Sentences with phrase «finance reform efforts»

how to finance the reform efforts (e.g., reconfiguring existing organizational structures and budgets, granting policy waivers, doing away with programs peripheral to the district reform priorities, raising funds through local bond elections and community contributions, competing for government and foundation grants);

In fact they are the gold standard prerequisite in education finance reform efforts.

Dr. Cárdenas was actively involved in the school finance reform efforts since the early days of the Rodríguez vs. San Antonio ISD litigation when he was superintendent of the Edgewood ISD.

«We call on Senator Flanagan and the Long Island Republican Senators to stand up for real reform and to restore the confidence of the residents of Long Island by enacting campaign finance reform efforts by instituting a system of publicly funded elections that will stop Albany's culture of corruption,» said Lisa Tyson, executive director of the LIPC.

Cuomo on Monday will take part in a telephone town hall meeting with Citizen Action as he starts to gear up for a campaign finance reform effort.

Participants questioned the presenters on the financing reform efforts like Learn and Earn high schools.

Not exact matches

But significant changes in policies since then — not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization — are leading to substantial new financing needs.

In an effort to advance housing finance reform that will provide certainty and stability to the nation's financial markets and promote job and economic growth, NAHB has updated its 2012 white paper on this topic.

You might remember Samuels from his short - lived Blue Tiger Democrats effort to impose some reform on the Senate Democrats when he was their finance chairman.

His fundraiser comes on the same week his former top aide, Steve Cohen, and Democratic donor / activist Sean Eldridge and his fiance, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, launched a new coordinated effort to push for campaign finance reform in Albany — something for which Cuomo has repeatedly voiced support, but so far not done much to achieve.

The failed push for campaign finance overwhelmed all other reform efforts.

These proposals, along with ethics and campaign finance reform legislation passed by the Assembly, demonstrate the strong commitment of the Assembly majority to making positive change in Albany, and I thank Assembly Members Pretlow, Kavanagh and the other members of the Workgroup for the many hours they put into this most important effort.»

Campaign finance reform advocates kicked off a mailing campaign this week, targeting specific districts as they ratchet up their efforts in support of a public financing system.

Engaging Citizen Action is a sign, though, that the governor is employing ground - level help for the campaign finance overhaul effort in a Legislature that's notorious for half reforms.

The attorney recalled the legislator talking with him ahead of a 2012 meeting with Mr. Ross and Mr. Beal at Porter House Restaurant on Columbus Circle — a meeting where the three were to discuss key races and the effort to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign finance reform proposals — where Mr. Skelos impressed upon him his son's urgent financial needs.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

Governor Cuomo says he's starting a new effort to push campaign finance reform in New York's elections.

In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

PRI says the company's finances are increasingly strong, the result of an «ongoing effort since 2009 to reform its management, governance, operations, actuarial and claims practices and procedures, and overall financial footing.»

What's noteworthy is that Cuomo has not used his political capital in an effort to reform the redistricting and budgeting processes and campaign finance laws, all of which are cited in the study as serious problems.

Spitzer's first big legislative effort was campaign finance reform.

I admire his stance against the Patriot Act, as well as his efforts on campaign finance reform and against torture and indefinite detentions of terror suspects without any mechanism for judicial review.

The mayor, who says he favors campaign finance reform, led a massive fundraising effort to retake control of the state Senate.

Cuomo has said he intends to launch a new effort for campaign finance reform, and Samuels says he could hold public hearings and create an open process to develop legislation, as well as setting a good example on his own, by saying he won't accept any more corporate donations.

He is a proponent of campaign finance reform, term limits, greater focus on education and a «balanced» effort to address climate change.

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.

Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas.

The Senate is seen as the biggest stumbling block for campaign finance reform and has been the focus of the groups efforts.

Molinaro was re-elected mayor five times and elected four times to the Dutchess County Legislature, where he chaired the Budget, Finance and Personnel Committee and led the effort to reform Dutchess County's Child Protective Services.

We'll also partner with Fair Elections for New York in their efforts to pass meaningful campaign finance reform in the state.

Cuomo has «supported» efforts on the DREAM Act, campaign finance reform, and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), but has not made powerful public or behind - the - scenes - efforts to enact them.

More power to outgoing state Senate Republican Leader John McKinney, who wants to help lead a bipartisan effort to fix Connecticut's once - heralded 2005 campaign finance reform law.

The discussion covers efforts by Governor Eliot Spitzer to reform the budget process, cut taxes and toughen campaign finance laws.

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.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

In too many places, public officials do not appreciate the stakes in school finance litigation or erroneously believe that such litigation will hasten reform efforts.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

School - finance reforms passed last year by Wisconsin lawmakers in an effort to reduce the gap between wealthy and poor school districts could have the opposite effect.

These efforts invariably provided occasion for litigation and sometimes, as in the case of school finance reform, worked primarily through it.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

At the time, few fully appreciated how the legislation would change the political landscape, but you can read more about the Democrats successful effort to destroy Connecticut's campaign finance law in the June 2013 CTNewsJunkie article entitled, «Malloy Signs Bill Changing Campaign Finance Reforms of 2005.finance law in the June 2013 CTNewsJunkie article entitled, «Malloy Signs Bill Changing Campaign Finance Reforms of 2005.Finance Reforms of 2005.»

State leaders merely need to decide their priorities in this reform effort and then have the school finance experts build funding formulas to fulfill them.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

Amid local efforts to improve education outcomes in districts with fewer resources, superintendents expressed worries last year that lawmakers would not pass meaningful school finance reform without a ruling from the Texas Supreme Court ordering them to do so.

Are school finance reforms merely a waste of effort?

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A federal - provincial meeting on Canada Pension Plan reform broke up in recriminations Monday after several provincial ministers accused Finance Minister Jim Flaherty of blocking efforts to enrich the plan — or even agreeing to further study.

The «Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act» is meant to reign in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to influence auto financing, which the CFPB claims can be discriFinancing Guidance Act» is meant to reign in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to influence auto financing, which the CFPB claims can be discrifinancing, which the CFPB claims can be discriminatory.

In spite of EPW's focus on Vitter's billionaire's club and political spending by environmental groups, Senator Vitter has refused to support campaign finance reform, or efforts aimed at reducing the wealthy's influence in politics, like the DISCLOSE Act.

This includes developing, implementing, and managing legal and legislative strategies for ILR's civil justice reform efforts, as well as shareholder activism and campaign finance reform issues.