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This document highlights several examples of how state education leaders and business leaders are working to improve career pathways for all students.

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Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funding for education as a precursor to considering an extension of mayoral control of public schools.

«Reforming how our state measures student performance and evaluates educators will help ensure a fairer and more successful public education system,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, D.

In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system of failing to comply with state education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown of how it spends local, state and federal funds.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson is reaching out to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Gov. David Paterson in hopes of getting an agreement to bring both houses back to the Capitol next week — perhaps on Tuesday or Wednesday — to decide how to best allocate some $ 600 million worth of education funding the state expects to receive following today's passage by the House of a $ 26 billion spending bill.

State and federal leaders in Germany have agreed on how to spend billions of extra euros on education and research in the next 4 years.

At the Askwith Forums on Thursday, October 13, the founder of the Foundation for Excellence in Education will draw from his experience in Florida to address how state leaders can capitalize on opportunity afforded by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to reshape their educationEducation will draw from his experience in Florida to address how state leaders can capitalize on opportunity afforded by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to reshape their educationeducation systems.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

When they got together here last week, governors from around the country explored an issue they say every state leader is grappling with: how to pinpoint and replicate what works in reforming education.

Slow Food 2008 panelists discuss the state of school nutrition, how edible education works, and what can be done to make a difference in feeding our future leaders.

Three days after the deadliest K - 12 school shooting in American history, state and district education leaders across the country are reviewing security measures, increasing police presence, and grappling with how to answer students» questions about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Newtown, Conn., district.

If states are truly to be re-empowered to shape and run their K — 12 education systems, transparency and comparability seem (at least to me) to argue for more reliable external data by which state leaders can see how their schools are faring.

Current and aspiring school leaders, federal and state policy makers, and education stakeholders must understand how policy, research and practice come together to transform schools and school systems.

The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative kicked off its professional learning efforts this week bringing together state - level leaders from across the United States and its territories to discuss how to develop higher quality early care settings.

-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?

Hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, NCRPP is offering an online course February 5 - 18, 2018 that will help district leaders, school leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions tEducation, NCRPP is offering an online course February 5 - 18, 2018 that will help district leaders, school leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions teducation officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions they make.

Education Commission of the States has researched school leader certification and preparation policies in all 50 states to provide this comprehensive resource that shows how all states approach specific polStates has researched school leader certification and preparation policies in all 50 states to provide this comprehensive resource that shows how all states approach specific polstates to provide this comprehensive resource that shows how all states approach specific polstates approach specific policies.

For the first time, a dozen major education organizations have pulled together their best practices and research to state these elements and help policymakers, school leaders and the public understand why some schools succeed and how they do it.

Funding Phantom Students In this brief published by Education Next, authors Marguerite Roza and Jon Fullerton describe a common practice that inhibits both efficiency and productivity: funding students who do not actually attend school in funded districts and how this is often overlooked by state leaders.

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

The task force heard from superintendents, district finance officers, and the leaders of two state education organizations as it continues to gather information about how to change or strengthen the way the state funds education.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) clearly defines parameters that inform how States and local school districts should demonstrate that Federal funds are used in a supplemental, additive manner — equipping local education leaders with the flexibility necessary to better educate and meet the needs of their students.

If district leaders and their union counterparts either disagree on how to overhaul a particular school or submit a proposal for turnaround that the state education secretary deems as too weak, the secretary can override it.

Leaders in the House and Senate education committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educatiLeaders in the House and Senate education committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educaeducation committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educaEducation (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educatileaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educationeducation law.

that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

The brief provides state and local policymakers and education and juvenile justice leaders with information about how they can use the accountability requirements under ESSA to improve the quality of education and postsecondary and workforce success for youth in juvenile justice facilities.

Local and state education leaders lobbied Wednesday the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use staeducation leaders lobbied Wednesday the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use staEducation Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use state funds.

How did Tennessee do it, and what lessons can other education leaders learn from this state?

