Sentences with phrase «secretary of education does»

«There's a lot of hurt that has been expressed from the floor — the feeling that the Secretary of Education doesn't walk in the shoes of public educators.»

Secretary of Education doesn't care about schools.

A new administration's nominee for Secretary of Education doesn't usually steal the show.

Chalkbeat's thoughtful article on the charter sector's response to the selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education did a good job of presenting the conundrum we presently find ourselves in.

Not exact matches

This morning, The Today Show's Savannah Guthrie asked DeVos about the remarks, saying, «I wonder, as the education secretary, who's in charge of what our kids learn, what do you think of that kind of language?»

At a press event, Education Secretary Are Duncan said, «In terms of what's morally right there, the moral compass, whatever we can do to have fewer young women and young men having to go through these types of horrific incidents, we want to do that»...

Yet even though the Education Secretary has nothing to do with school meals, writers apparently took the «threat» seriously, publishing outraged articles like, «Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Questions If Schools Should Provide Free Lunch,» and «Should Schools Provide Free Lunch?

Graziano: We don't know about that, but we just found out that Christie Vilsack (wife of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack) and Karen Duncan (wife of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan) will host a screening in Washington.

Responding to the departure of Michael Gove MP and the appointment of Nicky Morgan MP as Secretary of State for Education, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has always sought to engage constructively with the Secretary of State for Education and will continue to do so.

Trump's new executive order to review federal regulations on K - 12 schools doesn't give his education secretary powers she didn't already have, but it could set the stage for a set of proposed changes next year.

«The secretary of state acknowledges that clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the Funding Agreement, and clauses 23E and 23G above do not prevent discussion of beliefs about the origins of the Earth and living things, such as creationism, in Religious Education, as long as it is not presented as a valid alternative to established scientific theory.»

She demanded May «assure us she and the secretary of state for education won't put personal reputations and ambition above doing the right thing for the country» and branded the last week «shambolic for the government but much worse for everyone else».

Donald Trump's nomination of billionaire school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary does not sit right with many Americans.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «It is clear that on many of the key education policy issues the majority of parents do not share Coalition Ministers» views».

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: «The cat is out of the bag: behind closed doors the Tories are planning a return to the bad old days of grammars, ignoring all the evidence which has told us time and again that they do not aid social mobility...

The president of the country's largest labor union told delegates at her organization's annual gathering that they would not work with the Trump administration because the president and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could not be trusted to do what is in the best interests of children.

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But don't look to the U.S. Secretary of Education for guidance on which candidate would be best for the city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren.

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

We have always said we would support the Government when they do the right thing so can I join thousands of parents across the country in congratulating him [David Cameron] on getting rid of the Education Secretary.

Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Education, admitted the facts on social mobility were «depressing» and cited studies showing that, for people in their thirties, the social class of their parents mattered even more than it did in the past.

The idea of the Conservatives being in coalition with anyone seemed not to sit well with the education secretary, who commented: «I don't think the Conservative Party should form coalitions with anyone», and he also warned of the dangers of reading too much into UKIP's ascendancy and the Tory slump at the recent local elections.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

His recent public spats with teaching unions and Ofsted appear to have damaged the education secretary with 57 % per cent of all voters now say he is doing a bad job with just 21 % saying he is doing well.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education of School Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in schools.

«But because [education secretary] Michael Gove will not give guidance to headteachers on ways to do that, nor monitor how the money is being used, we have no way of knowing what the pupil premium is being spent on.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Olabisi Ariyo, who disclosed this in her office, explained that the test would either be the Computer Based Test (CBT), or the regular Pencil Based Test (PBT), but that the candidates have the right to choose the version they wish to do.

Commenting on the Secretary of State for Education's session at Conservative Party Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said: «Michael Gove does not have a monopoly of concern that all children and young people should have high aspiration and the very best teaching and support to achieve.

«As I explained when I announced that I was turning down a potential opportunity to serve as Secretary of Education, I voted for Hillary Clinton and was sorely disappointed she didn't win,» Moskowitz wrote.

For what it's worth, I don't think the Education Secretary really wants to be party leader and Prime Minister (though you never know), and he has certainly not been campaigning to date for the posts, in the manner of Boris Johnson, or crafting a support structure for the future, like George Osborne.

As former Shadow Secretary of State for Education Tristram Hunt pointed out in a recent article in New Statesman, perhaps this does not only apply to the centre in conventional left versus right terms, but also in terms of «open» versus «closed».

Clegg also accuses Gove — who was education secretary for the majority of the coalition government — of putting dogma ahead of the interests of pupils when he axed the Connexions careers advice service but refused to give schools instructions on how to compensate for it because he did not want to compromise their autonomy.

I like being a front line politician and there's no reason why as Deputy Leader I can't stay as Secretary of State for Education, provided the Prime Minister decides that what he or she would want me to do.

US secretary of education Arne Duncan lamented that «a number of nations are out - educating us today... If we as a nation don't turn that around, those nations will soon be outcompeting us in a knowledge - based, global economy.»

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«The time is now insufficient [in the school day] to do the job that we're asking kids to do,» said Paul Reville, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (and a former Massachusetts secretary of educationEducation (and a former Massachusetts secretary of educationeducation).»

«The Governor's Education Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation Action Agenda has been very well received and does call for a major overhaul of our public education system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer Pauleducation system,» says Massachusetts Secretary of Education and HGSE Senior Lecturer PaulEducation and HGSE Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

Meanwhile, U.S. News & World Report's Lauren Camera notes that, when signing the order officially nominating Betsy DeVos to be U.S. Secretary of Education, Trump didn't seem all that sure what job he was nominating her for.

That's why the education secretary recently announced a strategy to drive recruitment and boost retention of teachers, working with the unions and professional bodies, and pledged to strip away workload that doesn't add value in the classroom.»

Arne Duncan, the Obama administration's secretary of education, having previously served as schools superintendent in Chicago, one of the nation's most troubled school districts, gave back - to - back speeches early in his tenure decrying the state of the field: «By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st - century classroom,» and «America's university - based teacher preparation programs need revolutionary change, not evolutionary thinking.»

Russell Hobby, general secretary of NAHT said: «The parent voice is an important one in education and children do best in the schools where teachers and parents have a good relationship.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT teaching union, believes the new GCSEs do not meet the needs of all learners, and by being narrowly focused will not «provide the basis for a rounded education».

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Unit of Teachers, commented: «This Budget offers more of the same — the foundations of economic growth eroded instead of strengthened, and more bad news for teachers and parents.This Budget does not address the pressing issues in education funding.»

Initially, in 2008, a district judge held for the U.S. secretary of education, ruling that the department's regulation did not violate the discernible intent of Congress.

Justine Greening, Secretary of State for Education, and her predecessor Nicky Morgan, have both been insisting on the need to prove the impact of EdTech, ensuring that schools do not invest in «technology for technology's sake.»

It's remarkable that even [former U.S. Secretary of Education] Arne Duncan, who arguably did as much as any one person during the past decade to increase the pressure on educators to raise test scores, conceded that «testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools.»

Apparently Secretary of Education John King and his colleagues didn't get the memo.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

At that party, I met Eleonora — a beautiful women with a beautiful smile, and also a student from Venezuela, When she asked me what I was planning to do after my studies, I told her in all seriousness that I intended to become the secretary of education of Venezuela.

The Department should not bypass the state's constitutionally empowered education authority, override decades of precedent, and brush aside the intent of ESEA's accountability framework because a state didn't do what the Secretary wanted.