Spotsylvania County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a suburb approximately 60 miles (90km) south of D.C. It is a part of the Northern Virginia region and the D.C. area. As of 2024,Spotsylvania County is the 14th most populated county in Virginia with 149,588 residences. Its county seat is Spotsylvania.
Roderick Raynor Paige served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige,who grew up in Mississippi,moved from college football coach and classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African American to serve as the U.S. education chief.
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is a public school district that serves Montgomery County,Maryland. With 210 schools,it is the largest school district in the state of Maryland. For the 2022–23 school year,the district had about 160,554 students taught by about 13,994 teachers,86.4 percent of whom had a master's degree or equivalent. MCPS receives nearly half of the county's budget—47% in 2023.
The Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District is a comprehensive regional public school district consisting of two four-year public high schools serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Franklin Lakes,Oakland,and Wyckoff,three suburban communities in Bergen County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Students entering the district as freshmen have the option to attend either of the district's high schools,regardless of their residence,subject to a choice made during eighth grade.
The Hillsborough Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Hillsborough Township in Somerset County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Students from Millstone attend the district's schools,originally as part of a sending/receiving relationship;the New Jersey commissioner of education merged Millstone's non-operating school district with the Hillsborough Township School District,effective July 1,2009.
Sandy Garrett is a retired American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Garrett is the former Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Spotsylvania County Public Schools is a public school district serving Spotsylvania County,Virginia. It consists of 17 Elementary,7 Middle,and 5 High Schools and has a total enrollment of nearly 24,000 students. The Spotsylvania County School division also has a Career and Technical Center and participates with other local school systems to offer the Commonwealth Governor's School. The district partners with area businesses to develop learning opportunities for the students.
The OregonDepartment of Education is the department responsible for implementing Oregon's public education policies,including academic standards and testing,credentials,and other matters not reserved to the local districts and boards. The department is overseen by the Governor,acting as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Agencies of the department include the Chief Education Office,the Early Learning Division,the Higher Education Coordinating Commission,the State Board of Education,and the Youth Development Division. The key roles of the agency include setting test standards and graduation requirements for statewide uniformity.
The North Bolivar Consolidated School District,formerly the North Bolivar School District is a public school district located in northern Bolivar County in the state of Mississippi. It is headquartered in Mound Bayou with an office in Shelby.
The Boulder Valley School District No. Re2 is a school district in Colorado,headquartered in the BVSD Education Center in unincorporated Boulder County,near Boulder. The district serves Boulder,Gold Hill,Jamestown,Lafayette,Louisville,Nederland,Superior,and Ward. Its area also includes portions of Broomfield and Erie.
Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) is a division of the state government of Maryland in the United States. The agency oversees public school districts,which are 24 local school systems—one for each of Maryland's 23 counties plus one for Baltimore City. Maryland has more than 1,400 public schools in 24 public school systems,with a 2019 enrollment of approximately 900,000. Of the student body,42% are on FARMS and 22% are Title 1.
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is the state education agency of Mississippi. It is headquartered in the former Central High School Building at 359 North West Street in Jackson.
John B. King Jr. is an American educator,civil servant,and former state and federal government official who is the 15th Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). He previously served as President &CEO of The Education Trust,a national civil rights nonprofit which seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps for students from preschool through college. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 10th United States Secretary of Education from January 1,2016,to January 20,2017,under President Barack Obama. In April 2021,King announced that he would be running for the Democratic nomination in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election,but came in sixth place in the primary election,losing to Baltimore author Wes Moore.
Carmen Fariña is a former New York City Schools Chancellor and head of the New York City Department of Education. Announced by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio on December 30,2013,she was the first New York City chancellor to have had schools supervision training and experience since Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew.
46 states initially adopted the Common Core State Standards,although implementation has not been uniform. At least 12 states have introduced legislation to repeal the standards outright,and 5 have since withdrawn from the standards.
Yvonne Gonzalez is a former school superintendent,serving in that capacity in the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) in 1997 as well as in Santa Fe Public Schools from 1994 to 1996. She also served as interim superintendent of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in 1994. Her career in education ended after a conviction in federal court for embezzling money from DISD.
Rebecca Holcombe is an American educator and politician who served as the Vermont Secretary of Education from 2014 to 2018. In 2022,Holcombe was elected to one of the two seats in the Windsor-Orange-2 district in the Vermont House of Representatives.
JoséM. Torres is an American educator who served as the interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools,superintendent of the Elgin Area School District U46,and superintendent of the San Ysidro Elementary School District. He also served as president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.
The Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District is the chief administrative officer of the District selected by the District's Board of Education. Portuguese-American educator and former superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools,Alberto M. Carvalho,has been serving as the District's superintendent since February 14,2022.
Ryan Walters is an American politician who has served as the elected Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2023 and who served as the appointed Oklahoma Secretary of Education between September 2020 and April 2023.
