Sentences with phrase «of local school administrators»

Thanks to the anti-local control, authoritarian policies being pushed by Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman and their Commissioner of Education, the Connecticut State Department of Education summoned a group of local school administrators to a «roundtable discussion on family and community engagement strategies» on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 3:00 — 4:30 at the State Office Building in Hartford.

Katie Roy, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform's Chief Operating Officer also presented to the group of local school administrators, teachers and parents.

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January 25, 2018 — MILFORD, MA — Today, Consigli Construction Co., Inc. hosted more than 40 teachers, guidance counselors and administrators from 11 local high schools at its Milford headquarters for a professional development workshop in partnership with the Blackstone Valley Education Foundation and the Association of General Contractors (AGC).

Codes 53A - 1a - 107 (2003) and 53A -13-109 (2004) allow local school boards and administrators to provide training as needed in the imparting of civic and character education.

The Center for Safe and Healthy Schools was established in 1987 in partnership with the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide guidance and assistance to state and local education policymakers and administrators.

Learn how the Fuel Up to Play 60 program can help enhance your school nutrition program, and get all of your stakeholders involved: students, parents, teachers, and administrators, as well as the local community.

Once the province of tater tots, reheated burgers and chocolate milk, school lunches are increasingly featuring local produce and healthy foods as administrators battle rising food prices and expanding student waistlines.

I suspect that the most important strides in PS nutrition have been made on a school - by - school basis, usually the result of strong and consistent parent involvement combined with caring and creative local administrators.

• The School Nutrition department partners with the Cherokee County Farm Bureau to foster an engaged farm - to - school community with support from a broad range of community members including parents, teachers, administrators, farmers, Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, the Upper Etowah River Alliance, local churches and faith - based organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, andSchool Nutrition department partners with the Cherokee County Farm Bureau to foster an engaged farm - to - school community with support from a broad range of community members including parents, teachers, administrators, farmers, Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, the Upper Etowah River Alliance, local churches and faith - based organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, andschool community with support from a broad range of community members including parents, teachers, administrators, farmers, Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, the Upper Etowah River Alliance, local churches and faith - based organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, and more.

Dorancy, a former teacher and member of the local school board, serves as a senior administrator in the city's Department of Education.

On Thursday evening February 9, the Nyack Youth Center was filled almost to capacity as local residents and school district administrators attended a program highlighting key elements of the New York state property tax levy cap.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

At least 11 school districts that originally planned to apply for state pre-K grants won't seek the funding, and it's likely more will decide against participating as local administrators struggle with the timing and reimbursement structure of the program.

Johnson and other local school administrators have contended that use of such figures is misleading, in part because districts can not count on money not detailed in the itemized, district - by - district lists known as «runs.»

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there's a need to tackle funding inequities in poorer school districts in his State of the State Address earlier this month, and Syracuse City School District administrators said they agree: The local district needs moreschool districts in his State of the State Address earlier this month, and Syracuse City School District administrators said they agree: The local district needs moreSchool District administrators said they agree: The local district needs more help.

The average baseline for the coming year provides relief for districts that was welcomed by many local school administrators, who said they found themselves squeezed by limits of 1.26 percent this year and 0.12 percent in 2016 - 17.

Millar chaired a taskforce to identify a vendor for the childcare center — which was already a part of the school's strategic plan — working with other faculty and administrators and a consultant to visit and evaluate local centers.

«Even in countries with strong national policies and laws,» says co-author Susan Garnett Russell, «several factors result in an implementation gap including lack of capacity in government schools, low levels of capacity among civil servants, autonomy of local and school administrators, and discrimination and xenophobia by the host communities.»

Mega-gifts such as the Gates Foundation's high school funding initiative capture headlines around the world, while each year more modest contributions from local and national philanthropies capture the imaginations and bolster the resources of administrators and educators charged with meeting today's wide - ranging educational challenges.

Honan encourages school administrators on the receiving end of grants to be cognizant that foundations often bring «different focal points of interest, assumptions, and ways of working» to an educational enterprise than they may have experienced in interactions with state or local policymakers.

The Fordham Institute hosted a forum on the growing numbers of parents, educators and school administrators calling for a local «opt - out» from state testing systems.

Cocreated with a former colleague, the database allows administrators to capture data that is particularly relevant when serving challenged populations of students, many of whom enroll at BDEA after unsuccessful starts in traditional district high schools or local charter schools.

Fortune smiled on California school district administrators last week as voters approved millions of dollars worth of local bond measures while rejecting a proposed statewide restriction on districts» administrative spending.

It was the first independent audit of the district since state education officials replaced Paterson's administrators and school board with their own management team and a local advisory council in 1991.

