Sentences with phrase «conservative public agenda»

Course weeks labeled «Suturing together a conservative public agenda: markets, religion, standards, and inequality» raise doubts about whether the aim is to educate or to promote a particular agenda.

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While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

The austerity agenda will impact on areas of public services, although the Conservatives have made clear they will provide the extra # 8bn of cash the NHS needs by 2020.

The Conservatives have a chancellor who has epitomised the austerity agenda; the Liberal Democrats have hesitated to say boo to a Tory mouse over it; and UKIP's enthusiasm for cutting taxes must translate to cutting the public budget.

Conservatives frame privatization as a civil rights issue, but Trump's extreme agenda is energizing racial justice and public education advocates.

Senior Labour figures hope the agenda for maintaining high - level public services will be easily contrasted with the Conservatives» alleged plans for ten per cent cuts in public services, a figure the party disputes.

The polling is about public attitudes to tax, an issue firmly back on the political agenda after a rethink by the Conservative Party.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

Progressive Conservatives are thrilled to see pay tariffs in the public sector on the agenda and pleased that free schools will be delivered in conjunction with a pupil premium to aid social mobility.

DeVos and her ilk have succeeded in politicizing the education debate to such an extent that historically nonpartisan contests have seen clear divides between candidates who defend public education (and are often backed by Democrats, progressives and teacher unions) and candidates who align with the DeVos agenda (and who are often backed by Republicans, social conservatives and corporate interests that favor privatization).

For example, conservative groups sponsored an anti-Common Core conference in September 2013 at the University of Notre Dame, while the liberal Network for Public Education held its own conference in March 2014 at the University of Texas - Austin to protest the privatization of education (the Common Core was not the sole topic, but it was a prominent portion of the agenda).

However, those beliefs, in conjunction with her conservative free market agenda, will inform her positions on public education, resulting in a fundamental disruption in our country's proud provision of equity education to all students — even the most vulnerable.

Through her family's fortune and conservative political connections, Betsy DeVos has targeted public education and pushed a right - wing school choice agenda for decades.

And yes, I say their agenda since, according to NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison, Conservative Party members voted a few years ago at their annual convention in favour of a resolution to eliminate the human rights commission's authority to «regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints» dealing with hate speech on the Internet.