Sentences with phrase «of schools commissioners»

It follows warnings from union leaders that councils are powerless to intervene when they hear about educational underperformance and poor attendance in academies, and after MPs questioned the accountability of the government's network of schools commissioners.

«If it is happening on a wider scale, then it casts into doubt the role of schools commissioners and how they are accountable for public money.»

We have changed how we approach public education and watched unprecedented student achievement gains flow from those changes,» said Neil E. Duke, chair of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners.

· Miriam Acevedo Davis, president & CEO, La Plaza Indianapolis · Diane Arnold, president, Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) Board of School Commissioners · Sekou Biddle, vice president of advocacy, UNCF (National Office) · Beth Bray, program director, Walton Family Foundation · Mariama Carson, Fellow, The Mind Trust; former principal, Snacks Crossing Elementary School · Christine Collier, founder, IPS's Center for Inquiry (CFI) Schools; principal, CFI School 84.

The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners policy: Conducting Research and Surveys, and Data Sharing

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, the Indianapolis Public Schools Board of School Commissioners and Superintendent Dr. Lewis D. Ferebee are pleased to join The Mind Trust in announcing a new initiative that will leverage the talent of excellent leaders, the power of a new law, and the support of district resources to multiply the number of high quality schools serving students in IPS.

Sam served as a member of the New Board of School Commissioners of the Baltimore City Public Schools, and in a variety of positions for the American Educational Research Association.

The Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) Board of School Commissioners tonight voted to move forward with two new «Innovation Network Schools» (or «Innovation Schools») within the district that will lead to more educator and family empowerment and involvement in the schools and higher academic achievement for Indianapolis students.

He also served as the director of the Systemic Supports for School Reform program at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University and as a member of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners.

Some of her previous roles included: senior fellow with the Annie Casey Foundation; Commissioner for the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; Deputy Chief of Staff for former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and former President and CEO of Empower Baltimore Management Corporation.

He is also a fan of the schools commissioner, Sir David Carter, and not just because of their shared love of Level 42 and The West Wing.

Ferebee and members of the IPS Board of School Commissioners will play a key role in the selection process by serving on the selection committee.

Giving our schools the autonomy they need to implement new and creative programs will benefit our students and allow them to achieve greater levels of success,» said IPS Board of School Commissioners President Andrea Roof.

Each grantee will present a final conversion plan to the IPS Board of School Commissioners in Spring 2016 for approval.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said her appointment of a school commissioner for Birmingham was a welcome shift and broadly in line with proposals he had made jointly with the former education secretary David Blunkett for a localised tier of accountability responsible for driving up school standards.

Campaigner Sharon Harvey was told of his no - show in an email, sent on behalf of schools commissioner Frank Green, at 5 pm on Thursday last week.

He was Chief Counsel to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners and the Superintendent of Schools.

Not exact matches

«IBM and Verizon, by their silence, facilitated this fraud,» Richard Condon, special commissioner of investigation for the city's schools, concluded in the report.

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

Referring to a draft article co-authored by Gallagher which suggests that proposals drafted by Harvard Law School's Shareholder Rights Project may constitute a violation of SEC rules, Minow quotes Columbia law professor Robert Jackson, who wrote, «It is wildly inappropriate for a sitting SEC commissioner to issue a law review paper accusing a private party of violating federal securities law without any investigation or due process of any kind.

He currently serves as the board chair for Kansas City - based charter school Citizens of the World and as a commissioner for the Housing Authority of Kansas City.

As an example he points to what happened when New York's state commissioner of education and the New York Board of Regents considered dissolving the Roosevelt school district (described as «New York's Soweto» by an official there) and dispersing its students to surrounding schools.

Republican Rep. Bobby Olszewski, who won a special election in Orange County in October, sent a letter to Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby on Wednesday, asking to keep the schools «at the top of mind.»

Meanwhile, he's still a full - time student at Christian Brothers and even serves as the commissioner of the school's intramural league.

David Stern, former NBA commissioner and progenitor of the disastrous NBA age minimum, didn't invent the concept of college programs paying elite high school prospects to join their teams.

Then - commissioner David Stern, who pushed for the creation of the age minimum in 2005, wanted to extend it to age 20 or two years past high school graduation.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: 3935 - A (2011) requires the commissioners of education and health to establish rules and regulations for the treatment and monitoring of students of school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, and nonpublic schools who suffer traumatic brain injury.

