Sentences with phrase «excellent public schools act»

The Read to Achieve law, enacted in 2012 as part of Sen. Phil Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act, was designed to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of the third grade.

The Senate passed legislation (S.B. 795 — The Excellent Public Schools Act) this session that would label students, schools, and teachers as failing on the basis of a standardized test score.

$ 12 million to fully fund the Excellent Public Schools Act, which includes tutoring funds for Read to Achieve so that students can become reading proficient by the fourth grade.

Read to Achieve: The Read to Achieve law, enacted in 2012 as part of Senate leader Phil Berger's Excellent Public Schools Act, was designed to ensure that all students are reading at or above grade level by the end of the third grade.

«Our current system, in many respects, rewards mediocrity, punishes excellence by granting unlimited job security to all who teach a few years,» Berger said last March at a news conference to unveil his Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 — which contained language that ended career status and was ultimately inserted into the budget bill passed last summer.