Sentences with phrase «of education secretary»

Important details would still need to be worked out (e.g., the role of the education secretary in approving state plans, the consequences for a state's failure to improve results).

He wants to redirect federal funds toward school vouchers — and his choice of education secretary shows he's serious.

«This appears to be a national problem and should be of huge concern to everyone, and demand the attention of the education secretary,» he said.

GARY — U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos put Gary on the map in a big way Friday when she visited local charter schools, complimenting the students» education and the ability of parents to make a choice in their children's education.

In August 2015, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a joint letter to the School Superintendents Association announcing that the CEP is expanding to allow all high - poverty school districts to offer free lunch and breakfast to students without requiring their families to submit applications.

It follows a newspaper interview in which Sir Michael alleged supporters of Education Secretary Michael Gove were waging a dirty tricks campaign to undermine the work of Ofsted.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

Despite a factually inaccurate defense of Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos from Senator Lamar Alexander, parents and teachers from Knox County spoke out in opposition to DeVos yesterday.

The school choice debate has been painted in the starkest terms by partisans on both sides — especially during the contentious confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

(Andrea Ramirez, executive director of the NHCLC's Faith and Education Coalition, emphasized the Christian call to engage in public education in her CT article in response to the appointment of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.)

The National Education Association drew headlines with its call for the resignation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan at its annual gathering in Denver last week.

SACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell today joined U.S. Department of Education Secretary Rod Paige as he awarded the California Department of Education (CDE) a $ 75 million grant from the federal Public Charter Schools Grant Program.

The debate was a result of education secretary Michael Gove's announcement that he wanted to make «our island story» a fundamental part of the national curriculum.

We have always said we would support the Government when they do the right thing so can I join thousands of parents across the country in congratulating him [David Cameron] on getting rid of the Education Secretary.

«Having enough high - quality teachers is the first job of any education secretary, yet year after year she has failed to attract and retain enough teachers in our schools.

Her about - turn will bring to mind the actions of education secretary Nicky Morgan, who also voted against equal marriage and then indicated she had changed her mind after being given the equalities portfolio last year.

These triggered the resignation of education secretary Justine Greening and were branded a «lacklustre PR exercise» by Labour.

In an article for Education Next that was published early in his tenure as secretary, Richard Lee Colvin wrote about what kind of education secretary Arne Duncan was expected to be.

At $ 4.35 billion, RTTT is petite compared to other ARRA programs, but as a competitive grant program, it represents by far the largest amount ever at the discretion of an education secretary (see Figure 1).

With Betsy DeVos's confirmation hearing rescheduled for January 17, EdNext's Marty West talks with Mike McShane, the author of a new profile of the Education secretary designee, about what to expect.

The new law significantly reduces the legal authority of the education secretary, who is now legally barred from influencing state decisions about academic benchmarks, such as the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations and other policies.

«We know that parents do not agree with many of the education secretary's «reforms», such as allowing free schools and academies to employ unqualified teachers or the excessive testing of pupils from the age of four.

Board of Education Secretary in Chicago publicly labeled Chicago Public Schools as the worst in the nation.

Not long ago, the core looked like it was an initiative that was steam - rolling through the states, with the strong support of Education Secretary Duncan and other players in the education world, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which helped fund it.

Educational Bias and Bigotry Are Flourishing Under the Leadership of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

On the campaign trail this week, Mr Clegg said he would like to see a Liberal Democrat holding the post of education secretary in a future coalition, but the Conservatives have criticised the party for trying to distance itself from education policies they supported in government.

All Aboard the Success Express: On the Road With the Secretary of Education Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley is traveling this week on the Success Express — and Education World is going along for the ride!

Keeping with the First Lady's healthy lifestyle initiatives, Karen Duncan, wife of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, is promoting the new film «Lunch Line,» a documentary on school lunches.

Nowhere is that chasm more clearly demonstrated than in the case of education secretary Michael Gove.

Friends of the education secretary say May is «dull and uninspiring» and without the intellectual ability to make it to the very top.

«I got to meet a couple of education secretaries, who were both useless.

Democrats had previously sought to scuttle the nomination of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to no avail.

Katrina Stiff's crocheted figures of the education secretary are proving popular not only with teachers.

Puerto Rico Department of Education Secretary Dr. Julia Keleher requested that Commissioner Stewart visit the island.

But it became evident later in the day that there are barriers in the way of the Education Secretary's latest plan, and that more have been put in his way for some time: the extraordinary sense of forward momentum which the Education Secretary generates has not been achieved without opposition.

Not for him the sight of education secretary Michael Gove telling off opposition backbenchers.

Creating Free Schools which are state funded but not controlled by local councils has been the main objective of Education secretary Michael Gove.

The body is also, in Wolf's words, «helped out» by another associate of the education secretary, Dominic Cummings, who used to be Gove's special adviser.

Seventeen mathematicians, cognitive scientists, and math educators were named today to a presidentially appointed panel that, in the words of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, is supposed to tell U.S. math teachers «what's most effective in the classroom.»

Betsy DeVos, the (Relatively Mainstream) Reformer A long record refutes the radical image of the education secretary By Michael Q. McShane

«He will be the kind of education secretary who will benefit a lot of kids.

The National Education Association, though a long - time Democratic sidecar, recently issued a 26 - page single - spaced denunciation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's Race to the Top funding criteria — alleging that they place far too much emphasis on charter schools and insult teachers by suggesting that their performance should be gauged by their pupils» achievement.

The Every Student Succeeds Act, as the bill is called, would get rid of the unpopular requirement that schools must get all children reading at their grade level or face consequences, significantly diminish the power of the Education secretary and prevent the federal government from using its money and influence to promote national standards like the Common Core.

As usual, he offers a thoughtful assessment of the pros and cons of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's decision to keep secret the identities of the judges in the $ 4.35 billion grant competition until after winners are announced and Duncan's decision to release minimal detail about how the reviewers were chosen or the substance of the instructions they have received.

A statement issued soon afterwards by the Department for Education (DfE) on behalf of the education secretary, at 4 pm, said she had «decided to close the school» and that its 94 Year 7 and Year 8 pupils would be transferred to other schools.