Sentences with phrase «school under her tenure»

FCA became an IB school under her tenure, began offering CTE classes to students interested in the legal profession, and partnered with After School Matters to create murals that have beautified both the school and the community.

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Under her tenure, the Nutrition Committee in San Francisco USD made huge strides in improving the food on school campuses, and well ahead of national interest in this area.

The school's mission has changed and the focus on academics has gotten slightly lost over the years under Kaloyeros» tenure, said UUP's Kowal, who agreed that the university president should be based in Utica.

More public school teachers are getting tenure under the union - friendly de Blasio administration, statistics released Friday by the city Education department show.

More public school teachers are getting tenure under the union - friendly de Blasio administration, statistics released by the city Education department show.

«Well - off schools with the highest student test scores come under the same tenure law as struggling schools in high - poverty areas.

Under the tenure of former mayor Michael Bloomberg, Republicans — whom he funded with his personal fortune — supported mayoral control of city schools.

Reforms being sought by Cuomo include changing the system for teacher evaluation, tenure certification and preparation, and giving the state more authority to save schools considered to be «failing» under state evaluations.

After completing my training under the mentorship of Jeffrey L. Goldberg, MD, PhD and Larry I. Benowitz, PhD, in 2016 I joined the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut Medical School, as a tenure - track assistant professor, where I have established and lead the Neuroregeneration Research Laboratory.

Presidents Award recipient Stephen Lighthill, head of the American Film Institute Conservatory's cinematography program since 2004, said the school will graduate its 99th female cinematographer under his tenure in June.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that a school district's failure to provide tenured public - school teachers with a hearing prior to dismissal violates the teachers» due - process rights under the 14th Amendment.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

Under her tenure, the School continued to evolve to meet the changing needs of the nation.

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The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

Tenure for public school teachers is increasingly under attack, with the Vergara v. California judge ruling in June that «both students and teachers are unfairly, unnecessarily and for no legally cognizable reason... disadvantaged by the current Permanent Employment Statute.»

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Especially under the decade - long tenure of Jerry Weast, its hard - charging superintendent throughout the 2000s, the district, its schools, and its board were obsessed with addressing achievement gaps.

Under his tenure, charter schools have expanded, and funds have been protected.

The standards were supposed to be in effect this school year under a 2011 Republican - backed law that revised teacher tenure rules.

In the 2015 - 16 school year, 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation will be based on much students improve on a statewide M - STEP test that will have only been given twice, one short of the three years originally envisioned under the teacher tenure law.

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Teacher tenure, formally known as «career status,» was enacted in North Carolina in 1971, under «An Act to Establish an Orderly System of Employment and Dismissal of Public School Personnel.»

School districts also are under increasing pressure to gather data about teacher performance as part of a related effort to address teacher tenure and in some cases are tied to decisions about pay increments.

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But the stakes in this second year under the new system will only be higher, as the law gives school districts the power to bring tenure charges against teachers who don't fare well in a second consecutive year, putting new pressures on teachers and placing new responsibility on schools.

Look up any concept in the book's index — charter schools, constructivism, international schooling models, teacher tenure — and you can be sure it comes under heavy fire.

Lindblom also received the Breakthrough Schools Grant under his tenure and is in the process of building an innovation lab that will provide students with the foundation they need to compete in a global, 21st century economy.

Jersey City public - school teachers have not fared well under the state's tenure overhaul, which Gov. Chris Christie signed into law one year ago this week.

In addition, there are also higher teacher turnover rates in such schools, and oftentimes such schools become «dumping grounds» for teachers who can not be terminated due to many of the tenure laws currently at focus and under fire across the nation.

But Success and FES had already initiated a new battle with the city by then, this time in the form of a campaign to cast the city's schools as increasingly dangerous under de Blasio's tenure.

During his tenure there, he implemented a balanced assessment system, transitioned the state to 100 % online testing, implemented the West Virginia Growth Model, developed an approved growth - based accountability system under ESEA Flexibility, and led standard settings to define statewide cut scores for effective schools and teachers.

Still, he has fallen short on other measures that might have given the state better grades by Rhee's standards, including his stalled proposal for a school - voucher program and his failed bid to end teacher seniority rights under the new tenure law.

The reports led to heightened scrutiny of former district schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, a divisive figure in education policy who often boasts of score gains under her tenure.

We witnessed the damage when summary firings were the reform du jour of charter advocates, and teachers lost union protections in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, in Washington, D.C. under Michelle Rhee's stint as chancellor, and in Newark, NJ, during Cami Anderson's beleaguered tenure as the city's school chief.

So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again for all that you and Education Post do to «honor teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.