Sentences with phrase «include sweeping reforms»

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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.

What's more, last week's agreement on a sweeping tax - reform measure that included retention of part of the controversial «millionaires tax» showed that Cuomo has a close working relationship with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Nassau County Republican.

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.

Cuomo said that he wanted a special session to tackle sweeping ethics and campaign - finance reform changes, including the public financing of political campaigns as well as a cap on outside pay and banning employment of state lawmakers from firms that have business before the state.

Besides his ethics promise Cuomo insists he will only increase state education spending by $ 327 million if the Legislature does not accept his sweeping education reforms, which include a new teacher evaluation system and an increase of the charter school cap.

Mr Duncan Smith pioneered welfare reforms under David Cameron, including the introduction of Universal Credit to sweep away the complicated benefits system.

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

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

The graduation rate is included in calculations by the federal government to determine if a high school, district or the state clears the performance hurdle set under the No Child Left Behind law, the sweeping education reform that imposes increasingly severe penalties for coming up short.

He served as CEO and Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools system, initiating sweeping reforms, including online assessments of all students, new accountability measures, and a first - of - its - kind student safety plan.

The bills are meant to target under - performing districts around the state, including Detroit, which has already become emblematic of sweeping reform efforts.

At this stage in the modern movement to redesign high schools, states should focus on policies that provide opportunity, encouragement, and support for local innovation — including those described above — rather than more sweeping policies that mandate statewide comprehensive reforms.