Sentences with phrase «attacked conservative education»

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, attacked Conservative education policy for an obsession with a «tiny handful» of free schools at the expense of «how you properly finance 24,000 schools across the whole school system».

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A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

Ms May's attack on the education record of the Welsh Government comes four years after David Cameron used Welsh Conservative party conference to declare that Offa's Dyke was the line of life and death.

Mrs May attacked Welsh ministers» record on education in her keynote speech at the Welsh Conservative conference in Ffos Las.

The Conservative national leader William Hague attacked the Labour council as he said they lowered the education budget while setting one of the highest metropolitan council taxes in the country.

On the eve of the launch of the Conservatives» education manifesto, Nick Gibb attacks Labour's record on school discipline

On the eve of the launch of the Conservatives» education manifesto, Nick Gibb attacks Labour's record on school discipline - Sunday Express

The National Education Association, long a target of conservative criticism for its stands on political and social issues, is under siege again — this time for its advice to teachers on handling the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

A few years ago, standards were being attacked by Christian conservatives fearful of the outcomes - based - education movement, which appeared to be succeeding in making a particular set of liberal expectations about attitudes and values the official approach.

HG: Since the 1980s, right wing and conservative educational theorists have both attacked colleges of education and called for alternative routes to teacher certification.

A Denver group called Citizens United to Revitalize Education has also charged that Thomas Tancredo has used his office to attack the public schools and promote a conservative, religiously oriented organization called Citizens for Excellence in Education.

And those attacks on the Education Department, Democrats contended, symbolize conservatives» hostility toward public eEducation Department, Democrats contended, symbolize conservatives» hostility toward public educationeducation.

Macedo recognizes that both conservative advocates of privatized or voucher - based schools and left - multi-culturalists regularly attack views such as his by invoking scenarios in which a healthy «diversity» is steamrollered by a uniform, homogenizing «civic education.»

It's a short essay, but is packed with evidence (from the Education Intelligence Agency) of NEA's multi-tentacled reach, from a $ 250,000 grant to the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice («which has migrated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, which received another quarter million in direct funding,» says Peterson) to $ 100,000 for Media Matters, «a group that attacks conservative groups and commentators» and $ 35,000 for «the anti-accountability group,» FairTest.

That means focusing on the lower - hanging fruit in terms of cutting costs - such as cutting interest rates, which are currently up to 6.1 %, and have been attacked as bafflingly high by a long line of former Conservative and Labour education ministers.

And now the Koch brothers and deep - pocketed conservative activists are attempting to use that anxiety to push an anti-public education agenda of vouchers, privatization, and attacks on teachers and their unions.

She has written a number of education books that conservatives liked, one of them a scathing critique of leftist historians who attacked the public schools as «an instrument of cultural repression.»

And her repeated attacks on the federal government have laid the groundwork for potential future efforts to abolish the Education Department, a long - cherished goal of many conservatives.