Sentences with phrase «school board secretary»

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Barnard served many years as secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, but his impact on the public school movement was perhaps greatest in the American Journal of Education, which he began in 1855 and edited for twenty - six years.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

She was the former executive secretary of the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Glen Ellyn Library Board and past president of Hawthorne School PTA.

The Permanent Secretary, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Mr. Yinka Osuntogun, commended the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) for their sustained support for the implementation of various programmes under the scheme over the years, such as the Interactive Radio Instruction (I.R.I.) which, according to him, had tremendously developed Training and Learning situation in our Nomadic and Migrant Farmers Primary Schools.

Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

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Commenting on Nick Clegg's announcement of summer «catch - up» schools in his speech to the Liberal Democrats Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this: «In the National Union of Teachers we want every child to have the best possible opportunities and that means investing in education across the board.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

When the mayor's press secretary sends out a routine notice that a school construction board will meet, Jewett looks it over first.

The Plattsburgh school board voted to oppose Betsy DeVos, Trump's nominee for U.S. secretary of education, whose confirmation hearing is scheduled to start tomorrow.

In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary, State Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Fatai Kolawole enjoined members of the committee to see themselves as owners of the facilities and schools at large in their various communities.

In addition to approving the FOIL request form, school board members also appointed school secretary Maria Gizzo as the district's public information officer.

The Education Secretary also announced that the Education Workforce Council (EWC), through the establishment of the Initial School Teacher Training Committee (the Board) will accredit individual ITE programmes.

It describes reporting discrepancies in Sarkar's papers to Wayne State officials and receiving a response from the school's secretary to the board of governors: «Thank you for your e-mail.

Steyer, Paulson and Bloomberg are scheduled to attend the New York event, in addition to several members of the Risky Business advisory committee: Clinton administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, as well as Alfred Sommer of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Gregory Page, former CEO and current chairman of the board of Cargill Inc..

SE: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently stood at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and said, «I think Dr. King would have been disheartened to see that 56 years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, many schools are still effectively segregated in America.

Former US Secretary of Education John King, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Senior Policy Adviser Christy Wolfe, Chris Barbic of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and DC Public Charter School Board Executive Director Scott Pearson will participate in the discussion and AEI's Nat Malkus will moderate.

According to Peterkin, USP alums include 33 superintendents, 22 deputy superintendents, 26 assistant of area superintendents, 15 education directors, numerous principals, several faculty at education schools, one state Board of Education member, and one deputy assistant secretary of education.

U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley has named Daniel A. Domenech, the superintendent of the Fairfax Count, Va., schools, and Michael E. Ward, North Carolina's state superintendent, to the 25 - member National Assessment Governing Board.

For example, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), chairman of the Senate Education Committee and a former secretary of education himself, decried the transformation of the Department of Education into a «national school board.»

This semester or yearlong project might include, say, writing a biography of someone in the school who is very different in background; creating a video comprising interviews with other students, custodians, school secretaries, and various other school community members about what constitutes a just community; or developing a board or video game that promotes empathy and responsibility.

«You have a president and an education secretary who do not believe in a national school board,» Alexander said.

Los Angeles — In a speech to Hispanic school - board members here this month, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell criticized the nation's school boards for paying too little attention to instructional issues and called on them to take a leadership role in upgrading educational standards.

For example, a routine March 3 announcement of several appointments to the board of the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching — a program enacted in 1988, years before Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander conceived America 2000 — includes this quote from the Secretary:

Showing the taste for power that has led Sen. Lamar Alexander to accuse him of thinking he runs a national school board, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week yanked Washington state's «waiver» from the No Child Left Behind Act.

Parliamentary under secretary of state for the school system, Sir Theodore Agnew, said: «Headteacher boards have already shown they can provide invaluable support in improving the education of pupils across England and I'd like to thank everyone who has played an important role so far.

Within days of the Bush leak on vouchers, Secretary Paige opened direct talks with city officials, meeting with Mayor Williams and with D.C. school board president Peggy Cooper Cafritz and D.C. council member Kevin P. Chavous.

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.

The department was accused of being a «national school board,» and, finally, eight years after NCLB was supposed to be rewritten, it has been — with some of it a direct rebuke to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, as seen in legislative language such as this:

I submit to the Legislature, whether the creation of a board of commissioners of schools, to serve without salary, with authority to appoint a secretary, on a reasonable compensation, to be paid from the school fund, would not be of great utility.

If a frustrated former U.S. Secretary of Education is bent on taking a hard look at the administration's effort to turn the Department of Ed into what he's repeatedly labeled «a national school board,» it could be a couple pretty long years for whoever is tasked with closing up shop at ED.

Alexandria, Va., (February 7, 2017)- As the leading advocate for public education, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education:

Statement of Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director and CEO National School Boards Association on the Confirmation of Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education

They have power, too, and because they are ACTUALLY ELECTED, they are more responsive than appointed school boards, appointed secretaries of education, etc..

Following the tour, Secretary DeVos led a roundtable with 17 school leaders, teachers and board members where she had a more in depth conversation about their unique school offerings.

Alexandria, Va. (Nov. 23, 2016) Statement by Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director and CEO, National School Boards Association on the Appointment of Betsy DeVos, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Nominee

Statement on John King's Confirmation as Secretary of Education by Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association

Alexandria, Va. (July 1, 2015)-- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel was recently elected 2015 - 2016 Secretary Treasurer of the Learning First Alliance (LFA) Board of Directors.

