Sentences with phrase «about big reforms»

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But time is running out, according to some big name entrepreneurs, like Steve Case, founder and former chief executive officer of AOL, who spoke to Inc. in late May about immigration reform.

If Labor wins the next election and manages to get its proposed reforms through the Senate, retirees may well think twice about holding big...

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

I thought about doing a big thought piece on the House passage of the Dodd - Frank reform bill.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

Taken in outline, the spending cuts and entitlement reforms he talks about are probably big enough to avoid....

Certainly, the Coalition has not been big on socially liberal reforms (gay marriage being a major exception), but nor has it been especially socially conservative — gone is the sermonising about «Victorian values» and «Back to Basics» which was a pronounced feature of the» 79 - «97 Conservative government.

Asked by Elizabeth Kaledin about the biggest «difference in style» between Cuomo and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer that might make the push for reform by the former more successful than what the latter tried to do during his truncated tenure in Albany, Lopez replied:

[67] In January 2014 Miliband extended the concept of reform to include the «big five» banks, in addition to the «big six» utility companies, and discussed the impact of the cost - of - living on the «squeezed middle» saying «the current cost - of - living crisis is not just about people on tax credits, zero - hour contracts and the minimum wage.

Some of the rebels say that about a month ago the prime minister gave the impression that Lords reform was no big deal, only to try to get heavy as the vote drew near.

Moreover, hard feelings about the process may persist, which could impact negotiations in other big landmark legislation such as tax reform.

In an analysis of big money and politics, WXXI News Director Julie Philipp interviews University of Rochester Political Science Professor Lynda Powell about her research and campaign finance reform as we head into another big money political year.

As he so often does when asked about fundraising, de Blasio stressed the need for campaign finance reform, advocating for full public financing of elections that would not only pull big moneyed interests out of politics but would also focus, «all that time that goes into fundraising now back into public service.»

Mr Miliband said: «My reforms are about giving people from all walks of life a bigger say in the Labour Party so we can better tackle the issues that matter to them, like the cost of living crisis.

All this raises some very big questions about Labour's credibility as a party of reform.

He was responding to questions about two big and controversial ideas: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's three - week - old proposal to amend the 421 - a tax abatement program for real estate developers, and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's introduction this week of a program bill containing sweeping ethics reforms.

The continuing emphasis on common core standards, including the debates about the legality of them, is often interpreted as indicating that the common core is a really big deal in school reform.

Will policy tweaks suffice or do we need a total system overhaul — and a big change in the reform priorities that can bring this about?

Now, here's the second big secret: For all of its promise to bring about education reform early in the term, the Obama administration wants to turn back the clock on accountability...

These conversations were very different than the philosophical fights about the advisability of big reforms like educator effectiveness and Common Core.

Understand the complexity of the «big picture» as different education reform strategies are institutionalized in schools and beliefs about services for students who are gifted are incorporated.

In my experience Rhee changed the conversation about education reform from one of a very big and gloomy confusion created by the No Child Left Behind Act that all public schools are failing to one about her.

Pension reform: top - paid administrators to take biggest hit Ed Source: The retirement age for new teachers will be pushed back two years; they'll have to fork over about another 1 percent of their pay into the retirement system.

For the would - be profiteers, «charter schools,» «No Child Left Behind,» «Race to the Top,» and «Reform = Blame the Unions & Teachers» are just so many scams and schemes for bringing about for - big - profit, anti-kids school systems — where the bonuses and dividends could match (or even surpass) those in our for - profit prison and health insurance industries.

In fact, just last year, the union boss stepped in it big time when, speaking about education reform at an AFT conference, she said,

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).

The latest round came in October after Time came out with a story onVergara v. California and the sparring between reformers and the Big Two unions over teacher quality reform that featured the headline Rotten Apples and included a cover photo of an apple about to be smashed by a judge's gavel.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

Now, the generalization I'm about to make comes with a big asterisk, but the «reforms» these new majorities have been talking about publicly, to this point, are hardly revolutionary.

You can read more about the Broad Foundation's role in public education in an article I wrote for Public School Shakedown entitled «Funding «Education Reform»: The Big Three Foundations.»

One of my biggest issues about Adamowski has been that he targets urban (or minority) school districts for his so - called reforms that amount to no more than institutionalized racism.

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Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

In a 2012 speech, he cited the cognitive scientist as «one of the biggest influences on my thinking about education reform.»

About two - thirds of the way through President Obama's interview Monday with NBC's Matt Lauer on school reform, I thought the two were about to really dive into the biggest issue plaguing the country's most troubled schAbout two - thirds of the way through President Obama's interview Monday with NBC's Matt Lauer on school reform, I thought the two were about to really dive into the biggest issue plaguing the country's most troubled schabout to really dive into the biggest issue plaguing the country's most troubled schools.

Fiat Chrysler says it is spending about $ 1 billion to retool the Michigan plant, and the announcement coming shortly after President Trump signed the GOP's 2018 tax reform bill was seen as a feather in the cap of one of the White House's biggest legislative victories.

The next steps: identifying the countries where the impacts can be biggest and encouraging them to come forward to learn about reform.

For this reason (and others), I strongly believe that criminal - justice - reform - minded «big donors» — yes, I am talking to you Koch brothers and Mr. Soros — should think very seriously about devoting resources to this initiative campaign where a little extra campaign investment could go a very long way in fostering reform in a lot more places than just Oklahoma.

And courts engage in law reform when they render these decisions and not only in the big Charter cases that sometimes create a fuss about activist judges.

I will now likely use the long weekend (which I am about to start by going off - line for a while) to reflect on the current federal sentencing reform «big picture» circa mid-2016.

About Blog GST (Goods & Services tax) is a big leap in the tax reforms that is proposed to be initiated by the central government.

RISMEDIA, July 8, 2011 — The Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has many components and one of the biggest ones is about to debut.

With QM and BASEL III released, there's much less of the regulatory uncertainty that lenders have been concerned about since the big Wall Street reform bill, Dodd - Frank, was enacted a few years ago.