Sentences with phrase «city schools chancellor»

Flanagan said the chamber's majority plans to hold hearings on mayoral control «as soon as the mayor and [New York City schools chancellor Carmen Fariña] make themselves available.
«I work with and pride myself on working with [New York City schools chancellor Carmen Fariña] and the mayor and his office all the time,» she said.
Former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein plans to insert himself into the mayoral race Tuesday in a speech that fiercely defends the Bloomberg administration's school policies while accusing most candidates of a «complete lack of courage» on education.
Harold O. Levy, the former New York City schools chancellor who helped found the Teaching Fellows, has developed an online teaching college for Kaplan Inc., the test - prep company.
And the current SED commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has emerged as a key ally for city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, is currently working to revise VADIR, according to a spokeswoman for the department.
Amplify is run by Joel Klein, the former city schools chancellor who helped create the city's booming charter sector.
On Wednesday evening, POLITICO reported that Carvalho, 52 — who is said to have political ambitions — would be succeeding city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, who is retiring after first taking the helm in 2013.
James said she has had one conversation with city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña about issues related to SESIS, and said only that Fariña promised to look into the problem.
Success» founder and C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz said in a statement that parent demand is extremely high for the city's existing Success schools, with a poke at city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, with whom she has had frosty relations.
Here's hoping that Richard Carranza is a smashing success as city schools chancellor — and that Mayor de Blasio gives him the freedom to bring the «system change» that First Lady Chirlane McCray says Carranza wants.
Carmen Farina, a former deputy city schools chancellor, has emerged as a leading contender for the top education job, the Daily News has learned.
State Senator Eric Adams on Monday called for the removal of a member of the education panel evaluating Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's choice for the next city schools chancellor.
Carvalho argued that the New York City schools chancellor position is the «most coveted job in education.»
Carranza, who has been superintendent of the Houston Independent School District for the past 18 months, will take over as New York City schools chancellor on Monday, April 2.
The San Francisco school district settled a sex discrimination lawsuit involving incoming city schools chancellor Richard Carranza for $ 75,000, but de Blasio said he doesn't buy the allegations against his schools pick.
Elected officials, parent leaders and educators ripped NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice of Richard Carranza for city schools chancellor after a suit alleging sexual discrimination by Carranza came to light.
Shortly after criticizing de Blasio for not testifying at a second mayoral control hearing in New York City late last month, Sen. Carl Marcellino appeared to doze off briefly while his colleagues questioned city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña.
Mr. Adams has introduced legislation that would allow the State Legislature to reject a New York City schools chancellor nominee who lacks the educational background required by state law.
Cathie Black collected $ 3.3 million when she retired from IBM's board of directors in December in order to take on the job of city schools chancellor, the company's latest annual report shows.
«The decision that I have made about that [New York City schools chancellor] position is however a decision I can no longer sustain,» he said, garnering loud applause from attendees and board members in the room.
Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, an educator who is well - known nationwide, has turned down an offer to serve as the next New York City schools chancellor less than a day after news broke that he was tapped to head the country's largest school system.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Lawyers representing more than a dozen parents in three lawsuits are urging a state judge to block a magazine executive from becoming New York City schools chancellor starting next week.
De Blasio is also seeking to replicate city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña's Learning Partners program to encourage inter-district collaboration for charter and district schools.
From the pulpit on Sunday, the Rev. Mark V. C. Taylor recounted how he had heard on the car radio that Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City deputy mayor, had been named city schools chancellor, and immediately made a mental note to place a congratulatory call once he got to work.
Joseph P. Viteritti, a professor of public policy at Hunter College, who was a special assistant to the New York City schools chancellor from 1978 to 1981, said that there was «nothing inherently bad» about school boards and that mayoral control was not a panacea for the challenges facing urban districts.
The commissioner frequently praises city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña and has lauded the city's pre-K program and its initiative for struggling schools.
Deputy New York City schools chancellor Josh Wallack said the preschool program for 3 - year - olds will focus on social and emotional development as well as language skills that will lay the foundation for learning to read.
«The kind of research it's going to generate, as well as student outcomes, are going to show that it's possible at scale to build a public system for preschool, and that's never been done,» said Shael Polakow - Suransky, president of Bank Street College of Education, who served as deputy New York City schools chancellor under de Blasio's predecessor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
George - Fields was one of three state monitors appointed last August to help turn around East Ramapo schools, along with Cornell University professor John Sipple and former New York City schools chancellor Dennis Walcott.
I began to expound, and was in the midst of a protracted statistical explanation, when New York City Schools chancellor Frank Macchiarola blurted out: «It's very simple.
Former New York City schools chancellor Rudy Crew's response was to discipline all those named in the report; some were fired, others assigned to desk jobs.
Rose's letter also reveals that top officials, including city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, have met with charter leaders about space issues — a fact that neither side has publicly disclosed.
That's probably because regardless of what the data says or whether it's later proven false, New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein will find a way to be proud of it.
On Wednesday evening, POLITICO reported that he would be succeeding city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, who is retiring after first taking the job in 2013.
And the current SED commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has emerged as a key ally for city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, is currently working to revise VADIR, according to a spokeswoman for the department.
Harold O. Levy, a former city schools chancellor, said he was skeptical of any arrangement that would give anyone in the Department of Education besides the chancellor leverage and autonomy.
Even though charter leaders publicly assessed a recent meeting with city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña as «productive,» advocates said privately that the meeting was unsatisfying and did not answer any of the pressing questions they have about co-location arrangements and the looming possibility of rent.
Carmen Farina, a former deputy city schools chancellor, has emerged as a leading contender for the top education post.
On Wednesday evening, POLITICO reported that Carvalho, 52, would succeed city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, who is retiring after first ascending to the position in 2013.
Controversial New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein has been mentioned as a possible secretary of Education in an Obama administration, which is why more than 1,000 locals have signed an online petition imploring Team Obama not to choose him.
At one of his first meetings with de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, to discuss the job of New York City schools chancellor, Carranza serenaded them with a mariachi song: «Maria Elena.»
City schools chancellor Carmen Fariña is expected to hold a media availability on the closures later Monday morning.
Crew served as the New York City schools chancellor for four years under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Earlier on Thursday, the mayor, city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, and several top New York City Police Department officials visited Stuyvesant High School, which overlooks the spot where Saipov was shot by a policeman.
This time around, a new board will vote on whether to keep the city schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, and will make preparations for school board elections in May 2018.
«The state asserts that they've «verified» cheating allegations, though they do not even conduct investigations and have never shown us this data set,» Dennis M. Walcott, the city schools chancellor, said in a statement.
An announcement that is not expected this week is that of the next New York City schools chancellor.
Cuomo signed a bill sponsored by Felder and Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman (D - Laurelton) to direct the New York City Schools chancellor to come up with recommendations for the expansion of career and technical high schools.
de Blasio was joined during the Medgar Evers meet & greet by Assembly Member Walter Mosley and Dr. Rudy Crew, president of Medgar Evers and a former New York City schools chancellor, who warmly welcomed the Mayor.
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