Create A Voluntary National Curriculum And Standards For Math And Science Education.” [Education Week, 3/3/15] the first states to adopt common core. [CBS, 11/20/14] 2/22/15] Chafee generally distanced himself from the debate over common core. [Brown Daily Herald, 10/18/13] Testing Was “sympathetic that the test regime has become very burdensome in driving the education system.” [New York Times, 3/25/15] 2008: Supported rewarding entire schools, not individual teachers, based on test scores and other metrics. [Education Week, 3/3/15] 2007: Opposed the heavy use of testing under No Child Left Behind. [Education Week, 3/3/15] 2007: Opposed the heavy use of testing under No Child Left Behind. [YouTube, 12/26/07] 2014: Opposed a moratorium on state standardized tests. [Baltimore Sun, 1/14/14] 2010: Proposed broader use of standardized test scores to evaluate teachers. [Washington Post, 2/20/10] Introduced legislation to give states temporary reprieve from federal testing standards. [Washington Post, 3/21/07] 2014: Allowed a moratorium on the use of standardized tests as a graduation requirement in Rhode Island to become law, although he did not sign the bill. [Associated Press, 7/1/14] Support the use of standardized testing but backed down due to General Assembly opposition. [WPRI, 7/22/14] Free Community College Supported free community college plan. [Fusion, 4/14/15] Supported free community college plan. [The White House, YouTube, 4/11/15] Received the Champion For Maryland Community Colleges Award in 2014. [@GovernorOMalley, Twitter, 12/5/14] Supported free community college but thought it should go farther to include two free years of public college. [The Hill, 2/17/15] College affordability 2014: Said more needs to be done to make college more affordable. [Las Vegas Review-Journal, 10/13/14] 2007: Called for student borrower’s bill of rights. [New York Times, 11/24/07] Supported Obama’s efforts to ease student loan burdens as Vice President. [KABC, 1/23/15] Called for using federal aid and student loan policies to bring about debt-free college. [Martin O’Malley op-ed, Washington Post, 4/23/15] Voted against Democratic-backed legislation to keep student loan interest rates from doubling. [Huffington Post, 4/27/15] Supported free community college but thought it should go farther to include two free years of public college. [The Hill, 2/17/15] 2014: Presided over three consecutive years of tuition freezes at public colleges as Rhode Island governor. [WPRI, 7/22/14] For-profit colleges Criticized for-profit colleges as predatory. [Huffington Post, 4/14/15] Bill Clinton served as an honorary Served as Vice President when the Obama administration sought to curb for-profit college abuses. [White Signed a law curbing for-profit college abuses as governor of Maryland. [S.B. 695, Maryland General Assembly, 5/10/11] Criticized some for-profit colleges for abusive practices towards veterans. [Office of Senator Webb, 3/22/12] Criticized some for-profit colleges for abusive practices towards veterans. [Office of Senator Murphy, 4/24/15] Signed a law requiring for-profit colleges to provide students with refunds and access to academic records before closing. Commented [BJ3]: She's expected to announce a specific plan and/or endorse debt-free college, but hasn't yet.