Sentences with phrase «major school systems»

If she is, New York City will rejoin the long list of major school systems now searching for the next rock star.

In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11).

Treviño has worked with major school systems across the United States and with diverse multicultural populations.

In its first year, the transfer provisions of the new federal education law have had as much impact on the operations of the major school systems as a Ping - Pong ball fired at a battleship.

Since mid-March, superintendents of four major school systems have spent two days each meeting with the school board and various local groups in the 54,000 - student district: Anthony S. Amato of Hartford, Conn.; Winston C. Brooks of Wichita, Kan.; Patricia Harvey of St. Paul, Minn.; and Eric J. Smith of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg County schools in North Carolina.

If Edison, which now works in various ways in nearly 1,000 schools and serves more than 300,000 students, were a public school district, I would be one of the longest - serving heads of a major school system in the United States (average tenure for the superintendent of a major system is less than four years).

ATE members represent over 700 colleges and universities, over 500 major school systems, and the majority of state departments of education.