Arne Duncan was nominated to be secretary of education by President-elect Barack Obama and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009.
That's the message from a December 27-28 memo to local union presidents and board members from Michigan Education Association President Steven Cook, which recommends tactics that unions can use to dilute the impact of the right-to-work law.
In an effort to find common ground on education, the president-elect met with a bipartisan contingent of congressional lawmakers -- although key Democratic players in education such as Sen.
On higher education, the president is working with Congress to increase funding for the Pell grant, which is targeted to low-income students.
On 10 December 2012, the Government of Pakistan and UNESCO organized a solidarity event in support of Malala and girls' right to education with the President of Pakistan.
"At Microsoft we believe all students should have access to the building blocks of a quality education, " said Anthony Salcito, vice president, Worldwide Education for Microsoft.
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Jodi Gillette is Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs and Roberto Rodriguez is Special Assistant to the President for Education.
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Warren Zane is the vice president of education and public programs for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
You can find some surprising government opportunities, notes Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, a Washington, D.
Also with us, Warren Zane, the vice president of education and public programs for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
Irina Bokova was addressing African heads of state, donor representatives and 1Goal ambassadors at the 2010 World Cup Education Summit convened by President Zuma of South Africa a few hours before the final game on 11 July 2010.
For example, the most important issue for the African-American community, according to the President, is education.
Aaron Porter, vice president for higher education at the National Union of Students, also believes a more comprehensive system of funding is needed.
Last year at the NAACP, the President talked about education and he put in a lot of civil rights issues as it relates to education.
Friday's warning was "a major red flag" and "quite a bit more expansive" than past alerts, said Kathleen Fairfax, vice president for global education at Arizona State University.
But these services could be worth it, especially for those with no credit or who are looking to rebuild credit, says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com.
Here are some tricks and traps to be alert to, courtesy of Gerri Walsh, vice president of investor education at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), the securities industry's self-regulatory body.
"You look no different than somebody with a big fat balance, " says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com, which sells credit-score monitoring services based on its own scoring formulas.
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"Margins on gasoline sales are already so razor-thin they can't offer you 50% off like a clothing store could, " says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education for SmartCredit.com, a money-management and credit website.
In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, argues that sustainability is taking over from diversity, the longtime leader, as the top ideological enthusiasm on college campuses.
Over at Ameriprise, the financial services group recently spun off from American Express, pension changes are improving closing rates for new accounts by as much as 50%, according to Rusty Field, the company's vice-president of financial education and planning services.
What's more, the requirement to have a co-signer over 21 years old or show proof of income also can be easily manipulated by merely having a fellow student who is over 21 years old be a co-signer, says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com.
Over at Ameriprise, the financial services group recently spun off from American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people ), pension changes are improving closing rates for new accounts by as much as 50%, according to Rusty Field, the company's vice-president of financial education and planning services.
The spark, though, came from Li Guanlu, president of the Yunnan Education College in Kunming.
Obama was in Dayton, Ohio, pushing his education reform plan Wednesday when the president announced the troop redeployment.
Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association, responded in the press that smaller classes would give teachers more time to teach writing.
In 1981, Tancredo was appointed as the Department of Education's regional representative by President Ronald Reagan, a post he held for 11 years.
David Romick is currently serving his first two-year term as the president of the Dayton Education Association, the Ohio Education Association affiliate in Dayton, Ohio.
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"American voters care deeply about the quality of the air they breathe and the water they drink, and they overwhelmingly support candidates who share those concerns, " said Deb Callahan, president of the LCV Education Fund.
On July 15th, the office of civil rights in the Department of Education advised Richard Atkinson, the president of the University of California, that it was investigating the effect of the regents' ban on preferences in the university's nine campuses.
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