Sentences with phrase «of regents last»

I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this, and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the evaluation law: «Tenured teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence and considered for termination through an expedited hearing process.»

The New York board of regents last week swept out the state competency tests as a graduation requirement and replaced them with the tougher regents» exams traditionally geared to the state's college - bound students.

When Betty Rosa was named the new chancellor of the Board of Regents last year, she struck a tone that could not be more different than her predecessor, calling for the board to «move away from so - called reform.»

The objectives, part of the commissioner's revised plan for school reform called the «New Compact for Learning,» were pre6sented to the state board of regents last week following a series of regional hearings.

And today, according to some press accounts, he will get more concrete and tie a promised 4 percent increase in state aid to adoption of the teacher evaluation system put forth by the state Board of Regents last year.

The statewide system was signed into law in 2010 and approved by the state Board of Regents last year, but it crumbled this winter when school districts and unions couldn't round out certain details.

Not exact matches

With the looming deficit and uncertainty of federal spending priorities, state education groups, the Education Department and Board of Regents have looked to modify some of their asks from recommendations made last year.

Queen Elizabeth was the last monarch to reign until her death — though for the last ten years or so of her life Prince Charles acted as regent in all but name.

Youth in Nanung have paid a courtesy call on the newly installed regent, Sung - Lana Issifu Salifu Dawuni at his palace, to congratulate him for an incident - free burial of the late Naa Salifu Dawuni, and also pledged their unflinching support for him to ensure lasting peace in Nanung.

«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

«If anything, I think the Board of Regents comes into this next legislative session with an impressive record of success over the last five years,» King said.

«The politics around what happened last year with the reappointment of the Regents, I hope, is in the past,» she said.

The Regents last year reduced the number of test questions and took away stressful time limits to try to ease opposition.

The Regents, which are elected by a joint session of the State Legislature, approved a slate of regulatory and policy changes last week that are meant to address teachers», parents» and lawmakers» concern about the rocky rollout of the more difficult curriculum guidelines.

Cuomo jumped into the fight last month during his budget address when he criticized the Board of Regents for implementation failures and announced that he would form a panel to look at how to improve the rollout.

As a member of the Board of Regents My Brothers Keeper Blue Ribbon Panel on improving outcomes for boys and young men of color, we highlighted the need for more advanced programing in a report issued late last year,» said Assemblyman Mosley.

Some parent leaders of the boycott movement had welcomed last week's task force recommendations, but the Regents» action drew a cooler reception.

(The Board of Regents itself voted last month to make it easier to pass one of the state's certification exams.)

Partnering with Parents was the theme of last week's public meetings to discuss the new Core Curriculum mandated by the state Board of Regents.

The New York State Board of Regents at the last minute reversed course and decided not to hold a final vote on some changes to weaken implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

The Board of Regents that will choose the state's next education commissioner is a lot different than the panel that was in place when the previous leader left last year.

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.

Mayor Bloomberg just released a carefully - worded response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for revising the Board of Regents teacher evaluation standards — an issue that has become something of a sticking point as the mayor is threatening to fire thousands of NYC teachers and pushing for the repeal of the last - in, first - out rule.

A Board of Regents» move last week that paves the way for undocumented immigrants to get state - granted professional licenses, including teacher certifications, is prompting some ongoing blowback among Republican lawmakers.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

The state Board of Regents at the last minute reversed course and decided not to hold a final vote on some changes to weaken implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

But the New York State Board of Regents made a last - minute decision to implement a safety net for students who fail the edTPA, so they can still earn initial certification.

The state Board of Regents, a semi-independent entity charged with setting education policy in the state, last year set its funding aspirations at $ 2 billion, twice as much as what Cuomo has proposed with policy measures approved.

Does anyone recall that the Governor came in at the last minute of the SED regulation development process on teacher evaluations and asked the Regents for changes in the proposed regulations to include greater emphasis on test scores than the original legislation prescribed?

Teachout was the last Democrat to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the gubernatorial primary (the first being Carl McCall, now the SUNY Board of Regents chairman, who would go on to lose to Republican George Pataki in 2002).

Last week, State Education Commissioner John King and Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch made 19 adjustments to the Common Core program.

ALBANY — The Board of Regents that will choose the state's next education commissioner is a lot different than the panel that was in place when the previous leader left last year.

The state Board of Regents, in its spending proposal issued last month, called for an additional $ 125 million, while advocacy groups have called for even more.

In justifying Automotive's removal, the state also cited a slight improvement in scores on Regents exams last year, though only 3 percent of grads scored high enough to be deemed college - ready.

Cuomo already telegraphed as much in a letter he sent, signed by a top aide, to Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch at the end of last month asking for her input on a range of policy issues.

Richard Iannuzzi, a nine - year incumbent president of New York State United Teachers, was defeated by a comfortable margin Sunday, and James Jackson, a member of the State Board of Regents, was pressured by lawmakers to resign last month; both are casualties of an emotional controversy that has erupted among parents and teachers and mobilized lobbies with a variety of political goals.

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.

Dozens of activists descended on a state Board of Regents meeting last month in Albany to demand regulatory relief.

Dr. Tisch's influence over the board began to wane last year with the election of several new Regents who were skeptical of the state tests.

Support for eliminating existing exemptions, except for medical reasons, from immunization laws was among the policy recommendations adopted last weekend at the summer meeting of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP).

That's what the New York board of regents told educators last week about a policy it had hastily adopted 11 days earlier requiring the equivalent of three years of a foreign language to graduate from high school.

Nearly a year in the making, the plan had undergone several revisions before the regents agreed late last month to a design mandating the participation of parents and teachers in the development of a school - reform plan.

But representatives of local school districts contend that the $ 5.8 - billion appropriation is not enough to pay for the Board of Regents» «Action Plan to Improve Elementary and Secondary Education Results in New York State,» a comprehensive, five - year reform plan adopted last year.

Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills last year ordered the schools to give the state - devised regents» English examination, but delayed a final decision on the...

«It will take immense effort and ingenuity on the part of local educators to help all students meet these standards and pass these exams,» Mr. Mills wrote in the proposal submitted last week to the state board of regents.

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 three groups, the Sacramento Urban League, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (maldef) and Public Advocates Inc., sent their petition last week to the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of California State University and Colleges, and the Board of...

In a state where public education is overseen by a board of regents and education commissioner independent of the governor, Gov. Spitzer made clear last week that he will take an active role...

After the sweetness - and - nice between New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to win $ 700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund last year (see my Education Next story), NYSUT yesterday sued the state's Board of Regents and NYSED's acting commissioner John King over the decision last May to ratchet up the importance of student test scores in a teacher's annual evaluation.

The success of the Central Falls deal rested significantly on Rhode Island super-chief Deb Gist's aggressive moves last fall, in which she interpreted the basic education program (enacted last summer by the state's Board of Regents) to mean that seniority would no longer be a factor in school staffing.