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Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds (born c. 1965) is an American education commissioner. She has served as Statewide Policy and Programs Deputy Commissioner for the Texas Education Agency. [1] She currently serves as the Tennessee Commissioner of Education. She came to public attention in November 2007 over the controversial firing of Christine Comer.
[11] [12] State education officials set an arbitrary limit of 8.5% for the number of students who could receive special education services. By strictly enforcing district compliance with the benchmark, the rate of students receiving special education in Texas fell to 8.5% in 2015, far below the national average of 13%. [12]
The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into ...
Michael Lawrence Williams (born May 31, 1953) is an American educator and attorney who is the former Education Commissioner of the U.S. state of Texas, in which capacity he was leader of the Texas Education Agency.
Mike Morath (born 1977) is an American software developer and investor. He is the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency.Prior to joining the agency, he served as a trustee for the Dallas Independent School District, where he advocated for school reform and home-rule.
Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrives at Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C.; Vivek Ramaswamy, chairman and co-founder of ...
Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). HHS is administered by the secretary of health and human services, who is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The position is currently held by Xavier Becerra.
[2] [3] The School had three departments: Agricultural Education, Industrial Education and Rural Education. In 1936, the School was dismantled as an administrative unit due to a lack of funding during the Great Depression. As a result, the Department of Rural Education was recreated as the Department of Education within the School of Arts and ...