Sentences with phrase «schools chancellor said»

De Blasio sent a letter to the former schools chancellor saying that Moskowitz seemed to be getting special treatment.

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Ole Miss chancellor Jeffrey Vitter says the school will «vigorously» appeal the 2018 bowl ban.

See, I am of the view - people don't become a school chancellor unless you're an eternal optimist - and I am of the view that what Shirley Ann said before, it's exactly right.

The San Francisco school district settled a sex discrimination lawsuit involving incoming city schools chancellor Richard Carranza for $ 75,000, but de Blasio said he doesn't buy the allegations against his schools pick.

Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell's Kitchen elementary school.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says his pick for schools chancellor had already accepted the job a week ago and had OKed an announcement about it — when the would - be education chief made an abrupt about - face Thursday, saying he won't take the job after all.

Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña said, «Today there was an act of terror in close proximity to several schools in lower ManSchools chancellor Carmen Fariña said, «Today there was an act of terror in close proximity to several schools in lower Manschools in lower Manhattan.

When asked whether the state or the mayor would have control over the schools, Heastie said: «The mayor and the chancellor put together a turnaround program, and we wanted to make sure, particularly in the Assembly, that they have that opportunity.»

However, on other issues, Quinn hewed closer to the mayor's policies, saying that community education councils should «in some cases» not have veto power over co-locations in their school districts and that the next schools chancellor need not «necessarily» be an educator.

James said she has had one conversation with city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña about issues related to SESIS, and said only that Fariña promised to look into the problem.

«I work with and pride myself on working with [New York City schools chancellor Carmen Fariña] and the mayor and his office all the time,» she said.

«There is no purpose in discussing it,» said Joel I. Klein, the former New York City Schools chancellor who socializes with Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump.

City Councilmember Mark Treyger (D - Coney Island - Gravesend - Bensonhurst), chairman of the Council's Education Committee, said he is pleased with Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice for New York City schools chancellor, Richard Carranza.

In a letter to schools chancellor Carmen Farina, the Community Education Council for District 3 said P.S. 452 should move as a key part of redrawing the catchment areas for at least 11 elementary schools from the West 60s to West 116th Street.

De Blasio said he had already resumed the search for a new schools chancellor.

Nolan at one point noted that Farina is the «first bilingual chancellor» for city schools, a point Arroyo argued, saying there had been six chancellors who spoke multiple languages.

Betty Rosa, a former superintendent of schools in the Bronx, is expected to be voted chancellor of the New York Board of Regents this month, education officials familiar with the process said.

State University of New York chancellor Nancy Zimpher said Tuesday that the need to renew the school's rational tuition plan and increase state funding is about a long - term commitment.

«The 2016 - 2017 school year was the safest on record in the history of New York City,» Mr. de Blasio said at Middle School 88, the Peter Rouget school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where he was flanked by Carmen Fariña, the city schools chancellor, and James P. O'Neill, the police commissschool year was the safest on record in the history of New York City,» Mr. de Blasio said at Middle School 88, the Peter Rouget school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where he was flanked by Carmen Fariña, the city schools chancellor, and James P. O'Neill, the police commissSchool 88, the Peter Rouget school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where he was flanked by Carmen Fariña, the city schools chancellor, and James P. O'Neill, the police commissschool in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where he was flanked by Carmen Fariña, the city schools chancellor, and James P. O'Neill, the police commissioner.

«The decision that I have made about that [New York City schools chancellor] position is however a decision I can no longer sustain,» he said, garnering loud applause from attendees and board members in the room.

The decision is a stunning blow for Bloomberg, who has repeatedly defended his choice amid intense criticism from parents groups, elected officials and other advocates who said the city needs a schools chancellor with a background in schools.

«One of the first things they did was re-employ the chancellor — at that time it was Joel Klein — and then vote among themselves to give all the power to the chancellor,» she said of the members of the short - lived school board of 2009.

Bloomberg's approval rating has fallen to 55 percent, his lowest in five years, thanks to voter frustrations over his controversial new schools chancellor pick, Quinnipiac University Polling Institute director Maurice Carroll said.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor, said in answer to a reporter's question that the board is more concerned with getting federal financial assistance for the state's schools than in how schools may be labeled under the new federal guidelines.

«Tonight, the chancellor cut funding for thousands of students who attend excellent public schools,» Jeremiah Kittredge, the executive director of Families for Excellent Schools, said in a staschools,» Jeremiah Kittredge, the executive director of Families for Excellent Schools, said in a staSchools, said in a statement.

