Sentences with phrase «dollar testing industry»

White suburban moms, among many others, have certainly played an important role in organizing resistance to high - stakes tests in actions that have led to important victories in Texas, New York, and beyond as they fight to defend their children from abuse by a multibillion - dollar testing industry that is homogenizing education and draining resources from cash strapped school districts.

So it's no surprise that corporate education reformers — attempting to defend the multibillion dollar testing industry — have been launching aggressive attacks on the movement.

The multi-billion dollar testing industry — dominated by a few large corporations that specialize in the making and scoring of standardized tests — has become an entrenched interest, a powerful component of a growing education - industrial complex.

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States like Florida, which has favorable weather, and Michigan, home to the U.S. car industry, have also adopted a laissez faire approach the autonomous vehicle testing in hopes of attracting or retaining automaker and tech company dollars.

State lawmakers in the budget last month approved a provision that allows for a 12 - month pilot program for testing self - driving vehicles, which automobile industry observers expect will be a multi-billion dollar business in the coming years.

The testing industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry.

Rather than expend millions of dollars in massive giveaways to the greedy test industry and their lobbying business partners in the charter - school movement, there is no doubt that this assessment expectation could be accomplished more simply and more cost effectively.

This is an expensive endeavor and testing has become a multimillion dollar industry.

Like some type of gigantic octopus, the pro-charter school, pro-common core, pro-SBAC testing scheme and anti-teacher corporate education reform industry has set up multiple front groups while dumping more than $ 7.9 million dollars into their lobbying effort on behalf of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's «education reform» initiatives.

Now the automaker has outlined a multi-billion dollar plan of action called «Strategy 2025,» which calls for cleaner gas engines, third - party emissions tests, and an «electrification initiative second to none in the industry.»

Theranos, an infamous case of a tech startup gone bad, was valued at over 9 billion dollars for audacious claims of revolutionizing the blood - testing industry.

We have spent millions of dollars in testing vehicles for defects and testing fixes that the auto industry could have used to make their vehicles safer.»

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