NSBA is happy to announce its president and board leadership for 2016 - 17: Miranda Beard of Mississippi's Laurel School District, President; Kevin Ciak of New Jersey's Sayreville School District, President - elect; and Frank C. Pugh of California's Santa Rosa City School District, Secretary - Treasurer.

On a 9 — 0 vote, the Kansas Board of Education decided not to apply for RTTT funding, saying, «The federal criteria required more centralized control of public school education...» 4 Texas Governor Rick Perry explained to Secretary Duncan, «In order to submit an application that is preferred... for Race to the Top, Texas would have to commit... to the adoption of national curriculum standards and tests.»

Pursuant to 16 V.S.A. § 2973 and State Board Rule 2228.8 (1 - 4 (b)-RRB-, each independent school approved for special education by the State Board of Education shall annually report its rates for special education tuition, related services and room and board to the Secretary of Education on a form prescribed for that purBoard Rule 2228.8 (1 - 4 (b)-RRB-, each independent school approved for special education by the State Board of Education shall annually report its rates for special education tuition, related services and room and board to the Secretary of Education on a form prescribed for that purBoard of Education shall annually report its rates for special education tuition, related services and room and board to the Secretary of Education on a form prescribed for that purboard to the Secretary of Education on a form prescribed for that purpose.

The caucus also selected the following school board members: Lillian Tafoya, a member of the school board of Bakersfield City School District in California as Chair - Elect; Jesus Rubalcava of Arizona's Gila Bend Unified School District as Vice-Chair; Lydia Hernandez of the Cartwright School District 83 in Arizona as Secretary; Steve Corona of Fort Wayne Community Schools in Indiana as Treasurer; Jesse Gomez of School City of East Chicago, Ind., as Central Region Director; Marcela Diaz - Myers of Lower Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region Dirschool board members: Lillian Tafoya, a member of the school board of Bakersfield City School District in California as Chair - Elect; Jesus Rubalcava of Arizona's Gila Bend Unified School District as Vice-Chair; Lydia Hernandez of the Cartwright School District 83 in Arizona as Secretary; Steve Corona of Fort Wayne Community Schools in Indiana as Treasurer; Jesse Gomez of School City of East Chicago, Ind., as Central Region Director; Marcela Diaz - Myers of Lower Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region Dirschool board of Bakersfield City School District in California as Chair - Elect; Jesus Rubalcava of Arizona's Gila Bend Unified School District as Vice-Chair; Lydia Hernandez of the Cartwright School District 83 in Arizona as Secretary; Steve Corona of Fort Wayne Community Schools in Indiana as Treasurer; Jesse Gomez of School City of East Chicago, Ind., as Central Region Director; Marcela Diaz - Myers of Lower Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region DirSchool District in California as Chair - Elect; Jesus Rubalcava of Arizona's Gila Bend Unified School District as Vice-Chair; Lydia Hernandez of the Cartwright School District 83 in Arizona as Secretary; Steve Corona of Fort Wayne Community Schools in Indiana as Treasurer; Jesse Gomez of School City of East Chicago, Ind., as Central Region Director; Marcela Diaz - Myers of Lower Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region DirSchool District as Vice-Chair; Lydia Hernandez of the Cartwright School District 83 in Arizona as Secretary; Steve Corona of Fort Wayne Community Schools in Indiana as Treasurer; Jesse Gomez of School City of East Chicago, Ind., as Central Region Director; Marcela Diaz - Myers of Lower Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region DirSchool District 83 in Arizona as Secretary; Steve Corona of Fort Wayne Community Schools in Indiana as Treasurer; Jesse Gomez of School City of East Chicago, Ind., as Central Region Director; Marcela Diaz - Myers of Lower Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region DirSchool City of East Chicago, Ind., as Central Region Director; Marcela Diaz - Myers of Lower Dauphin School District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region DirSchool District in Harrisburg, Pa., as Northeast Region Director; and Andrew Chavez of the Española Public School District in New Mexico as Western Region DirSchool District in New Mexico as Western Region Director.

The «details tucked into dozens of plans being turned in to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos this week were hammered out by a hodgepodge of elected and appointed officials — from governors and legislators to state school board members and local superintendents — during sometimes sparsely attended meetings, caucuses, and task force sessions.»

-- by guest blogger Kalman R. Hettleman, former member of the Baltimore school board and former state human resources secretary.

Ms. Roberts served as Secretary and Vice-Chair of the Florida School Finance Council and President of the Board of Directors of the Florida School Finance Officers Association.

«Today, we are very pleased to announce that we have completed the final agreement to obligate a total of more than $ 1.8 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board to repair and replace public schools damaged by Hurricane Katrina,» Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced today the final agreement for the obligation of $ 1.84 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) and Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced today the final agreement for the obligation of $ 1.84 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) and Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) for the repair and replacement of public schools in Orleans Parish, including the City of New Orleans, damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Cole - Gutiérrez joins on the NACSA Board Chair James Peyser, partner at NewSchools Venture Fund; Vice Chair Lisa Graham Keegan, founder and president of the Education Breakthrough Network; Treasurer Josephine Baker, past executive director of the D.C. Public Charter School Board; Secretary Alan Coverstone, executive director of Metro Nashville Public Schools; Steve Canavero, Ph.D., director of the Public Charter School Authority of Nevada; Frederick Hess, resident scholar and director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; Karega Rausch, Equity Project coordinator at Indiana University; and Hanna Skandera, Secretary - Designate, New Mexico Secretary of Education.

The report, issued by a task force led by former NYC Schools Chancellor (and SFNY Board Member) Joel Klein and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, highlighted several concerns, including: