Former Obama and NY training czar John King was named the brand new SUNY chancellor.
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Kudos to the State College of New York trustees (and Gov. Kathy Hochul, whom they certainly consulted) for tapping John King as SUNY’s fifteenth chancellor. He ought to function a much-needed drive for excellence in any respect ranges in New York training.
And never simply larger training: SUNY’s chancellor serves a significant function on public Okay-12 constitution colleges, making suggestions on granting new charters (and, the place wanted, revoking previous ones).
That’s notably necessary now. The opposite constitution authorizer, the state Board of Regents, has turn into a drive for mediocrity (or worse).
King has served admirably as US secretary of training from 2015 to 16 and New York training commissioner from 2011 to 14. He’s been a champion of excessive requirements, but additionally of high quality community-college training. And he’s already vowed to additionally bolster SUNY’s analysis establishments as a part of his mission “to make the perfect public larger training system within the nation.”
His report on charters is great. He co-founded Roxbury Prep, a prime constitution center faculty in Massachusetts, and helmed Unusual Colleges, a community of nationally acknowledged charters. In 2011, he was inducted into the nationwide Constitution College Corridor of Fame by the Nationwide Alliance for Public Constitution Colleges.
And he’s warned that “arbitrary caps” on charters, like these now stopping the sector’s progress in New York Metropolis, “don’t make sense.“
We hope his appointment is a sign that Hochul is able to raise these caps.
However for now, at the least New York has at the least one prime training chief who believes each in excessive requirements and in fostering success for youngsters of all backgrounds and ranges of capacity.
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