Sentences with phrase «by substantial reform»

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Toward that end the Oversight Board, which has substantial moral authority, needs to provide real leadership by stressing that reform and support are mutually reinforcing.

The bill implements a substantial number of the competition law reforms recommended by the independent Harper Competition policy review and agreed to by the government in its response to the review.

The substantial financial earnings made by individual Church of England Bishops from their privileged place within the House of Lords have come under scrutiny, leading to further calls from the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their removal as a part of the impending reforms to the upper chamber.

[6] Others claim that at that point in time Blair preferred short - term ideas to anything more substantial, [4] and it was another decade before the inception of Blair's major reform to welfare — the replacement of Incapacity Benefit by Employment and Support Allowance.

Both hospitals fall under the umbrella of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System, which announced the cuts on Monday due to substantial reductions in reimbursement from the federal and state governments and decreases in revenue caused by healthcare reform.

Tellingly, he punctuated his speech this week by drawing the attention of his audience to the fact that the «most important thing he would say» was that the link between growth and rising prosperity for working people had been broken, and that only substantial economic reform could restore it.

«We have no further plans to make welfare savings beyond the very substantial savings legislated for by parliament two weeks ago,» Crabb said in a statement to MPs confirming that the government would drop controversial reforms to personal independence payments (PIP).

A consensus for change is developing, but as Bridget Terry Long points out in a new policy proposal commissioned by the Hamilton Project, reform efforts often sidestep substantial questions about how to improve academic preparation and — importantly — help students avoid remedial placement altogether...

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

Unfortunately, the Mastery Examination Committee's report fails to address substantial concerns raised by CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams and other committee members over the 15 - month - period during which the group met.

But rather than use substantial salary increases to drive groundbreaking reform, the de Blasio administration tinkered around the edges, by and large preserving the status quo.

Using regression discontinuity designs, we find that these reforms led to substantial improvements in school performance, raising math achievement by 17 percent and reading achievement by 9 percent.

Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.

Tennessee has gained a substantial measure of reform success because of local and statewide public and policymaker awareness of the objectively measured increases in student achievement produced by local schools.

However, thanks to the education reform legislation enacted by last year's legislature it has «dramatically and comprehensively altered the public education system the plaintiffs ask this court to declare unconstitutional» (p. 2, Motion to Modify Scheduling) The state also claims that the funding that accompanied those reforms, laid out in the Mahoney affidavit, was substantial.

The context for this is a national reform launched by the government in 2011, including substantial annual investments in the education sector.

«Substantial abuse» was expanded by the Bankruptcy Reform Act, which went into effect on October 17, 2005, to include a Means Test which allows Chapter 7 only if a debtor has less income than the median for the state of residence, or can pay less than 25 % of his or her unsecured debt from income remaining after meeting expenses over a 5 year period.

Prior to the BAPCPA reforms, most people qualified for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy so Chapter 13 was mostly used by homeowners that wished to keep their home and had significant equity, or those who owned other assets with substantial value that they did not want to expose to liquidation and disbursement to creditors.

The resulting settlement brokered by the NY Attorney General resulted in substantial reforms to transparency and governance, including requiring the board to plan for getting back to free tuition, installing a financial monitor and requiring the election of new Alumni Trustees.

Within his rights to do so according to the Civil Service Reform Act and the Whistleblower Protection Act, Pat alleged a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety and gross mismanagement by officials at the DOE, NOAA, NWS and NCRFC because of their refusal to acknowledge the realities of climate change.

Per an investigation by The Guardian, the net effect of regulatory reform in the U.K. has actually reduced access to justice, as part of the reforms included substantial cut backs in government funded legal aid programs.

Currently working closely with the MOJ on substantial reforms to the legal sector including as to the introduction of contingency fee arrangements / no cure no pay agreements / referral fee ban under reforms proposed by Lord Justice Jackson / litigation funding generally.

But the media conference held by Shorten, King and Collins for the press gallery in the midst of the summit pointed to the difficulty in putting substantial health reform on the agenda.

This submission considered a number of substantial reforms proposed by the Reform Bill which aim to address the inequities in the Native Title Act.