Sentences with phrase «backing by education secretary»

The letter may be a response to the Freedom To Marry campaign launched last week, backed by education secretary Michael Gove, London mayor Boris Johnson and transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin, a Catholic.

Gove, backed by education secretary Nicky Morgan, has been knocked out of the leadership contest after persuading just 46 MPs to support his bid.

Plans backed by Education Secretary Michael Gove could see a free school set up on a Sussex playing field, but the bid has angered some residents.

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Back in January, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos opened a speech by proudly telling her audience that she was «perhaps the first person to tell Bernie Sanders to his face that there's no such thing as a free lunch.»

Prime Minister David Cameron is being backed by senior Tories including Education Secretary Michael Gove and London Mayor Boris Johnson, but many backbenchers including Mr Davies fear the proposal will drive away traditional Conservative voters.

They follow the announcement by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, of back - to - basics discipline in state schools.

Kendall said the figures hit back at a claim made by the education secretary, Michael Gove, in the Commons last month.

«Mr Balls, the shadow education secretary, called on supporters to back Miss Abbott during an event held by the GMB trade union, saying that it was important for a woman to be in the race.»

The Observer has been told that the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, and the education secretary, Michael Gove, raised their concerns at last week's cabinet meeting, saying the changes, which are strongly backed by Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, should not be a legislative priority.

Ed Balls, the shadow education secretary, is being backed by the Communication Workers Union, and Diane Abbott, the Left - wing backbencher, by the Transport Salaried Staffs Association.

Deputy First Minister and education secretary John Swinney said: «The defining mission of this government is to raise school attainment and close the poverty - related gap, backed by # 750 million of investment over the lifetime of this Parliament.

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.»

We very much doubted that the secretary of education would threaten the country's most populous state, which teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, by holding back funds.

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said lifting the cap on public sector pay, including for teachers, is «meaningless» unless it is backed - up by funding.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

A drive to connect Welsh pupils with coding, backed with # 1.3 million of new funding, has been announced by the education secretary Kirsty Williams.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says lower results should not be interpreted as a decline in performance by pupils, saying that it was more honest to accept a dip when the bar was raised, rather than sit back and watch numbers climb like an ever - upward tick.

Education secretary Justine Greening has announced that the government's plans to have 90 per cent of pupils studying all EBacc subjects by 2020 has been pushed back.

Photographer Steve Back posted the image of the document, which appears to be written by Department for Education (DfE) permanent secretary Jonathan Slater, on his Political Pictures twitter account.

Reforms to school funding was scheduled to be introduced by 2017/18, but Education Secretary Justine Greening pushed back plans when she took over the role in July, saying they would not be implemented until 2018/19.

The School Food Plan, published last summer and backed by the Secretary of State for Education, sets out a clear list of actions needed to improve food provision for millions of children nationwide.

Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, spent the balance of his childhood traveling back and forth each weekday from his Chicago neighborhood to the afterschool center run by his mother, Sue.

The long - held belief that local and state officials should lead on K — 12 education has been replaced by Secretary Arne Duncan's faith in a bold federal agenda backed by a federal «sense of urgency.»

Now backed by the Alliance for Quality Education and the Urban Youth Collaborative, the petition will be delivered to the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on November 18.

Carter also welcomed a row back from education secretary Justine Greening on proposals for every school to have converted into an academy by 2022.

The decision, which was enthusiastically endorsed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, brings a close to the first chapter of the case, Vergara v. California, in which a group of student plaintiffs backed by a Silicon Valley millionaire argued that state tenure laws had deprived them of a decent education by leaving bad teachers Education Secretary Arne Duncan, brings a close to the first chapter of the case, Vergara v. California, in which a group of student plaintiffs backed by a Silicon Valley millionaire argued that state tenure laws had deprived them of a decent education by leaving bad teachers education by leaving bad teachers in place.

Conservative organizations, think tanks, and other right - wing activists backed by corporate donors including the Koch brothers, the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and the Bradley Foundation, have long been preparing for a case like Janus as part of a larger campaign to break unions.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said today that school reforms should be monitored and judged by results that can be backed up by research proving their effectiveness.

However, Greening and other Conservative MPs were accused of «having their fingers in their ears» by the former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell, who said the public were «fed up to the back teeth» of cuts to public services.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's fourth annual back - to - school bus tour, guided by the theme «Start Strong, Bright Future» (PDF), included tour stops at schools in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and California.

At the union's annual convention last week in Denver, where Eskelsen García was officially elected, some teachers said it's time for a leader who will play hardball with the feds and push back against Education Secretary Arne Duncan's agenda, which includes evaluating teachers in part by student test scores and supporting the growth of charter schools, often staffed by non-union teachers.

Thanks in part to the backing of President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Common Core supporters have managed to get the standards enacted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has had to abandon plans to force all schools to become academies, but Mr Laws says their political protection went back to the early days of the first academies created by Labour governments.

(Murray's staffers had baited DeVos» with a question about students defrauded by Trump University who received some money back in a $ 25 million settlement, prompting DeVos» staffers to note that «Trump University was not a recipient of federal student aid, nor an accredited college or university, and therefore would not fall under my jurisdiction as Secretary of Education.»)

In July 2014, the nation's second - largest teachers union passed a cheeky resolution urging President Barack Obama to put Education Secretary Arne Duncan on an «improvement plan» that would walk back five years worth of gains by the nation's schools.

Our earnest Secretary of Education, who famously (and bizarrely) promised Congress a billion - dollar edu - bonus if it reauthorized NCLB by the administration's deadline and to the President's satisfaction, was back at it on Friday.

But Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has put school discipline back on the table by telling reporters she is «looking closely» at whether to change the 2014 federal guidance, which some conservative critics have blamed for sowing «classroom chaos.»

Come and support Bob's campaign in Surrey Heath against Michael Gove, who paved the governments disregard for the arts continued by Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, with her shocking statement that choosing art subjects held back children's career opportunities

The former director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, called the Ebacc policy one of the «biggest disasters of the last seven years» and pointed with disdain to an assertion by the former education secretary Nicky Morgan that arts subjects could hold pupils back for years.