Sentences with phrase «under reforms led»

Under reforms led by 32 - year - old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the government is easing many of those restrictions, and also plans to lift a ban on women driving next year.

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What Weigel calls «Catholic Lite» — a softening of orthodoxy under the guise of reform — began its ascendancy, and led to the malaise and indecision of the 1970s.
That post led to a lot of back and forth on TLT about what reform is possible (and what's not) under current USDA reimbursement rates.
I give him credit for achieving economic recovery, but at the same time Chechnya has become a one - man - led region under the cloak of renewal and reform.
The substantial financial earnings made by individual Church of England Bishops from their privileged place within the House of Lords have come under scrutiny, leading to further calls from the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their removal as a part of the impending reforms to the upper chamber.
TVET reforms leading to the alignment of public TVET institutions under the Ministry of Education will continue in 2018.
Mkenya Solidarity is now publically supporting the CORD alliance (Coalition of Reform and Democracy) led by the Luo Prime Minister Raila Odinga, having turned its back on Uhuru Kenyatta (after publically supporting his Presidential bid in the 2002 elections and allegedly being under his patronage in the 2008 PEV).
Her lead role on the health portfolio will be taken over by Lord Hunt, a former minister in several departments under the previous Labour government, now shadow deputy leader of the upper house and Labour's spokesman on Lords reform.
According to SERAP, «Rather than proposing amnesty for suspected looters of our commonwealth, the House of Representatives under your leadership should be promoting laws that would lead to the comprehensive and radical reform of the criminal justice system to ensure that those accused of grand corruption are not allowed to profit from their alleged crimes.»
A new report finds that education reforms under Mayor Mike Bloomberg have led to student success that will boost incomes and property values in New York City.
The leading professional services firm, Deloitte said, «under this reform, Ghanaians will not only benefit from a reduction in utility costs but also a reduction in prices of manufactured products since industries stand to benefit from the reduction in their cost of production.
With under two weeks left in the legislative session, some New York lawmakers are pressing for reform of the state's economic development contracting process, in light of a scandal that's led to federal corruption charges against several former associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo.
«Our findings suggest that despite the insurance expansion under the Massachusetts reform, access to timely outpatient visits to a doctor may not have improved much,,» said Danny McCormick, MD, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, and the study's lead author.
Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.
The government has come under criticism for its reforms to Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 SATs tests, which led to parents taking children out of school for a one day strike in May this year.
If using a more lenient definition of proficiency leads citizens to evaluate their schools more favorably, then the advent of common expectations under the Common Core could alter public perceptions quite dramatically — perhaps increasing pressure for reform in regions of the country in which state proficiency definitions have provided an inflated view of student accomplishment.
In the lead up to the government's response to the Gonski reforms, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised no school will lose funding under the new arrangements.
Newark, NJ — November 19, 2014 Around 75 members of the Newark Student Union led a walkout from Barringer High School to protest the learning conditions under the One Newark district reform plan that Gov. Chris Christie and his appointed superintendent for the district, Cami Anderson, have forced on the community.
On the eve of a potentially catastrophic Board of Education vote to turnaround ten more Chicago schools, the school reform research group Designs for Change has released a report showing that school turnarounds are not worth the extra expense, and that the unheralded reforms brought about under the authority of parent - led, democratically - elected local school councils have been far more effective.
California districts applied for their waiver under their umbrella organization, the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), which led the application process.
As a result of this type of thinking, instead of dealing with the under - funding, Connecticut's new «education reform» law leads with a new teacher evaluation program.
To date, more than 250,000 students are now served in this growing portfolio of reform models, which include single - gender academies, partnership schools, in - district teacher led academies called «pilot» schools that operate under a reform labor contract and charter schools.
The peripheral and semiperipheral states in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, under the pressure of the leading capitalist states (primarily the United States) and international monetary institutions (IMF and the World Bank), have adopted «structural adjustments,» «shock therapies,» or «economic reforms,» to restructure their economies in accordance with the requirements of neoliberal economics more...
NYSERDA administers the 76West Competition which supports New York's nation - leading Clean Energy Standard which will ensure that 50 percent of the state's electricity comes from renewable energy by 2030, under the comprehensive Reforming the Energy Vision, a strategy to build a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers.
Chip and his team negotiated and implemented bilateral logging agreements with China and Indonesia, coordinated the Climate and Environment Working Group under the U.S. - Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, led trade - related efforts on forests with Peru, the Asia - Pacific region, and the European Union, and played a leading role in developing the U.S. relationship with Burma on forest policy since that country began its political and economic reform process in 2011.
«This roundtable is a positive step towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people leading reform to enjoy the full benefits of exercising property rights under native title and being able to participate in the rest of the economy like all other Australians.
A rollback of rules under Dodd - Frank, the major financial services reform law enacted after the mortgage crisis, might well lead to an increase in lending on both the residential and commercial sides, Yun says, noting that community banks are the biggest source of loans for home construction and small commercial transactions.
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