Sentences with phrase «efforts at reform failed»

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

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.

Not exact matches

President Obama supported comprehensive gun reforms after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, but the effort ultimately failed in Congress.

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.

A majority of Americans are ready to move on from health - care reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed last week, according to an exclusive Reuters / Ipsos opinion poll.

Cuomo pointed to the failed effort to achieve juvenile justice reform, as well as a plan he proposed at the start of the year — providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for families earning less than $ 125,000.

Fred LeBrun says Cuomo faces a significant backlash if his latest effort at education reform fails.

One effort to reform the Port Authority, the agency at the center of the Bridgegate scandal, died this year when the state Senate failed to override a veto by Christie (New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a parallel bill; each state must pass identical laws to reform the bi-state agency).

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Paul Reville at the Education Redesign Lab, the workshop explores why current education reform efforts are failing and how we might work to design a «new engine» to drive better outcomes for all.

Some of the biggest funders on the scene remain devoted to a reform strategy that has so far failed to yield transformative change, while a range of other funder - backed efforts aren't yet operating at a scale likely to produce major breakthroughs.

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

'' Chicago has a long history of tinkering with failed schools,» said Tom Vander Ark, executive director for education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed some $ 25 million since 2001 to school reform efforts in Chicago.

Will the teachers unions tell the kids that in California, they have done everything within their abusive power to maintain the failing status quo by trying and mostly succeeding to kill every effort at education reform that would have benefited students?

They have also failed to call the administration on the carpet for the process it has used for granting waivers, even as more evidence has proven that it is just winging it, and continue to proclaim the waivers as a good idea even though it is essentially damaging the reform efforts they are pushing at the state level.

The failed recall effort and the unions» weakness (at least at the legislative level) in stopping education reform raise questions about the unions» real level of support.

Reform efforts aimed at solving the problems of students failing classes, repeating grades, or dropping out altogether have focused on instruction, testing, and class size.

In the New York Times, Jennifer Medina writes about a topic that our own Ben Boychuk has chronicled at length: the effort to reform California schools through a trigger mechanism, which allows dissatisfied parents to convert failing public institutions into charter schools.

All of this has to be considered within the state's failed efforts at pension reform earlier this year.

Last year, Edwards put her organization's federal tax - exempt status at risk by partnering with Stand for Children, which has become a radical reform group, in failed efforts to upend local school board elections.