Sentences with phrase «state education chiefs»

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.»

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.

Gerard Robinson, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and a former state education chief in Florida and Virginia, said he believes Trump will make a priority of expanding choice programs — even if the $ 20 billion proposal doesn't get traction — because the president - elect fundamentally believes that families should have more control.

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.

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.

Serious questions about the unions» support for the CCSS became even more public in March 2014 at the Council of Chief State School Officers» annual legislative conference, where AFT and NEA leaders «squabbled» with state education chiefs over public perception and implementation issues, according to an Education Week story.

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

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.

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.

Her tenure has been marked by a pragmatism that is both political and based on the real - world state of affairs in education: a jumble of noisy education advocacy groups, unhappy state education chiefs, and members of her own party who don't support the law's federal reach into local schools.

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

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.

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.

The new State Education Chief of Virginia, Dr. Steven R. Staples (VA EPFP» 89 - 90), is an IEL Education Policy Fellowship Program alum.

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.

«The nation's state education chiefs work to overcome their own set of challenges to prepare all of their students for college and career,» he said.

Washington, D.C. (October 2, 2017)-- Four state education chiefs today outlined how they are leading under the Every Student Succeeds Act, and shared the work underway in their states during a panel discussion hosted by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

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.

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.

State education chiefs across the country know that great teachers inspire, educate, and open doors of opportunity for children of all backgrounds.

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

In April 2005, during a speech to state education chiefs in Mount Vernon, Virginia, she announced she would be willing to bend when it came to enforcement of NCLB.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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.

If I were a governor or a state education chief, I would seize on three lessons from NCLB to create policies to better serve these students:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

State education chiefs may have helped turn the tide against what appeared to be a mounting anti-assessment, anti-accountability wave.

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;

But in an accountability test, he said, a state education chief may need only a representative sample of students to be given a handful of mixed - number - subtraction problems to get a picture of how well the state's students understand that area.

Then in March, the state education chief in Texas called that state's testing experience «simply unacceptable» after technical hiccups appeared to erase students» answers on more than 14,000 exams.