Sentences with phrase «for sweeping policy changes»

While boasting of recent improvements in student performance in his state, Rhode Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri used his fifth State of the State address to call for sweeping policy changes to make further progress.

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In June 2008, an eminent group of Canadian business leaders released a blueprint for sweeping changes to Canada's suite of competition policies.

Facebook has been trying to clean up that mess with sweeping changes to its data policies, plus lots and lots of public face time for Zuckerberg.

Shutting entire channels would have marked a sweeping policy change for YouTube -LSB-.]

President Obama announced sweeping changes to U.S. policy with Cuba that could, eventually, create opportunities for both investors and business.

Trump will scrap subsidies to health insurance companies that help pay out - of - pocket costs of low - income people — a decision disclosed hours after he ordered potentially sweeping changes in the nation's insurance system, including sales of cheaper policies with fewer benefits and fewer protections for consumers.

The report, the product of the conference's Senate Democratic Policy Group, also calls for blocking budget sweeps from environmental protections funds in order to ensure the money fights climate change.

Among the proposals not included by the Assembly: a sweeping policy change that would give the state wide latitude in determining value - based payments for health care providers, a plan to allow private equity investing in hospitals and a plan that would limit how much providers can charge for drugs in Medicaid - managed care plans.

The Liberal Democrat MP and former party leader, who sits on the Global Commission on Drugs Policy, called for sweeping changes that would take the control of cannabis out of the hands of criminals, and also ensure that the users of harder drugs receive health treatment rather than jail sentences.

But rather than asking for more money (as has been the relief typically sought), the students are asking for sweeping changes to state - mandated personnel policies, including tenure and LIFO.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

When a policy change this sweeping happens so quickly (a decade is a very short time for a change of this scope, especially in America's highly decentralized educational environment), it should come as no surprise when critics appear on multiple fronts.

The Illinois State Board of Education took on sweeping authority to supervise special education at Chicago Public Schools on Wednesday, voting to appoint an outside monitor who for at least three years will have to approve any changes to the district's special ed policies and procedures.

«The court cites no legal authority for any of its breathtakingly sweeping orders requiring the State to, in effect, change numerous key educational policies so that they will be, in the trial court's judgment, «rationally, substantially, and verifiably» connected with educational need,» it says.

June 11, 2014 (Bridgeport, CT)-- Educators 4 Excellence, a national teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in education policy discussions, formally launched its new chapter in Connecticut Wednesday with a kick - off event in Bridgeport and a call for sweeping changes to existing professional development.

This sweeping change in policy is a definite benefit for ebook authors.

Though these sweeping changes to FHA policy will give the most aid to first - time home buyers and families without previous mortgages, the FHA will also continue to offer refinancing options for those who are still working on another loan.

Cats will roam free and good old boys had better chain the dogs riding in the back of pickup trucks if sweeping changes proposed for Orange County animal control laws win commissioners» approval.Those are two of 34 changes suggested by a committee of animal lovers appointed by commissioners to review county animal policies.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

Bill Kovacs, the Chamber's vice president for the environment, technology, and regulatory affairs, tried to sweep aside the issue, saying «At the end of the debate, there were no members asking to change our policy.»

US state of Massachusetts recommends large - scale energy storage installations, sweeping policy changes, and wide - ranging pilot programme, a month after it proposes storage procurement targets for local utilities.

In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers to handle cases in an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers low.

Research on factors conducive to positive change in parenting behaviour, using parenting measures tracked at future sweeps of GUS would also be a useful addition to the evidence base for parenting policy.