April 10, 2009
Obama Pick Shows Focus on Training Work Force
A community-college president is tapped for No. 2 education post
In the latest sign of the growing national prominence of community colleges, President Obama has named the chancellor of a two-year-college district in California to the government's top postsecondary-education position.
The nominee for under secretary of education, Martha J. Kanter, is head of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, in Silicon Valley. If confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Kanter would become
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