Sentences with phrase «changes after the reforms»

At Northridge, Michael Spagna, dean of California State Northridge's college of education, says that the school of education underwent extensive changes after the reforms were passed in 1998, which he says was a «seismic shift» for California.

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has abandoned a key labor law reform after admitting data used to support the change was flawed.

Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

China must accelerate the pace of economic reforms, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said after the first day of talks between the two nations in Beijing, but his Chinese counterpart warned change will take time.

WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

After all, the Liberals» 2017 began with Trudeau dropping Maryam Monsef from Democratic Reform and into Status of Women, on the way to breaking his promise to change the way Canadians elect MPs.

After Republicans spent the greater part of the year pushing unsuccessfully to repeal Obamacare, tax reform was the last frontier for major legislative change in Trump's first year in office — a reality that served as a major motivator to get the tax bill done by Christmas.

This was a violation of something very sacred in the minds of the people; so it is little to be wondered at that soon after his own early death a reaction against the reform developed, and that finally his own name and the name of the god Aton, whose name he had incorporated in his own when he had it changed from Amen - hotep to Akhnaton, were likewise erased from public monuments.

Dedicated to «schools that are making real and lasting changes to improve their students» lives,» «Overloaded and Underprepared» makes Challenge Success» sought - after school reform services widely available to anyone interested in doing the same.

Married after the war and the mother of three small children, she trained to be a judge and worked on changing the law for adoption and prison reform.

The leader sent a letter (the text of which appears in full after the jump) to the former mayor that announced his change of heart, proclaimed optimism about the likely election of gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo (who also signed Koch's pledges) and outlined the reforms the Democrats have achieved on his watch.

Silver said he believes there will be changes in the way redistricting takes place after the 2010 Census numbers come in, but he stressed this reform effort might be easier said than done, adding: «There are a whole bunch of things that are recognized either by law, federal law or the Supreme Court that go into this.»

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

The announcement coincides days after the departure of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had led the investigation into de Blasio as well as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's closure of the Moreland Commission following an agreement on ethics reform changes in the state budget.

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

On changes to the state's campaign finance laws, Skelos indicated he would be open to reforms that did not include a public financing system that is modeled after the New York City system.

The Government must give better and fuller guidance to tax credit and other benefit claimants about the circumstances in which they may still claim the child element of child tax credit or universal credit for a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).1 Previously announced changes to tax credits, universal credit and some other benefits which limit payment of the child element to no more than two children come into effect today (6 April).

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

After reports from District Leaders Keen Berger and Arthur Schwartz (who announced that he was leaving the Village Reform Democratic Club), County Committeeman and County Committee Secretary, Ben Yee reported on the status of several rules changes that had been introduced at the County Committee meeting in September.

And a number of sought - after items, including cash bail, early voting, changes to statutes regarding child molestation, New York's DREAM Act, and ethics reform fell out of the final bill, unable to pass a divided legislature.

These reforms represent a sea change in a borough where County Leader after County Leader has been forced to abruptly end their tenures due to challenges with the law.

The issue of electoral reform for the National Assembly is back on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Wales indicated she may change how AMs are elected.

In a statement to MPs after abandoning plans to reform the Lords last month, the deputy prime minister also rejected out of hand modest changes to the upper house proposed by the former Liberal leader Lord Steel of Aikwood.

After repeatedly and roundly criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio for not visiting Albany until this week to lobby for changes to real estate and rent laws, Mr. Cuomo indicated that Mr. Schneiderman is similarly late with the ambitious package of reforms he debuted on Wednesday.

They discuss Koch's plans to reform Albany, his career in Empire State politics, his views on Iraq and Afghanistan, and whether voters can expect changes after the fall election.

Republicans in the New York State Senate are in talks with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about legislative ethics reforms as demands for changes mount after the recent arrest of the former Assembly speaker.

Williams left after fielding questions from the audience about tax reform, student debt and climate change.

«After careful consideration, we have determined that reform can provide greater transparency, increased Member participation, changes in leadership selection, reform in staffing decisions and staff authority,» the Assembly members wrote.

She said she would have liked Cuomo and the state Legislature to propose changes, like campaign finance reform, that would prevent corruption in the first place instead of «punishment» after a crime is committed.

Business secretary Vince Cable said he and chancellor George Osborne had come to a «common view» over the need for reform after a year of intensive lobbying against the changes by the City.

Taking questions after his speech to the Reform thinktank, Mr Fox said: «Those in politics on the other side of the world can huff and puff but it will not change our resolve politically to retain the independence and the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands nor to come to their defence and to maintain deterrence as best we can.

The Bronx assembylman's focus on ethics changes comes after a group of reform - minded Democrats in the chamber have pushed speaker candidates to backa host of reforms that would decentralize some of the power of the speakership and give more clout to rank - and - file members.

There are also cases where a prime minister makes a policy change and feels that it needs ratification from the voters, as with the election called in 1923 after Baldwin adopted tariff reform.

After last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York's teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state's tenure laws.

After the speech, Cuomo's office pointed to past «landmark transparency reforms» and said his interest in other changes, like limiting lawmakers» outside income and lowering campaign contribution limits,

Stewart - Cousins said that the usual «three men in a room» negotiation process, which for decades had been dominated by a cast of mostly white men, was ripe for reform after an arrest that led to a change in Assembly speakers.

After the speech, Cuomo's office pointed to past «landmark transparency reforms» and said his interest in other changes, like limiting lawmakers» outside income and lowering campaign contribution limits, has not dwindled.

The reforms were first proposed by a panel convened last year by Cuomo also include changes to arrest procedures, removing youth from prisons that include adults and an expansion of services that would provide assistance to juveniles after their release.

After the disasters of the AV vote and Lords reform, it would be a change long sought by the Lib Dems that he would have delivered.

After we tried a number of changes and reforms, we didn't feel we were getting as much seamlessness and as much streamlining as we needed,» de Blasio said.

Valesky says the education reform proposals, which include tougher teacher evaluation rules and changes in tenure, could be handled after the budget is approved, which is supposed to happen by April 1.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

After 2001, Blair and Brown should have been winning arguments and changing Britain's soul rather than through stealth taxes and silent spending and welfare reforms.

Valesky credited Governor Spitzer for «using his mandate to smash the status quo,» and noted that the Governor set the tone for ethics reform shortly after taking office when he initiated changes in the regulations governing the Executive's office.

She says she would have liked Cuomo and the legislature to propose changes that would prevent corruption in the first place, like campaign finance reform instead of «punishment» after a crime is committed.

«If (reform) didn't happen after Silver and Skelos, the Percoco disclosure is not going to change anything,» Effective NY founder Bill Samuels said.

«That just speaks to the fact that this is truly criminal justice reform and not police reform,» Brooklyn Councilman Antonio Reynoso said, noting that one changes how the legal system processes people after cops have stopped and charged them with misdeeds, and the other regulates that initial encounter with law enforcement.

The decrease is likely also driven by the changed political calculus for both unions and charter groups after most of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sweeping education reform proposals failed during last year's legislative session.

After the election, which Astorino lost, the party changed its name to the Reform Party, which is allowed under state election law.

And although we do not generally support stuffing the budget with policy items, it might be smart to put ethics reform there, given the urgency for change after the recent corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.