Sentences with phrase «of local school superintendents»

Cooper briefly addressed the commission Tuesday, moments after a panel of local school superintendents bemoaned chronic struggles in recruiting educators, funding shortages and the loss of students to a growing school choice movement.

and the work of a number of state - wide efforts to inform state and local officials that they must respect a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC Test, a significant number of local school superintendents, and their staff, continue to mislead parents, throw up barriers or harass parents into believing that they have lost their right to protect their children from an unfair test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 children fail.

In addition, the State Board failed to use their meeting as a venue to instruct a group of local school superintendents to stop forcing children who have been opted out of the test from being required to stay in the SBAC testing rooms during the testing periods.

JACKSON — State senators want to end the election of local school superintendents, raise the requirements for becoming a teacher and limit the state's ability to take over schools in Mississippi.

The superintendents surveyed were selected randomly from the group's list of all local school superintendents.

Not exact matches

Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ last year, or the small restaurant operator and local school superintendent this year — is easier and less risky than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....

Currently, Lindsey works as the State Agency Director of Child Nutrition Programs and Food Distribution for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) in Washington, DC, overseeing school breakfast and lunch, CACFP, summer meals and other various local level laws, including the DC Healthy Schools Act and Healthy Tots Act.

They still won't take it out, and won't for a long time (if ever) as per my conversation with the Superintendent of Food and Nutrition for our local school.

The tour on July 19 began with a welcome from Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower, who led School Board Chair Kyla Cromer, Vice Chair Patsy Jordan and District 3 Board Member John Harmon, who represents the area; as well as senior staff and local and Atlanta media on the tour.

The latest Web video from the state Democratic Party is a highlight reel of some of GOP / Conservative gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino's more memorable — and controversial — statements, dating all the way back to 2008, when the Buffalo businessman said the local school superintendent had been hired only because he was black.

In February 2012, for example, the New York State Council of School Superintendents and New York State School Boards Association sent a joint letter to Cuomo, warning that the hurried process would pressure local superintendents and boards into making concessions to unions and weakenSuperintendents and New York State School Boards Association sent a joint letter to Cuomo, warning that the hurried process would pressure local superintendents and boards into making concessions to unions and weakensuperintendents and boards into making concessions to unions and weakening the system.

The chancellor would select a superintendent for any of the 32 Community School Districts from a field of three candidates proposed by the local Community Education Council.

As Borough President, I worked to create more than 27,000 new seats in 48 new public schools, fought to strengthen the role of the local Superintendents, and provided funding to modernize our schools so they can meet the challenges of future.

On Friday, Rockville Centre school Superintendent William Johnson went a step further by suggesting that Cuomo had exaggerated the amount of money actually targeted to local districts.

Chuck Dedrick, executive director of the Council of School Superintendents, said ending the state and local tax deduction on federal income tax forms could lead to less money for schools and have some unintended consequences.

The school superintendents said in a relatively high - tax state like New York, the highest - income taxpayers would be forced to pay thousands of dollars more per year in taxes if they are no longer able to deduct state and local income taxes.

Local Representatives: Catherine Borgia, Majority Leader, Westchester County Board of Legislators; John G. Testa, Minority Leader, Westchester County Board of Legislators; Linda D. Puglisi, Supervisor, Town of Cortlandt; Joseph Hochreiter, Superintendent, Hendrick Hudson School District; and Theresa Knickerbocker, Mayor, Village of Buchanan.

Jay L.T. Breakstone, the president of the Nassau - Suffolk School Boards Association, said local school boards should be the exclusive arbiters of what superintendents and other school employees areSchool Boards Association, said local school boards should be the exclusive arbiters of what superintendents and other school employees areschool boards should be the exclusive arbiters of what superintendents and other school employees areschool employees are paid.

Dr. Betty has extensive experience as a New York City public school teacher, local superintendent and as a member of the Board of Regents.

The vintage Miami rap group's famously raunchy former frontman was one of dozens of locals who begged the city's public school superintendent, Alberto...

«I just don't know what would happen in that case,» Bob Lowry, deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, said about potential local assessment opt outs.

At the local government level, he would consolidate the operations of most school districts at the county level, with a single appointed superintendent, and also consolidate other local town and village operations at that level.

The Council of School Superintendents executive director, Chuck Dedrick, says ending the state and local tax deduction on federal income tax forms could lead to less money for schools and have some unintended consequences.

