Sentences with phrase «of public pushback»

During his tenure in New York, King ushered in practices such as teacher evaluations tied to student performance and supported the Common Core State Standards and aligned assessments, all of which garnered a significant amount of public pushback.

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Abinanti said he is talking to colleagues about pressing the governor to do the right thing, given the amount of pushback from the public.

President Trump's pushback against sanctuary cities and the public reaction to his executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries are two national issues that have deeply touched the city of Syracuse.

Beyond the lesson learned about such public bullying tactics, the message of the pushback should be clear — that even behemoths like Disney can be vulnerable to bad press.

Aside from Martin emphatically declaring that «school choice is the Black choice,» and former Chicago principal Troy LaRaviere's disruptively passionate pushback and pleas to sign on to his petition to rid public education of charter schools, the disagreement did not fall there.

Those of us who are involved with PreK - 12 education reform have been dealing with a major firestorm of pushback to the Texas public school accountability system and its high stakes standardized assessments that were adopted in 2009.

«Our film was not the first nor the only thing to clue people in to the dangers of the corporate reform movement, but «The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman» has proven to be an important piece of the ever - growing pushback and effort to preserve public education.»

Both of these legislative options face difficulties becoming law in a divided Congress and with vocal pushback from public school supporters across the country.

Such pushback has created incredible confusion and uncertainty among educators and the public about the staying power of the standards.

The resolution met public pushback this week from several prominent business members of ALEC, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Honeywell, UPS and the Edison Electric Institute.

Climate change skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration at being told «only one side of the global warming debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a global warming crisis.»

The report, by Block G Privacy and Security Consulting, said: «Until national policies are established or court challenges arise... the use of UAVs by Canadian policing bodies will likely continue to be somewhat ad hoc and primarily constrained by the SFOC process and [law enforcement agencies»] interests in avoiding public pushback of UAV - based practices.»