RI Breakfast Series - April
Price: $55.00
Member Price: $30.00
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| Date: | Wed, 04/21/2010 - 7:30am - 9:00am |
| Category: | Networking |
| Topics: | Transforming Education in Rhode Island; Commissioner's strategic plan for Education reform |
| Location: | Crowne Plaza Hotel, Warwick, RI |
| Speaker(s): | Deborah A. Gist, |
| Contact: | info@sbane.org |
“Transforming Education in Rhode Island”
The Commissioner’s strategic plan for Education reform
April breakfast keynote speaker, Deborah A. Gist, Rhode Island State Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, will address the state’s need for continued involvement from the small business community in the awareness of the education department’s Race to the Top reform fund as well as the success of Rhode Island’s application. Gist will also address the educations’ equitable and transparent, new funding formula as well as the importance of teacher evaluations and assignments no longer based strictly on seniority. Lastly, Gist will present her opinion regarding the amount of money being spent on Education throughout the state and how Rhode Island can utilize it better for improved results, such as the approval on the Central Falls proposal.
Deborah A. Gist, who has taught and served directly in schools for more than a decade early in her career, first began her service as the Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education in 2009. Prior to becoming the Commissioner, Gist served as an elementary teacher in Fort Worth, Texas and Tampa, Florida, served for three years as the state education officer in the District where she restored the confidence of Congress in the Tuition Assistance Grants program and then later as state Superintendent of Education in the District of Columbia, where she was responsible for putting into effect the accountability systems of the federal No Child Left Behind education law.
Gist holds a Bachelor of Science degree in early-childhood education from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Arts in elementary education, with an emphasis in curriculum from the University of Southern Florida. Deborah also earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, where she was selected as a Kennedy Fellow and received the Littauer Fellowship for academic excellence and community service.
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