Sentences with phrase «broader system reform»

It is performance, not just promises, that is causing leaders like New York City's Joel Klein to make charter schools a vanguard for broader system reform.

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Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

Rather, it is the expansion of trade negotiations from agreements that once focused primarily on tariff reductions to far broader regulatory documents that now mandate domestic legal reforms and establish dispute resolution systems that can be result in huge liability for national governments.

Venue reform was the one piece of comprehensive legislation that had broad support in Congress, so while the court's decision frees up capacity for patent reform advocates to tackle other problems with the patent system, the hard fights are still to come.

Alternatively, critics of the current system could begin the process of creating a broad - based reform coalition.

The Correctional Association of New York, a prison reform organization, has called for a broad probe of violence in the state's corrections system following the April death of a 30 - year - old inmate at a state facility in Fishkill, Dutchess County.

Leslie's article in the Telegraph today calls for broader reforms of a system which, she says, Nicholson once boasted he had «Stalin - like» control over.

He argued this would encourage reform of the party funding system by creating a greater incentive for a broader base for party funding, rather than the current reliance on a smaller number of bigger donors.

ALBANY — Several lawmakers are calling for broad reform of the State University system's contract procurement process, following charges against SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros for alleged bid rigging.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

Several state lawmakers are calling for broad reform of the State University system's contract procurement process, following charges against SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros for alleged bid rigging.

Elisa's death on Thanksgiving weekend in 1995 attracted broad attention — prompting a national conversation about child abuse, a wave of reforms to the city's child welfare system, and a child welfare law named in her honor.

«I think some of the governor's economic development — the broad - based reforms to the business climate and the more tactical, programmatic work like regional councils and START - UP are taking hold, and you're seeing the positive effect in the vibe of people, in the comments of people,» Adams said, referencing a system of tax - free zones rooted in public universities.

The proposal is merely a stop - gap, in lieu of broader reform of the city's property tax system, which the mayor has promised but has been slow to act on.

ALBANY — Staking out a broad vision of ethics reform amid a swirl of other proposals in the capital, New York's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, called for an elimination of all outside jobs for state legislators and the end of a widely criticized system of per diem payments.

Advocates for broader campaign finance reform were gobsmacked at the speed that will be required to set up the public matching oversight system.

Therefore, policies since 2013 have intended to radically reform the nation's research institutions and broader innovation system.

In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care.»

Even if they are enacted, however, they will face an uphill battle absent broader reforms to teacher compensation systems — reforms that may be encouraged from Washington but will ultimately require action by state legislatures and local school boards.

«Gates, Walton, and Broad are driven by theories of action that emphasize structural reform» such as systems, incentives, and measures, says Andrew Rotherham, co-founder of Education Sector and author of the Eduwonk.com blog.

Far from being a «dead end» (as asserted by Marc Tucker in Education Week recently), better teacher evaluation systems will be vital for any broad reform effort, such as implementing the Common Core.

In addition, Kentucky and Vermont have incorporated portfolios into their statewide assessments of student achievement — another effort to offer a broader picture of student achievement, and the now - defunct Massachusetts Reform Review Commission convened representatives from various stakeholder groups to devise a strategy for expanding the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to make it fairer and more comprehensive.

«California's charter school law has initiated a broad reform movement consisting of parents and educators who are coming together to create new schools which are better meeting the needs of students and encouraging improvement throughout our public education system.

This model, known as the CORE system (for California Office to Reform Education), takes a broad view of a school for evaluation.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Actually, Gates, the Walton Foundation, Eli Broad, etc. are not pushing education reform to get wealthy; they are doing it to ameliorate what has become a very troubled education system that is dominated in most states — and greatly damaged — by the teachers unions.

That's why they produced a report in 2009 that was broad enough in scope to address the myriad problems in Connecticut's education system, and formed the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) to advocate for those changes in an integrated fashion.

«We believe 191 is foundational to the future success of the education system,» said Tamra Ward president of the business advocacy group Colorado Concern that is part of a broader education reform coalition critical of the move.

That ambitious plan is key to her broader aim of establishing Success as what the network describes as a «catalyst and national model for education reform efforts,» and a legitimate citywide competitor to the incumbent public school system.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

Led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Foundation (Owners of Wal - Mart) and the Eli Broad Foundation, along with the «Irrational Exuberance» of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the Common Core and Common Core testing system have rocketed from an untested conceptual notion of education reform to the untested national standards and systems that are rapidly undermining public education in the United States.

The move to a uniform system reflects a broader trend in education reform, as states also launch the new Common Core State Standards, which will allow more accurate comparisons of academic achievement.

This raises the question whether our tax system would benefit from broader tax reform; one that taxes the household rather than individuals.

Ensure Accessibility: A reformed system should ensure broad access to mortgage finance for creditworthy borrowers and participation by lenders of all sizes and types.

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.

There is also ample scope for reforming tax systems to deal much more effectively with broader environmental and related problems that can be a significant drag on economic growth, such as the health and productivity impacts of poor air quality, and severe congestion of major urban centers.

As the new government of British Columbia begins its work, a broad coalition of legal organizations has come together to call for significant reform of BC's justice system.

H.R. 4261, the Safe, Accountable, Fair, and Effective (SAFE) Justice Act takes a broad - based approach to improving the federal sentencing and corrections system, spanning from sentencing reform to release policies.

The Innocence Project of Florida encourages institutional actors in the State of Florida to create broad - based criminal justice reform commissions to study wrongful convictions and advocate for changes in the system.

It recognizes a specific problem and at the same time reinforces the need for broader reform of the patent system as advocated by numerous independent studies including most recently the Center for American Progress report released on January 12.

«CPF also supports broader reform to ensure the U.S. patent system remains the premier patent system in the world.

Finally, legislative reform can introduce broad comprehensive policies for improving the patent system.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.

In turn, the community sector may have great influence on reform of the broader Australian health system.

The Committees» recommendations... will be carefully considered... However, the Government has a clear strategy for improving the native title system and is committed to ensuring that the native title system is flexible and produces broad benefits to Indigenous people... the Government is progressing reforms to improve the rates of claim resolution and to encourage broader settlements that deliver social justice outcomes beyond answering the question of whether native title exists.

However, it is my view that we can not simply reform the native title system in isolation to the broader legislative and policy framework and hope that this will «fix» the native title system.

[16] To date, however, substantial reform that addresses the broad inadequacies of the system that concern our culture and identity eludes us.

However, the Campaign Steering Committee is concerned that despite continued Australian Government commitment to closing the gap, broader structural reform to the federal system of the type that is currently being discussed could potentially have an adverse impact on the Closing the Gap Strategy.

I further consider the native title system within the context of the broader laws and policies that impact upon our rights, and argue for a comprehensive program of reform.

«We are encouraged by the panel's recommendations that a more broad system of regulatory reform be undertaken with the goal of maintaining and increasing competition within the marketplace.»