Sentences with phrase «failed reforms ranging»

Her next book, The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945 - 80, trained a withering eye on what she saw as a history of failed reforms ranging from Lyndon Johnson - era anti-poverty programs to utopian promises of computer - assisted learning.

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4 February 2003: MPs fail to agree a final stage of Lords reform, voting to reject five options in turn, ranging from maintaining the status quo to establishing a fully elected second chamber.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.

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.