Sentences with phrase «major education reform bill»

State Board of Education members angrily criticized lawmakers» attempts to scale back a major education reform bill, saying Wednesday that the watered - down bill could stall the effort to fix the state's worst schools.

The news story began with «State Board of Education members angrily criticized lawmakers» attempts to scale back a major education reform bill, saying Wednesday that the watered - down bill could stall the effort to fix the state's worst schools.»

He played an integral role in the passage of several major education reform bills.

Not exact matches

This report analyzes some of the major differences between SB1, the «Evidence - Based Funding for Student Success Act» that passed both chambers of the General Assembly; and SB1124, an alternative education funding reform bill sponsored by Senator Jason Barickman.

Parent Revolution now has 33 staffers and a $ 4.5 million 2014 budget, financed by major education reform players such as the Bill & Melinda Gates, Walton Family, and Wasserman foundations.

Our organization, the Texas Institute for Education Reform (www.texaseducationreform.org), is a major opponent of this bill and I testified at the Senate hearing in opposition to it.

Interestingly Microsoft, whose chief Bill Gates is a major player in test - based education reform, lobbied heavily against state taxes that would have helped finance the public schools.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest).

It was a major tenet of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush's education reforms that culminated in the No Child Left Behind Act, signed in 2001.

The last time Puerto Rico passed major education reforms was in the 1990s, and some elements of the controversial bill have attracted support from union members.

Committee lawmakers also signed off on a major charter reform bill, House Bill 779, that, among its provisions, gives charter operators the power to expand enrollment by up to 30 percent without requiring the approval of the state's charter office and the State Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter secbill, House Bill 779, that, among its provisions, gives charter operators the power to expand enrollment by up to 30 percent without requiring the approval of the state's charter office and the State Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter secBill 779, that, among its provisions, gives charter operators the power to expand enrollment by up to 30 percent without requiring the approval of the state's charter office and the State Board of Education, an idea hotly criticized as reducing quality control measures in the state's booming charter sector.

The Greenwich cable company executive is not only a major funder of the charter school industry, but just last week he co-hosted a fundraiser for none - other - than Education Reform Groupie Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch.

Bill and Susan Bloomfield have played a major role in pushing for education reform that puts students first, and in particular, have become major proponents of CCSA and CCSA Advocates» political work.