Sentences with phrase «decade after the reforms»

Yet, in the retail lending market in Australia, interest margins remained high for about a decade after the reforms.

In the decade after the reforms, the city's standardized test scores have increased by eight to 15 percentile points and moved the district from the bottom to almost the state average on many measures.

Not exact matches

After a decade of backing human rights and reform, the United States is once again backing corruption and strongmen.

Under revisions passed after abuses were revealed in the 1970s, the NSA was required to receive warrants from judges belonging to the so - called FISA court to conduct surveillance on Americans inside the U.S. — a reform process Taubman had covered as a reporter decades ago.

By comparison, estimates of former Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R - MI) deficit - neutral tax reform from 2014 found it would improve GDP by 0.1 to 1.6 percent after a decade.

By comparison, estimates of former Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp's (R - MI) deficit - neutral tax reform from 2014 found that it would improve GDP by 0.1 to 1.6 percent after a decade.

If GOOGL's NOPAT margin expands to 23 % (based on Cowen's estimate of tax reform's impact) and the company can grow after - tax profit by 14 % compounded annually for the next decade, the stock is worth $ 1,520 / share today, a 41 % upside from the current price.

After the April announcement that the Vatican was taking the Leadership Conference of Women Religious into a form of ecclesiastical receivership, appointing Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to oversee the LCWR until its statutes and program are reformed, Tom Fox, a major figure at the National Catholic Reporter for decades, had this to say:

Two decades after «Dover Beach,» the Fabian Socialists in England were busily, busily building on the ruins with education, sociological research and reform.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

Cuomo has proposed ethics legislation, his second package since he and the Legislature passed a 2011 ethics reform act after campaigning in 2010 to «clean up Albany,» a platform similar to ones routinely used in Albany campaigns for decades.

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.

I recently had the pleasure to revisit Warsaw, Poland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, two decades after the start of market reforms in which I had participated as an economic adviser.

According to the Center for Education Reform, as of January 2003 there were nearly 2,700 charter schools serving more than 684,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, just a decade after the first charter opened its doors.

The area between the two trend lines shows the «reform dividend,» which totals to $ 2.5 trillion in the two decades after the release of Risk.

Right now, all indicators show that after nearly two decades of standards - based school reform, we have deep, persistent achievement gaps and far too many of our students performing well below proficiency.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

In the decade after the education reforms began, the average NAEP reading score for Hispanic 4th graders in Florida rose steeply so that by 2007 scores were higher than the average NAEP reading scores of all students (regardless of ethnicity) in 15 states (see Figure 3).

After decades of reform, we have thankfully seen real improvement among many of our lowest performing schools and districts.

After a decade of efforts to improve public schools incrementally, the initiative for education reform has shifted to outsiders who propose radical measures.

While these strategies are necessary, the data on student achievement in Massachusetts, after nearly two decades of reform, makes it readily apparent that schooling solutions alone are not sufficient to achieve our aspiration of getting all students to proficiency.

A decade after Massachusetts passed its charter school law as part of the Education Reform Act of 1993, city officials in North Adams, Massachusetts, sued the state Department of Education, challenging the constitutionality of charter schools.

After all, when I reflect on some of the major reform pushes of the past decade or more, I fear that such attention is almost invariably absent.

«Seven decades after the 1944 Education Act, we believe that the time is overdue for reform as the old settlement no longer works as well as it needs to for the benefit of schools, religion and society.»

After more than two decades of work in the school reform trenches, Mr. Wolk retired in 1997 and moved to Rhode Island, where he has continued to remain active in trying to improve public education.

Two decades after Massachusetts passed its education reform, there is still much disagreement over what were the crucial components to its success.

After two decades, the education reform pendulum has finally begun to swing away from the no - excuses world view.

For years, that has been the national narrative about the long - troubled school district in the nation's capital: After decades of low performance and stagnation, the system was moving forward with a «reform» program that was a model for the nation.

In the early 1990s, after decades of concentrating on programs designed to target individual students at risk of academic failure, a new idea based on a comprehensive approach to school reform was conceived.

After gaining increased acceptance in the last decade, they now are central to school reform under the Obama administration, which wants states to remove any limits on their growth.

Parents and teachers have until April 18 to email comments on the state's draft plan to overhaul special education, as Texas tries to reform its services after more than a decade of denying children access.

After a decade of haphazardly reforming our public school system, we have reached a crucial junction.

After a decade of gathering momentum, reform politics began to founder in the face of communities fighting for equitable and progressive public education.

So, why haven't schools improved more markedly, even after decades of «reform»?

When it comes to education reform, perhaps no city has inspired more controversy and acclaim over the last decade than Washington, D.C. Even today, uttering the name «Michelle Rhee» — the city's first schools chancellor appointed in 2007 after a major shakeup in the district — still evokes heated reactions from local residents.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Round after round of education reform has failed in recent decades, and one major reason is our anachronistic and deeply flawed system for organizing and operating public schools.

After a decade of unprecedented growth and irrefutable evidence that schools are getting better, some in our community remain frustrated with how reform in New Orleans has happened and how decisions are made.

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

Relax and enjoy a conversation on the state of Connecticut's charter movement and education reform after two decades.

Those results come more than a decade after public schools in Baltimore undertook a systemwide reform, and illustrate that the city still lags behind statewide scores.

After all, two decades of economic reform have been aimed at creating a level playing field for producers around the world, and that should require measures against the sort of environmental dumping that US and Australian companies will soon be engaged in.

After two decades of procedural development, it is now apparent that reform of the Australian class action model is required to ensure that it continues to meet its goals.

And yet, today — after a tumultuous half decade that has included the Securities Reference, Nadon, and the Senate Reform Reference, and Carter — it is no longer possible not to notice the part that «By the Court» played in ratcheting up tension of the Court's public contretemps with the Harper government.

After a decade of uncertainty, while new procedural and funding systems have become established, we need time to reflect before launching into yet further reforms, with the risk of making changes almost just for the sake of change.

Social reform is taking the spotlight after several technical changes have taken place in the healthcare industry over the past decade.