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Kerri Briggs Joins Bush Institute

By Alyson Klein — October 18, 2010 1 min read
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Kerri Briggs, who helped implement the No Child Left Behind Act as the assistant U.S. education secretary for elementary and secondary education during the George W. Bush administration, has been hired as program director of education reform for the George W. Bush Institute. Ms. Briggs recently served as state schools superintendent for the District of Columbia. She will work on “reform-based principles of accountability” at the Bush Institute, in Dallas.

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A version of this article appeared in the October 20, 2010 edition of Education Week as Kerri Briggs Joins Bush Institute

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