Sentences with phrase «movement conservatives»

Anticipating that Republicans will capture control of the U.S. Senate, noting the disdain for expansive federal role among movement conservatives within the party's political base (especially with their opposition to everything the Obama Administration undertakes), and pointing to opposition to the implementation of Common Core reading and math standards, Smarick argues that the next wave of reform will feature less - active federal policymaking.

Even as the likelihood of passage remains as unlikely as it was back in March, when House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline's plan was kiboshed amid opposition from movement conservatives within the Republican majority, there are still some who think that the version under consideration now could pass if Kline's colleague, Lamar Alexander, can get his plan into conferencing.

S&N are within that mainstream, along with every green advocacy group; Gingrich and Lomborg are outside it, on a fringe largely populated by movement conservatives and right - wing political operatives.

A third reason lies with the fact that most conservative reformers — save for Smarick — work in movement conservative institutions where their thinking is unlikely to be strongly challenged.

Kline, who whipped up the frenzy of movement conservatives against No Child during his tenure as chairman of Education and the Workforce (and before that as ranking Republican) has now found himself on the business end of it.

Take Indiana, for example, where uproar over the move to replace its highly - lauded standards with those of Common Core (along with general opposition from movement conservatives at the vanguard of fighting Common Core) led to the state's move in April to halt official roll - out of the standards.

They haven't won over suburban congressional Republicans such as House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline, movement conservatives such as Victor Davis Hanson, hard - core progressives like Dana Goldstein and even suburban parents.

There's the battle over implementing Common Core reading and math standards will continue apace, especially in states where Republican - controlled legislatures are under pressure to halt that work from movement conservatives opposed to them.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy.

This blawg «is a dynamic forum launched by Alliance for Justice to focus attention on the deliberate politicization of the Justice Department and attempts by movement conservatives to pack the federal judiciary with like - minded ideologues.»

While the argument has little substance (especially given that No Child itself allowed states plenty of flexibility to meet the law's goals), it plays well with movement conservative being riled up by House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who has his own plans for eviscerating No Child and essentially giving states the kind of free hand they had before the passage of the law 11 years ago that led to wasteful spending that did little to improve student achievement).

«He certainly has not been a movement conservative, he certainly has never been a movement Republican,» he said.

At this point it looks like the movement conservatives will «win» because they are the best at bringing voters to the polls.

At best, Kline is playing to movement conservatives who haven't noticed his constant push for increasing federal special ed subsidies that have helped spur policies that have condemned far too many kids to the economic and social abyss.

Can a movement conservative really oppose requiring teachers to focus some of their time on understanding the utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill?

The fact that Common Core has been embraced by centrist Democrats and President Obama himself doesn't sit right with Malkin and her fellow movement conservatives, for them, the standards seem like little more than a Trojan horse for left - leaning ideas.

Some were annoyed at what they perceived to be my characterization that only movement conservatives and some conservative reformers were among the opponents of Common Core; I have long ago made clear that there nearly as many traditionalists and reformers — as well as progressives, liberals, movement conservatives and others outside of education — who oppose the standards as there are supporters within all those camps.