Sentences with phrase «advisory councils»

This includes putting parents and families on the boards and advisory councils of charters, and embracing the concept of allowing parents to plan out individualized education plans.

In addition to the National Task Force on Assessment Education, Dr. Miller also participates in the national Data Governance Collaborative Advisory Group and several statewide assessment and data advisory councils.

Harmer's thirty — year career in public schools included serving as principal of three award - winning elementary schools; K - 12 teacher and learning specialist; instructor in community college and university teacher and principal preparation programs; and service on a wide range of professional advisory councils and boards.

The school community includes students and parents, administrative personnel, managers, instructional personnel, support personnel, members of district school boards, members of school advisory councils, business partners, and personnel that provide health and social services to students.

Charter school operators must also figure out how to bring more community members onto their governing boards and advisory councils; the lack of diversity on those boards is one of the main reasons why some blacks still view charters with skepticism.

We have read a large number of SoDs and, by and large, LGBs (or the more aptly named academy advisory councils) tend to have monitoring duties and a community engagement role.

In the last two decades, some educators and community members have shown an interest in creating more democratic structures within and alongside schools — by establishing and using various advisory councils, for example.

First, they may participate in school - level advisory councils or schoolimprovement teams.

In the past, she has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Life Science Center (Gubernatorial appointment), Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the advisory councils for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, the Biology Directorate of the NSF, and the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

NIH plans to discuss the policy with its advisory councils in the coming weeks, with an eye toward implementing it for grant applications starting in September.

A policy in place since 2012 requires that institute advisory councils give extra scrutiny to grant applications from researchers who already have more than $ 1 million in direct research funding.

The report concedes that politicians may in the end reject the opinions of scientific advisers and long - established scientific advisory councils (SACs): «Scientific evidence is only one factor — albeit a very important one — in policy decisions.»

Earthquake scientists who sit on similar advisory councils in the United States are protected by law from prosecution.

Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor, said Tuesday he would create a series of regional economic development advisory councils that would collaborate with one voice and break down «bureaucratic silos» that are the Department of Transportation, the New York Power Authority and the Department of Agriculture and Markets.

The recent election of more than 300 parents to Department of Education advisory councils was so riddled with glitches that parent leaders are demanding a do - over.

«Some companies may find that these models work best for them — but there are other routes that use existing Board structures, complemented or supplemented by advisory councils or panels, to ensure all those with a stake in the company are properly represented.

Kate — how do parent groups, or student health advisory councils approach the school board with such a recommendation and succeed in getting a school food program change (scratch cooking) approved?

They plan to meet with representatives of some advisory councils April 4.

With the Park District increasingly dependent on outside funding for capital improvements, the advisory councils have stepped in, convincing state and local elected officials to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Park District always tries to include park users and advisory councils in decisions, said Rock - Muller, who has been on the job about a month.

And volunteers who make up the city's nearly 100 park advisory councils — created in the early 1980s to draw community input in part because of a federal lawsuit settlement — would now have to live in Chicago.

There are rules set up by player advisory councils and the aforementioned executives, but the power all originally derives from the players.

This chapter outlines the governmental structure for mental health which also provides for participation of private groups and individuals through various types of advisory councils.

Members of various governmental advisory councils are usually appointed by governing officials or bodies.

This is not the first time the president's actions have caused a chief executive to walk away from a seat on one of his advisory councils.

With the exception of Mr. Frazier, no other major business leaders were explicitly distancing themselves from the president's advisory councils, or criticizing his response to the events in Charlottesville.

Tom Glocer, the former chief executive of Thomson Reuters, offered his support for Mr. Frazier on Twitter and called for other chief executives to step down from the president's advisory councils.

Kevin Plank, Under Armour's chief executive, who is also on one of the advisory councils, issued a statement denouncing racism and discrimination.

The chief executive of Intel, Brian Krzanich, who is a member of one of the president's advisory councils, said, «There should be no hesitation in condemning hate speech or white supremacy by name,» and urged the nation's leaders to do so.

Every member of President Trump's advisory councils should wrestle with his or her conscience and ponder Edmund Burke's famous warning that «All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.»

Trump disbands CEO councils After several high - profile defections of corporate CEOs from two business advisory councils, President Trump this week dissolved the councils.

He serves on the advisory councils of the European Institute and of SAIS Europe.

Yurek (Elgin - Middlesex - London) said the issue of the need for mental health supports came up «numerous times during policy advisory councils» as a priority.

We foster engagement with our network through advisory councils, ambassadors, and a robust recognition and awards program.

We have also seen large, international financial services and natural resource companies build advisory councils to their boards that have a deliberate skew toward emerging markets, in order to capture that expertise.

In May, then education minister Christy Clark introduced Bill 34, the School Amendment Act, providing parents with more education input by establishing school planning councils and district parent advisory councils.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who was a top economic advisor to President Obama, said Tuesday that all the CEOs on the advisory councils should resign.

Following the coup earlier this month, the Commonwealth suspended the country's participation in its advisory councils.

He went on to explain that «advisory councils simply provide advice and attending does not mean that I agree with actions by the Administration.»

She sits on numerous state and national boards, advisory councils and task forces.

Elon Musk has threatened to withdraw from President Donald Trump's advisory councils if Trump pulls the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

Musk is on several of Trump's advisory councils, including the President's manufacturing jobs council, his strategic and policy forum, and his infrastructure council.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced that he was «ending» two of his business advisory councils: a manufacturing initiative and a strategy forum.

The pressure may be intense in corporate suites and boardrooms at companies whose CEOs belong to the various advisory councils.

After Trump's announcement in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to withdraw from President Trump's advisory councils, saying «climate change is real» — a sentiment shared by many other CEOs and businesses on social media.

After CEOs distanced themselves from President Donald Trump and stepped down from two advisory councils, Trump said he would end the forums.

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently threatened to leave White House advisory councils if Trump drops the Paris accord.

While the president's advisory councils are largely ceremonial, the breakup sends a clear message — as does Dimon's very public support of the decision.

Over the years, he'd been a franchisee for 10 different national concepts and served on advisory councils.

C. Fred Bergsten, a member of the advisory council and director emeritus of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said the nonlabor members of the group warned not to focus on the «hobby horse» of the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico.