Sentences with phrase «with local school superintendents»

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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.

The tour on July 19 began with a welcome from Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower, who led School Board Chair Kyla Cromer, Vice Chair Patsy Jordan and District 3 Board Member John Harmon, who represents the area; as well as senior staff and local and Atlanta media on the tour.

Also at 11 a.m., Schenectady City School District Superintendent Larry Spring holds a press conference on the local education funding increase with Sen. Jim Tedisco, and Assemblymen Angelo Santabarbara and Phil Steck, and Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy, Mont Pleasant Middle School Library Media Center 1121 Forest Rd., Schenectady.

Rochester City School District Superintendent, Barbara Deane - Williams meets with administrators at a local high sSchool District Superintendent, Barbara Deane - Williams meets with administrators at a local high schoolschool.

At the local government level, he would consolidate the operations of most school districts at the county level, with a single appointed superintendent, and also consolidate other local town and village operations at that level.

State Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) has asked local superintendents to meet with their school's community members — including parents, students, teachers, and PTAs — to organize their comments and questions relating to Common Core, teacher evaluations, standardized testing and student privacy, and submit them to his office by last Thursday.

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.

The decision, recommended by state education Superintendent Paul Pastorek, generated lively debate in the city, with some groups contending that diminished OPSB means school control is less local or less democratic.

One afternoon, I walked to our local school district's central office with three very amped - up students who, once inside, proceeded to confidently lay out their proposals for supporting teen mothers to none other than the assistant superintendent, with whom we did manage to snag a meeting.

For example: (1) teachers in charter schools have certification requirements as do other public schools; (2) charter schools are subject to academic standards set by the state; (3) charter schools must comply with local, state, and federal laws related to health, safety and civil rights; and (4) charter schools are «subject to the supervision of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education.»

But a new report based largely on interviews with 30 local union presidents who each have spent less than eight years in office paints an evolved picture of leaders who are often involved in collaborative relationships with their school superintendents; who have to work constantly to balance the needs of a new generation of teachers with the needs of older members; and who see the importance...

West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state - takeover success story: a state - hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.

Faced with the challenges of improving learning in every classroom, state governors and legislators, local school boards, superintendents, and principals are backing National Board Certification as an effective means to upgrade teaching.

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.»

Since mid-March, superintendents of four major school systems have spent two days each meeting with the school board and various local groups in the 54,000 - student district: Anthony S. Amato of Hartford, Conn.; Winston C. Brooks of Wichita, Kan.; Patricia Harvey of St. Paul, Minn.; and Eric J. Smith of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg County schools in North Carolina.

In addition to including prominent Minnesota school superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engschool superintendents, a former state finance director, a state board of education president, and local community leaders, the School Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engSchool Funding Task Force engaged MAP (with which coauthor Guthrie was engaged).

A credible threat of state intervention may push local superintendents to undertake their own improvement efforts and strengthen their hand in bargaining with school board members, unions, and others.

In fact, Reading School District superintendent Melissa Jamula, the daughter of a former Reading police captain, is by all accounts a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community and local and state government leaders.

Reading School District Superintendent Melissa Jamula is, by all accounts, a powerful advocate for the district with the local business community as well as local and state government leaders.

In the cases of both Phillips and Parker, separated by more than two hundred years, each school received broad but specified authority from the state, with diplomas granted on the basis of public «exhibitions» and with the expectation - the trust - that the details of the program and its assessment would be creatures of the schools» immediate community, subject, as deemed necessary, to the inspection by the state or, in the case of Phillips, the local superintendent of (public) schools.

We ask our members to work with their local school board to make the resolution a meeting agenda item, and that the board and superintendent work together to adopt their district's «I Love Public Education» resolution this fall.

He also cited «a four year battle with an anti-union superintendent and school district trying to destroy this local.»

providing the parent or guardian or unaccompanied youth with a signed and dated acknowledgment verifying that the local educational agency liaison has received the form petition and supporting documents and will either accept service of these documents on behalf of the school district employee or officer or school district or effect service by mail by mailing the form petition and supporting documents to any school district employee or officer named as a party and, if the school district is named as a party, to a person in the office of superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service on behalf of the school district;

In the name of of promoting collaboration between district and charter schools, the bill would require a charter applicant to hold a meeting with the local district superintendent.

