However, their narrow vision of school "reform" -- charter schools, fast-track teacher certification programs, and merit pay -- do not address upward mobility.
Among the measures introduced was a change to Pakistan's constitution enabling the establishment of special military courts to fast-track terror cases, including the school attackers.
As the worst teaching shortage in decades looms, New York is among a growing number of cities and states with fast-track programs promising free graduate school tuition and other incentives to lure people from other professions into teaching.
A product of France's Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the "finishing school" for fast-track civil servants, he served in several ministerial private offices and high bureaucratic posts before becoming head of the Treasury in 1978.Personal and professional ambitions may also have played a role.
The controversial Tory initiative to set up free schools received fast-track public funding after fierce lobbying from education secretary Michael Gove's inner circle of advisers, according to leaked emails.
The latest claims come after the Guardian revealed last month that a charity set up to provide advice to free schools received fast-track public funding after an email from Cummings, sent after the election in May, in which he urged that they should be given "cash without delay".
A majority of its education students, says the dean, Annette Digby, are part time and already teaching on a temporary or fast-track license, without going through education school.
So serious is the school about supporting fast-track tech startups that it has its own U.S. Patent and Trademark officer in residence.
It was selected for the fast-track programme because it is the nearest school to the camp's outskirts, where the vast majority of the new arrivals live.
Proprietary schools offer laser-focused and fast-track training that can demonstrate concrete job skills and leads.
