Sentences with phrase «education commissioner announced»

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David Steiner recently announced his plan to leave his position as the state's education commissioner later this year.

The first week that the new education commissioner began her job, in July, the state Board of Regents announced it was not renewing a contract with the testing company Pearson and beginning a new arrangement with the company Questar.

Governor Dannel Malloy is praising Connecticut's education commissioner for doing «great work,» rejecting suggestions he asked Stefan Pryor to announce plans to seek another job.

After three sometimes tumultuous years as state education commissioner, Mr. Pryor has announced that he will soon step down from the post.

The office of New York State education commissioner John King announced on Wednesday that it will be holding a forum in Riverhead — one of two meetings being held in Suffolk County — to discuss the Common Core State Standards Initiative and state testing.

Eight senior civil servants from the education sector have already been announced to help run regional schools commissioner offices.

Back in April, New York's classy commissioner of education David Steiner discreetly announced that he'd be stepping down in July.

The measures announced by Hinds included a commitment to working with Ofsted, regional schools commissioners, the Education and Skills Funding Agency and multi-academy trusts — to clarify their roles, and ensure teachers and school leaders have a clear understanding of who they are accountable to, and for what.

A spokesman for the commissioner, who has spent the last 11 of his 36 years in education as state chief, indicated that Mr. Turlington, 64, would announce his plans in the next few weeks.

You can also read my interviews with David Steiner and Joe Williams about New York's Race to the Top bid, as well as an exit interview I conducted with David Steiner just after he announced his resignation as state education commissioner.

The first week that the new education commissioner began her job, in July, the state Board of Regents announced it was not renewing a contract with the testing company Pearson and beginning a new arrangement with the company Questar.

Pro-education groups today announced their support for recommendations issued by the Tennessee Assessment Task Force, chaired by state education commissioner Candice McQueen.

The Education and Adoption Bill announced in the Queen's Speech will give extra powers to regional school commissioners to bring in «leadership support» from other high - achieving schools and to «speed up the process of turning schools into academies».

Similar rhetoric comes out of Colorado, where the state Department of Education has announced a more rigorous process for reviewing proposed cyber-schools, so they're «not just rubber - stamped, which is sort of how it was in the past,» said Amy Anderson, an associate commissioner.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Karen Cheeks [email protected] 240-233-4110 S.C. State Superintendent and Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Named as Commissioners of NCTAF WASHINGTON, DC — Nov. 2, 2015 — The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) is pleased to announce that South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman and Harvard Graduate School of Education...

In 2010, tiny Central Falls, R.I., made headlines when Rhode Island's education commissioner, Deborah Gist, announced that the entire teaching staff of the town's high school would be laid off and asked to reapply for their jobs under new evaluation models.

Two and a half months later, his new education commissioner, Lamont Repollet, announced the beginning of the process to fulfill that vow, in a method he recently described as «thoughtful,» «deliberative,» and designed to «ensure compliance with state and federal law» and be implemented «in a manner that is most...

On Wednesday, the acting commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, Chris Cerf, announced a new round of school - improvement grants — totaling $ 55 million — but with much stricter rules that would, among other things, prevent the last - minute shuffling that was seen in Newark in the last school year.

A raft of reforms to school accountability, including an education commissioner for Birmingham, inspections of city academy chains and new oversight of school governors, were announced on Tuesday by the education secretary in response to a damning report into extremist infiltration of schools.

When Williams became commissioner a year ago, he announced that Texas would pursue a waiver from the federal education law but refused to accept Duncan's conditions, such as implementing the teacher evaluation process.