Under the direction of a panel made up of schools administrators and members of the local teachers union, qualified veteran teachers — usually called consulting teachers — take sabbaticals from classroom teaching to mentor new teachers during their first years and to support other experienced teachers who are struggling.

On a local level, California's San Joaquin County Office of Education has started the Teachers College of San Joaquin to train administrators and teachers in the local school districts.

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SSchools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SchoolsSchools.

Education Next's online advertisers have access to engagement with school reformers; administrators; teachers; national, state, and local education policy makers; purchasers of education services; facilities and equipment providers; and political leaders.

The survey site, developed by a panel of researchers, creates an instant analysis of a school's results, and administrators can save the data in existing local data systems so they can track results over time.

By shifting money to pay for more academic counselors and librarians next year at the lowest - performing schools, administrators of East Side Union High School District in San Jose have revised the district's draft three - year Local Control and Accountability Plan, incorporating key recommendations of parents and teachers.

The Secretary specifically invites advice and recommendations from State and local education administrators, parents, teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other school leaders (including charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community, and other organizations involved with the implementation and operation of title I programs.

The most successful examples of maker learning in schools have the support and buy - in of administrators, faculty, staff, and the entire surrounding community including families and local businesses and organizations.

Everyone — policymakers, unions, state leaders, local administrators, teachers, parents, you name it — seems to agree that the amount of testing and its role in America's schools and classrooms merit reconsideration.

A core group, consisting of a nurse, teacher, administrator, parent, nutritionist, and food service and district public relations employees coordinated contests, high school and community ambassadors programs, a milk and cookie break activity, posters, and publicity in the school and local media.

While all the usual local suspects have been deeply involved in this walkout — the Oklahoma administrators «association» CCOSA, the Association of School Boards, and school district personnel — a specific group of Oklahoma education activists have orchestrated much of the social media aSchool Boards, and school district personnel — a specific group of Oklahoma education activists have orchestrated much of the social media aschool district personnel — a specific group of Oklahoma education activists have orchestrated much of the social media action.

Copyright 1988 Editorial With an annual salary of $ 150,000, Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green of New York City is not only the nation's highest - paid public - school administrator but earns more than any other state or local public official in the country, according to a national survey.

This private reception is for a select group of national district - level administrators, LAUSD school board members, national conference sponsors, keynote speakers, local school district supporters, sponsors, exhibitors and the hosting district planning team.

The state offered three evaluation templates for school districts to choose from instead of having local administrators and teachers design the system.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

Local, state, and national attention would likely be revealing, not only seeking to verify financial practices, but to hear first hand from teachers and administrators regarding the culture in the schools, and in particular, in the department of special services., Ms. Mostel's courage and Dr. Rush's advocacy are leading the way forward.

Gifted education centers; college and university departments of gifted education; local, state, and national organizations; state departments of education; and teachers, administrators, and other school personnel can set up home pages linked to other informative sources on the World Wide Web to provide ready access to a wide range of resources.

Local Initiative Schools (LIS) This new model was the result of the 2011 labor agreements between UTLA and LAUSD and has the potential for significant collaboration between teachers, parents and administrators.

The responsibilities of local school site councils vary across the nation; however, many are responsible for creating and reviewing school improvement plans, making funding decisions, and hiring principals and administrators.

The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) recently released Empowering Parents and Communities through Quality Public Reporting; a series on public reporting of education data that includes a primer; federal spotlight; and resources for parents, administrators, and local school board members.

Thus, students from both of those states, arriving as high school seniors in a state with graduation requirements, posed problems for local administrators.

The Local Wellness Committee will represent all school levels (elementary and secondary schools) and include (to the extent possible), but not be limited to: parents and caregivers; students; representatives of the school nutrition program (e.g., school nutrition director); physical education teachers; health education teachers; school health professionals (e.g., health education teachers, school health services staff (e.g., nurses, physicians, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel who provide school health services), and mental health and social services staff (e.g., school counselors, psychologists, social workers, or psychiatrists); school administrators (e.g., superintendent, principal, vice principal); school board members; health professionals (e.g., dietitians, doctors, nurses, dentists); and the general public.

«Even with limited funding, local school board and school administrator policies continue to demonstrate best practices beyond state requirements on the use of seclusion and restraint.

Outreach: U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos convened a listening session on October 2, 2017, with education policy and thought leaders who individually presented views on the topic of regulatory relief for State educational agencies, local school districts, schools, teachers and administrators.

For example, it required us to explore, acknowledge, and address the concerns of faculty in other locations on campus, such as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, of faculty in other departments in the COE, and of teachers and administrators in the local schools.