Sentences with phrase «of irate parents»

At a raucous 2013 public meeting in Poughkeepsie, King faced an auditorium of irate parents and teachers shouting him down, drowning out his efforts to respond.

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When the magnitude of the shift became clear in 2014, confused parents and irate math teachers bombarded legislators and state board members with calls to delay implementation or alter course.

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

At boisterous meetings in Lafayette, Calcasieu and Jefferson parishes, irate parents — most of them white — began to complain about elementary school math homework culled from a Common Core website designed by educators in New York state, often referred to as Eureka Math.

Irate that DC Comics parent company Warner Bros. made a series of comic book collections available exclusively on Amazon's Kindle device, Barnes & Noble pulled more than 100 DC titles from their inventory in 2011.