Sentences with phrase «school chief races»

Teachers union may not sway schools chief race.

Not exact matches

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

New York's new schools chief just got a lesson in the three Rs — reading,» riting and race relations.

A West Coast branch of the movement has set up operations as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the school of law at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2010, in direct response to requests from governors and chief state school officers, the Department elected to use a portion of the Race to the Top funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to support the next generation of assessment because the market was not meeting their needs.

Of late, Texas has been in the news for any number of high - profile decisions, including passing on Race to the Top, not signing onto the Common Core state standards, and opting out of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Terry Bergeson won re-election to a third term as Washington state's schools chief by a substantial margin in what had been expected to be a close race with Judith Billings, a former state superintendent.

The Republican trend in this year's elections extended to the eight races for chief state school officers that were decided last week.

While the race for the state's schools chief is normally ho - hum, this time the campaigns played rough and took jabs at each other through third - party expenditures.

All the states that eventually adopted the Common Core signed up before Race to the Top was announced, says Chris Minnich, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

In her role as chief academic officer for Boston Public Schools, she is committed to eliminating racial achievement disparities while improving student learning results so that students of all races and cultures receive an equitable and excellent education that enables them to thrive and experience success in college, career and life.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers called for them in their 2008 report «Benchmarking for Success,» and some supporters reportedly worked with the administration in formulating Race to the Top.

In Louisiana, creating effective teachers and school leaders is the overarching theme in the state's Race to the Top application, said Paul G. Pastorek, the state's schools chief.

If so, there is reason to believe the race for state school chief will once again prove critical to CTA and charter supporters even though the Superintendent of Public Instruction has little actual authority over education policy in the state.

LAUSD School Board president Steve Zimmer discussed the superintendent race on KNX News Radio this morning and mentioned Chief Deputy Superintendent Michelle King as a potential «top candidate» to replace Ramon Cortines.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.

They were developed at the behest of the state governors and chief state school officers to avoid the charge of federal intrusion — which came nonetheless after the Obama administration advocated for the CCSS in the Race to the Top funding competition and provided the financing for the Common Core testing consortia.

including; With money from Walmart's Walton Foundation — They call themselves Democrats for Education Reform and Figures that the super-rich would turn privatization of public schools into a game and Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) explains why Common Core testing is so important and Charter School Political Action Committees target Connecticut legislative races and DFER NEWS: Adam Goldfarb, former Chief of Staff to Governor Dannel Malloy's Commissioner of Education, lands COO post at Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)

«Until they are owning and discussing and linking the academic and race - based strategies, we are going to be climbing up this slope and not making any traction along the way,» interim chief academic officer Whitney Oakley said Wednesday during a meeting of the school board's achievement gap committee.

Following the violence in Charlottesville, VA, USA Today interviews Facing History's Chief Program Officer Marc Skvirsky who outlines tips and suggested questions for educators to use in classroom discussions about history, race, and violence as the new school year begins.

Like law schools, undergraduate tuition has risen dramatically thanks to the «arms race» (in the form of new buildings and amenities having nothing to do with enhancing «value» to the students» education (as opposed to comfort), bloated administrative fiefdoms, an emphasis on faculty «scholarship» (see our Chief Justice's candidly caustic views on that one) and student «rebates.»

During law school she externed for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Marsha S. Berzon, interned at the Legal Aid Society — Employment Law Center, Bay Area Legal Aid's Legal Barriers to Employment Project, and the General Assistance Advocacy Project, and was the Editor - in - Chief of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal.