Sentences with phrase «for substantial reforms»

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

And the debate over the role of law schools in preparing students for the reality of practice continues to rage in full force, with a diverse coalition comprised of both law professors and practitioners advocating for substantial reform.

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«Our companies believe that government surveillance practices should also be reformed to include substantial enhancements to privacy protections and appropriate oversight and accountability mechanisms for those programs,» the company wrote.

Tax reform did introduce substantial additional complexity to tax equity finance, however not all of the changes have been negative for solar companies.

The substantial financial earnings made by individual Church of England Bishops from their privileged place within the House of Lords have come under scrutiny, leading to further calls from the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their removal as a part of the impending reforms to the upper chamber.

Any substantial increase in the number of states with legal recreational cannabis for adult consumption would represent an important milestone for US drug policy reform.

ALBANY — Good - government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.

[1] Even if it were the case, the advisable reform of Articles 2 and 3 would require special procedures for a total or substantial reform (Article 168), which first require a 2/3 majority in the Congress and the Senate.

Liberal Democrats should press the government to propose substantial reforms in Europe: a smaller European commission whose members are individually accountable to the European parliament for their conduct of their office; a council that meets openly whenever it debates legislative matters; a core of human and social rights embodied in the next amended treaty.

«We understand the government's determination to deliver a substantial programme of reforms across the public sector, but we can not afford to get policing wrong, and unless greater clarity emerges in the very near future I fear that we run the risk of compromising the safety of citizens for reasons of expediency,» he will say.

This agreement with a company that has substantial business before the state came a day before Cuomo and the Assembly struck their two - way reform deal, which doesn't require outside income disclosure for spouses of significant others.

In a joint letter, education reform groups thanked Governor Cuomo, Senate Leaders Skelos and Klein, and Assembly Speaker Silver for the substantial improvements you made to New York State's teacher evaluation law as part of this year's budget.

Politicians give lip service to tax reform because we talk about it, but they will not produce any substantial reform because it works for them, it is doing just what they want it to do - redistributing wealth from the silent mass in the middle to the publicly noisy poor and the privately powerful rich.

Tellingly, he punctuated his speech this week by drawing the attention of his audience to the fact that the «most important thing he would say» was that the link between growth and rising prosperity for working people had been broken, and that only substantial economic reform could restore it.

Although the legislature did pass an increased minimum wage in 2016, substantial campaign finance reform bills, for example, have failed to get through both legislative chambers.

«We have no further plans to make welfare savings beyond the very substantial savings legislated for by parliament two weeks ago,» Crabb said in a statement to MPs confirming that the government would drop controversial reforms to personal independence payments (PIP).

While the analysis did not examine secondary effects of subsidies, Gaspar said the results are «qualitatively robust» and allow experts to «safely conclude that energy subsidies are very large and their reform will generate substantial benefits» for both governments and the people they represent.

A consensus for change is developing, but as Bridget Terry Long points out in a new policy proposal commissioned by the Hamilton Project, reform efforts often sidestep substantial questions about how to improve academic preparation and — importantly — help students avoid remedial placement altogether...

For alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pFor alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pfor teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pfor substantial merit pay.

Sen. John Kerry appears headed for a fall presidential campaign in which education will be playing a supporting role, with the Democratic nominee offering the politically popular blend of «reform» and substantial spending increases for schools.

The reform amounts to a substantial increase in public financing for private K - 12 schooling, while doing little to meaningfully increase school choice.

For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.

President Barack Obama and Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today the approval of ten states» plans to make substantial school reforms in return for temporary regulatory relief from some of No Child Left Behind's mandates.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

On the other hand, research on school reform for decades has shown that school improvements tend not to deepen at single schools or spread across schools without substantial support from district central offices.

It is clear that standardized testing can never close the achievement gap, that the Common Core Standards are not good learning and do not give students the skills they need for their future, and that the education «reform» effort is not reform at all but a way to remove public education as a right for all while it provides substantial financial profit for the investors.

The context for this is a national reform launched by the government in 2011, including substantial annual investments in the education sector.

US System of Self - Regulation through SROs: Strengths and Areas for Reform Questions What are the most substantial / significant contributions of the current SRO system in the United States?

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[For example, ongoing money market fund reform's touted as protecting savers — in reality, it will conveniently re-allocate a substantial chunk of this $ 2.6 trillion sector into government debt].

«Substantial abuse» was expanded by the Bankruptcy Reform Act, which went into effect on October 17, 2005, to include a Means Test which allows Chapter 7 only if a debtor has less income than the median for the state of residence, or can pay less than 25 % of his or her unsecured debt from income remaining after meeting expenses over a 5 year period.

Prior to the BAPCPA reforms, most people qualified for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy so Chapter 13 was mostly used by homeowners that wished to keep their home and had significant equity, or those who owned other assets with substantial value that they did not want to expose to liquidation and disbursement to creditors.

Features Tax Relief: The New Act and What It Means for Individuals Tax Strategies: In addition to adopting the largest of the president's 2001 tax cut proposals, Congress included a substantial number of reforms that provide significant increases to the maximum contributions allowed for retirement savings vehicles.

The resulting settlement brokered by the NY Attorney General resulted in substantial reforms to transparency and governance, including requiring the board to plan for getting back to free tuition, installing a financial monitor and requiring the election of new Alumni Trustees.

The Biggert - Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 and subsequent legislation require these subsidies to be phased out, which will result in substantial premium increases for nearly 1 million of the 5.5 million NFIP policies nationwide.

In this issue we cover the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive, diverted profits tax: notification deadline approaching, proposals for reform of the Substantial Shareholdings Exemption, the new France / Singapore double tax treaty, taxation of pensions and lifetime...

To judge from what I see at the annual conference of the Association of American Law Schools — it's a diagnosis of sorts to see so many members of an academic discipline attending this conference for the sole purpose of subsidized dining with friends — a substantial number are indifferent not only to talk of law school reform, but to talk on almost any subject.

Among his career highlights includes playing a vital role on a shareholder derivative litigation team that obtained a US$ 38 million recovery for SandRidge Energy, Inc. and substantial corporate governance reforms.

With substantial prods from the EU, things are now better off for claimants, though recent reforms have sought to put further obstacles in the way of claimants: see my post here.

Tax reform also limited business» abilities to carry over losses and deduct for theft, which can raise substantial liability for crypto investors in 2018.

But the media conference held by Shorten, King and Collins for the press gallery in the midst of the summit pointed to the difficulty in putting substantial health reform on the agenda.

The Commission has welcomed the substantial financial commitments for Indigenous health made under the COAG National Indigenous Reform Agreement and the COAG National Integrated Strategy for Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage.

To progress the targets for closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, all governments have been developing fundamental reforms recognising that substantial investment is required.

Reform has been delayed, but it will eventually come, and any property that has a flood risk can see a substantial change in premium for flood coverage in the coming years, which can completely upset the cashflow model.