Sentences with phrase «poster child for»
General Motors, a poster child for rental car sales is projecting a retail / rental ratio drop below 10 percent for the first time in many years.
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The Prius has a CVT automatic transmission, and it's a poster child for the rubbery responses these systems can exhibit.
The Volkswagen XL1 is a poster child for lightweight and low drag design.
It was the poster child for its generation and in many ways remains so today.
Clean, clever and fuel - efficient, without a doubt, and a poster child for a forthcoming generation of sensible cars.
Here's how bad our Taurus was: My next car was a Chevy Cavalier (widely regarded as the poster child for crappy cars), and it's been a huge step up in ownership experience.
The Volkswagen GTI has been the poster child for fun, front - wheel drive cars for generations.
In the German corner, we have the Mercedes - Benz E550, an old - school poster child for upright, refined Teutonic virtues.
The Cadillac STS is almost a poster child for what's right with General Motors at the moment - and for what's wrong.
Jeep Renegade: «Extremely functional, unexpectedly capable off - road, and an excellent poster child for Jeep's personality.»
The Chevrolet Suburban, bless its lil» 5,260 - pound heart, has become the poster child for the anti-SUV movement, though it is neither the largest (the Ford Excursion weighs 7,... Read more
The poster child for recertification is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, whose Act 10 dramatically curtailed collective bargaining for most public employees, including teachers.
The poster child for this moral disconnect is former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor and ed reform celebrity Michelle Rhee.
For some, they are the poster child for the new wave of urban education and should be commended for the way that they are able to recruit highly talented, motivated college graduates to devote at least 2 years to teaching in nigh - needs schools.
Back in January, Akron, Ohio, mother Kelley Williams - Bolar became the poster child for ending zip code education and expanding school choice when she was convicted of what can only laughingly be called stealing education.
Detroit is the poster child for the damage the DeVos have done to Michigan's public schools.
The ditching of the online exams is just the latest in a series of significant testing alterations that have rocked Tennessee over the last three - plus years and made it a poster child for the volatile testing atmosphere that's sweeping the country.
«It's almost a poster child for the need to reform teacher performance.»
«She is a poster child for wanting to decimate public education,» said President Randi Weingarten.
Austin said 24th Street Elementary is «a poster child for why parents need power.»
Meanwhile, City Councilwoman Helen Gym, a poster child for anti-school choice, is well known to have consistently exercised school choice for her kids and community.
Now, three years later, the school could be a national poster child for school improvement.
«The Mary Walker leadership team is the high - functioning poster child for doing this well, and the results are there,» said Mike Siebersma from the Education Northwest's Success Now!
Besides, we all know that Bridgeport has the most corrupt government in, well, anywhere and is the poster child for the D'anal NWO.
Rocketship, an entrepreneurial network of charter schools based in the Silicon Valley, has become a national poster child for the privatization of public education.
Poway Unified School District was described in the news media as having «shot to fame» as a «poster child for an era of reckless and risky school bond borrowing» through bond sales that have «reached legendary status.»
Perhaps the poster child for the grad fudge rate is Washington D.C., where Ballou High School saw every one of its 164 seniors graduate in June.
Newark was supposed to be the poster child for school reform.
«ECOT is the poster child for the worst of Ohio's struggling charter schools»» said Becky Higgins, president of the Ohio Education Association.
Many others should apologize as well, starting with everyone who made DC the poster child for «school reform.»
It took over Locke High School in South L.A., which had become a poster child for the failings of L.A. Unified.
Mooresville has become something of a poster child for computers in the classroom.
The poster child for this critique was Colorado's EAGLE - Net, funded in 2010 with $ 100 million in federal stimulus support.
While Wyoming is a poster child for litigant success, it is not all that extreme.
Detroit is the poster child for similar activity in the Midwest (see sidebar).
Recall that New York State was the poster child for the «proficiency illusion,» an alarming and dishonest dumbing - down of state tests and lower cut scores.
L.A. may yet become the poster child for Secretary Duncan's $ 4.3 billion Race to the Top initiative.
The statistics have made the school a poster child for IB inclusion, but Burris and Murphy are determined to get more kids — all kids — to reach for the educational gold.
As these schools experienced success (and in the rising wake of Race To the Top), their practices quickly spread to places like post-Katrina New Orleans, the poster child for the latest incarnation of education reform.
Why make Mike Brown the poster child for the Black Lives Matter movement, when there are so many martyrs far more deserving, like Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and Tamir Rice, to name a few?
The next two sequels from the studio would have a focus on introducing new technology to gamers, as 2011's Killzone 3 was the poster child for PlayStation Move and 3D gaming, and 2014's Killzone Shadow Fall was the PlayStation 4 launch title.
Green Lantern was so badly received it became a poster child for how...
Were Anna Muylaert a man, she would be hailed in Brazil as the poster child for a new national cinema.
Wild Wild West comes off as the poster child for a mediocre film, a great concept not fully realized.
Supporting actors include: Chris Pratt («Parks & Recreation») as Scott Hatteberg, poster child for sabermetrics; Robin Wright as Beane's ex-wife; and fantastic writer / director Spike Jonze (came0) as Wright's zenned - out new husband and the polar opposite of Beane.
The Creator (The «G - word» is never said in the film) has decided that his experiment with mankind has gone completely off the rails, as everyone is a poster child for the worse sins imaginable against the planet and themselves.
Anderson is also not exactly a poster child for levity.
Still, this is hardly a poster child for women's lib.
A poster child for the idea that Japanese developers are more interested in making movies than games, Metal Gear is notorious for making players spend as much time sitting through long, exposition - heavy cutscenes and codec conversations as they do actually playing the game.
At first glance, it should be the poster child for everything that's...