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Position: Secretary - Education

The U.S. Department of Education establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education. It assists the president in executing his or her education policies for the nation and in implementing laws enacted by Congress. The department's mission is to serve U.S. students, to ensure that all have equal access to education, and to promote excellence in the nation's public schools. It is the job of the secretary to see that these missions are carried out effectively. The secretary is responsible for ensuring that this happens.

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Bob Chase Rate this Nominee   Current Rating: click to rate
Nominee's Background:

President, National Education Association, 1996-2002. Formerly, vice president of NEA and president of the Connecticut Education Association. He was a history teacher for many years prior.

Nominating Speech:
Bob Chase is a reformer who transformed NEA into a proactive force for excellence for all teachers and all students. He is a national leader in the movement to close the achievement gap, open-minded, collegial and dynamic, who fully understands the impact of federal education policy in the classroom.

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Progressive Criteria:
The Education Department will

Support true academic standards and reject punitive standardized testing that deprives schools of funding solely because of low test scores;

Support not penalize school districts that need extra help because they have many poor, minority or immigrant students;

Work to restore public education as an effective vehicle for social mobility, as it has been for so much of our country's history;

Open up many routes to higher education;

Improve teacher pay, dignity and respect;

Reject voucher systems and other privatization schemes;

Protect our students from commercial influences and marketing in their schools;

Understand that in addition to training for good jobs, the public education system must educate responsible, engaged citizens.

Comments so far:
May 12, 2005 Rose - Bob Chase, while president of the NEA, spotlighted the great need for the union to pay as much attention to professional issues, instruction and curriculum as to the attention to member advocacy. He propelled the NEA membership to make student achievement and professional accountabilty the utmost priority. Great Public Schools for All Children is the mantra today.

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