Dennis M. Walcott, who served as chancellor of the city's schools under Mr. de Blasio's predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, said that a series of one - year renewals was bad for the school system.

«Failed schools don't reinvent themselves,» said Eric Nadelstern, a former deputy schools chancellor for instruction under Mayor Mike Bloomberg and currently a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College.

On Wednesday evening, POLITICO reported that Carvalho, 52 — who is said to have political ambitions — would be succeeding city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, who is retiring after first taking the helm in 2013.

More than 60 percent of voters polled said the schools chancellor needs education experience, not management experience.

Calling his vision a break from the past — when struggling schools were simply «written off» and shut down — de Blasio also said his hand - picked schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, had already started evaluating administrators «to make sure our school leadership begins improving immediately.»

«It's an accountability tool but it's also a school improvement tool,» chancellor Carmen Fariña, who selected members of the group, said in an interview on Tuesday.

Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell says that by just setting aside # 140m, the government has left a shortfall of # 560m — and this means that the chancellor will be forced to raid the money set aside for extra school places to make up the shortfall.

When the newly chosen schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, interviewed with the mayoral couple at Gracie Mansion earlier this year, he sang them a mariachi song, «Maria Elena,» a man's paean to his lady love: «You are my heart,» the song says, «the sun of my love, my entire being is yours.»

The schools chancellor also said he is committed to making city schools safe, fun, interactive and more manageable for teachers and students.

New schools chancellor Carmen Fariña said last week she'll review the charter co-locations and openings approved by the P.E.P., but has been vague on whether she and de Blasio will consider reversing the approvals.

Moskowitz said she hoped to see a schools chancellor in the next administration «who is for all children, not just district school children,» and said she would «absolutely not» have been able to grow Success while paying rent.

MIAMI — Miami - Dade County Public Schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho said Thursday he is breaking an agreement with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to be the city's next schools chancellor, prompting the mayor's press secretary to declare it a «bullet dodged.Schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho said Thursday he is breaking an agreement with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to be the city's next schools chancellor, prompting the mayor's press secretary to declare it a «bullet dodged.schools chancellor, prompting the mayor's press secretary to declare it a «bullet dodged.»

In what appears to be her shortest column ever, Cindy Adams says she stood in line to vote with schools chancellor Joel Klein and with Jonathan Tisch.

In a memo circulated yesterday and posted online, NYC schools chancellor Joel Klein said he understood that parents «are anxious to receive this information,» and regrets the delay, but that's cold comfort to those lying in wait.

Betsabe said she had hoped Ms. Farina would be more willing to listen than prior chancellors — Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to give parents and communities more of a say in their schools — but it has not turned out that way.

City Council education chair Daniel Dromm is pushing chancellor Carmen Fariña to make Diwali an official public school holiday, but said he hadn't yet heard from the administration about a letter he wrote to Fariña on the topic last week.

-- The former New York City Schools chancellor and current Rupert Murdoch henchman also says a bunch of other, more substantive stuff in this interview with the New York Times Magazine, but frankly, we stopped reading and started imagining at that sentence.

Betty Rosa, a former superintendent of schools in the Bronx, is expected to be voted chancellor of the New York Board of Regents this month, education officials familiar with the process said Friday.

While walking to her car out of city hall, Farina, now former schools chancellor, said while she'll miss her job, she's confident Carranza is the right choice for the city's 1.1 million children in public schools.

Here's hoping that Richard Carranza is a smashing success as city schools chancellor — and that Mayor de Blasio gives him the freedom to bring the «system change» that First Lady Chirlane McCray says Carranza wants.

De Blasio and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña have pledged to look into alternative space for the displaced students, but Moskowitz said she has not yet heard from the de Blasio administration and requires a concrete plan, not broad promises.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has tapped Miami schools chief Alberto Carvalho as his next Department of Education chancellor, DOE sources said Wednesday.

«Joel misses the essence of teacher - student interactions, and the extent to which teachers focus on students» physical and emotional well - being, in addition to their academic learning,» said Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Meanwhile, licensing rules in most states do little more than «screen out the bottom few who can't master the English language or are badly schooled,» says Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

On the same day that Carmen Fariña was named the new schools chancellor — and said that school safety had «improved by and large» — the departing Bloomberg administration quietly released a two - year - old study showing that nearly a third of LGBT students in city schools reported having been bullied.