Sentences with phrase «district education chiefs»

Chiefs for Change (CFC), a coalition of over two dozen state and district education chiefs, serving 5.3 million students and 330,000 teachers, and dedicated to excellence and equity for all students, urge Congress to fund the Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants) at no less than $ 2.055 billion, the FY 2017 appropriation.

A former state and district education chief, Jim Nelson currently provides advice and counsel to the Texas - based law firm of Thompson & Horton LLP, supporting clients ranging from Texas Instruments, AVID, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), and the Texas Association of School Boards.

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The parks chief said he would like to see changes in the district's personnel code to reduce the number of job classifications and to eliminate the requirement for a physical education degree for many entry - level positions in the Recreation Department.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«Addressing Food Safety in School Produce Purchasing» will feature Julie Skolmowski (MPH, RD, SNS) Food Safety Specialist, Office of Food Safety, USDA Food & Nutrition Service; Loren LaCorte, USDA Farm to School Lead Team, Child Nutrition Division, USDA Food & Nutrition Service; Stewart Eidel, Section Chief, Professional Development & Technical Assistance, School & Community Nutrition Programs Branch, Maryland Dept. of Education; Sarah Trist (MS, RD), Program Specialist, Maryland State Dept. of Education; Dian Duncan - Goldsmith (MS, RD, LD), Director of Food Service, Iowa City Community School District.

About 260 pupils from four communities in the Bunkpurugu — Yunyoo district failed to sit for the BECE following a misunderstanding between chiefs and regional education authorities over location of examination centers.

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday ordered the acting chief of the troubled Hempstead school district to send her monthly progress reports on efforts to turn the system around, declaring that local authorities have not yet «adequately addressed» festering problems.

[1] Her professional experience includes working as an attorney for the New York City Board of Education, the consumer frauds bureau, the New York State Attorneys General Office, working as an executive director of New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, working as an attorney for the Queens County District Attorneys Office and serving as the Chief of Staff for State Senator Ada Smith.

«My initial reaction is that we're pleased there's money for education,» said Julie Lutz, chief operating officer of the regional Eastern Suffolk BOCES district and a leading school - finance analyst.

De La Rosa — who served as City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's former chief of staff before announcing her candidacy for the 72nd District in April — has pledged to allot $ 100 million a year for capital repairs at city - run housing and create programs for youth in that housing such as sports teams, education support systems and art.

In the waning days of the Bloomberg administration, when many of the mayor's controversial education ideas are once again under attack, one chief target of critics has been the school network structure, which broke up the geographically organized school districts and allowed principals to self - select into one of about 60 support organizations.

«We are excited to add free, full - day, high - quality pre-K for All seats at Ravenswood in District 30, one of our highest demand districts,» DOE Division of Early Childhood Education Chief Executive Officer SOPHIA PAPPAS said.

Cataloguing the achievements of President Akufo - Addo's government in Ahafo, the Yamfo Chief stated that in the Tano North district, bungalows have been constructed for the Directors of Health and Education; together with the construction of several units of classroom blocks in the district.

Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) called the hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education in the wake of the 23 August ruling by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that hESC research violates a law barring federal funds for research that harms human embryos.

Your district and union leaders might know your state's plans, or you can contact the state board of education — besides the governor, the state's schools chief and the president of the state board of education sign off on the applications, so those offices and their Web sites may have information.

On that trip, I stopped in Columbus to speak to a group of three Ohio districts who are part of a Next Generation Learning project, supported by the Stupski Foundation here in the Bay Area, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the Ohio Department of Education.

Harvard Graduate School of Education graduate Arlene Ackerman, Ed.D» 02, was named chief executive officer (CEO) of the Philadelphia School District last week by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission (SRC).

Dan Koretz, Reporters Roundtable on High Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of ColumbiEducation Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbieducation correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbieducation reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbieducation, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.»

Kamras, who currently serves as the chief of human capital for the District of Columbia Public Schools, has a varied perspective echoed today by many inside and outside education: While great teachers may be underpaid, new evaluation criteria are critical to determine appropriate salary levels.

Prior to joining Pivot, Arun served as the Executive Director of the Education Trust - West and was the Chief Student Services Officer in the San Diego Unified School District charged with leading multiple district departments with combined budgets exceeding $ 350 District charged with leading multiple district departments with combined budgets exceeding $ 350 district departments with combined budgets exceeding $ 350 million.

Hehir says they also helped the district recruit a new chief officer of the Office of Special Education and Supports.

The chief complaint Duvall said he hears from school public relations directors is dealing with television reporters, who often have no background about the district and incomplete information, because most local stations don't have education reporters.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were developed by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with the strong support of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

When introducing the pilot program for the first time to principals, the chief education officer, Barbara Eason - Watkins, herself a former principal, personally delivered the message that the EITP pilot would be the district's cornerstone in improving the quality of teaching and instruction and increasing student learning.

Chicago schools chief Paul G. Vallas said he «gave a little, and got a lot» from a compromise he made with state education officials after threatening not to administer state tests that the district's 430,000 students ended up taking last week.

Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farinEducation Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farineducation services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farinEducation professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farineducation chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were farinEducation Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»

Bob Lenz, Executive Director of the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), the world leader in Project Based Learning professional development and district implementation of PBL, previously co-founded Envision Education and served as the CEO and Chief of Innovation until 2015.

