Sentences with phrase «unprecedented public call»

A few months earlier, Beijing had applied similar pressure on European nations, this time to join with it in an unprecedented public call to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

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«People across the country are fed up with Republicans putting politics ahead of the public good and McConnell's unprecedented obstructionism has made his entire caucus that much more vulnerable this November,» Shripal Shah, a spokesman for Senate Majority PAC, said in a statement to Roll Call.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

The Urban Youth Collaborative called the bill «an unprecedented step to subsidize private education using the public's money,» noting in its release that according to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, «New York City schools are owed $ 2.3 billion» under court judgements against the city and state for not providing a minimum adequate education in the public schools.

They are also likely to renew calls for comprehensive ethics reform in Albany — a goal that has eluded Cuomo and lawmakers despite a seemingly unprecedented period of exposed public corruption, including the arrests of two legislative leaders in 2015.

Science & the Public Science News Staff March for Science will take scientists» activism to a new level Historians called it an «unprecedented» event (SN Online: 4/19/17): More than 1 million people marched in support of science on April 22.

In an unprecedented letter issued yesterday, the directors of nine major public research institutes describe Le Pen's candidacy as a «terrible danger» and call on voters not to support her.

Meyer blasted the group's tactics at the legislature, calling them an «unprecedented event to relabel private schools as public schools.»

Many educators in the state are calling it an unprecedented victory for public school students.

Although the corporate reform movement has made unprecedented gains in the last twenty years, its roots go back more than sixty years to Milton Friedman's essay, «The Role of Government in Education,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the United States.

Reason for despair: In my field, public education is under unprecedented attack by a bipartisan coalition that calls themselves «reformers.»

The press release called it an «unprecedented citywide public art initiative» for the Second City.

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.