Sentences with phrase «including leaders of the school»

Many of the more than 100 local education officials interviewed in an informal Education Week survey — including leaders of school - board associations in 49 states — agree that the...

Superintendents in 11 other districts applied too, including leaders of the school systems in Orleans, West Baton Rouge, Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Those include leaders in the energy industry, some of who teach in the school's Global Energy EMBA.

The World Economic Forum is launching an ambitious new project to bring a value - based model to health care — and it has the backing of some of the world's biggest medical names, including the CEOs of Medtronic, Novartis, Kaiser Permanente, and thought leaders like Harvard Business School's Michael Porter.

Major donations have included $ 2.7 million to help finance Burnaby General Hospital's MRI unit and $ 22 million to create Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, a launching pad for tomorrow's industry leaders.

The FDS team also includes education thought - leader Sandra Nagy, formerly of Pearson Canada, who has a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University and will serve as the school's director of learning.

In the aftermath, school leaders are examining every aspect of the tragedy, including what role they can play in passing «common sense gun laws,» Bartleman said.

Later, several schools including Tufts University, Rutgers University, and the University of North Carolina (UNC) also derecognized InterVarsity because requiring leaders to be Christians violated the schools» anti-discrimination codes.

But one must also consider the roles played by institutions (the cult, the school, the court of law, the state), family and kinship groups and key leaders (including the prophets and the sages).

The leaders which include Bishop of Durham Rt Rev Paul Butler and Rev Loraine Mellor, President of the Methodist Conference say the government needs to extend the free school meals programme from 39 to 52 weeks a year.

The Cherokee County School District recently hosted a New Leaders Reception for the School Board to meet the educators recommended by the Superintendent of Schools for leadership roles including Principal posts.

The ceremony was attended by school and PTA leaders including Georgia PTA President Lisa - Marie Haygood; Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower and Cherokee County School Board Chair Kyla Cromer and Board Member Rick Stschool and PTA leaders including Georgia PTA President Lisa - Marie Haygood; Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower and Cherokee County School Board Chair Kyla Cromer and Board Member Rick StSchool Board Chair Kyla Cromer and Board Member Rick Steiner.

Ms. Dowd is welcomed to the center of the gym at halftime of the student - staff basketball game fundraiser for Relay for Life by CCSD leaders, family and friends including Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower; her husband, Billy Dowd; Deputy Superintendent Trey Olson; School Board member Kelly Poole; and Principal Dr. Bob Eddy.

In the film, leaders from all sides of the school food debate, including government officials, school foodservice experts, activists, and students, weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America's children for another 60 years.

He said that he had compiled a list of damaged infrastructure, including schools and bridges and handed it to the leaders of the G7 and the United States, adding that «I didn't ask for a Kobo (in cash).

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Wednesday night said he sought a legislative package at the end of the session that would have included three - quarters disability for first responders, design build for New York City an additional 50 speed cameras around schools.

Without coming to agreement on how to proceed, legislative leaders considered several legal options, including passing statutes to delay the implementation of Goodridge, a strategy outlined by Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School, until a referendum on a constitutional amendment could be held in November 2006.

At 11 a.m, public charter school leaders, including Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, join parents on the City Hall steps to demand that de Blasio «act immediately to resolve (their) open space requests,» Manhattan.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

He knows any bill including those things would pass unanimously — and he also knows his chance of remaining leader goes down without all the dirty money from real estate and cheater school interests.

Other Conservatives to attend the exclusive school in Berkshire include Mayor of London Boris Johnson and the shadow leader of the Commons Sir George Young.

They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of both houses of the State Legislature announced a «framework» for a deal Tuesday on several outstanding issues, including rent regulations, the 421 - a tax abatement program, mayoral control of New York City's schools and the education tax credit.

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

Over on the Senate side, the Republican leaders of that chamber say they'll soon unveil a comprehensive legislative package including measures to help schools improve security.

If approved by voters those propositions will: 1) Create a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

Police have arrested one of the three leaders of the armed gang that kidnapped eight persons including students at the Nigerian Turkish International School recently in Isheri, Ogun State.

Leaders of independent, Catholic and Jewish schools reacted with elation to expanded funding for nonpublic schools for the 2016 - 17 academic year included in the just - passed state budget.

The leaders of the Catholic Church, which runs hundreds of schools in the state, back the measure, and church leaders, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan, were invited to a lunch at the governor's mansion to try to persuade legislators who have not signed on to the bill.

Legislative leaders in the Democrat - controlled General Assembly have already announced an ambitious gun - control agenda, including expansion of the state's existing assault weapons ban to cover the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle and high - capacity ammunition magazines used by Adam Lanza in killing 20 first - graders and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.

The schedule called for the New York State Legislature to be home for the summer by this week, but lawmakers are still in Albany as legislative leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo try to reach agreement on a number of major issues, including making the 2 percent tax cap permanent, and changes to the charter school limit.

Mark - Viverito had the support of the vast majority of elected officials, including three of the six out gay members of the Council: Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, despite the fact that it is a direct subsidy to schools mostly run by anti-gay religious groups that made up the bulk of those lobbying for it.

There are three ballot propositions on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

«We are pleased that state leaders reached agreements that paved the way for passage of a measure that includes a three year extension of sales, occupancy, mortgage recording and real estate transfer taxes; and a two year extension for mayoral control of the New York City School System,» said New York State Association of Counties President William E. Cherry.

The applications are then reviewed by a panel of state educational leaders from various professional associations, including the School Administrators Association of N.Y. State; N.Y. State United Teachers; the United Federation of Teachers; and the N.Y. State Parent Teacher Association, along with the assistant provost for educator preparation at the State University of New York (SUNY).

A coalition of education leaders joined DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best to announce the effort, including state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor; Newtown Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson; U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Melodie Peters, president of AFT Connecticut; and Tom Kuroski, president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers.

«30 percent of the schools in the district should be reserved for protocol from the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection... The Final selection form the district which excludes the 30 % protocol should include strong women activists, female opinion leaders, other women executives, queen - mothers and members of women groups,» the statement added.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

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.

«As elected parent leaders we demand that the irregularities be worked out,» said Upper West Side dad and CEC 3 president Noah Gotbaum, who said the elections should be delayed until the end of the school year and wants oversight of all parent groups, including parents» associations, transferred from the DOE.

The world leaders who are concerned about their people think of good policies and welfarism, not selfish ambitions.Politics has become a school, from councilor - chairman - state house assembly - house of rep. - governor - either senate minister or president.I want to advise you that, as you line chains of political ambition, please include death.

Jesse Hamilton has spent his entire career helping people, including over 15 years as an elected official in Crown Heights, eight years as President of the School Board and the last eight representing our community as District Leader of the 43rd Assembly District.