Sentences with phrase «branch reform of»

«We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the National Curriculum to set out the essential knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it,» he said.

Where there was overwhelming support was for a «root - and - branch reform of the allowances received by MPs».

But for party finance reform more generally, the asymmetric effects of these changes are such that a future Labour or Labour - led government may exact some form of «revenge», either though excessively partisan measures or through a root and branch reform of party finance regardless of any opposition from the Conservative Party.

Not exact matches

A number of reform proposals have been made, in both the legislative and executive branches.

Beyond the battle over at least the temporary future of the CFPB lies a legal question: Which federal law decides who will lead the CFPB — the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which gives the president the ability to fill many open positions in the executive branch, or the Dodd - Frank financial reform that created the bureau in the first Reform Act, which gives the president the ability to fill many open positions in the executive branch, or the Dodd - Frank financial reform that created the bureau in the first reform that created the bureau in the first place?

Reforming the taxation of international businesses has been a priority for U.S. politicians, and key members of the legislative and executive branches have proposed a wide variety of potential changes.

Before joining DFAIT, he worked at the Department of Finance, including from 1983 - 1990 with the Financial Sector Policy Branch where he served as Project Director, Financial Institutions Reform Project, and chaired the Inter-Departmental Legislative Review Committee, which guided the development of the 1992 reforms that overhauled the federal financial institutions statutes (the Bank Act, the Insurance Companies Act, the Trust and Loan Companies Act and the Cooperative Credit Associations Act).

Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

Many branches of Reform Judaism hold that Jewish law should be interpreted as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is required of all Jews.»

If there is anything about which all four branches of Judaism in the U.S. (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist) agree, it is that one can not be both Jewish and Christian at the same time.

In some branches of Protestantism, liturgical reform reflected a preference for simplicity per se.

«I think it's an Anglican school,» I told my aesthetician, who patiently took me through the history of the Catholic Church and all the branches of it (kind of like Orthodox, Conservative and Reform in the Jewish religion).

The Dublin system is a clear example of such a failure, and the longstanding analyses of the shortcomings of the Dublin system and recommendations for its root and branch reform (Guild 2014) have been largely ignored.

Last week on Capital Tonight, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said ethics reform should include the executive branch, and today, Speaker Sheldon Silver called the effectiveness of the governor's tour across the state «irrelevant.»

This is a better chance at real change than waiting for the piecemeal, shoddy constitutional reform that various branches of government can eke out over the next decade or two.

The Reform Party SUPPORTS legislation and rules across all branches of government that enforce the highest ethical standards and effective oversight.

Here's this reaction from Willie Sullivan, the director of the Electoral Reform Society's Scottish branch: «This government's rigid «one size fits all» approach was never going to fit Scotland - its cold mathematical vision of equality flies in the face of real communities, simple geography and common sense.

An administration official told the Times Union on Monday that panel appointees of the executive and judicial branch indicated at their meeting last week that they have soured on the idea of a raise for two reasons: because only two lawmakers have formally stated their case to the commission this year, and because ethics reforms approved this year have been lambasted as not properly addressing recent corruption.

The dramatic reform package — called the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» — creates an independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics with «robust enforcement powers» to investigate both the executive and legislative branches of government.

The six plaintiffs include Rodney Martin, chair of the Reform Party of California; Jeff Mackler, leader of the San Francisco Bay Area branch of Socialist Action; Steve Chessin, president of Californians for Electoral Reform; and Richard Winger.

Cuomo, and branches of government in Albany, including NYSED, the Board of Regents and the New York State legislature have been repeatedly dismissive of parental concerns over education reforms in New York State.

Zephyr Teachout said Cuomo should not exclude the executive branch from any ethics reforms, accusing him of trying to deflect from his own missteps.

Also likely to return: Discussions about reforms to the SAFE Act, which Flanagan tried to push — unsuccessfully — during this past session as part of an olive branch to the conservative grassroots that preferred Sen. John DeFrancisco to him during the leadership fight — in part due to his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control legislation.

