Promise Posts – Page 22

Greg Abbott

Expand Teach for America in Texas

Lawmakers decline to hike Teach for America spending | December 3, 2015

Greg Abbott

Create Texas Achievement School District to take over worst elementary schools

Abbott achieves compromise for Texas ‘achievement’ school districts | January 12, 2017

Greg Abbott

Allow parents to petition state to change campus management after two years of poor results

Texas parents given sway if a school must reorganize after two years of poor results | August 27, 2015

Greg Abbott

Rate school campuses on A through F scale; require publication of campus report cards

Abbott won approval of letter grades for individual school campuses | December 1, 2015

Greg Abbott

Stop ‘forcing teachers to teach to so many standardized tests’

Greg Abbott falls short on vow to spare teachers from teaching to many standardized tests | January 31, 2018

Greg Abbott

Allow schools to opt out of state mandates

Greg Abbott keeps promise to let schools opt out of mandates | September 12, 2017

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Make Texas No. 1 in the nation in education

Greg Abbott

Build roads without additional taxes, fees or tolls

Senate advances road-funding plan | March 25, 2015

Greg Abbott

Ban school districts from hiring lobbyists to lobby legislators for more funding

Abbott vow to bar school districts from hiring outside lobbyists shy of drawing wide support | May 15, 2015

Greg Abbott

Permit residents of cities and counties to repeal red light camera ordinances

Lawmakers curb Abbott call for law enabling voters to repeal red-light cameras | May 20, 2015

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Bar spending of certain contributions until they’re reported to the state

Abbott-sought campaign spending hurdle died without a vote | July 2, 2015

Greg Abbott

Require quarterly candidate campaign finance reports

Lawmakers didn’t act on call for quarterly campaign finance reports | July 2, 2015

Greg Abbott

Limit legislators who are lawyers from making money from lawsuit referrals

Lawmakers watered down, then killed, proposed ban on lawyer-legislator referrals | July 2, 2015

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Eliminate loopholes that allow legislators to vote on legislation financially benefiting themselves

Lawmakers didn’t act to limit their financially beneficial votes | July 2, 2015

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Require state elected officials to disclose more about personal sources of income, contracts

Lawmakers, in reversal, advance mandate tightening disclosures of personal income, contracts | June 9, 2017

Greg Abbott

Allow guns on college campuses

Proposal allowing handguns on campuses advances | July 8, 2015

Greg Abbott

Legalize openly carrying handguns in public

Abbott fulfills promise to support law permitting handguns to be openly carried | July 8, 2015

Greg Abbott

Limit state agencies from selling personal information from public records

Abbott vow to leash sale of personal data wasn’t legislative winner in 2015 | July 31, 2015

Greg Abbott

Fund treatment for postpartum depression for low-income mothers

Lawmakers again didn’t embrace Abbott vow to fund more postpartum mental health treatment | November 30, 2017

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Fund Medicaid by block grants

Greg Abbott’s vow to seek block-grant Medicaid funding unfulfilled | April 25, 2016

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