Sentences with phrase «appointed education commissioner»

A former chief inspector of schools has been appointed education commissioner for Birmingham.

Stefan Pryor, a non-educator, is appointed education commissioner.

A politically appointed education commissioner and a governor - appointed board of education all but guarantees that the people will have no voice.

«This is not an administration that believes in using tests alone to evaluate teachers,» John B. King Jr., the newly appointed education commissioner, said before the Regents voted.

The governor angrily denounced a compromise that Bret Schundler, his appointed education commissioner, had brokered with the union on tenure and merit pay as part of an effort to get it to sign on to the state's application.

Another casualty was a bill to require Senate confirmation for the state's appointed education commissioner.

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.

Cuomo added he has not spoken with the newly appointed commissioner of education, MaryEllen Elia (the Board of Regents appoints the education commissioner, not the governor).

The state constitution gives the Board of Regents the power to appoint the education commissioner and set education policy through regulation.

Cuomo has no power to appoint the education commissioner.

The governor - elect is pledging to appoint an education commissioner who's a proponent of charter schools and public school choice.

Not exact matches

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.

Common Core, I have nothing to do with it,» when in fact, you know, he signed things with the National Governors Association putting New York into that program and appointed John King, who's been a very — the state education commissioner, who's been a very forceful advocate for that.

David Steiner, dean of the Hunter College School of Education, was appointed New York State education commissioner by the state Board of Regents on July 27, and is expected to take office oEducation, was appointed New York State education commissioner by the state Board of Regents on July 27, and is expected to take office oeducation commissioner by the state Board of Regents on July 27, and is expected to take office on Oct. 1.

Nor does it appear that the state official who appointed Ms. Mirrer to the panel, David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, asked members of the panel to disclose any ties to Mr. Bloomberg.

The education commissioner is chosen by the state Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature.

The head of the department of education shall be The Regents of the University of the State of New York, who shall appoint and at pleasure remove a commissioner of education to be the chief administrative officer of the department.

In addition to raising the possibility of changing how the Regents are appointed, Cuomo has indicated he wants more power over how the state runs public education, which is currently controlled by the semi-autonomous Department of Education and its commeducation, which is currently controlled by the semi-autonomous Department of Education and its commEducation and its commissioner.

He was appointed to his current post in 2011, making him the youngest education commissioner in New York history.

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.

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.

The education commissioner is chosen by the State Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature.

In February, two Assembly members and a state senator who represent the district introduced a bill that would empower the state education commissioner to appoint a monitor for five years, with the option of extending the term to 10 years.

Unlike states where the education commissioner is appointed by the governor, New York's commissioner is appointed by the state Board of Regents, whose members are chosen by the Legislature.

The expected federal lawsuit is revealed in a letter Dennis Vacco, an attorney with Lippes Mathias Wexler and Friedman sent to the state education commissioner on Paladino's behalf; his filing was made public by the District Parent Coordinating Council as part of their renewed call to have the entire board replaced with a state - appointed manager.

The recognition that some local oversight is needed might be at the heart of the decision by Michael Gove, the former education secretary, to appoint eight regional school commissioners responsible for oversight of academies and free schools in England.

On Tuesday, May 26, the State Board of Regents on Tuesday afternoon unanimously voted to appoint Florida schools leader MaryEllen Elia as New York State's new education commissioner, replacing the departed John King.

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 official, David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, said he would consider granting Ms. Black, a publishing executive, the waiver she needed to take office only if Mr. Bloomberg appointed an educator to help her run the system.

It was conducted free of charge for Saul Cooperman, the newly appointed New Jersey commissioner of education, by Robert Maher, manager of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's «organization effectiveness group,» and Wayne K. Hoy, professor of education and associate dean for academic affairs at Rutgers University's graduate school of education.

(However, a number of states have recently authorized the mayors of big cities, such as Cleveland and Detroit, to appoint some or all of the members of their school boards, while New York gave the mayor of New York City the power to appoint a commissioner of education to run the city's schools.)

Cerf was appointed superintendent in July 2015 by New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and had previously served as his state commissioner of education.

The Kentucky education department has appointed Linda Houghton the associate commissioner for the department's office of academic professional...

Term of office: Mr. Hole was appointed by the state board of education to fill the office of commissioner until a permanent replacement can be...

The company was founded by Chris Cerf, an adviser to Booker whom Governor Christie had just appointed to education commissioner.

Half of them appoint a state superintendent of schools (or «commissioner of education») who is nearly always a career professional in the education field.

Questionable hiring practices were prevalent, and it was discovered in 1993, during an external review by a team appointed by the state commissioner of education, that the district was siphoning off «a significant portion of its resources into noninstructional personnel to provide employment to many Newark citizens.»

In 1906 the governor of Massachusetts appointed a commission to study technical education and assigned the chairmanship to Carroll Wright, one of the greatest U.S. labor statisticians of all time, the first Massachusetts commissioner of labor, and the first commissioner of the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The education commissioner is chosen by the State Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature.

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

To help close those achievement gaps, the New York State Education Department in 2013 appointed veteran educator Angélica Infante - Green to a newly created post of associate commissioner for bilingual eEducation Department in 2013 appointed veteran educator Angélica Infante - Green to a newly created post of associate commissioner for bilingual educationeducation.

«Regional schools commissioners are appointed because of their extensive knowledge of the education sector,» said a DfE spokesperson, adding it was «not unusual for them to engage with leaders from across the education system.»

The Department for Education is to appoint eight new senior civil servants to head up regional schools commissioner (RSC) offices and help handle their rising workload.

During a special April 17 meeting at which newly appointed members were sworn into office, the Kentucky Board of Education named Wayne D. Lewis Jr. the interim commissioner of eEducation named Wayne D. Lewis Jr. the interim commissioner of educationeducation.

She serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Board of Regents and was recently appointed to serve on the national board for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and as a commissioner for Education Commission of the States (ECS).

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».

In September 2009, John King was appointed deputy commissioner of education.

The DfE has appointed its own education commissioner, the former head of the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism unit Peter Clarke.

She has been in talks with the regional schools commissioner and the Department for Education about appointing a new multi-academy trust to take over from as early as Christmas.

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.