Sentences with phrase «vocal opponent of this reform»

A vocal opponent of this reform, Dr. Mark Naison, history professor and chair of African - American Studies at Fordam University and co-founder of the Badass Teachers Association, railed against what he called the «Walmart - izaton of Education.»

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But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

The group, which came together in recent months as a vocal opponent of the finance minister's tax - reform plan, is urging him to go further — beyond the adjustments he made to calm an uproar that dogged him for months.

This has included issuing guidance that effectively stops Office for Civil Rights investigators from looking at three years of past complaints to prove that a district or other school operators has engaged in systematic overspending of Black, Latino, and Native children, as well as the hiring of Hans Bader, a vocal opponent of school discipline reform.