Sentences with phrase «former superintendent»

2008 Dr. William C. Harrison Former chair of State Board of Education Former Superintendent of Cumberland County Schools

But the plan crumbled due to increased scrutiny of the bidding process, a problematic rollout and glitchy educational software, all of which contributed to the resignation of former Superintendent John Deasy in October.

King's plans were drafted in response to a blue ribbon Independent Financial Review Panel, commissioned by former Superintendent Ramon Cortines to outline problems and possible solutions for the district, and the first part of Tuesday's meeting was devoted to where the budget is headed and why revenue is expected to decline.

As former superintendent of LaFayette Central School District, Laura Lavine's proposal for mayoral takeover will centralize power on education.

The Independent Financial Review Panel, which was formed by former Superintendent Ramon Cortines, recommended two years ago that the district renegotiate its healthcare benefits agreement and freeze all healthcare spending for five years.

As previously reported, last month Pryor and his «Chief Turnaround Officer,» Debra Kushan, let go a major portion of the pool of experienced, talented professionals within the Department of Education, Pryor dumped the four Leaders in Residence and three former superintendents who have been providing Connecticut's poorest districts with the help they've needed to improve their educational programing.

Laura Lavine, former superintendent for LaFayette School District, said Tuesday she would pursue a new structure under which the mayor appoints the school board.

The teacher jail numbers ballooned under former Superintendent John Deasy, when any teacher accused of misconduct was immediately taken out of the classroom.

Dr. Cindy Elsberry, former Superintendent at Horry County, South Carolina, will illustrate that — just like Pandora — schools can design learning experiences that students will enjoy.

Although the academy will be national in its scope, it was conceptualized and will be led by former superintendents from the greater Washington, D.C., area.

While nine of the top ten earners are headquarters administrators, starting with former Superintendent John Deasy, who made $ 439,998 the year...

Ritz was voted in as a rebuke to the reformy policies of former Superintendent Tony Bennett (not the one who left his heart in San Francisco), so Pence was faced with a quandary: How to continue the reformy agenda with an actual public school teacher and advocate for public education in office as the schools superintendent.

Under the leadership of former superintendent Alan Bersin (now California's secretary of education), San Diego witnessed a real blood -»n' - guts struggle for three schools to reopen as charters after they were among eight identified for NCLB restructuring.

Look at the same legal costs presented by former superintendent Christina Kishimoto three months later, at the May 26, 2015 board meeting.

In Denver, former Superintendent Michael Bennet worked first with Hispanic groups that were unhappy with their current schools.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

Although 11 educators were convicted of cheating on state tests (and it would likely have been 12 if not for the death of former Superintendent Beverly Hall), the city made remarkable improvements on low - stakes measures of educational progress such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

The state will not file criminal charges against former superintendent Tony Bennett — but it may not be the last time Hoosiers hear of the educator.

Baxter required the other APS defendants, including former Superintendent Beverly Hall, to remain in his courtroom while their co-defendants entered their guilty pleas.

The first half of the school year hasn't been smooth sailing for JPS with an audit that resulted in probation, a rejected corrective action plan to get off probation, a failing grade as a district and the abrupt departure of former superintendent Dr. Cedrick Gray.

After former Superintendent John Deasy opted to make student achievement account for 30 percent of teacher evaluations, UTLA filed an unfair labor practices complaint in 2013 against the district with the Public Employment Relations Board, or PERB.

Former superintendent Elizabeth Celania - Fagen viewed the Obama reform agenda as too timid.

«Teacher quality is the most important element in the quality of education received by each child, and the public is weary of paying teachers of vastly different skill levels the same amount of money,» said former superintendent Steven J. Adamowski in a prepared statement.

Hired by former Superintendent Clifford Janey, Glover had to re-interview for his job first when Anderson became schools chief and again when the renew school process began.

Graystone's attorney Brian Leinhauser's statement last year expressed concerns that the district's decision to take legal action to close the charter school may have been connected to the racist sentiments expressed by former Superintendent Richard Como and high school Director of Athletics and Activities Jim Donato.

The search for someone to take the helm of Maryland's largest school system follows the February resignation of former superintendent Joshua P. Starr, who left amid reports that he did not have the school board support he needed to win a new four - year contract.

After six years on a Tuesday - through - Friday schedule, the Saratoga (Arkansas) School District returned to a five - day schedule in 2002, even though former superintendent Lewis Diggs talked enthusiastically about the schedule in a 1998 Education World article.

Its new leadership has yet to define itself with the kind of force that former President John Rogers and former Superintendent Forrest Claypool did six years ago.

Deasy seems somewhat more open than former superintendent Ray Cortines to letting Jamie into LAUSD.

According to the most recent financial plan, the Cuomo administration still has roughly $ 1.1 billion left from settlements that the Department of Financial Services, under former superintendent Ben Lawsky, won from financial firms.

Mr. Dill said he has volunteered to put together school budgets for the past several years and began doing so during former superintendent Bob Feger's tenure because Mr. Feger spent winters in Arizona, which is when school spending plans are worked out.

He was appointed as an interim superintendent this summer after former superintendent Sharon Contreras took a job in North Carolina.

«At Keene Central School, former superintendent Cynthia Johnston helped establish the Farm - to - School program and brought the first school garden into place.»

Condemned what he referred to as the long - standing ineptitude of Buffalo school leaders, taking a shot in particular at former superintendent Pamela Brown.

The San Diego board of education has voted to send the findings of a seven - month probe into former Superintendent Alan D. Bersin's private fund for education to three public agencies for further review.

In Black Power / White Power in Public Education (Praeger Publishers, June 1998), Drs. Ralph Edwards and Charles V. Willie examine dynamics of the community power structure among racial groups in relation to public education through the lens of two recent Boston events: the selection, appointment, and eventual removal of former Superintendent Laval Wilson and the changes in the Boston School Board before, during, and after Wilson's tenure.

In its report, the grand jury also criticized former Superintendent of Schools Walter L. Marks for utilizing «unsound management practices and unjustified budgeting techniques» to advance reform programs that the ju0 rors said the district could not afford.

That psychology is what for a time bedeviled the process of replacing a popular principal at the International High School of New Orleans, a BESE charter, with a controversial but dynamic former superintendent of the New Orleans system.

Houston, particularly former superintendent Rod Paige, has found a way to use central authority strongly but for limited ends and within defined boundaries.

The school board and community have been sharply divided since the early 1970's — first over court - ordered busing for desegregation in the 90,000 - student system, and later over the performance of former Superintendent E.C. Grayson.

The line dividing the inner - city schools from the growing suburbs «had been frozen by the county,»» the black former superintendent of schools tells Grant.

Under former Superintendent Paul Vallas — who came to Philadelphia from CPS — the goal was to open new schools so that big neighborhood high schools could shrink, Gold says.

Milwaukee launched a campaign called «High Standards Start Here,» replete with banners for each school, and worked hard to promote former superintendent Alan Brown's 1999 guarantee that all Milwaukee students would be able to read by the end of 2nd grade.

And even if it is slowly improving, as former Superintendent Romer contends, that improvement will be difficult to discern amid a sea of conflicting statistical measurements.

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Lisa Graham Keegan, Board President A for Arizona, Executive Director Former Superintendent, Arizona Department of Education

Former Montgomery County Board of Education President Patricia O'Neill says she still doesn't «totally know» why a majority of board members decided last year to oust former Superintendent Joshua Starr, whom she supported.