Sentences with phrase «former school committee»

In his pitch for a high - stakes testing moratorium, Brian Kavanaugh, a former school committee member from Orleans, suggested that Chester's salary, tenure and department budget be linked to student performance on his recommended assessment if it is adopted.

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As a former school governor who chaired the admissions committee I echo the editorial's recollection of the plight of parish priests who have to certify the catholicity of a family.

We know that the committee will take efforts to avoid conflicts of interest; many of the committee members have current or former financial ties to schools or conference that will be involved in the discussion, and those committee members will have to recuse themselves from discussing those teams.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition... [Continue reading]

Earlier this year Jim Finnegan, chairman of the Illinois Nativity Scene Committee (INSC) and former Arlington Heights resident, offered to donate a nativity scene to the Arlington Heights Park District (AHPD), to display among the holiday light displays at North School Park.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three sSchool Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three sschool food in three states.

Alhaji Benne, who is also the former Chairman of the National Hajj Committee, said developmental projects such as construction of roads, schools, health facilities, drainages, water among others are the priorities of the NDC government.

Fordham Law School professor and former congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout on Friday emailed supporters from her political action committee urging them to mobilize against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Michael Bloomberg is among the nation's top financial backers of the school - choice movement, topping the list of New York's political contributors by donating $ 1.8 million to ballot measures and political action committees focused primarily on school choice.

The party executive committee, at a nominating convention at Wisdom Lane School in Levittown, backed Blakeman, a former presiding officer of the county legislature, over Frank Scaturro, a New Hyde Park attorney who is making his third run in Nassau's 4th District.

Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics professor and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, tells MPs to make contingency plans in case of a second downturn linked to the eurozone crisis.

Former Assembly Education Committee Chairman Steve Sanders explains his «evolution» on charter schools.

At the beginning of her Parliamentary career, Ms Smith - a former economics teacher - served on the Commons treasury select committee before joining the Department for Education and Employment as school standards minister.

Jim Tallon, a former assemblyman and chair of the Board of Regents» state aid committee, expressed broad criticisms of Cuomo's budget proposal, arguing the spending plan should have included more information about the distribution of funding and more money for pre-K for upstate school districts.

Former Communications Minister in the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration has described the alleged leaked report of the Prof Kwesi Botwe Committee as dust on the shoes of a school boy who has played on field without grass.

Dromm, a former city school teacher, not only does he represents Jackson Heights and its robust diversity, but he also sits on the City Council's education committee.

John McNamara, former Democratic Town Committee chairman, brought up the issue this week in his NB Politicus blog, saying the new $ 53 million estimate should «be on the minds of the Common Council after initial estimates by school officials were closer to $ 30 million last year.»

It was March, two weeks after the county's GOP committee voted to endorse Lavine, a former superintendent of LaFayette schools.

The legislation, which passed a joint vote held by the Board of Legislators» committees on Public Safety, Legislation and Parks held this Tuesday would mark a return to a ban previously enacted by former County Executive Andrew Spano in 1999 following infamous shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.

Intro 65 - A was vigorously opposed by out LGBT Councilmembers Daniel Dromm of Jackson Heights, a former public school teacher and head of the Education Committee, and Rosie Mendez of the Lower East Side, who said in a joint statement, «Yeshivas, private schools, and parochial schools — unlike public schools — are not subject to Council oversight or much of the NYC Human Rights Law.

Serving as chairman of the Committee on Small Business, the former pro basketball player's most outspoken moments have come in defense of charter schools, and in warning that the city's aggressively progressive direction might debilitate mom - and - pop entrepreneurs.

Mr Pope is the latest in a series of Labour figures to issue New Year calls for Mr Brown's removal as leader, following former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke and Commons Schools Committee chairman Barry Sheerman.

Steyer, Paulson and Bloomberg are scheduled to attend the New York event, in addition to several members of the Risky Business advisory committee: Clinton administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, as well as Alfred Sommer of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Gregory Page, former CEO and current chairman of the board of Cargill Inc..

«He's a good man, he offers administrative experience, and he is really enthusiastic about building this institution,» says committee member Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a former dean of the Tokai University School of Medicine in Hiratsuka, and a former science adviser to Japan's cabinet.

He has become so committed to improving education that 2 years ago, with the help of some former students, he ran for and won a seat on the school committee of his home town, Sharon, Massachusetts.

After he had begun the new job, some of his former Sharon High students encouraged him to run for the local school committee, and even helped him campaign.

Eva Moskowitz, former member of the New York City Council and chair of its education committee, is executive director of the Harlem Success Charter School.

