Last year, Councilmember Grosso took a first step to end the school to prison pipeline by passing a ban on pre-K suspensions and expulsions of three - and four - year olds by requiring every local education agency to submit information — organized by campus, grade, sex, and race — to the Office
of State Superintendent of Education on suspensions and expulsions.
Join the Urban Institute's Education Policy Program in conversation with Louisiana
state superintendent of education John White and a panel of school choice experts as we discuss the latest findings from Louisiana and what it means for the future of private school vouchers in the Bayou State and around the country.
Duncan told a gathering of
state superintendents of education on Friday that «white suburban moms» were upset because their kids were doing poorly on new, more rigorous exams linked to Common Core.
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) is pleased to announce that South
Carolina State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Associate Professor Jal Mehta are joining the organization as commissioners.
They're thoroughly supportive friends and advocates of the entire movement,» said Former
State Superintendent of Education Lisa Graham Keegan, who is currently executive director of A for Arizona.
But a proposal
by state Superintendent of Education John White for the 2017 - 18 school year would change how grades are calculated, which could have a big impact on the yearly results.
While the «Alabama Performance - Based Career Incentive Program Act» had the support of Gov. George C. Wallace,
State Superintendent of Education Wayne, and the Alabama Education Association, many legislators and the Alabama Association of School Boards opposed the plan was too costly and put too much control into the hands of teachers and their union.
«Giving the children who have been impacted by the hurricane a sense of stability and safety is extremely important, and schools can provide that kind of setting,» says Louisiana
State Superintendent of Education Cecil J. Picard in an email to Edutopia.
Louisiana made news
when State Superintendent of Education John White, shortly after Jindal's announcement, argued that the governor lacked the power to pull the state out of the standards, and that Louisiana would continue to be a part of the PARCC consortium regardless of the Governor's opinion.
Monica Duvall hasn't taken much time to consider the election of South Carolina's
next state superintendent of education — she's been too busy keeping track of her 7 - year - old son's day - to - day schooling.
Each year, the Mississippi
State Superintendent of Education voluntarily requests that each member of his Superintendent's Advisory Committee, composed of 23 public school superintendents, select a student member to serve on the State Superintendent's Student Advisory Committee.
«District and school administrators overwhelmingly agree with ISBE that every high school junior should have access to a college entrance exam, a policy that promotes equity and access and that provides each and every student with greater opportunities in higher education,»
state Superintendent of Education Tony Smith said in a written statement.
«Alabama's plan builds a solid foundation and gives us a springboard from which to launch important improvement initiatives including the governor's Strong Start, Strong Finish program,» said Alabama
State Superintendent of Education Eric Mackey.
-- from the Foreword by Nancy S. Grasmick, PhD, co-executive director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and former Maryland State Superintendent of Education