Sentences with phrase «acting education commissioner»

Christie's press office was not commenting last night on the Senate bill, but his administration, including acting education commissioner Chris Cerf, had been involved in the talks with Ruiz.

Now, the state's acting education commissioner, Jeff Wulfson, is recommending probation for the school, citing financial mismanagement and declining standardized test scores — a move that could ultimately lead to the school's closure.

«This is a result of collaborative efforts that involved parents, students, teachers and administrators who, working with the educators at the Department, helped put the systems in place for improved academic achievement and stable governance,» said acting education commissioner Lamont Repollet.

«Over the past month, we have heard a groundswell of support from districts across the state for this type of model curriculum to ensure that the Common Core State Standards move from a concept in Trenton to a tool for every classroom in the state,» said Chris Cerf, New Jersey's acting education commissioner, in a statement.

JACKSON, N.J. (WTW)-- New Jersey's acting education commissioner says he will review whether the state's recently imposed salary cap for school superintendents has had an impact on school districts.

Yet Christie and acting education commissioner Chris Cerf have hedged their support for charters, noting that any charter openings should depend on the community.

One thing they all have in common is a direct or indirect role for the Christie administration namely Chris Cerf, the acting education commissioner to exert its influence in what happens next.

Not exact matches

A statement attributed to Peggy Carr, the acting commissioner of the department's National Center for Education Statistics, said: «We consider it to be an important innovation, but we want to allow it time to develop and crystalize into an operationalized assessment with a solid empirical foundation to validate its technical stability.»

The report argues that there is now insufficient local oversight of school performance and the creation of locally accountable school commissioners, appointed by partnerships of local authorities across city or county regions, would act to address this vacuum and support better local coordination of education.

The authority to remove an elected School Board member from office falls with the state commissioner of education, and a spokeswoman for MaryEllen Elia said that since she might be called on to act in this instance, she could not comment on the situation.

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Former state education commissioner John King must recuse himself from decisions directly related to New York, even when he takes over as acting US secretary of education after Arne Duncan steps down, according to a federal official.

Harrington, a veteran classroom teacher and former Director of Academic Standards for the New Jersey Department of Education, was appointed Acting Education Commissioner this week following former commissioner David Hespe's abrupt departure.

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.

State Regents Chancellor Merryl Tish and the acting state education commissioner recently issued a letter that calls on the governor to create and push a bill that would allow the state to both remove and replace school boards in troubled districts, like Buffalo.

«He's been in the cauldron for a good stretch of his career, so it's more than an abstract issue for him,» said Mr. Cerf, who is now acting commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education.

In one of her first acts, Dr. Tisch and David M. Steiner, then the education commissioner, engineered New York's winning application in the Obama administration's Race to the Top competition, bringing the state $ 700 million.

Dr. Tisch and the commissioner who succeeded Dr. Steiner, John B. King Jr., who is now the acting federal education secretary, became lightning rods for Common Core opponents.

Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), drily noted that, compared to the international average, «we also have a higher percentage of students who score in the lowest performance levels... and a lower percentage of top math performers.»

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Peter McWalters, commissioner of education in Rhode Island, said he and most state chiefs have learned to live with the federal act, which he now fully supports.

«What the legislature says is that schools are going to have to prioritize,» said Ray Kilmer, Colorado's acting commissioner of education.

«We're trying not to read too much into the declines at this point,» said Peggy G. Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which oversees the exam.

Pursuant to Education Law section 16, any person having reasonable cause to suspect that a student has been subjected to harassment, bullying, and / or discrimination by an employee or student, on school grounds or at a school function, who acting reasonably and in good faith, either reports such information to school officials, to the commissioner, or to law enforcement authorities or otherwise initiates, testifies, participates or assists in any formal or informal proceedings under this subdivision, shall have immunity from any civil liability that may arise from the making of such report or from initiating, testifying, participating or assisting in such formal or informal proceedings.

After the sweetness - and - nice between New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to win $ 700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund last year (see my Education Next story), NYSUT yesterday sued the state's Board of Regents and NYSED's acting commissioner John King over the decision last May to ratchet up the importance of student test scores in a teacher's annual evaluation.

We need to STRENGTHEN School Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Network.

But in the realm of national politics to which Christie is also playing as a possible 2016 presidential contender, the moves don't move the governor very far from the pro-standards and pro-testing track first started under his former education commissioner, Chris Cerf, and now being carried forward by acting Commissioner David Hespe.

A few state education commissioners have attributed lower scores in their states to the switch, but Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said that she is confident, after studying the impact on students of digital testing, that it had corrected for difeducation commissioners have attributed lower scores in their states to the switch, but Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said that she is confident, after studying the impact on students of digital testing, that it had corrected for difEducation Statistics, said that she is confident, after studying the impact on students of digital testing, that it had corrected for differences.

Teachers participate in conversation with Minnesota education commissioner on the Every Student Succeeds Act

Educators 4 Excellence - Minnesota hosts state education commissioner, education stakeholders for teacher forum on Every Student Succeeds Act

One teacher has written to the acting commissioner of education about at least one passage taken from a work by a Christian publisher.

We have our first PARCC scores, a change in Denver Public School leadership, a new state commissioner, and a new federal education law: «Every Student Succeeds Act»...

Now David Hespe, the acting commissioner of education, says that all charter schools can use weighted lotteries to enroll more at - risk kids.

«We really are doing a lot worse in math than we are in science and reading,» said Peggy Carr, the acting commissioner for the National Center for Education Statistics, who had early access to the PISA results, which were released to the public on Tuesday.

«Overall, bullying and victimization is down in our schools and crime has decreased at our colleges and universities, but there is much work left to be done,» Peggy G. Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said in a statement.

«One downturn does not a trend make,» said Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers NAEP.

Senator Toni Boucher (R - Wilton), the ranking member of the Education Committee and State Senate Minority leader Len Fasano (R - North Haven) quickly released a strong statement yesterday about the Governor's decision to veto of HB 6977; AN ACT ESTABLISHING QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF EEducation Committee and State Senate Minority leader Len Fasano (R - North Haven) quickly released a strong statement yesterday about the Governor's decision to veto of HB 6977; AN ACT ESTABLISHING QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATIONEDUCATION.

A school board may appoint an un-certified person to serve as an acting superintendent for up to 90 days with the education commissioner's approval and

The bill allows a board of education, with the commissioner's approval to appoint an un-certified acting superintendent for an unlimited duration.

Regional schools commissioners (RSCs) act on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education and are accountable to the National Schools Commissioner.

On Wednesday, the acting commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, Chris Cerf, announced a new round of school - improvement grants — totaling $ 55 million — but with much stricter rules that would, among other things, prevent the last - minute shuffling that was seen in Newark in the last school year.

Commissioner Mitchell Chester, who leads the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), which oversees the Bay State's K - 12 public schools, has scaled back his workload due to illness and Deputy Commissioner Jeff Wulfson was appointed acting commissioner, sources close to DESE tell baystateparent.