Sentences with phrase «shoulders of our district leaders»

The solutions can not rest completely on the shoulders of our District leaders.

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Mariah Jones, a 29 - year - old resident of the District who studies political science at George Washington University, said she thought Obama should have waited until after the final votes were cast in the primary contests to endorse — though she thought endorsements from top Democratic leaders were predictable.

But no government leader should restrict a business or organization from expanding to their district based on the personal or political views of the owners,» Leith Anderson, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said Monday.

Reports that Trump personally interviewed Geoffrey Berman, who on Jan. 5 began his tenure as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, are «deeply disturbing» and should disqualify him as a nominee to permanently run the office, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

District Leaders should not be the immediate family members of individuals simultaneously serving as a judge.

Times Ledger: This time around civic leaders in eastern Queens are saying they have learned the lessons from past battles and are planning to make their message loud and clear: The neighborhoods of Glen Oaks, Floral Park, New Hyde Park, Bellerose and Queens Village should be joined in one state Assembly district.

All school districts should have a degree of oversight, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan told reporters Monday as he defended his bill to have a state appointee monitor mayoral control of New York City schools.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

«The Legislature, assemblymembers, senators on both sides, both political stripes, they have very good working knowledge of what goes on in their district,» said Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, «and I think we should play a pivotal and critical role in making those decisions.»

District Leaders should only hold proxies from their district to prevent one leader from having the power to dictate the rules and platform of the Brooklyn DemocratiDistrict Leaders should only hold proxies from their district to prevent one leader from having the power to dictate the rules and platform of the Brooklyn Democratidistrict to prevent one leader from having the power to dictate the rules and platform of the Brooklyn Democratic Party;

It is unlikely all of them will be on the ballot at the time of the primary, but of the ones that appeared before us, we should be aware that Rosie Mendez, an attorney, former tenant advocate specializing in housing issues, and District Leader, leads the pack, with the strongest organization and a battery of endorsements by government leaders including Reps. Velázquez & Maloney, Assemblymembers Glick & Sanders, Senators Connor & Krueger, Council Member Christine Quinn and many of the state committee members and district leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the EaDistrict Leader, leads the pack, with the strongest organization and a battery of endorsements by government leaders including Reps. Velázquez & Maloney, Assemblymembers Glick & Sanders, Senators Connor & Krueger, Council Member Christine Quinn and many of the state committee members and district leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the Eadistrict leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the East Side.

You should know, that with the certification of Senator - elect Cecilia Tkaczyk as the official winner in the 46 th Senatorial District, it gives the Democrats in the New York State Senate the right to become the majority and the undisputed leaders of the Senate.

The County Committee should not endorse for judge the spouse of any currently serving District Leader; and

Hassan Ayariga, leader and founder of the All People's Party (APC) has threatened to sue the EC should it fail to crack the whip on political parties who have not met the requirement of getting two - thirds of district offices across the country.

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«30 percent of the schools in the district should be reserved for protocol from the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection... The Final selection form the district which excludes the 30 % protocol should include strong women activists, female opinion leaders, other women executives, queen - mothers and members of women groups,» the statement added.

Elected and appointed officials should have to declare at the time of hiring any blood relatives of themselves, their spouses or their party leader who is working for the state, any municipality, an authority or a special district.

Party leaders — including Mr. Steele and Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker — had argued that local parties should be permitted to pick candidates that most closely mirror the sentiments of the district, even if those candidates vary from Republican orthodoxy on some issues.

She recommended that educational leaders should consider redrawing boundaries to reduce the number and fragmentation of school districts in major metropolitan areas.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

Evaluate Initiative Value and Place in Future Contracts: District and union leaders should carefully scrutinize and evaluate all initiatives operating under memorandums of understanding.

Both union and district leaders know that the memorandums of understanding provide a window of time to evaluate the program and determine if it's something that should become part of a binding contract.

The move to promote a schools chief from within the system came despite suggestions from some, including Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, that the board should have conducted a national search for a permanent leader for the district's innovative experiments in teacher accountability and higher pay.

Regardless of the workflow you integrate, district leaders should listen to the voices of all who submitted to the aforementioned survey of staff and students.

School districts that want to start pay - for - performance programs for school leaders should look beyond high - stakes student tests as the primary measure for awarding bonuses, a position paper released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Principals says.

Washington's inaction should not prevent governors, state chiefs and district leaders from implementing the next generation of reforms for our students.

Greater emphasis and attention — by the board, by schools and school districts, and by reformers — to structuring, encouraging, and supporting the leadership roles that NBCTs can and should play could maximize the influence of these teachers as coaches, mentors, and leaders for other teachers.

Parents and civic leaders should demand to know whether their district uses funny - money accounting to benefit senior teachers at the expense of poor children.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

Districts interested in bringing CGI to their teachers should contact the Department for information about professional development requirements and the names of available CGI professional development leaders.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

Chances are, parents, community leaders, and educators will be left years from now with an even greater sense of uncertainty about who really runs the district and to whom they should turn, or assign blame, when things go wrong.

Given the dysfunction of the larger system within which they must work, how much should we focus on recruiting great leaders for traditional public schools and school districts?

District leaders should combine a common core of support for efforts to implement district expectations with differentiated support aligned to the needs of individual District leaders should combine a common core of support for efforts to implement district expectations with differentiated support aligned to the needs of individual district expectations with differentiated support aligned to the needs of individual schools.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) clearly defines parameters that inform how States and local school districts should demonstrate that Federal funds are used in a supplemental, additive manner — equipping local education leaders with the flexibility necessary to better educate and meet the needs of their students.

District leaders should consider school leaders «collective sense of efficacy for school improvement to be among the most important resources available to them for increasing student achievement.

«In selecting Richard Carranza, Mayor de Blasio has chosen a lifelong educator and a proven leader with a track record of leading large and diverse school districts, seeking the input of communities and teachers and focusing on improving outcomes for students who have been historically underserved - experiences that should set him up for success in our nation's largest school district,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.

Changes to FERPA should also include the aforementioned new investment in helping educators and school district leaders comply with the vast array of existing federal and state privacy requirements, including expanded support for the U.S. Department of Education's Privacy and Technical Assistance Center.

State policy makers and education leaders in states with existing ESA programs or those considering adopting an ESA program should develop comprehensive evaluation systems that determine the impact of ESA programs on students, families, schools, districts and states.

District leaders should acknowledge, and begin to reduce, ways in which secondary school principals are limited in their capacity to exercise instructional leadership by the work required of them in their role as it is currently structured.

What should we expect of state leaders, school board members, and district leaders when it comes to revising accountability?

Collaborative teams consisting of District and School Leadership stakeholders including central office, union leaders, principals, instructional coaches and teachers should attend.

Action is needed at the state and district levels.24 State leaders should promote greater transparency of private contributions, and district leaders should create systems to allocate all resources equitably.

District leaders should promote awareness of the discrepancies in funding and resources prior to the rollout of the policy and carefully select key messengers who are well - respected by affluent parent groups.

At the same time, she should also call for school leaders and districts to look past the misbehavior of kids and probe deeply into why it is happening.

District and school leaders should take full advantage of the opportunities under ESSA to provide the appropriate organizational context and support teachers» use of assessment for learning.

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

Policy makers and district leaders should support arts - based leadership programs to increase the effectiveness of teachers» responses to a diverse student population.

States and districts should establish performance appraisal frameworks that recognize improved teaching as the collective responsibility of principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, teachers, and district office personnel utilizing subject - area and grade - level specialists to enrich the appraisals and more effectively guide subsequent professional development.