Sentences with phrase «after education commissioner»

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Many Trade Commissioners go on to apply for their Certified International Trade Professional (CITP) designation after completing the FITTskills program — the education requirement for the designation.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: 16 V.S.A. Section 1162 (2011) requires the commissioner of education or designee, assisted by members of the Vermont Principal's Association, to develop statewide guidelines, forms and other materials designed to educate coaches, youth athletes and their parents / guardians regarding the nature and risks of concussion and other head injuries, the risks of premature participation in athletic activities after a concussion or head injury and the importance of obtaining a medical evaluation of a suspected concussion or other head injury and receiving treatment when necessary.

The Ramapo Central School District will now be known as the Suffern Central School District, after the governor signed a bill into law that allows the state education commissioner to change the school district's name.

Based upon the current state of NY education and her role in selecting the two most recent Commissioners (one who left after improperly accepting expensive overseas travel from Pearson and the other who simply got laughed out of town) Chancellor Tisch should have no role in the selection of a new Commish!

«Active shooter drills is a very negative thing,» Mr. Trump said after Pam Stewart, the Florida Department of Education commissioner, mentioned such preparations.

Waronker also noted that Hempstead's middle school may be placed into independent receivership after an evaluation next month by the state education commissioner.

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.

President Barack Obama will nominate Dr. John B. King Jr., former state education commissioner in New York, to serve as Education Department secretary after receiving commitments from lawmakers to give his nomination speedy consideration, the White Hoeducation commissioner in New York, to serve as Education Department secretary after receiving commitments from lawmakers to give his nomination speedy consideration, the White HoEducation Department secretary after receiving commitments from lawmakers to give his nomination speedy consideration, the White House said.

New York State United Teachers, a statewide union, along with national and city - based groups, is hoping to leverage the outrage expressed by parents, teachers and lawmakers over state education commissioner John King's decision to «suspend» four town - hall meetings after a raucous forum in Poughkeepsie.

After Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York's education commissioner John King may be under more pressure at the moment than any other state official.

Her comments to the editorial board came two weeks after she joined the state's education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on a visit to Automotive High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where, last year, only 1 percent of the students who graduated on time were ready for college.

Dicker heaped praise on Moskowitz, and said she should be the state education commissioner after noting that he did not know how to pronounce the name of the newly - appointed commissioner, MaryEllen Elia.

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.

On Monday, education commissioner MaryEllen Elia gave a speech after the panel in which she commented on Tisch's remarks.

After three sometimes tumultuous years as state education commissioner, Mr. Pryor has announced that he will soon step down from the post.

The governor and the education commissioner have not discussed the matter in person, because they have yet to meet face to face, more than two months after Elia took over the department.

Schrauth Forcucci said moments after the decision that she could not decide then whether to appeal the board's action to the state education commissioner.

Eva Moskowitz, CEO of the network, pledged to appeal the decision almost immediately after it was handed down late last month by state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

The state education commissioner has also dismissed an East Ramapo school district challenge of the sale of the former school building, making the once controversial transaction move toward a sale after almost two years of uncertainty.

After the Legislature failed to create a monitor with veto power, the state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, appointed the team led by Mr. Walcott to study the district's operations.

The North West London and South Central England regional school commissioner, Martin Post told the Education Fellowship Trust that its school had serious weaknesses, after finding the school inadequate at its October inspection.

Besides Peiser, who started Boston Collegiate Charter School in 1998, just after earning his master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School, there was Doug Lemov, a founder of Academy of the Pacific Rim (also in Boston) in 1997 and later a best - selling author (Teach Like a Champion); Evan Rudall and John King of Roxbury Prep in Boston (Rudall is now CEO of Zearn, a new educational technology nonprofit, and King is commissioner of education for New York State); and Paul Bambrick - Santoyo, then managing director of North Star's middle and high schools in Newark (and later author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership).

Just hours after I was named Rhode Island's commissioner of education in 2009, I visited Central Falls High School.

In order to receive a grade, schools must test at least 90 percent of their students; otherwise, they receive an Incomplete and, after an investigation, the state commissioner of education assigns a grade to the school.

«If we went after FTE [regular school funding] we would be putting our head in the lion's cage,» says Frank Brogan, Florida's commissioner of education at the time of the school's founding and later, in 2000, lieutenant governor under Jeb Bush.

