Sentences with phrase «system reform program»

Corinne Lewis, L.M.S.W. is the research associate in The Commonwealth Fund's Delivery System Reform Program, where she performs a variety of duties including writing, editing, and research, as well as general program - wide coordination and management.

Not exact matches

While companies like Google and Microsoft have been vocal in supporting the visa program, other organizations have been accused of abusing the system, leading to calls to reform it.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said he intends to launch federal - provincial talks to reform the current Express Entry program, a computerized system that serves as a matchmaking service between employers and foreign skilled workers.

Retailers also need a workable program for obtaining visas for guest workers, reform of the H1B visa system for high - tech workers, and a mechanism to provide earned legalization for undocumented workers already in the country.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

And his Gospel, though not a pattern of an ecclesiastical system nor yet a program for modern social reform, is still «social» through and through — social because religious, in the ancient biblical understanding of religion.5

Last week a special committee on intercollegiate athletics of the North Carolina University System's board of governors called for reform of special admissions programs in state schools.

The report makes some controversial proposals to a system known as the «Cadillac» of Medicaid programs (because it covers so much), including changing the way reimbursement rates are set, a complete state takeover of the responsibilities now borne by the counties, reform of the medical malpractice system and a push for a higher federal contribution.

The update of the social security information of employees on the payroll system was aimed at cleaning the mechanized payroll database, which forms part of the Public Financial Management Reform program

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

The governor and IDC Leader Jeff Klein have been pushing hard for a more robust public system since the passage of the one - year, state comptroller - only program that was included in the 2014 - 125 budget and quickly panned by reform advocates.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Oneida County Department of Mental health is part of a Performing Provider System (PPS) under New York State's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program.

We need fundamental reform in the budget system that allows us to recalibrate spending this year to a sustainable level and replace «the special interest protection program» of automatic, unrealistic increases.

New York Times: Most Fundamental Reform Missing from State Budget Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders passed New York's 2014 - 15 budget last week without a comprehensive small donor public matching system — instead establishing a very limited pilot public financing program for the state comptroller's race in 2014.

The largest is the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, a $ 6 billion pot of money that will be distributed to health systems across the state.

One of the most persistent complaints with the health home program — as well as the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, the State Health Information Network and others — is a lack of timely and reliable information about the patients.

The state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment, or DSRIP, program, is a five - year project during which the federal government is making available up to $ 6.4 billion for providers across the state.

His legacy will be inexorably linked to the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, an $ 8 billion Medicaid waiver from the federal government that seeks to both reduce avoidable hospitalizations by 25 percent and provide health systems across the state with the resources they need to transition to value - based care.

In his new position, Introne will provide counsel on matters related to the health department's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, the spokesperson said.

Real - estate millionaire Carl Paladino, the somewhat surging Republican gubernatorial primary opponent to the party - backed Rick Lazio, has some interesting ideas about how to reform the welfare system, including an optional program in which welfare recipients would go live in converted prisons while they work for the state.

«With an eye toward a significant reduction in the jail population, including increased use of community - based diversion programs, and policing, bail and speedy trial reform, the #CLOSErikers Campaign is advocating for a much smaller, less expensive, fairer and more humane public safety system in NYC,» Martin said.

«We are implementing a quality improvement program funded by the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Pprogram funded by the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) ProgramProgram.

«CIHR embarked on the reform of its open funding programs and peer review process to improve the sustainability of our health research system, the transparency and fairness of our granting processes, and the quality and impact of the research supported by federal investments,» he wrote.

To prevent any slippage, the report says, the federal government should reform the patent system to make litigation less common, ease financial regulations that may impose special burdens on start - up companies, and fund research programs aimed at some of the field's biggest challenges.

These controversial reforms replaced the previous grant programs with a system that awards two kinds of grants: large «Foundation» grants of up to $ 1.16 million annually to support open - ended work of individual researchers, and smaller «Project» grants of up to $ 581,000 annually to fund more focused research projects.

Worst of all, the reform program appears to be little more than a revolving door with nearly 75 percent of the offenders tossed back into the system almost as quickly as they are released.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

While it may not always be evident to outsiders who are eager to shake up schools and school systems, educators are buffeted by an endless whirlwind of programs, policies, and reforms.

They come to the program not to reform the system as it exists, but to rethink what American education can and should be.

Moving swiftly to name a leader to carry on the district's path - breaking school - reform program, the Rochester, N.Y., board of education announced last week that it would appoint one of the system's top administrators, Manuel J. Rivera, to succeed Peter McWalters as superintendent.

To us, this initiative means NBU and its active - learning programs no longer exist solely as an external force challenging the educational system: There is a demand for reform within the school system, and we believe it will grow.

Simply stated, she believes it should recapture the strengths of the traditional public school system, incorporate a vigorous common curriculum and renounce many of the theories, practices, policies and programs that have constituted America's major education - reform emphases in recent years.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

The rewards program is a cornerstone of the state's landmark 1990 school - reform law, which overhauled the state's assessment program, school - governance system, and school - funding formula.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

Christopher J. Doherty, the director of a private organization that manages whole - school - reform programs in the Baltimore school system, has been named to head President Bush's Reading First initiative.

As the program page notes, political factors have long impeded legislative reform, but a number of states have recently succeeded in enacting significant reforms to their pension systems.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Drawing on data from two national pilot programs — Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) and Leading Aligned Numeracy Development (LAND)-- this book looks at effective strategies for implementing system improvement and presents approaches for capitalising on successes, and overcoming the shortcomings of initiative - based reforms.

Most efforts at school reform run a new program through the existing system and wonder why it won't scale.

But he isn't in finance or economics, he's in education policy, and he hopes to use his analytic expertise to help reform the country's public school systems with the help of a program at Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Tenure Reform 3.0 This program will review the critical elements of the new tenure and evaluation system that must be implemented, including all requirements related to the latest revisions in administrative code.

Those hoping to see reform of the State's school financing system are opposed to any program that channels money away from school districts.

For years, that has been the national narrative about the long - troubled school district in the nation's capital: After decades of low performance and stagnation, the system was moving forward with a «reform» program that was a model for the nation.

Reach Higher System Impact Grants will support programs and reforms aimed at bolstering metrics around college and career readiness in a variety of ways, including:

«The innovative system changes and reforms made possible by these grants will positively impact students and will build on the successes created by the Reach Higher program,» said Johnson.

Second, can voucher programs be expected to enhance student performance or improve public education systems, based on the education reforms implemented in the nations that currently rank in the top five in the world in reading, math, and science under PISA?

Malloy's spokesman said, «The governor has long recognized the importance of Early Childhood Education, going back to his time as mayor of Stamford where he launched a universal pre-k program... He agrees that our education system needs major reform, which is why we released a set of core principles to legislators earlier this week.»