Sentences with phrase «liberal education reformers»

Liberal education reformers also believe that the market alone is not enough to ensure charter school quality, and that charter schools need strong oversight boards, which can close down poor - performing charters.

Liberal education reformers, unlike their critics on the left, believe charter schools play an important role, and also generally believe that all schools need to have more ability to reward excellent teachers and fire low - performing ones.

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception of some liberal education reformers who are supportive of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.

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So it is ironic that the left, which has made right - wing anti-government arguments, and made common cause with Republicans to scale back federal control over education, has settled on a public message of attacking liberal reformers as crypto - allies of the GOP.

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After all, it was centrist Democrat reformers (along with liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.

But scandal - plagued voucher programs allow for centrist and liberal Democrat reformers to indulge in such fallacious thinking, and, in the process, weaken the multi-partisan coalition needed to overhaul American public education.