Sentences with phrase «state education leaders»

It was still enough to focus plenty of state education leaders on dreaming up ambitious new spending programs in 2009 and 2010.

In fact, the standards were developed by state education leaders.

And for state education leaders and policymakers, accountability highlights excellence, targets intervention needs, and drives improvement.

The solution to these problems must start with state education leaders making an affirmative case for the importance of state tests.

The last few years have been a time of frustration for many state education leaders.

This guide can also help state education leaders to support local leaders in their transition to the new federal law.

Participants leave knowing exactly what it means to be a good board member along with a network of reform - minded state education leaders and faculty as peers.

With new flexibility state education leaders no longer need to manage their schools under two accountability systems — one developed by the state and one prescribed by federal law.

This document highlights several examples of how state education leaders and business leaders are working to improve career pathways for all students.

More bond money and more budget money are issues unlikely to cause many arguments among state education leaders, but there are other measures in the works that are likely to prove more controversial.

Data from the exams also allow state education leaders to look across all their districts, compare results, and apply resources to struggling schools.

Many state education leaders are taking a fresh look at school finance in hopes of containing costs.

Rep. Ed Hanes Jr., a Democrat from Forsyth County who serves as vice chairman of the House Education Committee, lashed out at state education leaders in an email to Policy Watch last week, arguing that the suspension gap is pushing black students out of public schools and into charter schools and private schools.

These are whiplash - inducing times for public schools in New York, as state education leaders keep hitting the brakes on the very reforms they had aggressively...

First, dangling $ 4 billion in federal funds at the height of the Great Recession turned out to be a great way to distract state education leaders from dealing with stuff like belt - tightening and underfunded pensions.

Gene Wilhoit, the executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, talks to state education leaders at the council's fall conference in Little Rock, Ark., last month.

New York State Education leaders will hold a statewide news briefing late Monday morning to provide in - depth information on Common Core and Assessments.

As Public Comment Period Ends, The Education Trust — New York, Educators for Excellence, New York Educator Voice Fellowship and High Achievement New York Urge State Education Leaders to Maintain High Standards and Deliver the Tools and Support Educators Need Albany — To reach their full potential, all New York State students — especially those...

He organizes and supports a group of state education leaders called Chiefs for Change; and, with former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, he's pressing another initiative, Digital Learning Now!

Officials with the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the NAEP exams, maintain that they took several measures to ensure that the switch to computer - based testing would not have an impact on the results and have promised to release further information on those steps to White and other state education leaders who request it.

Park and other state education leaders have presented the new system to teachers and parents at 20 public meetings across Utah, ending their tour last week.

This special issue brief from the Center for Great Teachers & Leaders at the American Institutes of Research is a first step in addressing these policy gaps by offering state education leaders an overview of the current policy landscape, its implications for CTE teacher effectiveness, and next steps for creating aligned and coherent human capital management policies.

Setting the line of proficiency on the new assessment is the latest in a long line of challenges state education leaders have undertaken since adopting the nationalized standards five years ago.

«School superintendents and school board members have worked deliberately to infuse the voice of myriad stakeholders — including state education leaders, teachers, educators, parents and community members — in our ESSA work to date.

NACEP Leadership Announces Development at National Conference, Where National and State Education Leaders Emphasize the Role of Policy in Access to Quality Concurrent and Dual Enrollment

In Illinois, the project has been working with the Illinois Business Roundtable and state education leaders on developing and scaling up high - quality forms of career and technical education.

Elia has been supportive of the Renewal program, calling it a «model for the state,» even though it has been criticized by former top state education leaders.

This week in #nced: Local, State Education Leaders Make the Case for More Flexibility; NC School Board Delays Choosing Operator for School Takeover

ALBANY — Between the lines of a Thursday letter from a top Cuomo administration aide to state education leaders about education reform was a plan to overhaul the Board of Regents.

In this week's education news: NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott reflects on accomplishments during the Bloomberg administration, columnists discuss the future of NYC education under Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio, and NY State education leaders and Teach For America support the Common Core standards.

In a letter from a top Cuomo aide to state education leaders last week, the governor's office sought advice on a number of topics, including possibly expanding mayoral control outside New York City.

Having worked as the chief state education leader for two Republican governors, I offer some questions Brown can ask each candidate.

To make disruptive innovation possible, state education leaders need to create opportunities for new organizations or entities to emerge to address unmet educational needs outside of traditional schools.

The Strategic Data Project, launched in 2009 with support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a national initiative that helps district and state education leaders increase student achievement by significantly improving how data analysis supports planning and policymaking.

State education leaders went to Capitol Hill last week to urge Congress to keep their agencies in the federal budget loop.

Now state education leaders are applying the...

Local and state education leaders lobbied Wednesday the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use state funds.

Education • Two grading systems would be imposed on Utah schools under SB271, unless feds approve its method over the model state education leaders created.

This paper is part of a series of publications from CRPE's «Linking State and Local School Improvement» initiative, meant to inform state education leaders, policymakers, and advocacy groups about how to best support promising local school improvement efforts.

At CCSSO, he has positioned state education leaders with a critical voice at the national level to advance educational equity and policies that will strengthen public education.

HCR7 asks state education leaders to conduct a study of Utah's current testing methods to look for areas where testing could be reduced.

That needs to change, with new research by Vanderbilt University helping local and state education leaders justify pay for performance.

Flexibility gives state education leaders the option to put federal dollars to better use in accomplishing important educational goals.

Adding teacher perspective to state policy by inviting state education leaders to visit classrooms to speak directly with teachers and inviting educators to participate in feedback sessions and working groups at the State Department of Education.

School spending accounts for roughly one - third of Wisconsin's budget every year, and if state education leaders succeed in convincing the state to adopt their budget proposal, districts could see even more money over the next two years — particularly if they serve a large population of economically disadvantaged students.

State education leaders concluded they wouldn't finish a permanent set of new rules quickly enough for district planning efforts.