Sentences with phrase «mantle of reform»

It's going to be very hard to claim the mantle of reform when one's leader is facing these kinds of charges.

Cuomo «has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform,» write Jacob Gershman and Lisa Fleischer.

But one of the architects of New Labour, who chronicled the early days of the project in his book The Unfinished Revolution, had another key message: never abandon the mantle of reform.

ALBANY — This week's compromise on public disclosure of teacher evaluations underscored how Gov. Andrew Cuomo has charted his own course on education policy between two powerful forces: labor unions and a movement claiming the mantle of reform.

Nicholas Watt: In his last political act Philip Gould voted against the NHS bill but advised Labour not to abandon the mantle of reform

His change of heart on this matter since he was running for governor (and since he was AG) seems to arise from a reluctance to share the mantle of reform with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a fellow Democrat.

Lehane calls for the Democrats to seize the mantle of reform, while Winston assures GOP candidates they need only to stay the course.

A decade ago, the AFT is fond of telling us, the AFT claimed the mantle of reform by advocating charter schools as a way of promoting innovation and sidestepping administrative bureaucracy.

Republican governors and legislators, the «Chiefs for Change,» and a growing number of DFER - type Democrats have proven themselves more than capable to carry the mantle of reform without help from Uncle Sam.

But the ghost of Christmas present showed up at the DPS School Board meeting where the 4 to 3 vote to dismantle both of these schools and three others under the mantle of reform and turnaround passed at 1:30 a.m.. Each of the two staffs and students from Montbello HS and Oakland Elementary School made presentations to the school board about the progress that was already happening and asked for more time to prove they could make it work.

As those ideas have produced less progress than anticipated, community school advocates hope their model can take over the mantle of reform.