Sentences with phrase «substantial reforms in»

However, Victor adds that he «can't imagine» the national governments from around the world that participate in the IPCC process agreeing to any substantial reforms in that area.

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

Liberal Democrats should press the government to propose substantial reforms in Europe: a smaller European commission whose members are individually accountable to the European parliament for their conduct of their office; a council that meets openly whenever it debates legislative matters; a core of human and social rights embodied in the next amended treaty.

Therefore, a sustainable solution is not possible without substantial reforms in Greece.

Substantial reforms in Venezuelan energy or foreign policy seem unlikely in the near term.

Silver's arrest is simply the latest indicator we need substantial reform in Albany.»

«This apparently minor change masks the most substantial reform in a quarter of a century to the key general qualification offered to learners in England.

Not exact matches

«In addition to adopting industry - wide reforms related to participation in benchmark rates, Citi has made substantial investments in its systems, controls and monitoring processes to better guard against inappropriate behavior,» the bank addeIn addition to adopting industry - wide reforms related to participation in benchmark rates, Citi has made substantial investments in its systems, controls and monitoring processes to better guard against inappropriate behavior,» the bank addein benchmark rates, Citi has made substantial investments in its systems, controls and monitoring processes to better guard against inappropriate behavior,» the bank addein its systems, controls and monitoring processes to better guard against inappropriate behavior,» the bank added.

In a note to clients, strategists at Morgan Stanley pointed out there are three potential outcomes to the tax reform saga: modest stimulus, substantial stimulus or failure.

In a note to clients Monday, the strategists pointed out there are three potential outcomes to the tax reform saga: modest stimulus, substantial stimulus or failure.

But significant changes in policies since then — not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization — are leading to substantial new financing needs.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

Various countries in your favourite punching bag of Southern Europe have undergone very substantial and painful reforms.

Lifting the wretched of the earth out of their misery will require a combination of thoroughgoing economic and political reforms in the poor countries and substantial aid from the developed countries.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's substantial water entitlements and allocations have been acquired through the Australian Government's investment in water - saving infrastructure and water buybacks throughout the irrigation districts of the Murray - Darling Basin, as part of national water reforms (as per the Water Act 2007 and the Murray - Darling Basin Plan).

The Australian Law Reform Commission recently recommended substantial reworking of the Copyright Act and specifically recommended including similar exemptions to the «fair dealing» laws in America.

The bill implements a substantial number of the competition law reforms recommended by the independent Harper Competition policy review and agreed to by the government in its response to the review.

Environmental concerns, food scares, production subsidies and institutional reforms have all contributed to the substantial growth in organic production and sales in recent years.

Neoliberal institutional and economic reforms have attracted substantial scholarly attention in recent decades, but the role of law in the neoliberal story has been relatively neglected.

Both advocate the 16 - year - old vote, a constitutional convention, House of Lords reform, and an in / out referendum on EU membership when a proposed treaty change would transfer (substantial) powers to Europe.

Foley points out that the information age and the emergence of a younger, educated elite are factors that have forced substantial developments in the GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) and have resulted in political and economic reforms.

Any substantial increase in the number of states with legal recreational cannabis for adult consumption would represent an important milestone for US drug policy reform.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

[1] Even if it were the case, the advisable reform of Articles 2 and 3 would require special procedures for a total or substantial reform (Article 168), which first require a 2/3 majority in the Congress and the Senate.

[6] Others claim that at that point in time Blair preferred short - term ideas to anything more substantial, [4] and it was another decade before the inception of Blair's major reform to welfare — the replacement of Incapacity Benefit by Employment and Support Allowance.

Both hospitals fall under the umbrella of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System, which announced the cuts on Monday due to substantial reductions in reimbursement from the federal and state governments and decreases in revenue caused by healthcare reform.

«Last year, New York policymakers enacted a substantial corporate tax reform package which, once fully phased in, will lower the corporate income tax rate from 7.1 percent to 6.5 percent, eliminate the capital stock tax, extend net operating loss carrybacks from two to three years, and remove the carryback cap,» the group wrote.

Lords reform was the last substantial item in the Lib Dem locker even if, as anti-reformers keep saying, «it never registers on the doorstep».

Those reforms have helped to generate record rates of employment and in particular a substantial reduction in workless households.

Once the facts have been fully aired, then NYSCOPBA expects to be a substantial player in whatever policy, procedures or reform result from it.»

«We understand the government's determination to deliver a substantial programme of reforms across the public sector, but we can not afford to get policing wrong, and unless greater clarity emerges in the very near future I fear that we run the risk of compromising the safety of citizens for reasons of expediency,» he will say.

In reality, a convention represents the one chance we have to free ourselves from the corruption of Albany and work outside the normal legislative process to enact meaningful and substantial reforms.

In a joint letter, education reform groups thanked Governor Cuomo, Senate Leaders Skelos and Klein, and Assembly Speaker Silver for the substantial improvements you made to New York State's teacher evaluation law as part of this year's budget.

Mark - Viverito and the mayor have each denied any connection between the two bills, and the speaker has hailed the reforms that are included in the pay - raise bill — which restrict members» outside income and eliminate committee stipends — as «unprecedented, substantial reforms.»

Small says the ethics reforms needed to clean up Albany politics need to be substantial and not, in her words, putting a band aid on a heart attack.

Reform also recommended a substantial increase in social housing stock in an effort to reduce the housing benefit bill, which increased from the equivalent of # 16.6 billion in 2004/5 to # 24.4 billion in 2014/15.

If he genuinely wants to return to when Labour was a mass party with substantial roots in working class communities, he needs to recognise that this situation existed primarily because Labour was then a social democratic party which aimed to reform the capitalist system.

«However, the central lesson that future governments must learn from the experience of these reforms is that never again should such substantial changes to qualifications that are critical to the life chances of young people be handled in such an incoherent and ill - considered way.»

Politicians give lip service to tax reform because we talk about it, but they will not produce any substantial reform because it works for them, it is doing just what they want it to do - redistributing wealth from the silent mass in the middle to the publicly noisy poor and the privately powerful rich.

Ukip's victory in the European elections has prompted many politicians to begin questioning the pace of change, however - potentially boosting the chances of more substantial reform packages.

Although the legislature did pass an increased minimum wage in 2016, substantial campaign finance reform bills, for example, have failed to get through both legislative chambers.

«We have no further plans to make welfare savings beyond the very substantial savings legislated for by parliament two weeks ago,» Crabb said in a statement to MPs confirming that the government would drop controversial reforms to personal independence payments (PIP).

A consensus for change is developing, but as Bridget Terry Long points out in a new policy proposal commissioned by the Hamilton Project, reform efforts often sidestep substantial questions about how to improve academic preparation and — importantly — help students avoid remedial placement altogether...

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout ratIn an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout ratin the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout ratin the dropout rate.

Solidly placing all the money in the child's backpack, varying the amount according to her circumstances, giving families substantial say over what schools (or other vendors) will receive it, then empowering the school to spend it in the manner that does that child the most good — this may turn out to be the most liberating reform of all.

For alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pay.

The superintendent, who had envisioned radical districtwide reform, now plans to seek substantial changes next school year in only a fourth of the city's public schools.

Sen. John Kerry appears headed for a fall presidential campaign in which education will be playing a supporting role, with the Democratic nominee offering the politically popular blend of «reform» and substantial spending increases for schools.

The reform amounts to a substantial increase in public financing for private K - 12 schooling, while doing little to meaningfully increase school choice.