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.
Chester recently laid out his views on education reform in an op - ed column, co-written with
Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White, that was published in The Washington Post in March.
Washington, D.C. (July 18, 2017)-
Mississippi Superintendent of Education and Council of Chief State School Officers President - Elect Carey Wright today testified at the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), «ESSA Implementation: Exploring State and Local Reform Efforts.»
SB26 (Sen. Chambliss)- Notification provided to school of low - risk sex offender expanded to included
local superintendent of education and board of education, school is required to report to local law enforcement, state board of education required to develop and local board of education to adopt a model policy for monitoring juvenile sex offenders in school.
Louisiana state
Superintendent of Education Paul G. Pastorek announced on May 4 that Mr. Vallas had agreed to serve as the superintendent of the Recovery School District.
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This reversal of fortune has been spurred in part by «a growing body of research that single - gender, especially at the middle school level, works,» says South Carolina
Superintendent of Education Jim Rex, who campaigned on a platform that included making single - gender schools an option in every school district in the state.
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.
The
California superintendent of education and even the National Science Foundation official in charge of financing the new math initiatives of the 1990s launched a campaign mischaracterizing the new California standards as a return to rote memorization and other evils of «traditional» mathematics teaching, as if pedagogical style were the issue.
The first, proposed
by Superintendent of Education Charlie G. Williams, is a 41 - point plan to «accelerate the progress and improvements» in the schools.
Prior to this position, she led the Early Childhood Professional Development Unit at the District of Columbia Office of the State
Superintendent of Education where she developed and monitored a wide range of professional development resources designed to increase the quality of early learning programs and advance cohorts of early childhood professionals.
So reads the opening line of a report that Alabama
superintendent of education Joseph Morton sent to his congressional delegation last June, in which he recounts how the program has raised reading achievement for poor students in his charge.
The icing on the anecdotal cake came in the summer of 2003 with news that a
Massachusetts superintendent of education, Wilfredo Laboy, had failed - for the third year in a row - a literacy test that the state's high school seniors needed to pass in order to graduate.
The measure represented a scaled - down version of an earlier proposal that
Superintendent of Education Robert Leininger had said would «kick the legs from underneath local school districts which are trying to recover from the state's past neglect in education funding.»
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.
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.
Part of that, Turque reported at the time, involved tying teacher licensing to classroom performance --- which falls under the bailiwick of State
Superintendent of Education Deborah Gist.
«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.
South Carolina's
Superintendent of Education Mick Zais has already made it abundantly clear that his state will not be applying, saying: «The Race to the Top program expands the federal role in education by offering pieces of silver in exchange for strings attached to Washington.
«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.
As my friend [former California state
superintendent of education] Bill Honig likes to say, you can summarize NCLB as a «test and punish» approach to accountability.
SCWS began the school year by opening their new facility in Columbia with a ribbon - cutting and open house ceremony where former South Carolina
Superintendent of Education Inez Tenenbaum delivered the keynote address.
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is the authorizer for all Type 2 and Type 5 public charter schools and also appoints the State
Superintendent of Education who oversees the Recovery School District.
In 1998, she became the
Deputy Superintendent of Education for the South Carolina Department of Education and worked with educators, legislators, and the business community to pass the Education and Economic Development Act, the National Board Certification for teachers, and other progressive education reforms.
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