Sentences with phrase «secretary paige»

On behalf of Secretary Paige, Assistant Secretary of Education Sally Stroup presented a grant check to the California School Finance Authority during an event at the Animo Leadership Charter High School in Inglewood, Calif..

«One of the greatest challenges charter schools face is affording to pay the rent or a mortgage,» Secretary Paige said.

O'Connell thanked Secretary Paige and the U.S. Department of Education for working closely with CDE to obtain the grant.

O'Connell officially received the first of three installments in the amount of $ 24.7 million at an event today with Secretary Paige, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and California Secretary for Education Richard Riordan at the Sacramento Charter High School in Sacramento.

As his responsibilities have increased in his new role as Jackson State University's Interim President, Secretary Paige has stepped down as Chairman of the Board.

Within days of the Bush leak on vouchers, Secretary Paige opened direct talks with city officials, meeting with Mayor Williams and with D.C. school board president Peggy Cooper Cafritz and D.C. council member Kevin P. Chavous.

Mr. Lott, who like Secretary Paige is from Mississippi, has been taking heat from a long list of groups and...

Dr. Costrell has served on the Steering Committee to develop an economics assessment for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (2001 - 02), and the U.S. Department of Education's Advisory Council on Education Statistics, appointed by Secretary Paige (2001 - 02).

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

The Department of Education, especially under Secretary Paige, was firmly committed to the success of these provisions.

Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, says while Spellings did make attempts to clarify the highly qualified teacher process, significantly more than was done under Secretary Paige, «it was not a priority for her.»

Secretary Paige became so frustrated with the ceaseless opposition from the National Education Association that he referred to it as «a terrorist organization.»

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«The decision... dramatically opened the doors of opportunity to countless numbers of Americans, including me,» said Secretary of Education Rod Paige, who at the time of the ruling was a 20 - year - old college student at Jackson...

Alabama, Colorado, and Florida will receive major grants to help improve students» reading with «scientifically based» programs, Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced June 25.

Nina Shokraii Rees, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and a former education analyst at the Heritage Foundation, had led the office since its creation in 2002 by then - Secretary of Education Rod Paige.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige and Reyes Tamex Guerra, Mexico's secretary of public education, co-chaired a meeting last week of the U.S. - Mexico Binational Commission Education WorkiSecretary of Education Rod Paige and Reyes Tamex Guerra, Mexico's secretary of public education, co-chaired a meeting last week of the U.S. - Mexico Binational Commission Education Workisecretary of public education, co-chaired a meeting last week of the U.S. - Mexico Binational Commission Education Working Group.

In «Notes From the Revolution,» (Commentary, July 27, 2005), Eugene W. Hickok, who was then - U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige's deputy in President Bush's first term, offers a delightful fiction about the «revolutionary» impact of the Education Leaders Council on American schooling during the past decade.

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.

Hurrah for Houston Congratulations to Education Next for its trio of articles on the positive reforms in the Houston Independent School District, carried out in large part by Secretary of Education Rod Paige while he was the district's superintendent (see «Houston Takes Off,» Feature, Fall 2001).

Former Secretary of Education Rod Paige praised the efforts and accomplishments of teachers and students at Amistad Academy, a charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, and noted it exemplifies one of the key ideas behind the No Child Left Behind Act: every child can learn.

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.

At the annual conference of the Association for Teacher Educators, held here Feb. 18 - 22, Linda Darling - Hammond decried what she said were attempts by politicians such as former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige to erode teacher preparation.

That role would call for him to serve as a key adviser to Secretary of Education Rod Paige, whose senior staff has seen several departures recently...

Brian W. Jones, general counsel, U.S. Department of Education (selected by Secretary of Education Rod Paige)

While the secretary has granted a number of states increased regulatory flexibility under the law, it is the first time that either Ms. Spellings or her predecessor, Rod Paige,...

Education officials under then - secretary of education, Rod Paige, became known as rigid and inflexible, angering some states, says Eugene W. Hickok, who served as deputy education secretary under Paige.

Michele Forman, 55, a teacher at Middlebury High School, was recognized by President Bush and U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige for her passion for teaching.

In a May 20 letter, Secretary of Education Rod Paige said the action was driven by Georgia's decision to delay starting high school end - of - course testing under the 1994 version of the ESEA.

Predicting the presidential Cabinet shuffle is one of the most time - honored post-election guessing games in Washington, and the destiny of Secretary of Education Rod Paige may be prime fodder for the latest contest.

Former Houston superintendent (now secretary of education) Rod Paige fits this description.

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige is making a mistake in eliminating the teacher - and principal - in - residence positions at the U.S. Department of Education («Groups Plead To Keep Resident Teacher, Principal at ED,» May 16, 2001).

Secretary of Education Rod Paige reaffirmed his support for public schools and the traditional separation of church and state last week, attempting to quell a furor over earlier, published remarks in which he praised the «strong value system» at Christian schools.

Though the commission's view of teachers and teaching has gained in popularity in recent years - witness Secretary of Education Rod Paige's recent call to dismantle the current system of training and certification - few of its recommendations have been widely embraced.

Conservative scholars and policy makers Abigail and Stephen Thernstrom followed suit soon after, and Bush's first Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, has just coauthored a book called The Black - White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time.

The program, «Education News Parents Can Use,» had its debut Sept. 17 with appearances by education notables including Susan B. Neuman, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, and Susan Sclafani, a counselor to Secretary of Education Rsecretary for elementary and secondary education, and Susan Sclafani, a counselor to Secretary of Education RSecretary of Education Rod Paige.

• Staff writer Sean Cavanagh reports on the convention addresses by Education Secretary Rod Paige and first lady Laura Bush.

Ed Secretary Nominee Has Fans in the Field Colleagues of Houston Independent School District Superintendent Rod Paige say that although they will miss him, the country will benefit from his experience in dealing with urban education issues.

On November 17, 2004, President George W. Bush nominated Margaret Spellings to replace Rod Paige as U.S. Secretary of Education.

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige recently announced that two schools and three school districts were the winners of the U.S. Department of Education's National Awards Program for Professional Development for their outstanding teacher development programs.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige is defending Sen. Trent Lott for comments some have called racist, made during a 100th - birthday celebration for Sen. Strom Thurmond.

It will join the official painting of President Bush's other education secretary, Rod Paige.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige, launching a presidential commission on special education last week in a year in which the subject likely will grab the education spotlight, made clear that President Bush's focus on accountability extends to those who teach children with special needs.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige told members of the House that the Bush administration hopes to instill more accountability into special education and wants to see better results for students with disabilities.

The secretary comments on the incoming secretary, Rod Paige, and on vouchers, air quality in schools, and more!

The next day at 2 p.m. EDT, just over a month since terrorism left more than 5,000 dead in three states, Mr. Bush joined Secretary of Education Rod Paige and children across the country in what organizers hoped would be a...

If the Senate confirms his nomination, Paige will be the first African American to serve as secretary of education.

Education Secretary Rod Paige let Texas and Secretary Margaret Spellings let New Jersey, which had adopted more rigorous state standards in 2003 and 2008 respectively, have a «softer trajectory» to meet those standards.

In what is called a «peer review process,» local and national educational consultants, together with state school officials, will analyze those plans, which then must be approved by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige.

The following exchange is from a transcript released by the Education Department of an interview Secretary of Education Rod Paige gave to the Baptist Press.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige discusses special education Oct. 4 at a hearing of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.