Sentences with phrase «advocacy chorus»

Lots of other groups are joining the advocacy chorus, including business groups, the unions, and civil rights organizations.

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«Eisner's unrelenting advocacy of the arts continued during periods in which arts programs were cut in schools, and a chorus of administrators and policymakers, faced with budget constraints, focused on test scores, worried that spending time painting or drawing was not academic enough... One of the casualties of our preoccupation with test scores is the presence — or should I say the absence — of arts in our schools,» he wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2005.

-LRB-...) At the same time, however, a chorus of consumer and student advocacy groups said they had serious concerns about the sale.