Sentences with phrase «for new schools chancellor»

Among the challenges for the new schools chancellor will be launching universal pre-kindergarten, and dealing withupcoming negotiations with the teachers union, who will be demanding raises and back pay.

The comments come the day after a state - appointed panel shocked observers by advising State Education Department Commissioner David to reject a waiver request that would allow Cathie Black, Bloomberg's controversial choice for new schools chancellor, to take the job.

CITY HALL — Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is calling on Mayor Bloomberg to hold a public forum for his new schools chancellor to allay mounting concerns over her qualifications.

De Blasio said he had already resumed the search for a new schools chancellor.

Not exact matches

He was fascinated by the career of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983 and a legendary educator who pushed for integration and better performance in public schools.

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.

The chancellor and mayor launched the scheme today (Monday 16 June) at Meridian Water, an 85 - hectare former industrial site in Enfield with the potential for 5,000 new homes, new schools, a library and commercial space, linking to nearby Lea Valley regional park.

NYC Council members seized on the big raise de Blasio gave his new schools chancellor to push for raises for city cops.

Carranza, who has been superintendent of the Houston Independent School District for the past 18 months, will take over as New York City schools chancellor on Monday, April 2.

Alberto Carvalho, who has led Miami's public schools for the last decade, will be New York City's next schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio will officially announce tomorrow.

Advocates for culturally relevant education practices hope the new NYC schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, who once established a mariachi curriculum while teaching in Arizona, will support their efforts.

When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Cathie Black to be schools chancellor, a lowly intern filed a freedom of information request that the city fought for two years.

Alberto Carvalho, who has led Miami's public schools for the last decade, will be New York City's next schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed Wednesday.

Lameduck schools chancellor Carmen Fariña has removed the chief of the city's struggling «Renewal» program — and created a cushy new six - figure job for her.

Shortly after criticizing de Blasio for not testifying at a second mayoral control hearing in New York City late last month, Sen. Carl Marcellino appeared to doze off briefly while his colleagues questioned city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña.

The new schools chancellor, when he begins next month, will face pressure to alter the outcomes for the city's black and Hispanic majority.

This time around, a new board will vote on whether to keep the city schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, and will make preparations for school board elections in May 2018.

Cuomo signed a bill sponsored by Felder and Assemblymember Alicia Hyndman (D - Laurelton) to direct the New York City Schools chancellor to come up with recommendations for the expansion of career and technical high sSchools chancellor to come up with recommendations for the expansion of career and technical high schoolsschools.

City Councilmember Mark Treyger (D - Coney Island - Gravesend - Bensonhurst), chairman of the Council's Education Committee, said he is pleased with Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice for New York City schools chancellor, Richard Carranza.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor, said in answer to a reporter's question that the board is more concerned with getting federal financial assistance for the state's schools than in how schools may be labeled under the new federal guidelines.

And while Carvalho was de Blasio's first choice for the job, the mayor insisted that there are great educators in the city's schools who will «do great work,» while the city continues its search for a new chancellor.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - gradeNew York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - gradenew schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

Updated, 4:21 p.m. Cathleen P. Black, the new schools chancellor, faced an angry crowd of nearly 2,000 people as the Panel for Education Policy voted to close 10 schools.

In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.

Chief among the Republicans» supporters is New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a super PAC run by the pro-charter advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY — the state branch of the national education reform organization founded by former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.

Emphasizing opportunity for students and equity among schools, Richard Carranza on Tuesday addressed hundreds of New York City teachers in Manhattan, his first on - the - job remarks since starting as the city's new schools chancellNew York City teachers in Manhattan, his first on - the - job remarks since starting as the city's new schools chancellnew schools chancellor.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers on Tuesday, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - gradeNew York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers on Tuesday, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - gradenew schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers on Tuesday, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

The panel will be chaired by Stanley Litow, president of the IBM Foundation and a former deputy chancellor for New York City schools.

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But such lessons are part of a middle - school curriculum that Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, has recommended for his system's newly mandated sex - education classes.

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ALBANY — SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher mentioned Syracuse as a possible location for a new public college specializing in emergency preparedness but said she envisions the school having «tentacles» that would reach throughout the state.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

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.»

In New York City, the mayor chooses the schools chancellor and appoints eight members to the Panel for Education Policy.

The new Regulatory Task Force on Academic Policy, which is being led by Phil Weinberg, the deputy chancellor for teaching and learning, will report twice a year on how closely schools are complying with graduation requirements.

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.

David M. Steiner, the New York State education commissioner, center, met with a panel on Tuesday on the question of recommending a waiver for Cathleen P. Black to become schools chancellor in New York City.

«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and biomedical research — how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.

New Jersey is 10th in the nation for cancer incidents, said Dr. Brian Strom, executive vice president for Health Affairs at Rutgers and chancellor at the university's biomedical school.

«This funding will help provide important new opportunities to translate basic discoveries and leading - edge technologies from UC San Diego's research laboratories into needed therapies for patients — an effort being spearheaded by our new Drug Discovery Institute,» said Palmer Taylor, PhD, associate vice chancellor for Health Sciences and dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Alonso, who will begin the position as deputy chancellor on July 1, will have authority on questions regarding the curriculum, instruction, professional development, and programs for the New York City public school system.

If that's the case, then why is the mayor's chancellor of schools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public eduschools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public eduSchools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public eduSchools by attracting private investment» in public education?

The seven - member panel expected to be named late last week to assist the New York City Board of Education's search for a new chancellor will face a difficult mandate: recruiting a visionary leader who can correct the failures of the country's largest school system and shape it into «a model for the nation.&raqNew York City Board of Education's search for a new chancellor will face a difficult mandate: recruiting a visionary leader who can correct the failures of the country's largest school system and shape it into «a model for the nation.&raqnew chancellor will face a difficult mandate: recruiting a visionary leader who can correct the failures of the country's largest school system and shape it into «a model for the nation.»

Indeed, it is one thing for the new chancellor of the nation's largest school system to dial back the heated rhetoric that marked much of the Joel Klein reform era, but let's hope Walcott doesn't set the pedagogical time machine arrow to the 60s and 70s.

We learn of a pleasant childhood in Toledo, Ohio, college days at Cornell, training with Teach For America, three grueling but successful years in a Baltimore elementary school, leadership of The New Teacher Project, and testimony at an arbitration hearing where the New York Department of Education squared off against Randi Weingarten and the United Federation of Teachers («She was dazzling,» former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein tells Whitmire).

«The union, in my view, did not want to be blamed for not getting Race to the Top,» recalls Joel Klein, then chancellor of New York City's public schools, which enrolled almost half the K — 12 students in the state.

Carmen Fariña recently became the deputy chancellor for teaching and learning of the 1.1 million - student New York City public school system.

He completed the Broad Academy for superintendents in 2004, and then spent five years as deputy chancellor of the New York City schools under then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools chancellor Joel Klein.