In several states, local superintendents are pushing back against plans to rate schools with letter grades

The central problem with making growth the polestar of accountability systems, as Mike Petrilli and Aaron Churchill argue in «Stop Focusing on Proficiency Rates When Evaluating Schools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steadySchools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steadyschools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steady state.

That law would allow as many as 45 new charter schools to open in the next six years, run by nonprofit organizations under contract, or «charter,» with a local school district or with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Under Washington's proposed law, charter schools would have been public schools operated by private nonprofit groups that contract with local school boards or the state school superintendent.

Responsible for advocating on behalf of school superintendents, and assisting with their professional development needs, the organization's primary source of funding comes from the dues that local school districts pay so that their superintendents, assistant superintendents and other «central office administrative personnel» can be part of CAPSS.

It was an initiative the district had come close to accomplishing under the previous superintendent, when efforts to release students early were halted by a busing conflict with a local private school.

The new guidelines require ways to connect student - level data with college outcomes; evaluations that include tests for teachers, principals, school boards and superintendents; a focus on school overhauls; and the agreement of local teachers» unions.

Robert Lee, Ph.D., superintendent of Kenston Local School District, has announced that beginning with the 2012 - 2013 school year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cSchool District, has announced that beginning with the 2012 - 2013 school year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cschool year, middle and high school start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the cschool start times will be delayed 30 minutes to 7:50 a.m. Lee cited improving student achievement and well - being as the basis for the change.

AASA, the School Superintendents Association, highlighted a joint letter on the Dept. of Education's proposed «supplement, not supplant» regulations, which called them «far - reaching federal mandates» that are «in conflict with the spirit and intent of the underlying statute, which is premised on state and local...

According to Superintendent Wendy Sinnette, «There is a necessity to try and keep in sync with your local schools and your Rio Hondo League -LSB-.]

Your local school superintendent or community college president, along with her lackeys — the governing board, who are competing for who can spend your money fastest to satisfy their quest for monuments for their legacy.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

Wouldn't a district superintendent, a member of a local school board, or even a state superintendent of schools prefer to be associated with successful rather than sour education endeavors, with policies that help kids rather than harm them?

In «Two Minutes with Mitch» local radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on school reform ideas pushed by Lowell Holtz, a candidate for Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction.

Thomas J. Gentzel, executive director, National School Boards Association: «Our nation's 90,000 school board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisSchool Boards Association: «Our nation's 90,000 school board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisschool board members stand together with educators, principals, superintendents, chief state school officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisschool officers, parents and school business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of thisschool business officials to call upon lawmakers to end years of uncertainty and send a final education bill that restores local governance and community ownership to the president's desk by the end of this year.

Ed Croom, Superintendent of Johnston County Schools, said one of his concerns with the budget proposals is the shifting of state fiscal responsibilities to local counties.

In another session, I was with principals and administrators who ran some of the highest performing schools in their respective districts, and one of the youngest local superintendents in the NYCDOE!

The local school board makes the final decision and is not obligated to go with the superintendent's recommendation.

The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) will review each local wellness policy to ensure that it complies with federal requirements and shall examine whether schools comply with their policies.

In a video testimonial to the program's ability to cultivate durable educators, Smyrna School District Superintendent Deborah Wicks credited local grow - your - own efforts with Smyrna's position as having the best teacher retention out of all districts in the state.

With an assist from some local school boards and 275 district superintendents, the union's main arguments against the proposition are their usual ones — charters drain money from traditional public schools, charters cherry - pick their students, yada, yada, yada.

In order to receive the extra 5 cent reimbursement, the school must provide the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) with the names and addresses of the farms where the fresh, local foods originated.

Southwest Allen County Schools Superintendent Steve Yager, who co-chaired the panel with Ritz, says the result is a system that will better answer parents» questions about local sSchools Superintendent Steve Yager, who co-chaired the panel with Ritz, says the result is a system that will better answer parents» questions about local schoolsschools.

KIPP regional organizations are governed by a local board of directors, led by an executive director or superintendent, and often partner with neighboring schools and community based organizations.

Performance Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Goals The superintendent works with the local school board to formulate and implement the school division's mission, vision, and goals to promote student academic progress.

We participate in a call with local area Superintendents who share their thinking and decision - making regarding school closures and delays.