Sentences with phrase «superintendent of education who»

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is the authorizer for all Type 2 and Type 5 public charter schools and also appoints the State Superintendent of Education who oversees the Recovery School District.

Not exact matches

That's why we couldn't help but notice this story about Frankly County superintendents and school principals who — at the urging of Massachusetts State Education Commissioner Mitchell D. Chester — are exploring the idea of offering breakfast - in - the - classroom.

He's the superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, and we were talking about whether this is still the land of opportunity, where education offers that opportunity to everybody who wants it and is willing to work for it.

Cuomo mentioned the salary of a Syosset schools superintendent, Carole Hankin, who earns $ 386,868 a year, as an example of where education officials might consider cutting to make up for the loss of state aid they are expected to suffer during this budget cycle.

The superintendent of Rockville Center schools, who earns $ 310,000 a year, thinks Cuomo's cap is a «distraction» from the fight over $ 1.5 billion in education aid cuts.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

Cash was recommended to the board by state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who knew him from her time as superintendent of schools in Hillsborough County, Florida.

Restore the power and independence of high school and community superintendents: State Education Law should be changed so that Community Education Councils are empowered to forward a list of three candidates for superintendent to the chancellor, who would select among those three.

Zinke had a $ 1.1 million to $ 524,000 cash advantage over his Democratic opponent Denise Juneau, the state superintendent of public education who is also the state's first openly gay candidate for Congress, on March 31.

Regent Betty Rosa of the Bronx, who spent her early childhood in Puerto Rico and then served as a special education teacher, principal and superintendent in New York City, is expected to be named chancellor.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for one, tried to weigh in on schools by creating the post of senior education policy adviser — dubbed «education czar» by some — and filling it with Manuel Rivera, the Rochester schools superintendent who had been National Superintendent of thesuperintendent who had been National Superintendent of theSuperintendent of the Year in 2006.

Walcott, who is the current deputy mayor for Education and Community Development, needs the waiver because of a state law that requires all school chancellors to either be certified as superintendents or receive a waiver.

This also changed the roles of the various players who define education policy in the schools: «Whereas school superintendents and the directors of teachers» colleges had once decided what was to be taught in schools, the curriculum was now being influenced by scientists and as well by teachers to an ever greater extent,» Criblez points out.

That superintendent was far from alone, points out Whitehurst, who is now director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Murphy goes on to identify three trends that may help — or force — schools of education to change: First, today's political climate introduces powerful external pressure for schools to perform and leaders to reform, and schools of education are under pressure to produce principals and superintendents who can ensure results.

Bersin was one of that group of reforming superintendents who were being brought in at the time from outside the world of education to manage big - city school systems, the most prominent being Joel Klein in New York City.

«What's happened, in my opinion, is that there was little information given to locally elected school board members about these two issues,» said state schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett, who proposed the rule at a state board of education meeting on April 24.

«It is hard to imagine an individual who would bring more significant and appropriate professional experience to the Harvard Graduate School of Education than Superintendent Payzant,» said Dean Kathleen McCartney.

Speakers — who as a group represented a range of opinions on extended learning time — included American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) cofounder David Levin, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson, Ford Foundation President Luis Ubinas, Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer Paul Reville, and New York University Professor Pedro Noguera.

Education Week quoted a former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati schools, who blamed the proposal's failure on the fact that it «would have applied to nearly all teachers, rather than allowing veterans the choice of opting into the new system.»

Two years later, the winter 1964 — 1965 issue was devoted to «education and race relations» and included essays on social psychology and racial balance and another look at Prince Edward County, this time by Neil Sullivan, Ed.D.» 57, a New York superintendent who took a leave of absence in 1963 to become superintendent — at the request of then - attorney general Robert Kennedy — of a privately funded Prince Edward Free School.

In June, 1997, the superintendent of schools signed a «commitment to resolve» the complaint which stated the district would hold sexual harassment workshops for teachers and students; discipline any student who engaged in harassing behaviors; and report its progress to the Department of Education.

The hope is that the students, clustered in small groups of only 25 each year, will build a cohort for life, a close network of leaders who are ready and equipped to transform the education sector as superintendents, chief academic officers, chiefs of staff, commissioners, executive directors, and more.

Last week, the city's board of education selected Constance E. Clayton, who has been the district's associate superintendent for early - childhood education since 1978.