Not long after her posting, Ms. Stewart, the education commissioner, suspended that particular test for younger pupils.

State education officials adopted the revised standards in April 2012 after a regular review of curriculum showed a need to better prepare students for high school and college, said Monica Martinez, an associate commissioner at the Texas Educatioeducation officials adopted the revised standards in April 2012 after a regular review of curriculum showed a need to better prepare students for high school and college, said Monica Martinez, an associate commissioner at the Texas EducationEducation Agency.

The appointment of publishing executive Cathleen P. Black to be the new chancellor of New York City's schools was in jeopardy last week after an advisory panel and the state commissioner of education made it clear they would like to see someone with education experience serving in the district's top job.

You can also read my interviews with David Steiner and Joe Williams about New York's Race to the Top bid, as well as an exit interview I conducted with David Steiner just after he announced his resignation as state education commissioner.

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.

King was appointed state education commissioner in May 2011, after serving as deputy commissioner.

The Department for Education (DfE) is facing a landmark judicial review after claims that one of its regional schools commissioners (RSCs) granted approval for a new sixth form that flouted the government's own guidelines.

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.

After allegations of extremism in some schools the government appointed former chief inspector of schools Sir Mike Tomlinson as the city's education commissioner to drive «improvements to the standards of education».

Last November, former national commissioner Frank Green was forced to apologise to the education committee after claiming the indicators had been published «since day one» after Schools Week revealed they still weren't included in documents on the government's website.

The idea of Common Core resonated with him after former state commissioner of education Terry Holliday visited the church to promote it.

Now, with Chris Cerf's announcement this week that he is leaving the post — in his case, after three full years New Jersey is about to get another commissioner who will bring his or her own brand of leadership and management style to both education policy in the state and the operation of its 800 - employee state Department of Eeducation policy in the state and the operation of its 800 - employee state Department of EducationEducation.

State education commissioner Robert Hammond, facing board frustrations Thursday after this year's results were presented, argued progress would come if the state stays the course while reducing the number of initiatives it expects school districts to follow.

A spokesman for the union, Steve Wollmer, also questioned how Newark's bonuses could continue after the Facebook money runs out, but Chris Cerf, the state education commissioner, said the rewards would be sustainable through public funds.

After the Legislature failed to create a monitor with veto power, the state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, appointed the team led by Mr. Walcott to study the district's operations.

The figures were published by the Department for Education after a ruling by the information commissioner.

The education secretary, Justine Greening, and the national schools commissioner, Sir David Carter, hailed the «guts and bravery» of KAA leaders when they visited shortly after the blaze.

And we see the pushback happening in community after community... High schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kids.

Richard Mills, who resigned as education commissioner in 2009 after 14 years, said in an interview that his administration was confident the tests had been working properly because they had gone through several vetting processes with independent testing experts.

The state made its announcement shortly after Michael Williams, former assistant secretary of education for civil rights under President George H.W. Bush, took over the reins as the state's new commissioner of education.

Steiner took over as commissioner in October 2009 after serving as dean of Hunter College's School of Education.

The state education commissioner of New York, John King, recently imposed a teacher evaluation system on New York City after years of disagreement between the city and the teacher's union.

For example, after spending billions building and operating magnet schools across the state in the wake of a state Supreme Court decision ordering Connecticut to desegregate Hartford schools, state lawmakers in 2009 passed a moratorium on spending state money for new magnet schools until the state education commissioner crafts a comprehensive plan for school choice in the state.

Success Academy scored another victory on Thursday when the state Appellate Division unanimously overruled education commissioner MaryEllen Elia, whom SA had appealed to after Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to pay the network $ 720,000 for its new preschool program unless it signed a micro-managing contract that detailed, for example, how many field trips the children could take per year.

Shortly after he was elected with CEA's first endorsement in 2010, the governor of this state disrespected every teacher with his «tenure» comment, then promoted Common Core, supported the corporate education movement through charter schools, advocated for more and more standardized testing, hired an education commissioner who had absolutely no public school experience (in fact had ties to charter schools), chipped away at teacher security through negative tenure reform, and championed the complete elimination of the state contribution to the retired teacher's health insurance fund.