Sentences with phrase «major test of his leadership»

In May 2016, the devolved and local elections will provide the first major test of his leadership and it is crucial for Project Corbyn that the party performs well in the big mayoral contests in London, Bristol and Liverpool.

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President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis, as record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey lashed Houston and tens of thousands of people fled deluged homes.

«But even those who disagree with him generally on matters, on a referendum in particular, I think they will admire him for showing leadership and guts on a major issue and therefore this is a test of him and his approach to leadership as much as to the issue itself.»

«The leadership has clearly heard the concerned parents and educators who support high standards but know that a moratorium on the use of standardized tests in high - stakes decisions is essential until the State Education Department makes major corrections to its failed implementation plan,» president Richard Iannuzzi said in the statement.

«The education policies coming from the leadership of both major parties in the recent state budget — from underfunding public schools and promoting charter schools to modifying but not ending the high - stakes testing regime — are pro-privatization and anti-public schools.

«The president has been insincere, inconsistent and incoherent, and has failed a major test of presidential leadership that is unbecoming of his office and the leader of the free world,» Higgins said.

UTLA leadership has opposed any use of test data in evaluations, while the district and many parent and community groups strongly support its use as a major component in evaluation.

The solution is that the leadership of the two major teacher unions, and all of the others committed to public education, should be retreating from their support of the Common Core and its associated testing scheme.

If the announcement is as impressive as suggested, it would mean that the leadership of Connecticut's teacher unions have finally moved 180 degrees from the position they held on January 25, 2012 when the CEA and AFT joined with the other members of Governor Malloy's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) to approve the so - called «teacher evaluation framework» that inappropriately and unfairly mandates that student's standardized test scores be a major factor in the teacher evaluation process.

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