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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Obama has nominated a prominent Rhode Island educator, Brenda Dann-Messier, to be an assistant secretary of education.

Dann-Messier, the president of Dorcas Place, an adult-education center in Providence, served in the federal Department of Education during the Clinton administration, according to a news release Wednesday from the White House.

Mr. Obama nominated her as assistant secretary for vocational and adult education.
She has also worked at the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University, the Rhode Island Educational Opportunity Center and the Community College of Rhode Island.

Dann-Messier sits on the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Rhode Island College and a graduate degree in educational leadership from Johnson & Wales University.

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dave from ashaway said:

What is her stand on charter schools in Rhode Island, that her fellow democrats have sought eliminate?

Link | June 24, 2009 6:14 PM
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