Sentences with phrase «big city school superintendents»

Gates outlined his new investment in broad terms, saying that 60 percent would go to traditional public schools — an announcement that elicited applause in the audience of big city school superintendents — and that he wants to let schools and educators drive the process.

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That was a big enough figure for councilors to be concerned and call a special committee meeting, but school Superintendent Sharon Contreras wrote a letter to councilors saying the district can «effectively manage» its budget and that the land bank is a «positive force» for the city and should continue its work.

Hours after Miami - Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho accepted then declined to lead New York City's public schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he had made it clear to the nationally - known educator that his alleged affair with a reporter a decade ago would be «rehashed» in New York City and that the Big Apple was the «big leagues.&raqBig Apple was the «big leagues.&raqbig leagues.»

Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras says that can be a big issue, especially in an urban district like Syracuse.

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Bersin was one of that group of reforming superintendents who were being brought in at the time from outside the world of education to manage big - city school systems, the most prominent being Joel Klein in New York Ccity school systems, the most prominent being Joel Klein in New York CityCity.

In the audience will be big - city school superintendents, board members, senior administrators and college deans of education.

But other, less - heralded attributes helped just as much, including provisions in the state's 1995 legislation that greatly expanded Vallas's power over teachers and schools; school construction and other appealing initiatives undertaken in part to soften the accountability focus; and characteristics in Vallas that aren't necessarily the trademark of the latest fashion, the big - city superintendent who rides in from another walk of life.

Perhaps the most prominent big - city superintendent in the nation, Vallas is widely credited with having turned around the Chicago school system.

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

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That's how he frames his role as superintendent of the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big picture.

The fast - growing Clark County, Nev., school district has named a new superintendent, while leadership changes in several other big - city systems, including New York and Pittsburgh, continued to unfold last week.

Los Angeles, Washington, Houston, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City and Seattle are just a handful of the big cities looking to fill one of the most important jobs on their payroll — that of the school superintendent.

About a dozen big cities are at this moment trying to hire new school superintendents, Lauren Camera notes in U.S. News,

Retired big - city superintendents and even life coaches across the country were seeking contracts with failing schools.

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

Here is something big - city school, superintendents, school boards, and teachers» unions know but don't tell: districts spend less money per pupil in the schools» serving the poorest children.

Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Miami - Dade County, made a big splash this year when he accepted, and then rejected, an offer from Bill de Blasio to serve as New York City's schools chancellor.

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.

Testimony will also be provided by representatives from the United Federation of Teachers, New York State School Boards Association, New York State Council of School Superintendents, Conference of Big 5 School Districts, New York State Association of School Attorneys, Small City School Districts and Council of School Supervisors & Administrators.

She has led the school system for more than five years, far longer than the average three - year tenure of school superintendents in big cities.

She has run a couple of big city school systems and is now superintendent in Atlanta.

The 2010 - 11 school year is witnessing a larger - than - usual upheaval among the ranks of urban superintendents: Ramon Cortines is retiring in Los Angeles next month, Joel Klein quit mid-year in New York City, Michelle Rhee was done after Adrian Fenty's failed re-election bid in the nation's capital last fall, Clifford Janey is out in Newark after his contract wasn't renewed, Ron Huberman stepped down in Chicago last November, Beverly Hall is leaving amidst a cheating scandal in Atlanta, Paul Vallas is moving on from the Big Easy and Jerry Weast is throwing in the towel in Montgomery County, Md..

The first order of business for Mary Ronan as the acting superintendent of the Cincinnati school system four years ago was making big changes at more than a dozen of the city's lowest - performing elementary schools.

Forget the fact that Mayor Bill Finch is Paul Vallas» biggest supporter and that the City of Bridgeport has inappropriately and potentially illegally spent $ 50,000 to $ 100,000 representing Paul Vallas in his losing legal effort to remain Bridgeport's superintendent of schools.