Senator Jon Tester yesterday met face-to-face with Acting Secretary of Education John King about reducing federal testing mandates, strengthening local control, and improving education in Indian Country.
One of the most telling areas is education. More women than ever are graduating from college with degrees. Not just white women either. All groups increased.
Earlier this morning, Montana Senator Steve Daines introduced an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015. This amendment gives more control to state and local education on federal funding, and regulations.
From recent reading it seems that schools are more worried about whether a student can pass a specific test than what they are taking out of the classroom.
Life is tough and the world is tough. In real life not everyone gets a trophy. In real life they use red pens and they don’t care if they hurt your feelings.
Three out of every four kids say their parents are the leading influence on their decisions about drinking and that’s why the Department of Revenue’s Liquor Control Division and the Interagency Coordinating Council on State Prevention Programs have partnered with Mothers Against Drunk Driving to provide the Power of Parents program in Montana.
Code Montana, the free computer programming course offered to middle school and high school students throughout the state, received a bit of an upgrade today, April 28.