Paul Vallas
Paul Vallas
Paul Gust Vallasis an American former superintendent of the Bridgeport Public Schools, a former Superintendent of the Recovery School District of Louisiana, and a former CEO of Chicago Public Schools and the School District of Philadelphia. He ran for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 2014 with incumbent Governor Pat Quinn, though the team was defeated by Bruce Rauner and Evelyn Sanguinetti...
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We are excited to have the support and cooperation of Microsoft in this endeavor. The challenges facing education can only be met through a community effort from the public and private sector.
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I've been here for four years, and I don't complain. I lobby quietly for the resources I think we deserve, and then we take the resources we're allocated and we do the best we can with it.
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Middle schools are flawed organizationally. They simply don't work.
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On the positive side, he is clearly hard working, disciplined and personable. On the negative side, he pretty much sticks to a prepared script.
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We're actually looking at laying out a two-year plan to get all five of our automotive training programs certified.
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He's done it before, he knows how to do the ninth-grade academies.
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If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.