Sentences with phrase «education chair daniel»

City Council education chair Daniel Dromm is pushing chancellor Carmen Fariña to make Diwali an official public school holiday, but said he hadn't yet heard from the administration about a letter he wrote to Fariña on the topic last week.

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BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm, who chairs the Education Committee, is calling for Michael Long, who heads the state's Conservative Party, to step down as board chair of Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Brooklyn after a 13 - year - old student there, Daniel Fitzpatrick, hanged himself on August 11.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

«The LGBTQ Youth Summit is something that I wish I had growing up as a gay teen,» said Councilmember Daniel Dromm, a Queens Democrat who chairs the Education Committee.

«Limiting ICE's access to detainees at Riker's Island is a very important step in the right direction toward protecting our immigrant communities,» said City Council Education Committee Chair and Bills Co-Sponsor Daniel Dromm.

Sources say City Councilman Rafael Salamanca from the Bronx will chair the Land Use Committee; City Councilman Daniel Dromm from Queens will lead Finance; Mark Treyger, a councilman from Brooklyn, will chair the Education Committee; and Laurie Cumbo, a Brooklyn councilwoman, will be majority leader.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

«I have also been working closely with the School Construction Authority (SCA) to remove trailers citywide,» added City Council Education Committee Chair DANIEL DROMM in a statement.

In conversations with Gotham Gazette, City Council members Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, chair of the finance committee, and Daniel Dromm, education committee chair, said that one of their top priorities during budget season will be addressing school overcrowding through the Department of Education's capital spendeducation committee chair, said that one of their top priorities during budget season will be addressing school overcrowding through the Department of Education's capital spendEducation's capital spending plan.

The offices of U.S. Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D — Ill.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, and Rep. Rush Holt (D — N.J.), a former physics professor, also turned down requests for comment.

The evening included presentations from Dr. Betty Rosa, Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents and Daniel Dromm, Chair of the New York City Council Education Committee.

Sir Daniel Moynihan, the chair of the education honours committee, is encouraging more schools to nominate their unsung heroes for awards.

Dr. Amy Graefe, Assistant Professor of Special Education - Education, UNC Dr. Norma Hafenstein, Daniel L. Ritchie Endowed Chair in Gifted Education, University of Denver Dr. Amy Rushneck, Center for Bright Kids; University of Colorado Boulder

Panelists included Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Aimee Chang, Director, Academic and Residency Programs, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Adam D. Weinberg (chair), Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hamza Walker, Director of Education and Associate Curator, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Daniel Joseph Martinez, Artist and USA Broad Fellow 2007, Los Angeles.

The group of artists was selected by a jury composed of Regine Basha, a guest curator who chaired the selection process; Mr. Finkelpearl; Curator Larissa Harris; Prerana Reddy, director of public events; Jason Yoon, director of education; Chuck Close Rome Prize - winning artist Daniel Bozhkov; and Anthony Huberman, director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Dean of McGill's Faculty of Law and Wainwright Chair in Civil Law, Daniel Jutras, says the theme of stateless law reflects the open - ended understanding of law that is embodied in the program of legal education at McGill.