Sentences with phrase «under secretary spellings»

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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,...

A bipartisan group of House education leaders signed a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings that raises concerns over why the test scores of some students are apparently not being counted under the No Child Left Behind Act.

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 Spellings was under heavy pressure from the education establishment to show greater «flexibility» with the implementation of the law (see «Texas Hold»em,» features, Summer 2007).

And each contributed to the backlash that, to the directors» dismay, prompted Secretary Spellings (for reasons and with consequences still unclear) to throw the two staffers responsible for her «most effective» success story under the bus.

To step back for a moment: Under the leadership of Secretary of Education Richard Riley in the 1990s and his successors, Rod Paige, Margaret Spellings, and Arne Duncan, a bipartisan drive for better and more equitable student outcomes prevailed.

Before leaving office, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings issued last October new regulations for how states should calculate high school graduation rates under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Prior to her most recent position as New Mexico's education Chief, Secretary Skandera's record of service in the education sector includes serving as Florida's Deputy Commissioner of Education for former Governor Jeb Bush, senior policy advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education under former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and Undersecretary for Education for former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to teaching Education Policy courses at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

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

One notable skeptic is Margaret Spellings, a former education secretary under Mr. Bush, who this year was an informal adviser to Mr. Romney.

She also was the U.S. Department of Education's regional representative in Texas for Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, and she served as Special Assistant in the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs under Secretary Rod Paige.

The industry also hired Margaret Spelling, former education secretary under President George W. Bush.

Friday's vote will likely usher in Margaret Spellings, a former U.S Education Secretary under President George W. Bush, reported to be the top candidate for the job.

Margaret Spellings, education secretary under President George W. Bush, also defended public education and the role of the U.S. Education Department.

Margaret Spellings, who served as education secretary under Mr. Bush and helped write No Child Left Behind, said freezing the proficiency bar is «more about helping the adults» than the children.

Ravitch asked in a February 2009 blog item, suggesting that the education secretary's policies are not much different from those espoused by Spellings, who held the office under President George W. Bush.

But such an approach could have easily been undertaken under AYP; in fact, growth modeling (of which Cut the Gap in Half is a version) was approved in the last decade by then - U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

«The crazy - quilt thing completely obfuscates the transparency that No Child Left Behind brought to bear,» said Margaret Spellings, who was education secretary under George W. Bush and now advises the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others on education issues.

Fourth, in § 160.203, several criteria relating to the statutory grounds for exception determinations have been further spelled out: (1) The words «related to the provision of or payment for health care» have been added to the exception for fraud and abuse; (2) the words «to the extent expressly authorized by statute or regulation» have been added to the exception for state regulation of health plans; (3) the words «of serving a compelling need related to public health, safety, or welfare, and, where a standard, requirement, or implementation specification under part 164 of this subchapter is at issue, where the Secretary determines that the intrusion into privacy is warranted when balanced against the need to be served» have been added to the general exception «for other purposes»; and (4) the statutory provision regarding controlled substances has been elaborated on as follows: «Has as its principal purpose the regulation of the manufacture, registration, distribution, dispensing, or other control of any controlled substance, as defined at 21 U.S.C. 802, or which is deemed a controlled substance by state law.»