For example, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), chairman of the Senate Education Committee and a former secretary of education himself, decried the transformation of the Department of Education into a «national school board.»

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new analysis of two recent reports, one by a committee of the National Academy of Science's National Research Council (NRC), the other by Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, finds that both reports made factual and analytical errors in their examination of the record of Michelle Rhee as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia from 2007 - 2010.

At the former Lucy Flower Career Academy High School (now the Al Raby Career Academy), for instance, a 1940 fresco depicting influential American women had been painted over shortly after its creation due to a disapproving — and all - male — Board of Education committee.

Eva S. Moskowitz, 41, a former chairwoman of the New York City Council's education committee, was named the executive director of the new Harlem Success School, a charter school scheduled to open in September in Central Harlem's District 5, one of the city's lowest - performing distSchool, a charter school scheduled to open in September in Central Harlem's District 5, one of the city's lowest - performing distschool scheduled to open in September in Central Harlem's District 5, one of the city's lowest - performing districts.

The proposal by Mr. Parker, a former chairman of the Senate education committee, calls for the state comptroller to certify the state's school - spending legislation each biennium before the legislature can enact funding for other state services.

For example, as pointed out last year by Republican John Kline of Minnesota, an ESSA co-author and former chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, «Arizona and New Hampshire recently passed laws that violate ESSA by permitting individual school districts to choose which assessments to administer.»

Asbestos is still the biggest workplace killer in the UK and The House of Commons Education Committee heard as many as 300 former school pupils develop asbestos related cancer every year, while the National Union of Teachers has called for all asbestos in schools to be removed.

As Arne Duncan, a former member of the Ed School's visiting committee, helps school districts across the country Race to the Top and tries to give every child a chance to succeed, this idealist, competitor, and basketball pal to the president has the opportunity to do what no previous secretary of education has been able to accomSchool's visiting committee, helps school districts across the country Race to the Top and tries to give every child a chance to succeed, this idealist, competitor, and basketball pal to the president has the opportunity to do what no previous secretary of education has been able to accomschool districts across the country Race to the Top and tries to give every child a chance to succeed, this idealist, competitor, and basketball pal to the president has the opportunity to do what no previous secretary of education has been able to accomplish.

The House of Commons Education Committee heard as many as 300 former school pupils develop asbestos related cancer every year, while the National Union of Teachers has called for all asbestos in schools to be removed.

A member of HGSE's Dean's Council, a former member of the Visiting Committee, and cochair of the last capital campaign, Hobbs, with his late wife Elisabeth, dedicated more than 20 years of service to the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Ben Austin, former executive director of Parent Revolution who is working for an independent expenditure committee supporting reform candidate Melvoin, said he hears parents talking about this issue when he drops his daughters off at school.

«That would really be a nuclear option,» said Huebert, a former Valley Center school board member who now sits on the House Education Budget Committee.

LANSING, Mich. — Former NBA player Jalen Rose described to the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday how his new charter public school will help kids catch up academically, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Sarah Wollaston, a former GP who chairs the health select committee, called for the remaining revenue from the levy that is not spent in schools to be ring - fenced for children's public health programmes, rather than funding the expansion of academies as part of the Department for Education's general budget.

Marketing / Outreach: The Marketing Committee will share our schools message and image with current and former students, families, businesses, and the surrounding community.

Hardy, a former primary school teacher, joins four other Labour Party members on the committee, which will be led by newly appointed chair and Conservative MP Robert Halfon.

It was reported on Saturday that Emma Hardy, a former teacher, NUT activist and Schools Week columnist, had been elected to serve on the committee.

U.S. Senator Jon Tester, member and former Vice Chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, proposes legislation that directly addresses the challenges faced by schools in rural and Indian communities.

Gus Silva former State Representative, City Councilman and member of the School Committee, Central Falls.

The image of the shrinking violet former girls» school pupils may not sit easy with single sex alumni like the fearsome former chairwoman of the Commons public accounts committee Margaret Hodge and leading actress like Dame Judi Dench and Harry Potter star Emily Watson.

The committee is co-chaired by Richard Burrows, former director of Arts Education for Los Angeles Unified School District and current arts administrator of Newark Public Schools (New Jersey) and Dr. Pamela Paulson, Senior Director of Policy, Perpich Center for Arts Education.

Last November, former national commissioner Frank Green was forced to apologise to the education committee after claiming the indicators had been published «since day one» after Schools Week revealed they still weren't included in documents on the government's website.

In Virginia, meanwhile, school finance and differentiated diplomas have emerged as early issues for Republican candidate Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the state attorney general, and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who are vying to succeed Republican Gov. Robert F. McDonnell.