Sentences with phrase «biggest reforms»

But big reforms need not require big spending, he will argue.

That would've sent the right signal: that the administration is serious about big reforms not average proposals.

Big reforms along the lines of limiting the amount college tuition can increase or a substantial decrease in student loan interest rates.

My buoyant assessment of RTTT has moderated in the intervening years, and, as my conservatism - and - education - reform series points out, I'm flirting with becoming more cynical about big reforms of all types.

And you have got me offering big reform in our financing, in the way that our party works and showing we are bold enough to change.»

Conference focusing on Special Education Needs provides update on biggest reforms for last thirty years

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the Common Core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient distraction from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like teacher evaluations, expanded school choice, or improved accountability systems.

It will of course depend on how big a reform agenda Labor wants to develop and which of the competing vested interests it will need or want to take on to really address structural barriers — doctors, hospitals, states, the pharmaceutical industry, the private health sector — and whether it's up to a fight against the food and alcohol industries and «nanny state» critics on prevention.

(Bespoke) Sorkin: Obama «s big reform speech fell on deaf ears on Wall Street yesterday.

A much bigger reform involving this idea would be for the NBA to have a separate draft with high school players only and require them to play half a year in the D - League.

on what biggest reform they could take... The first thing is to restore and convince everybody that honesty and clarity in the organisation are needed.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls sets out Labour's plan for the economy, promising big reforms without big spending

California's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010 enables parents who collect signatures representing more than 50 percent of students to spur big reforms at a low - performing school, from firing the principal and half the staff to shutting it down.

«With the proposals around the new curriculum, new qualifications and potential changes to the way we train teachers and utilise the supply sector, there are already big reforms on the horizon which will have positive impacts.»

66 Of course, this was Bill Gates first big reform idea.

If a report came out that talked about the effects that student loan debt is having on all the different economic sectors (aka how companies could make more money off of young people with money), maybe big reforms would be on the horizon.

Working together, we can save Ohio's largest source of clean energy, and prompt an even bigger reform of corporate energy procurement policies.

The next big reform to the legal aid system came in 1999 when the Access to Justice Act was passed.

What hung parliaments can not do, though, is to compel rival parties to co-operate on big reforms.

The $ 1.5 trillion tax overhaul is the biggest reform of the U.S. tax system since the 1980s and will see that corporate tax rate slashed to 21 percent from 35 percent.

One of the biggest reforms — permitting startups and other private companies to advertise a securities offering, provided that all purchasers are accredited investors — has caused the most consternation, at least in the early implementation.

«In his mind, it makes it look like he's really doing some big reform,» the chairman said.

And we are also in the middle of the biggest reform of the church since the mid 19th century.

Just as government gets its biggest reforms out of the way at the start of a parliament, so MPs» politicking takes on a more local focus at its end.

The passage of the Health and Social Care Bill marked the biggest reform of the NHS since its creation in 1947.

From the spring of 2013 onwards the biggest reforms will become impossible.

But surely what the government needs to do — if this is to be its big reform — is to integrate this into departmental business (and structural reform plans) rather than set up a parallel process.

But putting his reform initiatives in the executive budget, the governor will achieve one thing that has eluded his predecessors — a real debate on campaign finance reforms, including the big reform: establishing a system of public financing.

The scheme described as the biggest reform to welfare since Beveridge, was meant to begin last autumn, but has been beset by huge problems and delays since it was first conceived by Iain Duncan Smith.

«I have wonder about the hypocrisy of the government when Andrew Mitchell has called for the disclosure of transcripts of disciplinary hearings against the police officers involved in his case but the «biggest reform to welfare since Beveridge» continues to take place in secret.»

Some regard Ed Miliband's decision to embark on the biggest reform to Labour's links with the unions since the party's foundation as quite simply the biggest mistake of his leadership.

Gove's defenders point out that the bulk of his big reforms are now in train and irreversible.

«We'll support the government where it builds on our big reforms to sort out sickness benefits and get people who can work into work.

«We've tried to get them done in the Assembly, but they've never seen the light of day in the Senate,» Lentol said, adding: «Those are three big reforms that need to be done before we even start talking about grand juries and special prosecutors.»

«I do get the strong sense that this will be one of the biggest reform packages in terms of the City Council that we've ever seen,» De Blasio who has proposed banning member items said on «The Brian Lehrer Show» on Friday.

Our political system needs bigger reform.

I've led on some big reforms in the Legislature and I'm looking forward to doing that in the Senate.»

«And this is going to end with a bigger reform movement, it's going to end with some kind of comprehensive reform.

Insisting the party is united, Balls said: «Jon Cruddas, with me and Ed and others, has been working for months, years on big reforms.

Big reform, not big spending, as Ed Miliband promises.

Hawkins said single - payer health care is a big reform that is now close to adoption.

But by far the biggest reform introduced by Daley and Paul Vallas, chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001, was the education equivalent of just say no: ending the practice of social promotion.

Following the draft legislation on provision for children and young people with special educational needs last year, the introduction of the new Ofsted inspection framework, the new Teacher's Standards and the newly released SEN Indicative draft Code of Practice, special educational needs provision is facing the biggest reform in 30 years.

«We don't want to see any children discriminated against and to help this we have introduced the biggest reforms to the Special Educational Needs and Disability system in a generation, focusing support on individual needs and aspirations.»