Sentences with phrase «incoming education secretary»

Incoming Education Secretary John King, who will replace Arne Duncan at the end of the year, said in a press briefing on the changes that the focus in higher education needs to shift «away from just enrollment towards completion, and particularly completion for the students who are most at risk.»

The incoming education secretary will face pressures over school funding and decisions about university tuition fees.

And the incoming education secretary will be expected to re-energise the Conservatives» plans for schools.

Not exact matches

«Government delegation at the meeting will include Minister of Education, Minister of Finance, Chairman National Income Salaries and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary National Universities Commission and the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige had called the meeting and those expected were the Ministers of Education and Finance, Mallam Adamu Adamu and Mrs Kemi Adeosun respectively, Chairman, National Income Salaries and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary National Universities Commission and the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba.

He said the government delegation at the meeting would include the ministers of Education and Finance, Chairman, National Income Salaries and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission and the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress.

Also in attendance at the ceremony were the State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the outgoing Vice Chancellor and newly appointed Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, the incoming Vice Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council Dr. Umar Musa Mustapha, the Minister of Education Professor Anthony Anwukah, who was represented by the Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC) Professor Julius Okojie, His Royal Majesty, Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, who was represented by the Elerin Olubadan High Chief Abimbola Ajibola and the Owa Obokun of Ijesa land, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran.

However Amy Fowler, deputy secretary of the state Agency of Education, said national studies have found schools with resource officers suspend and expel minority and low - income students at higher rates.

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U.S. Secretary of Education for an administration willing to dare attempts at substantive based initiatives for inner - city, lower - income school districts as well as for rural school districts

Since President - elect Trump nominated Betsy DeVos — a philanthropist and school - choice advocate who has been sharply critical of public schools — to be secretary of education, educators have been speculating how the incoming administration will affect American schools.

The University and College Union (UCU) General Secretary Sally Hunt, said: «Successive Governments» efforts to transfer the bill for higher education teaching onto graduates have created unsustainable levels of debt, with students from low and middle - income backgrounds being hit the hardest by the repayment burden.

The White House, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and their allies have spent the last couple weeks drawing lines in the sand, blasting House Republicans, manufacturing new demands (like addressing pre-K in ESEA), and finding all kinds of creative ways to accuse Republicans of unconcern for low - income children.

Opposition to tax - funded scholarships permitting low - income students to attend private schools — an approach favored by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and allowed in 16 states — fell from 29 last year to 24 percent, and 54 percent of respondents said they favored them.

«Every child, regardless of income, race, background, or disability can succeed if provided the opportunity to learn,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: «With most schools overspending their income, it is clear that schools» needs are not being met by the government.

The total demand for and resulting cost of the Pell Grant program grew exponentially between 2007 and 2011 as a result of more Americans enrolling in college and lower family incomes during the Great Recession.58 In 2011, to compensate for an inadequate reserve to fund the growing demand of Pell Grants, Congress cut year - round Pell Grant eligibility, which was restored this year, and eliminated graduate student subsidized loans.59 This affected the student aid packages of students nationwide.60 By cutting the Pell Grant reserve, President Trump and Secretary DeVos risk the ability to fund future upticks in Pell Grant demand, thereby requiring either future reductions to eligibility, lower awards, or cuts to other education programs.

But critics, including education historian Diane Ravitch, a New York University professor and former assistant U.S. secretary of education who is speaking at UW - Madison on Tuesday, say choice programs have drained resources from the traditional public school system without producing conclusive evidence that they are any better at educating students, particularly low - income ones.

You can easily imagine Bannon working hand in hand with an incoming Secretary of Education to weaken the civil rights protections that are still left in the weak Every Student Succeeds Act.

As the incoming Secretary of Education, Ms. DeVos will be tasked with implementing the President - Elect's campaign pledge to expand school choice options to all 11 million students living in poverty.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the award of $ 18.5 million to enhance libraries in 57 low - income school districts across the United States.

It is our hope that we can collaborate with the incoming Secretary of Education to enact policies that support increased access to high - quality public magnet schools that promote choice, equity, diversity, and academic excellence for all students.»

