News that New Paltz college don Gerry Benjamin fell a few votes short of being
named a state regent on Monday comes as no great surprise.
Not exact matches
Arizona
State University and Vice President of University Athletics Ray Anderson has unveiled plans for a restructured ASU football model and
named former NFL head coach Herman Edwards as the 24th head coach of Sun Devil Football, pending approval by the Arizona Board of
Regents.
Another
name also comes from the education field: Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the New York
State Board of
Regents, but she has repeatedly insisted she's not interested in the job.
The New York
State Board of
Regents announced that Dana McDonough has been
named the 2016 New York
State Teacher of the Year.
Regent Judith Johnson of Rockland County, left,
named Monday to lead a «work group» looking into issues with the
state test system, speaks to members of the
state Board of
Regents during a meeting at the Education Department in Albany on Monday, April 18, 2016.
The
state Supreme Court lawsuit
names the
state of New York, along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the
state Assembly, Senate, budget office, Board of
Regents and education commissioner.
New York already has a governing body,
named by the legislature, to oversee education in New York, the
State Board of
Regents.
Recently
named Regents members are opposed to a new
state law — pushed by Gov. Cuomo and opposed by the teachers union — that more closely links teacher evaluations to students» performance on standardized exams.
Former Bronx Schools Superintendent Betty Rosa has been
named as Chancellor of the
state's Board of
Regents — the first Latina to hold the position.
«Going forward, standards, accountability and innovation will be the watchwords of this board and the
state Education Department,» promised Merryl Tisch when she was named Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents in
state Education Department,» promised Merryl Tisch when she was
named Chancellor of the New York
State Board of Regents in
State Board of
Regents in 2009.
Dr. Walter Cooper Academy is
named in honor of Dr. Walter Cooper, a former member of the New York
State Board of
Regents who has exhibited a lifetime commitment to educational excellence.
«Tens of thousands of
names are on waitlists for charter schools across New York
State, so we applaud SUNY and the Board of
Regents for approving these new schools.
John B. King Jr., who credits teachers for helping him surmount an isolated childhood as an orphan in Brooklyn and who ran celebrated charter schools in New York and Massachusetts, was
named Monday as the
state's next education commissioner, with a unanimous vote of the Board of
Regents.
Yesterday, Elsa M. Núñez, who serves as the President of Eastern Connecticut
State University (and is also in the process of being
named Vice President of the Connecticut
State Universities, under the new Board of
Regents for Higher Education) wrote a commentary piece for CTNewsjunkie in which she glowingly endorsed Governor Malloy's «Education Reform» bill.
Filed in the
state Supreme Court, in the county of Albany, Wright v. New York
names as defendants the
state; the Board of
Regents, which oversees elementary and secondary education; the chairman of the Board of
Regents, Merryl Tisch; and
state education Commissioner John King.
The suit
names the
state government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the
state Assembly, Senate, budget office, Board of
Regents and Education Commissioner John King Jr..
Northeast Charter Schools Network New York
State Director Andrea Rogers said, «Tens of thousands of
names are on waitlists for charter schools across New York
State, so we applaud SUNY and the Board of
Regents for approving these new schools.
A 2013 undercover investigation conducted by the Humane Society of the United
States, revealed that dogs acquired from a «random source» Class B dealer
named Kenneth Schroder were being used in painful dental implant experiments at Georgia
Regents University.