Sentences with phrase «former schools chief»

Under the leadership of former schools chief Tony Bennett, the IDOE pushed for an array of «market - based reforms,» including proactive interventions and outside takeovers of struggling schools, private school vouchers to increased charter school options and statewide teacher evaluations.

Lawmakers had expressed concerns with the system — which assigns each school a letter grade based on their students» performance on statewide tests — well before an Associated Press story raised fundamental questions about how former schools chief Tony Bennett's staff calculated of the 2012 grades.

A California judge last week upheld a $ 4 million verdict against the state department of education, but dismissed $ 150,000 in punitive damages against former schools chief Delaine Eastin in a case alleging discrimination against a whistle - blower.

In the bubble of optimism that came with the dawn of former schools chief Al Davis» tenure, all seven of the city's universities and colleges joined with the Orleans Parish School Board to work with some of the district's most academically troubled public schools by training teachers and nurturing reform efforts.

Former Schools Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, told Today headteachers have to make savings.

Two mayoral appointees (including former schools chief Kaya Henderson) apparently allowed seven kids (including an Obama staffer's kid) to bypass the normal lottery system — an allowed but controversial procedure that has been all but banned in other places like Chicago after its use was revealed shortly after Arne Duncan left.

The search started last February after former schools chief Joshua P. Starr resigned.

In her executive director role, a position created for her under former schools chief Andres Alonso, Perkins - Cohen managed the district's school portfolio and was tasked with ensuring «all students and families have access to great school options that meet their interests and needs.»

It's a question we've been asking since Glenda Ritz ousted former schools chief Tony Bennett last fall — how well would Ritz, a Democrat, be able to work with Republican leaders who championed many of the initiatives she ran against?

With about 60 employees, Voyager Expanded Learning isn't a big company, but its payroll boasts a hefty share of former schools chiefs.

One is Ramon C. Cortines, a former schools chief in New York City, San Francisco, and San Jose who is now the...

The universal enrollment system was rolled out under the district's former schools chief to create a central hub for students to apply for and rank their schools of choice, whether traditional or charter.

For parents, she says, the goal was to «build confidence in their own ability to navigate the school system, advocate for their children, partner with their teachers to support student learning» — helping them to become what Rudy Crew, a former schools chief in the New York City and Miami - Dade County, Fla., districts, calls «demand parents.»

Sheldon Karnilow, 66, a former schools chief in Half Hollow Hills, was No. 2 with a maximum annual benefit of $ 322,650.

He didn't and instead selected Duncan, the former schools chief in Chicago who has become a frequent target of Ravitch's wrath.

Ramon Cortines, a former schools chief in New York City, frequently threatened to quit before he finally resigned in 1995, leaving us with his oft - quoted observation that even Jesus Christ couldn't run the city's public - school system.

Bennett is also on EdWeek «s short list of possible candidates, along with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the current or former school chiefs of many other states (Idaho, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana and Arizona — got all that?).