Sentences with phrase «as meaningful reform»

No one should accept the loss of a pension (after the Feds bust the dirty legislator) as meaningful reform!

Our examination of these notable subjects has proven to us, rather predictably, that say on pay's sophomore year came with converging compensation practices as well as meaningful reform in response to the shareholder voice.

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Instead, she sees forcing a change in personnel — which, she notes, the Federal Reserve has the power to do to Wells Fargo should it so choose — as itself a meaningful policy action, one that would help reform the bank's culture and could deter bad actors throughout the industry.

In fact I suspect the reason credit growth in the past year or two has not slowed nearly as sharply as it should, or as sharply as required by the economic analysis implicit in the Third Plenum reform proposals, is precisely because of the expected impact of meaningful credit constraint on GDP growth.

However, after that fast start, things settled back, so that as we ended the first half of the trading day, the Dow's gain, which reflected ongoing optimism on the earnings front (as Corporate America continues to release results for the third quarter) and evolving hopes that whatever the dysfunction now in Washington, a meaningful tax reform package will get passed.

That said, a new leaf seems to have been turned this year with hedge funds returning to positive flows in the first quarter of 2017.1 Renewed interest has been spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which some industry experts are predicting should bring meaningful tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending that we think could prove a boon to hedge strategies.

As Diane Ravitch seeks allies in her lifelong crusade for meaningful curriculum reform, she might stop and ask: Where will she find her friends now?

Phillips argues that meaningful economic reform (such as that which occurred in the 1830s under Andrew Jackson's leadership, in the progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt and in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal) is the only effective means of combating such cynicism.

As a member of Houston ISD's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee (and now also HISD's Student Health Advisory Council), and as someone who is very much «in the weeds» on this issue, meaningful school food reform seems nearly impossible to me on my darkest dayAs a member of Houston ISD's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee (and now also HISD's Student Health Advisory Council), and as someone who is very much «in the weeds» on this issue, meaningful school food reform seems nearly impossible to me on my darkest dayas someone who is very much «in the weeds» on this issue, meaningful school food reform seems nearly impossible to me on my darkest days.

The system, adopted in the 1970s as a supposed «reform,» has led to myriad cases of lawmakers, who haven't had a pay raise since 1999, intentionally seeking to supplement their incomes by spending time in Albany even when they have no meaningful official work — and they've sometimes done it illegally.

I will bring the same fight to Washington that I brought to Albany where I worked with lawmakers to close a $ 5 billion deficit, enacted meaningful tax cuts and championed real reforms, such as creating the STAR property tax program that made a difference for tens of thousands of families in New York.

If the governor and state legislative leaders are really serious about curbing corruption, then they should prioritize meaningful reform next year — especially as two of the governor's former aides are scheduled go to trial on charges related to bribery and bid - rigging some of the state's keystone economic development projects

Stec now hopes the former speaker's conviction will act as the catalyst for meaningful ethics reform, including pension forfeiture.

It was never a secret that the governor viewed Moreland's existence as a necessary realpolitik tool to pressure the legislature, which has repeatedly killed meaningful ethics reform.

«As Democrats, the IDC remains committed to the fight for an equal education for all New York students — which the Dream Act would provide, protecting a woman's right to choose, increasing workers» wages, and enacting meaningful campaign finance reform.

As the future congressman from this great district, I know Keith stands ready to deliver on the same fundamental issues he has fought for alongside me in the legislature — bringing more affordable housing to our neighborhoods, pushing through meaningful criminal justice reform and ensuring that all of our children have every chance to succeed with the promise of a first - rate education.

This means reforming the way parties are funded to incentivise meaningful engagement and talking up party activity as a public good rather than some sort of anti social behaviour.

To suggest that Gov. Andrew Cuomo consulted with any member of the minority in any meaningful way as Amedore intimates is to say that at long lastAlbany has been reformed.

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.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

«The de Blasio administration promised the city of New York that we would receive meaningful police reform,» Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat who has been eyed as a possible challenger to Mr. de Blasio next year, said outside New York Police Department...

Saving the Port Authority from any meaningful reform is going to be worth years of favors to call in and dole out as they see fit.

