Sentences with phrase «in bold reforms»

Washington D.C. Kevin P. Chavous is a national education reform leader and a former Washington, D.C. Councilmember who helped usher in bold reforms with the expansion of charter schools and the passage of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Fund.

«As our chamber's next Speaker, Carl Heastie will re-energize our institution by ushering in the bold reforms we need to make our role in government more transparent and more accountable to the voters,» he said.

Not exact matches

Germany and France publicly clashed on Tuesday over plans to put the European Central Bank in charge of supervising banks, deepening a dispute over the scope of the ECB's powers that threatens to undermine one of Europe's boldest reforms.

During his 45 - minute outline of the bold initiative, in which he repeated the phrase «pass this jobs bill» more than a dozen times, Obama described reforms to create new construction projects, restore American schools, and cut the payroll tax in half.

The changes may be bold, but in this case the proposed reforms will likely result in more delays and more unfair trials.

With the successful passage of 401 (k)- style pension reform in Michigan's state legislature, Illinois lawmakers should examine their own growing pension crisis and pursue bolder reforms to stabilize the state's finances.

Mark Taylor's Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities began life as a widely noticed and controversial New York Times op - ed in 2009, after which it grew into a book.

In «Evangelii Gaudium» (The Joy of the Gospel), officially known as an «apostolic exhortation,» Francis calls for church reforms, urges Catholics to be more bold and joyful, and castigates elements of modern capitalism.

In the enlarged and multi-layered Union, bold reforms are contentious while timid ones are useless.

«It is really disappointing the government have not been bolder in procurement reform to make lasting changes to provide our forces with the best possible equipment when it is needed on the frontline.»

If, in a few years» time, the SNP is legislating for a citizens» basic income and has embarked upon a thorough reworking of the fiscal status quo then it would have a good claim to be «radical» and «bold», but hinting at such widespread reform is rather different from actually implementing it.

In his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his vision for New York, including a bold proposal for comprehensive ethics reform.

In 1999, following the reform whereby most hereditary peers were removed from the chamber, then Conservative Leader in the House of Lords Tom Strathclyde made a bold speech stating that «I declare this convention dead»In 1999, following the reform whereby most hereditary peers were removed from the chamber, then Conservative Leader in the House of Lords Tom Strathclyde made a bold speech stating that «I declare this convention dead»in the House of Lords Tom Strathclyde made a bold speech stating that «I declare this convention dead».

Gov. Cuomo Proposes Public Financing of Elections in State of the State Address In his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his vision for New York, including a bold proposal for comprehensive ethics reforin State of the State Address In his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his vision for New York, including a bold proposal for comprehensive ethics reforIn his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his vision for New York, including a bold proposal for comprehensive ethics reform.

In fact, I would urge the Governor to hold out for even bolder reforms, including the proposals I have outlined.

The coalition has surprised everyone by being united and unexpectedly bold in its reforms.

The Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.

And you have got me offering big reform in our financing, in the way that our party works and showing we are bold enough to change.»

«We've got to take bold action to reform our political system and the campaign finance structure in New York State,» Carlucci said.

Strongest because he is being bold and ambitious in seeking a radical set of reforms which, if accomplished, would transform and revive the Labour party's ailing membership fortunes.

«The Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2016 is a bold step towards reforming a system which for too long has disproportionately punished low - level, nonviolent offenses,» she said in a statement.

Representatives for the group testified in favor of Cuomo's education agenda before the State Joint Committee on Education earlier this month, and praised his «bold blueprint» for education reform after the State of the State address.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened the first six legislative sessions of his tenure by making bold requests for reform proposals, and ended them by blaming opposition in the Legislature when nothing or a slimmed - down measure made its way into law.

Assemblymember Mark Schroeder said, «Governor Cuomo has laid out a bold agenda for reform that not only gets our state's fiscal house in order but puts New York on a path for future economic growth and job creation.

