Sentences with phrase «conservative state legislatures»

Amidst all the fanfare, however, was a growing backlash against the standards, especially among conservative state legislatures whose members increasingly saw the Common Core as a federal initiative, a directive to states from Washington.

With the express mission of unseating Republican governors and flipping control of conservative state legislatures — legacies of the GOP tide in 2010 — the two national unions, in particular, are taking a page out of the playbook of some newer and smaller education advocacy groups: Focus on down - ballot candidates and work up to the top ticket.

Backed by a conservative state legislature, Corbett cut about $ 860 million from public education in his first budget rather than tax the state's booming natural - gas industry.

Not exact matches

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

Or the fact that my state's Agriculture Secretary, Sid Miller (once voted the second most - conservative member in the Texas legislature — no easy feat), managed to vault himself onto the national stage just by attacking a (nonexistent) ban on birthday cupcakes in Texas schools.

There is in fact a petition drive directed at state legislatures by politically conservative groups who are particularly interested in adopting a «balanced budget» amendment.

The American Conservative Union (ACU) rates the US Congress and also began rating the State Legislatures.

As senate minority leader since 2007, John was a highly qualified state - government - experienced social moderate and fiscal conservative who was intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of our state legislature and eminently qualified to get things done.

The Comptroller says it's important that the governor and legislature continue to be conservative in their spending and their estimates of future tax collections when they put together the new state budget.

Boggs is now a Georgia Court of Appeals judge, but his Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing focused on votes and statements from when he served as a conservative Democrat in the George state legislature, from 2000 - 2004.

In the 2012 election, the Conservative, Working Families, and Independence Parties of New York had nominees for the New York state legislature in over half the districts, but the overwhelming majority of the nominees were not members of those parties, but were cross-endorsed major party nominees.

Now, the architects of that legislation face recall elections that have become proxy wars for conservatives angry about the new gun rules, among other liberal initiatives the Democratic - controlled state legislature passed earlier this year.

Their analysis of data from other states revealed a partisan gerrymander in Maryland perpetrated by the Democrat - controlled legislature to freeze out its conservative rivals.

Frank's sensitivity analysis parceled out whether variables comparable to a state's liberal or conservative leanings, political affiliation or number of women in the legislature, could be tipping the scales they were attributing to environmental activism.

For all the concern and caution that has crept into union leaders» rhetoric, neither one has joined conservative Republicans» efforts to roll back the standards in state legislatures around the country.

In addition to her Republican allies in the state legislature, Williams» partnerships with conservatives included the Bradley Foundation and its director Michael Joyce; former GOP Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, a champion of conservative welfare reform; and George and Susan Mitchell, Wisconsin's leading pro-voucher advocates.

With school budgets already limited by a conservative - led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education, the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data - driven system of early intervention.

She is supportive of efforts by a conservative, pro-business group known as ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create model legislation for school vouchers and similar programs for states to pass in their legislatures.

Today conservative leadership helms a record 68 percent of state legislatures, and with conservatives controlling both legislative chambers and the governorship in 24 states, the opportunity to advance education choice is unprecedented.

There's the battle over implementing Common Core reading and math standards will continue apace, especially in states where Republican - controlled legislatures are under pressure to halt that work from movement conservatives opposed to them.

Because conservative politicians lay so much store in the importance of state and local control, advocates have also found some success emphasizing the hypocrisy of Republican legislatures passing such measures.

Instead, a multivariate regression shows that, among six variables, two do a good job of predicting electric rates in a state: the Mercatus Institute's land - use freedom index and the American Conservative Union's state legislature rankings.

He's also a self - described conservative who is outraged that the state legislature and Nebraska's Republican governor are letting politics interfere with questions of science.

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