Sentences with phrase «conservative reformers»

Like so many of my fellow conservative reformers, he does mean well.

As for conservative reformers?

This group of conservative reformers who worked with Republican governors to make it happen are bringing up ideas their foreparents had and implemented with varying degrees of success.

The four - year - old guidance, a keystone of federal efforts to spur school discipline reform, has long been the bete noir of so - called conservative reformers everywhere.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

Even conservative reformers, many of whom backed DeVos because of their dependence on her family's fortune (and have been pleased with the administration's roll - back of the Obama administration's school discipline reform efforts) are becoming disillusioned.

His election coincided with the election of a group of young conservative Reformers, including Jason Kenney and Rahim Jaffer.

«Assemblywoman Tenney is a pro-small business, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life conservative reformer who will be an effective leader in New York's 22nd congressional district.»

At meetings like NewSchools Venture Fund and Pahara (a leadership development program run by the Aspen Institute), conservative reformers report feeling unwelcome, uncomfortable, and cowed into silence.

Conservative reformers balk over this because they still embrace a perspective, driven by their ideological conservatism, that chooses to ignore the legacies of state - sanctioned bigotry (from slavery to Jim Crow to the drug war) that are still reflected in American public education.

Meanwhile, among conservative reformers, Former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester (Checker) Finn Jr., a lion of the movement and someone who pushed for passage of laws allowing for those children to become citizens, has also called out the Trump Administration for its deplorable action.

[As you know, more than a few conservative reformers, who opposed Obama's efforts on school discipline, are happy that this could happen.

School choice activists (along with conservative reformers) can not «turn a blind eye to racism» or ignore Trump's long record of bigotry without risking loss of support for their efforts.

Last winter, the race was shaping up to be an upbeat contest to see which conservative reformer could put forward the most compelling approach to expand opportunity.

Gary, you can't honestly be siding with Arne Duncan and yet more conservative reformers, who have concluded that advanced degrees don't affect the quality of instruction.

A third reason lies with the fact that most conservative reformers — save for Smarick — work in movement conservative institutions where their thinking is unlikely to be strongly challenged.

This includes conservative reformers such as Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, who have supported plans from House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline and Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander that propose to do exactly what the Obama waiver gambit has accomplished.

Donald Trump has chosen conservative reformer Betsy DeVos to be his education secretary.

Contrary to arguments offered up by traditionalists and conservative reformers looking to ditch No Child, the law did little to expand the federal role, and actually confirmed the role of states as the controlling entities of public education within their respective boundaries.

Certainly the presence of American Enterprise Institute fellow Gerard Robinson, a former education official in Florida and Virginia (and onetime president of Black Alliance for Educational Options), on Trump's education transition team gives conservative reformers some hope that they can have some sway in the incoming administration.

Conservative reformers therefore have an enormous opportunity.

And will school reformers, especially conservative reformers and those inside the Beltway, call out this rank promotion of deviant and immoral thinking?

The problem is that forcing states to report graduation rates accurately plays into the criticism of the waiver gambit lobbed by conservative reformers that it ends up being a bureaucratic process in which participating states have as little supposed flexibility as they did under No Child.

Even if the Obama Administration played no role in Common Core's implementation, conservative reformers who oppose the standards would find problems with them because they fundamentally don't believe that state governments (or any government, for that matter) should be in the business of shaping curricula and the standards that guide them.

Carney's agenda can form a point of contact between libertarian populists and conservative reformers who favor family friendly tax reform that would increase the take home pay of working parents and market - oriented alternatives to Obamacare that would alleviate public anxieties about access to health care.

A conservative reformer, he admired the British and wrote extensively on democratisation and conservatism.

Former state Supreme Court and Appellate Division Justice Michael Kavanagh gave Faso his backing, calling the conservative reformer, «a public servant who shares my ideals and the ideals of the district where he has lived for more than three decades.

Adonis is generous — rightly so — to Conservative reformers of the system and Lord Baker in particular.

Halter is selling himself as a conservative reformer, not one who reflects the NDC in any way.

Drawing primarily on his experiences in Chicago, Payne considers the effects of social context, poverty, race, bureaucracy, and organizational dynamics, and uses them to raise hard questions for both progressive and conservative reformers.

Reformers, especially conservative reformers, should raise their voices and loudly call out Trump for appointing Bannon and demand the latter's removal.

But given the conservative movement's other problems (including, as Washington Examiner columnist Noemie Emery notes, a sense of entitlement and embrace of a victim mentality unfitting of itself), the importance of the movement playing a strong role in shaping systemic reform, and the need for the movement to update how it applies first principles to today's issues, it is a much - needed fight that conservative reformers can win.

Some were annoyed at what they perceived to be my characterization that only movement conservatives and some conservative reformers were among the opponents of Common Core; I have long ago made clear that there nearly as many traditionalists and reformers — as well as progressives, liberals, movement conservatives and others outside of education — who oppose the standards as there are supporters within all those camps.