C. it was a Democratic mayor and his Democratic school chancellor, Michelle Rhee, who championed the anti-union, anti-teacher cause.
His speech meandered through a checklist of old-school Democratic mantras (funding social programs, ending discrimination) before it arrived on Gore's doorstep with a deafening thump.
Why has the Democratic mayor of an overwhelmingly Democratic city thrown his support behind school choice?
In Wisconsin, home of Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, a Marquette Law School poll indicates the Democratic ticket with a 14-point lead over the Republican duo.
The states with the best schools, such as Massachusetts, still tend to be Democratic, with relatively high taxes and school spending.
"Business doesn't school you in dealing with democratic participation, " says Zuckerman.
In Milwaukee, the model city for vouchers, where a group of mainly poor black mothers convinced the city's Democratic establishment to experiment, supporters of school choice took over the local school board.
The fact that the current president and Arne Duncan and many others in the liberal intelligentsia and upper echelons of the Democratic party are so profoundly pro-school-choice, pro-accountability, etc. only emboldens people like Scott Walker.
Enabled by a strong school-reform movement within the Democratic party, emboldened Republicans have waged an all-out assault on teachers, public education, and public unions and masked it all in the language of school choice and accountability.
Richard Brodsky, a former Democratic assemblyman who is now with the Wagner School at New York University and has been working with local officials, said the rising costs of health care and pensions of public workers is hitting local governments as cities outside New York City are losing population and tax base.
So plenty of Democratic forecasters from the demography-is-destiny school argue that in the long run the Republicans are doomed unless they can win over more blacks and Hispanics.
Announcing the honorary knighthood for Edward Kennedy, Mr Brown said that "Northern Ireland is today at peace, more Americans have healthcare, more children around the world are going to school" because of the long-serving Democratic senator.
It's no surprise that teachers unions and their Democratic--and occasionally Republican--Party lapdogs fiercely oppose school choice.
The Democratic assemblyman has proposed instead that East Ramapo be divided into two school districts, one for public schools and one for private schools.
Frost, 62, served two terms as chair of the House Democratic Caucus, and in the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School he co-chaired the Bipartisan Working Group on Youth Violence.
All of them reaffirmed their strong commitment to accelerate citizenship education among young people, as the groundwork of any sustainable democratic educational policy that enables youth to participate in the management of their school space and in local community projects.
Gore, campaigning in Michigan, a state with a March 11 Democratic Caucus, said that Bradley is a Johnny-come-lately on school reform.
The president will make a speech at the London School of Economics entitled 'Of public intellectuals, universities and a democratic crisis'.
Now that welfare reform is under way, Republicans see school choice as the next big opportunity to distinguish themselves from their Democratic rivals.
The Democratic candidate called for the creation of an "Innovative Schools Fund" to help school districts develop what the campaign calls a "portfolio of successful public school types, " including charters and nonprofit schools.
So Mr Riordan, a Republican at the head of a largely Democratic city, reached for his considerable wallet to compensate for his relative lack of influence over the school system.
Mr. Suozzi has the backing of the Nassau County Democratic Committee's chairman, but faces a likely primary challenge from Adam Haber, a Roslyn School Board member who has been campaigning since December.
"India and the UK are on the path to a healthy bilateral economic and commercial relationship, arising from a common democratic outlook in both the countries, " said Professor Arnoud De Meyer, director of the judge school.
Tony Travers, a local-government expert at the London School of Economics, thinks that it is possible to build infrastructure without resorting to anti-democratic diktat.
The Senate is considering a Democratic bill backed by Obama that would expand background checks, strengthen laws against illegal gun trafficking and slightly increase school security aid.
Press for stronger engagement by the Council and other U.N. human rights mechanisms in Haiti, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo and partnered with Afghanistan to build international support for a resolution on preventing attacks on Afghan school children, especially girls.
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The poor showing of Prime Minister Mario Monti in the Italian elections his party won only about 10% of the vote is the most serious challenge yet to the democratic legitimacy of the euro zone, said Paul De Grauwe, professor of European political economy at the London School of Economics.
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