Sentences with phrase «over the school system last»

McQueen, formerly the senior vice president and dean of the college of education at Lipscomb University, took over the school system last year upon the departure of Kevin Huffman, the divisive education reformer who oversaw significant changes to the state's K - 12 system.

Not exact matches

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan decided last last night to call an audible and declare the 2017 legislative session over, without a deal in place to extend mayoral control of the NYC school system.

The $ 530 million includes $ 254 million that the city has to contribute to an $ 836 million short - term emergency plan unveiled by MTA chairman Joe Lhota to fix the city's beleaguered subway system — which has been plagued by delays and service problems over the last several months — and $ 140 million less than the city had expected to receive in state aid for city schools.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.

But Cuomo spokeswoman Dani Lever said the governor is fighting to reform a system that has condemned 250,000 children to failing schools over the last decade.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

John R. Silber, who as president of Boston University has presided over b.u.'s takeover of the management of the beleaguered Chelsea school system, announced his candidacy for Governor of Massachusetts last week.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

When the roof over East High School's gymnasium collapsed here last fall, renovating and repairing the crumbling building moved from a short list of priorities to among the Ohio school system's most critical School's gymnasium collapsed here last fall, renovating and repairing the crumbling building moved from a short list of priorities to among the Ohio school system's most critical school system's most critical needs.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige reaffirmed his support for public schools and the traditional separation of church and state last week, attempting to quell a furor over earlier, published remarks in which he praised the «strong value system» at Christian schools.

The Equity Center, a group of low - wealth districts in the state, last month released a plan to revamp the state's school - finance system at a cost up to $ 10.5 billion over five years.

Amidst the summer lull, I've spent a bunch of time over the last month or two talking about «cage - busting» to school and system leaders in a bunch of districts, state gatherings, and university programs.

The stalemate over a solution to the Chicago schools» budget crisis continued last week, as a federal judge gave the system another 10 days to operate without a balanced budget.

Over the last few months, my work on ESSA implementation and my thinking about new systems of urban schools have come together.

Over the last several years, we have seen new approaches to Catholic education that shake free of the older models of how schools should be organized and run and provide proof points for a new type of Catholic school system.

Perhaps it is time for central government to yield some of the control over standards and accountability that it has amassed in the last 30 years in exchange for the opportunity for districts and schools to innovate around what students are taught and how the actors in the system are held accountable.

Washington — Two rival local teachers» groups from Indiana argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last week over the constitutionality of collective - bargaining provisions that give one and not the other the privilege of using the school system's internal mail facilities.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

In the last few years, state longitudinal data systems (SLDS) have improved and become more accessible, offering an unprecedented opportunity to examine CTE participation by occupational field and student subgroup over time from high school into college and the workforce.

Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois last week signed a Republican - drafted bill overhauling the Chicago school system that hands over the reins of the 410,000 - student district to Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Concluding that the Jersey City, N.J., school board has «so lost its own way that it can not be counted on to lead the children to educational quality,» an administrative law judge recommended last week that the state assume full control over its second - largest school system.

With a court - imposed deadline bearing down on them, New Hampshire legislators last week were still squabbling over the best way to fix the state's school finance system.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

(Calif.) Confronted with a host of new policies and conditions created by a wholesale restructuring of the school testing and accountability system, local educational agencies submitted 416 waiver applications last year — a 30 percent increase over 2016.

It is also true that in May 2015, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that the school system was still providing inadequate services to young children with special needs and that the «District's lack of effective Child Find and transition policies is particularly troubling in light of the intense scrutiny and seemingly constant admonishment it has received over the last decade.»

Just last week, the governor of New York sent the state's top education officials a letter warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget by pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda to fix an ailing school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

Overview Over the last decade, there has been a shift in the way many cities are approaching out of school time — moving from independent, isolated programming and funding to coordinated, citywide systems.

In the suit, the National Education Association New Mexico argues state law gives school districts authority over teacher evaluations and the system Education Secretary - designate Hanna Skandera put in place last year takes away that local control.

Dr. Gillespie conceptualized and built the Digital eWalkThrough ® System, used to observe 13,572 teachers in 726 schools (over 150,000 observations and 6.5 million data points) over the last 5 years.

These figures further support the trend seen over the last few years of rising school transportation costs, reflecting additional expenditures many systems are incurring in busing a rapidly growing school - age population and more special - needs students.

«We have learned a lot over the last four years about how to do this effectively and well, and the changes we've made are reflective of that,» said Scott Thompson, deputy chief of teacher effectiveness in the D.C. Public Schools, which launched a new evaluation system in 2009.

These issues are particularly prominent in education where, over the last two decades, test - based accountability systems for schools and students have proliferated.

Over the last four years, the Park City School District has undergone intense change with dual language immersion (DLI), all - day kindergarten, removing 25 Reading and ESL instructors in grades 1 through 5, new curricula, new grading system, new testing and assessment tools.

«Over the last twenty years, charter schools have acted as a proven disruptive force for good in the public education system.

On Monday, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education published a damning report showing that one - third of D.C. public school graduates last year improperly received diplomas, exposing a «culture of passing» that prized glowing statistics over adhering to school system policies.

When Mayor Bill Finch and Fairfield County businessmen got tired of having to deal with elected members of the Bridgeport Board of Education last year, they convinced Governor Malloy to have the state take over the Bridgeport school system.

«We have used this process to re-engage with many of our schools, districts and stakeholders across the state over the last two years to get feedback on how our current education system is working.The conversations were deep and very helpful to the department and other stakeholders as we work collectively to leverage ESSA to improve outcomes for our highest need students in Colorado.»

Over the last 14 years I gave the job everything that it required but in return the profession (system, heads, school - ethos) was not able to offer me flexible working conditions when I had my children.

Many educators and scholars documented these perverse outcomes over the last decade and, as a result, the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced NCLB, allows states to count English learners in the English learner group for up to 4 years after they are reclassified, so that the overall progress of English learners in schools and districts is more visible in the accountability system.

Not only will she work to preserve the gains our public school systems have made over the last decade, but Caroline will also work to ensure each student has access to a world - class education, regardless of their zip code or socioeconomic status.

We have no idea what these private philanthropic endeavors are teaching, but the country's education system certainly is suffering under their leadership especially in the large urban school districts that they have taken over (last full paragraph is telling).

Over the last few years, students» scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System have shown steady upward progress, but the school still has a long way to travel to achieve universal proficiency: In 2006, fewer than 50 percent of students in any grade reached proficiency in any tested subject.

«Charter public schools play a critical role in strengthening California's public education system, as shown by our ever growing and thriving sector over the last 25 years,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, CCSA.

The school system has used a number of different systems over the last few years, and records have been kept in a very informal way.

He says that any path to justice will require talking about residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; contemporary child welfare policies executed by organizations like Child and Family Serivces; racial profiling by police and other ways in which Indigenous people are criminalized by the so - called justice system; the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; all of the forms of oppressive regulation of Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act over the last 150 years.