Sentences with phrase «effort at reform»

Earlier efforts at reform failed in each of the 2013 - 2017 legislative sessions.

Not surprisingly it has been the target of recurring efforts at reform.

If implemented, the half - hearted effort at reform, would have allowed opponents to point to the poorly crafted model as an example of the failure of public financing.

Some districts in our area have even made nominal efforts at reform.

Then, when you go to the auto lender, you can show that despite your credit problems in the past you have made a conscious effort at reforming.

Institutional navel - gazing after the rejection of the European constitution was followed by a momentous political effort at reform in the Lisbon treaty.

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

But the bankers» lobbyists beat back that modest effort at reform in the last days before the law passed.

It will obliterate sensible piecemeal and experimental efforts at reform.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

[59] Through negotiations this authority was only awarded to the mayor of New York City as an attempt to overcome a system of school boards that many considered to be hampering efforts at reform.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

Left Behind, a scathing 2003 report by the business - led Civic Committee of Chicago concluded that Chicago's school reform efforts had failed to raise student achievement sufficiently and that a new effort at reform was needed.

One early effort at reform was a proposal from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the summer of 2001 to create and oversee a new charter school district, converting 10 existing public schools to charters.

«After 20 years of serious effort at reform we have barely budged the needle in terms of the proportion of kids who arrive at their mid-20s with a postsecondary credential.»

Having a Say: Youth and Educational Activism (2009) Ever since school was made compulsory for American children in the early 20th century, efforts at reform rarely included input from youth.

The impetus this time was the famous A Nation at Risk report, which framed the educational problem in dire economic terms and launched an avalanche of state - level efforts at reform.

In its latest effort at reform, Michigan legislatures will now allow Detroit to hire un-certified teachers — another disruption supporters say will bring new teachers with expertise in their subjects but no pedagogical preparation into the classroom.

When animal lovers learn about the cruelty and killing that are rampant in U.S. shelters, and that national animal protection organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) defend these shelters and thwart efforts at reform, the first and the most logical question they ask is: Why?

Produced in conjunction with the new Stanford Criminal Justice Center, this Issue reflects such an effort to restate the major lessons about sentencing reform from the past twenty - five years, and to do so in a manner that will assist further efforts at reform.

Consequently, doctrinal entrenchment, by undermining FISA's statutory design and cramping efforts at reform from within, further exacerbates the costs of stare decisis in the FISA context.

And while the young prince is progressive on social issues by Saudi standards and is making efforts at reform, his government is still under scrutiny for its restrictive policies toward women and other groups.

Since the most severe problems are in inner - city schools, we should focus our efforts at reform there.

It is certainly an effort at reforming current practice in almost every aspect of worship.

The shock of discovering that one's new bride or bridegroom has faults and deficiencies, perhaps serious ones, sometimes leads to efforts at reform.

It's easy to blame this on the Republicans but Shelly has blocked all efforts at reform for decades.

Gov. Cuomo says if state lawmakers resist his efforts at reform he's prepared to hammer them where it hurts — at the polls.

The 52 - year - old son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo let it be known that he'll be only too happy to tee up lawmakers who buck his efforts at reform.

Efforts at reform have been full of fits and starts.

And she began to question the Bloomberg administration's efforts at reform, at first in private, and then very publicly.

Elmore (531) further argued that «every effort at reform is heavily influenced by the contexts, micro and macro, in which it exists.

The march attracted only about 3,000 participants, but their message reflected the standard opposition by teachers unions and their allies to efforts at reforming our public schools.

Efforts at reforming these systems have mostly focused on requiring manufacturers to share information with those who buy their chemicals.

On the other hand, proponents of taking action to curb climate change charge that efforts at reform are being opposed by the coal, oil, and natural - gas industries and from oil - rich countries like Saudi Arabia.