«This is not an issue that we see in high - income communities,» said Catherine E. Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education.

Philanthropist Eli Broad and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came together at the Library of Congress in Washington this morning to commend Houston's leaders and those of other large urban school district that have made strides in recent years in boosting student achievement and reducing achievement gaps between low - income students and students of color and their more advantaged peers.

John B. King, the former U.S. education Secretary and incoming president of the Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has expressed a range of concerns about DeVos and her commitment to public education, but said he's also keeping an oeducation Secretary and incoming president of the Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has expressed a range of concerns about DeVos and her commitment to public education, but said he's also keeping an oEducation Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has expressed a range of concerns about DeVos and her commitment to public education, but said he's also keeping an oeducation, but said he's also keeping an open mind.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised the Madison School District's recent emphasis on raising the achievement levels of low - income and minority students but cautioned there is no one simple solution.

She said she feared that the new education secretary would use Jefferson students - most of whom are African American and come from low - income families - for a photo op to burnish her image.

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WASHINGTON, DC — As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low - income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

In a conference call with reporters, Education Secretary Arne Duncan noted the changes roiling education nationally: school districts with higher numbers of low - income families, more students who qualify as English language learners, and in some states, the inclusion of children with special needs in tEducation Secretary Arne Duncan noted the changes roiling education nationally: school districts with higher numbers of low - income families, more students who qualify as English language learners, and in some states, the inclusion of children with special needs in teducation nationally: school districts with higher numbers of low - income families, more students who qualify as English language learners, and in some states, the inclusion of children with special needs in the tests.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and civil rights groups were tugging from the opposite side, demanding the law retain its yearly testing regime and do more to ensure states and schools focus on educating low - income students.

«The prospect of a U.S. education secretary who grasps the importance of providing low - income students and their parents with the right to access better options is long overdue,» Merriweather wrote in the Hill newspaper in December.

Former U.S. Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr, now President & CEO of Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels, particularly for students of color and low - income students, delivered the keynote address at the fall 2017 convening of the By All Means consortium.

Yet the cost of this investment is higher than ever, creating a barrier to access for some students, particularly those from low - income families,» said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

In a visit to Memphis, where NACEP has documented a sustained effort to expand access to dual and concurrent enrollment to all students, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced a one - time $ 20 million investment in dual enrollment to increase low - income student participation in these successful programs.

In a district filled with low - income and at - risk students, the turnaround was hailed as a model for the rest of the country, and the superintendent, Rod Paige, went on to become U.S. secretary of education under George W. Bush.

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Recommendation: The Secretary of Education should obtain data needed to assess the impact of income recertification lapses on borrower payment amounts, and adjust estimated borrower repayment patterns as necessary.

Recommendation: The Secretary of Education should assess and improve, as necessary, the quality of data and methods used to forecast borrower incomes, and revise the forecasting method to account for inflation in estimates.

Recommendation: The Secretary of Education should publish more detailed Income Driven Repayment plan cost information — beyond what is regularly provided through the President's budget — including items such as total estimated costs, sensitivity analysis results, key limitations, and expected forgiveness amounts.

Recommendation: The Secretary of Education should complete efforts to incorporate repayment plan switching into the agency's redesigned student loan model, and conduct testing to help ensure that the model produces estimates that reasonably reflect trends in Income - Driven Repayment plan participation.

Recommendation: To help ensure that Income - Based Repayment, Pay As You Earn, and Public Service Loan Forgiveness serve their intended beneficiaries to the greatest extent possible, the Secretary of Education should take steps to examine borrower awareness of Public Service Loan Forgiveness and increase outreach about the program as needed.

Speakers at the summit, which will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, include keynote speaker John E. Pepper, Jr., retired Chairman and CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company and current chairman of the board of the Walt Disney Company; Judith Van Ginkel, Every Child Succeeds; Libby Doggett, Pew Center on the States; Frank Putnam, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; David Olds, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; and Deborah Daro, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago; Federal officials scheduled to speak include: Martha Coven, Special Assistant to the President, White House Domestic Policy Council; Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; and Robert Gordon, Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance and Labor, Office of Management and Budget.