Sentences with phrase «from earlier reforms»

The current wave of innovation in charter schools differs from earlier reforms by focusing on governance, with charter schools freeing educators from oversight by elec ted school boards.

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«While there are a number of issues that could still slow it down, or stop it altogether, we believe the odds that tax reform will be enacted by early 2018 — already our base case — have risen to 80 % (from 65 % previously).»

The legislation proposed earlier this summer - the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act - would exclude most such workers and would reduce the total number of green cards awarding permanent legal U.S. residence to just over 500,000 from more than one million today.

But since Hoover died and Watergate was exposed in the early 1970s, major efforts have been made to reform the Bureau and DOJ to keep them from infringing civil liberties and intervening in politics.

Much of China's early poverty reduction came from agricultural reforms, but its incredible sustained economic growth since 1981 came principally from exports.

The powerful opposition rebalancing would necessarily unleash — from groups the Chinese press had dubbed «vested interests» as early as 2007 — always made it unlikely that Beijing would implement significant reforms before 2012.

With the final tax reform package now signed into law, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Economist Ellen Zentner notes three key forecast changes from her earlier base case projection:

The two - year budget accord signed by President Trump earlier this month contains provisions from a House of Representatives disaster relief bill (H.R. 4460, the Disaster Recovery Reform Act) designed for states hit hard by hurricanes and wildfires in 2017.

Business and consumer surveys broadly continued to suggest the post-election bounce in sentiment was intact, despite signs some policy initiatives from the Trump administration — including key tax and health care reforms — might take longer to implement, and in some cases be less radical, than earlier indications.

As an alternative, House Republicans have floated the possibility of adopting a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution early next year (since Congress failed to adopt a FY 2017 budget resolution last year) to include reconciliation instructions for repealing (and possibly replacing) much of the ACA, while adopting a FY 2018 budget resolution later next year that includes reconciliation instructions for tax reform (and possibly some mandatory spending changes, perhaps from Medicare reform, other mandatory savings assumed in the budget resolution, and / or some ACA replacement).

This new round of SOE reforms is important not only because it is a cornerstone of Xi's vision for a rejuvenated China, but also because it marks a departure from the traditional reform patterns of earlier administrations.

Wesley and his early followers similarly sought to reform the Anglican Church from within through eucharistic practice, the pursuit of holiness within disciplined small groups, and ministry for and with the poor and dispossessed.

For contemporary Protestants such as Stanley Hauerwas who justify Protestantism by the perceived need to reform the Church from the outside, the «conciliar option» offers an alternative: reform from within, such as the early Luther counseled.

With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.

This was a violation of something very sacred in the minds of the people; so it is little to be wondered at that soon after his own early death a reaction against the reform developed, and that finally his own name and the name of the god Aton, whose name he had incorporated in his own when he had it changed from Amen - hotep to Akhnaton, were likewise erased from public monuments.

Delta immortality was the position taken early on by American Reform Judaism, as expressed in this official statement from the 1885 Pittsburgh platform: «We assert the doctrine of Judaism that the soul is immortal, founding this belief on the divine nature of the human spirit, which forever finds bliss in righteousness and misery in wickedness.

Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has tabled an Early Day Motion (used by MPs to publicise a particular cause and to gain support in the Commons) calling on the government to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms.

• introducing a reformed and slimmer Early Years Foundation Stage from September 2012 with a greater focus on engagement with parents

One aspect of health care reform that got early attention from the media were changes to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requiring employers to provide working breastfeeding moms private breast pumping rooms.

«Many of the conflicts about family law in the Western world today derive from the breakdown of the model on which divorce reform was predicated in the late 1960s and early 1970s,» he writes.

Early in the debate, when pressed by the Vermont senator on her ties to Wall Street, Mrs Clinton noted that Mr Obama had taken donations from the financial industry and still passed comprehensive reform.

Regarding parliamentary elections, single member plurality voting for most MPs developed from the various reform acts of the 19th and early 20th century, although oddities like the University MPs continued until 1950.

Anyway I always though this: «liberty is not produced from liberalism» was the basis of so - called New Liberalism, which is what spurred the Liberal welfare reforms of the early 20th C.

Cuomo outlined earlier in the day what he would like from a special session of the Legislature: approval of $ 2 billion in affordable housing, procurement reform and the funding of a hate crimes task force.

