He has been named School
Superintendent of the Year by The Fullwood Foundation, an Influential Marylander by The (Maryland) Daily Record, and Best New Public Servant by The City Paper.
75, Ed.D.» 94, has been named
Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).
Elizabeth Molina Morgan, who leads the 21,850 - student Washington County, Md., school district, has been named the 2010
Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators.
In 2011, Thorstenson was selected as California's National
Superintendent of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators, becoming ACSA's nominee for the 2012 American Association of School Administrators» National Superintendent of the Year.
His commitment to collaborating with stakeholders and creating partnerships has earned Superintendent Runcie state and national recognition, including being named Florida's 2016
Superintendent of the Year by the Florida Association of District School Superintendents.
And, after being named as Washington state's superintendent of the year, Webb was selected as one of four finalists for the 2016 national
superintendent of the year by AASA, the School Superintendents Association.
In 2006, she was named
Superintendent of the Year by the Michigan Association of School Administrators.
In 2001, he was named National
Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators.
Not exact matches
The much - ballyhooed bitcoin law, developed and revised
by the New York Department
of Financial Services and its
superintendent Benjamin Lawsky over the last
year, was made official on Wednesday.
In recent
years — and especially since former city planner David Doig became parks general
superintendent three
years ago — the Park District has followed the plan
by increasing the acquisition
of parkland.
Penn, who was named general
superintendent of the park system earlier this
year by Mayor Richard Daley to replace Jesse Madison, said his office is not sure how the double - dipping began, whether it was orchestrated
by a few individuals or whether it occurred after some employees found they could get away with it and spread the word.
On top
of money saved
by multiple distracts sharing one
superintendent and other administrative staff, Poloncarz pointed to financial incentives offered
by the state, including a 40 percent increase in aid for the first five
years of consolidation.
The DOE's executive director
of public affairs, Micah Lasher, testified that district
superintendents would not be responsible for schools outside their district
by the end
of the
year.
Bierwirth, a former Herricks school
superintendent, was tapped as Distinguished Educator
by State Commissioner
of Education MaryEllen Elia last
year and has been advising Hempstead since he started in October.
Former assemblyman Dan Losquadro, who was elected in good faith to represent us in Albany, abdicated his post after only 2 1/2
years to run for a totally unrelated position, that
of Brookhaven Town highway
superintendent, leaving a vacancy that may be filled
by a special election.
One
of the primary concerns
of the DWPC is one shared
by Kingston City School District
Superintendent Paul Padalino: Test results sometimes take over a
year to be revealed.
Actually, the board signaled its clear intention when it refused to extend her contract
by June 30, 2014, something school trustees will do routinely when satisfied with the performance
of the
superintendent, thus maintaining a three - to - five
year cushion on its head administrator, avoiding the stasis
of lame duckness.
Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid
Superintendent Susan Johnson
by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school
year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion
of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.
Officials with the New York State Council
of School
Superintendents pushed to knock down that delay possibility, saying school boards across the state are looking to approve their coming fiscal
year budgets
by April 19.
Jordan, a former school
superintendent who served as the interim head
of the Onteora District for a spell, faced off against fellow Republican Frank Stapleton, nominated
by former GOP Club head Gerry Setchko and seconded
by Gutmann, and Democrat Tim Malloy, who left the board last
year and was seeking cross-endorsement, nominated
by Gutmann and Rice.
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 the
superintendent who had been National
Superintendent of the
Superintendent of the
Year in 2006.
Fast forward to March 20, 2015, it was the first day
of Spring in the city
of Buffalo this
year and it was, reportedly, the day that Carl Paladino took upon himself to meet individually with
Superintendent Ogilvie and demand his resignation,
by 4:00 PM.
Superintendent Jonathan Parks closed the schools for two days due to the search near the end
of the school
year, specifically June 11 and 12 after nearby roads were shut down
by searchers.
State law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a
superintendent, which requires three
years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted
by Steiner.
«We appreciate the feedback from the state comptroller's examiners and, as outlined in the report, also appreciate their understanding
of the unique circumstances faced
by the district leading to unanticipated fiscal results during the
years reviewed,» said
Superintendent James Polanski.
With this in mind, our Highway Department, guided
by Superintendent Skip Vezzetti, has led something
of a two -
year road and bridge «renaissance» in Rockland County:
He was preceded
by Michelle Kavanaugh, who stepped down as district leader in April
of that
year, and Michael Derrigo, who served as interim
superintendent until his arrival.
