Sentences with phrase «issues school leaders»

In Jordan, I found a group of devoted school leaders who were struggling with many of the same issues school leaders are grappling with stateside: Class sizes are large, student discipline is an issue, the teacher and principal pipeline is impacting human capital, funding is tight, and inequality translates into uneven outcomes for students.

The NJDOE issues the school leader a two - year Provisional Certification for the term of the residency.

Not exact matches

«We are committed to working with state and local leaders to secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health,» he said.

Interviews with top professors and industry leaders on entrepreneurial issues; news of Harvard B - school events.

It is hard to hear our leaders and others issue what seem to be blanket condemnations of the work done in schools.

In the not too distant past, clergy were seen as pivotal spiritual and intellectual leaders, and theological schools were seen as providing vital leadership for congregational ministry and for grappling with broader intellectual and social issues.

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.

In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.

De Blasio said that he has talked to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan only once in recent weeks — last Thursday or Friday — a sign of his rocky relationship with the Republican who year after year has seemed to relish tormenting the mayor over the issue of school control.

The mayor's words of support come as Johnson is being targeted, along with Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein, by the AFL - CIO for his «yes» vote on charter schools, as well as a host of other issues with which the union is displeased.

There are three ballot propositions going before voters statewide in November: A proposed constitutional amendment to establish a redistricting commission (with members to be appointed by legislative leaders), a constitutional amendment to permit electronic distribution to state legislators of pending bills, and a $ 2 billion school bond issue.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan did not speak publicly but he did issue a statement, saying the GOP is «hard at work on a comprehensive school safety plan» that will include strengthening school security.

When it came to representing his district, Silver often echoed the voices of key community leaders and the many thousands they represented, so they were in a sense in «the room» helping make decisions on vital issues like schools and affordable housing.

Matters worsened in May when Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan criticized de Blasio's appearance at a mayoral control hearing in Albany, saying the mayor's answers to questions from lawmakers did not display a command of the issues facing city schools.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) and Craig Johnson (D - Nassau) dismissed the AFL - CIO's distribution of leaflets that attack them for championing an expansion of charter schools and opposing unions on other pocketbook issues.

: I am pleased so many of our state leaders are united in their commitment to address the issue of gun violence and school safety and thank you for your support of New York's students.

Mark has been a leader in the Assembly, championing issues our constituents care about, from school governance reform to protecting our seniors and keeping them in their homes.

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.

The prosecutor, Preet Bharara, speaking at the New York Law School on Friday, castigated how deal - making has long been done in Albany — by «three men in a room» (the governor, the State Assembly speaker and the State Senate majority leader), who work in secret and without accountability to decide most vital issues.

It hasn't been lost on his administration that Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson has delivered for the mayor on two of the three big issues the mayor cared deeply about: School governance (although that came amid the coup and was very messy) and charter schools.

Marcellino on Friday was the announced appointment of Majority Leader John Flanagan to chair the education panel, which will take up a number of high - profile school - related issues in the remaining post-budget legislative session.

De Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt yesterday, when the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, issued a statement harshly criticizing the mayor's performance at a hearing on the issue.

The fight over extending mayoral control of New York City schools is heating up with state Sen. Majority Leader John Flanagan said he can't consider the issue until he knows how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funds.

Just one day after Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared at City Hall with a bevy of business leaders to push for extending mayoral control of New York City schools, the state Senate education committee held its second hearing on the issue right across the street.

The school board has issued letters to city school teachers directly outlining what's in the latest contract offer — claiming teachers might not have been notified by the union leader.

The leader of the Buffalo Public School District discussed critical education issues on Facebook Live in the WNED WBFO studio Wednesday.

Legislative leaders are dug in on remaining issues in the 2017 session and are accusing each other of unfairly linking unrelated items to renewal of mayoral control over New York City schools.

Hasidic Satmar leaders in Brooklyn issued a decree proclaiming that women should no longer pursue special - education degrees after high school and that those who refused to obey would be denied positions as teachers.

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.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, said the deals on raise the age, school funding, and other issues «may show some progress, but let's be clear, it is not progressive.»

Saturday's meeting with schools chancellor Carmen Fariña provided the impetus to shift course as prominent charter leaders criticized her for offering no details about co-location, rent proposals, and other key issues.

The long - simmering issue came to the forefront during recent negotiations for a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation, when district leaders noted that one in four teachers missed 15 or more days during the 2015 - 2016 school year.

Local leaders have issued statements on the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT..

On Thursday, John Sampson, the Senate Democratic Conference leader, reiterated that his members would return to Albany once agreements had been made on three issues: a new tuition plan for SUNY and CUNY schools; property tax reform; and a contingency plan to address the possible loss of $ 1 billion in federal Medicaid funds.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt on Thursday, when the leader of the State Senate issued a statement harshly criticizing Mr. de Blasio's performance at a hearing on the issue.

«New York's public schools need a leader who can reconcile opposing views among stakeholders over controversial issues, navigate the political complexities of the legislative process, and work with the Board of Regents to forge cogent policies that will make New York's education system student - focused.»

But under the radar this year, as lawmakers tussled over issues like rent regulations, mayoral control of city schools and the ouster of the legislative leaders of both houses, all but one of the Women's Equality Act bills quietly passed the Legislature.

Legislative leaders, emerging from an earlier closed door meeting with Cuomo, concur that they still have no final resolution on key issues including the minimum wage and the exact amount of school aid in the state budget.

«Albany is continuing its session as we speak,» Mr. de Blasio said, a theme he returned to over and over as reporters pressed him on rent regulation, the 421a tax credit, mayoral control of city schools, and other issues Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, indicated that state leaders had settled yesterday.

There is, though, the issue of mayoral control of New York City schools, which will expire at the end of June unless it is renewed, and whether Cuomo and legislative leaders can reach a memorandum of understanding around how $ 2 billion in budget money targeted for affordable housing will be spent.

However, Youth Wing of Christian Association of Nigeria, Osun State, YOWICAN - OS, has earlier said the judgment of Justice Jide Falola that legitimises wearing of Hijab in public schools was in direct opposition to the mutual agreement leaders of National Inter-Religious Council, NIREC, Osun State chapter, reached on the issue.

Mr Pope is the latest in a series of Labour figures to issue New Year calls for Mr Brown's removal as leader, following former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke and Commons Schools Committee chairman Barry Sheerman.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

«There remains a strong demand among health care leaders to better understand this issue, and how to address it, given the link between disparities, quality, safety, cost and value,» says Betancourt, who is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Joining us to discuss the issue are Debra Shore, a Commissioner on the Board of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago; Aaron Packman, a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University; and Seth Snyder, the leader of a new water initiative at Argonne National Laboratory.

At the Global Youth Institute, Proctor was one of the 200 high school students from around the country that meet each year with international experts and global leaders in food security to discuss agricultural issues.

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This means school leaders can stumble when dealing with HR issues, making expensive and often avoidable mistakes.

A statement issued by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), the Governing Bodies Association, the Catholic Heads Association, the Association of Controlled Grammar Schools and the Voluntary Bursars Association warned that many schools were facing critical budget chalSchools and the Voluntary Bursars Association warned that many schools were facing critical budget chalschools were facing critical budget challenges.

The survey which questioned over 1,000 teachers, lecturers, support staff and leaders in schools and colleges across the UK about behavioural issues, provides conclusive proof that this is something that can not be ignored.