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WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds: U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today made the following statement on the Senate's passage of the final [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer: This morning, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed The Every Student Succeeds Act - the conference report accompanying the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp: U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp today helped pass key reforms she fought to include in the bipartisan [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Colorado Senator Cory Gardner: Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) released the following statement following the Senate's passage of the Every Student Succeeds [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding bipartisan education [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Virginia Senator Mark Warner: The U.S. Senate today joined the House of Representatives in passing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), bipartisan [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed: In an effort to raise student achievement in the classroom, increase flexibility for states and school [...]

NEWARK, N.J. -- The following information was released by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker: As the Senate prepares to vote this week on the reconciled version of the Every Student [...]

NEWARK, N.J. -- The following information was released by New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez: As the Senate prepares to vote this week on the reconciled version of the Every Student [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed: Congress is on the verge of approving a major overhaul of federal education law that will give [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Nebraska Rep. Brad Ashford: Last night, Congressman Brad Ashford (D-NE) voted in support of bipartisan legislation to improve K-12 [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark: Today, Congresswoman Katherine Clark offered praise for the Every Student Succeeds Act -- the nation's [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Tennessee Rep. John J. Duncan Jr.: Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. delivered the following remarks on the floor of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce: No Child Left Behind was based on good intentions, but it was also [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson: On Tuesday, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson praised the passage of a motion to go to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown: Ohio Charter School Students Receive 43 Fewer Days of Math Instruction and 14 Fewer Days of Reading Instruction [...]

Byline: Henry Karmo Monrovia, Aug 21, 2015 (FrontPageAfrica/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Information Minister Lewis has contradicted himself against his earlier comments of government reaching a final decision [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen: This afternoon, Senator Jeanne Shaheen voted in favor of broad reforms to elementary and secondary education policy, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed: The U.S. Senate today passed a significant re-write of the nation's K-12 education law that included several [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Maine Senator Angus King: U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) announced today that his amendment, inspired by an innovative educational initiative in Washington [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Maine Senator Angus King: Today, the United States Senate passed a major education reform bill that includes provisions authored by U.S. Senator [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte: Today, in a 81-17 vote, the U.S. Senate approved the bipartisan Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1117), [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran: U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today supported Senate passage of the Every Child Achieves Act (S.1177), a bill [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today urging passage of [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte: Today, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) announced she is backing the bipartisan education reform bill - [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Utah Senator Orrin G. Hatch: Following a string of major bipartisan successes in the first six months of the new Congress, the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by New Mexico Senator Tom Udall: Today, as the Senate debates reform of the nation's controversial No Child Left Behind education law, U.S. [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran: The U.S. Senate today resumes consideration of major education reform legislation that got a boost Wednesday with [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer: Today, the House of Representatives voted to include the language from Rep. Randy Neugebauer's (TX-19) [...]

Byline: Ben Wolfgang, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Obama administration's cheerleading for the Common Core State Standards Initiative is designed to calm critics and rally supporters for the ambitious overhaul of [...]

The Common Core, a set of standards for kindergarten through high school that has been ardently supported by the Obama administration and many business leaders and state legislatures, is facing [...]

Byline: Dean E. Vogel Parental involvement plays a critical role in student success. Teachers know that students whose parents take an active part in their education are far more likely [...]

On the day that President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind into law in early 2002, he flew to a high school in Hamilton, Ohio, the home district [...]

Byline: Ben Wolfgang, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The House of Representatives has advanced its latest attempt to replace the unpopular, 12-year-old No Child Left Behind law, but deep divisions in Congress [...]

MEXICO CITY -- One of President Enrique Pe±a Nieto's signature efforts to shake up the country -- a broad plan to overhaul the education system -- has run into violent [...]

Byline: David Beard March 22--BILL wrap. Page 2-A. CHARLESTON -- The House of Delegates defeated five proposed amendments to the education reform bill Thursday. Republicans offered the amendments to SB [...]

Byline: David Beard March 13--SAFETY-RELATED bills OK'd by Senate. Page 4B . CHARLESTON -- A divided Senate Education Committee approved an amended version of the governor's education reform bill. Some [...]

Byline: Ben Wolfgang, THE WASHINGTON TIMES If Congress decides to do its job, the hard work of education officials in nearly three dozen states suddenly will go down the drain. [...]

Byline: Robert Long Jan. 31--AUGUSTA, Maine -- The Legislature's Education Committee voted 8-5 along party lines Wednesday to include charter schools in $12.6 million in cuts to education aid, sparking [...]

Byline: Becky Orr Jan. 23--CHEYENNE -- Two education reform bills were rejected Tuesday on final votes in the Wyoming Senate. The Senate voted 18-12 against Senate File 96, which would [...]

Byline: Betsy Z. Russell Nov. 07--BOISE -- After Idaho voters decisively rejected the 'Students Come First' school reform laws on Tuesday, leaders on both sides were calling Wednesday for a [...]

Byline: Betsy Z. Russell Oct. 05--Two decades ago, Coeur d'Alene's delegation to the state Legislature was all-Democrat, like most of the North Idaho Panhandle back then. Now, it's all-Republican, but [...]

Byline: Jackie Borchardt and Richard O Jones May 09--COLUMBUS -- An Ohio Senate committee on Tuesday put the brakes on holding back more third graders because of reading deficiencies, delaying [...]

Byline: Mary E. O'Leary March 26--HARTFORD -- The Education Committee is expected to vote out a reform bill today, but that doesn't mean there is agreement on many of the [...]

Popular culture has surely produced no more satiric a view of that great scourge of public progress, the Apathetic Teacher, than last year's bluntly titled comedy ''Bad Teacher.'' In the [...]

Byline: Ben Wolfgang, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Despite signs that federal school reform legislation is all but dead until at least next year, House Republicans have released the final two pieces [...]

SANTIAGO, CHILE -- The following information was released by the Voice of America (VOA): Chile's President Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday her government was preparing the second phase of an [...]

Byline: Daniel R. Levine Testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Wednesday morning, Graduate School of Education professor Martin R. West emphasized the importance of [...]