Sentences with phrase «state school board»

We support this national network for state school boards associations as their best resource for finding and recruiting qualified school superintendents.

These include congressional races, gubernatorial contests, state school chief races, state school board elections, and state ballot measures.

The proposed federal criteria call for a state's governor, chief state school officer, and state school board president to sign off on the state's application.

However, all board members are encouraged to contact their respective state school boards association for resources prior to launching any superintendent search.

The state board of education currently plans to work with the principal's association and state school board association to support programming for student representatives on school boards.

A survey last week by the New York State School Boards Association of 282 districts showed that only 14, or less than 5 percent, plan to add or expand a pre-K program in 2014 - 15.

Washington — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivered what's become her standard prescription for K - 12 education — school choice, state flexibility, and rollback of federal intrusion — to a roomful of state school board members gathered for a legislative conference here Monday.

The tools use the data cycle — a decision - making process that CPE developed in partnership with state school board associations in California, Illinois, and Michigan.

The RRAR and the Wake County School Board worked with state school boards in order to garner the support needed to pass the legislation.

The association represents state school boards associations and their more than 90,000 local school board members throughout the U.S.

The new funding measure, largely designed by State School Board President Michael Kirst, is now in its second year of operation.

One of only two social - studies series approved by the California state school board last fall, Houghton Mifflin Company's new K - 8 social - studies texts have been praised by educators for the engaging style in which they are written and for including discussion of world religions and non-Western cultures.

Answering questions from state school board members at a meeting here, representatives of the two groups leading the effort said that states may not revise the standards or select only portions to adopt.

Unfortunately, Won't Back Down leaves this part out, skipping from the pivotal state school board vote approving the trigger to a cheerful image of a school transformed.

Michael Kirst, President, California State School Board of Education and Professor Emeritus, Stanford School of Education

A much - anticipated bill granting direct, non-partisan elections for state school board members was defeated in a House vote yesterday.

The Utah state school board on Friday voted 12 - 3 to withdraw from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium — one of two state - based consortia working off of $ 360 million in federal Race to the Top money to have outside companies develop assessments that test the Common Core State Standards, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Obviously one can not jump to the conclusion that non-partisan State School Boards do better than partisan ones in promoting student achievement.

Utah needs a new system for electing state school board members, but a preliminary discussion by legislative leaders on Wednesday suggested a replacement won't come easy.

In today's ENR: State School Board begins looking at science standards.

Michael Martirano said the new standards would go into effect next school year if state school board members approve them.

The Texas State School Board denied additional campuses to Arizona based charter operator Great Hearts over concerns about performance and outreach to low income students.

The agency's executive director, Carl Cohn, a former state school board member and superintendent in Long Beach and San Diego, announced the new hires.

The Ohio Department of Education and state school board claim that their hands are tied by a statute that requires reporting against five prescribed performance levels, and that does seem to be true.

After months of revisions and rewriting, the Missouri state school board has adopted 75 new academic standards despite criticism that they give too much power to the state and are still too vague.

Sponsored by a variety of entities, including state school boards and local school districts, they are oftened governed day - to - day by autonomous boards.

(Of course there's Louisiana, where Bobby Jindal — or, more precisely, Bobby Jindal's presidential aspiration — is up against the Republican legislature, the Jindal - appointed state school board, and the Jindal - appointed board of regents.

When state school board members began pushing for takeover, most Orleans Parish School Board members questioned the state's motives and credentials.

Student representatives are invited to attend state school board association events with their adult board members.

A divided Nevada state school board agreed last week to a settlement that requires the San Antonio - based company to pay...

Before the Oregon state school board adopted academic standards for the state's students last week, thousands of Oregonians had reviewed sundry drafts of the documents.

Utah State School Board Chairman David Crandall said Coleman has important skills and experience necessary to lead both the Board and State Office staff during this temporary period.

Below, I have provided a table which compares Utah and its current elected State School Board model against the states which utilize Model IV in the following areas: ACT / SAT scores, graduation rates, graduation requirements, AP passage rates, charter schools, public education climate for growing businesses, and closing the achievement gap.

State school board debate series starts in Ivins.

There will also be a discussion of how state school board associations can engage with other local stakeholders — advocates, parents, and members of the school community — to bring BIC to more districts in your state.

After investigating, state school board officials found the Arlington Heights School District's policies on dealing with food allergies to «go above and beyond» state requirements.

The New Jersey state school board has voted to extend its control of the Jersey City schools for at least another year, despite recent test scores that are the best since the state took control of the troubled district seven years ago.

Oklahoma's state school board wants to make sure not only that principals around the state report data on school - dropout and college - remediation rates, but also that the data get presented to local school boards for discussion.

Michigan's new Republican - dominated state school board has set off an uproar by passing a mission statement containing references to God and religion.

The growing role of politics has led the Vermont state school board to suspend its search for a new commissioner of education.

He has contacted the consortium to remove the state from the the testing combine, and he wants to block the Education Department, which White runs with state school board oversight, from buying the new tests.

Gov. Zell Miller asked Georgias entire state school board to resign last week, hoping to end months of bickering between the group and state Superintendent Linda C. Schrenko.

The Idaho state school board has reversed its policy requiring teachers to pass the National Teacher Examination to obtain certification.

The Arizona state school board pulled the plug last week on one of the state's 168 charter schools, marking the first time the state had shut down an operating school.