Sentences with phrase «among conservative education»

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Michael Gove's aggressive stance against the education establishment risks losing votes for the Conservatives even among the party's natural supporters, according to a new poll.

Gove's stewardship of the education department appears to have heavily damaged Conservative support among teachers.

Nicky Morgan has been reappointed as education secretary and minister for equalities while Mark Harper has been given the crucial job of chief whip - responsible for maintaining discipline among Conservative backbenchers.

First, while vouchers are a means favored by conservatives to diminish publicly guaranteed social rights, and to advance principles of privatization and marketization, they are among the few remaining means that offer the inner - city poor the possibility of a decent education.

It's an experiment that — while proven successful in at least two other states — has its origins in a Democratic President's administration and comes fresh off of lawmakers» brush with Common Core state standards, a broad - reaching education policy that blew up into a toxic political football among conservatives because it de-emphasized local control.

In the last year, though, grassroots opposition has been brewing among conservatives who point to grants and waivers linked to the Common Core as a sign of a federal takeover of education.

Thousands of Oklahoma teachers went on strike Monday to demand higher pay and more education funding, digging in for a prolonged walkout as discontent spreads among public educators in conservative states.

Given Trump's general opposition to criminal justice reform, the antipathy among Republicans and many conservative reformers to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has championed Obama's efforts), and the skepticism among so - called conservative reformers (most - notably Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and his amen corner at Education Next) on school discipline reform, expect nothing more after January.

I'm all for the latter shift, but I'm among those who see better prospects of accomplishing that through some mix of a modest, even patriotic, «pay as you go» fee, an eventual end to distorting subsidies — something some conservatives seek, as well — and boosted and re-focused federal investments in research and development (and education).

If we know that distrust in science increases with increasing education among political conservatives, and we know that advocacy increases distrust in science and scientists among those at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum, what does that mean?

One of YCER's first steps will be to address what Combs calls the «lack of education» among conservative Americans who may have tuned out the energy debate because they see it as a strictly liberal agenda.