Promise Posts – Page 15

Barack Obama

Increase the number of high school students taking college-level courses

Students taking Advanced Placement courses up by well over 50 percent | December 13, 2016

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Improve water quality

Stimulus money pays for water programs | April 18, 2012

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Centralize ethics and lobbying information for voters

More than three years in, combined website emerges | March 9, 2012

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Require more disclosure and a waiting period for earmarks

Disclosure, waiting periods are moot with all earmarks now on ice | December 19, 2016

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Require Cabinet officials to host Internet town hall meetings

Cabinet officials frequently talk to citizens online | January 11, 2012

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Release presidential records

Obama signs executive order on presidential records | January 22, 2009

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Require new hires to affirm their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions

Obama bans hires based on politics | January 21, 2009

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Promote more pre-school education

Money, guidelines dedicated to pre-school | February 2, 2012

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Provide affordable, high-quality child care

Stimulus provided $2 billion in new funding for child care | January 6, 2010

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Reform No Child Left Behind

Major overhauls of “No Child” under way | October 10, 2011

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Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession

Race to the Top grants would boost math, science teaching | December 8, 2009

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Address the dropout crisis by giving schools incentives for more dropout prevention

Obama funded middle school dropout prevention | September 20, 2012

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Create a voluntary national performance assessment for educators

A gold star for keeping teacher preparation regulations promise | November 1, 2016

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Restore funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program

Byrne grants get $2 billion from stimulus | April 3, 2009

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Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas

Obama has launched an energy partnership with Canada and South America | August 19, 2009

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Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers

Program included in health care reform bill | May 20, 2010

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Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty

Senate ratifies New START Treaty | December 22, 2010

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Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty

Terms of new START treaty would supersede these limits | March 31, 2010

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Organize successful Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010

Challenging conference went off successfully | August 10, 2011

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Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security

White House nuclear security coordinator was installed in January | December 10, 2009

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