Sentences with phrase «education czars who»

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Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for one, tried to weigh in on schools by creating the post of senior education policy adviser — dubbed «education czar» by some — and filling it with Manuel Rivera, the Rochester schools superintendent who had been National Superintendent of the Year in 2006.

Williams said that SB 5551 would subvert elected boards of education, remove transparency, curtail responsiveness to the community, repeal collective bargaining, and create a czar — who may be a charter school vendor — to oversee Network Schools.

In 2004, the National Education Association gave its prestigious Human Rights Award to Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the man who eventually became President Obama's school safety czar.

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).