Sentences with phrase «requiring schools chancellors»

MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks the rule requiring schools chancellors to have experience in education should be scrapped.

Walcott, who is the current deputy mayor for Education and Community Development, needs the waiver because of a state law that requires all school chancellors to either be certified as superintendents or receive a waiver.

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Mr. Adams has introduced legislation that would allow the State Legislature to reject a New York City schools chancellor nominee who lacks the educational background required by state law.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

Blasting the «secret process» by which the mayor selected Cathleen Black as the next schools chancellor, UFT President Michael Mulgrew proposed a resolution at the Nov. 17 Delegate Assembly to fight to change the law to require a public hiring process for chancellor in the future.

De Blasio and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña have pledged to look into alternative space for the displaced students, but Moskowitz said she has not yet heard from the de Blasio administration and requires a concrete plan, not broad promises.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

«Our schools deserve a qualified chancellor, not someone who requires a private tutor on the public payroll to make up for her deficient resume,» he wrote.

State Education Department Commissioner David Steiner must grant Black a waiver before she can become the next schools chancellor, since she lacks the experience or training in education that is required for the position under state law.

State law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted by Steiner.

Mary Jane Tappen, Florida's deputy chancellor of education, has credited, in part, state policies that require any administrator or teacher who will have even one «English - language learner» in his school or class to sit through 60 hours of ELL - specific training.

The process, required under state law annually, requires three parties to bless a final number — the governor, the state schools chief and the chancellor of the community college system.