Sentences with phrase «schools chief called»

Until last year's flat scores, the city was experiencing gains of up to 7 points and 8 points a year, a trend the schools chief called «extraordinary» for a large, urban district.

Burlington, Vt — Convening what the state schools chief called «the largest faculty meeting I have ever seen,» Vermont officials late last month brought together a 12th of the state's teachers to brief them on their pioneering assessment program.

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Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector, criticised the Church of England for opposing the idea and insisted new legislation was necessary to monitor «what is happening under the radar in so - called out - of - school provision».

Residents of Kumatse, a farming communities near Somanya in the Eastern Region have called on the District Chief Executive to immediately commission a newly - constructed school building for them to use.

The schools watchdog's new head has called for the introduction of apolitical local education chiefs.

Calling this «the start of a new tradition - something so obviously a good idea that you wonder why no one has done it before» Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the BHA continued «we are delighted to be able to support the web initiative which has received a very positive response and the schools based pilot of this project where we have put together a free package of materials for classes that has gone out to 5 - 19 year old groups across the world to be trialled and will be launched next year».

SCOTIA, N.Y. — Calling Hillary Clinton a «wild - eyed socialist» and taking shots at his chief Republican rival, Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas rallied a crowd at a Christian school here Thursday as he aims to replicate his Wisconsin primary victory in New York.

James Merriman, the chief executive officer of the New York City Charter School Center, called AQE a «front group» for the teachers unions, despite conceding that his organization has one same general goal as AQE: more funding for schools.

Ms. Moskowitz, chief executive of Success Academy Charter Schools, appealed to the New York state education commissioner saying the city Department of Education has refused to pay for the network's prekindergarten because she wouldn't sign what she called an «illegal contract» granting the city authority...

In a petition dated 18th December 2017 addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and copied President General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Chairman, Council for Legal Education, Director General, Nigeria Law School Bwari campus and National President, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN), MSSN while reacting to refusal of the Nigerian Law School and Council of Legal Education to call a University of Ilorin law graduate, Firdaus Amasa to bar last week due to her refusal to remove her Hijab, insisted that anyone found guilty in the matter should be punished in order to forestall future occurrences.

Courthouses should be treated as sensitive locations, similar to schools, hospitals and places of worship, and as called for by Chief Judge DiFiore.»

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber, Ken Ashigbey, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES), to reconsider its stance against the use of mobile phones in Senior High Schools.

A group of parents with children in schools co-located with Success Academy charters is calling on the New York State Education Department to temporarily halt all construction work in public school buildings by Success Academy Charters chief Eva Moskowitz.

«After Hurricane Katrina devastated our city, the cardiology department found that we had very busy on - call nights,» said Anand Irimpen, M.D., study lead author and professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine and chief of cardiology at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

«This work shows us how a genetic mutation causes a severe form of glaucoma called primary congenital glaucoma, which afflicts a significant portion of children enrolled in institutions for the blind worldwide,» said principal investigator Dr. Susan Quaggin, chief of nephrology and hypertension at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

In December, Mr. Steinhilber was the chief federal lobbyist for the nsba A month later, with an expanded office, twice the staff, and an annual budget of more than $ 500,000, he became the head of a new nsba unit called the Center for State Legislation and School Law.

He has been called «the intellectual father of the economic integration movement» in K - 12 schooling, and «arguably the nation's chief proponent of class - based affirmative action in higher education admissions.»

The Ofsted chief also called for inspections at schools that have been judged «Outstanding», as there are still risks when it comes to safeguarding children, making reference to the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham.

The news comes as the Ofsted chief called on ministers to tighten rules on home education, after more than 100 suspected illegal schools were discovered by inspectors.

Professor Chubb has called for strong, inspiring STEM teaching in schools (Office of the Chief Scientist, 2014).

This call for more prepared students to take early Algebra was echoed in the 2008 seminal report Benchmarking for Success written by the three progenitors of the Common Core — National Governors Association, Council of Chief State School Officers and Achieve Inc..

Indianapolis — The nation's chief state school officers last week endorsed a comprehensive early - childhood and family - education plan calling for universal access to prekindergarten programs, publicly supported day care, and increased federal involvement in efforts to help children at risk of school failure.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has called for more attention to be paid to areas where too many schools are «languishing in mediocrity».

Inspired by the Earth Charter's call to involve children in changing earth's destiny, Green Cross Japan, led by its Chief Executive Officer, Tsunehiko «Tom» Kawamoto, established a global program to teach school children «not only by lecture, but by action» on ways to protect, conserve and sustain the environment.

The first principal, called «chief learner» at SOF, Shirley Grover, had a background in private schools, most recently in Italy, not in urban education.

