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Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, mid-1970s (l to r) On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. Dunham's parents sought business opportunities in the new state, and after graduating from high school in 1960, Dunham and her family moved to Honolulu.
The program was the first Federally funded school voucher program in the United States. It was first approved in 2003 and allowed to expire for the first time in 2009 under the Obama administration. [1] The program was reauthorized under the SOAR Act in 2011, but again defunded at the end of the second Obama presidency. The program was ...
The Obama administration's Department of Education began Promise Neighborhoods almost immediately upon Obama's first term in office. [8] The program was initially established under the legislative authority of the Fund for the Improvement of Education Programs. [9] The Promise Neighborhoods program was initiated in two phases.
In fifth grade, Obama was enrolled at the Punahou School, a prestigious preparatory school where his tuition fees were paid with the aid of scholarships. Ann Dunham later came back to Hawaii to pursue graduate studies, but when she returned to Indonesia in 1977 for her master's fieldwork, Obama stayed in the United States with his grandparents.
And on March 1, 2010, when President Obama gave a speech speaking of the necessity of letting go teachers at failing schools such as those in the Central Falls (RI) School District's only high school, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, said, “The tone used to describe the teachers in Central Falls has been ...
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Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke to students at a school in Vietnam while promoting education for girls to help reach their full potential.