Sentences with phrase «state board of regents»

A fellow member of John King's cohort was the wife of billionaire Jim Tisch, Merryl Tisch, who was appointed to the New York State Board of Regents four years earlier.

At the end of 2015, the State Board of Regents voted to put a moratorium on the use of Common Core - aligned tests in evaluations for four years.

While students are taking standardized tests aligned with the standards, the state Board of Regents decided in February to delay some aspects of the plan, including one that tied students» test scores with their ability to graduate.

report today on the New York State Board of Regents» decision late yesterday to further lower the bar for students with disabilities.

The evening included presentations from Dr. Betty Rosa, Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents and Daniel Dromm, Chair of the New York City Council Education Committee.

The New York State Board of Regents has indicated that teachers and principals will receive less consequences for ineffective performance.

Two weeks ago, seven members of the 17 - member New York State Board of Regents issued a vigorous dissent (included below) charging that the state's «new and improved» teacher evaluation system, being forced into policy primarily by the state's Schools Chancellor Merryl Tisch, with the support and prodding of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, is not (at all) research based, research supported, or research wise.

Greetings: Regent Roger Tilles, Member of New York State Board of Regents (Tenth Judicial District)

This past September the New York State Board of Regents requested a waiver from the requirements of the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The New York State Board of Regents approved a regulation that makes it easier for teachers who receive «ineffective» evaluation ratings for two straight years to defend themselves.

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

The New York State Board of Regents gave several reasons for their recent rejection of two charter school applications but one of those reasons — that the curriculum was insufficiently innovative — seems rather incredulous.

Elia says the State Board of Regents will consider the revised Common Core standards in July, but it will take a couple of years to implement them.

Two Rochester area members of the New York State Board of Regents are weighing in on the comments made by developer Carl Paladino last week, when he told a weekly newspaper that he hoped President Obama would die from mad cow disease and that Michelle Obama would return to being a male.

And in New York, the chancellor of the state board of regents, Merryl Tisch, has said her state won't compete if unions and state lawmakers don't agree on changes to improve the state's charter school sector and teacher - evaluation system, local media reports said.

Dr. Walter Cooper Academy is named in honor of Dr. Walter Cooper, a former member of the New York State Board of Regents who has exhibited a lifetime commitment to educational excellence.

The first week that the new education commissioner began her job, in July, the state Board of Regents announced it was not renewing a contract with the testing company Pearson and beginning a new arrangement with the company Questar.

Leaders of the «Day of Action» in New York will launch an open letter to the State Board of Regents.

The education commissioner is chosen by the State Board of Regents, who are appointed by the legislature.

In an unusual and controversial move, the New York State Board of Regents has approved a budget proposal that would require school districts to use 1986 - 87 increases in operating aid solely for the purposes of raising teacher salaries and hiring additional teachers.

ALBANY — The head of the state Board of Regents wants to exempt high - performing schools from a newly approved teacher evaluation process — a proposal that Gov. Cuomo and the state teachers union slammed.

«Without an annual testing program, the progress of our neediest students may be ignored or forgotten, leaving these students to fall further behind,» the chancellor of the State Board of Regents, Merryl H. Tisch, said in a statement.

The resolution states that the board declares «no confidence in the policies of the Commissioner of Education and calls for the New York State Commissioner of Education's removal by the New York State Board of Regents.»

Merryl H. Tisch, then chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, urged parents not to opt out, saying, «We don't refuse to go to the doctor for an annual check - up.»

In New York State, from the time a child is born until he grows old and dies, he will be touched, almost daily, by the policies of the New York state board of regents.

«Going forward, standards, accountability and innovation will be the watchwords of this board and the state Education Department,» promised Merryl Tisch when she was named Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents in 2009.

The New York State Board of Regents has postponed a decision on whether to change the state education department's rule prohibiting girls from competing with boys in six contact sports, including football.

The New York State Board of Regents this week refused to approve early renewals recommended by their authorizer for ten Success Academy charter schools.

The state board of regents, which has opposed the use of corporal punishment in disciplining students, will petition the legislature for the change, according to Christopher Carpenter, a spokesman for the state department of education.

Its board of directors included a former city borough president, a former chancellor of the State Board of Regents, and two former members of the Board of Regents.

And so it was that the state's highest - ranking education official, chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents Merryl Tisch, chided de Blasio for his views.

The objectives, part of the commissioner's revised plan for school reform called the «New Compact for Learning,» were pre6sented to the state board of regents last week following a series of regional hearings.

Meanwhile, some 120 miles to the north, in the 3rd - floor press room of the state Capitol building, veteran radio broadcaster Susan Arbetter was a couple of minutes into her previously scheduled interview with State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch.

«It will take immense effort and ingenuity on the part of local educators to help all students meet these standards and pass these exams,» Mr. Mills wrote in the proposal submitted last week to the state board of regents.

The foreign - language requirement is part of a comprehensive plan being developed by the New York State Board of Regents to introduce «global education» into all the state's schools.

Of the schools covered in this report, the State University of New York authorized 20, the chancellor of the New York City schools authorized 19, and the New York State Board of Regents authorized 3.

Hacker makes his claim in New York, where the state Board of Regents did its part to raise the bar in math by mandating a score of 65 to pass on the integrated algebra Regents exam required of students.

Not to be left out, the New York State Board of Regents calculated its own figure, $ 3.8 billion.

Licenses are renewed by the State Board of Regents every two years.

In a move that few would have predicted a year ago, the State Board of Regents on Dec. 14 voted nearly unanimously to eliminate state - provided growth scores based on state standardized test scores from teacher evaluations for four years.

Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa called the state's draft «a work in progress» when it was introduced at the state Board of Regents meeting on May 8.

The New York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learning.

In a move that few would have predicted a year ago, the State Board of Regents on Dec. 14 voted nearly unanimously to eliminate state - provided growth scores based on state test scores from teacher evaluations for four years.

Frustrated by the loss of more students and funding to new charters, the majority of the Buffalo School Board requested that the State University of New York and the state Board of Regents issue a three - year moratorium on charters in the city.

In 2016, the State Board of Regents and the Democratic - led state Assembly supported restarting the phase - in, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republicans in the state Senate did not support it.

John Concannon, a retired police captain who has unsuccessfully challenged City Councilman Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens) and state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), said Cuomo had not pushed to get enough educators with classroom experience on the state Board of Regents or otherwise placed them at the helm of Common Core implementation.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

«Our students deserve the best, most accurate assessments we can give them,» said Merryl H. Tisch, the chancellor of the State Board of Regents.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has often said he doesn't think spending more money on schools is the answer, and he recently derided requests for more school funding from the New York State Board of Regents as political correctness.

This silence is especially deafening since the damage to the district is so severe that Harry Phillips, the Rockland / Westchester / Putnam representative to the State Board of Regents, recently decried that the school district was «shafting the public - school kids.»