Sentences with phrase «former education policy adviser»

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

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Dan Senor, a former Republican foreign policy adviser and husband of TV - reporter - turned - education - reformer Campbell Brown, is on the board of directors for StudentsFirstNY.

Still, the president spent mounds of political capital pushing policies designed to pressure schools to help minority youth, and «it puts him in a difficult position to be signing onto something that clearly empowers states to be less aggressive in addressing inequity,» said Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary at the Education Department and a past adviser to Secretary Arne Duncan.

The Department for Education has refused to publish a report which said England's smallest schools can not afford to provide free school meals, according to a former policy adviser.

The new policies have many champions, but a little - known common denominator behind sweeping measures in nearly a dozen states is Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, who has re-emerged as an adviser to governors and lawmakers, mostly Republicans, who are interested in imitating what he calls «the Florida formula» for education.

Former teacher and education policy adviser, Kiran Gill, set up The Difference to break the link between school exclusion and social exclusion.

Melvoin, an attorney and former middle - school teacher, campaigned last year for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; Gonez, a seventh - grade science teacher, worked for two years as an education policy adviser for the Obama administration.

But Natalie Perera, a former DfE adviser who is now executive director at the Education Policy Institute, said she «remained concerned» about the lead - in time for the second consultation and the «potential regulatory changes required».

And Bryce McKibben, a former Association of Community College Trustees policy analyst who recently became a policy adviser to Democrats on the Senate education committee, has noted potential flaws.