Sentences with phrase «last schools chancellor»

The city's last schools chancellor visited our school to talk to our youth leaders about the success of the college access program.

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They'd completed all their studies, the graduation service was all done, but there was one last step: They had all to stand up and recite after the chancellor of the school a «martyr's oath.»

Alberto Carvalho, who has led Miami's public schools for the last decade, will be New York City's next schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio will officially announce tomorrow.

Alberto Carvalho, who has led Miami's public schools for the last decade, will be New York City's next schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed Wednesday.

Shortly after criticizing de Blasio for not testifying at a second mayoral control hearing in New York City late last month, Sen. Carl Marcellino appeared to doze off briefly while his colleagues questioned city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña.

The Arizona - born chancellor's credentials include a masters in education; work at four school districts, including Houston during last year's Hurricane Harvey disaster; and he speaks both Spanish and English — a key during Mayor Bill de Blasio's search for replacing Carmen Fariña, the departing chancellor.

Bloomberg had a busy social schedule last night, which included a stop at the holiday party hosted by his ousted schools chancellor, Cathie Black, who donned an «eye - catching gold minidress» for the occasion.

Carvalho's last - minute change of heart left de Blasio in an embarrassing and somewhat politically difficult position: He remains without a schools chancellor and the details of how he courted Carvalho — including the salary that was offered — have all been publicly revealed.

He also endorsed an update to the capital budget by schools chancellor Carmen Fariña last week that would move $ 210 million away from charter school construction.

The chancellor came under an intense line of questioning in regard to the specific high school where the stabbing occurred last month.

The de Blasio administration struck its clearest blow yet against the city's charter schools last week when schools chancellor Carmen Fariña announced that a $ 210 million pot in the Department of Education's capital budget would be diverted away from charter school construction, likely towards the construction of pre-K seats under the mayor's plan.

In one of his last acts as commissioner, Bratton appeared with Carmen Fariña, the NYC schools chancellor, to announce that the 2015 - 16 school year was the safest on record for the city's public schools.

New schools chancellor Carmen Fariña said last week she'll review the charter co-locations and openings approved by the P.E.P., but has been vague on whether she and de Blasio will consider reversing the approvals.

F.E.S has been a major agitator of the de Blasio administration over the last year, running ads criticizing the mayor's stance on charters and recently attacking chancellor Carmen Fariña for her comments that some charter schools under - enroll special needs students.

Mayor Bloomberg and Cathie Black might be the last people in New York City who aren't anxious about Bloomberg's decision to appoint the former president of Hearst Magazines to be the city's new schools chancellor.

City Council education chair Daniel Dromm is pushing chancellor Carmen Fariña to make Diwali an official public school holiday, but said he hadn't yet heard from the administration about a letter he wrote to Fariña on the topic last week.

That new agenda includes a strong focus on technology, which de Blasio and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña have emphasized frequently over the last several months.

Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, and Mayor Bill de Blasio at a hearing in Albany last year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has tapped Houston schools superintendent Richard Carranza to become the next New York City schools chancellor — four days after Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Albert Carvalho bailed on the job at the last - schools superintendent Richard Carranza to become the next New York City schools chancellor — four days after Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Albert Carvalho bailed on the job at the last - schools chancellor — four days after Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Albert Carvalho bailed on the job at the last - Schools Superintendent Albert Carvalho bailed on the job at the last - minute.

Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña's transition from education functionary to out - front political figure hit a particularly rough patch in the middle of last week's snowstorm.

With the chancellor using his budget to announce that all schools in England will become academies, a story we reported on last year has made it into our top - five this week.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Carmen Fariña, schools chancellor, addressed an advanced placement class at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice last week.

With last year's added funding, the Queens Library system «increased its ESOL seats by 6.6 percent,» said Dennis Walcott, the new president of the Queens Public Library and former schools chancellor.

The seven - member panel expected to be named late last week to assist the New York City Board of Education's search for a new chancellor will face a difficult mandate: recruiting a visionary leader who can correct the failures of the country's largest school system and shape it into «a model for the nation.»

Michelle A. Rhee, left, the chancellor of the District of Columbia's public schools, talks to angry parents last week after a meeting to gather community reaction to a plan for closing some schools.

Her stormy tenure is being closely watched by school reformers, the teacher unions, urban educators and Congressional Democrats, who variously believe that the chancellor is either the troubled district's last hope — or worst nightmare.)

It will be overseen by two co-chairmen: Rudy Crew, a former New York City schools chancellor who is now the president of Medgar Evers College, and Jonathan Lippman, who was once the chief judge of New York State and last year ran a commission that recommended ways to close the city's jail complex at Rikers Island.

The appointment of publishing executive Cathleen P. Black to be the new chancellor of New York City's schools was in jeopardy last week after an advisory panel and the state commissioner of education made it clear they would like to see someone with education experience serving in the district's top job.

Last year, the Washington Post found the previous school chancellor also helped connected parents get their kids into better public schools without having to use the lottery system, and that DC schools were lying about their suspension rates.

Just five state schools have opened cadet clubs since former chancellor George Osborne announced a # 50 million grant last year to boost the number of units five-fold.

The Department's attempts to fire teachers in the ATR pool when Joel Klein was chancellor fell short, as did efforts to end the last - in - first - out policy that governs which teachers principals can ask to leave schools.

In a visit last month to a public school where 4 percent of students passed last year's math tests, and that shares a building with a Success school where 96 percent of the students passed, the city's schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, said, «We would like to be at that percentage, but we keep all our kids from the day they walk into the building.»

Meredith: I don't think she's going anywhere too soon, but it does remind me of Cathie Black who was appointed to schools chancellor in NYC a few years ago — she was wealthy woman with very little experience and knowledge of public schools, and she lasted about three months.

It was the last of more than 35 big - city high schools to be closed as part of a profound reorganization of New York City's educational landscape begun in 2002 by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his long - time schools chancellor, Joel Klein, with help from $ 150 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Under the government's plans, announced by the chancellor George Osborne in his budget last month, all schools will have to become academies by 2022.

When it comes to education reform, perhaps no city has inspired more controversy and acclaim over the last decade than Washington, D.C. Even today, uttering the name «Michelle Rhee» — the city's first schools chancellor appointed in 2007 after a major shakeup in the district — still evokes heated reactions from local residents.

F.E.S has been a major agitator of the de Blasio administration over the last year, running ads criticizing the mayor's stance on charters and recently attacking chancellor Carmen Fariña for her comments that some charter schools under - enroll special needs students.

Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, last month.