Sentences with phrase «elected superintendent of»

Tony Bennett, Indiana's elected superintendent of public instruction, says there has never been a better time to be a teacher in Indiana.

San Francisco (AP)-- Tom Torlakson, the veteran lawmaker seeking a second term as California's elected superintendent of schools, and Marshall Tuck, a former charter school executive hoping to unseat him, are both Democrats.

Randy Dorn was elected superintendent of public instruction for Washington state in 2008.

Instead, the Compton parents were thrust into a prolonged fight with supporters of the status quo: the Compton Unified School District, the teachers» unions, Gov. Jerry Brown and Tom Torlakson, the newly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction.

On April 4, we will be electing a superintendent of public instruction — the only contested statewide race on the ballot.

Not exact matches

William Greathouse, the Nazarene Seminary president recently elected a general superintendent of the denomination, regularly distinguishes the Nazarene view not only from the left but also from the fundamentalist (i.e., Lindsell's) position on the right.

The American brethren agreed with him, so he and Coke were elected to their office of superintendent.

She was elected chapter president and named superintendent of the year in2001.

Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ last year, or the small restaurant operator and local school superintendent this year — is easier and less risky than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....

Lewis is president - elect of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, which held the September conference, and also is co-chair of the council's curriculum committee.

The Board of Regents on Tuesday unanimously elected a former Florida schools superintendent the new commissioner for the state Department of Education.

In response to the publication by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary of their report «Taking Time for Crime», The President Elect of the Police Superintendents» Association of England and Wales Chief Superintendent Irene Curtis comments: «This report contains no surprises about the disparate levels of support for operational officers and staff... read more

New York, New York — Former Bronx superintendent and principal Betty Rosa was elected chancellor of New York's Board of Regents on Monday, ushering in a new era in state education policy.

Former assemblyman Dan Losquadro, who was elected in good faith to represent us in Albany, abdicated his post after only 2 1/2 years to run for a totally unrelated position, that of Brookhaven Town highway superintendent, leaving a vacancy that may be filled by a special election.

Each CEC consists of 12 members (9 elected members, 2 appointed by the Borough President and 1 non-voting high school student appointed by the superintendent) who serve as volunteers and provide hands - on leadership and support for their district's public schools.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

Members of the new majority elected to the Buffalo School Board Tuesday do not appear to be looking for a major reset regarding Superintendent Kriner Cash and the agenda he has laid out for the schools, but there are some major issues on which they will likely take a different approach — especially when it comes to the teachers union contract.

«I trust this elected (school) board to work with the community for real reform much more than I trust a two - person junta of mayor and superintendent, with no checks and balances,» said Charlie Dee, a 34 - year Milwaukee resident and parent of a former MPS student.

In a year in which local Democrats lost their one Town Board member, Al Krupski, to the county Legislature, and their highway superintendent, Pete Harris, who decided at the 11th hour to not seek re-election, it seems the party will need to dial up the volume in order to get any members of its slate elected.

So what does the State Superintendent of Public Instruction think about her job going from elected to appointed?

Laura Lavine, a former school superintendent and the Republican candidate for Syracuse mayor, would seek to establish mayoral control of the Syracuse City School District, if elected.

Outgoing Southold Town Highway Superintendent Pete Harris suggested during a budget presentation Monday that the town switch to a pay scale for elected officials — a move he said would make more funds available for new hires and the purchase of necessary equipment.

The Democrats were thrown a curve Wednesday morning when Highway Superintendent Pete Harris, the party's only representative in local elected office, announced he will retire at the end of his term.

Elected Democratic Officials: County Legislator: Larry Gardner Town Supervisor: Alan White Town Justice: Kenneth Williams Superintendent of Highways: Russell Bouton Tax Collector: Robin White

Elected Democratic Officials: Doreen Parsley Davis, Town Supervisor Pat McCulloch, Town Board Joe Kozloski — Village Board Vincent Seeley (R - Dem endorsed), Village Trustee Alfred Beers, Superintendent of Highways Kevin Lennon, County Legislator

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

«When I look to the future, if this trajectory continues, we'll be heading over the cliff,» said Lewis, who also serves as president - elect of the New York State Council of School Superintendents.

