Sentences with phrase «for sweeping reforms»

In the Croakey Longread below, he calls for sweeping reforms and bold leadership to address this critical public health issue.

1987 — PEA issued «Governing NYC Schools,» a report calling for sweeping reforms in the role of the New York City Schools» Chancellor, Board of Education and Community School Boards.

State education report calls for sweeping reforms in teacher evaluation Daily News: The California Department of Education on Monday released a comprehensive new report calling for sweeping reforms in the way teachers are recruited, trained, mentored and evaluated.

A new book offers a «blueprint» for sweeping reforms in the preparation and certification of school administrators.

The European Parliament has voted for sweeping reforms of the controversial EU Common Fisheries Policy.

Good government groups like Citizens Union and NYPIRG, as well as reform - minded legislators and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, have been calling for sweeping reforms aimed at truly cleaning up Albany's corruption problem.

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers are at loggerheads over plans for sweeping reforms to Britain's banks aimed at avoiding another taxpayers» bailout in a future financial crisis.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito went to the mat for criminal defendants on Thursday — calling for sweeping reforms that would hike the age of adult responsibility to 18 and...

BY SAM SPOKONY A coalition of City Council members and Democratic Council nominees likely to win on November 5 took to the steps of City Hall on October 30 to begin making their case for sweeping reforms to the Council's rules.

Good government groups including NYPIRG and Citizens Union recently reiterated calls for sweeping reform, including:

Not exact matches

Although the final fate of the sweeping health care reform lies in the hands of the Supreme Court, one can't fault Obama for not staying true to his word on this one.

This week the Ontario government introduced plans for truly sweeping labour reforms.

In the Oval Office, President Trump signs the Republican - back tax bill with sweeping reforms into law, as well as bills for missile defense and the short - term funding of the government to avoid a shutdown.

Sweeping financial regulatory reforms in Europe — which have been in the works for seven years — are finally set to go live Wednesday, January 3.

Extensive reforms swept Wall Street, aimed at increasing analysts» independence, and regulators heralded a new era for research.

As President Trump moves to push through major tax reform that makes sweeping cuts, Partanen suggested on her panel that giving families small boosts in take - home pay, might not be a substitute for collective financial security.

Or it can do the hard and right thing for Puerto Rico and American taxpayers by refusing to bless any approach not predicated on large - scale structural reform and extraordinarily sweeping debt relief.

If U.S. President Donald Trump's claims that he will enact sweeping tax reforms and renegotiate NAFTA are realized, our companies are likely to see their profits fall and demand for their products and services decline.

Other more sweeping reform options would address double taxation by allowing shareholders credits against personal taxes for tax levied at the corporate level (an «imputation system») or by passing corporate profits through to shareholders, similar to the tax treatment of partnerships and S - corporations («corporate tax integration»).

After targeting executive remuneration at state - controlled companies with new regulation introducing pay caps for CEOs, France's new government is now considering potentially sweeping reforms for all public companies.

The Citizens Commission on School Nutrition recommended sweeping reforms and increased federal funding for the system that feeds 24 million children each school day.

We need strong campaign finance reform and sweeping corporate - directed pressure so that there is space for public health decisions to truly be about public health, not private profit.

In our first year, we passed sweeping ethics reform, opened the books on Senate expenditures for the first time in history, and made every legislative action the Senate takes available to the public.»

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

Successive British parliaments have also participated in a series of sweeping reforms to the procedures for how those European institutions make rules.

The companies claim that payments were made for Cohen's expertise spanning a sweeping range of topics, including accounting, tax reform, health care, real estate and antitrust.

The challenger also blasts Mr. Bishop for supporting the Obama administration's sweeping health care reform and stimulus packages, both of which he claims will only add to the nation's crushing debt.

The time is ripe for reform to sweep through the Bronx like a breath of fresh air!

«For at least 30 years, New York governors have called for sweeping campaign finance reforFor at least 30 years, New York governors have called for sweeping campaign finance reforfor sweeping campaign finance reforms.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

The New York City Council passed 18 bills as part of the Stand for Tenant Safety package of legislation that promises sweeping reforms to tenant protections in the face of abusive landlords and developers.

Also at 11 a.m., the Legal Aid Society, Coalition For The Homeless, Picture the Homeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, ManhattFor The Homeless, Picture the Homeless, Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, VOCAL - NY, Communities United for Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, Manhattfor Police Reform, NYC Council members and others call on de Blasio and the NYPD to stop homeless shelter warrant sweeps, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Corruption is a problem for both parties and Governor Cuomo wants sweeping ethics reform that everyone should get behind immediately.»

Wilson's government was responsible for a number of sweeping social and educational reforms under the leadership of Home Secretary Roy Jenkins such as the abolishment of the death penalty in 1964, the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality (initially only for men aged 21 or over, and only in England and Wales) in 1967 and the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968.

It provides for disclosure of outside income by lawmakers, creates a true independent monitor to investigate corruption, and spells out tough, new rules that lobbyists must follow,» said Cuomo, who campaigned on a platform last fall that called for sweeping ethics reform.

Cuomo has been sympathetic to the push for a salary hike, but has said he wants lawmakers to take up sweeping campaign finance and ethics reform in the process, including the public financing of political campaigns and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

Were it not for the flipside of sweeping welfare reform the Conservative party might not swallow it.

Astorino clashed with Senate Republicans during the gubernatorial campaign last year, with the top of the GOP ticket calling for sweeping ethics reform in Albany and knocking the majority conference in the Senate as being part of the problem in state government.

Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.

She insists, rather, that there must be sweeping reforms under a new commissioner for the Department of Correction.

WASHINGTON — Central New York's two members of Congress split with their party Thursday on a vote to pass a 2018 budget resolution that makes it easier for Republicans to move forward with a sweeping tax reform plan.

«As chairman of the House Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Housing, Mr. Lazio authored and negotiated legislation enacting the most sweeping reform of America's public housing in more than 60 years and expanding homeownership for low - income Americans.»

Washington (CNN)- A top Senate Democrat has offered a pair of amendments to an immigration reform bill bolstering rights for same - sex couples, a politically risky move that threatens to shatter Republican support for the sweeping legislation.

McKee isn't holding his breath for sweeping legislative reforms spurred by the Silver conviction and Skelos trial.

During the 2014 governor's race, the GOP candidate, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, did not help his standing with the Senate Republicans by laying out a sweeping ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits to campaign finance reform.

His contract with the party embraces a sweeping agenda for reform, bringing back the membership's influence in a genuine attempt to restore their say.

In one of her first major speeches as a presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today called for sweeping criminal justice reforms in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police custody — most recently in Baltimore, plunging the city into days of unrest.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders say they have agreed on a sweeping reform of the state's system of caring for the disabled that has been marked for years by abuse and death.

Fenty swept into office in 2006 promising to fix the district's struggling schools, but he may have lost his bid for another term, in part, because of how he tried to reform them.

Washington (CNN) Three Democrats from states President Donald Trump won in 2016 will join the President on Tuesday evening for dinner as the White House seeks support for sweeping tax reform, congressional aides said.