Sentences with phrase «of regents recently»

In order to better prepare its incoming teachers, the state board of regents recently directed the state education agency to use new teacher certification exams.

The Board of Regents recently passed a regulation to allow more special education students to graduate.

The New York State Board of Regents recently adopted several measures to delay the full implementation of Common Core until 2022.

Not exact matches

ALBANY — State Regents exams will undergo extra scrutiny following the discovery of three flaws in a recently administered geometry test — one of them reported by a 16 - year - old East Setauket student.

Recently departed Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch said the Senate's proposal «goes further into dangerous and unworkable territory,» in an op - ed published in the Daily News on Wednesday.

This began when some people from the Andani Royal family recently called on government and national security to intervene to avert any violent clashes after the Abudu Royal family served notice that they will forcibly enter the Gbewaa Palace to perform the funeral rites of late regent, Naa Abdulai Muhamadu IV.

The Board of Regents, with Cuomo's support, recently placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores for teacher evaluations through the 2018 - 19 school year.

At Monday's meeting of the state Board of Regents, Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and her staff reiterated a point they have advanced over the past week — that bipartisan repeal legislation recently approved by the Democratic - controlled state Assembly could have the unintended result of generating more tests.

(Albany, NY) Bronx - Westchester Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson and Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins recently saluted the women of the New York State Board of Regents.

The New York State board of Regents, after a lengthy closed door session, chose MaryEllen Elia, a former western New York school teacher who was most recently the superintendent of a large school district in Florida.

This silence is especially deafening since the damage to the district is so severe that Harry Phillips, the Rockland / Westchester / Putnam representative to the State Board of Regents, recently decried that the school district was «shafting the public - school kids.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has often said he doesn't think spending more money on schools is the answer, and he recently derided requests for more school funding from the New York State Board of Regents as political correctness.

Lees» commitment to her students and her profession was rewarded recently when she was honored with the University of Hawaii's Regents» Medal for Excellence in Teaching, an award for which she was nominated by her colleagues and students.

She serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Board of Regents and was recently appointed to serve on the national board for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and as a commissioner for Education Commission of the States (ECS).

The relationship between Powers and the Board of Regents has soured of late, with Cigarroa saying recently that better communication is needed.

By a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents selected MaryEllen Elia, the recently fired superintendent of Hillsborough County, Florida, to head the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and serve as President of USNY which, in addition to overseeing the entire public K - 12 education system of 7000 schools, oversees more than 240 public and private universities, 7000 libraries, the state archives, special schools for the hearing and visually impaired, over 750,000 licensed professionals, and over 200,000 certified public school teachers.

Just before the results were released, a member of the Regents named Betty Rosa called Ms. Tisch, who had recently become chancellor.

David C. Berliner, Regents» Professor Emeritus here at Arizona State University (ASU), who also just happens to be my former albeit forever mentor, recently took up research on the use of test scores to evaluate teachers, for example, using value - added models (VAMs).

Troy high school teachers recently met with HVCC professors to map out some of the math courses students will need to earn an Advanced Regents Diploma and to prepare for college - level courses as part of the P - TECH program, which will include three years of high school algebra, geometry and trigonometry.

Garfield's Assessment Committee has been meeting regularly all year and recently reported back to the staff at Garfield High School about a partnership our school has formed with a network of schools called the New York Performance Standards Consortium that has a waiver from the New York Regents exams and instead utilizes a sophisticated method of Performance Based Assessment.

Her husband, the king, had recently died, and she would rule as regent of the country until their young son was old enough to become the next king.

Capstar's founder and Executive Chairman, Steve Hicks, also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Regents at The University of Texas System, and recently made a $ 25 million gift to advance UT Austin's School of Social Work, which has been renamed in his honor.

A former vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Ferguson was recently appointed to the Smithsonian Board of Regents.