Sentences with phrase «first big reform»

66 Of course, this was Bill Gates first big reform idea.

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But imposing broader or better reforms is difficult because even the experts don't have a good handle on how big the problem is in the first place.

on what biggest reform they could take... The first thing is to restore and convince everybody that honesty and clarity in the organisation are needed.

So when much - needed reforms were instituted two years ago, one of the first complaints from the political right was that big, strapping football players were going hungry due to Mrs. Obama's Nanny State school meal calorie limits.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

There has been a widespread assumption that the Conservatives have nothing to gain from electoral reform, and the work that has been done so far — such as the YouGov poll for the Spectator earlier this month — has indeed suggested that the Tories would be the biggest net losers when comparing A.V. with First Past The Post (FPTP).

This is a big joke, similar to Obama wanting campaign finance reform while simultaneously being the first presidential candidate in the modern era to opt out of publicly financed campaign in 2008.

The scheme described as the biggest reform to welfare since Beveridge, was meant to begin last autumn, but has been beset by huge problems and delays since it was first conceived by Iain Duncan Smith.

The Prime Minister was up significantly again in the first week of February when he announced a big increase in defence spending and plans for electoral reform.

14.45 - Electoral reform is going to be a big issue — in some quarters, at least — after a set of results that really does call into question the virtues of first - past - the - post.

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

«Moving from first - past - the - post to alternative vote is not a big change, it's not real reform, it's not proportional representation,» he said.

IBC's chairman, Sir John Vickers, is due to give his first big speech this Saturday on the direction of reform, ahead of the commission's interim report due to be published in April.

Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, D - Ithaca: Yes «In my first few weeks of office, I signed onto the Assembly Public Election Financing bill as one of the most important reforms we could enact to help get the corrupting influence of big money out of our elections.

In his first month in office, he signed on as a co-sponsor of two House bills aimed at campaign finance reform — both of which seek to limit the influence of big donors and special interests, including super PACs that can spend unlimited amounts of money on federal campaigns.

Democrat Eliot Spitzer began his first term last January, after winning big by promising to reform state government.

The bill was first introduced by Democratic senators around the time Cuomo began a big push for comprehensive campaign finance reform, at the tail end of the 2013 legislative session.

First, the big one: President Barack Obama is now on record in favor of pension reform.

First, they confirm that the modest effects of the initial 1998 reform paved the way for much bigger changes in 2006 and 2012.

readers will also remember that Achievement First, Inc. is one of the biggest financial beneficiaries of Malloy's «Education Reform» bill.

As with centrist and progressive counterparts, conservative reformers must decide if their greatest concern is with building brighter futures for all children (and working in the big tent that is the reform movement), or with adhering to first principles that may not always match up with the reality of the education crisis (as well as disturbing the relationships they have with their ideological counterparts).

Self - Interest No. 1: Pure Profit — First and foremost, there's a ton of money to be made in the education «reforms» that Big Money interests are advocating.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

Achievement First, the same company that is the single biggest beneficiary of Governor's Malloy's «education reform» plan here in Connecticut.

The coalition includes ConnCAN (the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First, the charter school management company that will end up the biggest winner under Malloy's bill), the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the Connecticut Association of Schools, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.

The biggest winner of all will be Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that Connecticut's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor helped create and manage for the past 8 years before he resigned to become Malloy's point person on education reform.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Many are asking the big question - how is it that a candidate who ran and won on making school reform his first priority hasn't been successful in achieving real reform since he's taken office?

But imposing broader or better reforms is difficult because even the experts don't have a good handle on how big the problem is in the first place.

Ofgem say the consultation unveiled today is «the first of four waves of reform» — in November, they will unveil detailed proposals to reform the energy market to help the business sector; in December there will be further decisions on proposals on liquidity to break the stranglehold of the Big Six in the wholesale electricity market; and in the New Year they will publish a report into how to make energy company accounts more transparent.

«The big change arrived on September 1, 1990 with the first phase of court reform.

Big news in patent reform: the Innovation Act, our favorite troll - killing bill, has cleared its first major political hurdle.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the first of six financial regulators to release the final version of the long - awaited qualified residential mortgage (QRM) rule, which stems from the big 2010 banking reform bill the federal government enacted after the financial...