This handbook by Partners for Each and Every Child and the Council of Chief State School Officers provides helpful guidance to local education agencies (LEAs) and school leaders as they engage with stakeholders to think about how the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) can be best leveraged locally.

As a leader in education, I encourage you to consider not only the impact of the Framework 2021 on students in the state of Colorado, but also the potential for it to support a global shift in how we think about student outcomes due to the focus on connectivity in the Framework.

Governing magazine's new issue brief highlights the Check State Plans research, underscoring how both reports seek to provide useful resources to state education leaders as they develop their ESSA pState Plans research, underscoring how both reports seek to provide useful resources to state education leaders as they develop their ESSA pstate education leaders as they develop their ESSA plans.

In addition, he was a consultant with Education Resources Strategies, a strategy consulting firm that partners with district, school, and state leaders to transform how they use their people, time, and money.

More than 150 teachers and school leaders from more than 20 states and five countries discovered how they could bring Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) science research to their classrooms and schools at the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning's first Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy.

In debates over how much funding is needed to achieve certain outcomes, it has become increasingly apparent to some state leaders that the issue is mostly about how much money lawmakers are willing to invest in public education.

Research examining how effective leaders leverage incentives and penalties in our schools, districts, and state offices of education, then, is critical for a deeper understanding of how accountability can be a constructive force for meaningful education reform.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan traveled to Detroit today to meet with students, community leaders and elected officials to hear their ideas for education reform and how the federal government can help advance reforms in their community and throughout tEducation Arne Duncan traveled to Detroit today to meet with students, community leaders and elected officials to hear their ideas for education reform and how the federal government can help advance reforms in their community and throughout teducation reform and how the federal government can help advance reforms in their community and throughout the state.

Whenever I get together with my fellow members of Knowledge Alliance, we spend time discussing how research, evaluation, and data use can further support the improvement goals of state education leaders.

No matter how robust a federal or state school - choice law, for such policies to work, local leaders — mayors, nonprofits, and education officials — need to have a strategy for implementation.

Fellow Connecticut education advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has yet another MUST READ piece about the Corporate Education Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publiceducation advocate and columnist Wendy Lecker has yet another MUST READ piece about the Corporate Education Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publicEducation Reform Industry's attack on public education and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and publiceducation and how Connecticut's leaders are failing to protect our state's students, parents, teachers and public schools.

In another, state education leaders are interested in knowing how a statewide grassroots effort they support to improve educational outcomes is doing.

The impetus for state education leaders to reexamine how North Carolina's students are assessed on their academic progress rests with the understanding that students take too many tests and educators don't learn enough about their students» learning until...

While a surge of new policymaking by the U.S. Department of Education and by state officials has buffeted schools and frustrated some teacher leaders, this turbulence has yielded a pressing need for teachers to help figure out how all these changes will actually work.

This series of How - To Modules are designed to assist state and local education agencies in recruiting, selecting, developing, and retaining school turnaround leaders.

Process and Protest analyzes the consolidated Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state plans submitted to the U.S. Department of Education for the April / May 2017 submission deadline, with specific attention to how state education agencies (SEAs) are establishing systems for ongoing dialogue with school leaders, practitioners, parents, students, and aEducation for the April / May 2017 submission deadline, with specific attention to how state education agencies (SEAs) are establishing systems for ongoing dialogue with school leaders, practitioners, parents, students, and aeducation agencies (SEAs) are establishing systems for ongoing dialogue with school leaders, practitioners, parents, students, and advocates.

Leaders from the state Department of Public Instruction will be in town to talk about how they plan to implement a new federal education law.

This brief provides state and local policymakers as well as education and juvenile justice leaders with information about how they can use requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to improve education and workforce outcomes for youth in long - term juvenile justice facilities.

In addition to meeting with their legislators, board members learn about legislation that will impact their district, issues influencing education in Alaska and the nation, how to be more effective leaders on their board, successes of other districts across the state, and more.