Sentences with phrase «core supporters say»

But Common Core supporters say that raising the «minimum bar» the standards set will somehow make maximal differences.

It's exactly the reality check many Common Core supporters say was desperately needed.

Not exact matches

Now there is a question which opens a massive debate about how OUR club is run but the answer has got to be yes, I miss Highbury and to say I loved the clock end as a child through to leaving there for the grove as an adult is an understament, although the stadium has been a financial burden obviously it is still a wonderful place to watch football in, but football and especially Arsenal has changed so much in the last thirty years, I really am concerned about how much our supporters are charged either season tickets or match day sales including food / drink, we have removed a vast core of our traditional support and young because of these prices.

Seifert says the success of the Bundesliga is because of the «core value» of the supporter coming first at its clubs.

While the core supporters of the group could be said to come largely from the traditional right, with the «friends» like the aforementioned MPs added in, one finds support for Cornerstone coming from both left and right of the Party.

Lord Prescott, Mr Blair's former deputy, has said that Mr Miliband is pursuing a «core vote strategy» of appealing only to traditional Labour supporters and disaffected Liberal Democrats.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says many politicians believe it's safer for their chances to be reelected under the present system, when only a small number of their core supporters come to the polls.

Conservative campaigners say that, while their core vote has remained solid, it's the Labour supporters which are expressing interest in Tory policies in a way that never really happened before.

«You're not likely to see a hard - core supporter of whoever wins that congressional district» appointed as a delegate, Catalfamo said.

She says it was unfairly «stacked» with Common Core supporters.

Astorino said his core supporters on real estate issues are «average, everyday New Yorkers,» not the deep - pocketed donors backing his opponent.

And he says he's disappointed in Bernie Sanders endorsement of Hillary Clinton this week, saying Sanders «turned his back» on core supporters.

«The endorsements bring media attention but the candidates still have to get their core supporters out to the polls,» he said.

In his pitch to MPs tomorrow he will criticise new Labour's courting of big business, saying it sent out the wrong message to the party's core supporters.

He said: «Refusing to listen to the electorate has never been a winning formula, any more than Jeremy Corbyn thinking the volume of the cheering from your core supporters is a reliable guide to wider public opinion.

Meanwhile Liam Fox took to the Daily Telegraph to say the Conservative party was suffering from a «disconnection from its core supporters».

«Frankly, I don't think it will have much impact in the U.S. beyond the usual core of space enthusiasts and supporters,» Johnson - Freese said.

«Most likely not one thing we did on Twitter persuaded any voter or even necessarily reached any undecided voters,» Teddy Goff, President Obama's digital director in the 2012 campaign, said in the study, but it «reached the somewhat elite core of supporters and then, very importantly, reached reporters as well.»

Bush et al. are now beautifully positioned to say, «We think the Common Core is good for our kids and our country, and that» s why we» re full - throated supporters — but that» s also why we need to protect it from federal overreach or partisan meddling by a Democratic administration.»

That said, even as a supporter of the standards, I would not claim as Peter W. Wood does in the book's introduction that Common Core is «a far - reaching effort to transform American K — 12 education.»

Supporters are more likely than opponents to say that the Common Core allows local school districts to decide which textbooks and materials to use in their schools (64 % compared to 30 %).

The article also says that «opinion with respect to the Common Core has yet to coalesce,» and then kindly suggests to Core supporters that they «probably need to clarify their intentions to the public if they are to keep their support from slipping,» as if the opposition is based on a particular set of misunderstandings.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, the country's second largest teachers union, has been a supporter of the Common Core State Standards for a long time but she has expressed concern in the last year over the way the standards are being implemented, saying that the rollout was «far worse» than the HealthCare.gov website.

But it's worth noting that in the weeks after the Common Core pause passed, supporters of the new standards said that lack of information hurt them during the statehouse debate.

It declined to disclose the amount of the contract or the total spent on the development of the Common Core but said funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (another supporter of NPR), Carnegie and other foundations, as well as state membership dues from CCSSO and the NGA.

Supporters of the Common Core have expressed frustration at the mounting opposition, saying the standards have become a convenient scapegoat for anything anyone doesn't like about education today.

More than five years in, Kentucky may be ahead of the rest of the country on its use of the Common Core, but Common Core's supporters say the state and the standards still need more time to move the needle.

But their fears have a common root: a mistrust (and, supporters of Common Core say, a misunderstanding) of who wrote the standards and why.

In NRO today, Rick Hess explores «five half - truths» that he says supporters of the Common Core like to propagate.

«There's no denying that this is bad news for supporters of the Common Core,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a proponent of the standards.

Cheatham is a strong supporter of the standards and has proposed an implementation plan after arriving to the district last spring to find no district - wide strategy for Common Core, she said.

Supporters of the core — which include educators who are implementing the standards — are somewhat incredulous at the opposition, saying that the old system of each state having its own set of standards proved to be untenable because student achievement was uneven across the country.

It's unfair these students — about 98,000 across the state with conditions ranging from dyslexia to severe cognitive impairments — are entering society unprepared, said former Kentucky Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit, a longtime supporter of the Common Core standards.

Like many Common Core supporters, Leinwand says the «I, we, you» model — where first teachers go through a problem for the class, then have the class work together on similar problems and finally have students work independently on problems — has dominated American math education for far too long.

«She has been a supporter of high standards in education and has said that Common Core is one pathway to achieving high standards,» said Alex Weintz, a spokesman for the governor.

The article also noted that Joseph Cirasuolo, who is the executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and one the most vocal supporters of Governor Malloy's Corporate Education Reform Industry initiative, said the results from the Common Core SBAC tests could, «scare the hell out of parents.»

Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a Common Core supporter, said he anticipates another wave of backlash against the standards in the states — so it won't be helpful to have a president using his bully pulpit to rail against them.

Some of the new curricula labeled Common Core include high quality materials that match well with the standards, but many don't, supporters of the standards say.

If you get beyond the hard core of near religious believers in the massive warming scenarios, the average global warming supporter would answer this paper by saying: «Yes there is a lot of uncertainty, but though the doomsday warming scenarios via runaway positive feedback in the climate can't be proven, they are so bad that we need to cut back on CO2 production just to be on the safe side.»

Defenders are a core group of supporters who have said they'll give their time to defend Planned Parenthood, the health services they provide, and the people who rely on them — in what just may be the fight of our lives.

Defenders are a core group of national supporters who have said they'll give their time to defend Planned Parenthood, the health services they provide, and the people who rely on them — in what just may be the fight of our lives.

To build on this unprecedented moment of resistance, we're launching Defenders: a core group of supporters who have said they'll give their time to defend Planned Parenthood, the health services they provide, and the people who rely on them — in what just may be the fight of our lives.