"In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute."

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Source : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

Margaret Spellings

#Assessment Quotes #Years Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.”

Source : "Sen. Jeff Merkley on the filibuster deal: ‘There are two pieces I'm excited about’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.
“But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.”
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.”

Source : "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.
“High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.”

Source : Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”
“And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly...”
“The world mistakes Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence .”
“There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

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