Sentences with phrase «local school superintendents»

Cooper briefly addressed the commission Tuesday, moments after a panel of local school superintendents bemoaned chronic struggles in recruiting educators, funding shortages and the loss of students to a growing school choice movement.

At 2:45 p.m., Heastie meets with local school superintendents and Regent Roger Tilles, Herricks Community Center, 999 Herricks Rd., New Hyde Park.

With the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Testing program beginning later this month, Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education issued a decree late today instructing local school superintendents that all public school children in grades 3 - 8 and grade 11 MUST take the SBAC Common Core Tests.

While local school superintendents seem to be sitting out the fight against Gov. Nathan Deal's proposed constitutional amendment for an Opportunity School District, more school boards are declaring their opposition, including Cherokee County last week and Clayton on Tuesday.

A search committee last week named three local schools superintendents as finalists for the post of Kentucky commissioner of education, which observers predict will be among the most closely watched education jobs in the nation.

The House last month defeated a provision of the bill that would have required local school superintendents to be appointed rather than elected.

As Wendy Lecker explains in her column entitled, «Opting out, parents answer to a higher authority,» the Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and the Malloy administration are telling local school superintendents, principals and teachers that they are to instruct parents that their child MUST take Connecticut's standardized tests and MUST take the new poorly designed and unfair Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test.

That said the Malloy administration's untenable position that opting out is «against» the law has put local school superintendents into an extremely difficult position.

Local school superintendents chimed in on the funding issues, detailing massive teacher turnover in some districts.

The latest Web video from the state Democratic Party is a highlight reel of some of GOP / Conservative gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino's more memorable — and controversial — statements, dating all the way back to 2008, when the Buffalo businessman said the local school superintendent had been hired only because he was black.

Then I went to local school superintendents and talked to politicians.

Among the nine task force members Mr. Christie named on Oct. 28 are a local schools superintendent, a high school PTA officer, a charter school principal, and a school choice activist.

For the second straight year, lawmakers killed a bill that would have required all of the state's local school superintendents to be appointed by their school boards by 2000.

One of the most controversial parts of the bill will phase out Tennessee's practice of electing some local school superintendents by the end of the decade.

The superintendents surveyed were selected randomly from the group's list of all local school superintendents.

Within the confines of state law, they typically adopt budgets, collectively bargain with the local teachers union, monitor student achievement and pick the local school superintendent.

Your local school superintendent or community college president, along with her lackeys — the governing board, who are competing for who can spend your money fastest to satisfy their quest for monuments for their legacy.

Mississippi was one of the last three states in the nation to elect any local school superintendents.

If you are thinking of home - schooling your child, please call your local school superintendent's office for information.

To learn more about the Malloy administration's ongoing effort to withhold public information read the CT Newsjunkie article, «Education Dept. Releases SBAC Test Data Only to Local School Superintendents.»

Writing on behalf of state government, the head of the Connecticut Department of Education has now informed local school superintendents that they must STOP parents from opting their children out of the SBAC tests or else!

Local school superintendents and school administrators also know the truth.

and the work of a number of state - wide efforts to inform state and local officials that they must respect a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC Test, a significant number of local school superintendents, and their staff, continue to mislead parents, throw up barriers or harass parents into believing that they have lost their right to protect their children from an unfair test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 children fail.

These actions have led education advocate and activist Jonathan Pelto to ask the state's Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families to investigate «the abusive bullying and punishment that is being perpetrated by some local school superintendents and local school officials against those who have been opted out of the SBAC testing.»

While some local school superintendents continue to mislead and even lie to parents, the undeniable reality is that local school districts have no legal authority to force children to take the Common Core SBAC tests and that the SBAC protocol prohibits local school districts from engaging in «Sit and Stare» strategies as a way to punish and bully children whose parents have decided to keep them out of the Common Core testing scam.

Unfortunately, although their action is unethical, the Malloy administration and some local school superintendents will tell parents that, «There is no process specified in the statute or in associated regulations for a student to «opt out» of the testing.»

But here in Connecticut, Governor Malloy's administration's goes unchecked as it continues to lie and mislead parents about their right to opt their children out of the testing scam and some local school superintendents go unchallenged as they inappropriately tell highs school juniors that they can not graduate unless they take the SBAC test — a policy that would be illegal if true.

To make sure that school libraries / librarians in NJ are beneficiaries of this critical funding it is up to ALL our members to work with our local school superintendents and school boards to educate them on the effectiveness of school library programs led by certified school librarians.