Sentences with phrase «superintendent of schools tells»

The line dividing the inner - city schools from the growing suburbs «had been frozen by the county,»» the black former superintendent of schools tells Grant.

My wisdom and experience of 33 years as a Superintendent of Schools tell me that the APPR legislation is seriously flawed, regressive and is not enforceable.

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That's the kind of question people ask before they even get to academic questions,» Patrick Sanchez, Superintendent of Newark, California Unified School District told CNBC.

It's back to the bad old days of late uncertainty and delay, and as Tim Kremer of the School Boards Association and Bob Lowry of the Council of School Superintendents told us on CapTon last night, this is the first late budget under the 2 percent tax cap.

Sen. John Flanagan told me during a CapTon interview last night that he's open to the idea of a salary cap for public school superintendents, whose compensation was targeted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his budget address last week.

Mary Jones, superintendent of Wyandanch schools, told Newsday that the trooper would add to the district's existing programs that deal with student conduct.

Jonathan Ross, superintendent of the Blind Brook school district in Westchester County, told the Journal News that Souza graduated last year from Blind Brook High School in Rye Brook, where he was a standout soccer pschool district in Westchester County, told the Journal News that Souza graduated last year from Blind Brook High School in Rye Brook, where he was a standout soccer pSchool in Rye Brook, where he was a standout soccer player.

Superintendent Christopher Brown told his school board recently that the district would have to cut 62 full - and part - time positions, drop a year of middle school art and eliminate its seventh - grade reading program and high school Latin classes, among many other reductions.

«The anemic proposal from the governor has put us on notice,» Johnson, a past president of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, told an audience of about 150 regional school representatives at the East Meadow district's administrative cSchool Superintendents, told an audience of about 150 regional school representatives at the East Meadow district's administrative cschool representatives at the East Meadow district's administrative center.

«While the funding and educational models of our schools have largely stayed the same, the needs of students and communities have continued to increase,» one superintendent from the Mohawk Valley told the survey.

In addition, the New York State Council of School Superintendents had told the commissioner that getting students to the higher marks in English and math was proving difficult and had asked her to clarify the requirement for 2022.

Lorna Lewis, superintendent of Plainview - Old Bethpage schools, was one of many school chiefs who told Newsday they expect to maintain student services and programs next year, but are less confident about long - range prospects.

City Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash was told recently it's very difficult to notify parents when a student isn't doing well during a marking period because of tangled systems.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School District, told state legislators today that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for evaluating teachers relies too much on testing students for a static standard.

District Superintendent Dr. Libia Gil told Education World she was «easily persuaded by their display of courage and enthusiasm in presenting a well - thought - out proposal to benefit the school community — at no additional cost to the district.»

The 93 staff members of the sole high school in Central Falls, R.I., the state's poorest school district, were told they would be dismissed, using federal regulations as a justification, after negotiations between the district superintendent and the teachers» union broke down over...

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 Education World.

«Let me tell you this story,» says a soft - spoken Mary McDonald, superintendent of Memphis Catholic Schools, also a grandmother.

Michael FallonSpecial to Education Week Sacramento — California's student - dropout rate appears to be declining despite the establishment of more rigorous high - school - graduation requirements, Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig told a state l

«This was a completely new and very expensive [evaluation] system,» Kathleen Ware, former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati Public Schools, told Education World.

Philadelphia — In January 1980, Michael P. Marcase, superintendent of Philadelphia's public schools, told members of the city's board of education in his annual report that they had every reason to be proud of their administration of the school system.

All students in the Dallas Independent School District should be required to study Spanish before graduating from high school, the district's superintendent has told the board of educSchool District should be required to study Spanish before graduating from high school, the district's superintendent has told the board of educschool, the district's superintendent has told the board of education.

When I met with my superintendent to tell him I was going to go, he appreciated the fact I was going but told me that I would lose four days of summer school pay because there was no provision for summer leave.

Dallas — Educators have failed to «put aside blinders» in confronting radical shifts in the demographic makeup of schools and a decline in the proportion of the population that has a direct interest in public education, Superintendent Billy R. Reagan of the Houston Independent School District told a group of educators here late last month.

Standardized tests do nt tell the whole story,» superintendent of schools Dr. Sally Pryor told educators at the annual convention of the Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD).

Diane M. Place, superintendent of the 1,700 - student Towanda, Pennsylvania, school district, told me she received hate mail and «horrendous calls» when she recommended a $ 30 - a-household tax increase to close a $ 2.2 million gap in her $ 24 million budget.