Also on tap to be announced tomorrow: The release of signed commitments from the three major announced candidates and one «as - yet unannounced candidate» for governor to «adhere to specific meaningful reform of the state redistricting process» if they are elected.

The new committee, Sheriff Moss for New York, will back candidates «who are interested in reducing taxes, creating jobs by producing a friendlier business atmosphere, opposing infringements on our 2nd Amendment rights, as well as bringing meaningful ethics reform to Albany.»

Shaw sees the office he's vying for as a way to bring meaningful reform without having to wait for his current peers in the legislature.

The biggest problem facing welfare reform is the lack of decent and meaningful reform, although if the economy is expanded as suggested, reforms could be more readily pursued.

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.

Meanwhile, teacher unions were allowed to scuttle meaningful reforms such as merit pay, tenure reform and the curtailing of seniority rights, which leave inner city schools bereft of experienced teachers.

Other than the PLDD crowd in their alphabet soup of reform organizations, who will advocate for and sustain meaningful performance pay for teachers where performance is defined as compliance with centralized mandates?

As Heckman and Carneiro point out, the evidence on the benefits of competition within education is limited - a necessary consequence of the lack of serious experimentation with meaningful choice - based reforms.

Finally, we see the parent trigger as a distraction from the real work our schools require — implementing proven, common - sense strategies for parent involvement and meaningful education reform.

Today, Mitt Romney squandered an opportunity to participate in a meaningful discussion of real education reform by attempting to disguise attacks on teachers and public education as meaningful policy proposals.

The AVID College Readiness System (ACRS) accelerates scholar learning, uses research - based methods of effective instruction, provides meaningful and motivational professional learning, and acts as a catalyst for systemic reform and change.

Properly implemented, charter schools hold the potential for bringing meaningful reform to Washington's public education system, as they have in other parts of the country.

The AVID College Readiness System (ACRS) accelerates student learning, uses research based methods of effective instruction, provides meaningful and motivational professional learning, and acts as a catalyst for systemic reform and change.

In leadership, as in so many aspects of meaningful school reform, there are few quick fixes and much hard work ahead.

Also, the seniority system will be exposed as the dinosaur that it is, meaningful school reform just might begin to take hold and the union will become much less powerful, and perhaps even irrelevant.

On January 14 they became the first Orange County parents to use California's Parent Trigger law to bring meaningful reform for the school by restarting it as an independent charter school.

These topics were identified as being serious obstacles to meaningful reform in the 2000 American Youth Policy Forum report, High Schools of the Millennium.

Successful education reform efforts — such as the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides «wraparound» social and health services alongside charter schools, or California's Linked Learning schools, which connect teenagers to meaningful on - the - job training — are built on this more holistic understanding of the forces that shape a child's life and determine her future.

Especially with a cadre of new governors and legislators taking office, along with issues that intersect with education such as criminal justice reform on the agenda, reformers should use the time now to pass meaningful legislation that will help all of our children.

The researchers concluded, «Taken as a whole, we believe the results illustrate that data - driven reform efforts can have not only a statistically significant effect on achievement but a substantively meaningful impact as well.»

As a long time Nevadan, I am very pleased to see the substantial effort toward meaningful education reform.

They are laying out the cold hard facts, using them as a launching pad for substantive, meaningful reforms.

The guidance documents written to interpret and support the No Child Left Behind Act make clear the value of parents as partners in all aspects of schools and school policies: «Meaningful parental involvement is one of the cornerstones of the reform initiatives contained in the No Child Left Behind Act.

Fool me repeatedly with A Nation at Risk, Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind, Standardized Assessment Systems on Steroids, 21st Century Schools, scientifically research based programming, evidence based programming, charter school options, privatization, and the Every Student Succeeds Act, and the shame becomes amorphous as we disengage from the belief that any government led «reform initiative» will produce meaningful results.

Then maybe we can really get serious about truly meaningful reforms such as school choice.

If you are as concerned as I am about this situation I invite you to sign this Change.org petition for meaningful private student loan reform.

It was convened in 2008 by the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada, as a catalyst for meaningful action to justice reform.

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 ObamAs 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 Obamas well as President Obamas President Obama.