Sentences with phrase «state school superintendent»

The ballot measure, which would have led to a new state agency with its own state school superintendent appointed by the governor, failed by a 3 - to - 2 margin.

According to a statement from state schools Superintendent Tony Evers, Green Bay property taxpayers will be on the hook for millions of dollars to pay for the new voucher program.

While addressing a group of state schools superintendents in 2013, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described opposition to the Common Core State Standards as driven by «white suburban moms» whose primary concern was that «their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought.»

State Rep. Chris Reykdal, D - Tumwater, announced Thursday he will give up his House seat to run for state schools superintendent in 2016, joining Tacoma school district administrator Erin Jones in the race for Washington's top elected education post.

Maryland's newly elected governor believes it's time for state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick to say goodbye, but she says she's not leaving the job she's held for 15 years any time soon.

Wisconsin, which placed 26th in round one, got more buy - in from districts and their teachers» unions by offering districts more grant money for signing on and for giving them the flexibility to determine the scope and breadth of the changes they will implement, said state schools Superintendent Tony Evers.

Elsewhere across the nation, Georgians rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have transformed the office of state school superintendent from an elective to an appointive post.

LAUSD Teacher Named One of Five California Teachers of the Year Veronica Marquez, a fifth - grade teacher at Harmony Elementary School in South Los Angeles, was named today as one of five California Teachers of the Year by state schools Superintendent Tom Torlakson.

The path for Richard Woods to become Georgia's new state schools superintendent opened after his predecessor committed political suicide.

The state's indifference to the plight of struggling districts contributed to the rupture between former state schools Superintendent John Barge and Deal, prompting Barge's infamous letter to the Legislature in which he wrote, «It is a travesty and a shame what our state is doing to our rural and most needy school districts.

Led by State School Superintendent Richard Woods, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) is the state agency serving Georgia's K - 12 school districts, schools, and students.

So I think school systems have not, with the exception of Baltimore City, been particularly proponents,» said state school Superintendent Nancy Grasmick.

The teachers union has not yet endorsed anyone in the governor contest or in the race to succeed Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent, and both races may still attract more candidates.

The groups sent letters to Illinois State Schools Superintendent Christopher Koch and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd - Bennett expressing serious concerns about plans for

State Schools Superintendent John White, who arrived in Louisiana two years ago, supports the idea of public education as a marketplace but said the New Orleans system had lacked order.

At the edge: A survey of New York State School Superintendents on fiscal matters.

The groups sent letters to Illinois State Schools Superintendent Christopher Koch and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd - Bennett expressing serious concerns about plans for CPS to join a state database of private student information as soon as January 2014.

A proposed court settlement would give half of the $ 1 million that former Georgia state schools Superintendent Kathy Cox won on a TV game show in 2008 to three state - run schools for the blind and deaf.

The Illinois board of education, at the recommendation of state schools Superintendent Randy J. Dunn, was scheduled this week to consider terminating the state's contract with the company that administers the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

In the wake of his controversial statements on teacher pay, State Schools Superintendent Mark Johnson says he used «less - than - stellar phrasing» when he said $ 35,000 was good money for young teachers in rural parts of North Carolina.

During an otherwise routine gathering of state school superintendents on Friday, Secretary Duncan suggested that much of the opposition to the new reading and math guidelines is coming from soccer moms whose kids are facing tougher standards and tougher tests.

The state Board of Education has named an interim replacement for state schools superintendent Brian Whiston, who died suddenly this week.

Lake Oconee Academy (LOA) has been named a 2018 Advanced Placement ® (AP ®) Honor School by State School Superintendent Richard Woods.

Under the national school - lunch program, schools must have an academic program in progress on each day that meals are served to receive federal funding, said Karol Richardson, an assistant state school superintendent and director of the state board «s department of child nutrition.

WIBC reports Democratic governor nominee John Gregg and state school superintendent Glenda Ritz are proposing to narrow Indiana's school voucher program, and use the savings to...

The unorthodox nomination of a corporate rescue artist to be California's next state school superintendent died quietly late last month when Sanford Sigoloff withdrew prior to confirmation hearings.

(Note the newly elected state school superintendent and the state Department of Education are set adrift on an iceberg in this plan.)

Georgia state schools Superintendent Kathy Cox offered an upbeat assessment of the law in her April 15 testimony.

«We have set the bar high, and this data reflects that,» interim State Schools Superintendent Jack Smith said in a written statement.

Another Democrat running for governor, former state schools superintendent Delaine Eastin, is also making education a cornerstone of her campaign.

Walker said his administration will work with state schools Superintendent Tony Evers and others to develop a framework for merit pay.

State Sen. Paul Farrow has asked state schools Superintendent Tony Evers not to use student test scores from the Smarter Balanced exams for school ratings, sanctions or teacher evaluations.

«It was decided that we had erred too high on the ambitious side and so we are going to revise the methodology,» said Duncan Robb, chief policy adviser to state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra.

A recent ranking of state education systems by a Lawrence, Kan. - based research and publishing firm has Arizona state schools Superintendent Tom Horne questioning the intelligence of the company's staff.

Learning from that experience, the nation's governors and state school superintendents led an effort to write a set of common standards for English language arts and mathematics that all states could adopt voluntarily.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it «fascinating» that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from «white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were.»

«What's happened, in my opinion, is that there was little information given to locally elected school board members about these two issues,» said state schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett, who proposed the rule at a state board of education meeting on April 24.

The defeats surprised some in the state who pointed to last fall's election of a pro-voucher state schools superintendent as a sure sign that lawmakers would pass at least a pilot voucher...

In so doing, State School Superintendent David W. Hornbeck became the country's first chief to propose making service to others a formal component of public education.

At the usually uneventful annual meeting of the Alabama PTA, state schools Superintendent Ed Richardson made a shocking suggestion: He said the state might be better off if children started school at age 3 and graduated after the 10th grade.

In a Nov. 21 press conference, state schools Superintendent Lisa Graham Keegan recommended that the state board of education take another look at the present timeline for implementing high - stakes testing and seek feedback from schools and communities on possible changes to that schedule.

Oregon state schools Superintendent Susan Castillo has proposed replacing the state's controversial advanced - achievement certificates for high school graduates.

In Idaho, Democrat Marilyn Howard bet that voters had grown so concerned about Republican state schools Superintendent Anne C. Fox's controversies that they would replace her with a political novice.

The bill, if passed by the full Legislature, now would only require state Schools Superintendent Michael Martirano to conduct a «comprehensive review of the standards.»

OLYMPIA, Jan. 3. - The state's powerful teachers» union will challenge the charter - schools measure approved by voters last November, perhaps no surprise given the longstanding opposition of the Washington Education Association - but it remains unclear whether state schools superintendent Randy Dorn will join in the lawsuit or file one of his own...

For Ohio, a round - one finalist with a 10th place showing, one of the main goals in round two was to increase the number of districts participating, said state schools Superintendent Deborah S. Delisle.

«I was pleased that we are trending above the national average in all areas,» said state schools Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery.

The ACT has had a history in Illinois starting in 2001, when then - state schools Superintendent Glenn W. «Max» McGee launched the first free college entrance exam at public schools as part of what was called the Prairie State Achievement Examination.

The new laws are part of what State Schools Superintendent Tom Luna calls his «Students Come First» agenda.