Sentences with phrase «conservatives out of education»

Pondiscio's piece, «The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform,» has triggered an important conversation about race, power, politics, and school reform.

Reading Robert Pondiscio's recent article («The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform») calls to mind Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and its powerful image of a polar bear drifting helplessly on a shrinking sheet of ice in a warming sea.

Not exact matches

The single most discouraging thing to come out of the sudden leadership race for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario are new promises to roll back the sex education curriculum by candidates in this race.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Liberals largely have higher education, the elite newspapers and time mainline churches on their side, as conservatives never tire of pointing out; for angry conservatives, the cultural power of American liberalism is suffocating and immense.

Within months of assuming office, the Conservatives had taken full control of the agenda, rolling out ambitious reform programmes in health, education and welfare.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm, who chairs the Education Committee, is calling for Michael Long, who heads the state's Conservative Party, to step down as board chair of Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Brooklyn after a 13 - year - old student there, Daniel Fitzpatrick, hanged himself on August 11.

The Conservative ex-minister, who currently holds the higher education portfolio in David Cameron's shadow Cabinet, takes a philosophical view of the rigours of being out of government.

«Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are delusional if they think this announcement can airbrush out the key role they have played in betraying our children and young people by colluding with the Conservatives in the introduction of education policies which have robbed our children and young people of these important entitlements.

Giambra, a former Democrat who failed to garner much traction with Republican and Conservative Party leaders in the state, left open the possibility of running on the Reform Party ballot line, created in 2014 by then - GOP nominee Rob Astorino out of opposition to the Common Core education standards.

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.

Creationism was dealt a blow in Kansas today, when moderate Republicans defeated three out of the four conservative incumbents up for reelection on the state's Board of Education.

Coined by conservative George Will in a January, 2002, column (Waiting for Real Education Reform), the 9/91 factor points out that from birth to age nineteen, ninety - one percent of a child's life is spent outside the boundaries of the schoolhouse.

The Education Bill, which was initially set to introduce the government's plans for the every school in England to be converted in an academy, has faced strong opposition from Education professionals, parents and local government, with a large number of Conservative Councillors speaking out against the proposals.

While some conservative groups have opposed it out of fears of a federal takeover of local education, teachers unions aren't actually worried about «the consequences of teacher evaluation» in a vacuum.

By forcing the local authorities out of mainstream education, it would also finally unpick the local authority system of schools put in place in England by Arthur Balfour's Conservative government in 1902.

The agreement to toss whole chunks of the landmark law reflects a rare political convergence, uniting liberals who decried rote testing regimes, conservatives who wanted the federal government out of education, state officials angry about unfunded mandates and powerful teachers unions who said NCLB punished them, rather than giving them needed assistance.

A pledge to open 500 new free schools in this parliament was a key part of the Conservative Party's education manifesto, and the government's relative success in this area, despite the controversy around some free schools, makes it an ideal legacy area for the prime minister to bow out on.

Sharpton, a liberal Democrat, and Gingrich, a conservative Republican, joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan on the first stop of a «listening and learning» tour to find out which school strategies are working and why.

The House passed a nearly identical bill in 2013, but discontent with the Common Core academic standards and concerns about federal government intrusion have grown, and conservatives have said they want to get more out of an education bill in the newly Republican - controlled Congress.

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So while conservatives in the Alabama legislature weren't able to make any great strides in area of education reform, they were able to prevent the teeth from being stripped out of one of the great accomplishments Alabama has — our immigration law.

The Conservatives called it «yet another scathing report» while Plaid Cymru accused the Welsh government of «blaming the education sector for failures when it hasn't given a clear indication of what the sector is setting out to achieve».

«Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R)... signed new legislation that makes his state the first to opt out of Common Core standards, amid conservative outrage over the education benchmarks.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

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.

That was viewed by many as a reference to Common Core, which spurred some conservative figures and institutions to decry the standards as a federal takeover of education and in turn led to the legislation calling for specifically opting out of Common Core.

Between the intellectually schizophrenic claptrap on the No Child Left Behind Act from American Enterprise Institute scholar Rick Hess and Linda Darling - Hammond, Duke's Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske defense of the Poverty Myth of Education, and the otherwise thoughtful Whitney Tilson's misguided criticism of Republican and conservative school reformers, I am ready to head out on my vacation to relatively - sane American Ozarks, where I can be reminded once again that the Beltway is La - La Land without a tan.

In examining the claim justifying a disproportionate ration of liberals to conservative, the claim being conservatives are less interested in becoming professors than liberal students because they seek out higher paying jobs where liberal students are more likely to seek out community or service oriented, of which they believe higher education to such a thing; the survey found, however, while conservative students were more likely to complain about the price of higher education they were just as likely to express an interest in higher education and it was liberal respondents who ranked salary more highly than conservatives.

One of YCER's first steps will be to address what Combs calls the «lack of education» among conservative Americans who may have tuned out the energy debate because they see it as a strictly liberal agenda.