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- From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
- Subject: AFT Applauds Choice of Riley as Education Secretary
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.085411.15510@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:54:11 GMT
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- Here is a press release from the American Federation of Teachers.
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- AFT Applauds Choice of Riley as Education Secretary
- To: National Desk
- Contact: Janet Bass of the American Federation of Teachers,
- 202-879-4554
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- WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- American Federation of Teachers
- President Albert Shanker said President-elect Clinton's
- choice today of former South Carolina Gov. Richard Riley to run the
- Department of Education is an excellent decision.
- "The choice of Dick Riley as education secretary signals an
- important and exciting change for our nation's students. As a
- visionary education reformer in South Carolina, Riley recognized that
- real changes require transforming the whole system, not just
- depending on a single magic bullet," Shanker said.
- South Carolina's reform plan included boosting academic standards,
- improving testing to assess student achievement, upgrading teacher
- and principal training and providing schools with incentives to
- improve student performance.
- "Many others are only now catching up with him. He will be an
- asset in our nation's efforts to ensure that all students leave
- school literate, numerate and ready to compete in a global economy,"
- Shanker said.
- The AFT represents 796,000 teachers, professors, paraprofessionals
- and school-related personnel, nurses and health care workers, state
- and municipal employees.
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