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SUMMARY:GMSC! February 2016 Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:This popular breakfast series is a high-profile\, fast-paced and educational program geared towards executives\, senior managers\, professionals and small business owners. Each of the programs has a business-oriented focus and features a popular speaker to present on a topic of interest to local businesses. The Good Morning SouthCoast! breakfast program is also a great way to network with other Chamber members!\n\n\n\nKey Note Speaker:  Massachusetts Secretary of Education\,  Jim Peyser\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs Secretary of Education\, Jim Peyser directs the Executive Office of Education which is responsible for early education\, K-12\, and higher education in Massachusetts. Secretary Peyser sits on each of the boards governing the Commonwealth's education agencies   Department of Early Education and Care\, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education\, and Department of Higher Education as well as the University of Massachusetts system. He is Governor Baker's top advisor on education and helps shape the Commonwealth's education reform agenda.\n\n\n\nPrior to his appointment as Secretary\, he served as the Managing Director at NewSchools Venture Fund\, a non-profit grant-making firm that seeks to transform public education in high-need urban communities by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs. From 1999 through 2006\, Jim served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Prior to joining NewSchools\, Secretary Peyser was Education Advisor to Governors Bill Weld\, Jane Swift and Mitt Romney\, where he helped shape state policy regarding standards and assessments\, school accountability\, and charter schools. In 1995\, he served as Under Secretary of Education and Special Assistant to the Governor Weld for Charter Schools.\n\n\n\nHe previously spent seven years as Executive Director of the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research\, where he helped to launch the Massachusetts Charter School Resource Center\, which supported the development of the state's first charter schools. Before joining Pioneer Secretary Peyser held various positions at Teradyne\, Inc. in Boston\, an electronic test equipment manufacturer.\n\n\n\nSecretary Peyser holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School (Tufts University) and a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:times new roman\;"><span style="background-image: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-repeat: initial\;">This popular breakfast series is a high-profile\, fast-paced and educational program geared towards executives\, senior managers\, professionals and small business owners. Each of the programs has a business-oriented focus and features a popular speaker to present on a topic of interest to loc</span>al businesses. The Good Morning&nbsp\;<span class="scayt-misspell-word">SouthCoast</span><span style="background-image: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-repeat: initial\;">! breakfast p</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:times new roman\;"><span style="background-image: initial\; background-attachment: initial\; background-size: initial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\; background-position: initial\; background-repeat: initial\;">rogram is also a great way to network with other Chamber members!</span><br />\n<br />\n<strong>Key Note Speaker: &nbsp\;Massachusetts Secretary of Education\, &nbsp\;Jim Peyser</strong></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<img class="image-display" externalfileid="1175" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/images/customers/1130/events/493462/100x100/Peyser.jpg?1447686232691" style="line-height: 20.8px\;" /><br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:times new roman\;"><span style="color:#222222\;">As Secret</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:times new roman\;"><span style="color:#222222\;">ary of&nbsp\;</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:times new roman\;"><span style="color:#222222\;">Educati</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:times new roman\;"><span style="color:#222222\;">on\, Jim Peyser directs the Executive Office of Education which is responsible for early ed</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:times new roman\;"><span style="color:#222222\;">ucation\, K-12\, and higher education in Massachusetts. Secretary Peyser sits on each of the boards governing the Commonwealth&rsquo\;s education agencies &ndash\; Department of Early Education and Care\, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education\, and Department of Higher Education as well as the University of Massachusetts system. He is Governor Baker&rsquo\;s top advisor on education and helps shape the Commonwealth&rsquo\;s education reform agenda.</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:#222222\;">Prior to his appointment as Secretary\, he served as the Managing Director at NewSchools Venture Fund\, a non-profit grant-making firm that seeks to transform public education in high-need urban communities by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs. From 1999 through 2006\, Jim served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Prior to joining NewSchools\, Secretary Peyser was Education Advisor to Governors Bill Weld\, Jane Swift and Mitt Romney\, where he helped shape state policy regarding standards and assessments\, school accountability\, and charter schools. In 1995\, he served as Under Secretary of Education and Special Assistant to the Governor Weld for Charter Schools.</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:#222222\;">He previously spent seven years as Executive Director of the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research\, where he helped to launch the Massachusetts Charter School Resource Center\, which supported the development of the state&rsquo\;s first charter schools. Before joining Pioneer Secretary Peyser held various positions at Teradyne\, Inc. in Boston\, an electronic test equipment manufacturer.</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:#222222\;">Secretary Peyser holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School (Tufts University) and a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University.</span><br />\n&nbsp\;</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Wamsutta Club 427 County Street New Bedford\, MA 02740
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URL:http://members.onesouthcoast.com/events/details/gmsc-february-2016-breakfast-02-18-2016-493462
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