Sentences with phrase «broad political support»

Most notably, universal pre-K is likely to have sustained broad political support for maintaining an adequate number of preschool slots and adequate preschool quality.

It remains unclear, however, whether that sort of legislation would gain broader political support.

Some argue that vouchers targeted to low - income families more clearly serve the goal of enhancing equal opportunity and will win broader political support for that reason.

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Finance Minister Vítor Gaspar said the ratings cut failed to reflect broad political support for the country's latest financial rescue program, and also a new income tax which he portrayed as «proof of the government's determination» to meet stated deficit targets.

If we don't, the military campaign will lose momentum, it will lack coherence and we'll lose broader political support within the Islamic world.»

«We need,» Watson notes, «to build a party that sets out a sense of long - term national purpose and mobilises broad political support».

«Greater transparency would build broader political support for these initiatives and might help extend them in ways that would open up opportunities.»

For the best development I chose Race to the Top, because the initiative, the key reform effort of the Obama Administration, demonstrated broad political support for charters, merit pay and data - driven education reform.

As scholars Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips write, «Reducing the black - white test score gap would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy that commands broad political support.»

Even interventions with broader political support — such as adding more learning time to the school day — have bumped up against realities such as teacher contracts and bus schedules.

An argument for universal pre-k is that targeted programs in the U.S. tend not to sustain broad political support.

Alternatively, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute have argued — in TNR and elsewhere — that a policy like cap - and - trade, which works by making dirty energy expensive, will never gain broad political support.

A prime example is the broad political support for Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, relative to the more effective and less costly option of gasoline taxes.