Sentences with phrase «other charter members»
Cuomo, Stewart - Cousins and IDC leader Sen. Jeff Klein said Klein will serve as Stewart - Cousins» deputy leader, realigning the breakaway Democrats with their conference for the first time since the two groups divided in January 2011, when Klein and three other charter members formed the IDC.
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He seemed to be sincerely puzzled when I and others suggested, ever so respectfully, that his expansive view of the UN mandate was warranted neither by the charter nor by the consent of its members.
The executive order in question, issued by President Clinton and affirmed by President Bush in 2002, states that while religious organizations that receive federal funds can not discriminate against beneficiaries of their programs, they «may retain religious terms in its organization's name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization's mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.»
The centrepiece of the UN Nations Charter is the connection between the recognitionof the inherent dignity of all members of the human family (and of the inviolable and inalienable human rights which derive from that recognition) on the one hand, and peace and justice within and among nation states on the other.
In the treaty, Japan does accept the obligations of the United Nations Charter with respect to pacific settlement of disputes, but so do all the member states of the United Nations, so Japan is not any more restricted by this provision than any other UN member state is.
To perform all duties as prescribed in the City Charter and any other duties prescribed under law; to receive Calendars and notices of meeting of all City Agencies required to refer matters to the Community Boards pursuant to the City Charter and to inform the Board members of such Calendars and notices; to attend any meetings required by the Mayor and / or the Borough President pursuant to the City Charter or to designate his / her representative or representatives to attend.
The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.
«The Charter of the United Nations is built on the bedrock of the sovereign equality and independence of its members, without distinction as to their geographical size, economic might, or any other endowments or qualifications».
This is quite a complex process: we survey the opinions of our members, we work with other industry groups, and we also have our own opinions, based on the values and principles set out in our charter.
More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.
That charter revision legislation would create a different sort of commission, whose members would be appointed by the Council, the mayor and other elected officials.
On Dec. 20, 1991, Howe awoke at his Loudonville home at 4:30 a.m., drove to his Albany office and scrambled to arrange two chartered planes to be ready that afternoon on the tarmac at the Albany County Airport to fly to Concord, N.H. — one for the press corps and the other for Cuomo, his staffers and family members.
Budget deals could hypothetically include additional funding for charters bartered for flexibility on teacher evaluations, sources say, or for myriad other non-education related priorities for members of the Senate and Assembly.
The housing authority, like other public authorities in New York, is a state - chartered entity, though the mayor appoints its seven - member board.
Harvard astronomer Robert Kirshner is a charter member of one of the two groups that made the cosmological constant respectable again (the other group is led by Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California).
Included in the Charter class are eight Nobel Laureates, two Fellows of the Royal Society, 12 presidents of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 50 members of the National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), 11 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, three recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, four recipients of the National Medal of Science, and 29 AAAS Fellows, among other major awards and distinctions.
As you'll find on other UK single parent dating sites, this site has a member charter that spells out in no uncertain terms the services that they offer.
She started a charter school in the early 1990s, but abruptly resigned from its board — along with other board members — after the school district accused the charter of teaching religion in its classrooms.
That group (full disclosure — I am a member) has proposed giving incentives to states if they enact legislation that encourage community colleges, universities, charter schools, and other providers to offer virtual courses to high school and middle school students over the internet.
Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).
According to the Common Core of Data, DCPS employed nearly 3,800 teachers in 2010 - 11, so even though the retirement system also includes other classes of workers employed by DCPS (certain public charter school employees are also eligible to be participants), the vast majority of DCRB's members appear to be DCPS teachers.
One might take from these findings that good charter board members are the same as good board members in other organizations.
Each school district, each charter school and each board of cooperative educational services shall establish, and implement on an ongoing basis, a training program regarding the procedures set forth in article 23 - B of the Education Law for all current and new teachers, school nurses, school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, school administrators, other personnel required to hold a teaching or administrative certificate or license, and school board members.
Newly elected Los Angeles Unified school board member Kelly Gonez said that because affiliated charters are part of the district, any innovations in curriculum that they come up with can more easily be shared with other traditional schools.
Network members can also explore our priority survey results to find out how other advocates are working to change charter policies in their states.
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.
When Jeb Bush, and other members of the ultra-wealthy, isolated Ruling Elite, start sending THEIR children to «digital charter schools», then I'll take this discussion more seriously.
Join other parents and community members for an evening of learning how education leaders created excellent public charter schools in Los Angeles and how more can be done to bring more hope through public education.