Bradley Simmons, Ofsted Regional Director for the South West, has published a letter calling on headteachers, chief executives of multi-academy trusts, senior political leaders, governors, the local authority and the regional schools commissioner to work together to improve outcomes.

Eighty - five senators, 359 representatives, the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the School Superintendents Association, civil rights groups, many parents and parent groups across the country including the PTA, our brothers and sisters in the National Education Association, and the people I represent in the AFT, cheered what President Obama called a Christmas miracle.

Indeed, in a call with reporters Joshua Starr, the former superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools in suburban Maryland and the newly named chief executive officer of PDK, made points similar to Peterson's:

The project's findings also appear to be at odds with Ofsted's chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw who last week called for a greater focus on competitive sport in state schools.

In an e-mail letter to Atlanta television reporter Bill Nigut sprinkled with expletives, the outgoing Republican schools chief facetiously refers to the «unbiased media» and calls herself a «bitter has - been politician.»

The mayor's removal of the elected board strengthened the superintendent (now called the chief executive officer, or CEO) and the central office, yet the school governance councils proposed a far less prominent role for the central office.

By and large, organizations such as the... American Association of School Administrators and the Council of Chief State School Officers were cool, and in some cases openly hostile, to the calls for education reform.

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.

This call for more prepared students to take early Algebra was echoed in the 2008 clarion call for Common Core, the Benchmarking for Success report written by the three progenitors of the Common Core — National Governors Association, Council of Chief State School Officers and Achieve Inc..

The proposed federal criteria call for a state's governor, chief state school officer, and state school board president to sign off on the state's application.

It was unclear Friday how greatly the new standards — which Clayton Burch, chief academic officer for the state education department, called a «complete overhaul» and improvement over the current standards — differ from West Virginia's current standards, which were first implemented statewide last school year after a roughly four - year phase - in process.

That group also includes Chiefs for Change, the lobbying group of reform - minded chief state school officers, who have also issued their own statements calling for protection for undocumented children.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers were paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop the Common Core standards and the unfair and inappropriate Common Core standardized testing scheme that goes along with those so - called standards.

Richard Kahlenberg has been called «the intellectual father of the economic integration movement» in K - 12 schooling, and «arguably the nation's chief proponent of class - based affirmative action in higher education admissions.»

This paper, written in collaboration with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), provides a deep and nuanced examination of how states might respond to the student success or school quality indicator accountability provision (i.e., the so - called «5th indicator») under the EverySchool Officers (CCSSO), provides a deep and nuanced examination of how states might respond to the student success or school quality indicator accountability provision (i.e., the so - called «5th indicator») under the Everyschool quality indicator accountability provision (i.e., the so - called «5th indicator») under the Every Stude

This paper, written in collaboration with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), provides a deep and nuanced examination of how states might respond to the student success or school quality indicator accountability provision (i.e., the so - called «5th indicator») under the Every Student Succeeds Act (School Officers (CCSSO), provides a deep and nuanced examination of how states might respond to the student success or school quality indicator accountability provision (i.e., the so - called «5th indicator») under the Every Student Succeeds Act (school quality indicator accountability provision (i.e., the so - called «5th indicator») under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, supported the committee's call to «encourage schools to use evidence - based interventions to make sure the pupil premium is being spent in the most effective ways».

The directive, issued by the Communist Party organization of the Ministry of Education, calls for «patriotic education» to suffuse each stage and aspect of schooling, through textbooks, student assessments, museum visits and the Internet, which is the chief source of information for many young Chinese.

With a fellow Democrat in Miller raising even more questions about the waiver gambit — especially after giving the Obama administration cover over questions about the legality of the entire process — Duncan will likely have to call up chief school officers of waiver states to work out these issues.

In 2014, Council of Chief State School Officers» (CCSSO) Taskforce on Career Readiness released a pivotal report calling on states to make career readiness more meaningful in their accountability systems.

In response to a letter submitted by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to chief state school officers on ESSA, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - TN) called DeVos» note a «good step towards ensuring that states have clarity and are able to follow the timeline they have...

«We hope Secretary Duncan maintains that high bar,» said New Mexico schools chief Hanna Skandera in an interview, «and calls out states that don't reach it.»

Hamid Patel, chief executive of Tauheedul education trust, which runs two of the outlier schools, said staff often «go above and beyond the call of duty to give all learners the support they need to achieve, and surpass, expectations».

The Council of Chief State School Officers did not return messages seeking comment, though school chiefs from Massachusetts and Tennessee spoke in favor of the change during the conferenceSchool Officers did not return messages seeking comment, though school chiefs from Massachusetts and Tennessee spoke in favor of the change during the conferenceschool chiefs from Massachusetts and Tennessee spoke in favor of the change during the conference call.