Sentences with phrase «founded by education secretary»

The American Federation for Children — the group founded by Education Secretary - nominee Betsy DeVos — put out a guide last summer about where the various state tax credit and voucher programs land on these various issues.

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Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

The news comes after a survey conducted by the NUT found more than 5,200 primary teachers in England believe Education Secretary Nicky Morgan should cancel the national tests, which are due to be taken next term.

Another nonprofit organization that offers fellowships is America Achieves, founded in September 2010 in New York City by a group that includes Jon Schnur, who has been an advisor to President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

In response to a Neil Carmichael, who called on the Education Secretary to make the subjects compulsory, Nicky Morgan said: «The vast majority of schools already make provision for PSHE and while the government agrees that making PSHE statutory would give it equal status with other subjects, the government is concerned that this would do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject, which are to do with the variable quality of its provision, as evidenced by Ofsted's finding that 40 per cent of PSHE teaching is less than good.

«The Bennett Hypothesis Turns 30,» a research paper by Jenna A. Robinson, merges findings from 25 empirical studies on the «Bennett Hypothesis»: Reagan - era Education Secretary William J. Bennett's theory that large amounts of federal student aid drive up the cost of tuition.

If you're interested in checking it out for yourself, you can find the papers, the panels, and the closing keynote by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos here.

Findings from the study, commissioned by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, were released at a news conference here by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and Lee P. Brown, the director of the office of National Drug Control Policy.

Erudition was sponsored by K12, a firm founded by a former Goldman Sachs executive, Ron Packard, and a former US education secretary, William Bennett.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos today announced that all consolidated state plans submitted by 34 states and Puerto Rico under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for the fall deadline were found to be complete and ready for peer review.

Speaking at the annual conference of the Baker Dearing Trust — an organisation founded by former education secretary Lord Baker to facilitate the growth of UTCs — Wilshaw said the institutions needed to be doing «significantly better than this».

The Putney MP's appointment as education secretary was announced by the prime minister's office this morning, but the schools community may have to wait until tomorrow to find out which MPs will take on the junior ministerial roles in the department.

The nation's next education secretary is a man driven by what might have been had he not found refuge in public schools.

They've made schools — like the Grand Rapids charter school founded by billionaire Dick DeVos and his wife, Betsy, the U.S. Education Secretary — look like they've made extraordinary improvements in just two short years.

2) National: A new report by the Offices of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Katherine Clark finds that the first year of education secretary Betsy DeVos» tenure, «marked by damaging conflicts of interest,» has been «a boon for for - profit colleges, student loan companies, and advocates of school privatization.

Eighteen months in the making and written by the blue - ribbon members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything butEducation at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything butEducation Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything buteducation in the United States — and the findings were anything but stellar.

«[Albertson's supermarket heir Joseph B.] Scott's investment company, Alscott Inc., has brought in more than $ 15 million by selling part of its stake in Virginia - based K12 Inc., which was founded in 1999 by former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett.