With the March 7 primary just around the corner, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell is scouring the state for votes. Bell has made education his top priority. "It's education that's the issue most people seem focused on," Bell said. "We need to move away from high-stakes nature of standarized testing." As a future educator, I do agree with Bell. I believe there should be several tools involved to determine student advancement, not just getting a passing grade on a state-mandated test. If you read the article that could be pulled up on the last link below, I think you will find it very interesting. This article will tell you all about Bell.
http://www.chrisbell.com/news-060303_waco
http://www.chrisbell.com/newsroom/022006_fikac

As Bell heads into the final month of his Democratic primary campaign, he is facing many debates and gatherings across the state of Texas. Bell faces Bill Gammage in the Democratic primary in March. On February 9th, Bell and Gammage agreed on several issues during the one-hour forum taped at WFAA-TV. Both Bell and Gammage agreed that if elected, public school finance reform and health care would be at the top their agenda. Bell also hopes to gain support with new ideas for sex education and school testing. As governor, Bell promises to promote programs such as boot camp, as well as career and technology training programs, flexible scheduling, customer research, and local volunteer-driven campaigns such as Houston's "Reach Out to Dropouts."
http://www.chrisbell.com/releases/013006_dropouts?t=7
http://www.chrisbell.com/newsroom/guerra?t=6
http://www.chrisbell.com/node/963?t=6

Chris Bell, a Democratic candidate, is running for Governor of Texas in the 2006 election with great confidence. Bell faces Bob Gammage, a former state Supreme Court justice, and Rashad Jafer in the March Democratic primary. Bell has lived his whole life in Texas. In 1997, Bell started his career in public service being elected to the Houston City Council. After five years serving on the Houston City Council, Bell was elected into Congress. Although Bell's position in Congress was short lived, he was able to earn an effective and impressive reputation for himself. This reputation came in handy on January 20th when Bell announced several BexarCounty endorsements at the Alamo. Although early in the campaign, many people came to the event to support Bell. On January 25th, at the Orange County courthouse, Bell spoke of school finance, health care, ethnics reform and other strong issues to about three dozen Democratic activists. Those who attended this meeting were noted that they liked what they heard, and felt Bell had "good answers."
http://www.chrisbell.com/node/909?t=6
http://www.chrisbell.com/node/909
http://www.chrisbell.com/newsroom/012106_bexar