Sentences with phrase «achieve meaningful reforms»

PEJ utilizes a variety of legal actions to achieve its mission, including pursuing impact litigation, amicus brief filings, Freedom of Information Act requests, and other law - related avenues that seek to achieve meaningful reforms of education laws or policies that fail to prioritize students» rights.

As someone who was elected five times to the New York State Senate and witnessed many of these ethical problems in Albany, I know that no recent governor has gone this far to achieve meaningful reforms.

«I am disappointed that, six months later, we did not see such statutory action — part of a broader failure to achieve meaningful reform on a range of issues in this legislative session.»

As a result, Congress tried again in 2014 and came close to achieving meaningful reform with a proposed law called the Innovation Act, which passed the House of Representatives by a large margin, and which enjoyed bipartisan support from influential Senators like John Cornyn (R - Tx) and Chuck Schumer (D - NY), as well as President Obama.

Not exact matches

«This opportunity to achieve meaningful redistricting reform must not be wasted, simply because others want a perfect solution,» says Dadey, who says history shows such a solution is not «possible».

But today's real lesson is that — however much you call a government «progressive» — it will not achieve meaningful political reform when it is led by the party of the establishment.

By working together to deliver real results and meaningful reforms, we can achieve this essential goal.

Is this investigation motivated by a much bigger political game in which Governor Cuomo encouraged / spurred / initiated Sugarman's investigation to achieve a number of goals: (a) torpedo the efforts of democrats to regain the state senate by scaring off potential big democratic donors (it is widely reported that the governor prefers working with a GOP controlled senate); (b) distract the press from Albany's complete failure to pass meaningful ethics reforms; (c) hurt his political foe, Mayor de Blasio.

And every comment by senior Cabinet ministers saying they would be happy or relaxed to see us walk out, and every hint that a referendum could happen as early as next year - before any meaningful reform agenda could be achieved - only adds to the uncertainty and risk for British businesses.

In a statement, Association of American Universities President Robert Berdahl called it «an important first step toward achieving meaningful and sensible export control reform.»

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

Having just completed a brutal round of jousting in the interest of public education reform during the Texas legislative session, I have a renewed appreciation for the obstacles we face in achieving meaningful systemic change in our education delivery system.

Fortunately, there are nonprofit education reform organization's like Achieve which give teachers the ability to evaluate open education resources against a set of meaningful criteria including alignment to standards, quality of assessment, and opportunities for deeper learning.

«Parents and teachers are working hard every day to make sure every child in New Jersey gets a great education, and while recent tenure reform represents meaningful progress, more reforms are necessary for our students to achieve the results we want for them,» said Craig Wallace, StudentsFirst's state director for New Jersey.

And I suspect any meaningful reform Millennials might achieve may come too little, too late.