Sentences with phrase «big city school leaders»

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Big - city leaders even overlook the fact that the successful charter schools they admire don't assess their teachers that way.

The legislative session was due to end the following week, but state leaders failed to reach agreements on any of the big - ticket items: extending rent protections to 2.5 million tenants, extending mayoral control of city schools and renewing 421 - a.

Unlike cities like Boston, where Mayor Thomas Menino installed Thomas Payzant, a nationally known education leader, or San Diego, where former federal prosecutor turned schools chief Alan Bersin brought in the big education guns in the form of New York City's Tony Alvarado (who some say would have joined Vallas if he had asked), Vallas rarely availed himself of that kind of advice.

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Big - city school boards and community leaders are understandably frustrated with school superintendents who «came up through the ranks.»

Union leaders steered the debate away from the academic records of two big city school systems.

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Austin Beutner, the new leader of Los Angeles schools, is the latest big - city superintendent with no education experience.

Today the average tenure for urban superintendents is only two and a half years, according to a Council of the Great City Schools report that surveyed big - city school leadCity Schools report that surveyed big - city school leadcity school leaders.

He added: «We have to ask whether this level of failure is being effectively challenged by local politicians and school leaders, and whether the relatively successful big cities in the North and Midlands are playing their part in supporting their neighbouring towns.

However, we believe the survey provides school leaders and community partners with a rare opportunity to specifically target resources to meet teachers» biggest needs so that, as a city, we can retain our schools» most valuable resource — our dedicated, talented teachers.

We were challenged in the early years to run big conferences in cities across the country, from Boulder to Sacramento, from West Palm Beach to Virginia Beach, but this conference was directed by the U.S. Green Building Council and its new, young leader of the Center for Green Schools Anisa Heming.

It takes a special leader to serve on a big city school board, especially in Philadelphia, where chronic funding shortages have created a «zero sum» approach on virtually every issue.

Our cities chew through school district leaders, with most big - city supes serving in a given job for only two or three years.

Meanwhile poor families are learning the hard way that many teachers and school leaders working in suburbia can be just as condescending to them — and think as lowly of the potential of their kids — as the instructors and school leaders in the big - city districts these families left behind.