«It's important that we do ethics reform that is comprehensive and includes all branches of government,» the Yonkers Democrat said during a Capital Tonight interview last night.

After meeting with his conference on Wednesday evening, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos dismissed the ethics deal, saying any talks of ethics reforms should also include financial disclosures of the executive branch, and should also include domestic partners.

Across the street, on the west side of Broadway, StudentsFirstNY, the local branch of Michelle Rhee's school - reform group, organized public school parents in favor of the Common Core.

These included her advocacy of the abolition of «conspiratorial groups» such as MI5 and Special Branch in the late 1980s, both of which she said had been successfully reformed.

Cuomo refused to cooperate unless they agreed to a number of reforms that would weaken the legislative branch relative to the executive, such as imposing term limits on lawmakers.

«Root - and - branch» reform of Britain's electoral system is needed because of increasingly frequent instances of electoral fraud, a report says.

She accused Labour's UK - wide leadership of undermining her attempts to reform the Scottish Labour Party and treating it «like a branch office of London.»

Skelos, a Republican from Long Island, said that any talks of ethics reforms should also include financial disclosures of the executive branch, and should also include domestic partners.

Chief among the Republicans» supporters is New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a super PAC run by the pro-charter advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY — the state branch of the national education reform organization founded by former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.

«There are reforms ready to be put into action and I urge our leaders and Postal Service officials to find additional cost saving methods that won't result in the closure of these branches,» Legislator Dixon added.

On Tuesday, Dec. 13 the USPS announced that it would delay a final decision on the closure of the Lackawanna Branch, along with the William Street mail - processing facility and Broadway - Fillmore Branch, until May to allow U.S. Senators additional time to work on postal reform legislation that could possibly find other cost saving measures that may protect local postal branches.

I took part in a Labour party branch discussion about reform of partnership in power (PiP)-- the party's policy - making process introduced in 1997.

The corruption trials of Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the former leaders of New York's Legislature, deepened voters» distrust of state government, and prompted public demands for root - and - branch ethics reform when lawmakers return to Albany next year.

The debate rages on about the wide health - care reform legislation passed last year, but a forum at the Flushing branch of the Queens Library Friday featured no rancor — only people determined to explain the new law and express concerns about its impact.

Cuomo has proposed a pay raise commission that would consider granting members of the Legislature and the executive branch raises, but only if the raises were tied to reforms that include caps on legislator outside income and higher salaries for lawmakers who don't have other jobs and lower ones for those who do.

The implications of the tax reform bill on the executive and legislative branches of government.

[141][144] She told the newspaper that she was resigning because Labour's Westminster leadership had undermined her attempts to reform the party in Scotland, and treated Scottish Labour «like a branch office of London.».

The Republican says he wants new rules that also reform the executive branch of government.

Trying to make his reality less gloomy than all that — and, to be fair, surely with the genuine intent of reducing misbehavior in all branches of government — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has included a package of ethics reform proposals in the agenda he laid out in a series of State of the State speeches around the state this week.

That includes «corporate reforms» of important subsidiaries, including the company's U.S. branch.

Derrell Bradford is the executive vice president of 50CAN: The 50 - State Campaign for Achievement Now, and the executive director of its New York branch, NYCAN, with more than fourteen years working in education reform policy and advocacy.

Interviews conducted by Reform found that the current top - slice arrangement is creating a system in which the headteacher views the academy as a «client buying into the chain service», rather than as a branch of the chain, which can lead to tension between headteachers and chain leadership.

Michael Rebell is executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is the author of Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), in which he proposes a new functional separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to promote education reform and student achievement.

Further, as occurred last year in Wisconsin, when opponents of school reform control the executive and legislative branches, initiatives such as Milwaukee's voucher program encounter the double - whammy of less funding and a public school regulatory model.

Importantly, although accomplished after the entry of a court order, these deeper policy changes were not specifically ordered by the court, but instead represented creative reform efforts by the political branches.

The legislation was introduced in California by then - State Senator Gloria Romero, who now heads the California branch of the pro-privatization organization, Democrats for Education Reform.