Sentences with phrase «legislature blocks efforts»
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Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.
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Maryland would have been the first state in the country to take over schools for NCLB restructuring, but Grasmick's efforts met with intense political opposition from Baltimore's mayor and other political leaders, and the state legislature passed a bill blocking the takeover.
«Just because teachers unions block reform efforts in state legislatures and local school boards, reform advocates don't have to sit idly by while children and our education infrastructure suffer.»