Sentences with phrase «school or district administration»

District teams representing union & teacher leaders, school or district administration and parent / community leaders were encouraged to attend - a total of 60 participants accepted the invitation.

Most participated in teams of union & teacher leaders, school or district administration and parent / community leaders.

Not exact matches

The Élan Dance Company Showcase begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Naperville North High School Performing Arts Center, 899 N. Mill St. Tickets are available online at https://recenroll.napervilleparks.org/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?aid=1235, by calling 630-848-5000, or in person at the Park District Administration Building, 320 W. Jackson Ave., or at the 95th Street Center, 2244 W. 95th St. Tickets are $ 8 in advance or $ 10 after Friday and at the door. ¿

Of course, it remains unclear whether the USDA farm - to - school grants on which the district relies will survive or be reduced in the Trump administration.

Superintendent District Leadership - Technology District Leadership - Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, PD District Leadership - Business, Communications, HR District Personnel - Other (Admin., Specialist, etc.) School - based Leadership (Principal, Asst. Principal) Teacher - Early Childhood / Elementary Teacher - Middle School Teacher - High School School - based Technology Coordinator School - based Personnel - Other (Admin., Specialist, etc.) Library Personnel / Media Specialist University or College Faculty / Administration Federal Government Personnel State Government Personnel Education Product / Service Provider (including Consultants) Investment Community Association / Advocacy Organization Philanthropy Education Research / Analysis Media Education Services Agency School Board Member Student Parent / Community Member

These include encouraging eligible afterschool programs to maximize service by providing suppers instead of or in addition to snacks, recruiting more school districts to provide afterschool suppers and snacks, simplifying the administration of the Afterschool Supper Program, serving meals during weekends, holidays, and school closures, and improving meal quality.

He inherited a $ 55 million shortfall in school district funds due to accounting errors begun under the prior administration, and fixed the problem without resorting to layoffs or cuts in education programs.

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

We will be sending this to the entire Mount Vernon City School District administration and requesting a comment or statement to get to the bottom of this story and will follow it where ever it leads.

If your organization is interested in inviting members of the Administration and / or Board of Education members to attend an upcoming meeting to provide information pertaining to the budget, prior to the Budget Vote on May 15th, the district asks that you contact Paul Costiglio, Media / Communications Specialist for the City School District of New Rdistrict asks that you contact Paul Costiglio, Media / Communications Specialist for the City School District of New RDistrict of New Rochelle.

(You should check with your school administration or district business officer before starting a crowdfunding campaign, as there may be policies to follow about this type of fundraising.)

I do expect the administration to make an effort to act on President - elect Trump's campaign proposal to devote 20 billion federal dollars to expanding school choice for low - income students, but it's a bit hard to see a Republican Congress either approving that much new spending or even redirecting existing funds on which districts currently rely.

We found, to our frustration, that our school's administration barred us from asking for a meeting or otherwise directly contacting a number of district and state officials.

«In fact,» Hess concludes, «educational competition can not be divorced from discussions about testing, teacher certification, school district governance, educational administration, or other frustrating conversations that many school choice proponents have long wished to avoid.

In January 2014, the Obama administration's Department of Justice and Department of Education jointly sent each school district a «Dear Colleague» letter urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.

While schools and school districts might seek candidates with formal qualifications or credentials, such as teaching experience, a graduate degree in educational administration, or even an M.B.A., the lack of such credentials would not prevent someone from applying for a position.

Providing this information does not seem to be a function of the school districts» administrations, or unfortunately, many teacher preparation programs provided by colleges.

The Office of School Finance is responsible for the development and administration of fiscal standards and other initiatives to promote or achieve efficiency within public schools; the administration of the state aid system for schools in accordance with applicable statutes; the development and maintenance of fiscal policy for all public school districts; and the development and maintenance of procedures for safe and efficient student transportation serSchool Finance is responsible for the development and administration of fiscal standards and other initiatives to promote or achieve efficiency within public schools; the administration of the state aid system for schools in accordance with applicable statutes; the development and maintenance of fiscal policy for all public school districts; and the development and maintenance of procedures for safe and efficient student transportation serschool districts; and the development and maintenance of procedures for safe and efficient student transportation services.

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

The community is designed for all types of educators, and some of our most active members work in administration or central staff of a school district.

A Cuomo administration official told reporters early this month that the «independent» evaluators could be principals or «highly effective» teachers from other schools and districts; college professors or retired educators could also qualify to do the evaluations.

Where a school registered pursuant to this paragraph is in a district in which one or more schools have been designated as a school in improvement, corrective action or restructuring, the commissioner shall determine the accountability status of the newly registered school based upon his review of the proposed educational program, including but not limited to such factors as: school mission, school administration and staff, grade configurations and groupings of students, zoning patterns, curricula and instruction and facilities.