Since instigating the trimester plan, Mark Keen, superintendent of Westfield - Washington Schools, told Education World that student attendance and achievement are up, discipline problems have declined, and many students now have the time to enroll in advanced courses, apprenticeships, mentoring, or internship programs.

Florida Fails Children of Miami - Dade County «Our anticipated gains in the number of foreign - born students alone will require us to build one elementary school a month just to keep up,» Roger C. Cuevas, Miami - Dade County school superintendent, told Education World.

After making headlines as Georgia's superintendent of schools for eight years, Linda C. Schrenko seems to have finally told the local news media how she really feels about them — and may be more popular for it.

«It makes a difference,» Seymour Fliegel, a 30 - year veteran of New York City's school wars and a former deputy superintendent in East Harlem, told me, «that the same guy who can command the garbage trucks and police cruisers is talking about education.»

Gmitro told LA School Report that this was part of the final portion of their contract with the district when they led the search for the new superintendent.

Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas said a representative from the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector recently approached his office and told him they were partnering with a group of Bridgeport parents to develop and submit an application.

But the board told Superintendent Pascal Mubenga to plan for thousands of students who will likely be without teachers May 16, including nearly 500 high school students scheduled to take Advanced Placement exams.

Even though, as NPR reports, in some classes as many as over 50 % of children are performing above grade level, unofficially, school principals and superintendents tell parents that if their kids are bored, that's what Gifted and Talented programs are for.

Commenting on SBAC's shortcomings, Joseph Cirasuolo, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), acknowledged, «It gives you a score at the end of the game; it doesn't tell you why you won or lost.»

According to Pat Fling of ACTIONN, Washoe County school superintendent Pedro Martinez told the group Tuesday night that he'll recommend putting $ 200,000 toward the program in the coming budget.

Illinois State Superintendent Tony Smith shared inspiring words while realistically addressing the challenges that face students, educators, and families on a daily basis, stating «schools can be the hubs of opportunity infrastructure but we have to tell the truth about the history».

He told a groups of school superintendents last November that he was «fascinated» by the backlash 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.»

But, as Maryland Schools Superintendent Lillian Lowery told us, the tests still provide important information about areas of strength and needed improvement.

Students, parent, other teachers and staff, administrators, school board members and even our superintendent have come back to tell me this educational opportunity created more learning than anything else I have done in my 17 years of teaching.

Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of Florida's largest school district, told the State Board of...

Sumter County superintendent Richard Shirley told the board that the Florida Association of District School Superintendents supports changing the amendment.

«We are looking at the other Magnolia charter schools through the Office of the Inspector General,» Superintendent John Deasy told LA School Report today.

I attended a Faculty Focus Meeting with Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Antwan Wilson where he expressed a desire to make Oakland the best and most desirable school district in the Bay Area for both teachers and students, but right now, as one veteran OUSD teacher told me, «Oakland does a great job of training teachers for other districts.&School District Superintendent Antwan Wilson where he expressed a desire to make Oakland the best and most desirable school district in the Bay Area for both teachers and students, but right now, as one veteran OUSD teacher told me, «Oakland does a great job of training teachers for other districts.&school district in the Bay Area for both teachers and students, but right now, as one veteran OUSD teacher told me, «Oakland does a great job of training teachers for other districts.»

«I don't know whether we're in an age of insanity or stupidity,» she told the capacity crowd, which included former U.S. Rep. David Obey, Madison School Superintendent Daniel Nerad, WEAC executive director Mary Bell, current and former school board members from around the area, UW scholars, students and many, many teaSchool Superintendent Daniel Nerad, WEAC executive director Mary Bell, current and former school board members from around the area, UW scholars, students and many, many teaschool board members from around the area, UW scholars, students and many, many teachers.

But Local District Central Superintendent Roberto Martinez told LA School Report that he thought the meeting went very well and that they answered many of the parents» concerns.

Quoting President Teddy Roosevelt throughout what verged on a political stump speech, Evers told the Capitol rotunda full of school superintendents, lawmakers and other state officials that Roosevelt «is calling us to stand tall in the face of adversity.»

State Superintendent for Public Instruction, Dr. June Atkinson, told attendees at a luncheon last month that among all of the insults to public education that this year's state budget offers, school vouchers are her «favorite.»

As Wendy Lecker explains in her column entitled, «Opting out, parents answer to a higher authority,» the Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and the Malloy administration are telling local school superintendents, principals and teachers that they are to instruct parents that their child MUST take Connecticut's standardized tests and MUST take the new poorly designed and unfair Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test.

The additional letter tells parents that nearly every school in Washington won't meet the No Child Left Behind requirements this year, and that the 28 superintendents are «proud of the significant academic progress our students are making.»