Sentences with phrase «became secretary of education»

Many people voiced their opposition last week when Betsy DeVos became the Secretary of Education.

I neglected to mention that Arne Duncan was on the board of the Broad Foundation until he became Secretary of Education.

Before Rod Paige became the secretary of education, it might have seemed a bit odd to have football players stumping for education reform.

A funny thing has happened since William J. Bennett became Secretary of Education in 1985: The head of a small agency President Reagan had marked for extinction has become one of his most visible Cabinet members.

Ron Huberman, who was appointed Chicago Schools CEO by Mayor Richard Daley after Arne Duncan became Secretary of Education, has told Mayor Daley that he will leave his position before the mayor leaves office in May rather than serve under another mayor, according to the Chicago Sun - Times.

When he became secretary of education, they passed that breathtaking amount of investment — $ 100 billion in public education, which is the biggest investment since World War II.

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.

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.

At that party, I met Eleonora — a beautiful women with a beautiful smile, and also a student from Venezuela, When she asked me what I was planning to do after my studies, I told her in all seriousness that I intended to become the secretary of education of Venezuela.

Her class should be mandatory — until she leaves to become Secretary of Education.

Governor Alexander, who would go on to become secretary of education under President George H. W. Bush and is now a U.S. senator, was more colloquial in his description, calling the program «an old - fashioned horse trade with teachers.

It is my fortune — good or bad — to have become Secretary of Education at a time when the winds of politics and education have shifted decisively.

Before becoming secretary of education, Duncan served as the chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), a position he held from June 2001 through December 2008.

«Given the accessible and yet sophisticated way that Darling - Hammond analyzes past educational reform efforts and provides policy direction for the future, it is no surprise that many in the field of education had hoped that she would become the Secretary of Education under President Obama.»

Mr. Allen took the job after the January 2005 departure of Margaret Spellings to become secretary of education.

Since Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos to become the secretary of education, her name has been associated with a great deal of controversy and conversation.

If Betsy DeVos becomes Secretary of Education, the department will be run by someone who not only lacks any meaningful experience with public schools, but is fundamentally opposed to the mission and scope of the nation's traditional public education system.

Not exact matches

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.

King left New York at the end of last year to become a special advisor to Arne Duncan, the education secretary who he will replace on an acting basis.

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 displeasurEducation Commissioner John King to become the acting secretary of education and urged its members to call the White House to «express their displeasureducation and urged its members to call the White House to «express their displeasure.»

«Ed Balls boasted that his new diploma was on course to overtake the A-level and become the qualification of choice for young people,» said shadow education secretary Michael Gove.

Commenting on the IPPR report Vocational Education in English Schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «What is becoming increasingly clear is that Michael Gove's reforms are plain wrong.»

Soubry has become the latest member of an emerging «Tory awkward squad» after party grandee Ken Clarke and former education secretary Nicky Morgan both lamented the government's silence over Brexit.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

In an open letter to the education secretary Nicky Morgan, campaigners have warned of schools becoming «exam factories» and that testing causes stress and can make young children feel like «failures».

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

Burnham served as Shadow Secretary of State for Health until late 2010, when he was moved by Miliband to become Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

Among others he appointed Alan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Yvette Cooper was chosen as Shadow Foreign Secretary, and both defeated Labour leadership candidates Ed Balls and Andy Burnham were given senior roles, becoming Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Education Secretary respectively.

[1] Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election.

Dubbed «Reform Prisons», Justice Secretary Mr Gove wants to repeat the success of his education revolution when standards were pushed by liberating schools from local authority control by becoming academies.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of the list of outstanding schools which have applied to become academies from 1 September 2010, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

And Ed Miliband's former ally Lucy Powell becomes shadow education secretary, with Maria Eagle taking the post of defence secretary.

Bob Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst, and a former DCLG Minister and current «Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party») and Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham), replacing Liz Truss (South West Norfolk), who became the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare, and Ben Gummer (Ipswich), who became Alan Duncan's PPS at DfID.

According to a piece published in Le Figaro on 22 November 2017, Najat Vallaud - Belkacem, former Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research and defeated candidate in the 2017 legislative elections, sought to lead the Socialist Party (PS) list in the 2019 European elections as a condition of her becoming a candidate for the party leadership, in addition to asking that the post of general secretary be paid in the event that she obtained the post.

Angela Eagle becomes shadow business secretary and shadow first secretary of state, Lisa Nandy as shadow energy secretary, Lucy Powell takes the education portfolio and Diane Abbott as shadow minister for international development.

But the former education secretary sounded less sure about her own place in the party when she confessed it might might be «a bit of of a stretch» to stay on board if Rees Mogg became leader...

Few would have wagered on the education secretary becoming the first senior minister to stumble, but his serial issuing of error - strewn lists, raising then shattering the hopes of schools longing for new buildings, has been a gift.

When Labour regained power, he was Secretary of State for Education and Science between 1974 and 1975, subsequently becoming Minister for Overseas Development with a seat in the cabinet until 1976.

But it became evident later in the day that there are barriers in the way of the Education Secretary's latest plan, and that more have been put in his way for some time: the extraordinary sense of forward momentum which the Education Secretary generates has not been achieved without opposition.

In what must surely be seen as a significant demotion, secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, has been moved to become chief whip in David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle.

Amid warnings from the Tory general campaign director, Lynton Crosby, that private polling showed Gove had become a toxic liability among teachers, the prime minister moved his education secretary to the lower role of chief whip.

One of two former presidents of the Oxford union here (the other is Education Secretary Michael Gove) Hague became an MP in 1989, succeeding Nick Clegg's old boss Leon Brittan to win the seat of Richmond in North Yorkshire.

Especially now that one of the nation's most visible supporters of school vouchers — Betsy DeVos — is President Donald Trump's nominee to become U.S. Secretary of Education.

At an Askwith Forum on May 2, 2012, General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and founding chairman of America's Promise Alliance, discussed education, the goals of the America's Promise Alliance organization, and the reasons why we have to become a Grad Nation with an audience at the Ed School.

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Washington — Despite the scant attention paid to vocational education in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory education in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory Education, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory programs.

WASHINGTON — Jaime Escalante, the Los Angeles teacher who has become a national celebrity, was introduced last week by Secretary of Education William J. Bennett to a Washington audience previewing the new movie that depicts Mr. Escalante's work at James A. Garfield High School.

These kinds of meetings have become a routine part of the job of Secretary of Education.

Speaking at the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) conference in Cardiff's City Hall, the education secretary said: «Teachers and headteachers need to be able to concentrate on the roles that they are best equipped to perform, roles that they trained for, roles that made them want to become teachers in the first place.

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