Sentences with phrase «as chancellor»

Her selection last week as the chancellor of the nation's largest school district appears to have surprised everyone beyond the mayor's inner circle.

He knows it is fifty years since anyone won the leadership of an incumbent party — and inherited Number Ten - without first serving as chancellor.

It is also expected to be her last term as chancellor.

After a seven - year retirement, she returns as chancellor to confront the pressing policy issues that face the nation's largest school system.

As the chancellor made clear late last year, he is keen to look at options for simplifying the pension system, and that is precisely what we are doing.

There are in fact almost no formal requirements for being elected as chancellor or being appointed as minister.

The best way, we thought, was to compare his performance as chancellor and as prime minister to the incumbents.

As the chancellor delivers his speech, the opposition benches get busy writing notes and delivering them to the front bench to help the leader of the opposition response.

Of the many other famous people you've met as chancellor, have any stood out as especially gifted in some way?

As chancellor all she has to do is focus on data.

The famed Michelle Rhee came in as chancellor in 2007 after the district's school board was stripped of powers due to gross mismanagement over the previous four decades, including financial corruption, nepotism, and union heads going to jail for embezzlement.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Henderson reflects on the complexity of education reform and examines successes and challenges during her time as chancellor of D.C. public schools.

Rhee, 40, has worked with Teach For America and founded the New Teacher Project, in addition to her three controversial years as chancellor in Washington D.C.

Now just days into his new job as chancellor of New York City schools, Richard Carranza offered a glimpse of experiences that could shape his approach.

To carry out his agenda, Bloomberg appointed Joel Klein as chancellor of New York City schools.

StudentsFirst was formed by Michelle Rhee in 2010 after resigning as chancellor of D.C. schools.

Fariña, who has served as chancellor for the last four years, will formally announce her resignation on Thursday.

He intends to focus the campaign on the 10p starting rate for income tax, which was scrapped by Mr Brown's last Budget as chancellor in 2007.

When she appeared for the first time as chancellor at the UFT Spring Education Conference in 2014, she said one of her aims was to «restore dignity to the profession» of teaching.

«Your elevation to ministerial office and subsequent promotions, while no doubt attributable in part to your own talents, were often interpreted also as moves by George Osborne as chancellor to consolidate his power base in government,» Watson wrote.

The expected cost overruns in the next 10 years alone amount to # 16bn... The simple truth is that Gordon Brown as chancellor was never willing to fully fund Tony Blair's wars.»

Binley's criticisms came as chancellor George Osborne firmly rebutted Clegg's suggestion that a «wealth tax» be imposed on Britain's richest to share the burden of austerity more fairly.

Despite his close working relationship with Stronach on Magna's board after serving as chancellor from 1986 to 1997, Vranitzky would not comment on the businessman's ambitions.

George Osborne will have a decade as chancellor under his belt, while Boris Johnson will have eight years as London mayor backed up by a cabinet experience.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

Ms. Rhee, one of the most polarizing figures in public education, resigned as chancellor after Mayor Adrian M. Fenty lost Washington's 2010 Democratic primary, a defeat that political analysts said was, in part, fallout from the draconian school policies that Mr. Fenty and Ms. Rhee carried out from 2007 through 2010.

George Osborne staked his first term as chancellor on an immediate reduction of public expenditure, aimed at eliminating — within five years — a fiscal deficit that was close to 7 % of GDP in 2010.

The announcement came as the chancellor sought to persuade business leaders that he was working for a «Britain made for globalisation - the location of choice and the place for business to be».

But while Bennett and Boyer share concerns about the troubled condition of higher education, in this book and in his record as chancellor of the State University of New York, as commissioner of education in the 1970s and as president of the Carnegie Foundation, Boyer is sensitive to the circumstances that create the deplorable conditions as well as to those conditions themselves.

As the chancellor prepares to do battle with Johnson for the Tory leadership, his close ally Matt Hancock and his communications chief James Chapman were both keen to talk up Davidson's performance.

George Osborne, who Theresa May unceremoniously sacked as chancellor when she became Prime Minister, said: «If she has got a worse result than two years ago it will be hard for her to continue as Tory party leader»

Mr Clarke, who served as chancellor under John Major, wants a return to proper cabinet government, arguing it is essential «to make government work better and to reverse public cynicism about the tacky system of government and politics which New Labour has imposed upon us.»

All the day's political news as chancellor seeks to stabilise economy, with more resignations expected from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet

Join Andrew Sparrow for live coverage as the chancellor announces the creation of the Office for Budget Responsibility

Kremer spoke with WAMC's Ian Pickus after the Board of Regents chose Rosa as chancellor.

BERLIN (Reuters)- German lawmakers voted on Wednesday to re-elect Angela Merkel as chancellor for a fourth, and likely final, term that may prove her most challenging yet as she takes charge of a fragile coalition with her personal standing diminished.

And Vince Cable could end up being installed as chancellor as the price of Liberal Democrat support to prop up a minority government.

Arguably, the way that Angela Merkel governs as chancellor with a steady hand is a factor.

In October 2015, he was installed as chancellor at Western University; in his first address, he encouraged the graduating class to think globally.

This is my first autumn statement as chancellor.

Then there is the Bethlehem stable imagery, which Dr Giles Fraser alluded to at the time of his resignation as chancellor of St Paul's, when he said that he could imagine Jesus being born in the camp.

Gordon Brown will retire from the Commons viewed on the one hand as a giant of Scottish Labour who spent 13 years at the pinnacle of frontline UK politics as chancellor and prime minister: the son of the...

The comment was just the most obvious part of a speech which will have irritated many Liberal Democrats, as the chancellor took a tough stance against several of their key policy positions.

At her current annual salary of $ 250,000, Black would have to serve as chancellor through 2024 to match that eye - popping payout.

By the time Barack Obama leaves these shores in April, Gordon Brown should invite Nick Clegg to be deputy prime minister with Vince Cable as chancellor.

In an interview with the Guardian, the prime minister declares that «of course» he wants to keep Darling as chancellor if Labour wins the election and lavishes praise on him for doing «a superb job and delivering a brilliant budget».

«The new mayor, with an actual educator as the chancellor, has come up with a very compelling plan.

According to some accounts, Nick Brown had tears in his eyes as the chancellor told him to back top - up fees - a policy he had argued passionately against just a year earlier.