Sentences with phrase «vigorous campaign against»

Lately, our organization has been engaged in a spirited debate with former Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken, who has been conducting a vigorous campaign against what he perceives as an onerous high stakes assessment system in public education and in the service of the promotion of a less rigorous vocational pathway to high school graduation.

Not surprisingly, the teachers unions mounted a vigorous campaign against the bill.

As Congress works to revise the NCLB law, the 3.2 million - member union and its California affiliate are mounting a vigorous campaign against the law and the most prominent proposal for reauthorizing it.

Our item on Australia's vigorous campaign against drunk driving (12 march) prompted a reader who wishes to remain anonymous to recall his experience in a certain Middle Eastern country in the 1980s.

A poll in late March found that 68 % of likely voters supported the measure, but that was before tobacco companies and other opponents mounted a vigorous campaign against it.

Congress calls on the TUC to mount a vigorous campaign against the Coalition Government's relentless attacks on equalities by:

Following her vigorous campaigning against payday loans companies and an impressive performance in the deputy leadership election last year, Stella Creasy is seen by many Labour moderates as one of their brightest stars.

Grassroots organizations like ACORN, which have supported charter schools — even started their own — have led vigorous campaigns against Edison Schools» involvement in troubled public systems like those of Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco.

Not exact matches

Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen - journalist campaign focusing on regulatory capture, hedge fund mischief, settlement system failures, systemic risk, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign governments.

The Sixth Ward alderman wasn't supposed to have a chance in the GOP primary against party nominee Andi Turco - Levin, but by waging a vigorous grassroots campaign, he prevailed by a handful of votes.

«I now intend to run a vigorous general election campaign for Comptroller against Scott Stringer.»

It would appear that the vigorous conservative campaign against climate - change advocates (especially Al Gore) has contributed to leaders of the Republican Party adopting a highly skeptical view of global warming.

In the late 1990's, Wallace and other activists led a resistance movement against a vigorous campaign by business interests to curtail the national Resource Management Act, a piece of legislation that provided important protection for natural resources.