Sentences with phrase «signature education legislation»

To be more succinct, Governor McDonnell's signature education legislation will punish high poverty schools and divisions even where significant gains toward increasing achievement for economically - disadvantaged students have been attained.

Bush thinks his brother's signature education legislation, No Child Left Behind, has taken some unfair hits and that the debate has been improperly framed.

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Clinton's comments came during a 32 - minute speech in which she took aim at Walker and his signature legislation that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees and his proposal in the last state budget to cut funding for higher education.

When President Bush affixed his signature to the No Child Left Behind Act on January 8, 2002, he arguably brought to life the most important piece of federal education legislation since 1965.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

In December 2015, the US Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces No Child Left Behind as the signature piece of national education legislation.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 4, the signature legislation of his emergency early childhood education initiative.

Only traces of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind legislation, the Obama administration's signature education program Race to the Top and the waivers from No Child Left Behind that came with it are left.

In 2001, when George W. Bush's signature «No Child Left Behind» (NCLB) education legislation was passed (with the support of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy), «disruption,» «markets,» «accountability,» «no excuses,» and «choice» were an established part of the bipartisan vocabulary of school reform.