Sentences with phrase «u.s. secretary of education»

Its replacement emphasizes state and local decision - making while placing unprecedented limitations on the U.S. Secretary of Education.

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White House Council on Environmental Quality Managing Director Christy Goldfuss and NOAA Director of Education Louisa Koch joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to congratulate the 2015 U.S.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks in Gary on Thursday.

Alexandria, Va., (February 7, 2017)- As the leading advocate for public education, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education:

In this interview, Jack Jennings comments on the new U.S. Secretary of Education and the national role in education.

White House Council on Environmental Quality Acting Chair Mike Boots and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mark Schaefer joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to congratulate the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools and District Sustainability Awardees on their achievements at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

The move lost the bill support from education - reform groups and earned the measure criticism from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Washington — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will travel to Dallas, Texas on Thursday, April 5, to visit the Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning.

Today, the Louisiana Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, congratulates the next U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, and applauds the U.S. Senate for voting to confirm an Education Secretary who will put children and families first.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today a total of approximately $ 13 million in new federal assistance for the U.S. Virgin Islands under the Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations (K - 12 Restart) program.

In 2005, U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, urged reporters to compare state proficiency levels under NCLB to NAEP's Basic achievement level.

For his part, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praised Gov. Schwarzenegger's decision to seek legislative action.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the assistance as part of a $ 693 million package that will also help schools in Texas, hit hard by hurricanes in 2017, and California, where many campuses were damaged by wildfires.

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.

«If Congress does not act now, our inaction will transform the U.S. Secretary of Education into a waiver - granting czar over an unworkable law.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently urged the nation's schools of education to pursue reforms, and particularly to strengthen their teacher - preparation programs.

At a «reading summit» this fall in Washington, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley called for an end to the «reading wars,» the battle that pits skills against meaning in beginning reading.

Prominent speakers have included former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, New York Times journalist David Brooks, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, American Federation of Teacher's President Randi Weingarten, pop singer Lady Gaga, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and authors Eric Carle and Diane Ravitch.

Margaret Spellings would bring a variety of experiences to the post of U.S. secretary of education, but being an educator isn't one of them.

In a speech this evening at the National PTA Convention in Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he did.

Mr. Sanders, who was named by some as a potential successor to Terrel H. Bell as U.S. Secretary of Education, replaces Donald G. Gill, whose contract expires in July.

A university president and former deputy U.S. secretary of education in the Bush administration has been named the president of the Education Commission of the States, organization officials announced during a meeting here last week.

Mr. Marston, who has served in the department of education since 1963, will succeed John T. MacDonald, who was named assistant U.S. secretary of education for elementary and secondary education.

«U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has stated clearly that he believes mayoral governance is essential to reform.

The plan, which has gained widespread national attention, also garnered the «enthusiastic support» of U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, who had written letters to Minnesota lawmakers urging them to approve the measure.

With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.

As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan put it in 2013, «For too long, in too many places, schools systems have hurt students by treating every teacher the same — failing to identify those who need support and those whose work deserves particular recognition.»

Several members of the Council of Chief State School Officers, who met here at the invitation of U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, vented much of their anger and frustration on their host, who they claimed has been remiss in his responsibility to promote public education as a member of the Cabinet...

A former governor and U.S. Secretary of Education, Alexander is an influential figure with a deep grasp of the issues and a fierce desire to roll back the overreach of NCLB and Obama's waivers.

On Oct. 18, readers questioned Christopher T. Cross, a former assistant U.S. secretary of education for research and improvement under President George H.W. Bush and the author of Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, on the changing role of the U.S. Department of Education.

In the two - and - a-half weeks since President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced ways in which states could overhaul No Child Left Behind without Congress's consent, lawmakers have introduced several bills that would alter the sweeping federal education law.

Bolgen Vargas says he's sharing his concerns with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as part of a nationwide conference call.

Instead, figures as prominent as the U.S. Secretary of Education have dismissed Common Core skeptics as an uninformed, conspiratorial «fringe.»

If a frustrated former U.S. Secretary of Education is bent on taking a hard look at the administration's effort to turn the Department of Ed into what he's repeatedly labeled «a national school board,» it could be a couple pretty long years for whoever is tasked with closing up shop at ED.

Margaret Spellings was U.S. secretary of education from 2005 to 2009 and is now president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

Recently President Barack Obama discussed plans to expand funding available to charter schools, and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has voiced his support and encouraged states to open more charter schools.

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige reacted to reports of harassment of Muslim and Arab American students by calling on teachers to discuss diversity and tolerance with their students.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kicked off the meeting with a group that included national and regional education advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education initiative.

The man charged with marrying those two philosophies is former Deputy U.S. Secretary of Education James H. Shelton, now the initiative's president of education.

In October 2014, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the Obama administration's new «education equity initiative,» explaining that the president could not «continue to wait» for Congress to act «on behalf of vulnerable children.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has gone so far as to accuse states like Alabama of «lying to children and parents» by setting low expectations for student performance.

U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has provided a preview of his forthcoming «status report» on American schools five years after the release ofA Nation at Risk.

«Every child, regardless of income, race, background, or disability can succeed if provided the opportunity to learn,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said.

He also previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third - largest school district, under the leadership of Arne Duncan, the former U.S. Secretary of Education.

On hand last September, for example, were U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has just made the challenge of transitioning to the Common Core standards less burdensome for about one in five schools in California.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has suggested that might happen in other states, such as New York, which have had increases in their opt - out rates this year, too.