Sentences with phrase «education during his first term»

By Erin Einhorn — After largely steering clear of education during his first term, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is now looking for...

After largely steering clear of education during his first term, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is now looking for ways to become more invested in the city schools.

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To start with, he was adjudged by the voters as having performed well during his first term, particularly in education, security, infrastructural development, community development, revenue generation, and especially the regular payment of workers» salaries, despite the nationwide economic recession.

In «Notes From the Revolution,» (Commentary, July 27, 2005), Eugene W. Hickok, who was then - U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige's deputy in President Bush's first term, offers a delightful fiction about the «revolutionary» impact of the Education Leaders Council on American schooling during the past decade.

In terms of market share, Chromebooks maintained their momentum during the first quarter, accounting for more than 50 % of education sales in the USA during the first quarter, while Windows saw its share of the market decrease YoY within the USA to less than a quarter of all shipments.

Terrel H. Bell, secretary of education during President Reagan's first term, has criticized the Administration's proposed cuts in aid to college students, saying they constitute an «unwitting assault on the nation's colleges and universities.»

He recently served as assistant secretary for communications and outreach in the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama Administration's first term.

Despite Mitt Romney's charge that «President Obama's policy response to every education challenge has been more federal spending,» on - budget K - 12 education expenditure has grown during Obama's first term at the slowest pace in two decades (aside from the massive, but unlikely to be repeated, infusions of ARRA and Edujobs).

They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.

The proposal comes as Duncan and the Obama administration embark on a second term, where criticism over much of the education spending and program goals during the president's first four years in office remains an issue among many Congressional leaders.

National School Board Group Seeks Curbs on U.S. Ed Secretary The National School Boards Association and its 90,000 members are sponsoring legislation aimed at curbing the authority of the U.S. Secretary of Education — an outgrowth likely stemming from the group's chilly relationship with the Obama administration during the president's first term.

That stands in contrast to Arne Duncan, Barack Obama's first education secretary, and Rod Paige, who served during George W. Bush's first term, both of whom had extensive experience in public education and oversaw huge legislative initiatives.

Interestingly, considering how much attention public education issues received during the recent gubernatorial campaign, this vital topic did not get much play in Malloy's speech, although the governor — who once said that he didn't mind schools teach to the test, «as long as test scores went up,» — did proudly proclaim that his first term accomplishments include that fact that his administration had «raised test scores» in Connecticut.

The leadership of the Connecticut Education Association went so far as to overrule their own political endorsing committee who had voted that the teachers» union should make «no endorsement» in the race for governor because Malloy's policies and actions during his first term were so anti-teacher and anti-public schools.

During Torlakson's first term, he set out on a mission to provide a world - class education for all students from early childhood to adulthood.

The education reforms implement by President Obama during his first term form the basis of his campaign's education positions.