Sentences with phrase «call for reform if»

Under the parent trigger law, which was passed in 2010, parents at a chronically underperforming school that meets certain criteria can call for reform if a majority of them sign a petition requesting a specific change.

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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has echoed the NDP's calls for Senate abolishment, and in an odd pre-election maneuver, Mr. Harper tacitly endorsed the abolishment of the Senate if it could not be reformed (this took place after he appointed more than 50 Conservatives to the Senate, including Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin).

In one remarkably progressive instance, the New York Moral Reform Society (NYMRS) published an article in their newsletter — the Advocate of Moral Reform — calling out the double standard between men and women in terms of sex, mainly that men were allowed to have it whenever where - ever, but if a woman worked as a prostitute (pretty much her only option for many lower class impoverished women), then she was the lowest of the low.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

It seems to me that what is needed is not only a reform of literary teaching but a recognition that what Pope Benedict calls the «Hermeneutic of Continuity» be refocused upon our schools - for if not here, where?

Democrats were more than happy to seize on McGrath's insistence that he would not step away from his law practice if elected and, at the same time, was dismissive of calls for ethics reforms.

Attorney General Schneiderman praised Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for pushing ethics reform as part of the State budget process, but called for more dramatic changes, even if doing so delayed enactment of the budget.

Even if Cameron wins the referendum following a negotiation that brings little immediate practical change there will be calls for more reforms from those that lost and perhaps from a Labour leadership that campaigned reluctantly to stay in.

If the past debate on public campaign financing is any guide, the Republicans will likely punch back at Democrats» calls for reform by saying the party wants to create a class of professional politicians.

Now supporters of the rules change have ammo to support their cause, as a panel set up by the Democratic National Committee — the Unity Reform Commission, which included Sanders and Clinton campaign representatives — issued a report calling for all state parties to pass laws, change party rules or file lawsuits if necessary, to make it easier for voters to switch their registration to vote in Democratic primaries.

If the failed in this case, then it calls into question their prospects for successfully negotiating equally complex legislation like tax reform or a massive infrastructure project.

He also said it is important in reforming health care to realize that «there is no free lunch,» called for higher mileage standards for cars, talked about the struggles of carmakers in Detroit («You can't fight the marketplace»), and said that while he wouldn't call for a nationwide ban on smoking in public places like the one he pushed through in New York, «it would be great if America did it.»

If state legislators don't agree to his proposed reforms, Cuomo's budget plan calls for a $ 377 million school aid hike.

This primary just goes to show that if immigration is to be key in 2006, then it looks like most Americans are siding with Bush and his call for COMPREHENSIVE immigration reform.

The state budget proposed by Cuomo calls for $ 23.14 billion in education aid, a $ 1.06 billion increase to all districts, if his proposed education reforms are approved by the state Legislature.

The Select Committees that have reported today have called very clearly for the pause — if not the stop — button to be pressed, and for the adoption of the sort of consensual, reflective approach that is imperative if constitutional reform is to be appropriately considered and, if necessary, implemented.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

They will need, as one sympathetic Labour backbencher put it last week, «to escape the cul - de-sacs of what might be called Old New Labour thinking» if the government is to find the right public language which can build a consensus for progressive reform.

The mayor ultimately called for 421a to expire if it were not reformed to his liking, but the framework deal will prolong the exemption in its present form for six months, giving the building trades unions and real estate interests time to come to a deal on pay rates.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

If you want to understand why a strong federal role is needed in advancing systemic reform of American public education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.

On the other hand, the call for these reforms would be a lot more persuasive if it were shown to be a piece of something larger.

But if we're really concerned about quality — responding to Shelton — Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform Now (DFER), said we need to call for a «moratorium on the traditional public schools that have been failing [our children] for generations.»

«People can call themselves Democrats for Education Reform — it's a free country — but if your agenda is to shut teachers and school employees out of the political process and not lift a finger to prevent cuts in education, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is nonpartisan.

Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective teacher evaluation system rather than continue with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

This would seem to make it easier to remove ineffective teachers, because the agreement calls for a teacher's removal if judged ineffective two years in a row, and, as such, it's a reform that would have been unimaginable four months ago when the first - round application was filed — or even two months ago, when Mulgrew and I had breakfast.

Too few legitimate cases make it to court for all kinds of reasons, including not only limits on state AG's ability to hire contingency fee attorneys but also the hundreds if not thousands of so - called «tort reforms» that have passed since the 1980s.