Sentences with phrase «local gadflies»

And the language amends the law to allow any school district employee or parent to sue a local charter school in state court to enforce these flawed targets, opening charters up to more and more lawsuits from local gadflies and teachers unions.

Parents and other community members — thanks to some local gadflies who began to get the message out — also began paying attention and, for the first time in memory, voted down a school budget in large part because of academic failures.

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The answer lies in the fact that Mr. Philpotts, regarded as a harmless gadfly in local political circles, had the foresight to stock the county committee of Mr. Camara's 43rd Assembly District with a handful of family members and allies.

We know what senior Conservatives think of them - from Michael Howard's «cranks and gadflies» and David Cameron's infamous «fruitcakes and closet racists» to Ken Clarke's disastrous «clowns» comment on the eve of the local elections.

Each was referring to a Monday night vote by our local board of education (of which I am a member — though my gadfly tendencies often lead me to butt heads with other board members, and to get shut out of things like budget - making processes).

We reported last year on how the sheriff of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, relying on the state's old and constitutionally infirm criminal - libel law, had raided the house and seized the computers of a local man suspected of being responsible for a gadfly blog that had criticized the sheriff and other community figures.