Merle Temple Jr., who served as her deputy superintendent in the state education department, and Steven Botes, an Alpharetta, Ga., businessman who owns a computer - consulting company, were also named in the indictment, which includes charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and theft of public money.

Enter Usable Knowledge — a project that will take new ideas and innovative solutions generated by our faculty and our students and put them in the hands of teachers, principals, superintendents, policymakers, and others who can have a real impact on students, schools, and education more broadly.

«No matter how effective I am, by the end of the year at least 10 percent of the people I deal with become my enemies,» a West Coast school superintendent once confided to Frederick M. Wirt, a professor at the University of Illinois who has written extensively on the politics of education.

New York «had set forth a clear and comprehensive statement of its vision,» wrote one reviewer, who noted that the «ambitious agenda» would be helped by «the extensive authority over public education held by The Board of Regents» and «the large network of 37 District Superintendents who oversee Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).»

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

Secretary of Education Thomas K. Gilhool, who had placed on public - library shelves several reports analyzing results from the Test for Essential Learning and Literacy Skills, withdrew a report ranking districts from 1 to 500 after superintendents who previewed it convinced him that a «gross numerical ranking was simply not significant statistically,» said Timothy Potts, a spokesman for the Secretary.

«Giving the children who have been impacted by the hurricane a sense of stability and safety is extremely important, and schools can provide that kind of setting,» says Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cecil J. Picard in an email to Edutopia.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

(The superintendent and staff would be paid real salaries and be housed in a real office; the school board would be made up of various «education experts» or maybe «stakeholders» who, like real school board members, would volunteer their time.)

Typically, studies of leadership in education focus on «formal» leaders — the individuals who have official management roles, such as principals or superintendents.

In the weeks after the storm, the superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of New Orleans appeared before the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) urging board members to consider using vouchers as a way for the state and Catholic schools to collaborate in serving the students who remained in the city.

Although his little four - room schoolhouse in West Bridgewater is gone, replaced by a more modern brick building, the legacy of what a quality public education offered him is clear, as shown in a letter written in 1973 by one of his junior high students to a superintendent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in support of a teacher who lost his vision and then his job:

As the national organization for the school superintendents who lead our public schools, AASA is in the best position to lead the dialogue about our love — and the importance of this love — for public education.

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».

Jindal's willingness to scratch PARCC is another blow for those who have championed Common Core, including Department of Education Superintendent John White, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education president Chas Roemer and several state lawmakers.

accepting service of the form petition and supporting papers on behalf of any school district employee or officer named as a party or the school district if it is named as a party or arranging for service by mail by mailing the form petition and supporting documents to any school district employee or officer named as a party and, if the school district is named as a party, to a person in the office of superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service on behalf the school district;

The latest example of this comes courtesy of Charles Epps, the superintendent of the woeful Jersey City school district, who declared on Wednesday that the young women attending the traditional public schools there were «our worst enemy» in his (abysmal) effort to improve education in the district and prevent school crime.

SRC member Christopher McGinley, who holds a doctorate in education, worked as a superintendent in suburban districts and is a member of Temple's education - school faculty, voted against the contract.

providing the parent or guardian or unaccompanied youth with a signed and dated acknowledgment verifying that the local educational agency liaison has received the form petition and supporting documents and will either accept service of these documents on behalf of the school district employee or officer or school district or effect service by mail by mailing the form petition and supporting documents to any school district employee or officer named as a party and, if the school district is named as a party, to a person in the office of superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service on behalf of the school district;

Half of them appoint a state superintendent of schools (or «commissioner of education») who is nearly always a career professional in the education field.

The Florida lawmaker who led his state's House education committee has resigned his legislative seat in the wake of allegations that he used a racial slur to describe Miami - Dade County's black school superintendent and then threatened a fellow lawmaker who filed a complaint against him.

In Louisiana, on the other hand, the RSD chancellor reports to the state superintendent, who is appointed by the elected board of elementary and secondary education.

Those «high» scores at Parks earned plaudits from local business leaders, Superintendent Beverly Hall (who Aviv paints as willfully blind to cheating), the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and even Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

«It makes a difference,» Seymour Fliegel, a 30 - year veteran of New York City's school wars and a former deputy superintendent in East Harlem, told me, «that the same guy who can command the garbage trucks and police cruisers is talking about education.»

The hearing was the result of growing concern among superintendents who have sought guidance on monitoring home - education programs, said a spokesman for the state's...