Sentences with phrase «ambitious education overhaul»

Two decades earlier, the state had undertaken an ambitious education overhaul, the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which introduced new standards and assessments.

Since then, he oversaw the implementation of one of the nation's most ambitious education overhauls, ran in perhaps the state's most memorable down - ballot election in recent memory — and lost — moved to Florida to take command of that state's Department of Education, and ultimately lost that job amid a controversy over emails he sent during his time as state superintendent in Indiana.

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But now support for her has plunged to around 30 percent, a record low, and analysts say an ambitious agenda including a proposed constitutional reform and overhaul of the university education system are at risk.

President Barack Obama is calling for an ambitious overhaul of the federal E-rate program, a step that many education and technology advocates have been urging for years to improve what they see as schools» badly out - of - date technological capabilities.

But make no mistake: These almost Rockwell-esque scenes represent a genuine revolution, a triumph of a two - decade - long education reform experiment that has turned the nation's capital into ground zero for an ambitious overhaul of its failing schools.