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Marianne Deborah #Williamson
1952

Author

Spiritual Leader
Church of Today, a Unity Church
Warren, MI
(Church Renaissance Unity Interfaith Spiritual Fellowship)
1998 - 2003

Dropout
Pomona College
1971 - 1973

Graduate
Houston ISD's Bellaire High School

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“Before establishing her bona fides as a spiritual leader on the West Coast, #Williamson spent her twenties somewhat adrift, temping and briefly working as a cabaret singer. Her life in early 1970s New York City, …was a haze of “bad boys and good dope.”

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“… ‘She also spent some time living in a commune in a geodesic dome in New Mexico’

#Williamson said in a 2009 interview that she spent most of her time growing vegetables there, … living on a commune in a geodesic dome in New Mexico.”

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Education Select Committee Chair @halfon4harlowMP claims @ofqual are essentially saying ‘not me, gov’ when determining blame for exams results fiasco. #Ofqual chair Roger Taylor says it was a “fundamental mistake" to believe the algorithm would "ever be acceptable to the public”.
Roger Taylor tells @CommonsEd - first option #OFQUAL they gave the secretary state was to offer exams in a "socially distanced manner", the second was to delay exams. It was the secretary of state who decided that exams would be cancelled, he says.
Roger Taylor Ofqual Chair says “we initially advised against cancelling exams.” They told DfE they shouldn't use mock exams for grades but DfE went ahead anyway. Ofqual claim they did everything they were asked to do by ministers.
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"Education minister Gavin Williamson could be the next MP of the Year despite begin leading the A-Levels debacle which saw almost 40% of student results downgraded a grade or more by a controversial computer algorithm."

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"...the award being run by Patchwork, an organisation campaigning for greater engagement of teens from BAME and minority communities in parliament."

Surely engagement of teens is not to be driven, under duress and under threat of losing their life chances!?!
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"The former Scottish Tory leader is temporarily fronting the party’s group in Holyrood following the ousting of Jackson Carlaw, and the uncontested election of Douglas Ross as leader."
"Though it was claimed at time that Carlaw had chosen to stand down of his own accord, the process has been dogged by claims of a plot."

"It's known that Davidson and Ross met just days before their colleague decided the top job wasn't for him."

Such loyalty is a rare thing!
“Next week marks five years since Nicola Sturgeon announced that education would be her number one priority," she said.
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