Most of the new members ran on platforms stressing an increase in parental influence over the schools, setting up a potential fault line on what has been one of the mayor's bedrock issues, education.
This freedom, which is the bedrock of education, equips us with the fullness of mind to pursue our shared goal of creating a more inclusive community".
Despite howls from the unions, tests have formed the bedrock of most education reforms for older children.
"As the bedrock of art education and art history, it is still the best way to understand the body".
Meanwhile, choice has had the effect of producing many competing schools while destroying what ought to be the bedrock of early education, the solid, well-run neighborhood public school with its coherent and clear ideas of what children need to know to be responsible citizens in a democracy.
But real neighborhood schools, freely available to any child in a community, are the bedrock of public education.
Community colleges are the bedrock of American higher education.
Calling a good education the "bedrock of any sound, sustainable economy," Mr. Scott pushed to increase spending on public elementary, junior high and high schools next year by $1 billion, a move that would come close to making up the $1.3 billion cut last year.
The harrowing economic times we live in require steadiness, innovative thought and a redoubling of commitment to bedrock principles like public education that have brought our state this far, not more pain inflicted on the middle class and those struggling to stay in it.
"We remain concerned about the primary purpose of the legislative changes to tenure, due process, and shared governance," they wrote, "and we will have to reserve judgment as to the adequacy of the proposed policies to safeguard these bedrocks of US higher education until we see how they will be applied within the UW System".
