Sentences with phrase «bipartisan political support»

TRENTON — After 18 months of negotiation, a proposed law that would end teacher tenure as a largely automatic and careerlong right cleared an important hurdle with the blessing of the state's teachers unions and bipartisan political support.

Despite receiving bipartisan political support, including leaders in New Jersey's worst performing school districts, The OSA has received bipartisan support from political leaders such as Newark's Democratic Mayor Corey Booker and New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie.

Despite strong, bipartisan political support, charter schools have not been immune from this attitude.

If they didn't need to do that, they might find that without constant effort, their bipartisan political support might erode.

Not exact matches

Both bills sailed through Congress last night with strong bipartisan support, a rare sighting in the current political climate.

I also believe it would have been better had the president started with infrastructure, which has bipartisan support, rather than tackling a political divisive and technically complicated issue like healthcare.»

Although the original JOBS Act passed with bipartisan support in 2012, this is an election year, and so the fate of the bill could be subject to political whims.

The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08 - 205, overruled two precedents: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

County Executive George Latimer has always made a point to highlight his political history of working with Republicans in a bipartisan manner, whether it was giving committee chairmanships to Republicans when he served as chairman of the BOL, or getting Republican support for his bills while in the State Senate.

Doug Muzzio, professor of political science at Baruch, acknowledges that it is unique to see a New York City mayor, let alone de Blasio, with bipartisan support from the legislature on any issue.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses indications that President Trump is open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise federal background checks for prospective gun buyers and President Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race.

And we already know from past political battles that the research has bipartisan support.

But it has languished due to political pressure, despite widespread bipartisan support.

While there was strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about teacher quality that was based on inputs rather than outputs.

And, perhaps surprisingly in today's political climate, it was passed with strong bipartisan support.

NCLB cleared Congress in 2002 with massive bipartisan support but has since become a political catastrophe: The law's strategy for prodding and shaming schools into improvement proved deeply flawed over time, and its unintended failures have eclipsed its bright spots.

In fact, it is hard to imagine any other political issue receiving such broad, bipartisan support.

including leaders in New Jersey's worst performing school districts, The OSA has received bipartisan support from political leaders such as Newark's Democratic Mayor Corey Booker and New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie.

«I always cite Florida as, really, the furthest along in terms of providing the widest range of choices and the greatest access to those choices of any state in the country, and from a political standpoint, having real bipartisan support for these choices,» she said in an interview last year with Ed Pozzuoli, a South Florida attorney who's a big backer of charter schools.

He displayed support for the bipartisan fix to student loan rates in 2013 along with the rest of his political party.

The FVMA Professional Advocacy Committee (PAC) is a bipartisan, nonprofit, political committee formed to raise contributions from our members to provide needed financial support to candidates for state - elected offices.

The first thing George W. Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove said, in response to American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) CEO Denise Bode's request that he and former Obama spokesperson and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs try to find bipartisan ground in support of the wind industry, was that he hoped it would stay bipartisan because they were sitting on a white sofa that would be ruined by red blood.

Despite what you hear about the current political climate, ocean policy is moving forward on Capitol Hill — with bipartisan support.

Dear Friend, Despite what you hear about the current political climate, ocean policy is moving forward on Capitol Hill — with bipartisan support.

In the longer term, Obama will need to work on building a broad base of public support and on grassroots political pressure to change our political systems (especially in Congress) so that we can pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation on climate change.

Though nominated in a nearly bi-polar political climate, Erickson's nomination has received bipartisan support, which should mean he will be a lock for the full Senate vote.

Although Zuckerberg said Friday that his company does support the bipartisan bill that would require the online political ads to disclose who paid for them, that's really just a tiny, initial step in terms of the kinds of policies Facebook needs in order to keep the integrity of our elections and political discourse intact.

The NRHA believes that improving Indigenous health and wellbeing is one issue on which there ought to be unequivocal and ongoing bipartisan support at all political levels.

But one of the comforts enjoyed by him, the agency he heads, and the Scheme for which it is responsible, is bipartisan political backing and a seemingly endless wellspring of public support.

With bipartisan support from all of the major political proponents at the Federal level, we have achieved the first major milestone in the journey ahead.

This in turn helped achieve a political consensus that garnered bipartisan support.

The need for a long - term approach and bipartisan support across the political divide [for addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage] was stressed by those attending consultations across Australia and in the hundreds of written submissions to the review.