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Definition of Education secretary
1. Noun. The person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education. "Carter appointed Shirley Hufstedler as the first Secretary of Education"
2. Noun. The position of the head of the Education Department. "The post of Education Secretary was created in 1979"
Generic synonyms: Secretaryship
Group relationships: United States Cabinet, Us Cabinet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Education Secretary
Literary usage of Education secretary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Final Report of the Educational Commission to the Forty-sixth General by Illinois Educational Commission (1909)
"... secretary board 1848-64 Superintendent of Public Instruction Superintendent
of Public Instruction State Superintendent of Public Education, secretary of ..."
2. Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant by Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church Diocese of Michigan, Diocese of Michigan (1914)
"The employment of a trained "efficiency expert," if one can be had, as a Religious
education secretary of the Diocese, whose business it shall be to study ..."
3. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"In Mysore his designation was changed in July 1883 to education secretary, and
he was also appointed Police Secretary and to report on the Census. ..."
4. A Study in School Supervision and Maintenance by Henry C. Fellow (1896)
"State Board of Education — Secretary of State, Attorney General, and State
Superintendent. Duties — Grants State diplomas, and revokes for cause. ..."
5. School: A Monthly Record of Educational Thought and Progress by Laurie Magnus, Robert Binney Lattimer (1906)
"AC COFFIN, education secretary, Darlington, to be Secretary to the Newcastle ...
DOUGLAS SMITH, education secretary to the North Riding County Council, ..."