The new, softer approach came partly in response to the widespread criticism — but it also might make fundraising easier by creating a more politically palatable school-improvement plan.
We'd move beyond the fashionable, and mostly politically palatable, charter schools to school vouchers or the more politically correct "scholarships".
Now there is the challenge of balancing short-term change with longer-term reforms, and what is going to be palatable for schools and parents.
These large publicly-traded companies are the ones that dominate APSCU -- so much so, apparently, that Gunderson felt compelled to nominate them, rather than officials from more palatable, well-performing schools.
Many people who oppose voucher programs view charter schools as a palatable alternative, saying that they can stimulate public schools to be more competitive without costing them money.
Many people who oppose voucher programs view charter schools as a palatable alternative, saying that they, too, can stimulate public schools to be more competitive.
Father Pat Connor baptized our daughter, gave her First Communion and made a stuffy Catholic girl's school in Princeton palatable.
It devised a more palatable means to operate its schools.
Mr. Gibson has departed radically from the tone and spirit of earlier American movies about Jesus, which have tended to be palatable (if often extremely long) Sunday school homilies designed to soothe the audience rather than to terrify or inflame it.
In writing How to Walk to School, we labored to describe the school's toxic teaching climate in the most palatable terms.
Really, it's about boiling down all that patching and patchworking and abstraction that Comme des Garçons school offers, and making it palatable, relatable.
