Sentences with phrase «other district leaders say»

Teachers and other district leaders say Sandoval's dedication to bringing people together and helping staff and students alike play to their strengths has helped raise student achievement dramatically in the district during a time of demographic and pedagogical change in the community.

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Jackson and other religious leaders challenged the city on the measure saying the matter should be put to District voters in a ballot initiative.

Heastie says he's consulting with other elected officials and district leaders, even though Diaz is a good friend and supporter of his.

In the Assembly, Republican leader Brian Kolb of Canandaigua said two of his members would be pitted against each other in a Central New York district and an incumbent Republican and incumbent Democrat would be forced to seek the same Buffalo district.

Heaney said he «talked to Gibson's people» and other Republican leaders around the district, stood in fields with farmers and their families, talked to shop owners and businesspeople on their premises, and studied the geographically vast 19th Congressional District indistrict, stood in fields with farmers and their families, talked to shop owners and businesspeople on their premises, and studied the geographically vast 19th Congressional District inDistrict in detail.

Gallivan and other GOP Senators, including their leader Senator Dean Skelos, say it's still a long way to Election Day, and several key Senate districts could swing toward either party.

While Katniss vows to kill despotic President Snow (Donald Sutherland), resistance leader Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) says she more valuable as the iconic Mockingjay, inspiring others to band together, ending district rivalries in Panem.

While some administrators are using the new opportunities to meet leaders throughout the country, others, such as Fleming County Schools Superintendent Brian Creasman, say they prefer to develop connections regionally with districts with similar demographics and needs.

«With support from the Walton Family Foundation, the CAEL will help us reach even more educators in charge of districts, charter management organizations, state departments of education, and other systems — leaders who will, in turn, have a tangible impact on the lives of literally millions of learners,» Ryan said.

The school staff had little positive to say about that consultant «s input, and district leaders did not report any district initiatives to deal with the situation other than supporting and relying on the principal and teachers to find a solution.

«At my request, business leader Austin Beutner has assembled the LA Unified Advisory Task Force, bringing together innovative civic, education and other leaders to support our efforts to improve District schools and accelerate student achievement,» King said in a statement.

Benjamin Fenton, the founder of New Leaders, a New York City - based group that trains aspiring principals and consults on school and district leadership, said the district's focus on school - level leadership, and philanthropic investment from local and national foundations, had brought his organization to the city in 2004 and opened the doors for others since.

Despite such controversies, Los Angeles school district leaders are poised to plunge ahead with their own confidential «value - added» ratings this spring, saying the approach is far more objective and accurate than any other evaluation tool available.

Despite this, critics say that the curricula and methods at the majority of the nation's 500 - plus university - based principal preparation programs remain subpar and out of step with district needs.10 A growing number of districts have become more assertive with universities and other training providers about improving their offerings, because district leaders want enough well - prepared leadership candidates to meet local learning goals and to lessen the expense and damage of early turnover among poorly prepared novice principals.

Schoales said the district's academic and innovation offices previously worked independently of each other and weren't aligned to provide the best support to its schools and school leaders were often getting direction from multiple central administration teams.

Many districts that were spending less per student at that time have been locked in at lower per - pupil spending levels, and leaders of such districts have said this has made it difficult to keep up with other districts that can spend more on teachers and programs.

Such collaboration, district and union leaders say, led to the development of a stronger, more positive, and open relationship between both organizations which has spilled over into other areas of their work.

The strong reactions to the manifesto on the Post's website have little to do with what it says and much more to do with the details of how these leaders (mostly Klein and Rhee) have tried to effect these reforms (and pursued other goals) in their districts.

While some districts no doubt see math specialists as a luxury, others now find them as essential as reading specialists, said Fennell, who is now a professor of education at Maryland's McDaniel College and director of the Elementary Mathematics Specialists and Teacher Leaders Project, a nonprofit that promotes the development of math specialists.

Education leaders visiting other schools and districts during the learning walkthroughs often brought back ideas to their home sites, Mullins said.

The leaders said the change would add CPS to a state financial oversight law that it is exempted from but that applies to all other Illinois school districts.

That includes, according to Till and other critics, yawning pay gaps between rich and poor counties and uncertainty for school district leaders now tasked with negotiating scores of contracts with essential administration, critics say.