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).

Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, resigned from the Success Academy Charter Schools» board of directors earlier this summer after criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Indeed, de Blasio's campaign Twitter account pledged a fight for election reform: «We're going to reform NYS» voting access laws, because lack of early voting & same day registration is disenfranchisement, plain and simple,» read a tweet from the account sent out Tuesday morning.

NEW YORK, NY (03/28/2018)(readMedia)-- Joining with 25 other organizations representing a variety of different issues from the Child Victims Act, to bail reform, to reproductive health, the Let New York Vote coalition made a final push for early voting in the NYS budget.

These included giving London an elected mayor, turning around what was one of Britain's worst - performing councils, trying — and failing — to hand power from Whitehall to the north - east of England, and reforming the fire service after a walkout by firefighters in the early 2000s.

Long - term preventative work right from early years, mental health, prison reform, job guarantees, adult social care, based again around radical public service reform and devolution of services.

Stephanie Miner, the Syracuse mayor who tangled with Cuomo earlier this year over pension reform, is campaigning hard (while attracting some pushback from city employees upset with budget cuts).

In her highest - profile appearance since sitting down with Wendy Williams earlier this month, Nixon articulated her progressive vision with aplomb, touching on everything from gerrymandering to criminal - justice reform to recreational marijuana legalization.

The Electoral Reform Society of the United Kingdom has been providing STV rules since at least as early as 1955 and its latest rules from 1997 are commonly referred to as the ERS97 STV rules.

Earlier in the year the government was forced to scrap plans to build so - called Titan prisons in the face of widespread condemnation from opposition and reform groups.

politics.co.uk asked Mr Geithner whether he feared some countries would not stomach the bold reforms available from what chancellor Alistair Darling had earlier described as a «menu of options».

Reformers believe that getting issues like early voting or campaign finance reform passed would require an aggressive public campaign from Cuomo, like the ones he undertook on same - sex marriage and minimum wage.

Yet the ethics deal was also conspicuous for its gaps: Despite discussions early in the session about more ambitious reforms that would limit the income legislators could make from other jobs or even transform the Legislature into a full - time institution, lawmakers could ultimately muster agreement only on what many described as a no - brainer.

Tax reform advocacy groups from around the state gathered on May 22 to remind the Governor that he pledged to create a tax reform commission in his State of the State address earlier this year.

Earlier, Carol Dean, a delegate from Tamworth, had praised the government's investment in the NHS and said reform was necessary to ensure «patients come first».

WE»RE A LONG WAY FROM RESTORING THE PUBLIC»S TRUST by Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R - Canandaigua) Earlier this week, the governor indicated he doesn't believe the Legislature has the «political will» to pass ethics reform.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins receiving 5 percent, with much of his support believed to have come from public employees and liberals who were disappointed with the incumbent's hard line in contract talks, his failure to live up to promises four years earlier to reform Albany, or positions on environmental issues like fracking.

Erik also read the resolution from the Voter Reform Committee endorsing Eric Schneiderman's New York Votes Act, proposing early voting, same day registration, same day primaries, and other reforms.

· Increase of the Retirement Age: The pension reform law includes an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 63 and includes provisions allowing early retirement with penalties.

As we reported earlier, Democratic lawmakers from New York City to Albany demanded today that rent reform be addressed in the nearly completed budget deal, not at some later date.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, the most powerful Democrat in Washington, indicated earlier this month that his 48 - member coalition would be reluctant to negotiate tax reform so long as Trump continued to conceal his personal returns from the public.

«I think he should seek very specific guidance from the Conflicts of Interest Board and the Campaign Finance Board to ensure that he doesn't cross the line because he has been suspected of crossing earlier lines,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.

State lawmakers from Western New York reiterated this week their strong support for Cash's reform agenda, but they remain cautious about over promising this early in the budget process.

Silence from both majority leaders and Gov. Cuomo has become the norm since earlier this year when Cuomo proposed a series of significant reforms that include restricting legislators» outside income, closing the LLC loophole, and public financing of elections.

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However, its request for about $ 120 million over 5 years for conceptual design work on the CEPC failed to win approval earlier this year from China's National Development and Reform Commission; instead, the project received some $ 5 million for preliminary study.