Sentences with phrase «by local school administrators»

As a result of his vote, children whose parents refused to allow them to take this test were tormented, bullied, and intimidated by local school administrators and teachers.

With the state - sponsored Common Core SBAC testing scheme now in full - swing throughout the state, parents and guardians in numerous schools districts are reporting that Connecticut public school children continue to be abused by local school administrators, who are following orders from Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman, Education Commissioner Wentzell and the State Department of Education.

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas junior Kyle Kashuv alleges he was aggressively questioned by school administrators and local law enforcement after posting on social media that he fired an assault weapon at a gun range.

I suspect that the most important strides in PS nutrition have been made on a school - by - school basis, usually the result of strong and consistent parent involvement combined with caring and creative local administrators.

Many school administrators said they need more time to make revisions, especially since those changes must win agreement by local teacher unions.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

Johnson and other local school administrators have contended that use of such figures is misleading, in part because districts can not count on money not detailed in the itemized, district - by - district lists known as «runs.»

BRONX, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), joined by more than 150 local parents, school administrators and students, announced $ 18,000 in Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) funding for P.S. 14 in the Bronx.

The average baseline for the coming year provides relief for districts that was welcomed by many local school administrators, who said they found themselves squeezed by limits of 1.26 percent this year and 0.12 percent in 2016 - 17.

«Even in countries with strong national policies and laws,» says co-author Susan Garnett Russell, «several factors result in an implementation gap including lack of capacity in government schools, low levels of capacity among civil servants, autonomy of local and school administrators, and discrimination and xenophobia by the host communities.»

By testing students, releasing the results to the public, and attaching rewards and sometimes a few weak sanctions to those results, accountability reformers have attempted to tighten the screws on local school boards, administrators, and classroom teachers.

16 - 17, 17 - 18 — Outcome - based education: Conference on quality schools, sponsored by the National Academy for Local Schools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 atschools, sponsored by the National Academy for Local Schools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 atSchools and the National Center for Outcome - Based Education, for teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, and parents, to be held Feb. 16 - 17 at the Georgia Center in Athens, Ga., and Feb. 17 - 18 at the...

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SSchools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SchoolsSchools.

Public education will (and should) always be driven predominantly by local actors — teachers, administrators, school board members, and state legislators.

The survey site, developed by a panel of researchers, creates an instant analysis of a school's results, and administrators can save the data in existing local data systems so they can track results over time.

By shifting money to pay for more academic counselors and librarians next year at the lowest - performing schools, administrators of East Side Union High School District in San Jose have revised the district's draft three - year Local Control and Accountability Plan, incorporating key recommendations of parents and teachers.

By Jeremy Loudenback In January, the Los Angeles Unified School District chose longtime local teacher and administrator Michelle King to head the nation's second largest school disSchool District chose longtime local teacher and administrator Michelle King to head the nation's second largest school disschool district.

Meanwhile, the House proposal trims Senate cuts to local school district administrator funding, but still chops state spending on the positions by five percent in 2017 - 2018 and by 10 percent in 2018 - 2019.

A public charter school shall be administered and managed by a management committee, composed of parents of students enrolled in the school, teachers and administrators working in the school, and representatives of any community sponsors, in a manner agreed to by the public charter school applicant and the local school board.

by Tony Bui, CFJ Student Leader On January 16th, 2014 hundreds of administrators, parents, students, and advocates attended the State Board of Education meeting to voice their opinions on the proposed regulations for the Local Control Funding Formula, a new way of funding schools.

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.

The rest of the money allocated to schools would be rolled into uniform block grants used by the local administrators as they see fit.

If local school boards will not stand up for students and parents who are unfairly abused by the administrators within their district, then the broader community will have no option but to step forward and file complaints to revoke the certification of these administrators.

Thanks to the anti-local control, authoritarian policies being pushed by Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman and their Commissioner of Education, the Connecticut State Department of Education summoned a group of local school administrators to a «roundtable discussion on family and community engagement strategies» on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 3:00 — 4:30 at the State Office Building in Hartford.

And they might help students to use their developing literacy skills to combat some of the injustices that they face every day — by writing letters to politicians, local businesspeople, and school administrators about current policy issues.

The effort to run over the will of the local community and hand Clark Elementary School over to a charter school management company is being led by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, and Morgan Barth, Pryor's «Turnaround Director,» who illegally worked as a teacher and administrator for Achievement First, Inc before being appointed to his present position by School over to a charter school management company is being led by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, and Morgan Barth, Pryor's «Turnaround Director,» who illegally worked as a teacher and administrator for Achievement First, Inc before being appointed to his present position by school management company is being led by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, and Morgan Barth, Pryor's «Turnaround Director,» who illegally worked as a teacher and administrator for Achievement First, Inc before being appointed to his present position by Pryor.

A Marjory Stoneman Douglas student alleges he was aggressively questioned by school administrators and local law enforcement after posting on...

readers learned of an apparent deal by Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and his senior staff to turn over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in purSchool to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in purschool management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in pursuing.

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

The NAMM Foundation's Community Action kit will guide you in communicating with school board members and administrators, who are the decision makers for every local district and who are influenced by the interests of the local population.

It will guide you in communicating with school board members and administrators, who are the decision makers for every local district and who are influenced by the interests of the local population.

TEACHER EVALUATION IMPLEMENTATION STUDY Requires UConn's Neag School of Education to study the implementation of teacher and administrator evaluation and support programs adopted by local and regional boards of education.

The study, by Dr. Andrew Sum of Boston's Northeastern University, will be presented at a forum which will also feature panelists from CPS, the state legislature, and local alternative school administrators.

This piece notes that the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island will represent two local media outlets if they are sued for writing about how local school administrators handled accusations of sexual misconduct by a teacher.

School boards, local schools, and communities can take action today by simply asking teachers, principals, and administrators: «What is my kid learning when it comes to sex ed?»

From my desk at NIOST, I'm starting the school year by working at the national, state, and local levels to support educators and administrators in their efforts to promote positive youth outcomes, especially in the expanding field of SEL.