Sentences with phrase «of regents put»

With the agenda established, key statutes passed by the state legislature and Executive, and the funding secured, and most importantly the Board of Regents putting the crucial regulations in place, the key elements of the reform plans are now present.

Not exact matches

You can't put a seventh - grader on the Board of Regents, but you can put parents who have seventh graders on the board.

The Board of Regents, on recommendation from Cuomo's Common Core task force, put in place a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year.

The school evaluation requirements passed in the budget earlier this year only gave the New York State Board of Regents and the state Department of Education until June 30 to put regulations in place for the districts to follow.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says the implementation of Common Core Learning Standards have been «poorly executed» and he says if the Regents won't act to put the brakes on, the Senate will.

Regent Roger Tilles of Brookville said the few details the Board of Regents can write into the evaluation system amounts to «putting lipstick on this» law.

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.

Earlier this week, the Regents passed emergency regulations putting a hold on the use of state test scores on teacher and principal evaluations.

Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a hold on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized, Common Core - aligned tests used to evaluate teachers.

The Regents Chancellor has tried to find a way administratively to give school districts extra time, by allowing them to declare that meeting the deadline would be a hardship, and to put off the date for an additional year, until the fall of 2016.

«The Regents» response is to recommend delaying the teacher evaluation system and is yet another in a long series of roadblocks to a much needed evaluation system which the Regents had stalled putting in place for years.

«Today's recommendations are another in a series of missteps by the Board of Regents that suggests the time has come to seriously re-examine its capacity and performance,» he said, adding it was «yet another in a long series of roadblocks to a much - needed evaluation system which the Regents had stalled putting in place for years.»

The amendment was put forward by the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which is backed by the California businessman and University of California regent Ward Connerly, a leading opponent of using race as a factor in admissions.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

Secondly, the negotiation with the teachers union and the subsequent ratification of that agreement by the Regents and by the legislature, putting into place the teacher / principal evaluation piece.

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

At the end of 2015, the State Board of Regents voted to put a moratorium on the use of Common Core - aligned tests in evaluations for four years.

Board of Regents Newsflash: Let's put in a chief of staff with no public higher education experience

«To all of the corporations that stand to make billions at the expense of our children, education officials with little or no education experience, Board of Regents members that put status quo over common sense, and legislators that place politics over the protection of our children, watch out!»

The Common Core initiative put into place in New York by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and overseen by the Board of Regents and the State Education Department has been the subject of scathing critique by both parents and educators alike that has not escaped the governor's attention.

The Regents also put off the development of new English tests for 9th and 10th grades; the tests were intended to provide an extra source of information for the new evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

2011 JUNE: New York State United Teachers sue over evaluation regulations adopted by the state's board of regents, saying they conflict with the law and put too much emphasis on state tests over locally designed measures.

Merryl H. Tisch, chancellor of the state's Board of Regents, said she believed that early gains would continue to evaporate by middle school until the state raised standards and put in place a curriculum that emphasized reading for context and developing thinking skills.

«Today's recommendations are another in a series of missteps by the Board of Regents that suggests the time has come to seriously re-examine its capacity and performance,» he said, adding it was «yet another in a long series of roadblocks to a much - needed evaluation system which the Regents had stalled putting in place for years.»