Sentences with phrase «education commissioner does»

State officials also are requiring the city to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case the education commissioner doesn't approve the takeover plan by the U of R.

In New York state, at least, when they saw problems in terms of the Common Core... unfortunately what the state education commissioner did is put his head in the sand...

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And if the board does elect to remove one of its members, that person can appeal to the commissioner of education.

If he does not, it will petition the state education commissioner to have him removed.

If he does refuse to step down, the resolution calls for the board to seek outside counsel in order to submit an application to the state education commissioner to remove him.

Common Core, I have nothing to do with it,» when in fact, you know, he signed things with the National Governors Association putting New York into that program and appointed John King, who's been a very — the state education commissioner, who's been a very forceful advocate for that.

Last month, Success's founder, Eva S. Moskowitz, wrote to the state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, saying that if the department did not make a decision «by February 15, 2016, we will have no choice but to cancel our pre-K classes for next year.»

«We know that we need to do a lot better on this front,» John B. King Jr., the state education commissioner, said in an interview.

Nor does it appear that the state official who appointed Ms. Mirrer to the panel, David M. Steiner, the state education commissioner, asked members of the panel to disclose any ties to Mr. Bloomberg.

The State's education commissioner, Mary Ellen Elia, says she knows it's a tough year, but is disappointed that Cuomo did not agree with the State Board of Regents recommendation to add $ 1.6 billion in funding for schools.

(The governor does not control the selection of the education commissioner — a fact that has long been a thorn in the side of any number of executives).

State Education commissioner MaryEllen Elia does have the power to remove an elected board member.

If Paladino doesn't comply with the resolution's demand that he resign within 24 hours — he's already said that he won't step down — New York's education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, will have to decide whether to remove him.

While the commissioner is not telling parents what to do, she said she hopes the effort by education officials to make the changes will influence their actions.

Dicker heaped praise on Moskowitz, and said she should be the state education commissioner after noting that he did not know how to pronounce the name of the newly - appointed commissioner, MaryEllen Elia.

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.

In New York, the governor does not directly control education, Cuomo has not ruled out trying to change the current structure, where an independent Board of Regents chosen by the legislature sets education policy and hires the state education commissioner.

The delegates also voted to withdraw confidence in King, and for the first time in NYSUT's history, the union didn't invite the education commissioner to the convention.

Last July, the state's new education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, named 62 «struggling» and «persistently struggling» New York City schools that would face a takeover if they did not improve.

Fariña also heralded support from state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia who, the chancellor said, has «highlighted that what New York City is doing with struggling schools is something that should be a model for the state.»

The commissioner of education is authorized to waive shortfalls in certain limited circumstances, but Saranac Central School District didn't qualify under those rules.

New York education department commissioner John King said in a statement released last week that he believes the latest APPR results prove the new Common Core assessments «did not negatively affect teacher ratings.»

New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.

The state Education Department does not tally a number, a spokesperson said, but an online search of petitions and decisions by the commissioner shows only a handful of such cases statewide over the past decade.

And according to the Wall Street Journal coverage, «Jack Buckley, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, noted that American students from families with incomes in the highest quartile did not perform as well as students with similar backgrounds in other countries.

The anti-Klein legions will no doubt pounce on the comptroller's decision as vindication of their criticisms of the Klein reforms — just as the state's new commissioner of education, John King, must be tearing his hair out over another Gotham misstep (did someone say cheating?)

And the test scores included in the evaluation will be averages, not individual test scores; the state's reform - minded education commissioner, Terry Holliday, has said he doesn't believe that teachers should be evaluated based on test results.

If you were the commissioner of education, what would be the first thing you would do to improve public education in Tennessee?

The state education commissioner acknowledges the achievement gap, as does the attorney general and even Gov. Dannel Malloy, who went from plaintiff in the CCJEF lawsuit when he was mayor of Stamford to defendant in the case when he became governor in 2011.

The group is independent and nonpartisan, but it doesn't hide its leanings toward the current school - reform movement's focus on accountability and assessment, which is seeing its day in New Jersey under Gov. Chris Christie and his education commissioner.

In Kentucky, where the education commissioner has said parents do not have the right to opt their children out of tests, the state union is not pushing back.

But in the realm of national politics to which Christie is also playing as a possible 2016 presidential contender, the moves don't move the governor very far from the pro-standards and pro-testing track first started under his former education commissioner, Chris Cerf, and now being carried forward by acting Commissioner David Hespe.

Dr. Steiner, who became education commissioner a year ago, said that the exams had tested a narrow part of the curriculum, particularly in math, and that questions were often repeated year to year, with a few details changed, so that a student who had taken a practice test — as many teachers have their students do — were likely to do well.

New non-statutory guidance on home education in Wales does not protect the rights of pupils, the children's commissioner has said.

«We can not thrive in a knowledge - based marketplace if 45 percent of our high - school students can not do math and 39 percent can not do science at the very basic level,» said Gist, who is in her first year as commissioner of elementary and secondary education.

New non-statutory guidance on home education in Wales does not protect the rights of pupils, the children's commissioner says.

«We really are doing a lot worse in math than we are in science and reading,» said Peggy Carr, the acting commissioner for the National Center for Education Statistics, who had early access to the PISA results, which were released to the public on Tuesday.

The discourse about teachers in the past year in this state, on the part of the governor and state commissioner, along with the State Board of Education, has been an insult to the work teachers and staff do each day, as well as to the children — who come from many diverse backgrounds and thus can not be treated like cogs, «assets» (Michele Rhee's rhetoric), nor should they be sorted according to test scores.

, but Pryor won't do anything about it, despite his role as Commissioner of Education, unless the local union jumps through a series of hoops that will delay any possible action on the part of the commissioner.

«Overall, bullying and victimization is down in our schools and crime has decreased at our colleges and universities, but there is much work left to be done,» Peggy G. Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said in a statement.

Susan Hinchcliffe, local councillor and lead on education, said: «I want to see action, not more reviews» and questioned «what else a commissioner would do».

Angelica Infante - Green, a deputy commissioner at the state's Education Department, said she did not yet know how many more teachers were needed.

But the annual advocacy day did include an appearance from the state education commissioner.

And we see the pushback happening in community after community... High schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kids.

Although the Regents did not immediately opt to create an entirely new test, Ms. Tisch and David Steiner, the new education commissioner, asked Professor Koretz, who had been rebuffed in previous requests, to analyze the ones that were in use.

Unlike Ofsted, education advisers do not publish reports about their school visits and there is no publicly available information about their names or backgrounds, leading to concerns that commissioners are operating a «shadow Ofsted».

«One downturn does not a trend make,» said Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers NAEP.

This time around, UFT and NAACP allege that the DOE did not fulfill its promise to support those schools before closing them and did not abide by a law that required them to specify the logistics of all space - sharing arrangements and seek the state education commissioner's approval before deciding to close several schools.

«It is not an enormous increase substantively in terms of what students can do,» said Jack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, the U.S. Department of Education arm that administers the exams.

Anna Montalvo, the president of AFSCME Local 1522, which represents paraprofessionals in Bridgeport, said a superintendent and education commissioner should meet standards, as do her members.