Sentences with phrase «education reform package on»

Jonathan Gyurko, the consulting company's co-founder, was instrumental in negotiating the 2012 education reform package on behalf of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration.

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Governor Cuomo says he won't sign off on the budget unless it contains the ethics and education reform packages.

And rank - and - file lawmakers were less - than - bullish on reaching a packaged deal like what was included in the budget, when they were forced to swallow a bitter pill on education reform in order to receive a boost in school aid.

After the 2000 election, George W. Bush dubbed himself America's «educator in chief,» and until terrorism hijacked the national agenda, he was staking his presidency on a school - reform package known as the No Child Left Behind Act, a bill that — as every teacher knows — dominates the course of public education in America today.

One month after the South Dakota Legislature approved Gov. William J. Janklow's education - reform package, a group of law and citizens is working on a petition drive to put the bill up to public vote in next November's election.

Nashville, Tenn — Mary H. Futrell, president of the National Education Association has told Gov. Lamar Alexander — whose proposal last spring for a statewide «master - teacher» program helped catalyze the national debate on school reform — that by working with the Tennessee Education Association he can develop a «model reform package.»

WASHINGTON — Congressional and Administration officials have reached tentative agreement on a package of amendments to President Clinton's education - reform bill that would pave the way for floor consideration in the House.

What's worrying, though, is to see conservatives grow soft on what has arguably been the most successful and transformative part of the package: education reform, particularly the charter school movement.

«Chairman Kline and his committee colleagues on both sides of the aisle are currently working to develop legislation that addresses accountability and teacher quality issues, which will round out the full package of House education reforms,» Allen said.

Perhaps one of most widely publicized examples of school boards acting courageously to push back on some of these regressive policies comes from Texas where 520 boards of education and their superintendents fought the implementation of 15 end - of - course high school standardized tests that were part of a state education reform package.

When that didn't happen, he and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan essentially rewrote it on their own by releasing a waiver package that allows states that adapt the administration's reforms to opt out of the law's most cumbersome requirements.

When introducing their «Education Reform» package on February 6, Governor Malloy, Lt. Governor Wyman and Commissioner Pryor made a special point to call for extended learning time.

In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the economic stimulus package, provided $ 3 billion for SIGs to help reform persistently low - achieving schools, on top of the $ 546 million that had already been appropriated for fiscal year 2009 for school improvement grants under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.