Sentences with phrase «like superintendents of schools»

However, it does, unintentionally, create problems when its provisions apply to searches for educational leaders like superintendents of schools and presidents of universities.

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«I know... some people would like us to just say now that we are closed for the rest of the week, while others would like us to open school tomorrow,» Superintendent Desmond Blackburn posted to Facebook.

Maggie and Megan: I certainly haven't seen all HISD schools in action (indeed, I've only been in a handful of lunch rooms, something I'd like to change) but I can say that HISD is currently implementing some «improved dining concepts», starting (at the behest of our superintendent) at the most impoverished schools.

I'm surprised that school boards, superintendents, teacher unions and the like aren't yelling from the rooftops in support of the $ 2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act of 2014.

Whether the bill, carried by Sen. Tom Croci (R - Sayville), would affect school superintendents like Frank Tassone, who looted the Roslyn school district of $ 2.2 million but still receives his $ 175,295 state pension, is open to interpretation by the courts.

The school superintendents said in a relatively high - tax state like New York, the highest - income taxpayers would be forced to pay thousands of dollars more per year in taxes if they are no longer able to deduct state and local income taxes.

Some members of Buffalo School Board's majority indicated they would like to select the next superintendent from within the city district.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

3) Superintendents like Paul Vallas, Joel Klein, and Tom Boasberg and a fast - growing number of urban districts understand that the traditional district system is broken, have closed ineffective schools and opened effective ones, and have committed to legal autonomy at the school level and a bare - bones central office.

Race to the Bottom Michael McGill Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate reform has actually weakened public schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing of «nonessentials» like art and languages.

«The only way you make something like this work is to fully inform parents what their options are and how to exercise their options, and school superintendents aren't doing that,» says William L. Taylor, chairman of the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, a liberal advocacy group.

For many of the same reasons, Donna McGee, superintendent of the Lake Arthur School District in Lake Arthur, New Mexico, would like to end the four - day schedule after almost 20 years.

«I like to think of social media as being somewhat like the bees that go from flower to flower to flower and take a little bit of pollen from here to there, and the next thing you know you've got daylilies you've never had before because the bees have cross-pollinated plants,» says Pam Moran, superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools.

First of all, a superintendent isn't making a decision like this on his or her own, especially in large cities, where the school system is embedded in many other systems that are servicing kids and families.

These schools, in some cases, school systems, have been transformed by the kind of dedication exemplified by some Teach for America graduates and some fearless superintendents like Michell Rhee and Paul Vallas.

Here's how it works: Over the course of a week, students grapple with a dilemma faced by someone like a judge, a school superintendent, or a politician.

(The superintendent and staff would be paid real salaries and be housed in a real office; the school board would be made up of various «education experts» or maybe «stakeholders» who, like real school board members, would volunteer their time.)

«Folks like this use comedy and music and are fun, but in the midst of their humor, they have really good substance,» said Fred Morton, superintendent of the Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia, who has used Wavelength in his current and former district.

Although the institutes offered new administrators an opportunity to grow comfortable with their position — it also strengthened experienced leaders like Noemy Renee Garcia whose dual role as superintendent and principal of Kennedy County - Wide Common School District in Sarita, Texas.

After years of tough - minded superintendents and would - be reformers talking only about reading and math scores, we're now enthusiastically rediscovering that schools are actually supposed to tend to other important stuff too — things like character, decency, perseverance, responsibility, and citizenship.

Teitel's research focuses on principal and superintendent leadership development, on interorganizational collaboration and other partnerships, especially between schools and universities, and on improvement of teaching and learning through approaches like Instructional Rounds.

Sandra Thorstenson, superintendent of the Whittier Union High School District in Whittier, Calif., likes to say that «demographics do not determine destiny,» and she backs it up with statistics.

Everyone, from the superintendent to Principal Eaton, emphasizes a belief that the state's assessment tool doesn't work well for online schools like Achieve, where the majority of students are enrolled because they weren't successful in a traditional system, and many are adult students.

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schoLike equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of scholike Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

Ann Bonitatibus, associate superintendent of Maryland's Frederick County Public Schools, sounds a lot like Hockett, noting that principals will «spend a couple thousand dollars on SMART Boards and then there won't be a teacher in the building trained to use one.

