Sentences with phrase «schools czar»

Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.

Diane Ravitch took some parting shots at Joel Klein last week with a short post on the New York Review of Books» blog headlined «New York's New School Czar.»

Guess we can now add the state of CT to the list of those states enriching and lining the pockets of charter school czars!

Not exact matches

Kurland gives Bloomer and CPS Food Czar Louise Esaian gold stars for advocating for salad bars, farm to school initiatives, and universal breakfast long before these policies became White House darlings.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for one, tried to weigh in on schools by creating the post of senior education policy adviser — dubbed «education czar» by some — and filling it with Manuel Rivera, the Rochester schools superintendent who had been National Superintendent of the Year in 2006.

In the end, the NIH's AIDS czar, Anthony Fauci, asked his friend Ian Lipkin, a neurologist and virus hunter at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, to settle the impasse.

The previously announced recurring cast members include: Christian Slater as Elliot Decker, the school crossing guard and self - proclaimed «Safety Czar» of Jefferson G. County, who has made it his mission to protect the world from Milo; Vanessa Williams as Zack's mom Eileen Underwood; Sarah Chalke as science teacher Miss Murawski; Jemaine Clement as Dr. Zone, a popular television show character who travels through time with his trusty sidekick Time Ape; Chrissie Fit as Amanda Lopez, an overachieving perfectionist in Milo's class; Vincent Martella as Bradley Nicholson, Milo's envious and pessimistic classmate; Diedrich Bader as Milo's dad Martin Murphy; Pamela Adlon as Milo's mom Brigette Murphy; Kate Micucci as Milo's sister Sara Murphy; Mackenzie Phillips as Principal Elizabeth Milder; Dee Bradley Baker as Milo's dog Diogee; Brett Dalton as high - level time travel agent Brick; Gregory Michael Cipes as classmate Mort Schaeffer; Sophie Winkleman as Dr. Zone's sidekick Time Ape; Michael Culross as high school teacher Kyle Drako; and Kevin Michael Richardson as Coach Nolan Mitchell.

The Bush administration's drug czar is telling public schools in a new document that drug testing of students has «enormous potential benefits» and that concerns about damage to individual privacy are «largely unfounded.»

Texas» new schools chief said he plans to appoint a «dropout czar» to try to help the state improve its efforts to keep more students in public schools through graduation.

Williams said that SB 5551 would subvert elected boards of education, remove transparency, curtail responsiveness to the community, repeal collective bargaining, and create a czar — who may be a charter school vendor — to oversee Network Schools.

In spite of these circumstances, County Executive Chris Abele and his school takeover Czar, Demond Means, have decided to go along with the plans of conservative, suburban state legislators with a history of introducing racist legislation.

Certainly one could have expected some response to Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli's compelling and intelligent argument for expanding charter schools and other forms of school choice in suburban districts (an argument made ad nauseam by Dropout Nation and its editors since its revival three years ago).

These schemes also include tax breaks for private school participants, a statewide voucher system, special education vouchers, takeover policies that allow unelected czars to control public schools, and an expansion of private charters.

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty might be a Barack Obama supporter, but his hand - picked education czar is opting for a different approach, at least when it comes to improving schools.

That makes him the unofficial «charter czar,» the guy who now has the ability to bypass local school boards and authorize independent charter schools in Madison and Milwaukee.

Under the guise of «partnership», tap two white, wealthy, suburban legislators to draft legislation empowering the county executive to appoint an education by exclusion czar whose power supercedes that of the elected school board.

In 2004, the National Education Association gave its prestigious Human Rights Award to Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the man who eventually became President Obama's school safety czar.

The Republicans showed all their cards and intentions for Milwaukee Public Schools on Thursday, a day after the resignation of Takeover Czar Means.

«Wisconsin Jobs Now will continue to support efforts by parents and educators to establish real community schools and will fight back vigorously against any attempt to appoint another Takeover Czar or expand the failed takeover legislation.

«If Congress does not act now,» he said, «our inaction will transform the U.S. secretary of education into a waiver - granting czar over an unworkable law that has identified what he says may be as many as 80,000 «failing» public schools.»

So it is hard for Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli to offer any spirited defense of Virginia's woeful proficiency targets (or even defend the state's unwillingness to address teacher quality issues and expand school choice).

«If you close and consolidate campuses, the students will be able to take money to another campus,» said Juliet Stipeche, a former HISD board member recently appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner as the city's first education czar, explaining the logic behind school closures.

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).

But others, including Gov. Herbert's education czar Tami Pyfer, argue that single grades are too simplistic and don't tell the full story of a school's performance.

The endorsed slate was committed to keeping Paul Vallas, the internationally renowned public school privatization czar, on as the head of Bridgeport's Schools.

As state's «Charter Czar» finishes first year, independent charter school for Madison still long way off

More than two years after his office was created within the University of Wisconsin System and more than a year after he was hired, the czar has yet to authorize a single charter school.

The czar — also known as former legislative staffer and elementary school teacher Gary Bennett — said the website is slated to go up next week, as are two requests for proposals.

The problem was most clearly identified by the school child that took the head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies — Dr. James Hansen (also NASA's head AGW propaganda czar)-- to task for deceit [3].