Sentences with phrase «attempts at reform»

No districts will lose money in this bill, one of the key challenges of prior attempts at reform.

«Attempts at reform to help struggling students backfired, at least in part, because policymakers neglected to spend more time engaging in dialogue with teachers about how to address student motivation issues and the ramifications of failure on high - stakes universally required tasks,» Mac Iver writes.

Yet U.S. public schools just keep chugging along, resisting serious attempts at reform.

And some Democratic places, such as the District of Columbia and New York, have made aggressive attempts at reform.

His attempts at reform have always been self - serving, they say.

Previous attempts at reform have been blocked by disagreement between CDU and SPD over whether to lift the ban just at the university level — the CDU preference — or whether to allow federal funding for preschools through universities, as the SPD wants.

Saying incremental attempts at reform had not been enough to stave off corruption in Albany, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today called for the end of all outside income and per diem payments for members of the State Legislature.

The Scottish Government must resist the temptation to engage in such a back and forth debate — which has hampered previous attempts at reform — and instead focus on creating legislation that results in an enduring system of business taxation commanding widespread public support which is convenient, efficient and easy to administer.

Writing in this week's House magazine, he urged MPs to produce a tenable plan for the House of Lords, rather than allow a repeat of past failed attempts at reform.

Peers themselves have been urged not to block attempts at reform.

Mr. Schneiderman knocked previous attempts at reform as falling short, and called on Mr. Cuomo to press the legislature to ban outside income entirely and drastically overhaul the per diem system, among other proposals.

Scholarly, ascetic, an experienced administrator, by his vigorous attempts at reform he might in time have overcome the stubborn opposition, but he died after less than two years in office.

After all, previous attempts at reform have led to vigorous backlash from politicians and church leaders.

What of Church officials who brush aside attempts at reform by claiming that the Church, after all, is not a democracy?

Startup founders aren't especially worried, though, because they see the law as a nod to change rather than a realistic attempt at reform.

This attempt at reform is reminiscent of the ongoing battle in the state of New Jersey.

And it was less an attempt at reform and more a temporary solution to specific situation.

The Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.

The election of the Conservative majority government in May 2015 very quickly signalled that reforms related to party funding would be attempted, not as a comprehensive attempt at reform, but with possibly far reaching consequences for some parties.

But unlike his police counterpart, Patrick Lynch, Mr. Seabrook has managed to keep a friendly relationship with the mayor — while still offering up vociferous opposition to changes to solitary confinement at Rikers Island and other attempts at reforming the violent, scandal - prone jails.

Passage of the bill seemed unlikely recently as a political squabble and disagreement over the extent of the legislation threatened to derail attempts at reforming the nonprofit.

1) The common law itself struggles with the onus of proof, and the BC Legislature's bona fide attempts at reforming the rules of court have been significantly ignored (or perhaps not appreciated) by the judges.

I would argue the patent bar, the courts, private equity (which is funding many patent trolls) and Congress — which blew last year's attempt at reform - are also to blame.

Not exact matches

Previous attempts to divine health care reform's fate have proven foolhardy (or at least ill - fated).

CNBC's Meg Tirrell discusses the failed attempts at Pfizer trying to acquire two companies in the past but how the Republican tax reform plan could change that.

The positives of his first two years in politics have been swamped by his star - crossed attempt at tax reform and his failure to put his personal assets in a blind trust.

Kwak notes that Obamacare is a market - oriented approach to universal healthcare, and is ideologically far more conservative than Bill Clinton's 1993 attempt at healthcare reform.

If this is true, by the way, it means that attempts at implementing liberalizing reforms are successful mainly during periods of great global liquidity, and this might have implications for China, especially if over the next few years global central banks begin to withdraw the huge liquidity injections that have underpinned asset bubbles around the world.

Clocking in at more than 200 pages, the Liberals» latest attempt at democratic reform might be a case of too much too late.

May 3, 1512: The Fifth Lateran Council, the last attempt at papal reform before the Lutheran revolt, opens in Rome.

The challenge to «horizontal enchantment» from people like Taylor and MacIntyre, if I may audaciously attempt to boil it down to one paragraph, is this: At the root of horizontal culture (the modern world of democratic republics and entrepreneurial economies) is the claim that people can and should Reform the world.

A most telling aspect of that rigidity was the oath by which each pharaoh bound himself to nip in the bud any attempt at calendar reform although it was sorely needed.

In my opinion it is the paradigm itself which is bankrupt, not the attempts at educational reform which issue from it.

I hope that is not confused with «umbrage» or a lack of appreciation, especially since that would undercut, not enhance, any true attempt at the deep reform for which George Weigel and I both pray.

Fr Yates thought that there was an unbalanced perspective which followed Pope Leo XIII's very necessary attempt to reform theological studies in the Church at the end of the 19th century, a narrowness that was made worse by the modernist crisis that continued into the 20th century.

There are thousands of women and men who are engaged in attempts at prison reform, or in prison ministries of one kind or another.

I'm on record as being a realist, and so far Big Food and Big Ag have had a pretty solid track record of decisively crushing most attempts at reasonable food reform.

Flint dismissed recent comments by Tony Blair about immigration by pointing at that both he and Gordon Brown could have attempted to reform freedom of movement while they were in Number 10.

Labour's attempts to reform libel failed to reach the statute book at the end of the last parliament after they became victims of the wash - up period.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

The convention must be deliberately broad, he argued, to avoid the «pick and mix approach» that has «bedevilled» past attempts at constitutional reform.

Similar situation happened earlier in Hungary and Poland, including civic unrest and attempts at economic reforms of a system that did not deliver as promised.

I am however appalled at the Lib - Con coalition's attempts to use voting reform to bring about boundary changes.

But while the SNP's shift towards constitutional conservatism may be an awkward act to pull off, there is no doubt that the Conservatives will be wary of these reforms being painted as attempts to promote English interests at the expense of Scottish ones.

Despite post-independence reform that attempted to roll back such impositions on Islamic jurisprudence, successive attempts at constitutional overhaul in 1979, 1989, 1995, and 1999 all failed to resolve the conflict over the nature and scope of Islamic law.

Although Labour's manifesto only hinted at reforming British capitalism — with timid measures on property taxation and house - building, a rise in the minimum wage and attempts to tax super-wealthy London - based oligarchs — it did address some of the fundamental imbalances of the British economy.

On 24 February, Meg Russell argued (Don't abolish the Lords: history shows it really can be reformed), that attempts at big - bang reform of the House of Lords have not succeeded.

Unfortunately for her, Theresa May's attempt at a sort of neo-Bonapartism project over both Brexit and national social and economic reform is clearly failing.

«The secretary of state is cutting back on re-sits for students but affords himself a fourth attempt at GCSE reform,» he observed to laughter in the Commons chamber.

Her attempts at radical social reform have mainly also foundered because of (again) of Brexit, which has sucked the oxygen away from any other policies.