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The agency's executive director, Carl Cohn, a former state school board member and superintendent in Long Beach and San Diego, announced the new hires.
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State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said she removed Carl Paladino from the Buffalo School Board because he disclosed confidential information from an executive session, but few believe that was the real reason, instead suspecting it was his controversial criticism of the former president and first lady that got him ousted.
This summer, as you'll recall, the state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia removed Paladino from his seat for violating executive session rules, even though voters had twice elected the former Republican gubernatorial candidate to the school board despite his many controversial public statements.
State Supreme Court Justice Catherine Nugent - Panepinto Monday afternoon denied a temporary restraining order filed by former Buffalo School Board Park District member Carl Paladino to keep the seat vacant.
The Board of Regents on Tuesday unanimously elected a former Florida schools superintendent the new commissioner for the state Department of Education.
Former Niagara Falls School Board member and former state Senate candidate Johnny G. Destino is under consideration for City Hall's top computer systemFormer Niagara Falls School Board member and former state Senate candidate Johnny G. Destino is under consideration for City Hall's top computer systemformer state Senate candidate Johnny G. Destino is under consideration for City Hall's top computer systems job.
Board Member Theresa Harris - Tigg is a former city school teacher and now studies education issues as an assistant professor in the English Department at Buffalo State.
The election of Betty Rosa, a former bilingual teacher, principal and superintendent of Bronx schools, as the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents further cements the new direction that New York State education policy has taken this state Board of Regents further cements the new direction that New York State education policy has taken this State education policy has taken this year.
Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).
First - term State Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk has been a tireless advocate for schools, bringing the experience and expertise of a former Board of Education member to questions of funding and curriculum.
A state Education Department hearing got underway for Carl Paladino, a one - time candidate for New York governor who publicly insulted former President Barack Obama and his wife and stands accused of disclosing confidential Buffalo School Board business.
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.
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Former Bronx Schools Superintendent Betty Rosa has been named as Chancellor of the state's Board of Regents — the first Latina to hold the position.
Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson of Kinderhook attended, as well as the three people who will be her GOP running mates for Town Board: Jennifer Whalen, herself a former state Assembly candidate; Chris Carey, a retired Colonie police officer; and Brian Manion, an active North Colonie schools parent and athletic booster.
«Another extraordinary, if not unbelievable, day where the lawyer for the School Board, or at least the six petitioners, continues to make these broad allegations and then when we try to drill down on what was said and what's confidential and what's not confidential, he throws up road blocks,» Vacco, a former state attorney general, said outside the courtroom.
Incumbent Democratic Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former school board member and owner of a sheep farm, is fighting what's turning out to be our region's most expensive state race for the large, oddly - configured 46th state Senate district against Republican George Amedore, a former Assemblyman and owner of a second generation Rotterdam - area homebuilding company, who she defeated by 18 votes in a tense recount two years ago.
Collins is an associate professor at SUNY's Empire State College and a former Buffalo school board member.
Baldoni has followed and written about how the board of Penn State has struggled to overcome the 2011 sex abuse scandal involving former coach Jerry Sandusky; he said the school's leaders still haven't come to grips with what went wrong, including the error of allowing head coach Joe Paterno to remain in power for so long.
WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about an arrest of a former college student who threatened to commit a mass shooting at an unknown elementary school and a group to review teacher ratings system used by the New York State Board of Regents.
Among the victors in California is Marnie Glickman, a former co-chair of the Green Party of the United States, in her race for Dixie School Board in Marin County (http://www.marnieglickman.org).
Paladino, a Buffalo Public Schools board member, longtime Buffalo businessman and former gubernatorial candidate, has caused outrage with prior comments but few have garnered attention from outside New York state.
The New York State board of Regents, after a lengthy closed door session, chose MaryEllen Elia, a former western New York school teacher who was most recently the superintendent of a large school district in Florida.
New York State Education Commissioner John King has denied Carol Anderson's request to oust the six board members who supported the sale of Colton School in Ramapo, including former members Morris Kohn and Aron Wieder, and current members Moses Friedman, Moshe Hopstein, Eliyahu Solomon and Yehuda Weissmandl.
Originally published in the Advocate New York State Education Commissioner John King has denied Carol Anderson's request to oust the six board members who supported the sale of Colton School in Ramapo, including former members Morris Kohn and Aron Wieder, and current members Moses Friedman, Moshe Hopstein, Eliyahu Solomon and Yehuda Weissmandl.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Two recent New Rochelle school board candidates have violated Regulations of the New York State Education Commissioner in a voter fraud Appeal to the Commissioner filed by a former school board candidate.
As the former Rockland County District Attorney quoted Mr. Harry Phillips, New York State Board of Regents who referred to the East Ramapo School District: «the school district is shafting the public school kids...&School District: «the school district is shafting the public school kids...&school district is shafting the public school kids...&school kids...»
Cindy Bryant [email protected] served 25 years teaching mathematics, is a former member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Board of Directors, a Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching, former Director of K — 12 Mathematics for the state of Missouri, 2014 Singapore Institute for Math Specialist in International Schools (MSIS) Operations & Algebraic Thinking (K - 8) Lead Instructor, previously served as the Director of Learning for LearnBop, and currently serves as an independent educational specialist.
