Sentences with phrase «allowed liberal advocates»

EdNext: Some critics have suggested that the administration's embrace of allies like the Education Trust has allowed liberal advocates to define the aims and shape the future of the NCLB reform agenda.

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From the beginning of this mayoral campaign, the public advocate has been using the issue of paid sick leave, and Quinn's increasingly awkward three - year - long - and - counting refusal to allow it to come up for a vote on the Council, as a means of distinguishing himself from her, and of highlighting her sometimes - awkward attempts to placate her party's liberal base without alienating Michael Bloomberg and the business establishment whose support she has courted for years.