Sentences with phrase «from education secretary»

During the annual meeting of the Chalkboard Project, an independent Oregon K12 education advocacy group, a video message from Education Secretary Arne Duncan was played for the staff, board, trustees, and affiliate members.

The clause also requires councils to get permission from the education secretary before using powers of intervention in schools where the government has already intervened.

But I would argue that these difficulties still require thoughtful attention and research from an education secretary who should -LSB-...]

This announcement from Education Secretary Spelling may develop over time into the norm for other states.

The clause requires that councils get permission from the education secretary to use powers of intervention in schools where the government has already intervened.

Carter also welcomed a row back from education secretary Justine Greening on proposals for every school to have converted into an academy by 2022.

Inspectors visited both schools in November last year under instruction from Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to find out if they were correctly promoting British values.

Getting Head Start right — turning it into an effective pre-K program for poor kids — should be the focus of a joint effort from education secretary Duncan and HHS secretary Katherine Sebelius.

The conference earlier heard from education secretary Nicky Morgan, who said she would go ahead with her reform plans because she believed academies «make it easier to spread the reach of the best leaders over several schools».

This could have been problematic, if not for a waiver from Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, who has announced some flexibility regarding enforcement of No Child Left Behind provisions.

Under Cameron he returned to the top table after going from Education Secretary to chief whip.

In the article, Hastings wrote: «The sacking of Michael Gove — for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less — has shocked middle England.

His remarks follow a speech earlier this week from education secretary Michael Gove which stated that an «educational underclass» was partly responsible for last month's riots.

Nick Harvey left the MoD, Nick Gibb — who notably came in for heavy praise from education secretary Michael Gove during his conference speech — was bumped from the DfE, Charles Hendry lost his job at DECC, and Tim Loughton also joined Gibb in the DfE departure lounge.

The plans are the most radical proposals to emerge from an education secretary who has made no secret of his desire to return to an old - fashioned standard of education, with core disciplines and higher standards being reintroduced at all levels.

The row between Theresa May and Michael Gove over the handling of the allegations of an Islamist plot to takeover the running of Birmingham schools has led to the resignation of a close aide to the Home Secretary and an apology from the Education Secretary.

We need real progress from the education secretary — I hope he will want to be remembered for helping stop the cycle of abuse

Mulgrew said the work the union and its members did to help shape the state budget should help protect New York City public schools from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her privatization agenda.

Not exact matches

The emotional session, which included the president, Vice President Mike Pence, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, brought together people with ties to high - profile school shootings, including those from Parkland, Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, and Columbine High School in 1999.

This new initiative was announced by Ms Low Yen Ling, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Education, at the 2018 World Intellectual Property Day Event held in April which saw more than 200 participants from the creative and innovation community gather to celebrate World IP Day alongside 191 member states across the world.

Unveiling the review, education secretary Damian Hinds (pictured below) said on Friday that some youngsters - especially those from challenging backgrounds - face «inconsistencies» in their experience of education.

Humanists UK have highlighted how several MPs, including the new Education Secretary Damian Hinds, have received money from the Catholic Bishops» Conference in return for intern placements.

«One of the saddest moments during my time as Education Secretary was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity, were under constant attack.»

Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, may have surprised many by repeatedly calling for the teaching in schools of authors such as Chaucer, Dryden and Pope but his suggestion deserves a response from the Catholic community, for each of these great writers was a Catholic and each of them is horribly neglected even in Catholic schools today.

Please read this letter from the Vermont Secretary of Education stating that meals served in the classroom count as instructional time.

«If it is the case that pupils from the same year group have been marked more harshly if they entered later, that would be patently unfair,» shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg declared earlier.

Gove may be more wounded by an article from former Ofsted chief Sir David Bell warning the education secretary: «Don't believe your own hype.»

Similarly, an attempt by John Swinney, the dry - as - dust education secretary, to rebut recent internal criticism that the Scottish government lacks a radical edge amounted to little more than claiming the SNP sat «firmly astride Scotland's social democratic centre», while elsewhere he said the currency proposition won't «necessarily» have to be any different from that offered up in 2014, a so - called «currency union».

But even now, as the Shadow Education Secretary, I occasionally feel like someone's going to tap me on the shoulder and say, «the joke's over»; however, the solidarity and support from Labour women dispels those anxieties and doubts.

Now that approach is being comprehensively abandoned with a speech from shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg at the Royal Society of Arts.

Democrats are trying to turn the special election for a state Senate seat in Westchester County into a referendum on Trump by criticizing Republican Julie Killian for accepting money from Dick DeVos Jr., husband of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

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.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill are calling on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to reverse a decision from her department's Office for Civil Rights changing the way it investigates complaints, arguing that the move would hamper investigations into sexual assault on college campuses.

The education secretary is seeking to ensure school pupils emerge from their education being able to have a «command of proper spelling, punctuation and grammar».

Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is distancing herself from earlier comments about the nation's historically black colleges and universities being pioneers of school choice.

«Our challenge now is to learn from the best evidence of what works and when, and to embed that within the literacy strategy for the future,» the education secretary said.

Divisions within the government were emphasised by Miliband, however, who pointed out that education secretary Michael Gove has suggested he would vote for a withdrawal from the EU if a referendum took place tomorrow.

Assemblyman says Congress must «referee» to stop Secretary of Education from cutting federal school funding to punish NY for massive student opt - outs of grades 3 - 8 tests

State higher education leaders said the plan, which also drew praise from U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr., would incentivize both full - time enrollment and college coeducation leaders said the plan, which also drew praise from U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr., would incentivize both full - time enrollment and college coEducation Secretary John King Jr., would incentivize both full - time enrollment and college completion.

Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Conservative - run East Sussex county council, which, after a disappointing grant from the Department for Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in education in Hastings?

[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.

Education secretary Michael Gove plans to increase the quota of staff hired on religious grounds at the new academies from 20 % to 100 %.

Morgan was education secretary from 2014 - 16 and is fighting to remain in place as Tory MP for Loughborough.

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.

After the photos emerged, May faced criticism from former education secretary Nicky Morgan, who said: «I don't think I've ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress.»

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:

He was the Secretary for Trade and Tourism in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) administration in 1982, and later Secretary for Education and Culture from 1986 to 1990.

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.