Sentences with phrase «superintendent of education john»

State Superintendent of Education John White said GEO Prep has done a good job in its two years of classes.

A member of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education said Monday she wants the panel to vote next month on whether state Superintendent of Education John White should keep his job.

Earlier in the day, state Superintendent of Education John White said the aid would be stopped following a ruling by 19th Judicial District Court Judge Wilson Fields, of Baton Rouge.

In a prepared statement, state Superintendent of Education John White said the state ranked second nationally on gains by fourth - graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the past two years.

Earlier this month, state Superintendent of Education John White trumpeted the fact that Louisiana public high school students showed greater gains this year in earning college credit than those in any other state except Massachusetts.

While low nationally, the number of public high school students who earned college credit this year rose 10 percent, state Superintendent of Education John White said Thursday.

State Superintendent of Education John White, a former high school AP teacher, said those results are encouraging, but just the start.

Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White said he will request that the state legislature analyze the number of additional students enrolled by participating schools and commit appropriate and full funding during the next legislative session.

Good Morning The Advocate reports BESE will hold a closed - door discussion Aug. 16 on state Superintendent of Education John White's contract.

Good Morning Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White receives a favorable job evaluation from BESE.

The Advocate reports BESE will hold a closed - door discussion Aug. 16 on state Superintendent of Education John White's contract.

In addition, BESE voted without objection to order talks between state Superintendent of Education John White and Jindal's office in a bid to resolve the dispute.

The Louisiana Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, commends Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White for his plan that would remove all of the 362 students on the Louisiana Scholarship Program waiting list, and allow them to enroll in the private school of their choice.

State Superintendent of Education John White said he respected the 2016 compromise that revamped the formula.

I view that as the wrong question to ask,» Louisiana State Superintendent of Education John White said Monday at an event hosted by the Urban Institute.

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.

State Superintendent of Education John White offered the correct policy response: All voucher students must participate in the state assessments, which include science.

Former Arizona state superintendent of education John Huppenthal, for example, has insisted that «it is unreasonable to ask Arizona schools and Arizona taxpayers to pay for these expenses.»

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Locally, Charles Russo, superintendent of East Moriches schools, was one of the few educators to speak in favor of Common Core testing at forums that featured then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., held last year and in late 2013.

«We are really pleased to be partnering with John and Todd on this initiative and to have the ability to offer our students additional support in their transition from high school to higher education,» said Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Facin.

− Stanley S. Litow, Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs & President, IBM International Foundation (Chair) − Senator John Flanagan, Senate Education Committee Chair (Senate appointee) − Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Assembly Education Committee Chair (Assembly appointee) − Linda Darling - Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Graduate School of Education − Todd Hathaway, Teacher, East Aurora High School (Erie County) − Alice Jackson - Jolley, Parent (Westchester County) − Anne Kress, President, Monroe Community College − Nick Lawrence, Teacher, East Bronx Academy for the Future (NYC) − Delia Pompa, Senior Vice President of Programs, National Council of La Raza − Charles Russo, Superintendent, East Moriches UFSD (Long Island) − Dan Weisberg, EVP & General Counsel, The New Teacher Project

A group of Suffolk County school district superintendents have sent a letter to state education commissioner John King urging him to address their concerns about over-testing, the fast pace of mandating Common Core standards inside the classroom and issues with new teacher and principal evaluation programs, according to Friday's Newsday cover story.

About half of those were in the Anchorage area, and more than a third of the vacancies were in special education, John Holst, superintendent of the Sitka (Alaska) School District told Educatieducation, John Holst, superintendent of the Sitka (Alaska) School District told EducationEducation World.

A Michigan appeals court has upheld Michigan Gov. John Engler's executive orders to transfer vast authority over school policy from the state board of education to the state schools superintendent.

By contrast, the Carnegie task force included a generous representation of public education's political establishment: the presidents of both national teacher unions (the National Education Association's Mary Hatwood Futrell and the American Federation of Teachers» Albert Shanker), two state education superintendents (California's Bill Honig and Minnesota's Ruth Randall), an ed school dean, the New York Times «s lead education columnist (Fred Hechinger), and the ubiquitous John W.education's political establishment: the presidents of both national teacher unions (the National Education Association's Mary Hatwood Futrell and the American Federation of Teachers» Albert Shanker), two state education superintendents (California's Bill Honig and Minnesota's Ruth Randall), an ed school dean, the New York Times «s lead education columnist (Fred Hechinger), and the ubiquitous John W.Education Association's Mary Hatwood Futrell and the American Federation of Teachers» Albert Shanker), two state education superintendents (California's Bill Honig and Minnesota's Ruth Randall), an ed school dean, the New York Times «s lead education columnist (Fred Hechinger), and the ubiquitous John W.education superintendents (California's Bill Honig and Minnesota's Ruth Randall), an ed school dean, the New York Times «s lead education columnist (Fred Hechinger), and the ubiquitous John W.education columnist (Fred Hechinger), and the ubiquitous John W. Gardner.

Louisiana's superintendent of education, John White, argued that the results proved that concerns about over-regulation were unfounded.

Yet in the last year, education leaders from across the country have beaten a path here to see what they might learn from state education superintendent John White; his assistant superintendent of academics, Rebecca Kockler; and their colleagues.

When Superintendent Jerry Wartgow retired in 2005, the Denver Board of Education chose Michael Bennet, chief of staff for then mayor John Hickenlooper, to replace him.

John White, the Louisiana Education Superintendent, has a plan to remove voucher students off of the waitlist.

«The trouble is that by not requiring knowledge of any specific book or facts, reading tests have contributed to the false impression that reading is mainly about having skills such as being able to summarize, and not about background knowledge,» noted Lousiana's state superintendent of education, John White.

Fortunately, his successor, John King, the former state superintendent of education in New York, knows firsthand the value of having a supportive partner in Washington.

At 35, John Eriksen, one of the nation's youngest Catholic - school superintendents, offers a ruthless assessment of parochial education.

John White was named Louisiana State Superintendent of Education in January of 2012.

... It's just a question of how long,» Education Superintendent John White said Friday (June 24).

Jindal's willingness to scratch PARCC is another blow for those who have championed Common Core, including Department of Education Superintendent John White, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education president Chas Roemer and several state lawmakers.

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Richard Abernathy — Executive Director, Arkansas Association for Educational Administrators Senator Shane Broadway — Arkansas State Legislature John Brown, III — Executive Director, Windgate Foundation Senator Steve Bryles — Arkansas State Legislature Gary Compton — Superintedent, Bentonville Public Schools Debbie Davis — Director, Arkansas Leadership Academy Melanie Fox — Little Rock School Board Luke Gordy — Executive Director, Arkansans for Education Reform Jerry Guess — Superintendent, Camden - Fairview School District Frank Holman — Superintendent, Lincoln School District Senator Jimmy Jeffress — Arkansas State Legislature Laura Kellams — Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Tom Kimbrell — Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Education Alice Mahony — Arkansas State Board of Education Matt McClure — Superintendent, Cross County School District John Pijanowski — University of Arkansas, College of Education and Health Professions Representative David Rainey — Arkansas State Legislature Vicki Saviers — Arkansas State Board of Education Quentin Suffren — Chief, Academic Officer, The Learning Institute Valerie Tatum — Executive Director, Covenant Keepers Charter School Representative Bruce Westerman — Arkansas State Legislature

Lewis M. Branscomb, chief scientist of the International Business Machines Corporation, chairman; Alan K. Campbell, executive vice president of ara Inc., Philadelphia; Mary Hatwood Futrell, president, National Education Association; John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and founder of the Independent Sector; Fred M. Hechinger, president of the New York Times Company Foundation Inc.; Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction; James B. Hunt, former governor...

More than a dozen critics of Louisiana Education Superintendent John White asked a judge Tuesday to either require White to be reconfirmed by the state Senate by the June 8 end of the regular legislative session or declare his post vacant.

Since most of the students using vouchers are black, it is, as State Education Superintendent John White pointed out to the New Orleans Times - Picayune, «a little ridiculous» to argue that the departure of mostly black students to voucher schools would make their home school systems less white.

LA Unified board member Steve Zimmer, who just spent a weekend with Superintendent John Deasy talking education policy in Washington D.C., is getting another side of the story next week when he hosts Diane Ravitch — and actor Matt Damon — at Occidental College.

The Advocate: Education Superintendent John White's «somewhat peculiar» absence noticed at State Capitol after years of higher profile http://bit.ly/1Ue1vnl

Last month, the Louisiana state superintendent of education, John White, complained that NAEP's switch to digital - based testing penalized his state.

Graduates include Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy; Chris Barbic, superintendent of the Achievement School District in Tennessee; and Rhode Island Commissioner of EducationSuperintendent John Deasy; Chris Barbic, superintendent of the Achievement School District in Tennessee; and Rhode Island Commissioner of Educationsuperintendent of the Achievement School District in Tennessee; and Rhode Island Commissioner of Education Deborah Gist.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy has expressed great enthusiasm for the 10 - district effort to win a so - called «waiver» from some aspects of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which sets accountability rules and governs the distribution of billions in education funding from Washington.

«The state stands ready to help in whatever way necessary to ensure that the education of the students in these schools is not compromised,» Georgia state Superintendent John D. Barge said in a statement after the ruling.

Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy, who was the first witness to testify on behalf of the students in the eight - week trial, said: «This is a truly historic day for our education system.

This July 29 letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of Education John King by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education; AASA, the School Superintendents Association; the George W. Bush Institute; the National Association of Elementary School Principals; the National Association of Secondary School Principals; the NYC Leadership Academy; New Leaders; the National Institute for School Leadership; the National Urban League; the University Council for Educational Administration; and The Wallace Foundation.

Lewis, who will headline the «Rally to Defend Public Education» at 7 p.m. May 1 at Monona Terrace, along with Texas school Superintendent John Kuhn, makes no secret of which side she is on.