For the 2002 - 2003 through the 2005 - 2006 school year test administrations, for purposes of the commissioner's annual evaluation of public schools, public school districts, and charter schools, the following limited English proficient students may be considered to be meeting performance criteria in elementary or middle - level English language arts if they demonstrate a specified increment of progress on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) for their grade level.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

Individual or Institutional membership is $ 250 and open to all principals, assistant principals or administrators who are engaged in the practice or supervision of middle level and / or high school administration and who are a W - 2 payroll employee of a district / state / private school system.

In response, the district created a new position — the «school administration manager,» or SAM — to deal with non-learning issues so that principals could instead spend their time on tasks like increasing rigor, teaching sample lessons and coaching teachers to become better educators.

With the Obama administration leading the charge and philanthropists like Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family footing the bill, America's school districts are buying into the education reform movement... for better or for worse.

The administration would devote $ 1 billion in Title I dollars meant for poor children to a new grant program (called Furthering Options for Children to Unlock Success, or FOCUS) for school districts that agree to allow students to choose which public school they attend — and take their federal, state and local dollars with them.

Regional Administration — These are in - between organizations that may offer professional development, administrative guidance, or funding to districts and local schools.

For this reason, before an educator uses the professional development for certificate / license progression or renewal, the employing school administrator / administration must have followed the steps indicated on the District Provided Professional Development (DPPD) Record for Certificate Renewal or Progression to a Professional Education Certificate:

One response has been the School Administration Manager (SAM) process, created in 2002 in Louisville, Ky., with Wallace Foundation support and in use in 82 districts across the country as of 2012.61 Participating schools either hire a SAM to assume non-instructional tasks from the principal, or more commonly, the principal designates a person or persons from the staff - typically an assistant principal and / or administrative assistant - to function as a SAM.

By allowing states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps), the administration is also letting districts not under watch off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

The study highlighted the fact that 94 % of school districts indicated that they «experienced some type of technology issue during the administration of the test and that almost half of all districts reported that 20 percent or more of the students in their district were impacted by technology problems.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

While Congress and the Obama administration have pressed the Bureau of Indian Education to overhaul operations at the schools it oversees on or near American Indian reservations, more than 90 percent of the 950,000 American Indian children attend traditional public schools run by local districts.

Critics may complain that spending on school district central offices and school building administration would be cut by only 5 % under a 5 % reduction or 7.5 % under a 10 % reduction.

The results could amount to a cautionary flag about paying teachers for the performance of their students, a reform strategy the Obama administration and many states and school districts have favored despite lukewarm support or outright opposition from teachers» unions.

An even greater possibility for reform lies in the move by the Obama administration to allow American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, which have long complained about being left out of these efforts, to participate in Race to the Top so long as they operate schools under the purview of the federal Bureau of Indian Education or through their tribal education department in partnership with districts.

Graduates of the Educational Leadership and Special Education Administration program work as building principals at elementary, middle or high school levels; and district level positions including special education directors and central office administrators.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

Only in passing did Watanabe acknowledge that some parents were dissatisfied with Cobian and with the school's administration, or that a group of parents and teachers in 2011 submitted «no confidence» letters about Cobian to district officials.

Other desired reviewer qualifications include prior experience designing and implementing innovative education programs; senior - level administration experience in a school district, charter management organization, state education department, or nonprofit; and experience growing and scaling a project, program, or organization.

A-9 License Agreement with North Broad Renaissance — Use of a Portion of The School District of Philadelphia Education Center at 440 North Broad Street RESOLVED, that the School Reform Commission authorizes The School District of Philadelphia, through the Superintendent or his designee, to execute, deliver and perform a license agreement with the North Broad Renaissance for approximately 255 square feet of space on the third floor of the School District Administration Building, 440 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, in «as is» condition to be used for office space for North Broad Renaissance staff members.

The Board's responses revolved around the idea that previous administrations have let the problem get so bad they must act fast and close these schools or else the district will fall over a fiscal cliff — sorry wrong manufactured crisis — but you get the idea.

Just as importantly, the waiver gambit reaffirms the role of states in structuring education without holding them accountable for how they spend federal dollars (or for providing them with high - quality teaching, curricula, and school options); this includes the administration's move through the waiver process to bless implementation of Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that allow districts and other school operators to effectively ignore poor and minority students.

No person shall be eligible to hold a position as city superintendent, district superintendent, deputy superintendent, associate superintendent, or assistant superintendent of schools unless he is the holder of both a valid school administration certificate and a valid teacher's certificate, but any person employed as a deputy, associate, or assistant superintendent in a purely clerical capacity shall not be required to hold any certificate.

It has also been clear that the administration's decision to allow states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps)-- and ignore those districts serving up mediocre instruction and curricula — will lead to widening achievement gaps.

An ESP is a nonprofit or for - profit organization that contracts with new or existing public, charter, or private schools or school districts to provide a comprehensive approach to whole school improvement, including school administration and educational programming.

Meanwhile, unlike what is happening in Connecticut, the Governor of New York and his administration have made it clear that parents do have the right to opt their children out of the testing and that New York will not take any action to punish students, parents, teachers or school districts where parents have utilized that right.