Sentences with phrase «just after the reforms»

Thus, at least in the years just after the reforms, the factors pushing student outcomes down were at least as large as the population changes pushing them up.

Blanden & Machin (2013), who documented the rising income gap in college attainment during the 1980s and 1990s, found that the gap shrunk slightly in the years just after the reform (from 37 percentage points in 1999 to 34 percentage points in 2005).

And Figure 5 shows that resources per full - time equivalent student (including both government funding and tuition revenue) has increased by nearly 50 percent since reaching a historical low in 1999 (just after the reform, when most students were still grandfathered under the old system).

Not exact matches

Just days after a gunman opened fire at her school and killed 17 of her peers, Florida high school senior Emma Gonzalez used her voice to call national attention to gun law reform.

Saudi Arabia is revising its major reform strategy just over a year after its launch, extending the timeline of some targets and removing others entirely, according to reports.

He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.

'' [Bed Bath & Beyond] said they were still reviewing tax reform just two days ago,» Najarian said, «which, after the dip yesterday, makes them more attractive.»

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

And sure enough, just hours after Comey testified, the House of Representatives voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which has contributed to an alarming number of small bank closures since its passage in 2010.

With the tax code in need of reform but debt at its highest point as a share of the economy since just after World War II, Congress should pass a fiscally responsible tax overhaul that grows the economy but does not add to the debt.

Just as the Reformers sought to reform the church of their day, so also, they would want those who came after them to continue the reforms «till we all come to the unity of the faith» (Ephesians 4:13).

Measure out 2 tbsp of dough and form into a circle on the baking sheet, then gently using your fingers or the back of a tablespoon, create the thumbprint in the center - I had to reform the outsides of the cookie after making the thumbprint, as the edges may crack slightly when you're pressing the center - just squeeze them back together!

Chris Grayling's plans to dismantle judicial review were left in tatters yesterday after a letter emerged showing he misled the Commons over the reforms just as the same measure was being debated in the Lords.

After all, supporters might argue, the Coalition is not planning to scrap state social security altogether, just to reform it to encourage more people into work.

Nick Clegg has broken ranks with the prime minister on drugs reform, just five days after his coalition partner ruled out a royal commission on decriminalisation.

These reforms aren't just the leader taking control over the party machinery but the Left preparing for life after chants of Oh Je - rem - y Cor - byn.

To understand why the Chartists were so abundantly confident that the People's Charter would remedy much more than just the yawning democratic deficit left after the 1832 Reform Act, we need to appreciate that annual parliaments were just as integral to their demands as universal male suffrage.

The sheer suddenness of Commissioner Bratton's resignation — just weeks after the administrative agreement with the Speaker's Office — is the latest confirmation that lawmaking is the only means to police reforms that are built to last,» Torres and Reynoso said.

12:23 - A question on welfare reform allows him to preview Purnell's session in the chamber just after PMQ's finishes.

ALBANY, NY (05/28/2013)(readMedia)-- Just weeks after scathing reports about the abysmal failure of the Close to Home juvenile «reform» program diverting youthful offenders from state juvenile justice facilities to inadequate New York City based programs, the Cuomo administration is doubling down on bad policy and moving to close two more centers.

Just after her speech, with the crowd still chanting for education funding reform, Nixon took several questions on the abuse allegations against now - former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Just two days after New York legislators passed first - in - the - nation gun law reforms in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the state's chief financial officer says pension fund investments in firearm companies have been frozen.

Just a week after Gov. Cuomo praised the Legislature for passing «historic» ethics - reform legislation, state senators opposed to enacting a «historic» same - sex marriage law are being courted with promises of political cover, endorsements and (psst!)

The mayor's announcement comes just after the City Council unveiled a report and a package of legislation aimed at reforming the city's Fair Share policies, which provide a set of guidelines and require public outreach before the city sites «challenging facilities,» including homeless shelters.

«Just weeks after Governor Chris Christie announced his Cap 2.5 Reform Agenda to bring real property tax relief to New Jerseyans, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in New York is embracing Governor Christie's approach to cap property taxes, control skyrocketing costs, and make services affordable for taxpayers again,» the statement says.

The Tier 3 pension reforms most disliked by unions were effectively erased by the enactment of Tier 4 in 1983, just a year after the Triborough Amendment's passage.

«Passage of our reform agenda in Albany next year just took a giant step forward,» he said in a written statement Sunday after the endorsement.

Mr. Cuomo has called ethics reform the most important issue of his second term, particularly after Mr. Silver's arrest, which occurred just a day after Mr. Cuomo laid out his agenda for the year.

Some of the proposals and the timing of their likely passage have raised concerns, though, that the Council is weakening the city's model campaign finance system, pushing some reforms through after too long a wait and rushing other, newer bills through just in time for the next

«It's not surprising after just two weeks, Joe Bruno's hand - picked replacement, Senator Skelos, has indicated his conference will flip - flop on ethics reform,» said Austin Shafran, a spokesman for Senate Democrats.

«That just speaks to the fact that this is truly criminal justice reform and not police reform,» Brooklyn Councilman Antonio Reynoso said, noting that one changes how the legal system processes people after cops have stopped and charged them with misdeeds, and the other regulates that initial encounter with law enforcement.

The reforms occurred just two days after the governor hosted the second Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cider Summit April 8 at the Empire State Plaza convention center in Albany.

According to the Center for Education Reform, as of January 2003 there were nearly 2,700 charter schools serving more than 684,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, just a decade after the first charter opened its doors.

And even after Fagen resigned and no board members associated with her ran for reelection, the fresh - faced reform slate just lost by about the same margin.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

«It's just stunning to lay out, one after another, these reforms that were his ideas.»

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

We have five states that signed up to the National Education Reform agreement and just after the previous federal election the Abbot Government made a deal with the other states which really was a deal that meant that those states did not have the same level of accountability and transparency around the funding.

Just three days after the 1993 McDuffy decision, the governor had signed the Education Reform Act, long in the works, «that radically restructured the funding of public education across the Commonwealth.»

The $ 700 million federal RttT grant that the state received covered only a fraction of the cost of implementing the required reform measures, putting financial strain on districts just after the 2008 recession.

Reform tenure: Eliminate the law that grants tenure automatically to all «persons who have been found competent, efficient and satisfactory» after just three years.

When it came to California's absurd system of granting teachers tenure after, effectively, just 18 months on the job, Thurmond sided with the unions and undermined meaningful legislative reform efforts.

Under the outgoing government's reforms, from September, infants will undergo literacy and numeracy checks just weeks after they start reception.

After all, students are just as adversely impacted by «education reform» as the teachers, and thus their parents and also community organizations who serve children and their parents could be vital allies in this fight against powerful and well funded opponents.

Arizona lawmakers are publicly talking reforms after an audit this year questioned the state's monitoring of the initiative amid reports of more than $ 100,000 in misspent funds in just six months.

After declaring in the original version of the piece that 50CAN was just «another of those fake «reform» groups», Ravitch wrote that she wished Bradford would have gone into lines of work that some people would say is more - befitting a black man.

Just after New Year's Day, Illinois educators introduced a major reform proposal to hold school administrators, school board members and teachers accountable for their work on behalf of school children statewide.Three unions representing more than 230,000 Illinois education employees, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability for All.

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, the union representing educators in the city's school district, came out swinging on Monday just hours after the announcement that the School Reform Commission had canceled their contract.

He served in that role until 1993, when he was appointed Massachusetts Deputy Commissioner of Education, just days after the state's Education Reform Act was signed into law.