Sentences with phrase «of regents appointed»

The college's Board of Regents appointed Dr. Alfred M. Philips as TJC's first president and Dr. Dean P. VanTrease as executive vice president.

Cuomo added he has not spoken with the newly appointed commissioner of education, MaryEllen Elia (the Board of Regents appoints the education commissioner, not the governor).

Not exact matches

Penn State regents are appointed through a public process and have the needs of the people of Pennsylvania as their primary concern.

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

ALBANY — The state Legislature appointed three new members to the Board of Regents on Tuesday, increasing the diversity of the policymaking board, and suggesting tensions around education policy may have eased around the Capitol.

Its commissioner answers to the Board of Regents, who are appointed by the state Legislature.

«The Board of Regents supervises the State Education Department, and I don't appoint anyone to the Board of Regents, either,» Cuomo continued.

«I don't even appoint anyone to the Board of Regents.

«The speaker has appointed all the Board of Regents over the years,» Skelos said.

ALBANY — The State Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would change the way the Board of Regents is selected, allowing most members to be appointed by the governor and giving more power to minority legislative conferences.

The state constitution gives the Board of Regents the power to appoint the education commissioner and set education policy through regulation.

David Steiner, dean of the Hunter College School of Education, was appointed New York State education commissioner by the state Board of Regents on July 27, and is expected to take office on Oct. 1.

Cuomo's move came as the state Board of Regents, which is not appointed by the governor, launched its own review.

The education commissioner is chosen by the state Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature.

A clinical professor at Fordham University, Cashin was appointed to the Board of Regents in 2011.

Since then, Elia and the state Board of Regents have dismantled that arrangement, and the governor's own hastily appointed task force quietly agreed.

But, getting rid of the Regents altogether and giving the Governor to appoint one person ain't the way to go.

The head of the department of education shall be The Regents of the University of the State of New York, who shall appoint and at pleasure remove a commissioner of education to be the chief administrative officer of the department.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeks greater control over education policy in the state, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said on Tuesday he was opposed to altering how the Board of Regents is appointed to lead the state Department of Education.

Silver also made clear this week he's opposed to changing how the Board of Regents is appointed.

In an interview with Time Warner Cable News and NY1, Skelos said he backed the idea of changing the process through which the Board of Regents is appointed — essentially controlled by the Democratic - led Assembly.

The amendment has been introduced in the Senate before, as have other bills aimed at reducing the influence of the Assembly in appointing the Board of Regents.

A top aide to Cuomo last month hinted at a push for greater say over how the Regents are appointed in a letter to Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch.

In addition to raising the possibility of changing how the Regents are appointed, Cuomo has indicated he wants more power over how the state runs public education, which is currently controlled by the semi-autonomous Department of Education and its commissioner.

The State Board of Regents, which is appointed by the legislature to be in charge of education, recommends $ 2 billion additional dollars.

The state Senate has passed legislation to create a new process for selecting Board of Regents members, which are the appointed officials tasked with crafting public education polices for schools in New York.

Tisch, appointed by the Board of Regents with little gubernatorial input, has had friction with Cuomo and his administration.

Though the funding comes from the state, Cuomo has little influence over education policy in New York other than through legislation — policy is crafted by the Board of Regents, appointed through a legislative process dominated by Assembly Democrats.

Senate Education Chair John Flanagan says Republican Senators will be attending a joint session of the legislature to appoint board of Regents members to new terms.

«The Speaker has appointed all the Board of Regents over the years,» Skelos said.

The fact is Pataki did nothing — zip — to loosen the Silver - appointed Regents (translation: unions) grip on 99 percent of kids» educations in NY.

The State Board of Regents, which is essentially appointed by the Assembly Democrats because they have the largest voting bloc in the legislature, developed a waiver.

The education commissioner is chosen by the State Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch has appointed a task force to study the rocky rollout of the Common Core academic standards in New York and develop recommendations for improvement, the Albany Times Union reports.

First, the Board of Regents, who are not appointed by Cuomo, but instead by the legislature, voted to permit school districts waivers to delay the new performance rules.

Education Commissioner John King, who is elected by the Board of Regents, rather than being appointed by the governor, also refuted that participation in the grant programs has been lacking.

Unlike states where the education commissioner is appointed by the governor, New York's commissioner is appointed by the state Board of Regents, whose members are chosen by the Legislature.

The State Board of Regents, which sets education policy and hired King, has appointed a committee to review the complaints about Common Core and will report back by the end of February.

The governor was quick not to answer a question last week about whether he'd like to change the way the state Board of Regents is appointed, fueling speculation he'll use today's speech to call for greater gubernatorial control of schools.

On Tuesday, May 26, the State Board of Regents on Tuesday afternoon unanimously voted to appoint Florida schools leader MaryEllen Elia as New York State's new education commissioner, replacing the departed John King.

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

Dr. Tisch was appointed to the Board of Regents in 1996 and was elected chancellor, an unpaid position, in 2009.

«We have more faith in the Regents and [the State Education Department] to come up with the system than a panel of experts appointed by each house and the governor,» Brindisi said, referencing the previous plan.

In 2016, he was appointed by the U-M Board of Regents to guide the health system as it delivers complex patient care, researches new medical innovations and trains the next generation of physicians and scientists.

Mark E.P. Prince, M.D., has been appointed chair of the Michigan Medicine Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery by the University of Michigan Board of Regents, effective April 1, 2018.

The Regents last year appointed the 15 - member panel to prepare recommendations for bringing state influence to bear on what is now the rapid but scattered growth of computer use in classrooms.

The board of regents (appointed by the legislature)?

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The education commissioner is chosen by the State Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature.

A fellow member of John King's cohort was the wife of billionaire Jim Tisch, Merryl Tisch, who was appointed to the New York State Board of Regents four years earlier.