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On February 7, Betsy Devos was confirmed as the nation's new education secretary after a contentious 50 - 50 vote in the Senate, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie.
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Mr Gove, who frequently clashed with the new Prime Minister, returns to the backbenches after six years in Government as Education Secretary, Chief Whip and most recently Justice Secretary.
Former state education commissioner John King must recuse himself from decisions directly related to New York, even when he takes over as acting US secretary of education after Arne Duncan steps down, according to a federal official.
President Barack Obama will nominate Dr. John B. King Jr., former state education commissioner in New York, to serve as Education Department secretary after receiving commitments from lawmakers to give his nomination speedy consideration, the White Hoeducation commissioner in New York, to serve as Education Department secretary after receiving commitments from lawmakers to give his nomination speedy consideration, the White HoEducation Department secretary after receiving commitments from lawmakers to give his nomination speedy consideration, the White House said.
New York, NY — After the U.S. Senate HELP Committee voted on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of Success Academy released the following statement.
Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.
This is meaningful: Quickly after passage, reported Laura Camera, New York set about «dismantling what outgoing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the administration spent so much political capital laying the ground work for.»
Although an official announcement is yet to be made, it is thought Prime Minister Theresa May is considering opening new grammar schools and the rumours have been given more validity after a leaked memo written by Department for Education (DfE) permanent secretary Jonathan Slater seemed to confirm grammars were on the DfE's agenda.
Government and education officials at all levels should make teaching more engaging and active and reinforce that focus with a new generation of tests, according to the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, which issued its final report after two years of study.
Last week, new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stirred up a kerfuffle when, after a visit to Washington DC's Jefferson Middle School Academy, she said that the teachers seemed to be in «receive mode.»
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As you may have heard, after New York announced that their test scores under the Common Core dropped a full 30 percent, Obama's Secretary of Education notoriously singled - out «white suburban moms» as particularly vociferous opponents of the Common Core standards - which are coming soon to a school near you.
On Monday the education secretary has taken the next step towards introducing a new school funding formula in 2017 - 18, after complaints about local anomalies and spending gaps.
The Bush administration tried to set a new tone the night after the president signed the education bill, when Secretary of Education Rod Paige invited 30 state education chiefs to Mount Vernon to discuss the new law and his expectations for theducation bill, when Secretary of Education Rod Paige invited 30 state education chiefs to Mount Vernon to discuss the new law and his expectations for thEducation Rod Paige invited 30 state education chiefs to Mount Vernon to discuss the new law and his expectations for theducation chiefs to Mount Vernon to discuss the new law and his expectations for the states.
Speaking exclusively to Schools Week after the launch of her social mobility action plan this morning, the education secretary defended her decision to focus on brighter disadvantaged pupils with the new future talent fund.
Erica L. Green writes in the New York Times that, after Secretary DeVos» speech to state chiefs last week, «policy experts and observers» have called the speech the «ultimate display of a frustrated federalist,» and an «example of a self - described education reformer wrestling with the limits of her influence in an agency whose power she wants to curtail.»
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan issued the advice a month after the High Court ruled that the new religious studies GCSE wrongfully excluded atheism.
(Calif.) Nine months after California's dustup with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan over accountability and the Common Core, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — seems to have decided California was right: States need more time to train teachers, prepare assessments and teach students in the new standards before schools can be held accountable.
He said that after «reform» supporter Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced that we need to close the 100 worst performing schools in the country, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to close 200 in New York City alone.
Damian Hinds, the Oxford - educated MP for East Hampshire, is the new education secretary, after a reshuffle that saw Justine Greening dramatically resign from the government.
«New York City public school teachers are the reason that I am alive,» King said at the White House this month, after President Obama announced that he would succeed Education Secretary Arne Duncan at the end of this year.
The new law specifically provides that the U.S. Secretary of Education has no authority to require states to implement any kind of teacher evaluation system, and that all waivers have no legal effect on or after Aug. 1, 2016.
After the blaze, Angela Rayner, Labour's shadow education secretary, tweeted that she warned the government last year of the dangers of removing an «expectation» to fit sprinklers in all new schools, and that they «should be fitted in housing too».
«It is disappointing that, after less than a week in the job, the new Shadow Education Secretary has made this announcement with no consultation.
Hundreds of coasting schools will be targeted for improvement after Education Secretary Nicky Morgan unveiled a new measure which for the first time will identify those schools which are failing to push every pupil to reach their potential.
The state made its announcement shortly after Michael Williams, former assistant secretary of education for civil rights under President George H.W. Bush, took over the reins as the state's new commissioner of education.
After floating a raft of names — from former rival and now designated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson to New York City charter magnate Eva Moskowitz to former Washington D.C. School Chancellor and Patron Saint of Firing Teachers Michelle Rhee to actually qualified school choice advocate and Hoover Institute Fellow Dr. Williamson Evers — Donald Trump has settled upon Michigan billionaire and school privatization zealot Betsy DeVos as his nominee for Secretary of Education.
His comments come after new shadow education secretary Lucy Powell pledged more «local oversight», and represent the party's first official confirmation that this oversight will be led by councils if Labour wins the next general election.