Sentences with phrase «significance of public advocate»
She said the state has «made a lot of gains» in the state Assembly with respect to representation of black women and pointed to the significance of Public Advocate Letitia James, the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position.
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The significance of the Common Core is that the advocates for the Common Core and the people who are designing the test talk very explicitly about, as Carol said, these instructional shifts, which have not been publicly debated, which got little public airing as 40 - odd states rushed to adopt the Common Core in 2009, 2010, and which portend a dramatic shift in how we teach 50 million children reading and math.