Sentences with phrase «for dramatic reforms»
«I think that there is a lot more support than people think in the Legislature itself for dramatic reforms,» the AG said.
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Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.
Attorney General Schneiderman praised Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for pushing ethics reform as part of the State budget process, but called for more dramatic changes, even if doing so delayed enactment of the budget.
Reforming a dysfunctional Roman curia which is, by various accounts, sclerotic, lazy, factional, self - serving, secretive or actively corrupt will be high up on the to - do list, but so may a decisive and dramatic public gesture, signalling the church's sorrow and repentance for its crimes.
Following boundary changes in 1994, and later reform of the business vote in the City, there was a major boundary and electoral representation revision of the wards in 2003, and they were reviewed again in 2010 for change in 2013, though not to such a dramatic extent.
The Liberal Democrats have called for a reform of the «bedroom tax» in a dramatic withdrawal of support for the controversial welfare reform.
The Liberal Democrats have called for a reform of the «Bedroom Tax» in a dramatic withdrawal of support for the controversial welfare reform.
«Reforms only come when elected officials believe the consequences for them would be worse if they don't institute dramatic reforms.Reforms only come when elected officials believe the consequences for them would be worse if they don't institute dramatic reforms.reforms.»
As a state senator since 2013 and a former Assembly member for four terms, I will not accept a pay hike unless it is accompanied by dramatic reforms.
I understand that it was difficult for the Legislature because it was so dramatic a reform,» said Cuomo, sitting between Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, the tough - talking Republican who would serve as one of the panel's three co-chairs.
That philosophy has led Cecilia Muñoz to the role of point woman, as domestic policy council director, for President Obama's dramatic recent executive initiatives for immigration reform (among many other policy issues).
Truth be told, few in today's K — 12 education reform movement look to the PTA to fight for dramatic change or engage in direct conflict with the public education establishment.
* The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act allowed illegal immigrants already living in the United States to apply for legal status if they met certain requirements, which resulted in a dramatic upswing in immigration figures in the late 1980s and 1990s, totaling about 2.7 million people over that period.
A dramatic fall in entries for AS - levels across the reformed subjects includes a 55 per cent drop in entries for chemistry.
Their earlier work on this topic includes School Turnarounds: A Review of Cross-Sector Evidence on Dramatic Organizational Improvement (Center on Innovation and Improvement, 2007), and Julie Kowal and Emily Ayscue Hassel, Turnarounds with New Leaders and Staff (Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005).
As part of this, the UAE has implemented its plan for «First - Rate Education», which outlines dramatic reforms to the curriculum, a strategy for improving teaching through professional development and a commitment to encouraging the development of 21st Century skills in schools.
Consider all of the supposedly dramatic reforms of the last several decades; every single one of them took for granted the district structure.
And as he geared up to run for a second term, he was claiming success: the city's schools had been fundamentally reformed, and dramatic education change was under way.
More than making up for its fiscal limitations, the state, led by former governor Jeb Bush, implemented a series of school reforms that together appear to have had dramatic consequences for student performance.
The United Arab Emirates has implemented its plan for «First - Rate Education», which outlines dramatic reforms to the curriculum, improving teaching through professional development and a commitment to developing 21st Century skills in schools.
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Following two decades in which courts spurred significant reforms in our nation's neediest schools by interpreting the education clauses of their state constitutions to guarantee an «adequate» education for all students, the years 2005 to 2008 have seen a dramatic change in the judicial response to adequacy litigation.
Progressives get annoyed that conservatives don't understand why dramatic structural reforms are so urgent, and for not grasping that they would work if everyone would just join the team and put their shoulder to the wheel.
The second wave of reform took the form of school restructuring, and combined three complementary elements: (a) a call for higher and common expectations for ALL students, (b) an emphasis on new and more challenging teaching practices, and (c) dramatic changes in the organization and management of public schools (Elmore, 1990).
The latest push for education reform has also come — not coincidentally — as the downtown has undergone a dramatic transformation, with an explosion of restaurants and nightlife.
Prior to moving to Rhode Island, she worked for Grand Rapids Public Schools, helping district and school leaders manage dramatic instructional reforms as part of a $ 5 million federal grant.
Kingsland, blogging this year on the Education Week website, sparked controversy by challenging superintendents of struggling school districts to relinquish their systems instead of trying endless reforms: «Rid yourself of the notion that your current opinions on curriculum, teacher evaluation, technology, or anything else will be the foundation for dramatic gains in student achievement.
In this Issue Brief, prepared by Public Impact for The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement at Learning Point Associates, we offer seven steps for district leaders to support the dramatic change required to turn around chronic low performance.
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Similarly, with the financial demands of California's government pension systems just one more market downturn away from completely crippling local governments, bipartisan support for dramatic pension reform is inevitable.
The need for dramatic changes in secondary education is a key focus of the Governor's economic plan for North Carolina, and that focus has generated political momentum for high school reform.
In 2016, Jonathan Chait, a liberal writer for New York magazine (whose wife helped craft some of D.C.'s new policies and now works for a local charter school), declared, «The dramatic improvements registered in places like Washington show the revolutionary possibilities of education reform.»
In 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act marked a dramatic win for standards - based reform — but at the price of abandoning the push for «national» standards.
«This finding about the importance of tutoring is in line with other recent evidence pointing to dramatic gains from intensive tutoring on its own, suggesting a good place to start for effective and practical reform at traditional public schools,» wrote the authors, Julia Chabrier of J - Pal North America, Sarah Cohodes of Teachers College Columbia University, and Philip Oreopoulos of the economics department at the University of Toronto.
for an overview of the tax reforms proposed by the Trump administration including dramatic tax cuts and simplification.
India, with 21 % of the global burden of disease but only 6 % of hospital bed capacity, has been left behind Asian neighbors Thailand, Indonesia, China on UHC, Bali added, calling for a dramatic and innovative healthcare reform process in the country.
In asking for this dramatic civil law reform — and not insisting on even more dramatic constitutional change — the political parties and the mainstream gay and lesbian groups have pitched it right.
Dramatic changes to the MID were included in recommendations of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, released late last year, which among other things called for converting the deduction to a credit and capping allowable amounts.