Sentences with phrase «standing as reformers»

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If the Reformers could return and address us today, they would not say, «We got it all right; you must follow our exegesis and theology and implement it precisely as it stands.»

Witness the emphasis on a canon within the canon, Luther's response to the Anabaptists on the question of infant baptism, as well as both Reformers» insistence that the Word always stands in juxtaposition to faith and that neither is possible without the activity of the Holy Spirit.

As the people of Ukraine rose up against the kleptocratic and despotic government of Viktor Yanukovych last year, in the Maidan movement of national moral and civic renewal, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches faced a dramatic choice: stand in pastoral solidarity with the people, or stand with the state that was brutally repressing Ukrainian citizen - reformers?

Mr. Cuomo has fashioned himself as a political reformer from the day he launched his bid for governor in May 2010, declaring «enough is enough» as he stood in front of Tweed Courthouse, a symbol of corrupt Tammany Hall.

Yet, at a time when corruption in Albany has become the only story in the state's capital — and lawmakers and officials remain squarely in the sights of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (pictured)-- Heastie hardly stands out as a reformer.

In supporting Faso at an event at Begnal Motors in Kingston, Astorino cited Faso's long standing record as a reformer who cut taxes and spending, balanced budgets and stood as check against big government and its bureaucracy.

Cuomo is running a campaign as an Albany reformer, and DiNapoli, by association, may stand in the way.

You also stood firmly with teachers, as they endured wave after wave of attacks from the Bloomberg administration and the so - called «reformers» pushing their own political agendas.

All the reformers such as SCODA (the Standing Conference On Drug Abuse) and the Prison Reform Trust favour it, provided clear education is given on how to use it.

Back to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together to change policies and systems to support giving every student access to excellent teaching, and giving every teacher outstanding career opportunities without being forced up and out of the classroom?

Rallying other communities around removing Bannon (including calls to members of Congress demanding action) would be helpful, both to getting rid of the anti-Semite as well as reminding people of that reformers stand for doing what's right for children.

Somewhere between «Look Ma, No Hands» and the 2008 hit «Handlebars» by the rock band Flobots (lyrics: «I can ride my bike with no handlebars, No handlebars, No handlebars»), stands education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas who, as we predicted yesterday, announced today that there is absolutely no problem because he can be both superintendent of schools in Bridgeport ($ 229,000 a year plus benefits) and take on a $ 1 million dollar contract to «repair low - performing schools in his home state of Illinois» without breaking a sweat.

Seven years after Paul Vallas and the «education reformers» successfully destroyed the public education system in New Orleans and replaced it with charter schools, the average score for the standardized test known as ACT stands at 16.8, placing it among the very lowest cities in the nation.

After all, it was centrist Democrat reformers (along with liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.

Given the collapse of the Campaign for High School Equity (which once served as the convening body for civil rights - based reformers) and the efforts by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers to co-opt such groups by peddling a version of accountability that lets states, school operators, and adults off the hook for failure, Ed Trust deserves praise for rallying so many civil rights players to stand up for our most - vulnerable children.

He also exposed what he saw as the hidden political - economic agenda behind Teach for American, KIPP and Charter Schools USA, Chalkbeat Indiana, and the Stand for Children group whose «reformers» now run the IPS school board.

Teach For America alum such as Deray McKesson are rightfully standing with criminal justice reformers on behalf of children who must deal with issues outside as well as inside of schools.