Sentences with phrase «time superintendents of schools»

The press release from Paul Vallas, the «education reformer» who serves as Bridgeport's $ 229,000 part - time superintendent of schools, invited the media and public to attend a major announcement at Bridgeport City Hall.

It was only a month ago that, fresh off the 2012 state - wide Connecticut Mastery Tests, Bridgeport's $ 229,000 part - time superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas, announced that Bridgeport's students would be given yet another battery of standardized tests at the beginning of June.

Not exact matches

The same chapter also explores school - start times, a topic of heated debate this year in Palo Alto after Superintendent Max McGee decided to eliminate academic classes during the early - morning zero period at Gunn High Sschool - start times, a topic of heated debate this year in Palo Alto after Superintendent Max McGee decided to eliminate academic classes during the early - morning zero period at Gunn High SchoolSchool.

I have been through 6 Superintendents and countless top level bureaucrats in that time and made plenty of enemies myself — just so you know that I am no knee - jerk supporter of school districts or school bureaucracies.

They still won't take it out, and won't for a long time (if ever) as per my conversation with the Superintendent of Food and Nutrition for our local school.

* 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

«Every time Ms. Jordan speaks, I learn something,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

Students were boarding the buses at this time and left the school safely at the time of the incident,» Superintendent Stephen Young said in the notice.

«Orchard Park schools are looking forward to a close partnership with the Department of Social Services, and to further opening the lines of communication to support all of our students in difficult times,» said Matthew McGarrity, Superintendent of Orchard Park Central School District.

Cash was recommended to the board by state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who knew him from her time as superintendent of schools in Hillsborough County, Florida.

Neil O'Brien, president of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, joked that the new teacher performance standards were the 4.0 version, as they have been revised four times just since 2010.

There were outbursts from the audience as well who, at times, accused the board's majority and interim schools superintendent of racial bias.

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.

During his time as superintendent, the Rockland County Psychiatric Center, with which the district has a relationship, has doubled its number of school psychologists from two to four, and increased its number of social workers from one to three.

In the seventh change of superintendents in eight years, the board chooses Susan Johnson, a two - time former Hempstead schools chief who unsuccessfully sued the district over her firing in 2005.

After much controversy over the selection of a new Buffalo schools superintendent School Board Member Larry Quinn says it is time to move forward.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan's State of the City address and the interim superintendent for Albany City Schools.

The superintendent acts as the initial receiver and has a limited amount of time to make academic gains at those schools before they can be placed in the hands of an outside entity.

«At a time when our budget is so tight, this recovery aid is both needed and appreciated,» said Dr. Joel M. Klein, Superintendent of Schools, East Ramapo Central School District.

Scott Osborne announced he would be stepping down as the superintendent of Westport Central School in order to focus full - time on his duties at Elizabethtown - Lewis Central.

«On Sept. 1, 2017, I will be returning to my full - time duties at Elizabethtown - Lewis CSD as Superintendent of Schools,» Osborne said a statement.

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Bersin was one of that group of reforming superintendents who were being brought in at the time from outside the world of education to manage big - city school systems, the most prominent being Joel Klein in New York City.

Speakers — who as a group represented a range of opinions on extended learning time — included American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) cofounder David Levin, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson, Ford Foundation President Luis Ubinas, Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer Paul Reville, and New York University Professor Pedro Noguera.

But rarely do they have time for that, noted Dr. Martha Bruckner, superintendent of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Community School District, which received a $ 425,000, three - year grant from the Iowa West Foundation to fund seven SAMs beginning this year.

Superintendents, principals, and others in positions of authority in school systems are instrumental in providing the vision, time, and resources to support continual professional learning, a positive school climate, and success for all students (Leithwood et al., 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012).

Regardless of the school board's origin, superintendents should be in harmony with the board's vision for change, should be clear about the district's goals for student performance, and should be given a reasonable period of time in which to attain those goals.

Tasked with deciding whether to close schools due to bad weather, superintendents must weigh concerns about student and staff safety against the loss of student learning time.

