Around Town Briefs: New
school board officers, local heroes, utility box program deadline extended
Mr. Rodems has also lectured for the Florida Association of
School Board Officers, the Hillsborough County Bar Association Public Law School, the National Safety Council, and the American Liver Foundation, Gulf Coast Chapter.
So have several groups representing principals,
school board officers, teachers, school boards, the military and the national PTA, among others.
Not exact matches
Moderator: Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS, System Patient Safety
Officer and Director, Center for Advancing Patient Safety, Stanford Health Care, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University
School of Medicine Dr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is a
Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and internationally - recognized expert in Patient Safety, Quality, and Innovation.
Amy serves on the
Board of Unity Charity, is an executive
officer of the Harvard Business
School Club of Toronto, and was awarded the Women in Capital Markets Emerging Leaders Award in 2016.
Tom Wetsch, chief innovation
officer at Pregis LLC, has been invited to join the Michigan State University (MSU)
School of Packaging Industry Advisory
Board.
Despite the company's claims, the district's chief legal
officer urged the
school board in a memo to settle the dispute as a «good faith gesture.»
Her background in non-profit administration also includes serving as an admissions
officer at Columbia Law
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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State
Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified
School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California
School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive
Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
«The
schools would like more access, «said Bob Saigh, the
school board «s chief information
officer.
One mom is planning to file a complaint with the Omaha, Neb. police department after an
officer threatened to (illegally) ticket her for breastfeeding her infant son during a
school board meeting.
Additional experience:
School board member and president; township auditor; township supervisor; county
board member;
officer in township and county state associations; legislative chairman T.O.I.; NIPC commissioner;
CCSD
School Nutrition Director Tina Farmer and Coordinator Amanda Fleming accepted the award with
School Board Chair Kyla Cromer and Chief Financial
Officer Ken Owen at a ceremony Monday in Atlanta.
From left to right:
School Board Chair Kyla Cromer, CCSD
School Nutrition Coordinator Amanda Fleming and Director Tina Farmer and Chief Financial
Officer Ken Owen.
The New York State Teacher of the Year Program is administered by the New York State Education Department and sponsored by New York State United Teachers (NYSUT); United Federation of Teachers (UFT); New York State Parents and Teachers Association (NYSPTA); New York State Association for
School Curriculum Development (NYSASCD); New York State
School Boards Association (NYSSBA);
School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS); New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE); New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE); Voya Financial; the SMARTer Kids Foundation; SMART Technologies and the Council of Chief State
School Officers (CCSSO).
«I think we should look at putting police
officers who have training, who have the responsibility of having a weapon in our
schools this is something voted on by our local
school board.
A hearing
officer ruled that the Williamsville Central
Schools can fire an assistant superintendent who in December 2014 was charged by the
School Board with insubordination, misconduct and other charges by the
School Board, district officials said.
Mount Vernon — The
Board of Education of the Mount Vernon City
School District, voted to have the
School Attorney commence a lawsuit against the City of Mount Vernon, its
officers, employees and agents, and such other persons or entities as shall be necessary to protect the interests of the Mount Vernon City
School District and the educational services available to students of the District, at their Tuesday, October 18th meeting.
The Buffalo
School Board voted to extend a contract with the
schools» former chief financial
officer, Barbara Smith, who resigned over the summer.
Silver has a background in public service, as an elected member and
officer of the Community Education Council for
School District 2 for six years, and she currently serves as a member of Community
Board 6.
In addition to approving the FOIL request form,
school board members also appointed
school secretary Maria Gizzo as the district's public information
officer.
A
board member or
school officer may be removed from office when it is proven to the commissioner that there has been a «willful violation or neglect of duty under the Education Law,» Elia wrote.
«We are thrilled that the SUNY
Board of Trustees has unanimously approved our new name,» Alain Kaloyeros, CEO and
officer in charge of the
school, said in a statement.
The
board voted to ask the town to include in next year's budget one additional full - time police
officer for each of the four elementary
schools.
«For example, in response to community concerns about
school safety, many
school boards allocated funding for
school resources
officers.
The Buffalo
school board showed up Wednesday for the annual reorganization meeting to elect its
officers for the new
school year and adjourned without electing anyone.
Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson of Kinderhook attended, as well as the three people who will be her GOP running mates for Town
Board: Jennifer Whalen, herself a former state Assembly candidate; Chris Carey, a retired Colonie police
officer; and Brian Manion, an active North Colonie
schools parent and athletic booster.
Taking a peer - to - peer approach in disseminating information about the water crisis, members of the senior class
officers and the editorial
board of the
school paper explained the nature of the water crisis.
When the meeting was stopped in the Council Chamber, the
board members moved to their regular
board room and the chanting protestors were kept out of the remainder of the meeting by Buffalo police, City Hall security
officers and
school security
officers.
In a presentation to the
school board, Chief Financial
Officer Suzanne Slack said Superintendent Sharon Contreras» budget proposal contains a $ 7.3 million increase over this year, from $ 365.4 million to $ 372.7 million.
In a strongly worded letter sent this month to chief state
school officers, legislators, state
board of education members, representatives of the National Education Association, and publishers nationwide, the Florida leaders point to the «pervasive» influence of textbooks and other classroom materials on the educational process and say that their state's
school - improvement efforts «have been impeded repeatedly by the declining...
Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic
officer of the nation's largest
school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate
board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public
school system.
The New York City
school board unanimously approved a controversial arrangement last week to put the city's police force in charge of hiring, firing, and training
school security
officers.
Maryland's chief state
school officer last week asked his
board of education to establish a new kind of statewide graduation requirement for high -
school students — 100 hours of community service.
The
school's financial
officer told the
board, «If we could pull back 200 or 300 kids to our district, that could offset the [district's] entire deficit.»
A jury found J. Tyron Lewis and his son, Cameron J. Lewis, the chairman of the
board and the chief executive
officer, respectively, of the National
School Fitness Foundation, guilty of various counts related to money laundering and wire, mail and bank fraud, court documents show.
We have talked about our program with higher education officials, chief state
school officers, state
boards of education, and individual community college and no one has raised a legal objection to the program.
No chief academic
officer ever got fired for choosing an intervention deemed ineffective by the What Works Clearinghouse, but plenty have lost their jobs after a dispute with a
school board member or after a committee of department chairs complained.
Chief state
school officers are pulled in every direction, juggling competing demands from the federal government, governors, legislatures, state
boards of education, teachers» unions, parents, and media.
Though the Orleans Parish
School Board would still maintain control over the budget and the hiring and firing of teachers, A&M would report directly to the state superintendent and have the authority to appoint the district's top financial
officers.
The Council of Chief State
School Officers finally withdrew its ancient hostility to interstate comparisons, the Southern Regional Education
Board piloted some comparisons among its member states, and the Alexander - James commission (chaired by then - Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander) recommended that NAEP take this on.
The
board of directors of the Council of Chief State
School Officers, while supporting most of the commission's general recommendations, disagrees with two points that have long exposed fault lines in the teaching profession.
Perhaps one can expect nothing more from a commission composed mainly of academics and former members of the public
school establishment — folks that once were
school superintendents, state education
officers,
school board members, teachers union officials, or
school teachers.
Washington, D.C. (February 21, 2018)-- States are pursuing innovative policies and using best practices to improve the nation's
schools, and a coalition of organizations representing America's chief state
school officers, legislators, state
board members and state education policy leaders today announced a campaign to highlight the progress underway in states across the country.
He later founded a management and technology consulting company, and held several strategic leadership positions with Chicago Public
Schools, including serving as its Chief Information
Officer, Chief Administrative
Officer, Chief Area Instructional
Officer, and Chief of Staff to the
Board of Education.
This is why, as a superintendent - search consultant for nearly 20 years, I have found that most
school boards weigh experience in the position so heavily when hiring a new chief executive
officer.
In December 2010, he was named to the
board of directors for the Council of Chief State
School Officers (CCSSO).
Groups such as the Council of Chief State
School Officers and the National Association of State
Boards of Education (NASBE) have been working with states from both consortiums to implement the Common Core standards and prepare for their assessments.
He has served on the
Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee
Board of Regents, and the
Boards of Directors of the Council of Chief State
School Officers (CCSSO) and Chiefs for Change.
NGA now joins the Council of Chief State
School Officers (CCSSO) and other lead campaign partners that represent state education leaders — the Education Commission of the States (ECS), the National Association of State
Boards of Education (NASBE), and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).