Sentences with phrase «asks board of regents»

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

Earlier this week, lawmakers said they were discussing a plan to ask the Board of Regents to develop the new rating system.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, is asking the Board of Regents to extend the deadline for another year.

Earlier in the day, legislative leaders including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called for a moratorium and asked the Board of Regents to stop the roll - out for at least two years during its meeting next week.

Not exact matches

With the looming deficit and uncertainty of federal spending priorities, state education groups, the Education Department and Board of Regents have looked to modify some of their asks from recommendations made last year.

When asked whether the Board of Regents had any authority to remove Paladino, Collins said it is her understanding only the commissioner can act.

The Board of Regents, which sets education policy, has also asked the Legislature for $ 2.1 million for other anticheating measures, including an analysis of erasures on answer sheets, and steps toward computer - based testing.

The Board of Regents has asked the governor for a $ 2 billion in additional school aid, a request Cuomo dismisses as more «political correctness.»

He says even the State Board of Regents, which nearly always recommends at least a billion dollars more per year be spent on schools, only asked for $ 1 million dollars in additional money for technology for schools.

Elia, who grew up in Western New York and spent the first part of her career there, could be asked to make a ruling amid the politics of the state education system, including pressure from her bosses on the state Board of Regents.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is asking the State Board of Regents and the State Education Department to slow down their rapid adoption of the Common Core standards.

It also asks broader questions about mayoral control, and the selection process for the education commissioner and the Board of Regents.

The state Board of Regents proposed allocating $ 125 million for pre-K in its budget proposal, which asked for a $ 1.3 billion increase over the current fiscal year's funding level.

Greenberg: «Now, interestingly, despite the fact that it was the State Education Department and the Board of Regents that have implemented the Common Core and have been pushing for its implementation, when Siena asked voters «who do you trust most to set education policy in New York, is it the governor, the legislature, the state education department, or the Board of Regents?»

ALBANY — Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch didn't give a direct answer when asked whether voters next month should approve a $ 2 billion bond act to boost technology in schools.

When asked whether the Board of Regents had any authority to remove Paladino, Collins said it is her understanding the commissioner can act.

This bill would require the governing boards of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the «I'm often asked on dating apps if I'm clean.

I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this, and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the evaluation law: «Tenured teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence and considered for termination through an expedited hearing process.»

«The Board of Regents for Higher Education will be asked Thursday to endorse a framework for saving at least $ 41 million annually through the administrative and operational consolidations of institutions that have remained autonomous since the merger in 2011 of the state's 12 community colleges, four regional state universities and the online college, Charter Oak.»

In a quote worthy of Connecticut's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor, when the New York Board of Regents was asked how they could have granted a charter to someone who falsified their resume and had no college degrees, the New York State Department of Education spokesman said, «We don't grant charters to individuals.