«Chris King says his «bold and progressive» plan as governor now includes abolishing the death penalty and legalizing recreational marijuana» via Mitch Perry of WMNF — Labeling it as «incredibly bold,» Democratic gubernatorial candidate King unveiled a criminal reform package on Tuesday that included a call to end the death penalty and full support for the legalization of recreational marijuana in Florida.

Labeling it as «incredibly bold,» Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King unveiled a criminal justice reform package on Tuesday that included a call to end the death penalty and full support for the legalization of recreational marijuana in Florida.

«It is for this reason that the legislative chamber has introduced bold and progressive reforms in the management of the finances of the National Assembly.

«But today the chancellor could have been much bolder in moving to a fundamental reform of tax where the super-rich were asked to pay their fair share.

He said that, in addition to what the APC had already done, he envisioned a time when the party would take even bolder steps by modernising national infrastructure, reviving the textile industry, carrying out agriculture reforms by giving credit to farmers, and embarking on a mortgage reform that will provide affordable housing for millions of families.

Andrew Mitchell will be great, reforming Tory Chief Whip, affable, thoughtful, bold moderniser, but with real steel in his backbone!

Today, Ed Miliband will set out a series of bold reforms to Labour's relationship with its affiliated trade unions, in a bid to draw a line under the disastrous fallout from the botched Falkirk selection process.

That finally changed this week, as we came together to put in place a bold pension reform plan that will save taxpayers more than $ 80 billion over the next three decades.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

Schneiderman called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to «hold out» in the state's upcoming budget negotiations until the Legislature delivers «even bolder reforms» than the ones proposed by the governor himself last month.

«We have the boldest welfare reforms and deficit - reduction plans in Europe.

But persuading her colleagues in this political swing state to support what the Romney campaign describes as the candidate's «bold education reforms that will put children first» could prove to be her toughest assignment.

In October 2014, researchers for the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress cited the Pygmalion Effect as an argument in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 201In October 2014, researchers for the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress cited the Pygmalion Effect as an argument in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 201in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 201in 2010.

Cuba announced Thursday it would allow its residents to buy and sell real estate for the first time since the revolution, in yet another bold free - market reform that effectively legalizes a practice Cubans have been secretly engaging in for years.

Many have cited the series of accountability and choice reforms that Florida adopted between 1998 and 2006, under the leadership of Governor Jeb Bush, as the driving force behind the large and rapid improvement in student achievement (see «Advice for Education Reformers: Be Bold!»

Although income and achievement are correlated, the Broader, Bolder Approach to school reform errs in ignoring other, more important factors

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

In the New York Times, Trip Gabriel looks at how former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is helping state leaders embrace «the Florida formula» of bold school reforms.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system from scratch; the availability of federal school start - up funds; and the keen interest of education entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold reform succeed.

competing «priorities»; and being asked to resolve seemingly contradictory dictates — such as RTT's twin mandates that winners demonstrate buy - in from teacher unions and that they also present bold reform plans unlikely to earn such support.

Secretary Duncan likes to say that RttT is part of a «quiet revolution» in education, with states creating «bold blueprints for reform [that] bear the signatures of many key players at the state and local level who drive change in our schools.»

However, the Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) and the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, a charter school in Los Angeles, have both embarked on bold experiments in reforming teacher pay.

When we turn to her practical agenda, we can see just how important the teachers unions are to the Broader, Bolder coalition: most of the key reforms Ladd proposes have nothing to do with ending poverty in any direct way, but instead are directed toward employing more professionals for tasks outside the regular K — 12 classroom:

Again and again, Friedman hints at the need for bold education reform as he makes his case for greater competition in the marketplace, fewer labor restrictions, and lower barriers to trade.

President George W. Bush started things off in January, when he delivered a ringing address at a suburban D.C. high school about the urgency of reforming American high schools and offered a bold $ 1.5 billion plan for doing so.