Sentences with phrase «failed status quo»

«This announcement affirms our decision to stick with real reform and not capitulate to the watered - down, failed status quo approach advocated by the [New Jersey Education Association],» he said in a statement.

The UFT and Randi's national AFT are far more vested in their own failed status quo — and they invest in the infrastructure such as P.R. shops and front groups to preserve it — than they are in the education of kids in Harlem who go to relatively successful schools that happen to be operated by Weingarten's enemy, former NYC Councilmember Eva Moskowitz.

Puerto Rico, like Detroit before it, represents the endpoint of politicians maintaining a failed status quo: total financial collapse.

«The Obama administration is giving more taxpayer financed bailout money to prop up the failed status quo — something Andrew Cuomo has done his whole political life.

We simply can not continue to operate under the failed status quo in Hartford.

«I'll be a dedicated local voice for those who want to change the failed status quo of high taxes, more government and less opportunity created by liberal politicians in Albany and Washington.»

They are sick of the failed status quo, and they want and deserve a government that lives up to them,» she said.

Nancy Pelosi's cabal of far - left liberal recruits would rather maintain her failed status quo, causing taxes to increase, wages to flatline, and America's health care system to collapse.»

In a 2012 op - ed in the Daily News, Lasher criticized the United Federation of Teachers for opposing «anything to improve a failed status quo.»

«It's clear that we must change Washington's failed status quo and push for common - sense reforms that improve our economy and help everyday Americans,» Faso said.

While Congressman Faso travels the 19th District listening to his constituents [but not at town - hall meetings], Sullivan is touting her support for the failed status quo,» quoth a National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman in a recent release.

Some educators worry about the fallout from these measures, such as the proliferating plague of standardized testing, but don't know how to oppose them without casting themselves as obstructionists clinging to a failed status quo.

«We have got to move away from a model where school boards are defenders of a failed status quo, where the unions just control the board,» Villaraigosa said.

On the other side, from this point of view, are those who are «soft»: people who are opposed to measuring outcomes, who in theory want to empower teachers but in practice want to support a failing status quo.

They get beat up every day for pushing against a failed status quo and I am inspired by their persistence and creativity.

The teacher unions» goal is to maintain the failing status quo, and child - centered education reforms are not a part of it.

Too often, opponents of turnaround schools (a system of accelerating growth of student achievement partly by changing the adults who serve the students and removing restrictions that impede student success - including any collective bargaining agreements that don't put students» interest in the forefront) remain steadfastly wed to the failing status quo that undermines families» efforts to improve their circumstances through education.

Will the teachers unions tell the kids that in California, they have done everything within their abusive power to maintain the failing status quo by trying and mostly succeeding to kill every effort at education reform that would have benefited students?

The people who live on this celestial body (named after Diane Ravitch, a former reformer who turned into a champion of the failing status quo) are afflicted with a dyslexic - like condition: they have the entire education reform picture exactly backwards.

«Our efforts to empower parents and disrupt the failing status quo in education are more important now than ever at this time of unprecedented opportunity for our movement.»

Cuomo sits more on the «reform» side of the internal debate in his party between the teachers unions (who have the ear of City Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito) who defend the failed status quo, and reformists who want working - class children to have successful educations.

«I'm school - model agnostic,» said Melvoin, though he added: «When you have more charters in L.A. than anywhere else in the country, it's an indictment of a failed status quo.»

Over many years she has played an integral role in challenging the failing status quo and bringing about positive change in both literacy leadership and school leadership schooling improvement projects.

UTLA's past leadership has made it a pariah and symbol of uncompromising adherence to a failing status quo.

What was essential was building muscular mass movements capable of standing up to those defending a failing status quo, and that demanded a significantly fairer share of the economic pie for everyone.