Sentences with phrase «schools commissioner group»
One of the most notable changes resulting from academy growth has been the creation and rapid expansion of the department's regional schools commissioner group.
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And the District Parent Coordinating Council, a Buffalo schools parent group, called on Paladino to resign from the school board and for the state education commissioner «to intervene.»
A group of Suffolk County school district superintendents have sent a letter to state education commissioner John King urging him to address their concerns about over-testing, the fast pace of mandating Common Core standards inside the classroom and issues with new teacher and principal evaluation programs, according to Friday's Newsday cover story.
And the people from those states were the Chief State School Officers, the commissioners of education, a group of teachers, a group of higher education professors, a group of business people, and some national firms like Achieve Inc.,» said Bennett.
New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.
Several groups — including the Buffalo School Board, the Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization and the Buffalo Teacher Federation — have said they plan to file official petitions to the commissioner to have him removed.
It was conducted free of charge for Saul Cooperman, the newly appointed New Jersey commissioner of education, by Robert Maher, manager of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's «organization effectiveness group,» and Wayne K. Hoy, professor of education and associate dean for academic affairs at Rutgers University's graduate school of education.
Colorado's education commissioner has dropped his membership in the Council of Chief State School Officers, citing policy differences with the Washington - based group that advocates on behalf of most top state education officials.
The group also said that by allowing these schools to expand, the commissioner was «erroneously» authorizing the creation of new charter facilities in unidentified locations.
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.
Beginning with the 2004 - 05 school year, each student record must contain information in the format required by the commissioner and indicating whether the student is Hispanic and indicating to which of the following racial groups the student belongs: White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
That's because Florida's governor, the state education commissioner, state lawmakers, and school groups are brandishing figures that are billions of dollars apart, and state officials» assessments of classroom crowding range from schools having ample classroom space to an $ 11.1 billion construction backlog.
For example, if the two groups — Ofsted and commissioners — disagree on a school's performance whose judgment should take precedent?
The group is independent and nonpartisan, but it doesn't hide its leanings toward the current school - reform movement's focus on accountability and assessment, which is seeing its day in New Jersey under Gov. Chris Christie and his education commissioner.
It may be that the new regional schools commissioners are a better group for managing schools.
They advise commissioners on the groups that can open schools, including specialist 16 to 19 and SEND provision.
An academy permitted by its regional schools commissioner to change the year groups it admits has cancelled the plan for September after just nine pupils applied for places.
These people also are deeply connected to Achievement First, the charter school group that the new educational commissioner brought in immediately to take over some Hartford schools.
The DfE had rejected Freedom of Information requests for for details on free schools and on groups applying to set them up but the information commissioner backed the requests.
ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.
Dick Palmer, the group's chief executive, said the trust was «working closely with the regional schools commissioner to best support the academy going forward in order to address the matters raised by Ofsted».
At the same time, a group of struggling public schools, targeted for state intervention and state funding, called The Commissioners Network will receive $ 4.7 million less than they received this year.
Once the audit is released, union and community groups fear that the state's interim education commissioner will recommend some form of state oversight of the schools.
Officials from the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSS)-RRB-- the group of state superintendents and commissioners - and the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) said today that while some testing is needed to see how much kids are learning, many tests are poorly designed, take too much time, don't measure what schools really need to know and can be elimSchools (CGCS) said today that while some testing is needed to see how much kids are learning, many tests are poorly designed, take too much time, don't measure what schools really need to know and can be elimschools really need to know and can be eliminated.
Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..
He told fellow commissioners he thought charter school groups were waiting for one another to «break the ice.»
Members of the county's Board of Commissioners and Board of Education unanimously approved a joint resolution Monday night opposing Southside - Ashpole's selection for the state's Innovative School District (ISD), which could allow charter or education management organizations — including, possibly, for - profit groups — to seize control of operations and staffing in hopes of turning around lagging test scores.