Sentences with phrase «us secretary of education»

Why not go out of your way to gift books to underfunded and underprivileged communities that continue to be marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos?»

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos says the system discriminates against men because it denies them due - process rights.

Meanwhile, Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education under former President Barack Obama, and Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera and former longtime president of Yale University, are joining as senior advisors.

Calls have included asking representatives to vote against Betsy DeVos's nomination for secretary of education or asking Customs and Border Control to voice concern over President Trump's suspension of refugee immigration.

Speaking Thursday at George Mason University's Law School in Arlington, Va., the U.S. Secretary of Education announced that «the era of rule by letter is over.»

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos issued a statement saying that it is important to identify disabled veterans who may be eligible for loan forgiveness.

(Smaller still, once Chicago public schools chief Arne Duncan is named secretary of education today.)

She was the Director of Housing and the Secretary of Education in Victoria, and most recently was the Director - General of the New South Wales Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources.

The Student Loan Ombudsman, a role that offers recommendations to Congress, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Education, called for significant reform to the current systems.

And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

Last week, in a somewhat surprising announcement, the Donald Trump team announced that billionaire Betsy DeVos would be the country's new Secretary of Education.

Those who merely read about College, without studying the careful manner in which that judgment is supported, may indeed fear that it provides a foundation for the blustery attacks on higher education by the secretary of education.

Sensing, perhaps, that his arguments align him too closely with neoconservatives like Secretary of Education Bennett (and Allan Bloom, for that matter), for whom attacks on the schools and calls for a return to a commonly held culture are recurring themes, he retreats a bit.

Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

After both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed for acceptance of same - sex marriage over the weekend, North Carolina became the 30th state to amend its constitution to define marriage as an act between one man and one woman.

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

Therefore, this is a unique season for DeVos to become the Secretary of Education and for Christians to engage in new conversations taking place within states as state plans are being developed under ESSA.

Paul Tough discusses education politics and teacher evaluations along with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and author Wes Moore, September 2012.

Discussing education politics and teacher evaluations along with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and author Wes Moore, September 2012.

With Betsy DeVos being very new to the job she's taken on as the Secretary of Education, her first and only responsibility is to make sure children are properly educated.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was considered a controversial addition to President Donald Trump's cabinet, and if her recent comments are any indication, people are right to be upset with her being in her position right now.

The program, an EdTech conference, is headlined by Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and Devin Schain, coordinator of the Capital Exchange.

I shared blog posts that: offered a plaintive farewell to Michelle Obama, a champion of child nutrition; expressed my deep fears about the fate of hungry kids under President Trump; told you how the current House Freedom Caucus wants to gut school food; introduced you to Trump's Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue; explained that Trump's Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, isn't ending the school lunch program (rumors to the contrary); and analyzed some recent rollbacks to the Obama school meal nutrition standards.

Please read this letter from the Vermont Secretary of Education stating that meals served in the classroom count as instructional time.

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:

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.

Also present were Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis, and sponsors of the legislation Sen. Pat Browne (R - Lehigh) and Rep. Tim Briggs (D - Montgomery).

The New York State United Teachers union on Friday blasted the appointment of former Education Commissioner John King to become the acting secretary of education and urged its members to call the White House to «express their displeasure.»

He squandered three quarters of a billion in Race to the Middle funding with nothing for NY State to show for it — and for that he gets nominated for Secretary of Education.

At 1:15 p.m., the National Institute for Early Education Research releases its annual «State of Preschool Report» for the 2014 - 15 school year, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to speak, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Early Learning Dr Libby Doggett, AFT President Randi Weingarten and others, Sugar Hill Museum Preschool, 898 St. Nicholas Ave., Manhattan.

Following the shooting that left more than a dozen dead, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said that Congress should hold hearings on school shootings.

Trump Vice President Mike Pence meet around noon, and then have lunch with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Participants include: US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack; First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray; MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews, Joy - Ann Reid and Krystal Ball; talk show host Wendy Williams, the parents of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis; parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Ana Marquez - Greene; Harvard University Professor Dr. Charles Ogletree; NBC News legal analyst and author Lisa Bloom; William H. «Billy» Murphy Jr., Esq.; Essence Magazine notables Michelle Ebanks and Susan Taylor; Viacom's Marva Smalls; The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel; actor Malik Yoba; and members of Congress.

The Department shall be administered, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, under the supervision and direction of a Secretary of Education.

Does the Secretary of Education have to support public education as part of their job or is their job simply to push for better education standards in the nation using whatever methods they think best?

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.

Assemblyman says Congress must «referee» to stop Secretary of Education from cutting federal school funding to punish NY for massive student opt - outs of grades 3 - 8 tests

Secretary of Education Duncan signaled his intention to promote the charter school «silver bullet» by hiring the CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund as CEO of the Race to the Top.

«We now have the most famous secretary of education in history,» he said.

It is unclear whether federal acting secretary of education John King — New York's former state education c ommissioner who championed the Common Core and helped usher in the use of teacher evaluations tied to state assessments under No Child Left Behind and the federal Race To The Top grant program — will give his blessing.

The New York Times editorial board called the Common Core a once in a generation opportunity; U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says the new curriculum may prove to be «the single greatest thing to happen to public education in America since Brown v. Board of Education.»

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the powerful Committee on Finance, suggested the city could lose precious monies for the NYPD for its non-cooperation on immigration issues, while the public hospital network could suffer if the president repeals the Obama - era Affordable Care Act and the school system might lose funding under the policies of U.S. Secretary of Education - designate Betsy DeVos.

«We've lost public trust on why we test, and so we need to make sure we can tell the public why,» said Johnson, a former acting assistant secretary of education in the administration of President Bill Clinton.

The federal act was drafted by U.S. Secretary of Education John King, the former New York state education commissioner, following the repeal of the No Child Left Behind Act on Dec. 10, 2015.

«Unfortunately, the Trump Administration has allowed for a person to come in as Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, who is for privatization and for school vouchers,» she said.

When the leaders of the American Federation of Teachers — whose president Randi Weingarten hopes to become Secretary of Education — endorsed Clinton without holding local meetings to consult the members, hundreds of angry teachers rebelled and signed up with Labor for Bernie.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz is not joining Donald Trump's presidential administration as secretary of education, but that's not stopping some public - education advocates from criticizing her as a «Trump - linked» figure.

The Patchogue - Medford Board of Education recently approved a resolution opposing the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education.

Former state education commissioner John King must recuse himself from decisions directly related to New York, even when he takes over as acting US secretary of education after Arne Duncan steps down, according to a federal official.