Sentences with phrase «state education chief»

The roles of the state education chief and state education agency are changing.

Voucher proponents dismiss the estimate as inflated by a Democratic state education chief.

A state education chief had a similar point of view, arguing that high school accountability systems should start including remediation rates.

State education chief Tony Bennett wants the Indiana Department of Education stepping in to help failing schools much earlier — and he wants state law to be changed to compel earlier, more «proactive» interventions.

With a system in which the governor and the state education chief have less power over school issues than their counterparts in almost any other state, initiative has been left to local school districts, and little has happened.

Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist is offered as an example of a state education chief who uses social media to constantly connect with people.

Hanna Skandera, Kevin Huffman, Gerard Robinson, Lizzette Reynolds, and Felicia Cumings Smith, each of whom has served as a state education chief or a top - ranking state education official;

The change, announced yesterday by State Education chief Tom Torlakson, came in response to concerns that the US Department of Education would withhold as much as $ 45 million dollars in funding, as well as additional Title I funds if the state did not comply with long standing federal rules that students in grades three and eleven be tested annually in both subjects.

On Tuesday, Politico reported that the Massachusetts state education chief Mitchell Chester had issued a statement that the stated had «not abandoned» either the Common Core standards or the PARCC assessment, blaming national media for inaccurately describing the state's decision.

State education chief Mitch Chester was «walking away» from the Common Core - aligned tests he helped create.

-- South Dakota's state education chief, Melody Schopp, is retiring at the end of the year.

When I published them, a state education chief took me to task for, in his opinion, drastically undercounting the number of decisions that had to be made.

Yet, neither the federal or state education chief, nor the PTA or the foundation, is directly accountable to a locally elected board of education.

For instance, a federal or state education chief is a non-local actor with control over a public school's teacher evaluation progress or college - and - career ready curriculum.

Inspired in part by the Massachusetts experience, the Common Core standards were developed by governors and state education chiefs, and today more than forty states, including Massachusetts, have adopted these deeply rigorous academic expectations for students.

They brought with them the same missionary zeal that helped them succeed at the innovative edge as they became superintendents, state education chiefs, and staff members at the federal Department of Education.

Dating back at least to Achieve's (with Fordham's encouragement) launch of the «American Diploma Project,» the idea that K — 12 standards ought to be geared toward college and career readiness has gained momentum, strongly boosted by funders, business leaders and, ultimately, governors and state education chiefs.

He said it has helped state education chiefs recognize their common challenges.

As Secretary Duncan told a room full of state education chiefs, «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden --[realize] their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were.»

Several of the 16 state education chiefs who endorsed Gov. Bill Clinton two weeks ago have hit the campaign trail to stump for the Democratic nominee for President.

Chris Minnich, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers — which represents the nation's state education chiefs — said he's «still unclear how much of the feedback they want states to respond to.»

«The Wallace Foundation grant will enable us to provide the kind of high - quality training for district superintendents, state education chiefs and their senior teams that corporate and governmental leaders receive in other Harvard executive education programs.

The Bush administration tried to set a new tone the night after the president signed the education bill, when Secretary of Education Rod Paige invited 30 state education chiefs to Mount Vernon to discuss the new law and his expectations for the states.

School superintendents and state education chiefs often find themselves in a peculiar position when making policy decisions that could deeply affect children's lives.

Minnich said state education chiefs are «deeply concerned» that the budget prioritizes school - choice experiments over existing programs that serve all students.

But the budget proposal drew condemnation from many in the education world, including teachers» unions, superintendents, school boards, and representatives of state education chiefs and urban school systems.

Their recent paper, Leading for Equity: Opportunities for State Education Chiefs, sets out 10 commitments to help state education chiefs take action to promote equity in education for all students.

Smarter Balanced works closely with state education chiefs and elected officials to ensure that the assessment system meets the needs of member states.

The Aspen Institute Education & Society Program and the Council of Chief State School Officers released a set of recommendations for state education chiefs on improving equity for students under ESSA.

State education chiefs are «scrambling staff duties and outsourcing tasks such as data collection and school improvement efforts as they prepare for new responsibilities under» ESSA, reports Education Week's Daarel Burnette II.

State education chiefs have taken the lead to transform educator preparation across the country.

As state education chiefs, we strive every day to create systems that ensure a high - quality, equitable education for every child.

Washington, D.C. (September 13, 2017)- Five years after the nation's state education chiefs committed to raising expectations and strengthening policies for teacher preparation, every state has taken action to ensure teachers are better prepared for our students.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan last year gave state education chiefs the power to delay using teacher evaluations based on test scores for personnel decisions until the 2016 - 17 school year.

When the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee meets on Thursday to take a closer look at NCLB waivers, Pam Geisseihardt will be hanging on every syllable spoken by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and several state education chiefs who are scheduled to testify.

In states such as California, with the most diverse population in the country, as well as Connecticut and New York, state education chiefs released letters committing to protect student privacy, to educate all students regardless of immigration status and offering educators guidance on how to proceed.

She leads the consortium's outreach to state education chiefs and acts as a consultant to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), which assists states on CCSS implementation.

Standards in education set by the state education chiefs and governors in 48 states who came together to develop a set of clear college and career ready standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in English language arts / literacy and mathematics.

«State education chiefs recognize we can always improve on how state and federal funds are spent, but cutting these funds to zero wouldn't allow for an opportunity to improve how we spend those dollars and would turn our back on the commitments we have made to teachers and students.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan is writing to state education chiefs asking them to revisit plans first created in 2006, required by Title I of NCLB.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Stronger licensure standards for teachers and principals, identification of skills educators need from their first day in the classroom, and more rigorous preparation programs for teachers and school leaders are among the steps state education chiefs can -LSB-...]

State education chiefs from PARCC member states met in August and September 2015 to adopt common, performance - level threshold scores based on these recommendations.

It was Governor Malloy's own Commissioner of Education who joined the other state education chiefs who voted to set the «cut score» so that 70 percent of Connecticut's public school students would be deemed failures.

States that haven't fully transitioned to new teacher and principal evaluation systems may still receive No Child Left Behind waiver extensions, explained the U.S. Department of Education in a recent e-mail to state education chiefs.

The Council for of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released Leading with Equity, a series of commitments to help state education chiefs take action to achieve educational equity.

The participants in our interviews, which included U.S. education secretaries, state education chiefs, school superintendents, and charter school founders and leaders, recognized that some complexity is necessary to keep an accountability system fair.

Last week, state education chiefs and district superintendents announced a plan to examine their assessment systems, ensure that assessments are high - quality and cut back testing that doesn't meet that bar or is redundant.

But opponents of the department's position represent a broad coalition that doesn't always agree, including organizations representing the nation's governors, state education chiefs, school boards and superintendents, as well as the two largest teachers unions.

At a March speech to state education chiefs, DeVos expressed disappointment with many ESSA plans submitted by various states, singling out one in particular: «Another state took a simple concept like a color - coded dashboard and managed to make it nearly indecipherable.»

School district leaders and state education chiefs have been trying to figure this out for years now, especially because research shows that having a teacher from similar demographic backgrounds has social and academic benefits for students, most of whom are nonwhite.