"Political backlash" refers to a negative reaction or response that occurs when people express dissatisfaction or discontent with a political decision, action, or policy. It typically manifests as a strong opposition, criticism, protests, or changes in public support for politicians or political parties.
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To counteract the negative circumstances of implementation in many places, Common Core advocates need to work deliberately to gain the support of parents in the face of
political backlash against the standards.
This unique positioning, far enough outside to do business in a different way yet sufficiently inside the system to
avoid political backlash, has been a key element in the school's success.
This poses a new challenge: Protecting her rights to first discovery and working through the
unnecessary political backlash and bureaucracy associated with her findings.
Both national politics and the perceived fiscal impact of charter schools on local districts have contributed to
growing political backlash.
Even these baby steps toward a real accountability system produced a
fierce political backlash, led largely by suburban middle - and upper - middle - class families.
The Middle East is continuing to show itself capable of boosting alternative energy sources without facing
political backlashes from opposing sides of the aisle.
Despite
political backlash in some states, renewable energy projects have thrived in some surprising places.
But its business model, which has also relied on aggressive price hikes for acquired drugs, has come under growing scrutiny because
of political backlash against high drug prices, dragging Valeant shares down from record highs scaled in August.
Cohoes Mayor Shawn Morse is
facing political backlash after a Times Union story detailed allegations of domestic abuse against him going back decades.
Funder preferences for certain locales, combined with the failure of districts to adjust to enrollment loss, create a pressure cooker
for political backlash.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., in 1989, canceled a Mapplethorpe retrospective that was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts,
fearing political backlash because of the exhibition's frank depictions of homosexual behavior.
Trade talks between Norway and China were snuffed
over political backlash related to the Nobel Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Five years ago, then - Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee accelerated the downsizing of the D.C. school system when she moved quickly to close 23 schools, igniting angry protest and long - lasting
political backlash while spurring an exodus of students to the city's charters.
(14) Although Reagan largely tried to ignore the disparagements made by antidiscrimination groups, he eventually was forced to abandon modifying the hotly contested topic of affirmative action in order to avoid
more political backlash.
I understand the reluctance to agitate parents regarding their children, and the fear of triggering an even
bigger political backlash against standards and testing.
It may well be worth it for the next few years, since a potentially significant story will be whether Obergefell (and perhaps the Obamacare cases) end up
generating political backlash comparable to that following Brown.
When we recently discussed Europe's refugee crisis, we mentioned that a
sizable political backlash was to be expected and that unfortunately, extreme nationalist parties were likely to be among the main beneficiaries.
It baffles me that they would worry
about political backlash for reducing or removing this private school funding from wealthy parents groups that I'm positive have never voted NDP nor would they in the future.
Nicolas Sarkozy's ejection as French president merely marked the
latest political backlash against European politicians who get entangled in the economic crisis.
Also, when formulating their plans, the reformers bypassed parents and the community in the belief that they (the reformers) knew what was best for the children, fueling a
furious political backlash.
Of course, the increasing divisiveness of politics in 2016 also caused a bump in «resistance» memes — that is, memes that either champion of
mock political backlash.
«The fetishizing of austerity by European leaders, clamping down on growth so severely, may
create political backlash that will not be manageable,» said Kathleen R. McNamara, director of the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University.
«The
biggest political backlash won't be from political folks arguing among themselves, but from parents and teachers when they find out that implementation of the standards is very challenging,» Smith said.
Most attention to the Common Core State Standards has focused understandably on the
continued political backlash against the standards and the status of implementation in schools.
Hawley's inquiry comes amid withering public and
political backlash against Facebook for its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to access information about its users and to possibly influence the 2016 presidential election campaign.
That could limit
the political backlash he faces for divisive rhetoric about immigrants and Hispanics.
This kind of
political backlash isn't new.
If Trump actually tries to take us back there, there's gonna be
a political backlash that'll put Democrats in office for decades.
A political backlash may force the European Central Bank to ditch plans for stricter provisioning of 760 bln euros of dud loans.
Neither party wants to be held accountable in the court of public opinion for shutting the government down and facing
the political backlash.
A political backlash against buybacks is intensifying as the tax bill manifests — since passage, total buybacks announced exceed worker bonuses and raises by roughly 63x.
Political backlash has begun and regulatory approval is uncertain.
The ambitious plan to create an Australian - owned partner for the Chinese investor Dakang's massive new cattle station business was seen by some as an attempt to help appease demands from the Foreign Investment Review Board, as well as quell some of
the political backlash from voters who are against foreign investment.
The resulting media and
political backlash against the regulations prompted by Tesco's treatment of the mother in this car park case could not have been better for its agenda if it had planned it.
The Kirchners (and other Peronists before them) have certainly done a lot to tax the large land owners in «the campo» and use the revenue to provide programs from the poor, although she faced
a political backlash in 2007 when people thought she was going too far with that policy.