Great Hearts Academies might appeal the case to the state board of education, he said.
On the questionable side, in Idaho the state Board of Education approved new standards for online teachers.
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In California, county offices of education as well as the state board of education are designated as charter authorizers.
Shortly after, the state board of education approved the measure and the acting state education commissioner appointed five new board members to oversee the district's 20, 000 students.
Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature passed legislation Friday that calls for the state board of education to hold hearings on the standards and reconsider its 2010 decision to adopt them.
Mr. Laub, who didn't disclose any potential acquisitions from Tribeca, singled out a few documentaries for attracting strong interest from his colleagues, including "Don't Stop Believin'" and two titles that focus on social issues: "Burn, " an audience award-winner about Detroit fire fighters, and "Revisionaries, " which won a special jury prize for its close-up on the ideological battles dividing the State Board of Education in Texas.
In addition to his Netflix day job and presence on the boards of Microsoft and Facebook, the former President of the California State Board of Education is a lead investor in adaptive learning provider Dreambox.
He was president of the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004.
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The relationship between Mr. Thompson and Ms. Tisch, both Democrats, stretches back to the late 1990s, when she served on the state Board of Regents and he was the president of the city Board of Education.
The move by the state's Board of Education would put Connecticut among an increasing number of states, including New York, linking at least some part of teacher evaluations to how well their students score on standardized tests.
The city, however, must occasionally admit that it's part of a larger entity, one where the state education commissioner is hired by the Board of Regents, which is appointed by the Legislature.
Some recent failures, such as an experiment by Baltimore's school board, have added to the conviction that private provision of state-financed education is a bad idea.
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The Web site for the Mississippi State Board of Accountancy lists him as having failed to register his continuing professional education credits, his phone number is unlisted and efforts to reach him or his Washington lawyer David Schertler were unsuccessful.
Mr. Vallas, working with a state-appointed school board made up of five members of the Connecticut business and education community, has already "significantly reduced a large budget gap, made significant leadership changes, reviewed all the schools and is laying out a new direction of reforms, " said Robert Trefry, the school board's current chairman.
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