Sentences with phrase «chaffing under»

After years of chaffing under the sometimes - draconian requirements of NCLB, states and districts now have some flexibility to create their own accountability plans, and even include nonacademic elements.

In this day and age people are chaffing under the supposed right and wrongs set forth by the social media.

Given the low rate of inflation in recent years, school districts and local governments have chaffed under caps that have been largely under 1 percent allowances.

But lawmakers this legislative session have chaffed under what they see as an executive overreach with linking so much controversial policy to spending increase for education and the funding of capital projects.

But when school districts were told by states around 2011 that they would have to change their curricula to fit the Core — states had to overhaul their overall standards and testing plans first — opposition exploded, first from tea - party activists, then from progressives who chaffed under Washington - driven, test - fixated education.

Not exact matches

Two pads that he had put under the boat's shrink - wrap cover to stop chaffing had fallen to the ground.

Or listen to Saint Augustine's speculations: «Who gave to chaff such power to freeze that it preserves snow buried under it, and such power to warm that it ripens green fruit?

Typical chaffing pan is just under 3 inches.

«I have maintained several times that I have full confidence in the EFCC under the chairmanship of Ibrahim Magu.one can only but pray that the EFCC does a thorough job of sifting the chaff from the grain.