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Peter McWalters joined the Council of Chief State School Officers’ leadership team after having served as the Rhode Island commissioner of elementary and secondary education from 1992 to 2009. During his time as commissioner, McWalters made significant gains in creating a better state-led system of education and increasing success for all of Rhode Island’s students. This included establishing and adopting grade-level content standards and implementing an aligned state assessment; partnering in founding the successful three state assessment collaborative, the New England Common Assessment Program; designing and implementing a legislatively-motivated accountability system with multiple measures and indicators including a robust public reporting system; leading the state in transitioning from a life certification system for teachers to an individual professional improvement plans for license renewal; and intervening in five high-need, underperforming districts and succeeding in significant improvement within No Child Left Behind and Annual Yearly Progress targets. He also advocated for creating statewide early-childhood education, a school-financing system that was fair to all districts, the improvement of education for students with disabilities, and better and more comprehensive training and development for teachers and administrators.
McWalters’ background and expertise in educator (both teacher and administrator) development is what led him to direct this initiative for the Council. A lifelong educator, McWalters began his career as a teacher of English as a Second Language in the Rochester, New York, public schools. He holds a degree in history and philosophy from Boston College, a Master’s Degree of Public Administration and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Education Administration from the State University of New York, Brockport and he has previously served in the Peace Corps in the Philippines.
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document last updated 9/14/2009
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