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Florida releases school districts' 2024 graduation rates. How do Volusia, Flagler compare?

Jan 13, 2025 | yahoo.com | Mark Harper

Volusia County's graduation rate rose to 93.7% for the academic year that ended in 2024, according to newly released data. With a 2.1-percentage point increase, Volusia topped the statewide rate for high school graduation, 89.7%, and landed in the state's top 10 districts for the second consecutive year. Volusia's rate has climbed by more than 9 percentage points since 2018-2019. Flagler County's graduation rate came in at 89%, up from 87.8% the previous year.
This is Money

Oct 18, 2024 | investing.thisismoney.co.uk | John O'Reilly |Richard Harris |Mark Harper |Jonathan Martin

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Labour's thirst to delay, tax drivers can't be quenched

Jun 7, 2024 | msn.com | Mark Harper

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Labour's thirst to delay, tax drivers can't be quenched

Jun 7, 2024 | msn.com | Mark Harper

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Mark Harper: Wherever Labour is in power, we can see their thirst to frustrate, delay and tax drivers cannot be quenched

Jun 7, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Mark Harper

Conservatives are on the side of drivers. The Labour Party will find any way possible to force them off the roads. I know that for many who live in towns and villages across the UK, the car is an essential mode of transport. Something city-obsessed Labour don't seem to understand, or simply don't care about. All you have to do is look at our respective records. Wherever Labour is in power, we can see their thirst to frustrate, delay and tax drivers cannot be quenched.
Give more airtime to Rishi Sunak's senior colleagues, veterans minister urges No 10

May 22, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Genevieve Holl-Allen |Mark Harper

Downing Street accused of acting like Rishi Sunak is as popular as when he was first elected PM Credit: No 10 Downing Street / BEEM Downing Street must stop trying to “placate” Rishi Sunak and instead give popular colleagues like Kemi Badenoch and Penny Mordaunt more airtime, a Cabinet minister told No10 in a private memo.
Classic cars of future risk being killed off by net zero

May 9, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Mark Harper |Bláthnaid Corless |Paul Hudson

Appreciating classics like this Mercedes Benz W124 are endangered Credit: Wirestock/iStock Editorial Classic cars of the future are to be saved from being killed off by net zero rules, the Transport Secretary has said.
Harper and Gove underline disdain for London devolved powers

Dec 19, 2023 | onlondon.co.uk | Mark Harper |Michael Gove |Sadiq Khan |Andy Byford

When Mark Harper, the Oxford-educated erstwhile minister for constitutional reform, was appointed transport secretary just over a year ago, some dared to dream that the long, lockdown months of TfL-torturing in which his predecessor-but-one, Grant Shapps, had indulged might be over – no more “never-ending, exhausting, frustrating negotiations with government over funding” as the then TfL commissioner, Andy Byford, described them.
We're offering train drivers £65k - it's time Aslef end UK strike misery

Dec 2, 2023 | express.co.uk | Mark Harper

On Thursday this week, RMT members voted in "huge numbers" to accept a fair and reasonable pay offer – not my words, but those of RMT leader Mick Lynch. It comes as welcome news for passengers, it gives lower paid rail staff a fair pay rise in time for Christmas, and it brings us a step closer to ending all disputes on the railway. Since I became Transport Secretary, the Rail Minister Huw Merriman and I have worked with industry to facilitate fair and reasonable offers for all rail unions.
Rishi Sunak pledges to tackle ‘scourge of potholes’ with £8.3bn fund

Nov 16, 2023 | inkl.com | Mark Harper |Darren Rodwell

PA WireRishi Sunak has pledged to tackle “the scourge of potholes” with £8.3bn of funding for local roads maintenance in England. The prime minister described the investment, which will be made available to local authorities over 11 years, as “unprecedented”. The funding is part of the government’s Network North plan published in October to spend money saved by scrapping HS2 north of Birmingham. The organisation has received more than 450,000 so far this year.