Sentences with phrase «education secretary promises»

The education secretary promises # 23m to help clever children in poor areas fulfil their potential.

Education secretary promises to make teaching more attractive - but faces challenges over funding.

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THE McCALLUM CASE Ensign Napoleon McCallum may have been led to believe by the previous secretary of the Navy, John F. Lehman Jr., that he could be both an officer and a Los Angeles Raider (SCORECARD, Aug. 17), but the fact remains that he promised the Navy and his country that he would serve not less than five years on active duty in return for a free education.

In an accompanying blog post, she quotes Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, on whether communities applying for Promise Neighborhood grants need to be «shovel - ready» to have a shot at federal support:

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

Gove's more pugilistic side may have softened since his time as education secretary — you'll no longer find him using military metaphors and pledging to vanquish «the enemies of promise», in public, at least — but he clearly retains his impulse for confronting the inertia of the political establishment.

Clarke also pointed out that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has promised to vote against the nominations of Trump's Education Secretary - designate Betsy DeVos and his Attorney General - designate Jeff Sessions, the junior senator from Alabama.

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced 172 winners of the Blue Ribbon Schools awards last week, and promised to provide more details soon about possible changes to the program.

At an Askwith Forum on May 2, 2012, General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and founding chairman of America's Promise Alliance, discussed education, the goals of the America's Promise Alliance organization, and the reasons why we have to become a Grad Nation with an audience at the Ed School.

Since U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced last April that she would take a «common sense» approach to carrying out the No Child Left Behind Act, educators have been watching closely to see whether she keeps that promise.

Innovative schools in urban areas show that all children can achieve at high levels given the chance, building on the promise of the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said while visiting the Amistad Academy charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2004.

While the education secretary, Justine Greening, promised an extra # 1.3 bn for state schools over two years, headteachers across England calculated that this amount would translate to a real ‑ terms cut of 4.6 per cent from 2015.

Whether the department delivered 60 «disinterested superstars,» as Secretary of Education Arne Duncan promised last September, is unclear.

A U.S. secretary of education who puts billions on the table for teacher evaluations to be tied to pupil achievement is apt to find that states and districts do better at promising than at delivering cooperation.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, averring that testing was «sucking the oxygen out of the room,» promised to do something about it.

Winning states made bold promises about implementing the reforms they'd enacted, and Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, issued stern statements about their intention to pull dollars away from jurisdictions that fell short.

I agree with others that the appointment of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education is the most promising thing this year.

While sounding like Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in emphasizing innovation and parental responsibility, Mr. Clinton also promised to increase federal education funding and to guarantee financial aid to all college Education Lamar Alexander in emphasizing innovation and parental responsibility, Mr. Clinton also promised to increase federal education funding and to guarantee financial aid to all college education funding and to guarantee financial aid to all college students.

The appointment of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education offers the most promise for significantly transforming education over the course of the next foEducation offers the most promise for significantly transforming education over the course of the next foeducation over the course of the next four years.

Although I agree with U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Diane S. Ravitch's statement that «this has been 20 years of remarkable change» for women («National Groups Promise Steps To Combat Inequities for Girls,» Feb. 19, 1992), I can not agree with her assertion that gender - equity programs are no longer needed.

Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Deborah Delisle wrote to Oregon schools chief Rob Saxton Monday that, despite his assertion that Oregon has done a lot of work on teacher evaluations since he assumed his post in summer 2012, Oregon still hasn't done what it promised.

Promising better interagency coordination, Secretary of Education Rod Paige pledged at a White House summit on early learning this past summer that, together,...

With his nomination of Betsy DeVos for U.S. secretary of education, President - elect Trump has tossed that promise aside, saying that she will help him reform the education system based on one idea — privatization.

• President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are promising «better tests,» but even experts involved in creating the new assessments for the common core curriculum are concerned that the new tests will not be able to do everything they are being set up to do.

The Department for Education (DfE) would not reveal further details about which performance measures would be used, but the education secretary has promised it will be open to consultation before any legislation passes through paEducation (DfE) would not reveal further details about which performance measures would be used, but the education secretary has promised it will be open to consultation before any legislation passes through paeducation secretary has promised it will be open to consultation before any legislation passes through parliament.

