Sentences with phrase «board of regents»

Changes are piling up fast — the state Board of Regents delayed state tests» impact on teacher evaluations, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's task force called for nearly two dozen changes to learning standards.

Betty Rosa, the newly elected chancellor of Board of Regents, the state's education policy - making body, said that if she had children who were of an age to take the state - mandated Common Core tests, she would keep them home on testing day.

New York State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch addresses members of the board during a meeting at the State Education building on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

Having top performing districts be exempt from the law has already been floated by Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch — an idea that was roundly rejected by the New York State United Teachers, the umbrella group representing teachers unions.

He praised her colleagues on the New York State Board of Regents for electing Dr. Rosa to serve as chancellor.

The data were released as state Board of Regents members on Monday discussed proposals to increase the graduation rate, in part by expanding the process by which students can appeal Regents exam scores.

He accuses the education commissioner and state Board of Regents chancellor of not wanting charter schools to succeed, and tweeted that they «should take the blinders off.»

Despite months of protest, tens of thousands of letters and e-mails and passionate testimony by parents and educators, the New York State Board of Regents voted on Nov. 16 to implement a series of «cost containment» proposals that affect some of the most vulnerable students.

From all the available evidence, it appears that the school P. Diddy is opening this fall is actually the school that the New York Board of Regents approved for Perry but not for Diddy.

Two PETA protesters were forcibly removed from the University of Texas Board of Regents meeting Wednesday after demanding the board stop funding research at Texas A&M that breeds dogs with muscular dystrophy to create puppies with the disease for use in experiments to find a cure.

The decision in Supreme Court in Albany County addresses a landmark teacher evaluation system worked out by the state Board of Regents with the New York State United Teachers union.

In fact, the Arizona Board of Regents recently convened a statewide group of influencers to explore setting such a goal, the importance of which is difficult to overstate.

In the statement, a spokesperson from NYSED said Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia were continuing a nationwide search for a candidate for the position.

Senate and Assembly members fill the Assembly Chamber in a joint session of the Legislature to elect nominees to the New York Board of Regents at the Capitol on Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Prior to joining Indiana State in 2013, she was Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs with the Tennessee Board of Regents in Nashville, TN.

Earlier this summer, the New York State Board of Regents adopted regulations saying that state test scores could count for up to 40 percent of evaluations.

5/18/2007 Regents Approve Plan for New UCSD Inpatient Bed Tower The University of California Board of Regents today voted to approve UC San Diego's request to move forward with planning a new inpatient bed tower on their UC San Diego East Campus medical complex.

The NYS Board of Regents on Monday voted to reduce the number of days of student testing for grades three through eight.

After his job as a scholar at The Ohio State University, he accepted a leadership position at the Ohio Board of Regents as Associate Vice Chancellor for Program Approval, followed by State Director for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

The New York Board of Regents last week decided to seek an amendment to the N.Y. penal code that would clearly grant authority to the state board of education to ban corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure.

The college's Board of Regents appointed Dr. Alfred M. Philips as TJC's first president and Dr. Dean P. VanTrease as executive vice president.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has often said he doesn't think spending more money on schools is the answer, and he recently derided requests for more school funding from the New York State Board of Regents as political correctness.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- The State Board of Regents announced it will be helping teachers displaced by Hurricane Maria.

Hacker makes his claim in New York, where the state Board of Regents did its part to raise the bar in math by mandating a score of 65 to pass on the integrated algebra Regents exam required of students.

The revised standards will be presented to the policy - making Board of Regents Tuesday and public comments are being accepted until June 2.

Acknowledgments: The research was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, as well as the Louisiana Board of Regents Research Competitiveness Subprogram.

The New York State Board of Regents also announced on Monday that John King will take over departing State Education Commissioner David Steiner's role.

A committee of the New York State Board of Regents recommends spending $ 2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it's time to continue an effort begun a decade ago to funnel more money to the state's poorest school districts.

Also at 11:30 a.m., the New York state Board of Regents holds a public meeting, state Education Department, 89 Washington Ave., Albany.

The state Board of Regents gave final approval to a rule change easing the requirement that districts provide extra help to all students who failed the state's math and English language arts tests.

The UW Board of Regents approved tuition increases for certain students at their monthly meeting Friday.

Also at 8 a.m., City & State Reports hosts a series of panels on the business role in K - 12 education with former Board of Regents chair Merryl Tisch, Stanley Litow of the IBM International Foundation and others, Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan.

Kahu Ku Mauna and the Mauna Kea Management Board reviewed, and the University of Hawaii Board of Regents recently approved, the proposed TMT sublease.

«It has become clear to many in the CU family that our university... has suffered greatly from a series of controversies that seem to be growing, not abating,» said Board of Regents chairman Jerry Rutledge.

Also today, a subcommittee Board of Regents released a report making its own recommendations to make changes to Common Core implementation.

STARs awards, established by the UT System Board of Regents in 2004, are granted to UT System institutions to help attract and retain the best - qualified faculty.

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.

Tied by the prescriptive nature of the law, the state Board of Regents put in place a waiver allowing districts to delay implementation of the new system through next September.

Unlike in other states where governors were intimately involved with Common Core implementation, Cuomo has largely stayed out of the process, letting state education commissioner John King and the state Board of Regents take the heat from parents and teachers over the rocky rollout.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

He was named director of Berkeley Lab by the UC Board of Regents in January, 2016.

The announcement came after Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said she wanted «to hit the reset button» and called for «cooled - down rhetoric» over the Common Core.

«The framework initially proposed by the State Board of Regents provides us a critical opportunity to create a system that evaluates teacher performance based on multiple measures of effectiveness — including student outcomes.

Frustrated parents criticized Mr. King, who was joined on stage with Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents Meryl Tisch and Regent Roger Tilles, throughout the meeting and asked that the state scrap the new education mandates.

With a bill to either suspend or expel students who interrupt, heckle or intimidate speakers with whom they disagree circulating in the Legislature (SB 250 / AB 299), the UW System Board of Regents unanimously approved a resolution affirming the system's commitment to free speech.

Following Trinity Health Michigan Board's previous approval, today the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the master affiliation and joint venture, which will allow two strong health systems to join forces and enhance care we provide to our communities.

Earlier this month, the New York Board of Regents moved to approve a charter school application from Steve Perry, a principal of a public school in Connecticut who has formed a charter school management company in the hopes of opening up charter schools in the greater New York City region.