Join the chief operations & technology officer and the director of media and digital learning from Brazosport Independent School District for an instructional webinar to see how they have leveraged Google for Education tools to enhance collaboration and provide new learning opportunities, both in and out of the classroom.

Ericka was also President and Chief Operating Officer of the McKenzie Group (now part of American Institutes for Research), a comprehensive education consulting firm with a 20 - year history of providing evaluation and technical assistance services to school districts, institutions of higher education, federal agencies, foundations, and other public and private organizations.

In this webinar, Daniel Weisberg, CEO, The New Teacher Project, will be interviewed by Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, about the key insights of The Mirage report, where the field of educator professional learning is headed, and what it means for districts to ask fundamentally different questions about what great teaching means and how to achieve it.

In this webinar, you'll hear directly from David Andrade, chief information officer at Bridgeport public schools in Connecticut, about how the district has gone 1:1 with Google for Education solutions.

The role of the chief technology officer in school districts is evolving into one of the most important leadership positions in education, yet many who currently fill that job lack the skills and background to make the best decisions for the educators and students in the districts they serve.

The chief executive officers of our nation's state departments of education and city school districts have enormous influence over the future of learning in America.

Join literacy curriculum experts Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University, and Shawn Mahoney, Ph.D., chief academic officer at McGraw - Hill Education, to discover proven methods and high - impact solutions to enrich school and district literacy initiatives.

In this webinar, Karen Cator, chief executive officer of Digital Promise and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, will lead a conversation with assistant state superintendents from the Florida, Tennessee, and Delaware Departments of Education to discuss: • Each state's work on competency - based professional development using micro-credentials, • What changes they believe states and districts will look to make in the future, and • What the impact on teacher quality and retention will be.

-- South Carolina education chief seizes control of failing rural school district for the second time in state history: The State.

Our membership is comprised of chief state school officers in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions.

Previously, Rodriguez was the Chief Executive Officer of District 79 Alternative Schools and Programs for the New York City Department of Education.

Richard Abernathy — Executive Director, Arkansas Association for Educational Administrators Senator Shane Broadway — Arkansas State Legislature John Brown, III — Executive Director, Windgate Foundation Senator Steve Bryles — Arkansas State Legislature Gary Compton — Superintedent, Bentonville Public Schools Debbie Davis — Director, Arkansas Leadership Academy Melanie Fox — Little Rock School Board Luke Gordy — Executive Director, Arkansans for Education Reform Jerry Guess — Superintendent, Camden - Fairview School District Frank Holman — Superintendent, Lincoln School District Senator Jimmy Jeffress — Arkansas State Legislature Laura Kellams — Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Tom Kimbrell — Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Education Alice Mahony — Arkansas State Board of Education Matt McClure — Superintendent, Cross County School District John Pijanowski — University of Arkansas, College of Education and Health Professions Representative David Rainey — Arkansas State Legislature Vicki Saviers — Arkansas State Board of Education Quentin Suffren — Chief, Academic Officer, The Learning Institute Valerie Tatum — Executive Director, Covenant Keepers Charter School Representative Bruce Westerman — Arkansas State Legislature

Prior to this role, he served as the chief schools officer for the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan, a district charged with turning around some of Detroit's historically lowest performing schools.

He also previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third - largest school district, under the leadership of Arne Duncan, the former U.S. Secretary of Education.

She has served as the Chief Academic Officer for the District of Columbia Public Schools as well as the Deputy Chief for the Office of Teaching and Learning, providing leadership for PK - 12 education by managing the offices of Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, Early Childhood Education, College and Career Readiness, Youth Engagement, Bilingual Education, Out of School Time, School Counseling, Educational Technology, Gifted and Talented, and Library Media education by managing the offices of Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, Early Childhood Education, College and Career Readiness, Youth Engagement, Bilingual Education, Out of School Time, School Counseling, Educational Technology, Gifted and Talented, and Library Media Education, College and Career Readiness, Youth Engagement, Bilingual Education, Out of School Time, School Counseling, Educational Technology, Gifted and Talented, and Library Media Education, Out of School Time, School Counseling, Educational Technology, Gifted and Talented, and Library Media Services.

One, spearheaded by the group Democrats for Education Reform and notable school - district chiefs like New York's Joel Klein and Washington, D.C.'s Michelle Rhee, is the Education Equality Project (EEP).

«The Wallace Foundation grant will enable us to provide the kind of high - quality training for district superintendents, state education chiefs and their senior teams that corporate and governmental leaders receive in other Harvard executive education programs.

Mitchell D. Chester, from chief of curriculum and instruction programs, Bureau of Research and Teacher Assessment, Connecticut Department of Education, to executive director, Office of Accountability and Assessment, Philadelphia public school district.

The National Teacher of the Year Program, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc., each year names teachers of the year from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico.

To survey the states on their education policies, the Education Week Research Center sent surveys to the chief state school officers in all 50 states and to the superintendent of the District of Columbia publiceducation policies, the Education Week Research Center sent surveys to the chief state school officers in all 50 states and to the superintendent of the District of Columbia publicEducation Week Research Center sent surveys to the chief state school officers in all 50 states and to the superintendent of the District of Columbia public schools.

«Initially, we saw assisting charter schools as the firm enhancing our long history of support [for] primary / secondary education,» Hilltop chairman Hill Feinberg wrote in a Jan. 24 letter to Keller Independent School District Chief Financial Officer Mark Youngs.

Snyder, the Education Department's SIG chief, said that districts have brought in outside providers to help with the «challenging work» of turning around schools.