So unexpected is the rise of the one-time education minister and head of the small, centrist UDF party, that half the nation still mispronounces his name.
The cross-party commission, chaired by former Labour minister Alan Milburn and whose deputy is John Major's one-time education secretary Baroness Shephard, describes this group as the "missing piece in the jigsaw" of the government's education policies.
"But we also know one-time education efforts are not effective".
Possible answers were: one-time education session, permanent education or knowledge sharing program, no training program available.
One upon a time, education was known as a bipartisan issue in Congress.
"I'm running against a person that, when asked about education reforms, said, 'One time, I was a member of the education committee of the United States Congress,' " Mr. Bush told a rally at the airport in Rochester.
NEW YORK -- Standing in front of 20 fidgety kids in a middle school gymnasium Monday, New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio (D) announced what he called "literally one of the most important decisions" he'd make as mayor: the appointment of longtime educator and one-time Bloomberg education deputy Carmen Fariña as chancellor of the nation's largest public school system.
He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam.
One group member returned to full time education, and another to paid work, including employers in his action plans for relapse.
In the midst of my musings, an old colleague of my father put me in the way of an article by Sir Peter Newsam, one-time chief education officer of the Inner London Education Authority.