Ofsted's sacrosanct independence is now in question just as Damian Hinds, the education secretary, has promised that Ofsted judgements alone will form the basis for future performance interventions in schools, including forced academy conversions.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distieducation system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distieducation dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distiEducation Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said: «The government promised to refurbish hundreds of schools but they have delivered almost nothing in three years.

Last Friday, the Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, addressed the NAHT conference where, amongst other things, he promised to help reduce teacher workload.

Below is the explanation from the Education Department blog: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Wendy Spencer, chief executive officer Read more about Education Department promises $ 15 million to School Turnaround AmeriCorps program -LSB-...]

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan sounded conciliatory as she took to the stage at the Conservative Party Conference and promised to ease teachers» workload.

Nicky Morgan, education secretary, has promised that «no more» than «1 percentage point more» would fall below the floor this year, as schools work under a tougher, more rigorous curriculum and testing regime.

In human terms, former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has noted, over the past decade «nearly 2 million additional young people have high school diplomas, giving them a chance at a more promising future.»

While promising more free schools, the education secretary speech also emphasised the importance of valuing all kinds of schools in England.

But Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, rejected the government's promises of social mobility, saying that they were contradicted by their decisions on funding.

Yesterday, the education secretary finally confirmed that the money would materialise in September, as part of the # 1.3 billion in additional funding she promised to schools over the next two years.

«President Obama and Secretary Duncan have abandoned democratic principles and the promise of public education for a free people; they have abdicated those principles for the lure of corporate ideology.»

The U.S. Education Department will convene four community college regional summits in the next two months to identify promising practices for increasing completion at community colleges, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today.

Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said: «The Reception Baseline Assessment and Multiplication Tables Check will be of no educational benefit to children and break the promise not to increase the assessment burden on primary schools.

The new studies do not show that vouchers led to significantly stronger math and reading performance overall, even as President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promise to pour billions into expanding vouchers nationwide.

But keep in mind; this is exactly what we experienced with President Obama's secretary of education and the president himself — the promise to listen yet their actions only furthered the political agenda of the ruling elite.

I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Educatioeducation provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of EducationEducation.»

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promised Monday evening that President Trump would propose «the most ambitious expansion of education choice in our nation's history,» but she offered no details about the administrationEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos promised Monday evening that President Trump would propose «the most ambitious expansion of education choice in our nation's history,» but she offered no details about the administrationeducation choice in our nation's history,» but she offered no details about the administration's plans.

With billions promised by the Trump / DeVos administration in new federal school privatization efforts to make the country over in the likeness of Michigan's privatized chaos, perhaps now would be a good time to inform the Secretary of Education that Uber is a convenience.

And if Howard Gardner were Secretary of Education, he tells me he would use the platform «to call attention to positive as well as negative examples; to cheerlead for promising initiatives; and, whenever possible, to demonstrate by example the kind of education that I favor, and the kind of society that I hope we can achievEducation, he tells me he would use the platform «to call attention to positive as well as negative examples; to cheerlead for promising initiatives; and, whenever possible, to demonstrate by example the kind of education that I favor, and the kind of society that I hope we can achieveducation that I favor, and the kind of society that I hope we can achieve.»

WASHINGTON, DC — As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low - income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

With Betsy DeVos on the verge of becoming the United States Secretary of Education and President Donald Trump promising to divert $ 20 billion in federal funding from public schools to privatization through school choice programs, the movement to undermine public education must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next foEducation and President Donald Trump promising to divert $ 20 billion in federal funding from public schools to privatization through school choice programs, the movement to undermine public education must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next foeducation must be deliriously excited about their prospects over the next four years.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam in the two years since U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the initiative, the administration has approved waivers in spite of questions raised by its own reviewers about whether states would even fulfill the promises made in their plans.

Diane Ravitch, Assistant Secretary of Education under George H. W. Bush and the author of The Life and Death of the Great American School System and Reign of Error, pointed out that the Common Core has accomplished nothing that it promised and does not meet the educational needs of children.

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos watched a transgender girl eat applesauce and draw and listened to another student's emotional story of feeling marginalized at school, as activists pressed DeVos to make good on her promise to protect all students.