It had its premiere during a presidential campaign in which both Al Gore and George W. Bush debated how to improve America's schools, by reinvestment or vouchers, and at a time when no less a national figure than Roy Romer, the former governor of Colorado and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, assumed the position of school superintendent in Los Angeles.
In the 1990s, Romania created the position of school mediator to make access to education easier for children from vulnerable groups.
Neither the Labour nor the Tory conference made particular commitments on education funding but it's a reasonable assumption that the semi-protected position of schools would continue.
These happened to be embarrassing e-mails about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposed appointment of Cathleen P. Black, an executive from the publishing world, to the position of schools chancellor.
Because Mr. Ashcroft brings to the moment a long record as a staunch conservative on positions of school desegregation, affirmative action, abortion, gay rights and other emotion-laden issues, the hearings may serve as the opening skirmish in an ideological war that is likely to continue over the next few years.
We used publicly available records about the geographic positions of schools (North Carolina Center for Geographic Center and Analysis 2002) and swine CAFOs (Wing et al. 2000, 2002) to generate location-based estimates of in-school exposure for each school.
To explain the overestimates, Zandbergen and Green illustrated the idiosyncratic positioning of schools and homes both within land parcels and along street segments and the uniformly higher percentage of false positive versus negative determinations of whether the geocoded locations were inside or outside the 50 1,000-m buffer radii examined in their studies.
D2 OBITUARIES B10 EDUCATION Seeking Chancellor's Post Harold O. Levy, New York City's interim schools chancellor, has been persuaded to declare his candidacy for the long-term position of chancellor, school system officials said.
"Given the negative working capital position of the school, and a networkwide pattern of significant expense-side budget variances, the long-term viability of this school" remains in question, Mr. Chuang wrote in both schools' probation orders.
So I take no pleasure at all in writing such a negative assessment of the financial position of my school.
Among those set to lose their jobs were literacy, numeracy, IT, arts and music teachers, Long said, as well as senior education officer roles, which he said were similar to the position of a school principal.
