Sentences with phrase «powerful reform agenda»

Teachers should use this moment to articulate a powerful reform agenda.

Not exact matches

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

Mr. Cuomo has admitted his education reform agenda will be a tough sell amid pushback from the politically powerful unions, but provided an incentive: he promised to boost an education budget increase from a planned $ 377 million to $ 1.1 billion, but only if the reforms pass.

So this is our agenda for a revolution in the prisons system — all centred around those powerful public service reform principles.

Last year, those hearings proved uncomfortable for Senate Republicans too, when they seemed to find themselves unable to criticize specific aspects of de Blasio's education agenda, despite the assistance of powerful education reform advocacy groups in New York City.

ERN's mission is to orchestrate «a powerful chorus of voices within the education policy debate advancing a true agenda of reform [that includes]... every child having... a quality public education.»

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

One of its goals was to get the powerful United Teachers of Los Angeles to adopt a sweeping education reform agenda.

The group's launch underscored that while many of the party's financial backers support an anti-union, pro-charter agenda, the «reform» movement's actions are starting to trigger a powerful reaction within the party.

The letter is one of the most powerful statements to date about the failure of the corporate education reform industry agenda and the need to re-take control of our public schools and preserve local control, parental involvement and the values inherent in a true system of public education.