Sentences with phrase «despite widespread community support»
Despite widespread community support, especially from African American and Latino parents, Parent Revolution has harsh detractors.
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Tyson said that despite the district's GOP tilt, she expects Pellegrino to gain widespread community support because of her heavy involvement with the school testing issue.
Despite the thousands who volunteer to keep our community gardens and parks green, and widespread support for preserving these oases, the City's new rules fail to protect them, and in fact expose each and every green space to transfer and development.
Despite widespread public support from Quebec's legal community and a mid-strike vote in which they rejected the government's final offer by a whopping 97 per cent, the striking lawyers emptied their $ 4 - million strike fund, took out an $ 8 - million loan (which is currently being repaid through an increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and dropped strike pay to zero from the 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries paid at the start of the strike.