Sentences with phrase «aggressive reforms»

The good news is that we have government policy and legislative leadership with the most aggressive reform orientation in history, and there are in fact some good reform initiatives in motion.

It's also worth noting that states that have adopted aggressive reforms and states that haven't both remained flat.

The president has indeed favored aggressive reforms in education, but most of them are still in process as far as results.

«If Tony Bennett can push this kind of aggressive reform agenda and win, it will give a big lift to other politicians eager to enact similar reforms.»

Mr. Klein has since overseen a number of aggressive reform efforts, including a stringent evaluation effort for each of the system's 1,400 public schools and the introduction of value - added assessment of the city's...

«This reflects the dire fiscal circumstances the city faces, the devastating impact of increasing pension costs and the desperate need for aggressive reforms,» said Marc La Vorgna, a mayoral spokesman.

Martinez's education secretary, Hanna Skandera, has been a key player in New Mexico's aggressive reform efforts.

The onus is now on the Chinese government to continue rehabilitating itself through aggressive reform, strategists told CNBC.

«I am going to have a very aggressive reform proposal,» Cuomo said Tuesday.

His own aggressive reform program of centralizing curriculum decisions, adhering closely to state standards and providing intensive care to the lowest - performing schools, Romer said, was beginning to pay off.

All of this is on top of the nearly four years of aggressive reforms under Rhee.

The Sunshine State, under Bush, had implemented the most aggressive reforms over a several - year period, but an aide to Bush said with the new reforms, Indiana will surpass Florida.

With all the northeast San Fernando Valley charter pioneers — Vaughn, Fenton, YPI, Montague and PUC — creative and aggressive reforms led to dramatic increases in student achievement.

According to reporting by The Tennessean, the state teachers» union contends it was those efforts that are responsible for students» improved performance on the assessment, rather than aggressive reforms put in place by Gov. Bill Haslam.

As New York state's education commissioner, he came under withering criticism for aggressive reforms that many teachers and parents said steamrolled their concerns.

Diane Ravitch recently reported in the Education Gadfly (June 7, 2007) on the disappointing achievement scores from New York City, whose much - heralded schools leader, Joel Klein, has implemented some of the nation's most aggressive reforms.

This aggressive reform plan proposes dramatic change, but as Gov. Cuomo notes, those big changes will put New Yorkers in a better place in the future.

That's because he said an increase in education funding is contingent on lawmakers» approval of an aggressive reform agenda he presented last week, including changes to teacher evaluations and tenure protections.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

As I reported two weeks ago, Gottlieb has mapped out an aggressive reform agenda in anticipation of this appointment.

But while this agreement has fostered widespread support for aggressive reform, Frederick Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform.

Schools in Crisis, Reforms Not Working, U.S. Federal Panel Declares A federal commission on Tuesday said the U.S. education system had «thoroughly stacked the odds» against impoverished students and warned that an aggressive reform agenda embraced by both Democrats and Republicans had not done enough to improve public schools.

Despite these aggressive reforms, the city fell midpack, with 24 percent of fourth graders performing below basic on math and 35 percent of eighth graders performing below basic on reading.

Aggressive reform is also essential for eventual integration into the internal EU energy market.

In December technology companies banded together to call for aggressive reform to the NSA, knowing that the stakes are no smaller than their livelihood on the international stage and, potentially, their home turf.

The Governor called for either an aggressive reform to the «broken no - fault system» or a return to a fault - based or tort auto insurance system.