John Hughes, who was elected to fill out the final year of Bob Gallagher's term on the Town Board when Gallagher became highway superintendent, is now running for reelection to a full two - year term.

For two positions on the town board, Incumbent Tim Coon — for years the town Highway Superintendent — and former Deputy Town Supervisor Wanda Cleavland were elected, defeating independent candidate Carole Newell, who has served on the Bolton Chamber of Commerce Board and the Bolton Farmers Market Committee.

John Hughes, who was elected to fill out the final year of Bob Gallagher's term on the Rosendale Town Board when Gallagher became highway superintendent, is now running for reelection to a full two - year term.

The opinion of my attorneys is that we had extremely good cause to stay the arbitrary and capricious actions of the Superintendent in removing an elected official from office over a non-material public disclosure by me of a discussion had in Executive session to reveal a conspiratorial collusion to resolve a Teacher Contract.

Were both Term Limits and the Two - hat Rule in place for all elected officials in the County of Rockland and in the Town of Clarkstown, including the elected County and Town positions of Highways Superintendent, the disgraceful state of affairs in which a County Legislator is being paid over $ 100,000 of taxpayers» money to perform the duties of a «Confidential Secretary» in the Town of Clarkstown would not be occurring.

«What's happened, in my opinion, is that there was little information given to locally elected school board members about these two issues,» said state schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett, who proposed the rule at a state board of education meeting on April 24.

The commission, set up to find ways to make the state government more efficient, is expected this week to issue recommendations that include transforming the office of state superintendent from an elected position to an appointed one and eventually divesting the education department of many of its duties and powers.

In a previous version of this story, one of the two states mentioned that elects its state superintendent was misidentified.

The idea that the district needed to adopt a single, uniform approach to reading instruction grew out of one of the superintendent's monthly meetings with the district's teachers of the year, one elected from each campus.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Meanwhile, voters have responded to the progress by electing a 7 - 0 majority to the school board in support of superintendent Tom Boasberg's package of reforms.

Sarah D. Jerome, the superintendent of the 4,400 - student Kettle Moraine school district in Wales, Wis., has been elected the president - elect of the American Association of School Administrators.

In the 1980s CAP became the victim of a political dispute between Republican governor George Deukmeijian and the elected state superintendent of education, Bill Honig, a Democrat.

• Empower county superintendents to enforce accountability rules, make the independently elected state superintendent of public instruction a sort of «inspector general» for school quality, place state education policy under the governor, and make the state board of education advisory to the governor.

A superintendent of a large school district is a political figure, regardless of whether he or she is appointed or elected.

She was elected Teacher of the Year in her region and was appointed to the superintendent's advisory committee, which addressed the achievement gap in Houston's schools.

Dr. Tony Evers was first elected Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction in April 2009.

Deasy resigns as superintendent of LA Unified EdSource Today: Los Angeles Unified School superintendent John Deasy submitted his resignation this morning, after more than a year of turmoil and conflict with the seven - member elected school board.

Molly Mitchell Spearman was elected as the 18th South Carolina State Superintendent of Education on November 4, 2014.

Houston schools Superintendent Rod Paige, President - elect Bush's pick for education secretary, is on track to be confirmed by the Senate on Inauguration Day, a leading Senate Democrat said last week at the conclusion of a cordial hearing on the choice.

In Louisiana, on the other hand, the RSD chancellor reports to the state superintendent, who is appointed by the elected board of elementary and secondary education.

The mayor's removal of the elected board strengthened the superintendent (now called the chief executive officer, or CEO) and the central office, yet the school governance councils proposed a far less prominent role for the central office.

One of the most controversial parts of the bill will phase out Tennessee's practice of electing some local school superintendents by the end of the decade.