However, the date for considering a new four -
year contract for the
superintendent was delayed as the result
of the intervention
by the Corporation for Boston, a multi-community group dedicated to easing racial tension in the city since school...
As
superintendent of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of Boston for the past five
years, O'Neill reorganized the Catholic Schools Office, increased early education enrollment
by 17 percent, supplied tools and data to help the district thrive, and expanded partnerships between the central office and schools.
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 its ruling last month, the court held that the Columbus Board
of Education should have informed the former assistant
superintendent for human resources, Evelyn Luckey,
by March 31, 1990, that it did not plan to renew her contract that
year.
Thus, during their
years of teaching, future
superintendents pay into the system a percentage
of their teaching salaries, but their benefits
years later, after the promotions, are determined entirely
by the highest three
years of pay, not
by lifetime contributions.
We had an interesting turn
of events last
year, in which the
superintendent (a different one) was disliked
by much
of the staff and many parents — and the board, which still felt compelled to support her, was faced with some ugly meetings in which staff and public were mad at them.
Sacramento, Calif. — Wilson C. Riles, California
Superintendent of Instruction, probably doubled his $ 42,500 state salary last
year by serving on corporate boards and speaking at conferences, a recent state report and additional sources suggest.
The
superintendent urged the legislature to provide $ 200 million to increase the salary scale for teachers next
year by an average
of 15 percent.
«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.
Challenger Sandi Roos Ellwanger and Richard W. Root, a 12 -
year incumbent, could only stand
by and watch as the
superintendent of the 3,400 - student Pekin Grade School District 108 dipped his hand into a box and selected the winner.
Contract negotiations in the 74,000 - student district attracted the national spotlight this
year because
of disagreements between the district and the union over changes proposed
by Superintendent Michael Bennet to the pay system called Professional...
Jewell - Sherman served as
superintendent of the Richmond schools from 2002 to 2008 and was named Virginia Superintendent of the Year in 2009 by the Virginia Association of School Su
superintendent of the Richmond schools from 2002 to 2008 and was named Virginia
Superintendent of the Year in 2009 by the Virginia Association of School Su
Superintendent of the
Year in 2009
by the Virginia Association
of School
Superintendents.
When three Washington - based research and consulting organizations, backed
by five leading foundations, launched the «
Superintendents Prepared» program this
year («Foundations Seek To Expand Pool
of City School Chiefs,» Education Week, Feb. 5, 1992), I wonder whether they considered an alternative: abolishing the troubled office completely.
The contentious
years ahead were the subject
of a high - profile book
by former Washington Post reporter Dale Russakoff, The Prize: Who's in Charge
of America's Schools, which was published just as Cerf became
superintendent.
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.
State
Superintendent Delaine Eastin is calling on Californians to resuscitate arts education, which in recent
years has been strangled
by tight fiscal constraints in many
of the state's schools.
But almost as persistent as the district's low test scores and high dropout rates were the number
of school
superintendents — eight in seven
years — who promised change and failed to deliver, swallowed up
by petty politics and power struggles.
By chance, the two
of us, on Aug. 31, had written to U.S. Secretary
of Education Arne Duncan on behalf
of the National
Superintendents Roundtable, which we co-chair, to warn that 50
years of relentless criticism
of schools ran the risk
of encouraging «badly informed,...
The other reform strategy pursued in recent
years,
by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity
superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor
of the New York City schools.
For the second straight
year, lawmakers killed a bill that would have required all
of the state's local school
superintendents to be appointed
by their school boards
by 2000.
By the time she left in 2008 to teach at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education, she had been named Virginia's
superintendent of the
year and could boast
of impressive numbers, including increasing the percentage
of schools meeting state accreditation from 20 to 91.
In the cases
of both Phillips and Parker, separated
by more than two hundred
years, each school received broad but specified authority from the state, with diplomas granted on the basis
of public «exhibitions» and with the expectation - the trust - that the details
of the program and its assessment would be creatures
of the schools» immediate community, subject, as deemed necessary, to the inspection
by the state or, in the case
of Phillips, the local
superintendent of (public) schools.
In an April 2014 survey
of 500 district
superintendents conducted by the School Superintendents Association (AASA), 84 percent of respondents reported that their districts had updated their code of conduct within the previo
superintendents conducted
by the School
Superintendents Association (AASA), 84 percent of respondents reported that their districts had updated their code of conduct within the previo
Superintendents Association (AASA), 84 percent
of respondents reported that their districts had updated their code
of conduct within the previous three
years.