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We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. Jeb Bush

Education Government School Public Education Power Unions Monopoly Defining Must Districts Allegiance School Districts Era End Families Transferring Public Centralized Need

Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans. Adam Cohen

Black White Strategy Unlikely Districts Record Some Blacks More Alliance Remaining Had Voters Concentrating Likely Around Were Max After Census Republicans Elect Elected Number

My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can. Bill Haslam

Best Job Districts Come Governor Represent Legislators Different Decisions Million

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures. Bob Beckel

Education Best Problem School Local Local School Find Thousands Districts Charter Charter Schools Could Outright Attempt Students School Districts Failures Attract Schools Were Provide Often Them Choice Meant Many Brightest Level Early

There are certain districts where you need a pro-life Democrat to win. Dan Lipinski

You Win Districts Democrat Pro-Life Where Certain Need

I'm happy to work with Democrats. After all, they have to represent their districts just as I have to represent mine. David Valadao

Work Happy Mine Districts Democrats Represent Just After

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis. DeRay Mckesson

Teacher School Side Back Minneapolis Districts School Districts Opened Also West West Side Baltimore Up Moved Children After-School Public Then Worked Public School Zone Two Harlem Program

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. Dianne Feinstein

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. Don Nickles

State Oklahoma District Districts Part Were Senate Northern

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances. Donna Brazile

Politics Balance People Congress Benefit Our Neither Would Districts Seem Excess Disappeared Partial Check Checks Balances Principles Nor Offer Intended Middle Middle Ground Explanation Create Interests Ground Media Why Founders Competing

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below. Edward Burnett Tylor

Three Country Settle Neglecting High Districts Least Fertile Mexico Different Which Races Lands Chosen Last Below

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top. Hakeem Jeffries

Education Time School Congress Increasing State Top Significant Would Districts My Time Through Federal Pushed Investment School Districts Like Look Legislator Public Race Forward Public School Initiatives

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. James Buchan

Hope Desperate Suicide Gaza Distant Prestige East Security Districts More Small Gives Both Brutal Most Still However West Bloody Than Current Middle Middle East Regarded Romantics Little Victories Bin Bombers Symbolic Chance

Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts. James Lankford

Education National Local Districts Parent Role Decision-Making Centralized

Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts. Jeff Landry

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Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud. Jennifer Granholm

Government Spending Projects Say Out Jobs Districts Know Government Spending Loud Just Want Republicans Creates Certainly

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom. John Bright

Year Seven Cities City Districts Kingdom Various Parliament Share Calculated Fair Fair Share Returned According Representatives Being Population Found

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers. John Garfield

Home You Gun Leader Important Every Way Recognized Bad Districts Potatoes Steal Point Never Attention Missed New Robbed Know Became Got Block Crackers York New York Being Store Wanted Poor Grocery Grocery Store Gang

Money isn't everything, but the gaps between rich districts and poor districts ultimately mean a workforce that won't be as competitive as it could be, and individual Coloradans won't be as successful as they could be. John Hickenlooper

Money Rich Everything Districts Could Individual Between Ultimately Mean Poor Successful Workforce Gaps Competitive

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. John Hume

Fashion You Class Together Politicians Living Difficult Several Districts Had House Because Housing Doing Were Very Discriminatory Families Get Controlled Working Working-Class Who

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees. Jon Porter

School Employees Complete Criminal Our Ensure Districts Direct Records School Districts Prospective Access Providing Timely Information Help

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation. Jonathan Kozol

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