«We're getting to the point where people are beginning to depend on wireless devices, just like we depend on wired devices,» says Jim Hirsch, the associate superintendent for academic and technology services for the 33,000 - student Plano, Texas, school system, which has a reputation as one of the more technologically sophisticated districts in the country.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

The superintendent said she's aware of the challenges faced in urban districts like Rochester: poor attendance, low graduation rates, and students who can't afford a school lunch, for starters.

Elliot Smalley, SCPCSD Superintendent, was quoted saying «On this last day of our application cycle, it is clear that education and community leaders are stepping up like never before to create high quality, innovative charter schools in the state of South Carolina.

She likes the chain of command in the existing system that leads to a district superintendent and an elected school board.

As a part of negotiations, Superintendent John Deasy modified the original Public School Choice (PSC) program, which had allowed outside operators like charters to submit bids to turn around failing LAUSD schools.

Glenn Shilling, Superintendent of Lakeside - Hartland School District said that after Act 10 was enacted, the school board could discuss issues like wages, insurance, etc., directly with teachers without a designated bargaining School District said that after Act 10 was enacted, the school board could discuss issues like wages, insurance, etc., directly with teachers without a designated bargaining school board could discuss issues like wages, insurance, etc., directly with teachers without a designated bargaining group.

Systems and Civic leaders like School District of Philadelphia Superintendent, Dr. William Hite, have been instrumental in challenging us to step into leadership roles in advocacy and diversity.

There is a public perception that traditional public schools don't meet the individual needs of all students, and charter schools like Alma d'arte or the New America School serve those individuals, said LCPS Superintendent Stan Rounds.

Tom Boasberg, the superintendent of Denver Public Schools, repeatedly emphasized in his interview that, like Summit, Denver uses data to drive the district's overall aims.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

I'm so excited about the appointment of a Kyla Johnson - Trammel as the next superintendent; she's female and attended OUSD schools (like me), and in many ways reflects the community she's serving.

During her time as superintendent of Clover Park (WA) School District, McEwen learned that «there's nothing like seeing and knowing where your children are from.»

Groups like the School Nutrition Association (SNA), National School Boards Association and The School Superintendents Association have been pushing Congress to loosen some of the requirements, pointing out that the new standards are costly to implement.

Even those in the upper levels of educational leadership should be modeling what it looks like to learn and lead online; for example, Chris Kennedy, Superintendent of West Vancouver School District, uses blogging to model transparency, open leadership, and lifelong learning.

Before the housing was approved, former West Tallahatchie Superintendent Reggie Barnes, an outspoken advocate for the state's most impoverished schools, told Mississippi Department of Education officials that districts like his struggled to help teachers find housing.

Incessant testing with no relation to the real world, the mindless collection of trivia classified as data, forcing a «business model» like Enron or Lehman Brothers or General Motors on the public schools, driving the arts and the social sciences out of the curriculum, and watching every Chancellor, Superintendent, Commissioner, and Secretary of Education promote charter schools over their own public schools at every turn.

I am outraged that Steven Adamowski is Special Master of Windham and New London, and was Superintendent of Hartford Schools, where he changed what it meant to graduate so that he could instantly improve Hartford's graduation rate; where he manipulated stats to make it look like he had «closed the achievement gap;» and finally, where he parleyed every positive soundbite in the toadying Hartford Courant into a bonus or raise for himself.

But in 17 years of working with policy makers on both sides of the aisle, Maass, a former superintendent and principal in Milwaukee, says he's never seen anything like last week's backroom deal to bring voucher schools to his community.

AASA, the association of the nation's public school superintendents, released an exhaustive report Wednesday on tax credit scholarship programs like Georgia's, which allow donors to piggyback on state and federal tax breaks — often to turn a profit.

And finally, like Bridgeport's pretender superintendent, Paul Vallas, Steve Adamowski has failed to fulfill the requirements of Connecticut's school governance council law.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy was in Sacramento Wednesday for a press conference in support of Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to shift more funding to school districts like LAUSD that have large numbers of poor and English Language Learner students.

The 74, a noted DPE oriented publication started by Campbell Brown, said that when first appointed he looked like a strange choice then continued, «But since he stepped into the role of superintendent in 2013, Ferebee has developed stronger relationships between traditional district and charter schools, grown the city's network of innovation schools, and worked toward giving principals more decision - making power.»

«In my 40 years in education in New Jersey, I have never seen anything like this,» said Lawrence Feinsod, executive director of the New Jersey School Boards Association and a longtime district and county superintendent.

I'd really like to see the school design process address the needs of students with all learning styles, and my hope is that the new permanent Superintendent will have the experience to lead and support real grassroots school transformation.