The rally was billed as a protest against the Common Core education standards, one of the issues where Bush has distinguished himself by opposing the consensus view of most conservatives, and most of his rival Republican candidates.
He'd dump the common core standards and let local school districts decide all education issues with no federal checks and controls.
Yet education at its core is a local issue, which is why companies such as Target, Starbucks and Darden Restaurants are working to address education issues at their root: in our communities.
He emphasized education issues.
In 2008 Gallagher announced a new plan to refocus the organization on three core issues: education, income and health, with specific metrics for measuring success in each area.
At a rally in Hackensack tonight, he said he viewed his campaign as a struggle over core issues of education, health care and the environment.
The event, though, came as Mr. Cuomo's camp is seeking to boil down its campaign to a few core issues -- education and social problems downstate, economic troubles upstate -- while disputing the notion among pundits that Mr. McCall is running far ahead of Mr. Cuomo in the court of public opinion.
The international fixation on settlements has seriously damaged the prospects of real peace between Israel and the Palestinians, first and foremost because it allowed the world to overlook the core issues of education and incitement.
And hopefully, we can get past it so that the very interesting debate that we're having on the Republican side about how to think about the size of government, how to think about dealing with our core issues, like education and immigration, that we can get back to that," Rice said.
From their own words there seems little to separate them on core Council issues such as housing, Council Tax and education.