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

Frustrated over how much work it took to find substitute teachers, the superintendent of schools in Gulfport, Miss., asked the local manager of a temporary - staffing agency if she had ever considered getting into the business of supplying them.

Our suggestions, then, should be seen in part as ways to lean on school boards and superintendents to take their fiduciary responsibilities seriously, and to counteract the pressures of unhelpful local politics.

For example: (1) teachers in charter schools have certification requirements as do other public schools; (2) charter schools are subject to academic standards set by the state; (3) charter schools must comply with local, state, and federal laws related to health, safety and civil rights; and (4) charter schools are «subject to the supervision of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education.»

The superintendent at that time announced his plans to expand it to half of the district's schools; local media repeated his message — likely fueling teachers» hopes for future positions.

A search committee last week named three local schools superintendents as finalists for the post of Kentucky commissioner of education, which observers predict will be among the most closely watched education jobs in the nation.

But a new report based largely on interviews with 30 local union presidents who each have spent less than eight years in office paints an evolved picture of leaders who are often involved in collaborative relationships with their school superintendents; who have to work constantly to balance the needs of a new generation of teachers with the needs of older members; and who see the importance...

A survey of superintendents of the nation's largest school districts shows what they view as the top challenges to their leadership, including local political concerns and pressure from accountability systems.

West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state - takeover success story: a state - hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.

Faced with the challenges of improving learning in every classroom, state governors and legislators, local school boards, superintendents, and principals are backing National Board Certification as an effective means to upgrade teaching.

Not only are local superintendents of KIPP schools better positioned than our national staff to identify and groom local talent and ensure long - term sustainability; the pooling and sharing of support services allows the energy and time of our school leaders to remain focused on the highest - value activities: working with faculty, students, and families.»

«Ted didn't make them up,» said George Wood, chairman of the CES board and superintendent of Federal Hocking Local Schools in Stewart, Ohio.

Michael Bennet, selected as superintendent of the Denver Public Schools in 2005, had previously turned around failing companies for a local investment firm.

Nevertheless, such pressure is counterbalanced by other, more parochial concerns, such as the preferences of the local school board, superintendent, principals, department chairs, and parents.

The Safe Corridors / Safe Havens program is a collaboration among the mayor's office, the board of education, the superintendent's office, the local prosecutor's office, and police agencies to foster a safe, 1.2 - mile corridor surrounding each school.

We also know from experience, though, that local school boards and superintendents make the lion's share of key decisions.

The list of finalists also includes Anthony J. Alvarado, a former New York City schools chancellor and the current superintendent of Community School District 2 in Manhattan, one of 32 local districts within the city system.

Since mid-March, superintendents of four major school systems have spent two days each meeting with the school board and various local groups in the 54,000 - student district: Anthony S. Amato of Hartford, Conn.; Winston C. Brooks of Wichita, Kan.; Patricia Harvey of St. Paul, Minn.; and Eric J. Smith of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg County schools in North Carolina.

In addition to including prominent Minnesota school superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engschool superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engSchool Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engaged).

A credible threat of state intervention may push local superintendents to undertake their own improvement efforts and strengthen their hand in bargaining with school board members, unions, and others.

In fact, Reading School District superintendent Melissa Jamula, the daughter of a former Reading police captain, is by all accounts a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community and local and state government leaders.

As the superintendent of schools in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the only superintendent to serve on the inaugural statewide NCLB Implementation Team, Caradonio possesses intimate knowledge of, and influence over, the law's local successes and failures.

For the second straight year, lawmakers killed a bill that would have required all of the state's local school superintendents to be appointed by their school boards by 2000.

Grasping the vision of its late namesake, a former Seattle schools superintendent, Kodama surveyed local parents and business leaders in 1998 about the ideal components of an international school.

In the cases of both Phillips and Parker, separated by more than two hundred years, each school received broad but specified authority from the state, with diplomas granted on the basis of public «exhibitions» and with the expectation - the trust - that the details of the program and its assessment would be creatures of the schools» immediate community, subject, as deemed necessary, to the inspection by the state or, in the case of Phillips, the local superintendent of (public) schools.

Team members representing the educational sector could include school building committee members, superintendents, principals and assistant principals, teachers, directors of curriculum and instruction, parents, special educators, and local and state education leaders, and policymakers