Sentences with phrase «republican education record»

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«Education aid at a record amount, tax relief and that's really because of the Senate Republicans.»

The political action committee supported by the education reform and pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY, has spent heavily in the race backing Republican Chris McGrath, with records showing the group has spent more than $ 1 million the Nassau County district.

But Cuomo is also facing a challenge from his left this primary season from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and public education advocate who has criticized the governor's record of compromise with Republicans in the Senate liberal advocates contend has led to watered - down results and half - victories.

In a statement, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, said the city already has a $ 4.2 billion surplus, and that the state has upped its share of Medicaid costs, subsidized hospital with new capital funds and increased education funding to «record levels.»

Senate Republicans have pointed out their efforts in the majority have provided for a end to the education cuts under the gap elimination adjustment and helped approve record amounts of school aid.

Washington — Despite its fence - mending with the Republican Party two months ago, the National Education Association has endorsed fewer gop Congressional candidates than in 1984 and 1986 and focused a record level of campaign support on Democrats this fall.

When Texas's performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress is broken out by ethnic background, its record comes close to that of Massachusetts, as Allison Sherry pointed out in her recent Ed Next article on the education policies advocated by several of the Republican candidates.

Mitt Romney, Mehta said, was forced to balance his track record of overhauls at the state level with the Republican Party's desire to have a «limited federal role in education.»

Even while Republicans are whacking the president «like a piñata,» as one pundit put it, they are treating his K — 12 education record with kid gloves.

Saying he is engaged in a «classic battle» with Congressional Republicans over the federal government's role in education, President Clinton last week issued the most impassioned defense of his education record to date and urged educators to join the fray.

And a strong education record was not enough to help Democratic Gov. Roy E. Barnes of Georgia fend off Republican state Sen. Sonny Perdue.

Republicans successfully made this a referendum on President Obama's record and won resoundingly, but where the election was about everyday concerns — education, minimum wage, paid sick leave — working families prevailed.»

Wisconsin was another state where a Republican candidate, sitting Governor Scott Walker, seemed vulnerable on education, but his opponent Mary Burke was unable to link his record of cutting schools to other, more populist causes.

Those bills are the products of a Republican legislature — specifically state Sen. Phil Pavlov, who has taken in money from the DeVos - financed Great Lakes Education Project, according to campaign finance records filed with the state.

She said, «It is clear Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos has a strong record of supporting charter schools, just like the appointees of other Democratic and Republican Presidents who came before her.

The Sierra Club Voter Education Fund's Real Republicans project seeks to educate voters about the records of the 2012 GOP presidential candidates by highlighting their extreme positions on public health and other issues of critical importance to the American people and encourage the public to find out more about the candidates and their positions on these issues.