Two years later, the winter 1964 — 1965 issue was devoted to «education and race relations» and included essays on social psychology and racial balance and another look at Prince Edward County, this time by Neil Sullivan, Ed.D.» 57, a New York superintendent who took a leave of absence in 1963 to become superintendent — at the request of then - attorney general Robert Kennedy — of a privately funded Prince Edward Free School.

Clear Expectations Required for Next Hillsborough Superintendent, Expert Says Tampa Bay Times, 1/22/15 «Andres Antonio Alonso, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said Elia's abrupt dismissal without cause came as a surprise to the world that knows the Hillsborough district as one focused on stability and innovation, not turbulence.»

The superintendent at that time announced his plans to expand it to half of the district's schools; local media repeated his message — likely fueling teachers» hopes for future positions.

You were superintendent of Chicago Public Schools when the teachers union went on strike for the first time in 25 years.

Tom Boasberg, superintendent of schools in Denver, has attended the program five times with his teams.

After a 38 - year career in education and being named Missouri School Public Relations Association Superintendent of the Year in 2010, Adams was looking forward to spending time with his grandchildren.

These supports include additional funding of $ 20,000 per school (up to a maximum of $ 170,000 per district) for superintendent and principal mentoring and monitoring; $ 15,000 for teacher release time for job - embedded professional learning; 2 provincial professional learning sessions for principal and teacher teams from all schools involved; and Ministry developed documents, resources and facilitation, including tracking templates for the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.

Superintendent Roy Romer announced the deadline for the first time this month and also revealed the proposed locations of the new schools.

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. Gardner.

Maria Goodloe - Johnson felt she had no time to lose when she took over as the superintendent of the Charleston County, S.C., schools in the fall of 2003.

The failure by schools to meet the physical education mark is a factor of time, money and priorities, says Donna Anthony, OSSE's assistant superintendent of health and wellness.

Not only are local superintendents of KIPP schools better positioned than our national staff to identify and groom local talent and ensure long - term sustainability; the pooling and sharing of support services allows the energy and time of our school leaders to remain focused on the highest - value activities: working with faculty, students, and families.»

(See Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal, Sharon Otterman in the New York Times, Rachel Monahan in the Daily News, Geoff Decker at Gotham Schools, Yoav Gonen in the NY Post, Robert Lowry at the New York Council of School Superintendents, and the National School Boards Association.)

On Top of the News Cami Anderson, Picked by Christie, Is Out as Newark Schools Superintendent 6/23/15 New York Times

Following her time in San Francisco, Ackerman joined the staff at Columbia University's Teachers College until she was called back to service as superintendent of Philadelphia Public Schools from 2008 to 2011.

A network of superintendents, principals, teachers, and central office staff agree to meet at regular intervals, usually monthly, each time at a different school.

Consider the school personnel who already understand, intuitively, how this principle works: the music teacher whose program has been cut in order to fund computer labs; the principal who has had to beef up security in order to protect high - priced technology; the superintendent who has had to craft an «acceptable use» agreement that governs children's use of the Internet (and for the first time in our history renounces the school's responsibility for the material children are exposed to while in school).

Even as school officials across the country continue to weigh cutbacks because of the still - bleak economy, Greg Murry, the superintendent of this 9,000 - student district, faces an enviable challenge: how to spend, within a tight time frame, an economic - stimulus windfall of up to $ 7 million.

(The superintendent and staff would be paid real salaries and be housed in a real office; the school board would be made up of various «education experts» or maybe «stakeholders» who, like real school board members, would volunteer their time.)

Prior to his time in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized effort to improve literacy instruction.

This was a problem for Ellen Peterson, now an assistant superintendent for Mansfield Public Schools in Mansfield, Mass., who was, at the time, director of teaching, learning, and technology for Norwell (Mass.) Public Schools.

By the time she left in 2008 to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she had been named Virginia's superintendent of the year and could boast of impressive numbers, including increasing the percentage of schools meeting state accreditation from 20 to 91.