Sentences with phrase «getting sweeping reforms»

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

It is the Conservatives who are tightening immigration, bringing in sweeping reforms to pensions, getting a grip on welfare handouts, he says.

The rush to get tax reform done in D.C. — particularly on the business side, where the most sweeping changes are planned — is alarming tax specialists who warn that new and unforeseen complexity, loopholes and glitches could come back to haunt tax collectors and taxpayers.

One of its goals was to get the powerful United Teachers of Los Angeles to adopt a sweeping education reform agenda.

As an overhaul of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- the sweeping federal education law that sets most national school policy — continues to lag in Congress, Duncan is beginning to get answers about the viability of his plan to relieve states of the law's requirements in exchange for implementing some of his choice reforms.

I don't raise the question in the hopes of getting any good responses but just so those who count public education reform noses will push their spectacles up on their foreheads and blink at a future that's a bit farther out then is measured by the sweep of a watch's second hand.

In Idaho, they fought to get on the November ballot three referenda that, if passed, will annihilate Superintendent Tom Luna's sweeping reform efforts that could bring about a quality education for all students in the state.

They tried to pass a sweeping regulatory reform bill, which got through the House and was sponsored by Dole as S. 1 — his first priority.