As Secretary Duncan told a room full of state education chiefs, «It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden --[realize] their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were.» (nationalaffairs.com)
It was Governor Malloy's own Commissioner of Education who joined the other state education chiefs who voted to set the «cut score» so that 70 percent of Connecticut's public school students would be deemed failures. (jonathanpelto.com)
Gerard Robinson, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and a former state education chief in Florida and Virginia, said he believes Trump will make a priority of expanding choice programs — even if the $ 20 billion proposal doesn't get traction — because the president - elect fundamentally believes that families should have more control. (washingtonpost.com)