School districts won't be required to purchase deep fat fryers and can still restrict the sale of certain foods, but some nutrition experts think the commissioner is setting a bad example when it comes to making sure students are eating healthy.

«The committee made this rules change after reviewing data from multiple states regarding the frequency of helmets coming off during live - ball play,» said Julian Tackett, chair of the Football Rules Committee and commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

To top it off, Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, noted the combined educational and long - term health benefits of farm to school.

DEERFIELD — The Board of Commissioners for the Deerfield Park District unanimously approved a motion Thursday night granting a request from the Deerfield Youth Baseball Association to place a non-electric scoreboard in Woodland Park, at the intersection of Wilmot and School Roads.

Commissioners also agreed to continue following a policy of not charging out - of - district registration fees for programs offered at the new field house on the Lincoln - Way High School Central Campus in New Lenox.

Since then, members of the school's parent - teacher association have been heavily lobbying the Board of Commissioners to build the playground more quickly.

In a letter to the school district, park commissioners said they are interested in using the building, which is slated for demolition at the end of the school year, if it could be done without disrupting construction plans for a new building.

Julian Tackett, assistant commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association and chair of the NFHS Football Rules Committee, said the committee felt the need to continue to address risk minimization issues for the runner.

The Village Board of Trustees and the Park Board of Commissioners agreed the site would be called North School Park.

The report argues that there is now insufficient local oversight of school performance and the creation of locally accountable school commissioners, appointed by partnerships of local authorities across city or county regions, would act to address this vacuum and support better local coordination of education.

Carl Paladino's appeal of the state education commissioner's ruling ousting him from the Buffalo School Board has made its way to State Supreme Court in Albany, and he seems as determined to work his way back into his seat as he was when he was first thrown off.

At 11 a.m., Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr., the commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, Cynthia Lopez, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and Ghetto Film School representatives outline plans for a worldwide casting call for online video service Netflix Inc.'s planned original series «The Get Down»; suite 41A, fourth floor, South Bronx Post House, 79 Alexander Ave., the Bronx.

ALBANY — On the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that compelled the nation's schools to integrate, New York education commissioner John King argued that the state's students are still very much segregated by economic status.

The authority to remove an elected School Board member from office falls with the state commissioner of education, and a spokeswoman for MaryEllen Elia said that since she might be called on to act in this instance, she could not comment on the situation.

Quinn graduated from Canisius High School, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, was director of development and commissioner of development of Buffalo, was a developer in Manhattan and Princeton, New Jersey, president and CEO of the Buffalo Sabres NHL hockey team in 1996 -98, the Sabres managing partner in 2004, part owner in 2008 and sold his interest in 2011.

It is not unheard of for education commissioners to remove school board members from office.

He accuses the education commissioner and state Board of Regents chancellor of not wanting charter schools to succeed, and tweeted that they «should take the blinders off.»

The Buffalo School Board voted 6 to 2 on Thursday to call on the state education commissioner to remove Carl P. Paladino from office, a decision made amid the rallying cry of thousands of people outraged by controversial remarks he made about President Barack Obama and the first lady.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

The expectation was that the larger candidate (president is larger than Senator than Representative than state senator than state representative; other positions like governor, mayor, county commissioner, school director, and municipal commissioner fit differently depending on circumstances) would appear in support of the smaller candidate.

Today Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the appointment of Nisha Agarwal as commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, Lorraine Grillo as President of the School Construction Authority and Steve Banks as commissioner of the Human Resources Administration.

Moreover, New Jersey aligns the salary of the superintendents of the largest school districts with the governor's salary, unlike the New York law, which ties the value to the 2003 - 04 salary of the state education commissioner.

Questions during the post-speech «gaggle» included the cost of a special election, his reaction to a New York Republican Party 50 Shades of Grey parody of Bill de Blasio and Al Sharpton, Rudy Giuliani's recent comments about Barack Obama, the expected Republican candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election, state legislature financial disclosure forms, the refusal of Port Authority commissioners to accede to Cuomo and Chris Christie's request to resign, his planned trip to Cuba, congestion pricing, and UFT comments asserting that the governor has shortchanged New York City schools by $ 2.5 billion.