Student Health Research; and Dr. Karissa Niehoff, The Executive Director at CT
Association of
Schools and CT Interscholastic Athletic Conference
Schools often rely on lunch sales to bring in money, and without steady sales, some schools can't afford their lunch programs, according to Katie Wilson, president of the Child Nutrition Association and the nutrition director for the five schools in the Onalaska, Wis., school di
Schools often rely on lunch sales to bring in money, and without steady sales, some
schools can't afford their lunch programs, according to Katie Wilson, president of the Child Nutrition Association and the nutrition director for the five schools in the Onalaska, Wis., school di
schools can't afford their lunch programs, according to Katie Wilson,
president of the Child Nutrition
Association and the nutrition director for the five
schools in the Onalaska, Wis., school di
schools in the Onalaska, Wis.,
school district.