Sentences with phrase «former social secretaries»

In Treating People Well, former social secretaries Lea Berman, who served the George W. Bush White House, and Jeremy Bernard, who served the Obama White House, share their stories.

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Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

The former secretary of state for children, schools and families can also be expected to give the inside story of the Baby P Case, which saw him intervene in the running of Haringey Social Services to order the dismissal of its children services director Sharon Shoesmith.

In a highly unusual move, the Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan joins forces with her previous Labour shadow Lucy Powell and the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to condemn the plans as damaging to social mobility, ideologically driven and divisive.

Figures from the right and left of the party, including former education and home secretary Charles Clarke, have put their weight behind radical plans to increase NI and guarantee that the money raised would pay for spiralling NHS and social care costs.

«The social and cultural impact is not being teased out,» said Tom Watson, former parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office.

Critics say selection won't help social mobility crisis, as former Tory education secretary Nicky Morgan adds voice

Hitchin & Harpenden MP Peter Lilley (a former Secretary of State for Social Security) offered this observation:

Burnham, a former health secretary under Gordon Brown, got several standing ovations at the Labour conference on Wednesday as he promised that the party would give people the right to be treated in their own home and make the NHS responsible for social care as well as medical problems.

Though the current executives have a four - year mandate which is not half spent, campaign posters of Former General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie affectionately called Sir John, are all over social media.

The former shadow business secretary, Labour MP Chuka Umunna, said: «It is absolutely vital, as the party of work and social justice, that we have a clear and unequivocal policy to keep the UK in the single market and the customs union.

The group includes some former remain supporters but its founding members are largely made up of those involved in the Brexit campaign, including Tory former chancellor Nigel Lawson, Tory donor Peter Cruddas, Digby Jones, who is a former head of the CBI, and David Owen, the former Labour foreign secretary who went on to help found the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

But the leadership came under fire from the Tory right when Laing, a close ally of the former defence secretary Liam Fox, criticised Cameron for alienating traditional Tory voters by imposing social change.

Labour needs to regain voters» trust — especially in the south of England — by rebuilding the welfare state around its original social insurance model so benefits are more directly linked to what a worker has contributed, John Denham, the former communities secretary and one of the few Labour MPs left in the south, proposes today.

On its first night, the channel led with the satirical docudrama A Very Social Secretary about the affair between David Blunkett, the former British Home Secretary, and Kimberly Quinn.

It was initially embraced by senior Pentagon officials, including former defense secretary Robert Gates, but has been dogged by controversy after the injury and death of several social scientists.

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 3, Episode 3: Mark McKinnon sits down with former White House Social Secretary Lea Berman to discuss President Trump's first State Dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron and all that goes into the planning of a State Dinner.

The enthralling biopic about the former first lady in the days following John F. Kennedy's assassination sees Gerwig portraying social secretary Nancy Tuckerman.

In October of last year, former UN Assistant Secretary - General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs Thomas Gass noted, «Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.»

Cross, president of the Council for Basic Education and a former assistant U.S. secretary of education in the Bush administration, added that waiving the cap on retirement earnings for teachers would allow retirees to get back into the classroom and still collect Social Security.

May used a report, commissioned by the Labour - run Knowsley borough council, to rebut concerns raised by former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell that the government's focus on grammar schools was hindering social mobility progress.

Clegg joined forces with former education secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-shadow education secretary Lucy Powell today to lead the debate on grammar schools and social mobility, in which he called for an end to the government's new «fetish» with selection.

As a former middle social studies teacher and now as Secretary of Education - Designate for the State of New Mexico, it certainly is an honor to be here today representing the Land of Enchantment.

The action was debated on social media, prompting former Education Secretary Arne Duncan to tweet:

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.

Venture capitalist John Doerr, who has previously served on Mr. Obama's jobs council, is also being added to the board, and former White House social secretary Julianna Smoot will be rejoining the board after a year hiatus.

In the words of former UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who helped launch Sustainable Energy for All in 2011, «Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.»

The outage sparked criticism from many travelers on social media, including former Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who questioned why a backup power system was not deployed:

You've likely heard about the basics of said budget, which former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich described as «reeking of Social Darwinism.»

Kaitlyn Falness is a member of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagle Regiment Marching Band and World Guard; Former Secretary and current Community Service Liaison of Rho Kappa, the social studies honors society; and the Historian of the Caw Caw Book Club.

Former HUD Secretary Shawn Donovan had called for a «home first» strategy to homelessness, believing that having a permanent shelter will make it easier for the homeless to obtain social, education, employment, and health services.