Sentences with phrase «york city schools chancellor»

At 88, Ms. Goodman carries herself with a quiet, unassailable authority that makes you think she could be a retired banker or New York City schools chancellor or a high - level diplomat, a job she aspired to before falling under art's spell as a young, Upper West Side mother in the early»60s.

The speakers included Pratt Institute President Thomas F. Schutte; Carmen Fariña, New York City schools chancellor; and Gary Hecht, superintendent of District 75.

Patterson will receive the award, which will be presented by Carmen Fariña, New York City Schools chancellor, at the National Book Awards ceremony on November 18.

Michelle Cahill, who has spent more than three decades in education, including as a senior adviser to Joel I. Klein when he was the New York City schools chancellor, has culled much of the research used on the website.

Bill Gates, along with Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Teach for America's founder, Wendy Kopp; and the New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein could be considered the patron saints of the network.

While many political leaders around the country are bowing to public pressure to retreat from Common Core, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City schools chancellor, Carmen Farina, pointedly confirmed their commitment to Common Core when they announced the test results.

Harold O. Levy, a former New York City schools chancellor and founder of Kaplan's online master's of education program, said Stanford's involvement in this sector could be a watershed.

His book said that even New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein thought the law was a joke.

Carmen Fariña, the New York City schools chancellor.

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

One of the first schools opened by Joel Klein, the New York City schools chancellor at the time, 223 was intended to help replace a notoriously bad junior high school that the city had decided to shut down.

Reaction to the appointment of Richard Carranza as New York City schools chancellor was a little slow...

In Miami, he succeeded Rudy Crew, a former New York City schools chancellor.

Dennis Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, answered questions at a panel attended by over 100 E4E - New York teachers on Wednesday (Capital New York).

Former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein benefits.

Reflecting on his tenure as New York City schools chancellor, Dennis Walcott said he had few regrets and was particularly proud of his record on expanding school choice, vocational education and parent involvement.

Amplify, a much - heralded push by News Corporation into digital education, led by Joel Klein, a former New York City schools chancellor, is nearing an inglorious end.

During his eight - year term as New York City schools chancellor, Joel Klein presided over some of the nation's most promising education reforms.

It will be overseen by two co-chairmen: Rudy Crew, a former New York City schools chancellor who is now the president of Medgar Evers College, and Jonathan Lippman, who was once the chief judge of New York State and last year ran a commission that recommended ways to close the city's jail complex at Rikers Island.

This past summer, in a sixth - grade math class, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology - based learning takes the place of the old «let's all proceed together» approach.

+ Joel Klein, the former New York City schools chancellor (and head of the U.S. Dept. of Justice's Antitrust Division) who now runs Amplify, a News Corp education - technology startup.

The United States» failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy,» claims a task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations chaired by former New York City schools chancellor Joel I. Klein and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.

In 2007, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein sought to change the process for awarding teachers tenure, allowing student data to be factored into that decision.

Former New York City schools chancellor Rudy Crew's response was to discipline all those named in the report; some were fired, others assigned to desk jobs.

New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein tells attendees, «Grow the options and let parents vote with their feet.»

The list of finalists also includes Anthony J. Alvarado, a former New York City schools chancellor and the current superintendent of Community School District 2 in Manhattan, one of 32 local districts within the city system.

Chaired by former New York City schools chancellor Joel I. Klein and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the task force said the country «will not be able to keep pace — much less lead — globally unless it moves to fix the problems it has allowed to fester for too long.»

Increasing starting salaries in teaching has been advocated by, among others, the National Education Association, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, and the authors of a heavily publicized 2007 report by McKinsey & Company on the characteristics of the world's most effective school systems.

As New York City schools chancellor, however, Klein was in the trenches, faced with a deeply broken system.

We learn of a pleasant childhood in Toledo, Ohio, college days at Cornell, training with Teach For America, three grueling but successful years in a Baltimore elementary school, leadership of The New Teacher Project, and testimony at an arbitration hearing where the New York Department of Education squared off against Randi Weingarten and the United Federation of Teachers («She was dazzling,» former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein tells Whitmire).

He flew to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to consult with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and learned of Tony Alvarado, the former New York City schools chancellor and head of District 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority students.

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

An earlier version of a picture caption with this article misspelled the surname of the New York City schools chancellor.

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.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in response to the news that Alberto Carvalho would not accept the position of New York City schools chancellor as previously announced.

Under state law, the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent or obtain a waiver from the state.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has tapped Houston schools superintendent Richard Carranza to become the next New York City schools chancellor — four days after Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Albert Carvalho bailed on the job at the last - minute.

New York City schools chancellor Carmen Fariña and new state education department commissioner MaryEllen Elia will visit a struggling school in Bronx on Tuesday, in their first public appearance together since Elia took office in July.

Cathie Black has stepped down as New York City schools chancellor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday.

The search for the new New York City schools chancellor should factor in these critical issues as well.

But such lessons are part of a middle - school curriculum that Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, has recommended for his system's newly mandated sex - education classes.

-- The former New York City Schools chancellor and current Rupert Murdoch henchman also says a bunch of other, more substantive stuff in this interview with the New York Times Magazine, but frankly, we stopped reading and started imagining at that sentence.

According to David Carr's latest Media Equation column, the former New York City schools chancellor and current News Corp. executive first officially encountered Rupert Murdoch about fourteen years ago, when he was running the Justice Department's antitrust division in Washington.

Controversial New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein has been mentioned as a possible secretary of Education in an Obama administration, which is why more than 1,000 locals have signed an online petition imploring Team Obama not to choose him.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Lawyers representing more than a dozen parents in three lawsuits are urging a state judge to block a magazine executive from becoming New York City schools chancellor starting next week.

Carvalho argued that the New York City schools chancellor position is the «most coveted job in education.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped the superintendent of Houston schools to be the next New York City schools chancellor, days after the mayor's first choice pulled out.

Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, an educator who is well - known nationwide, has turned down an offer to serve as the next New York City schools chancellor less than a day after news broke that he was tapped to head the country's largest school system.

«The decision that I have made about that [New York City schools chancellor] position is however a decision I can no longer sustain,» he said, garnering loud applause from attendees and board members in the room.

Carvalho had already privately accepted the job as New York City schools chancellor, which would have made him chief of the nation's largest school system.