Sentences with phrase «former core supporters»
Some former core supporters, such as award - winning New York Principal Carol Burris, changed their minds after learning more about the standards and the core - aligned tests.
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Lord Prescott, Mr Blair's former deputy, has said that Mr Miliband is pursuing a «core vote strategy» of appealing only to traditional Labour supporters and disaffected Liberal Democrats.
Another once core supporter of President Buhari prior to the 2015 elections was a former Minister of Education and convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Group, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili.
Mandelson is caricaturing Ed Miliband's position but the former Climate Change Secretary has certainly called on Labour to tilt more towards its core supporters.
General Secretary of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has stated that although the party did not bus supporters to the Supreme Court in support of former COCOBOD CEO Dr. Stephen Opuni, the supporters did so in accordance with the core values of the NDC.
As former Secretary of Education for Massachusetts, Professor Paul Reville was instrumental in the Commonwealth's adoption of the Common Core, and he remains a stalwart supporter.
Indeed, many former supporters of Common Core, including Republican governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey, and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, have withdrawn support of the standards in the face of political opposition from conservative interest groups, teachers unions, and swarms of parents and other voters.
But, as a visible former Common Core supporter, Jindal has also risked being called a flip - flopper on this issue.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, whose nonprofit Foundation for Excellence in Education has received about $ 5.2 million from the Gates Foundation since 2010, is one of the Common Core's most vocal supporters.
It's unfair these students — about 98,000 across the state with conditions ranging from dyslexia to severe cognitive impairments — are entering society unprepared, said former Kentucky Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit, a longtime supporter of the Common Core standards.