Sentences with phrase «superintendents in»

The Next Generation (NxG) Leadership Series for Onboarding New Superintendents is the statewide induction program for first - year school superintendents in Kentucky.

So it isn't exactly shocking to see U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's move yesterday to issue a letter to state school superintendents in waiver states asking them to «incorporate, to a significant degree» more - accurate graduation rate data as part of the hodgepodge of new accountability systems approved under the waiver gambit.

«Superintendents in Florida have reached a point where they can not support the accountability system as it is moving forward.»

Superintendents in Buffalo and Syracuse are criticizing the changes, saying that the move to raise the passing scores is akin to moving goalposts.

Before Rouhanifard, Camden struggled with corruption and went through 13 superintendents in 20 years.

All other things being equal, superintendents in bigger districts should be paid more than in smaller districts.

The Feb. 18 letter, obtained by the Tribune on Thursday, said regional education superintendents in Illinois would gather the facts and report back to ISBE.

Across Alameda County, female Superintendents are paid, on average, $ 29,167 less than male Superintendents in base salary ($ 250,700 vs $ 221,533), partially because all larger districts are male - led (again, scoring the importance of Johnson - Trammell's appointment for the largest school district in Alameda County).

She teaches aspiring and practicing principals in Columbia University's Summer Principals Academy, and aspiring superintendents in the Urban Education Leaders Program.

Teens from the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team spent time surveying peers, teachers, principals, and superintendents in an effort to determine exactly how Kentucky schools leverage student voice as a tool for school improvement.

As part of survey development, PSA sent a draft of the instrument to human resource directors or superintendents in 32 LEAs and asked them to review it and provide feedback on the appropriateness and clarity of the wording and on the focus of the survey questions.

«Sharon started a website called The Broad Report in 2009 after her school district in Oakland, Calif., had three Broad - trained superintendents in quick succession, each appointed by the state.

School superintendents in large cities across the country — including Los Angeles, New York and Washington — have railed against laws that essentially grant teachers permanent employment status.

readers and superintendents in Connecticut's thirty Alliance Districts know, on March 28, 2013, Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, signed a contract with Mass Insight, a relatively new Massachusetts company, to «develop the state's turnaround strategy and improve the most struggling schools.»

Earlier this week members of the CAPSS Board of Directors were asked to solicit input from school superintendents in their immediate regions.

During her seven - year tenure, she gained a national reputation as one of the most effective urban district superintendents in the country for her successful implementation of «Excellence For All,» a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at improving teaching and learning and promoting community engagement.

On the other, local control isn't strong enough to clear the obstacles that state and federal governments place before reform - minded board members and superintendents in the relatively few locales where these can even be observed.

In matters of K — 12 education policy, state boards of education have traditionally been the focal point for policymaking, but recent decades have more often found governors and legislators driving reforms that state boards and state superintendents would not likely have undertaken on their own — and sometimes superseding those boards and superintendents in direct control.

Liz City and I are working with superintendents in Massachusetts where the state has just introduced new teacher evaluation regulations.

Three of the four districts changed school superintendents in the four - year study period, and the fourth nearly did so - a high level of turnover for rural districts.

Am I surprised that DCPS has had three superintendents in two years?

This is why it is often so hard for districts to manage superintendent transitions: it's rare that a single superintendent lasts numerous political cycles, and it is even rarer that multiple superintendents in a row will share a common strategic vision.

In February 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced the launch of By All Means: Redesigning Education to Restore Opportunity, a 2.5 year initiative aimed at supporting mayors and superintendents in leading cities to develop integrated systems of education and child well - being to close achievement gaps.

In Duval County, Florida, Superintendent John C. Fryer Jr. not only uses data rooms but has trained most of the school superintendents in neighboring Georgia on how to set them up and use them.

I'll be working closely with 15 superintendents in New Jersey and on a Harvard project in Soweto, South Africa.

Wisconsin law required school superintendents in the state to have a minimum of three years of elementary or secondary teaching experience and a state license to work as a supervisor in the schools.

In turn, 60 percent of superintendents in a recent Public Agenda survey agreed that they have had to «take what you can get» in hiring a school principal.

Instead, these are factors that should guide superintendents in the decisions they make when hiring principals.

Drawing on research with teachers, principals and superintendents in three urban districts, the Rennie Center's brief recommends that policymakers at both the state and district levels provide teachers with more time and support for the integration of data into their instructional planning.

Although some schools will have very competent superintendents in place who are willing to help, head teachers need to make sure that they will be trained or hold the necessary accreditations to carry out these tasks.

«You don't tend to think of yourself as one of the best superintendents in the country.»

A young Michigan man who runs a Web site that supplies information about public schools sent hundreds of e-mails this fall to superintendents in four states, demanding that they reveal their sexual orientation and threatening to list them as gay if they did not respond.

Gov. Ernie Fletcher told superintendents in a meeting in late April that he would use his executive authority to pay for government activities when a new fiscal year begins on July 1.

He completed the Broad Academy for superintendents in 2004, and then spent five years as deputy chancellor of the New York City schools under then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools chancellor Joel Klein.

After a very public courting by several large school systems, Rudolph F. Crew signed a contract last week to head the Miami - Dade County schools, a deal that will make him one of the highest - paid superintendents in the country.

In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11).

The system churned through six superintendents in 10 years, usually after brutal head butting with the city council and community activists.

And in the case of a district that has had a half dozen superintendents in a dozen years, and dismal academic outcomes all the way along, and on top of that has a new Superintendent in his first six months of superintendency, the board must intervene.

«It's time for me to do other things - finishing the book [Every Child, Every Classroom, Every Day], working with Larry Leverett on instructional improvement with 15 superintendents in New Jersey, supporting HGSE's efforts in South Africa, and assisting our graduates as they ascend to their superintendencies,» Peterkin said.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

Some school superintendents in the San Jose area say they are not anticharter; they just want the authority to control which schools enter their district.

The move comes on the heels of similar announcements by the superintendents in Houston and Dallas, the state's two largest districts.

Jewell - Sherman, among the faculty of the Ed School's Doctor of Education Leadership Program, earned a reputation as one of the most successful urban superintendents in the country in her former position as head of the Richmond, Va., public schools.

State superintendents in recent years have been given increased responsibilities, but in many cases their salaries have not kept pace.

Principals and assistant principals, for instance, are not required to notify superintendents in advance of their retirement, a circumstance that can create significant disruptions.

You can convince all the cafeteria ladies in the country (and even all the district superintendents in the country) and you'd still have to change policies at the federal level before anything happens.

But Wolf warned Suresh he won't really be happy unless the report «gets out to the people who matter — the school superintendents in Fairfax and Philadelphia and Texas.»

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress has released an issue brief on high turnover in school superintendents in the Hudson Valley region.

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

Three other superintendents, in the Long Island communities of Jericho, Levittown and Bay Shore, will earn a total compensation package worth more than $ 400,000, and 53 other superintendents in the state will collect upward of $ 300,000 in all.