Sentences with phrase «former state commissioner of education»

The idea of Common Core resonated with him after former state commissioner of education Terry Holliday visited the church to promote it.

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Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

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

These days, former Republican state Attorney General Dennis Vacco is a partner at Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP in Buffalo, and among his clients is Buffalo Board of Education member Carl Paladino, who is currently facing four separate appeals to the state education commissioner for his removal froEducation member Carl Paladino, who is currently facing four separate appeals to the state education commissioner for his removal froeducation commissioner for his removal from office.

The federal act was drafted by U.S. Secretary of Education John King, the former New York state education commissioner, following the repeal of the No Child Left Behind Act on Dec. Education John King, the former New York state education commissioner, following the repeal of the No Child Left Behind Act on Dec. education commissioner, following the repeal of the No Child Left Behind Act on Dec. 10, 2015.

President Barack Obama on Thursday submitted the nomination of John B. King, New York State's former education commissioner, to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to the Senate for confeducation commissioner, to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to the Senate for confEducation to the Senate for confirmation.

Former state education commissioner John King must recuse himself from decisions directly related to New York, even when he takes over as acting US secretary of education after Arne Duncan steps down, according to a federal official.

President Barack Obama yesterday submitted the nomination of John B. King, New York State's former education commissioner, to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to the Senate for confeducation commissioner, to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to the Senate for confEducation to the Senate for confirmation.

The political result of this rollout was a vote of no - confidence by the state teachers union against former education commissioner John King.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

His demonstrations have included leading a walkout of a talk by the former state education commissioner and conducting a mock trial prosecuting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for denying New York students their right to an education.

The state education commissioner has also dismissed an East Ramapo school district challenge of the sale of the former school building, making the once controversial transaction move toward a sale after almost two years of uncertainty.

BOSTON (AP)-- A state review has found no «serious wrongdoing» by former early education commissioner Sherri Killins, who participated in an internship outside of her state job.

The mayor of Rochester, N.Y., and six city residents have taken the unusual step of asking the state commissioner of education to overturn the severance deal between the city's school board and former Superintendent Clifford B. Janey.

This gap exasperates Steiner, himself the former state education commissioner of New York, where he championed the creation of the EngageNY curriculum website with funding from the state's $ 700 million Race to the Top grant.

David Steiner, the former commissioner of education for New York State and now dean of Hunter College's School of Education, quizzed him for nearly an hour during an event sponsored by Steiner's new CUNY Institute for Educatioeducation for New York State and now dean of Hunter College's School of Education, quizzed him for nearly an hour during an event sponsored by Steiner's new CUNY Institute for EducatioEducation, quizzed him for nearly an hour during an event sponsored by Steiner's new CUNY Institute for EducationEducation Policy.

David Steiner is dean of the School of Education at Hunter College and former commissioner of education for the State of Education at Hunter College and former commissioner of education for the State of education for the State of New York.

Because other states look to Massachusetts — where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests — for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.

November 3, 2015 — Richard Freeland, former state commissioner of higher education from 2008 to 2015 and president of Northeastern University 1996 - 2006, and John Davis, chairman and CEO of the American Saw and Manufacturing Company, cite high remediation rates, and an increasingly globalized business environment in support of assessments aligned to higher standards, rather than a measurement system designed nearly 20 years ago.

November 3, 2015 — Richard Freeland, former state commissioner of higher education from 2008 to 2015 and president of Northeastern University 1996 - 2006, and John Davis, chairman and CEO of the American Saw and Manufacturing Company, cite high remediation rates, and...

The former education commissioner of Tennessee, Kevin Huffman, described his experience of the last four years overseeing the virtual charter in his state, also operated by K12, on the education blog The Seventy Four.»

The state made its announcement shortly after Michael Williams, former assistant secretary of education for civil rights under President George H.W. Bush, took over the reins as the state's new commissioner of education.

If the feds really are ready to let go of the ropes a bit, states will again become «islands of innovation,» predicts Doug Christensen, Nebraska's former education commissioner.

Judge Karasic, a graduate of the University of Delaware and the University of Baltimore School of Law, is a former member of the Attorney Grievance Commission, the State of Maryland Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission, the State of Maryland Critical Areas Commission, the Governor's Commission on Alcohol and Drugs, and the District Court Commissioners Education Committee.