With other board members, Madati and Wasow navigated the lengthy charter - school authorization process in New York City.
Others members who support parent choice and equity include Gloria Bonilla - Santiago, LEAP Academy; Nicole Cole, NJ Charter Schools Association; Janellen Duffy, JerseyCAN; Shavar Jeffries, Former Assistant Attorney General and current Executive Director of Democrats for Education Reform; and Tia Morris, Teach for America.
Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136
Notably, the majority of current board members have a vested interest in charter schools, which brings into question their ability to provide objective oversight of other charter school operations.
Other board members include Phil Ellis, previously client portfolio director at Aviva Investors, Jayne Maclennan, group director of Property FirstGroup, Julian Rudd - Jones, managing director of Kajima Partnerships and Kajima Properties, and Caroline Tolhurst, a charter surveyor and compliance officer.
Our screening in Chicago was introduced by, among others, a staff member from New Schools for Chicago, which pushes charter schools.
Some of the actions include converting the school to a charter school, replacing the principal or other school staff members, and closing the school.
Last year, the State Board of Education told Mitchell that neither he nor other Roger Bacon staff could be voting board members of the charter schools, a decision that bothered both Mitchell and the charter school board members.
Committee members were clearly uneasy about how these schools could ensure children, particularly in the early grades, receive a quality education without any in - person interactions with teachers, peers, counselors, and other support personnel that occur in traditional public, charter, and private schools.
... The way I see the investment from [Eli] Broad and other philanthropists is there are people who very unselfishly want to give a lot of money to improve schools in LA, and it would be my job as a board member to get them to give money to the district and ensure that we are going to use it, or use it with partnerships to create high - performing schools, and if I am a board member and they just want to give it to charter schools because the district has just become so intractable to outside investors and partners, then that is on me and that is on us.
This is fundamentally different from many other charter schools I've visited that are often staffed by smart, passionate but inexperienced former Teach for America members.
As a strategic partner of ACSA, CSDC will conduct this annual facilities workshop for ACSA's member schools and hopes to replicate this model partnership with other statewide charter school associations in the future.
AAE, the premier national professional association for educators, will offer teachers and other employees of TCSA member schools full AAE membership at a low monthly rate in an effort to advance best practices and advocacy opportunities for public charter school teachers in Texas.
He probably has no idea of the extent to which the Gulen charter school operators lie, or that the drive to expand their charter school network is to influence young American minds in more ways than just math and science, and to reap financial and H - IB visa benefits for other members of their cult - like religious group — and thus extend their presence and power.
For example, will potential members value chartered status — commonly offered by the colleges of other professions — if state schools are prevented from paying higher salaries to chartered teachers?
The state was supposed to be monitoring the schools in the Commissioner's Network, but it seems that Estela Lopez did not take this charge seriously — nor did the other board members, who act shocked that no background checks were required for employees of a State charter school; no policies in place about hiring / nepotism; no concern about a lack of curriculum; no urgency about teacher certification.
Immediately following the release of the Governor's budget, on January 15, several CCSA Board members traveled to Sacramento to meet with legislators and other policymakers, to discuss the budget proposal as well as to advocate for issues that will have lasting effects for charter schools such as the Parcel Tax, Local Control Funding Formula proposal (formerly named Weighted Student Formula) and closing the funding gap for charter schools.
Cobey says at least a majority of the board members for public charters should be North Carolina residents, but he argued that some expertise could be provided by residents of other states with charter schools.
The process involved document reviews, artifact reviews, multi-day on - site visits, interviews with authorizing institution members, and interviews with other key stakeholders in the authorizer's context (e.g., charter associations, school leaders).
The Santa Clara County Schools Political Action Committee (created by the California Charter Schools Association) and Parents for Great Schools raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the 2012 election — $ 40,000 from Fisher, $ 50,000 from Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and $ 10,000 from Rocketship board member Timothy Ranzetta, among others.
Use these points to communicate key issues about charter school policy to other school board members, the media, and your members of Congress:
Other members of the Connecticut Center for School Change include the former CEO of People's Bank; Elsa Nuñez, the Vice President of Malloy's Board of Regents and President of Eastern Connecticut State University; Richard Sugarman, Founder and President of The Connecticut Forum whose son just «won» a lucrative contract from Pryor and the State Board of Education to set up an «Our Piece of the Pie» charter school in Windham Connecticut.