"Reform advocates" refers to people or groups who strongly support the need for change and improvements in a particular area or system. They actively work towards making positive changes, often campaigning or pushing for reforms to address perceived problems or shortcomings.
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In many states, politicians have argued that teachers should be held personally responsible for the failure of students to progress academically, bolstered by
education reform advocates who push for more teacher accountability.
The governor promised these initiatives, long supported by criminal
justice reform advocates, in his State of the State address two weeks ago.
Campaign finance
reform advocates say public funding helps level the playing field for candidates without money or connections, and encourages a focus on small - dollar donations from constituents rather than corporate contributions.
While
police reform advocates were cautiously optimistic about the change, others worried how the new policy would effect crime and law enforcement in the city.
Campaign
finance reform advocates shot down the state comptroller - only public financing option and other potential compromises.
I consider myself probably as strong of an education
reform advocate as anyone else in the country, and I'm not in a bad mood about it.
Even more importantly, when will parents, activists, education leaders, and
other reform advocates demand that classroom teachers reflect the communities they serve?
When you listen to these
tort reform advocates, it may seem as if a large settlement or damage is an everyday occurrence.
As a mom and school
food reform advocate, I was thrilled to see this — people demanding the right to know what's in their food.
The legislative session ended with what
many reform advocates see as minimal ethics reforms, highlighted by a move toward stripping pensions from officials convicted of corruption.
Many
reform advocates see charter schools as a way to introduce competition in the education system and provide alternatives for students in failing schools.
She said
gun reform advocates were pursuing a state - by - state model similar to the one used by advocates who successfully fought for recognition of gay marriage.
I also have an issue with the profound disrespect shown by new left -
leaning reform advocates to anyone not of their own race or political affiliation.
Conservatives differ from liberal
reform advocates not only in the specific policy solution they support, but in the overall approach they bring to the question.
If one looks and listens closely,
black reform advocates and charter leaders are responding to the mythology that black people don't want charter schools or reform in general.
The government was also ineffective in stemming violence against environmental, indigenous and land
rights reform advocates.
Again, school reformers must work harder on these fronts, while criminal
justice reform advocates should work on such efforts within law enforcement.
Such protests have brought together
school reform advocates and teacher groups who agree that children's best interests should not be subject to the tourism industry's bottom line.
The current limit of around $ 100,000 for all campaigns per year makes it easier for large donors to influence policy,
reform advocates say.
The damaging legacy of bigotry that flows into the lives of immigrants and into American public education is one that both
immigration reform advocates and the school reform movement are working to overcome.
These outcomes suggest that we, as a nation, are turning our backs on the demands of business leaders and
other reform advocates to make core academics a national priority.
And so last July, Cuomo convened a news conference with the two dozen members of his newborn Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, a group made up disproportionately of district attorneys, plus a handful
of reform advocates who had put in years of work on ways to boost official integrity.
Yesterday, Dr. Howard Fuller, Derrell Bradford, Darrell Allison, and Kevin Chavous led a media conference call following the astonishing attack on families and education
reform advocates by AFT President Randi Weingarten.
Councilmember Brad Lander said he would vote against Torres» bill because it disregarded the wishes of police
reform advocates who helped push for the bill in the first place.
That is how comedian - drug
law reform advocate Randy Credico described Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the subject line that accompanied this photo of the two Democrats hamming it up at a recent event.
For school reformers, Balko's book offers more reasons why they should team up with criminal justice
reform advocates on ensuring that children are free from harm everywhere they go.
Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group and a
longtime reform advocate, said it's the system that needs to be fixed.
Ultimately, the authors of the CCE report and other
reform advocates want schools to adopt methods of disciplining students that don't involve excluding them from school.
Criminal justice
reform advocates called for the executive order because they believed that local district attorneys have a natural conflict of interest when it comes to investigating the police because the two agencies work so closely together to gain convictions.
Criminal justice
reform advocates including the Police Reform Organizing Project, the Drug Policy Alliance, and many others have continuously sounded the alarm about that fact, to little avail.
Vouchers have remained a fringe idea among education
reform advocates here, and some have expressed concern that DeVos» embrace of vouchers could alienate the mainstream charter movement from its much - needed allies in the Democratic party.
The about - face by Mr. de Blasio, who is up for re-election this year, comes amid public pressure on the issue from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and at a time when he has been hounded by prison
reform advocates at events including town hall meetings around the city and a fund - raiser in Fort Lauderdale, Fla..
But he and other
prison reform advocates called on Congress to pass legislation to undo laws that allow mandatory sentencing to continue.
Considering Malloy and his corporate education
reform advocates don't want the Common Core testing and teacher evaluation issues to even be discussed in public, it will take a lot to convince Democratic rank and file legislators that they should put their constituents ahead of Malloy's politics.
But several government experts and
reform advocates note there are many things Cuomo can do with a stroke of a pen, promulgating executive orders to make the budget process more transparent and protect consumer rights.
Several government
reform advocates back curbing legislators» outside income as one way of addressing corruption and conflicts of interest.
Standing with elected officials, good government groups, union members, and voting
reform advocates outside Federal Hall in Manhattan, Schneiderman released the legislation, called the...
As
patent reform advocates point out, this week's ruling is just one in a series of unanimous reversals of the Federal Circuit's patent positions.
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