Sentences with phrase «by local district superintendents»

After several shakeups, the Bloomberg administration landed on an organizational structure that lets each school join a multi-borough support network of their choosing, while still being evaluated by local district superintendents.

Not exact matches

The chancellor would select a superintendent for any of the 32 Community School Districts from a field of three candidates proposed by the local Community Education Council.

On Friday, Rockville Centre school Superintendent William Johnson went a step further by suggesting that Cuomo had exaggerated the amount of money actually targeted to local districts.

Two other local districts — Riverhead and Shoreham - Wading River — were also designated as «susceptible,» but both superintendents criticized the comptroller's findings, saying the deficit found the by state was a quirk of accounting.

Colorado utilizes local boards to administer pre-K block grants, but board members are appointed by school district superintendents.

Under legislation signed May 12 by Gov. Haley Barbour, local superintendents would lose their jobs if their districts were labeled «underperforming» as measured by the state accountability system for two years in a row.

A crusading local superintendent's effort to change his district's teacher recruitment and retention practices can be brought to a halt by the state's seniority law, tenure law, and collective - bargaining statutes.

In fact, Reading School District superintendent Melissa Jamula, the daughter of a former Reading police captain, is by all accounts a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community and local and state government District superintendent Melissa Jamula, the daughter of a former Reading police captain, is by all accounts a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community and local and state government district with the local business community and local and state government leaders.

Reading School District Superintendent Melissa Jamula is, by all accounts, a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community as well as local and state government District Superintendent Melissa Jamula is, by all accounts, a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community as well as local and state government district with the local business community as well as local and state government leaders.

Second, a «state takeover» typically puts the district under the control of the state department of education; the local board loses power, and the superintendent is chosen by the state.

What happens when teachers and other educators in a district are supported by a superintendent willing to make tough calls and a local company willing to invest money for ongoing PD?

providing the parent or guardian or unaccompanied youth with a signed and dated acknowledgment verifying that the local educational agency liaison has received the form petition and supporting documents and will either accept service of these documents on behalf of the school district employee or officer or school district or effect service by mail by mailing the form petition and supporting documents to any school district employee or officer named as a party and, if the school district is named as a party, to a person in the office of superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service on behalf of the school district;

The suit — filed by more than 40 plaintiffs on May 12 in Pensacola, Fla. — challenges several actions taken over the past year by the local school board and the district's superintendent, Leonard Hall.

The superintendents do not want «supplement, not supplant» reform to be an opportunity for the Dept. of Education to «exert unprecedented influence over the more than 90 percent of K - 12 funding generated by state and local districts.»

That law would allow as many as 45 new charter schools to open in the next six years, run by nonprofit organizations under contract, or «charter,» with a local school district or with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The district superintendent was forced into the drastic option after the local union refused to accept an offer by the district that would pay teachers $ 30 per hour to help students after school.

It was an initiative the district had come close to accomplishing under the previous superintendent, when efforts to release students early were halted by a busing conflict with a local private school.

Instead, at the September 11 meeting, both local representatives and district superintendents argued passionately against the opening of Clarksdale Collegiate, described by its founder, Amanda Johnson, as a place that will prepare kindergarteners through 8th graders to «excel in high school and college by providing rigorous instruction within a structured, ambitious, and jubilant school community.»

During the second annual College Signing Day, Local District West Superintendent Cheryl Hildreth and her team traveled by school bus to high schools, middle schools and even elementary schools, where special events reinforced the importance of college readiness.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

For credit recovery, each of the six local district superintendents was given the freedom to craft their own plan using a number of options, part of a decentralization effort that was put into place by former Superintendent Ramon Cortines.

«I don't think large is inherently bad,» CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox told Policy Watch Wednesday, hours after a legislative study committee dominated by Republicans convened to consider whether students in mammoth districts like CMS and Wake County Schools, the state's largest school system, would be better served by smaller districts piloted by local municipalities.

In all three districts, low test scores and fiscal mismanagement led to the replacement of the superintendent, central office administrators, and the local school board by a new, state - appointed superintendent with broad powers to implement reforms.

Johnson was joined by local education leaders, including Howenstine Principal Maritza Nunez, Tucson Education Association President Frances Banales, Arizona Education Association President Andrew F. Morrill, and Tucson Unified School District Superintendent John Pedicone, as well as Arizona State Senator Paula Aboud and Habitat for Humanity Tucson Executive Director Michael McDonald.

In response to concerns regarding an increasing number of teaching positions filled by educators without teaching credentials and educators who were teaching outside of their area of expertise, leaders from the San Mateo County Office of Education (SMCOE) engaged with local universities, community colleges, and district superintendents to pursue solutions.

For most of her decadelong tenure as Hillsborough County School Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the country.

These efforts will need to be led by a broad coalition of local leaders in and outside the district in order for improvement to outlast a particular superintendent or board configuration.

Last year, a directive issued by Governor Dannel Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, instructed local school superintendents and principals that Connecticut parents COULD NOT opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC tests and his memo even provided districts with step by step instructions on how to pressure parents into not utilizing their rights to opt their children out of the tests.

The Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE), the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) and the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) all get their primary funding from membership dues that are paid for by local property taxpayers via local school districts.

«HVCC, along with our industry partners, GE Health Care (General Electric's worldwide healthcare services) and Regeneron (a pharmaceutical company), have demonstrated a significant commitment to local students by working with us to plan and implement the P - TECH program,» says Donna Watson, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the Troy City School District.

Oklahoma State Representative Scooter Park said that «HB2957 is a step in the right direction — driven by the support of Superintendents across the state, we can continue to remove the costly and time - consuming portions of the TLE system such as unnecessary data collection requirements as well as open the door for local school districts to develop their own qualitative evaluation system for their teachers according to their choice of a valid, reliable, research based and evidence - based qualitative measure.»

«In the spirit of decentralization, the Division of Instruction would like to honor autonomy and innovation by providing each Local District Superintendent with the current A-G data for each school,» reads one document titled Decentralization of the A-G Plan.