Sentences with phrase «top job in a district»

The 58 - year - old administrator has said he will resign at the end of this school year from the top job in a district grappling with unyielding academic shortcomings, alleged test tampering, and missing candy money and equipment.

Not exact matches

While such dual - superintendency jobs used to be common in the state, many districts in the Chicago area rejected them because sharing one top administrator was too demanding in bigger school systems.

His second day on the job as Minneapolis Public Schools» new top chef, Bertrand Weber stood before an audience made up of district brass who would probably sooner eat the contents of their sock drawers than anything produced in this cinderblock hell and sweetly informed them that they would soon be thinking of it as the Culinary Center.

Acting Police Commissioner John Barry has said he is not interested in the top job and will join Suffolk District Attorney Tim Sini as his top investigator once a new police commissioner is selected.

11:45 a.m. — District of Columbia mayoral candidate Vincent Gray tells CNN creating jobs in struggling African American neighborhoods is his top priority if he wins.

Singas, 49, of Manhasset, became top deputy in 2011; and when Rice left for Congress in January, Singas became Nassau's acting district attorney and has handled the job ably.

With less than three weeks to go until the Democratic primary for Rep. Charles Rangel's seat in Congress, he and his top rival, Sen. Adriano Espaillat, courted voters by promising to bring sorely needed jobs to the struggling Harlem and Bronx neighborhoods that make up much of their district.

Signaling that schools will be a top priority during the upcoming legislative session, Ducey outlined plans for an education - heavy agenda, including statewide teacher pay raises, increased spending on all - day kindergarten, and a $ 1,000 signing bonus for new teachers who take jobs in low - income districts.

Minnesota's largest districts are pitted against school systems in other states that can afford to offer bigger salaries and better raises for top jobs.

Superintendents Prepared, a popular program that trains educators for the rigors of the top job in urban school districts, has fine - tuned its approach to provide more intensive training and additional support for its graduates in the field.

The appointment of publishing executive Cathleen P. Black to be the new chancellor of New York City's schools was in jeopardy last week after an advisory panel and the state commissioner of education made it clear they would like to see someone with education experience serving in the district's top job.

In her job as the district's top business official, Ms. Zuber, 43, deals in the world of school finance, handling everything from payroll to budgeting to insurancIn her job as the district's top business official, Ms. Zuber, 43, deals in the world of school finance, handling everything from payroll to budgeting to insurancin the world of school finance, handling everything from payroll to budgeting to insurance.

Smith said search firms brought in to recruit new superintendents are being prodded to diversify the talent pool they present for consideration to top district jobs.

What the group came up with in that all - important category of teacher and leader effectiveness is a plan to give those districts that have endorsed the state's Race to the Top application 13 months to create new teacher and principal evaluations that will, at a minimum, link 30 percent of job performance to growth in student achievement.

Ruopp and others say that although such a job is important, it does not replace having an advocate at the top level of leadership in the large school district.

Alexa Cunningham will claim the top job in Salt Lake City School District this July after a unanimous vote by the district's school board MondaDistrict this July after a unanimous vote by the district's school board Mondadistrict's school board Monday night.

«I was going through every piece of data I could imagine,» says Griffin, 57, who started as a middle school math teacher in Seminole in 1982 and rose through the ranks of the central Florida district to the top job.

-- To boost the quality of teachers and principals, especially in high - poverty schools and hard - to - staff subjects, states and districts should be able to identify effective teachers and principals — and have strategies for rewarding and retaining more top - notch teachers and improving or replacing ones who aren't up to the job.

Study: Districts are in the earliest stages of figuring out how to recast the assistant principal's job so it can serve as both a proving ground and an apprenticeship for the top slot.