Sentences with phrase «state superintendent of schools»

While serving as the ASCD president, he will continue to work as the deputy state superintendent of schools for the Georgia Department of Education.

Citing a memo from State Superintendent of Schools Tom Torlakson in which he orders school districts to use the most recent AYP in place of a 2014 result, Judge Banks stated ACSD should have used Palm Lane's 2013 AYP, a test result that capped a decade - long record of failure.

The State Journal editorial board endorses Evers» bid for a third term as state superintendent of schools in the April 4 election.

During her three years as state superintendent of schools, Lillian Lowery guided Maryland through a period of rapid and often tumultuous change with a steady hand and a clear - eyed appreciation of the challenges facing educators, parents and students...

«Maryland's efforts, built on strong stakeholder input, are based on the belief that each child is important and deserves the highest quality education program,» said Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon.

The change is necessary, according to Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S. Grasmick, in part because of the increased academic focus in today's kindergartens.

The state board of education approved the plan on a 7 - to - 3 vote after a «fairly lively discussion» by board members, said State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S. Grasmick.

«When we look at the schools receiving D's and F's, many of them are in districts where they do not have a property base that would generate the money necessary for local school districts to «do something about it,»» said state superintendent of schools Dr. June Atkinson in response to Tillman's assertion that locals find a way to improve failing schools.

For instance, William Honig, the former state superintendent of schools in California, insisted that teachers instruct children in the common ethical convictions of the American people, «the ideals and standards we as a society hold to be worthy of praise and emulation.»

From left to right: Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, Georgia Organics Executive Director Alice Rolls, Cherokee County School District School Nutrition Director Tina Farmer, Georgia Department of Health Commissioner Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal, UGA Associate Dean for Extension Dr. Laura Perry Johnson, and Georgia State Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods.

In addition to test non-alignment issues, Louisiana state superintendent of schools John White seems to imply that the negative impact found in the NBER study was a result of the «transition cost» of students switching to new schools.

When Hockenberry asked Ronald Peiffer, Maryland's assistant state superintendent of schools, how he would respond to a drop in test scores, Peiffer said that differences in test scores from year to year really do not mean much.

asked the interim state superintendent of schools, Jack R. Smith.

To illustrate, suppose a recently board - appointed state superintendent of schools, dismayed with many students» negative sentiments toward schooling, pushes through a policy requiring all districts to install twice - a-year assessments of students» attitudes toward learning.

«Initially, [the goal] is to try to get out of the failing status,» said Larry Drawdy, Mississippi's deputy state superintendent of school improvement, oversight, recovery and conservatorship.

The federal Common Core curriculum was thoughtlessly ushered in by our current State Superintendent of Schools Tony Evers.

(Calif.) From state superintendent of schools to local board and bond ballots, voters in today's primary are faced with a laundry list of education issues as they head to the polls.

As the daughter of immigrants and a former undocumented student herself, Hanseul — now state superintendent of schools in the District of Columbia — has walked in the shoes of the nearly 65,000 undocumented students who are on track to graduate from high school next year — and the countless more who will follow in the years to come.

The ultimatum in a March 3 letter to State Superintendent of Schools June S. Atkinson drew criticism...

Maryland's veteran state superintendent of schools, Nancy Grasmick, agrees: «Very little research exists on how to bring about real sea change in schools....

State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox then brought the issue before the board.

It was just around the time that the search was getting underway that Jack Smith learned that his boss at the Maryland Department of Education, state Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery, was resigning.

The letter from the U.S. Department of Education to state Superintendent of Schools Steve Paine, dated Dec. 18, goes over several areas of proposed tweaking.

The panel of speakers will feature: Dr. Amelia Courts, President / CEO of The Education Alliance; West Virginia Senator Bob Plymale, Associate VP of Economic Development of the Marshall University Research Corps.; Chancellor Paul Hill of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission; and Dr. Michael Martirano, West Virginia State Superintendent of Schools.

The CTA just spent $ 11.2 million on independent expenditures to re-elect State Superintendent of Schools Tom Torlakson against an education reform candidate.

«I hope Marylanders will take advantage of several opportunities — including the new Maryland College - and Career - Ready Standards, the PARCC assessments, the selection of our next State Superintendent of Schools, and the election of the next Mayor of Baltimore — to put policies in place that will get more resources, and the power to use them, out of bureaucracies and into schools and classrooms.

Cobey said that he and NC State Superintendent of Schools, June Atkinson, disagree on the voucher program, saying that she has a problem with the accountability aspect of the program.

Tony Evers has been state superintendent of schools for eight years and has failed to fix the achievement gap.

State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon says her concerns about Verletta White's ethical conduct and questions about Baltimore County schools contracting practices are so great that she must reject the county board's decision to hire her as the district's permanent superintendent.

State Superintendent of Schools Tom Torlakson reads a book about California to a room of third - graders at Morello Park Elementary School in Martinez on March 1, 2013.

It is exemplified by the 1997 reelection - campaign promise of Delaine Easton, former state superintendent of schools, of «a garden in every school.»

Linda C. Schrenko, a former two - term Georgia state superintendent of schools, was indicted last week on federal charges that she stole more than $ 600,000 of federal education money.

John White, Louisiana state superintendent of schools, is refusing to release records related to the process of choosing schools to participate in the new voucher program.

In the years before he and his wife started a counseling practice together, Dr. Thorn worked as a teacher, school counselor, school principal, director of human resources, and assistant state superintendent of schools.»

Jack R. Smith, formerly Maryland's interim state superintendent of schools, is slated to take over the top job in Montgomery on July 1, following a long, sometimes fitful search for a schools chief following the 2015 resignation of Joshua P. Starr.

Mike Flanagan retired voluntarily a year ago, after ten years as state superintendent of public instruction, a job often referred to as state superintendent of schools.

Large bipartisan majorities in the Legislature approved the bill, and state Superintendent of Schools Tony Evers plans to flank Walker at Monday's signing ceremony.

When Lillian Lowery (now Maryland state superintendent of schools) took the helm of the Delaware Department of Education, she sought talent from all over the country: «I was a Broad Academy affiliate, and one of the first calls I made was to the Broad Foundation.

The change is necessary, according to Maryland's State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S. Grasmick, in part because of the increased academic focus in today's kindergartens.

That contradiction was most glaringly revealed in the race for state superintendent of schools in California, where incumbent and former teacher Tom Torlakson squared off against Marshall Tuck, a charter school administrator with a background in finance.

But dozens of attorneys for the governor, attorney general, state superintendent of schools, home - school associations, and religious liberty organizations urged the court to protect home schooling.

Maryland's state superintendent of schools, Nancy Grasmick, proposed the takeover of 11 Baltimore schools, all of which had sat on the state's watch list for at least a decade.

To that end, the state superintendent of schools, Steven Paine, introduced a sweeping agenda: the 21st Century Learning Initiative.

State Superintendent of Schools Karen B. Salmon made news Wednesday after she declined to approve Verletta White as Baltimore County's permanent school superintendent, citing White's recent ethic violations.

Half of them appoint a state superintendent of schools (or «commissioner of education») who is nearly always a career professional in the education field.

Appointed under the auspices of the State Superintendent of Schools, the department maintains a student advisory council.

This includes bigger roles in education reform for Milwaukee's mayor and the state superintendent of schools.

But pundits say the Vergara decision has also energized the already bitter race for state superintendent of schools — a contest where simmering hostilities over education reforms, mostly among Democrats, have broken into the mainstream.