As threatened, Iowa state senators blocked the nomination of Jonathan C. Wilson to the state board of education last week, contending that the lawyer and former Des Moines school board member, who is gay, would be an advocate for «gay issues.»
The National Education Technology Funding Corporation will aim to stimulate private investment in school technology and encourage states to sponsor information networks for public schools and libraries, said James E. Murray, a member of the group's board and a former president of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
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.
Notable members of the council include: David Laws, the Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 2001 to 2015 and Minister of State for Schools from 2012 to 2015; Baroness Morgan, adviser to the ARK board, chair of Ofsted from 2011 to 2014 and former director of government relations for Tony Blair; Philip Collins, columnist for The Times and former chief speech writer for former Prime Minister Tony Blair; and Matthew d'Ancona, a columnist for the Guardian who also writes for the Evening Standard, International New York Times and GQ.
In addition to including prominent Minnesota school superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engschool superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engSchool Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engaged).
Experts Say Penn State's Former President Was a Lesson in How Not to Lead The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2012 «At the other extreme, said Richard Chait, a research professor at Harvard's graduate school of education, board members can become «self - appointed vigilantes,» looking to attack and expose an administration and delve into areas where they don't belong.»
Perhaps one can expect nothing more from a commission composed mainly of academics and former members of the public school establishment — folks that once were school superintendents, state education officers, school board members, teachers union officials, or school teachers.
Sir Michael, a former headteacher of one of the country's most successful state schools, said that there should be one exam board per subject to safeguard standards and ensure that all children are tested equally.
«It's great news,» said Leslie Jacobs, former Orleans Parish School Board member, former BESE member and a creator of the state's accountability system.
CSDC Board Vice Chair and former Minnesota State Senator, Ember Reichgott Junge chronicled the history of the origins of chartering from 1988 through 1992 in her book: Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story.
Most of them center, as former State Board of Education Vice Chair Thomas Ratliff puts it, on the question, «Is a charter school a public school or a private entity?»
«School choice is appealing to many families,» said George Cunningham, the Grand Canyon Institute's Board Chair and a former state lawmaker.
«It's certainly troubling if any school, in anticipation of voucher legislation being passed, artificially raised its tuition in order to maximize the taxpayer money coming to the school under the voucher program,» said former state Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr, who now represents the N.C. School Boards Association in the school voucher litigschool, in anticipation of voucher legislation being passed, artificially raised its tuition in order to maximize the taxpayer money coming to the school under the voucher program,» said former state Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr, who now represents the N.C. School Boards Association in the school voucher litigschool under the voucher program,» said former state Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr, who now represents the N.C. School Boards Association in the school voucher litigSchool Boards Association in the school voucher litigschool voucher litigation.
Interesting, Northeast Charter Schools network was formed, placing Michael Sharpe of Jumoke / Fuse on its board of directors in January; soon after, Sharpe's employee and former employee of Achievement First, Andrea Comer, was nominated to the State Board of Education, and the state legislature, duly «lobbied» $ $ $, confirmedboard of directors in January; soon after, Sharpe's employee and former employee of Achievement First, Andrea Comer, was nominated to the State Board of Education, and the state legislature, duly «lobbied» $ $ $, confirmedState Board of Education, and the state legislature, duly «lobbied» $ $ $, confirmedBoard of Education, and the state legislature, duly «lobbied» $ $ $, confirmedstate legislature, duly «lobbied» $ $ $, confirmed her.
Former Office of Charter Schools director Joel Medley, who recently announced his departure in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applicatstate's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applicatState Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applications.
(Atlanta, GA, June 21, 2011) In his keynote speech at the annual National Charter Schools Conference in Atlanta, former President Bill Clinton acclaimed the visionary role of CSDC Board Vice-Chair and former Minnesota State Senator Ember Riechgott Junge in launching the charter school movement.
The reception, which took place overlooking the nation's Capitol, marked the national launch of former Minnesota State Senator and CSDC Board Vice Chair Ember Reichgott Junge's book Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story.
For example, in Adelanto, Calif., where a group of parents this year became the first to use a parent trigger, a not - for - profit called Parent Revolution, led by former Clinton White House staffer and former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin, has provided the parents with significant support, including an extensive, multi-week curriculum for parents taking over the school.
His opponent is Diane Douglas, a former school board member who focused everything about her campaign in protest of the Common Core Standards and the federal government's involvement in state - level educational policies.
But Montgomery board members focused their attention on a section in the book about the Calvert County school board, in which a former president of that panel declares: «We are recognized in the state as being unique.
The Education Practices Commission consists of 25 members, including 8 teachers; 5 administrators, at least one of whom shall represent a private school; 7 lay citizens, 5 of whom shall be parents of public school students and who are unrelated to public school employees and 2 of whom shall be former district school board members; and 5 sworn law enforcement officials, appointed by the State Board of Education from nominations by the Commissioner of Education and subject to Senate confirmaboard members; and 5 sworn law enforcement officials, appointed by the State Board of Education from nominations by the Commissioner of Education and subject to Senate confirmaBoard of Education from nominations by the Commissioner of Education and subject to Senate confirmation.
-- by guest blogger Kalman R. Hettleman, former member of the Baltimore school board and former state human resources secretary.